Fall Breakin’ It Between Your Ears
Treasure Island Music Festival-- The Yay Area
Sometimes, when you’ve been lost and gone for awhile, you only need some great beats to get you back on track. Throwing in a sprinkling of viceyness doesn’t hurt, either.
On another note, enjoy the following for some sure to be had good times over the break. If you don’t have plans yet, trek up north to the Treasure Island Music Festival in the Ay Barea. Much of TDOV will be there… perhaps we can vice it up together?
Crooked I Feat. Snoop Dogg– Guess Who’s Back — (7.5/10)
Willie Da Kid Feat. Gucci Mane,LA The Darkman, Bun-B & Yung Joc– Love For Money –(9/10)
Mo Money Mo Miley
We couldn’t believe it either: Miley and Biggie on a track together, and it’s awesome?! What’s the world coming to?!
Party and Bullshit (in the USA)-Notorious BIG vs Miley Cyrus
and just to round it out…
Heard my way through the ’80’s-Calvin Harris vs Marvin Gay vs Lenny Kravitz-DJ Moule
THA ROOTS
Final Days of The Den of Vice, Wohlford 115, 2007
The Den of Vice…freshman year of college… I’ll allow the photos/songs to speak for themselves
And if… – Milkman 9.5/10
Good Sex – Milkman 8.5/10
Forever Young – Jay-Z Mr. Hudson – 10/10
Colombia: How to Love Life 101
Beach at Palomino Resort near Parque Tayrona/Santa Marta, Colombia
Ahhh, Colombia, the mythical land of Pablo Escobar, often viewed in America as a drug-fueled third-world disaster where no one is safe and no one wants to be there, where everyone is poor yet everyone is a coke lord. Once you get there, however, the picture paints a different story. To most who visit, Colombia is paradise on Earth. The weather is perfect, offering ever-sunny tropical beachfront (such as Cartagena & Santa Marta), cooler mountainous plains in the center (like Bogota, at 8,000 feet elevation), and pure Tropical jungle in the south and west. As the single link to Central America from the Southern continent, Colombia enjoys a unique geopolitical status that has allowed it to far surpass its neighbors in wealth (and has also fostered a thriving and lucrative cocaine trade). Then again, Colombians will tell you they’re just enterprising and lively people. Even the homeless people are happy.
The 6 largest cities are just like any other European cities, modernized beyond Americans’ expecations, yet everything is absurdly cheap by Western standards…$1,000/month is living like a king. Colombians are ranked, on average, the 4th happiest people in the world (and unlike most South Americans/Europeans, love Americans). And of course, just like yours truly TDOV, Colombians definitely know how to get down.
Palomino Resort near Parque Tayrona, Santa Marta, Colombia
Lil Wayne on a track with Kanye West and Eminem. Amen.
Forever – Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem – 9.5/10
Remember the 80’s video game Tron? Director Joseph Kosinski has recently decided to turn this Sci-Fi staple into a serious Hollywood movie called Tron Legacy. Nothing too crazy, except this director had the genius idea of having the legendary Daft Punk make the soundtrack. There are already a bajillion remixes on the web, here’s just one of the cooler samples. SO ILL
Tron Legacy - Daft Punk (Cryda Luv Rework)
Biggie and Pac on this chiller:
Runnin With the XX – Notorious B.I.G. – Quix vs. Elliot Blend – 8/10
Here we have an excellently mellow hip-hop rendition of Daft Punk’s Make Love. A great song for gettin it on.
Make Love – Daft Punk – Chew Fu & Substantial Small Room Sax Fix – 9/10
River from Sierra Nevada Mountains reaching the Atlantic Ocean at Palomino
Skyscrapers & Development in Bogota, Colombia's Capital of 8 Million People
Rock is Dead, long live Paper and Scissors
Guitarist Les Paul died yesterday. Nobody has defined his legacy better than The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards- “We must all own up that without Les Paul, generations of flash little punks like us would be in jail or cleaning toilets.”
Musical artistry aside, his enduring contribution to future rock generations is the Gibson Les Paul, a guitar model that was to become an icon of class, ability, and just damn good music. Below, TDOV presents a few songs recorded using the iconic model, so that we may celebrate the man, legend and real American Guitar Hero.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps(Live)-George Harrison & Eric Clapton
Whippin Post- The Allman Brothers
War Pigs/ Luke’s Wall-Black Sabbath
SEAFAIR ‘09
The first (and calmest) day of Seafair 2009.
For every great annual excuse to party, there exists a corresponding geographic locale that has established itself as the event’s official Ambassador of Raging. Rio de Janeiro has Carnivale. Times Square has New Years. Santa Barbara has Halloween. San Diego has the Fourth of July. Boulder has 4/20. Seattle has…..SEAFAIR. These hard-earned reputations emerge only after years of dedicated and documented partying, often requiring consistent local police intervention to truly affirm an event’s insanity. Seafair is no exception. To anyone familiar, the mere name evokes blurry memories of boats, booze, beads, and blatantly debaucherous festivities. Perhaps the largest combined gathering of boats and alcohol on the planet, this unruly celebration takes place every year at the end of July/beginning of August on Seattle’s beautiful Lake Washington. Thanks to a close TDOV associate who purveyed some of the music displayed below, TDOV had a front row seat at Seafair’s Hydroplane Races on a beautiful 100-foot yacht. These amazing party songs should help convey the awesomeness and utter insanity of the affair:
One of the best tech-hop mashes ever heard by a little-known but supremely talented DJ by the name of BEARBOT:
BEARBOT Mixtape - BEARBOT – 10/10
And here we have the also newly-emerging Milkman. This is the new direction of hip hop baby. If you don’t like it, you have shitty taste.
Light It Up – Milkman – 9.5/10
Give this one a second to drop. Milkman keeps it fresh on “Can’t Stop“
Can’t Stop – Milkman – 8.5/10
The front of (the top floor of) the yacht
BeatleJuice
The Art director of the movie Yellow Submarine, Heinz Edelmann, aka the man responsible for turning the Beatles into 2-D hallucinations, recently passed away yesterday, so TDOV thought a Beatles mashup tribute was in order (there being no higher honor, of course).
Rigby Reggae(Beatles vs Seeed)-Loo & Placido-8/10-Beatles dubbed into a sonorific reggae beat. Think Paul and Stephen Marley sharing one.
Together Undone-DJ Clive$ster-9/10-Love this song. An ethereal Beatles, Duran Duran and Rakim combo on the track. Listen to this with big headphones and a dark room.
While the Heart Gently Weeps-Wu-tang-7/10-Was a tossup between this and What More can I say from the Grey Album. George Harrison’s son is on guitar, a nice little touch.
Twist& Love-Kanye vs Beatles&Diplo-7.5/10-Imagine Kanye West invading parade in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Got that image?
I get goosebumps when the bassline thumps
^—This is the sum of Transformers 2. Keep your ten bucks.
Everything in Its Right Place(Gigamesh Remix)-Radiohead-8/10-Have not been able to stop listening to this.
Shining Down (featuring Matthew Santos)-Lupe Fiasco-8/10-Lupe continues a hot streak. Chitown reppin.
Ghettochip malfunction(8-Bit remix)-Beck-7.5/10-Sounds like Mario Brothers meeting, well, Beck.
Reckon A Superstar(Radiohead vs. Lupe)-Mick Boogie & Terry Urban-8/10-Another Lupe, another Radiohead. Two birds with one stone. The remix duo of MB and TU continue to put out highly listenable, inspired mashups.
Hummer Thuggin / Summer Lovin
You know that summer is officially in full blast when the whale-ish Rick Ross starts making appearances sans clothing, sporting a pimp chain bearing his own likeness nestled between his prodigious man-boobs. You also know it’s summer when hippies, drug advocates, nudists, and all-around freaks alike start getting antsy about the infamous Burning Man Festival (see the “Mutant Vehicle” below), where people go to trip out, build (& burn) crazy shit, rave sans clothing, and let their freak flags fly. As such, everyone is looking for some hot new cuts with which to enjoy the sun. Allow TDOV to hook up that new package.
First off the press is a TDOV original, mixed up by our close affiliate M.D.C.. Combining rap and techno is not common, let alone easy, but Mr. C brings the heat on this incredible Rick Ross/Calvin Harris mash-up. If you’re not feelin this one, your ears are broken.
Calvin Harris vs. Rick Ross – M.D.C. 10/10
At #2 we have Shwayze further bridging the gap between hip-hop and techno. With trippy synth riffs, numinous sound effects, and lines like,”I move on like the Greyhound Bus/ I go town to town and I prey on sluts,” Shwayze’s “Buzzin” remix has the makings of a legit hip-hop/tech fusion.
Buzzin (Classixx Remixx) – Shwayze 8/10
Here we have an epic & raw techno banger by Fake Blood that is not for the weak-hearted. Hate it or love it. Think Daft Punk meets Satan.
Stuck on Repeat (Fake Blood Remix) – Little Boots 7/10
Last but not least is your standard tech cut courtesy of Sebastien Tellier. Perfect for driving, raving, skateboarding, relaxing, or whatever, this one flows gently and secretly gets your head bumpin.
L’Amour Et La Violence (Le Defi Remix) – Sebastien Tellier 7.5/10
