The True Story of Roger Rabbit & Toonville

Well, not quite, but ever wonder why our mass transit is so horrible?

Blu Jemz & Induce - "Don't Go"

This is a little tidbit of teddy bear Jemz I had laying around. Recorded during one of his stays in Miami, the music was done with original Ace Tone sounds I sampled into the MPC-2000, the bass line I played on the Fender Rhodes running though the Mutronix Mutator, and the synth part is an Arp Omni. For the bongo part during the hooks, we originally wanted to record them live so we went on a trek around town to every pawn shop looking, finding out they go for way to much money than we thought, so we ended up just using the sounds from the Roland 727 drum machine, which sounds just as amazing as if we had the ghost of Ray Baretto. Jemz kills it on sensitive "come-back-to-me-baby" vocals and me on doo-wop back up.

For as silly as the track sounds, it actually has a hint of genuine sensitivity that can be easily heard on further listen. For those who can't take the 6 minute epic love song masterpiece, there's a radio edit that's about half as long. ENJOY!

Blue Jemz & Induce - "Don't Go" - 12" Version

Blue Jemz & Induce - "Don't Go" - Radio Edit

New Induce Podcast @ Club 50

New Free Podcast for everyone. This one is ALL VINYL, recorded LIVE at Club 50, located on the 50th floor of the Viceroy Hotel. If you like Deep and Soulful House, this is for you. Even if you don't, have a listen - you might hear something you like.

Enjoy

Hometeam Podcast

TRACKS BY:

1. OPM – Fuckin’ With You
2. Dan Balis & Eugene Cho – Carry Me On
3. ???
4. Markus Enochson – Feeling Fine
5. Francois K – Awakening (Faze Action Remix)
6. Fertile Ground – Let The Wind Blow
7. A Man Called Adam – Love Forgotten
8. Tapani Tolpanniemi – Jazzin Around
9. Ben Watt ft. Sananda Maitreya – A Stronger Man
10. DJ Gregory – Elle
11. ???
12. Maxwell – Lifetime (Ben Watt Remix)

TRON LEGACY!!!

I remember reading an article with the creator of Tron, taking about how they were making the new one and they wanted to stay really true to the look and feel of the first. Mind you, this was about 4 years ago. I had almost lost hope until I saw another trailer about a year ago. This new preview premiered at ComicCon, which all my friends seem to be at and I'm jealous I didn't go. Enjoy.

My Love Affair

I've been watching alot of Wong Kar Wai movies lately and found out after watching almost all of them that he pretty much tells the same story over and over, yet even with this knowledge, I still find them all becoming special to me as I watch and subsequently keep them in my memory. 

Obviously, In The Mood For Love and 2046 are favorites, but one that has recently stayed with me is Chungking Express. It just found a place in my heart and stays there, occasionally sending signals to my brain, making me remember certain beautiful scenes. I can't even begin to explain what the movie is about, and I wouldn't want to lessen any experience. Here are a couple pictures from one of my favorite scenes in the movie, not just for obvious reasons, but more because of the beauty of being in love.






On my recent trip to China, I spent a night in Hong Kong, unknowingly wandering to the site where the above scene was shot in Chung King Express. It is this HUGE escalator in the middle of the city that goes up the mountain, hundreds of feet. It felt like magic when I noticed where I was and I took the photo below. Hong Kong became quite romantic to me that night and I will always remember the 1 night I stayed.

Zoinks

Straight from the beginning of MJ's death, TMZ has been really killing the coverage game as far as exclusives. They reported him dead first, they've disclosed the autopsy results before erryone else ... etc ...
For those, like me, that didn't know, the guy who started the site was 'outside reporter/pollster' for The People's Court.

"You think he's at fault?", was usually the question of choice as Levin gave 20 seconds to the staple crowd of out-of-work ladies just passing by.

I know this, because, yes, I watch daytime television.

Today, they've gotten the dibs on an unreleased MJ track that is supposed to be coming out w/ a bunch of other never-been-released tunes.

A looped snippet of the song can be heard here:


You'll probably recognize the melody from America's "Horse With No Name", released in '72.

America - Horse With No Name (Todd Terje Edit)




A) It's cool that Jackson was into this song enough to rock it his way; and B) it reminded me of once hearing that around this same time period, Jackson and Quincy were really into Yellow Magic Orchestra, and recorded a version of one of their songs as well -- read more about it w/ tons of interesting linkage here.

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Behind The Mask



I'm kinda hoping for a Chicago cover or other jams from that era to surface.

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And completely unrelated, this track has been burning on the local pirate stations for the last couple months - just tuned in yesterday, was playing, reminded - hence this.

As far as predicting future shot-callers, they've been on the cusp of pretty much every thug-transforming-into-national-star since I've been listening to em. Everything from playing "Hustlin'" months before people in Miami even paid attention to Rick Ross, to bouncing gully Yung Joc album cuts ("A Couple Grand") before "It's Goin Down" even broke.

Yeah, Khaled's Folded Him Into His Camp

Ace Hood - Born an OG (ft. Ludacris)



His other anthem is "Get Em Up"; which is getting play in ATL and N.East; but i put this one up just cuz you prolly wouldn't listen to it if there wasnt a 'name' on it. Eh.

Holy Ghost! - I Will Come Back Video

Holy Ghost! is back with a new single and video that is so friggin good I wish I were there. Somehow they made New York look like it was 1981 again, when New Order were filming videos, and DJ's had reel-to-reel players in the booth, before Disney owned it and it got all boring. And having Arthur Baker in your video makes you pretty fuckin cool to me. Click the link below to download the song for free.

www.greenlabelsound.com/holyghost

New Induce Podcast - Classic Black Vol. 5

Finally, I know you all have been waiting a while for something new and here it is. This is Volume 5 in my series called Classic Black, showcasing both known and unknown soulful dance music, from Disco and Boogie, to Afro-Beat, House and Broken Beat. This volume in the Classic Black series, mixed live on only Vinyl, focuses on the pop-lock Boogie style popular on the West Coast, reminiscent of the Zapp sound.

Enjoy

Hometeam Podcast

TRACKS BY:

1. Electric Power Band – Pappa Smerf
2.  Southside Johnny & The Jukes – Get Your Body On The Job
3. Hurt Em’ Bad – You Got The Ball (Instrumental)
4. Messenger Service – Get Streetwise
5. Ronnie Thang & The Things – Nuclear Freeze
6. The Human Body – Make You Shake It (Produced By Roger Troutman)
7. The Motor City Crew – Let’s Break
8. Shango – Let’s Party Down
9. Galaxxy – Sexy Style
10. Woods Empire - Sweet Delight
11. Brass Construction – Walkin’ The Line
12. T.S. Monk – Too Much Too Soon
13. Heaven & Earth – I Feel A Groove Under My Feet
14. Jimmy G. And The Tackheads – Clockwork (Produced By George Clinton)
15. Philippe Wynne – Wait Till Tomorrow/Bye Bye Love
16. Debra Hurd – Hug Me, Squeeze Me
17. Marcel King – Reach For Love
18. G.T. – Down For The Count
19. Warp 9 – Light Years Away
20. Pushe – Don’t Take Your Love Away
21. Stevie Wonder – Go Home

Make My Way Slowly

Watching Swayze in Roadhouse, eating a salad w/ chicken salad on top, thinking bout going to weddings .... nothing makes sense anymore. Just gon post some random tracks, and by random, i mean, aside from the first 2, I just scrolled n stopped in the iTunes.


Is it possible to be 'late' on T-Pain? Well, I heard this song on a local pirate radio station couple weeks ago. Shits from 07. He produced the track himself.

T-Pain - Church




When I heard the above song, it felt like more recent Gnarls Barkleyish - or, for a local twist, what the Mayday fam are doing lately. Here's a track Bernbiz sent me a while ago.

Mayday - One Mile To Go



M. Ferguson - Pagliacci [Clark Edit]



Dude in action:



Stone - Girl I Like The Way You Move



If you like this one, track down their jam 'Time'.

Happy Father's Day

YAAAAAY Gary Glitter!!! You finally fucked a female and not a little asian boy. Who woulda thought you could get any lower? Nevertheless, you're baby boy (??) loves you Gary! Happy Daddy Day!

Somehow, U2 Just Made Me Think Of Miami Vice

I just listened to the new U2 song, "I'll Go Crazy" remixed by Dirty South, and it is as if my brain was instantly linked to Michael Mann's, circa 1984, and I got this vision in my head and had to write it down. What sucks is, after reading what I wrote, I really wanna be able to see that episode, except there isn't one, I made it up. Here's my review of this song. Be sure to download the song first and listen while reading.


Click here to download U2's "I'll Go Crazy (Dirty South Remix)"

1984. Miami. Montage. Midnight. Crocket is chasing down a guy in a bad suit wearing sandals. Cut to Crocket's Ex-Wife at her home, sitting at the dinner table over an extra uneaten plate of food. Cut to Tubbs - trusty sawed off shotgun in hand, trying to find a way to cut off the criminals from another side. Cut back to Crocket's Ex-Wife sitting alone on the couch in near darkness, the only light in the room shining from a streetlight outside, onto her face. Cut to Crocket - exchanging gunfire with the criminal. Crocket goes down in the crossfire. Cut to Crocket's 2 kids soundly sleeping in their beds. Cut to Tubbs - Tubbs feels something is wrong, doubles back to find his friend and partner too injured to keep going. Cut to close up of Crocket's Ex-Wife - One tear falling from her face, the idea of a normal life fades. Cut to Tubbs rushing Crocket to the hospital in the Testarossa. The assailants disappear into the night.

Oh wait, that's like, every episode.

Yum

Sea Otter Booger candies.

Head over to Pink Tentacle for that and other randomness.

Perrine, FL

From the makers of Cocaine Cowboys. 

My boy Titus says dude w/ the crazy hair was Kimbo Slice's old bodyguard, then they had a falling out; now he's holding these in his mother's backyard.

"Don't Move, Don't Whisper, Don't Even Breathe"

   I've spent the last three(?+) hours trying to track down digital versions of some of my choice records I'm too lazy to attempt to convert into mp3.  

   Getting up and sifting through the stacks (which are not just across the room but 'technically' in the other room -- eh,  its complicated), finding a record, skipping through the tracks, and then sitting back down to search for a copy pretty-much hampers on the couching-time the usual surfing should require.  So, *genius*, I just grabbed a stack, and low and behold, it's always when you're not looking for it that you jab your foot on a gem:

   I clearly remember not actually seeing Judgment Night a good 2+ years after I had the soundtrack on cassette.  And I definitely don't remember much about it, 'cept Emilio being in it, and something about being in the sewers(?) or underground(?!?).  What I do remember is my parents just "not understanding". 

Get the OST via icoulddietomorrow

The Come-up

Of the many perks you get as a dj, one of the major ones is being able to share the stage (read: get free up-close seats) to some great acts.  

Now, sometimes, usually with djs, something will get left behind either on purpose or not.  DJ Funk is famous for giving out the cd's he played that night.  Remember when he played PS14?  Yeah, I haven't played a damn thing off those bootlegs.      

So back when Holy Ghost! performed at Liv they happened to leave two cds when they left.   Only one of the cds worked - [the other was too scratched and just shoots out when I try to load it up], and of that cd, I didn't recognize/have only one of the 5 songs.

I'm of no mindset that this is some sort of exclusive never-released thing-thang, so lemme know what this is so i can update the iD3 tags. BUT, if it is Blogger-gold, thats awesome and I apologize to HG! for releasing it on the world; but then again, only 5 people read this blog anymore, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.

This is that song:
*EDIT: Took the song down cuz of NAGL-fundamentals, because apparently its a demo-version of an unreleased song for their ever-going-to-be-released-? album.  Instead, peep a YouTube clip, and be jealous (and yes it is from 07):