Courtesy of  The Pirate Bay

Unboxed a pair of the limited edition Reebok Sir Jam   for our submission of the ViceLounge track Never Fall Away to the Future Sounds For My Classic Generation by Jay Scarlett compilation album.

Craig Knight got the dope snakeskin joints!

From what I’ve learned it only available in stores Europe but you can download it here.

I am so excited that I, WE, meaning US, VICELOUNGE are a part this amazing piece of work and I will be rocking the free fresh new Reeboks..lol

This compilation was recently completed in private conjunction with Reebok and I Bootlegged your MUM describes it as a a seamless selection of spacey, bugged out, glitched-up, forehead-knockin’, ultramodern Soul, Hip-Hop, Dubstep, Grime and other Electronic hybrids alongside classic, organic vibes. This man has his fingers on the pulse of these evolving genres (if one can even box them like that which I doubt). You may want to listen in, in dread of being left behind…

1. Sa-Ra Creative Partners – Intro (A Few Words By Sa- Ra Creative Partners)
2. Daru & Reggie B – Gone Away
3. Funkenteller feat. The Deepspace 69 – Emulator
4. Gecko Turner – Monosabio Blues (Phillips Owusu Remix)
5. 8thW1 – A Fools Lullaby (Could It Be)
6. Dem Suite – The Worst Way (Spinnerty Remix)
7. Nicolay & Kay – The Light
9. Omm’as Keith – Bassa Sex Plex
10. Chacho Brodas – Soul Brodas
11. Dabrye feat. A.G. – Get Dirty
12. Erika Rose – Fairytales
13. The Reflektor – Verdadero
14. Mono/Poly – The George Edit
15. Jahcoozi – Getyoshitout
16. Altered Vibes – Holy Ghost
17. J Todd feat. MC 2020 – 1-2-3
18. Quiroga – No More
19. Dephjoe – Hey Playa
20. Tai, Joaquin & Vicelounge – Never Fall Away
21. Iman Williams & AB – Soulmate
Hidden Track: Jay Scarlett feat. Reggie B & Distantstarr

DOWNLOAD IT RIGHT HERE

I got this courtesy of The Smoking Section:

Steinski – What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective

The back story is great: Steve Stein, collegiate dope-dealer-turned-suit at the Doyle Dane Bernbach ad agency, enters a hip-hop-remix contest with a pal in 1983 and smokes the competition. His entry, The Payoff Mix, is a funky train wreck of uncleared samples — the Supremes, Little Richard, Culture Club, Humphrey Bogart — crosswiring Grandmaster Flash’s mixology with the pop tune punch lines of Dickie Goodman’s Seventies novelty collage singles. Payoff, included here with its offspring Lesson 2 (James Brown Mix) and Lesson 3 (History of Hip Hop), inspired crate-digging producers from Prince Paul to DJ Shadow to Girl Talk, and permanently raised the bar for rap track makers. Influence aside, what’s just as impressive about this handsome anthology of barely legal rarities is how well tracks work as songs. The early party joints build and ebb with intractable momentum, and later pieces tell unlikely stories. “The Motorcade Sped On” samples newscasts on the JFK assassination; the chilling “Number Three on Flight Eleven” documents a flight attendant’s 9/11 call for help. And the hilarious, hour-long “Nothing to Fear” megamix proves that this guy didn’t just pioneer the mash-up, he’s still the outlaw genre’s dean.

http://www.myspace.com/steinski

1-1 The Payoff Mix (5:23)
1-2 Lesson 2 (James Brown Mix) (4:23)
1-3 Lesson 3 (History Of Hip Hop) (5:03)
1-4 Jazz (5:04)
1-5 Voice Mail (Sugar Hill Suite) (5:35)
1-6 The Motorcade Sped On (4:00)
1-7 It’s Up To You (Television Mix) (5:05)
1-8 I’m Wild About That Thing (4:46)
1-9 The Big Man Laughs (4:19)
1-10 Vox Apostolica (4:38)
1-11 Is We Going Under? (6:38)
1-12 Ain’t No Thing (6:33)
1-13 Everything’s Disappeared (4:12)
1-14 Number Three On Flight Eleven (7:48)
NOTHING TO FEAR
2-1 Tonight From NY Intro (1:31)
2-2 Swingset (10 Beautiful Girls Mix) (3:21)
2-3 Opening Credits (1:16)
2-4 Greatest Man Alive (Man’s Game Mix) (2:31)
2-5 The ID (Small World Mix) (3:23)
2-6 Let’s Get It On (Big Daddy Mix) (1:25)
2-7 Hit The Disco (MC Enuff Mix) (3:48)
2-8 Lolita (Burning Mix) (1:36)
2-9 Hot Spot (Terrible Love Mix) (2:49)
2-10 It’s A Funky Thing Pt. 1 (Special Feature Mix) (5:18)
2-11 Bboy Breakdown (You Got The Job Mix) (2:29)
2-12 B-Beat Classic (Airwave Interlude Mix) (0:36)
2-13 Funk Construction (Prodigal Son Mix) (3:00)
2-14 Them That’s Not (Cash Mix) (2:10)
2-15 Swan Lake (Beat Poets Mix) (3:06)
2-16 Here We Come (Death Mix) (2:18)
2-17 Product Of The Environment (Redfern Gowanus Electro Mix) (1:41)
2-18 By Any Means Necessary (Malcolm & Bobby Mix) (2:07)
2-19 The Art Of Getting Jumped (1:08)
2-20 I Like IT LIke That (Scratch It One Time Mix) (1:02)
2-21 Solid Air (Junk Mood Mix) (3:23)
2-22 Country Grammar (Hydro Mix) (2:33)
2-23 Let’s Get It On (Reprise Mix) (0:46)
2-24 Muscles (Mistake Interlude Mix) (0:23)
2-25 Easin’ In (Pedro’s Letter Mix) (1:27)
2-26 It’s Time To Testify (MC5 Mix) (1:54)
2-27 The Acid Test (0:52)
2-28 Silent Partner (Peace Out) (0:53)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AOYARU25

So, it’s been awhile since I posted or even blogged on a regular basis.
I’m doing the shameless plug because myself and my group’s VICELOUNGE have a shiny new project on Record Breakin Music available for sale here, as well Look out for few other projects in 2008.

Special Thanks to El Keter for the lovely article.
www.okayplayer.com

Cheers,

When you run the Linux distribution of Backtrack, this is the quote on the load screen.

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
-Baba Ramdas

Here is a pretty good tutorial on how to steal your next door neighbor’s Internet signal or when you don’t want to pay for the wifi @ Starbucks, set to Snoop Doggs “Sexual Eruption”

(for Educational purposes only)

About 4 minutes ago I received an email in my inbox that said:

The time has come! Click the personalized link below to download
THE INEVITABLE RISE AND LIBERATION OF NIGGYTARDUST!

If you decide at any point you’d like to directly support the artist for this work and feel it’s worth what we’re asking, you can always click this button. It will also allow you to re-download the record at audiophile rates if desired.

To me this is an inevitable course on the distribution of music television and film.
I havent purchased a CD either online or in a music store in 6 years.

I either have the leisure of of knowing someone at the label or get an advance copy sent,etc.
Now that I have 2 record contracts in front of me for my music efforts, I’m beginning to look on the other side of the fence. I still feel like CD’s are only good for storing data.

I really don’t want to release our album on a dying format.

I learned about the Saul Williams project online, signed up, blogged about it and it just took 2 minutes to download the 116MB zip file.
It contained 17 files which included 15 songs, the album cover in jpg and a 33 page PDF of the linear notes which includes some great artwork.

No shrink wrap, no crazy sticker or taking the risk of snapping the CD case.
No trees were killed. No plastic to put in a landfill.
No throwing anything away, its just another folder on my computer.
Yet, I had the same experience of getting new music.

Years ago I took all 800+ CD collection and digitize them which resulted in something like 40GB, roughly 22,000 songs, most of the CD;s were scratched up anyway.

I don’t think I listen to 10% at one given time. I think it nice knowing that I have it all in one place.

It surprises me to see someone with a case for CD’s and shuffling through them and putting them in a CD player on the subway. (Not as shocking as the guy who had a cassette player)

We are all undergoing a cultural shift in how we access our content, the same way we don’t listen to vinyl or 8 tracks.
Speaking of 8 tracks, I remember circa 1978, when my father drove up in the brand new electric blue Cadillac, with all white leather interior.

I ran up look inside got a wiff of the new car smell and father told me to run inside the house and get him an 8 track from on top of the stereo in the living room.

I’m don’t remember who the artist was, but I remember when I sunk into the passenger seat and handed my father the tape. He stuck it in and pressed play and a switch went off in my head that something that seem to be restricted to only being listened to in our house was being played in our car as we drove to Mc’Donalds and realized almost anything was possible.
It’s the same thing now, I’m dragging this album from one folder and dragging to my mp3 player while typing this blog, pressing play…

…this is the inevitable rise of digital distribution

Today is gift for your mp3 player.
We produced this track sometime ago with our homegirl Dee Ferguson on the vocals.
She’s in Rotterdam, Netherlands, we sent the track, she wrote the tune, recorded the vocals and emailed them back to us and this is the beautiful result.

click the play button to listen or Download

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After attending a few meetings and also stopped by the Prefab Supima Premium Fabric Show, I spent the rest of the afternoon chilling out in
Bryant Park.
Whats not to love about this park? It’s big, has plenty of chairs and tables (with umbrellas) ,must be one of the best people watching venues in NYC and did I mention the free WiFi?

I even know a few secret spots for you to power your laptop when your battery is running low.

This older women was shuffling chairs next to me in an effort to “share” the umbrella.
After about an hour she asked me to watch her pink sweater while she went to go get coffee.
(She did take her purse and notebook though, weird!)
I agreed just as Dan Rather walked by with 2 other people.
I started to stop him and said hello and tell him that one of my reasons to upgrade to HD was to get his show “Dan Rather Reports” on HDNET. Really good, it’s REAL News stories in high definition.

Click here to download an episode where he talks to both congressional and former military leaders about what is shaping up to be one of the most important weeks on Capitol Hill in years.

Finally getting some work done on that exclusive hybrid, podcast-mixcd 128kilobyte listening experience I’ve been “working” on well since…last winter…lol
stay tuned!