Archive for June 2008

i gotta give it up to my dude benzi for this. he told me about it first a few weeks back and was asking me to play with it, but i wasn’t feelin it at first.. but after some repeated listens, i was all over it. i love the original, old school feelin beat and whatnot. plus the video is pretty sick too. plus, you don’t have to call is one of my fave neptunes beats.

lloyd - girls around the world (siik remix)

bonus beats: wayifeel_baller, justwanna_howwedo, swing_inthisclub, wannalove_myboo, amilly_jamrock, and of course: neyo_danity. im going to put damaged on every damn thing.

i took a break from work recently, and to fill the time i’ve been: hangin out, shopping, watching police story 1 2 and 3 all over again (i do this once or twice a year), watching tmnt 2 numerous times, and playing wow. what i’ve been listening to lately, in no order:

cassie - thirsty
jaheim - heaven in your eyes
inner city - big fun !!!!
lloyd - girls around the world (got a mash of this on my myspace!)
n.e.r.d. - you know what
bun b - pop it 4 pimp
common - universal mind control (of course.. it’s currently the ringtone)
slum village - tainted
amerie - i just died
busta - don’t touch me

i loves youtubes for havin music. honorable mention goes to a milli, everyone nose, the nomak cd, paris tokyo. and damaged.

i remember when i first heard this track. it was blowin up on the radio some time around 8th grade. i definitely thought she was white. it was sorta like booty bass but on a real mellowed out r&b tip. my cousin’s brother had the sosodef bass allstars cd and i was begging to borrow it. the cd casing was next level, it was tinted green like lego lasers pieces. it was so off the hook. also, it had corina - summertime summertime on it, which is THE DAMN JAM. although i didn’t know that corina ripped the song from nocera. the original is way sicker. and the original love you down is also sick. regarding my blend, my friend says it sounds like a beach at dusk. i think she’s right. when the daft punk cd came out i was like ‘wtf, this song is just a loop with a fadein and fadeout.’ well, it’s perfect for an acapella!

inoj - make love you down (siik remix)

it’s stuck in my head.

+ updated the muxtape. instrumental love. plus the common track is bananas
+ i’ve been eyein this lens lately. i think i’m gonna have to get it soon. all i have right now is a 50 f1.8 and this relic of a lens. it would be a good replacement. and on the topic of photo stuff, when did point and shoots get so cheap? i don’t really want or need one but man, why not?
+ an interesting history of the roach clip break
+ this dude loves his legos. really sick photos too.

so, the come up that night was really fun. was the first time meeting these dudes to dj with but they’re all great dudes(and dudette). we had a practice sesh that afternoon and we were all doing some amazingness, really good tunes that we were all throwin around. can’t wait to get down again. also can’t wait to buy my own gear, as it now appears that i finally -have- to buy turntables/mixer/et al. (yeah, i never had it before - fake it till you make it!)

some pics on my flickr. maybe more later. we’ll be doing it again the end of june, so mark your calendars.

as i was drag and droppin stuff from my music harddrive, i started to hear some dreaded clicking.. it wasn’t loud clicking, but i still got HELLA scared. hd failure has never actually happened to me but i dread the notion of nine years, 250 gigs, hours upon hours of collecting, to get thrown out. so i bought a terabyte(!) external and jumped ship immediately. i can’t imagine filling this hd up - i try to listen to everything i have, and i already have a hard time with 250 - another 700+ gb won’t help the situation. unless i start collecting FLAC. (nerds)

oh yeah, and LAKERS