Some Old Skool Beats
July 4, 2011
I was never an Anticon guy (emo rap wasn’t my style), but I could appreciate DJ JEL’s stellar ‘Soft Money’ solo album even still. His live Akai MPC 5000 sampler work is ridiculous, with or without visuals.
July 4, 2011
I was never an Anticon guy (emo rap wasn’t my style), but I could appreciate DJ JEL’s stellar ‘Soft Money’ solo album even still. His live Akai MPC 5000 sampler work is ridiculous, with or without visuals.
June 22, 2011
Everything is a Remix Part 3 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo. “Creativity isn’t magic.”
February 9, 2011
The subtlety exhibited for a full-CGI spot like Black Beetle makes me dislike every monkey-driver and stupid Snickers C-Lister even more. I really like the hair-light reveal of the body at the end, knowing the car’s shape is so iconic that viewers don’t need to see a Beetle to know it. I admit I didn’t [...]
January 2, 2011
Another year come and gone, with a metric ton of great music left to ponder and enjoy. In terms of trends, there was a ton of metal and rock this year that impressed me, especially the more extreme and experimental ends of the heavy genre. Lots of anger and frustration to spare, and obviously some [...]
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July 13, 2010
The new year is more than halfway over and we’ve been treated to a swarm of great new songs, styles, and new takes on old favorite genres. There are plenty more albums I’ve been listening to from 2010 along with a lot of great holdovers from 2009. But these ten are the albums on which [...]