well, atleast tumbling in relation to gymnastics is easy to find
i’ve been kind of preoccupied with the notion of words gaining new meanings, or words getting put into a different context – through pop culture. it happens all the time, but what is interesting(moreso annoying) to me is when these new meanings or representations are introduced to/through the internet, and the reappropriation of that word causes havoc on search queries. how can i find more about that sweet spot right after golden hour when the sun is down but the sky isn’t dark yet? heaven forbid i use the word twilight. i can’t search for Tweet related things without inadvertently getting results about twitter. and i definitely can’t find pictures of ACTUAL Madagascar – instead i’ll get that damned dreamworks movie, which i haven’t even seen! it’s a mess!
oxford university press might liken these as new words, but i think there should be a more developed term for this phenomenon – which is very much a new school idea. at first i thought that it could be grouped with skunked terms, but that’s a bit too vocabularily focused: it’s more about actual word definitions taking on new meaning, and not about words being borrowed(borrowed? more like taken over) for movie titles, musician names, internet companies, etc. i’d say that neologisms come closest, especially with the evolution of note, but as i said before the words im talking about are borrowed, not newly coined. hmmm indeed.
mary j blige – be happy
as part of a collaboration with soulbounce.com for their november project Month of Mary, celebrating her as an artist as well as the fifteen year anniversary of her cd, My Life. i was asked to whip something up for a remix ep they were going to put out for the culmination of the whole event. so, why not? they gave me a reason to mess with mary j blige acapellas and i was glad to oblige. mary j blige’s my life cd is a great representation of everything good about mid 90’s r&b. as i’m looking at the production credits on that cd right now, i just noticed that the title track was produced by trackmasters! more google sleuthing leads us to their production discography via wikipedia, and man. 94 to 97 was huge for them. don’t forget the remix appendage at the bottom of the list for more 90s heaters. THE LOUNGIN REMIX! dude, huge. anyway, getting sidetracked – the og track to this is without luv by 7 samurai.
finna get on that honeybaked ham tip
i’m kinda trippin. i’ve heard that chorus somewhere else before, but it’s eluding me.. help. but yea, ms dynamite’s got a pretty sexy voice.
+ i bought an mpc last week, in hopes of making my first steps into producing. i’ve tried a lot of different software for making beats, and they’ve never really felt too natural for me – always too much involved in learning the software than actually getting down and dirty with the process, and it’s turned me off to most of them. but the mpc pad stuff feels really natural to me. i’m now listening to a lot of my jazz/funk to find things to loop and sample, and it’s all very exciting. yaywoo
+ ooh new website update news! some time ago someone either commented or emailed about having a way to preview the remix before downloading, like some kind of embedded flash player. i was all for it, but i don’t really like that wordpress mp3 player thing – it felt bulky and the fact it extended/retracted was not something very pretty. however! yesterday i found a very very neat mp3 embedding thing that was unobtrusive and could easily adapt into my text-heavy blog. if you check all the remix posts now (here look at this one), the mp3 link will be indented with a seafoam green border-left which allows you to preview/play/pause the song just from clicking it! and you can still right click and save* the mp3 links so you can get ya dl on while its previewing. pretty sweet ass html/js nerdery. if you got your blog on, peep it: SoundManager2 (via waxy)
+ me and the dude linotype got a new mix/podcast goin on representing our most prestigious come up crew, check it out here if you wanna hear us sesh and talk about music and some videogames. (comeup podcasts happen every two weeks, don’t sleep)
+ and a happy kthxgiving to you and yurrs.
*you’ve no idea how many emails or comments i’ve received like ‘hey how do i dl the song’ really? i mean really? how did you get a computer
you got me hummin
throwback track of the week, off of the quincy jones – the dude album. i remember finding out ai no corrida was on this cd, then – as usual – asking my dad if he has the cd. and obvs he delivers. this is on some more karaoke steez too; that, 100 ways, and somewhere out there are some choice james ingram to sing to. omg wait just ran into this video, i’ve always been intrigued by the footage that they play during karaoke – usually i hit the ktown spots, and they just show pieces of kdramas and korean movies, but i always enjoyed and preferred these corny ass ones.
++ EDIT WAIT OH MY GOD I ALREADY USED THIS AS A THROWBACK TRACK. SHAMEFUL. /COMMITS SEPPUKU
+ catch me at verdugo bar on november 18 for the devil’s pie la: siik edition. thank you paul and lino and phatrick for hookin it up. i’ll be playing a lot of remixes- some new stuff, some old stuff, and some horrible stuff(no not really playing horrible stuff but best believe i enjoyed that enough to follow through with it). also will be giving out some endless summer cds and stickers so GET@ME.COM when i’m there. ★rsvp on facebook★
+ after that, catch me at pig n whistle on november 21 where i’ll be playing for some homies. it should be cracking. i’ll be playing 90s. you may also ★rsvp on facebook★
+ checked out the brainfeeder sessions last sunday on a whim, and i’m glad i did! i’m very interested in this new and burgeoning field(or is it a resurgence?) of video djing/motion graphics/audivisu/etc, in part because a) it’s pretty damn captivating(if you’ve been to a pbw vj set, the crowd is split between people getting their groove on, people going OHHH SHIT when the music vid drops, and people just staring at the screen dumbfounded) and b) they’re two things i know how to do, and doing both simultaneously would be pretty sweet. the venue at brainfeeder is like a movie theatre and people just chill out in their seats, red stripe in hand, and the dj/vj is in front while the graphics are being projected onto the movie screen. i liked it a lot, and i think there’s a lot of room for creativity/fun that can come from it. i’m gonna have to exploit this some time soon..
same old voices
calque part two
hahah, i was looking at the post for the original calque and i had to double take, because i swear to god i made that much more recently. though i might be getting it mixed up with the other house mix i did, which, coincidentally, was done around the same time of the year as well! maybe october and november just mean i’m in a housish mood. well, this one is all good vibin house with some deep house as well. it’s not a sequel per se, but moreso the illegitimate child of calque and in the air. but i do believe i will be doing sequels for other old mixes as well.. mainly because i already like all the names of the mixes ive made!
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mediafire (for sharing!)
ian pooley – menino brincadeira
7 samurai – brothers
oreja – vasilando (rasmus faber club mix)
azymuth – before i forget (kenny dope mix)
jazztronik – don’t hold your tears (central living remix)
art of tones – praise (llorca remix)
blue six – all i need (jimpster remix)
lisa shaw – let it ride (jimpster remix)
julien jabre – swimming places
mo horizons – brazil
dennis ferrer f. k brooks sr – change the world
jazztronik – future talk
afro medusa – pasilda (knee deep club mix)
ian pooley – coração tambor
endless summer
throwback track of the week. for the sake of science, i recently signed up for billboard.biz to gain access to weekly top charts, namely the hot rap/r&b songs from ten years ago. other than for my own edification, it’s for a personal project i’m working on which IM SURE you will be interested in. i’ve been spending many nights just looking at old charts from 97-00, and it’s pretty cool remembering a lot of those songs. so anxious was hot ten years ago! in fact this week ten years ago, it was #13 on hot rap/r&b songs. #1 was we can’t be friends, which i really don’t even remember, like at all.. other songs of note this week ten years ago:
u know whats up (which was INCREDIBLY huge – 49 weeks on the charts, goddamn donnel! rip lisa left-eye!)
heartbreaker (i think around now mariah had already fully lost her innocence – started with honey, check always be my baby which came out the year before. still on the girl next door tip. i liked the remix better, also)
vivrant thing (which i have to add to my b&w hip hop video list! snap!)
anyway, these billboard charts are a whole lot of fun to look at. ten years ago. shits nuts.
+ ☆☆☆☆THE SUMMER MIXTAPE IS NOW READY TO SHIP!!☆☆☆☆ $10 for canada/us, $12 for anywhere else. paypal only plz to s@siik.org. ☆AND OMG YOU GET STICKERS IN IT TOO☆ hit this button and you’re in it to win it. (actually button is acting strange, and charging yall shipping.. people that clicked i’m reimbursing)
+ i am lacking a halloween costume. very bummed about this. last year i did lots of prep in building my kji costume and a good time was had by all. this year though, all my costume ideas require more than just the solo tip, or moreso on the spending tip. first i wanted to be king jaffe joffer, but that would require me to find a very large plush lion i could gut out and turn into a shawl-type of thing. that was gonna get expensive. then i was thinking boyz II men from motownphilly video, but i didnt know three other people with excess melanin that would be down. was also thinking of the turtleneck guy from omc, but my hair is not quite long or slicked back enough to pull it off.. however today may prove fruitful- my friend suggested doing characters from sketches on All That, which would lead to some good group costumes. earboy, pizzaface, pierre escargot, randy & mandy, baggin saggin barry.. all really good looks! i’ll see who i can convince to team up with me – if they’re in the same boat and have not decided on a costume yet either. even if not, i could probably solo a baggin saggin barry pretty easy breezy beautifully.
+ i’ve been posting up mo updates and throwbacks to my facebook, so if you ain’t on that yet – BE ON DAT
