My favorite by far was this claymation "Strange Ways" clip. The level of detail is stunning, and I encourage all to check out more of the artist's work at hiphopsculpture.com.
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Showing posts with label stones throw. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stones throw. Show all posts
Madvillain - Strange Ways (Jean-Yves Blanc)
Some fantastic entries in this fan-made Stones Throw video contest.
It's Spelled Troubadour
As a former English major, I'm docking myself points for not picking up the misspell sooner.
In any case -- WHERE'S YOUR COPY EDITING AT, _STONESTHROW_
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Upcoming: Dam-Funk at The Troubador
I've become a recent supporter of all things Stones Throw during the run of this blog. I think that part of their success lies in their frequent collaborations outside of the music industry. With a range of products from their own Intelligentsia coffee blend to a Huf-commissioned Mayer Hawthorne t-shirt, you can tell that the powers that be running Stones Throw can sometimes make it seem more of an artist collective than record label.
Following this tradition is their latest project: a printing of concert posters for Dam-Funk's upcoming back-to-back California shows in SF & LA, designed by Minneapolis-based Burlesque of North America.
Just bought my tickets for Saturday night's show at The Troubador. Trying not to get my hopes too high, but the last time I saw a show at the Troubador I ended up blind drunk & talking to Ant from Atmosphere about the difference between 'amphibious' and 'ambidextrous' (still one of my favorite shows ever).
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Slip Mat Envy
Good God I want the donut-inspired slip mats for my turntables, like, right now.
As an added bonus, you can d/l a Dilla interpolation of Men Without Hats's Safety Dance here.
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Cult Music Mixed by James Pants
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Kanye & Spike Jonze - We Were Once a Fairytale
Because I am a long-time Kanye mark and I read his (supposedly self-authored) blog regularly, I caught this ten-minute short film collaboration with Spike Jonze that was subsequently taken down a couple days after I watched it. The internet being what it is, however, I've embedded another version I found online, so watch it before it gets taken down, even if it does run a bit long in parts.
Some interesting points:
1) The song playing in the club while Kanye is drunk is "Tell Everybody That You Know," a line from which is used as the title of the short (we were once a fairytale / but this is farewell).
2) The song on the radio when Kanye is either banging some random chick/couch is Mayer Hawthorne's "When I Said Goodbye," the b-side to the "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out" single off of Stones Throw. Hearing that song was probably my favorite part of the whole clip.
3) At the climax, I thought back to this video. Pretty similar.
4) What with this film and the recent Where the Wild Things Are adaptation, Spike Jonze has pretty much cornered the market on creepy puppets.
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Some interesting points:
1) The song playing in the club while Kanye is drunk is "Tell Everybody That You Know," a line from which is used as the title of the short (we were once a fairytale / but this is farewell).
2) The song on the radio when Kanye is either banging some random chick/couch is Mayer Hawthorne's "When I Said Goodbye," the b-side to the "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out" single off of Stones Throw. Hearing that song was probably my favorite part of the whole clip.
3) At the climax, I thought back to this video. Pretty similar.
4) What with this film and the recent Where the Wild Things Are adaptation, Spike Jonze has pretty much cornered the market on creepy puppets.
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Mayer Hawthorne - The Ills
Found this most excellent youtube clip for my favorite song off Mayer's Strange Arrangement: "The Ills." The visuals really capture the feel of the 1970s Curtis Mayfield-esque rollicking bass line.
Loved the official description from the front page of stonesthrow.com :
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"PRETTY SWEET VIDEO SOME TOTAL RANDI MADE ON YOUTUBE".
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999 Follow Up
So I made it out to the Pasadena leg of Peanut Butter Wolf's 999 tour and could not have been happier with the 90's goodness. He started off the all-video set with Bob Dylan's "The Man in Me" from The Big Lebowski mixed into Stone Temple Pilots' "Vasoline" mixed into some Tupac, which sounds pretty incongruous yet rocked pretty hard.
Anyhow, I checked out PBW's tour blog and noticed this snippet:
The aforementioned guy? Totally me.
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Anyhow, I checked out PBW's tour blog and noticed this snippet:
After the show, a guy asks me if I meant to play that song when the police officers came in and I said “no, what song?” he proceeds to explain that I played “Sound Of The Police” by KRS-One just as 2 uniformed police officers came in. Oops.
The aforementioned guy? Totally me.
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Peanut Butter Wolf's 9-night 90s Tour
Can't wait to check this out. I'll definitely be going to the Pasadena show 9/4 if anyone wants to go with me.
http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2009/08/999
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http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2009/08/999
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Dam-Funk & The Rappin' Reverend
I'm listening to the new Stones Throw podcast, a Dam-Funk mix called "Spiritual Flight." The whole thing is really worth a listen, but I'm absolutely blown away by the 4th track: THE RAPPIN' REVEREND DR. C. DEXTER WISE, III - “I Ain't Into That” (Short Version) ~ 1986 12” | Fantasy Records.
My initial assumption was that this was not a real person. I was wrong.
[mind blown]
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My initial assumption was that this was not a real person. I was wrong.
As the " Rappin' Reverend " , Dr. Wise recorded his first rap album "I Ain't Into That! " which was the number one song on the number one rhythm and blues station in Detroit, Michigan. The song soared to number fourteen on the dance charts in London, England in the summer of 1987. Other Rappin' Reverend publications are his book " I Ain't Into That! " (The Book) and his rap album, "Crack Attack". There is also a book called Be A Man which compliments his rap song on male responsibility. Also in connection with this, The Rappin’ Reverend went on a fifty school tour and in ninety days got more than 18,000 Columbus Ohio school children to make public commitments to live drug free, crime free and alcohol free lives.
[mind blown]
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Today's Fun Fact
Brought to you by the official Jay Dee discography @ stonesthrow.com ...
See 1995: Poe - "Fingertips" from Hello CD/LP (1995) WEA/Atlantic
Go fig. Paging Dr. punch-drunk, aka the only person I know that owns said CD--what do we think of this song? How about an upload?
Between this news and the recent use of "Angry Johnny" as entrance music at UFC 94, 2009 has been very Poe-centric for me, lately.
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