Pants Off Dance Off!

This was a wicked night, one for the books! Heres a wicked video of the night from our boy Joel Vaillancourt from SUMMER PROJECT. SO SICK, big it up Joel!

Ghislain Poirier feat. Face T

Fresh off part one of my tour with Ghislain Poirier, Face T, and South Rakkas I must say I was well impressed. Ghislains live performance alongside Face T and drummer extraordinaire Chris was nothing short of amazing!

Heres two videos of the same track, one is the official video and the other is live!





Tour picks back up June 5th in Calgary and June 6th in Edmonton with same crew and an additional performance by Rye Rye! stoked!

Crazy Cousinz - UK FUNKY

The Crazy Cousinz are at the forefront of one of the Uk's newest dance music sensations UK FUNKY!

The soca/dancehall drum patterns and relentless dancefloor energy of funky house have made it a perfect fit for bashment-dominated DJ sets in the last couple of years - particularly the tunes and remixes featuring ragga MCs.


In the last few months, some of the biggest tunes in the London rave scene have featured bashment-influenced vocals: Donaeo's Party Hard, Lady Chann's Your Eye Too Fast and Ms Dynamite's Bad Gyal. Heatwave MC Rubi Dan has been busy too, dropping his distinctive London/Caribbean flow on funky house releases by Chinski and Grievous Angel.

And of course, the trend in funky for tunes calling out dance moves - Migraine Skank, Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes and the hilarious but excellent Stupid Skank - is a direct nod to Jamaican bashment dance songs like Dutty Wine, Gully Creepa or Row The Boat.
Two way traffic

Now it seems that rather than just absorbing and adapting Caribbean influences, the sound of UK funky is crossing the Atlantic and starting to cause waves in Jamaica.

This is just the beginning of something huge! Dont Sleep!

MP3: Aidonia & Crazy Cousinz - Bounce

The Introduction

Greetings fellow music lovers, my name is Mr. Sofalumpkins, I have been asked by this fine group of gentlemen to contribute to this blog, I'll be writing on a wide range of topics, all music related of course, but I guess first off, I should tell you all a little about myself.

I am a trans-dimensional gestalt entity who entered this host body on November 1st 2008, the previous "occupant" had gone way beyond the terms of the lease and was for all intents and purposes "squatting" so he had to be forcibly evicted, the technical term for this event is "soul jacking", please refer to your cosmic instruction manual for further reading on; what to do when being soul jacked, how to avoid a soul jacking, plus, contacts for all the relevant agencies that deal with "post jacking stress disorder" and all the "post corporeal rehabilitation groups".

Now thats all cleared up I can broach my first topic for this blog;

The state of the industry...

Contrary to popular and wide spread belief, there is NOTHING wrong with the state of the music industry, all that has happened in recent years is that all of the holes in the present model, though i now refer to this as the old one, have been highlighted and are now starting to cause massive failure with it. Things are not as bleak as some will have you believe, the sky is not falling, its just its chemical make-up that is changing, let me elaborate on this.

The problem with the old model is that it is based on the notion of how we exploit "intellectual copyright", we have to be clear about our choice of words here and no other word than "exploit" can be used in this context. Now lets put that word into another context and see what results we get "exploitation of children for cheap labour" for example is a great context within which to understand why exploitation is a bad thing. Okay, so you may argue about the use of the word "exploitation" within the context of "intellectual copyright", well, you wont get very far with that argument as the right to "exploit" the "intellectual copyright" of an artist is made explicit in every legally binding document within the industry.

You may well ask what the problem is here, well, its very simple, music can be copyrighted, but when you consider that every possible arrangement of chords, melodic structure and rhythm have already been covered by the classical composers and tribes in africa that developed the first poly rhythms you have to ask yourself who owns the music the industry wishes to exploit? Anything over 50 years old is copyright free in europe, i believe its 75 in north america, so, if its all been done before, and it is now out of copyright, its free for all to use and abuse, so who owns it? This oxymoron is made all the more troubling when you consider that most modern music is made from samples and, well, just noises, theres actually little to no musical content whatsoever, so how can you copyright something that cannot be scored? So now this comes down to the ownership of the recording, but this implies some kind of performance surely?

My point here is simple, the only thing a musician can rightfully ask to be paid for in terms of intellectual property is the actual performance itself, that being the case, on the surface the dance music industry appears to have been living in a bubble economy, and, unfortunately, that bubble is about to burst.

Embrace performance, or die, this is how evolution works, and embrace change and the new model, or go the way of the dinosaur, and in keeping with this new ethos i present to you my first free track available for download below.

Defender by mrsofalumpkins

Juakali

JUAKALI [Subswara NYC]
http://www.myspace.com/juakali

Is the resident MC of New York City’s premier Dubstep event; Dub War and more recently, the internationally fueled bass driven Sub Swara NYC. He is the featured vocalist with the live Dub band Dub Liberation Front (formerly Babylon Station) and is continuously recording his Island reared vocals to riddims that move body or soul.


JUAKALI - Come From Yard

CLASSIXX!!!!

This video rules! This song is even better!

Brutalist Architecture Vol. I

This mix has been sitting on my hard drive for ages now, weathering all sorts of forces intent on dragging it into a deep, sordid gutter of "never finished". Computer crashes, non-stop exams, the mysterious disappearance of programs in the middle of the night, a week and a half stay in a computer tech's dusty back-room, and a tremendous slip-and-fall on a patch of stubborn ice that just wouldn't melt. But, it's all over, and the finished product is a click away. (PS, "Vol. I" implies that there will be a Vol. 2, and so on and so forth, at least theoretically. Watch for more installments.)

Hotspur Pop's Brutalist Architecture Vol. I

Run-time: 26:27

Intro) House Music / Aniki, Hoes and House / Top Billin

1) The Flash (Scuola Furano Remix) / Act Yo Age

2) Elton Runs the Place Red (Hotspur Pop's Shoe-Gaze Mash) / KiNK vs. The Bulgarian vs. Malajube

3) Wheely Boy vs. Yo Maj / Jaymo

4) Where Is It? / Blatta and Inesha
5) Get Down / Jack Beats

6) Fake (A1 Bassline Remix) / Alex Roots

7) Push the Feeling On / Nightcrawlers

8) Speaker / KC Flight, ATFC, Seamus Haji

9) God Is A Slacker (Lee Mortimer Remix) / Dem Slackers

10) Heartbreak Scorcese ('96 Bulls Remix) / Snob Scrilla

11) Beatburger (Mikix the Cat Mac Honey Remix) / Mendel

12) Movin' Around / Mikix the Cat

13) Bingo Players Get Up (Diplo Remix) / Bart B-More

14) Lucky 13 / Act Yo Age, K.I.S.S.I.N.G. / Nas (acapella)

15) Vouxhall / Riva Starr

16) Step Off (Lazy Ants Remix) / Blatta & Inesha ft. Congorock

17) Back Up In This (Nadastrom Remix) / Designer Drugs

18) Ski Hard / Armand Van Helden ft. Christian Rich

19) Shoes (Noob Remix) / Tiga

20) Nothing 2 Step 2 (Idiotproof Remix) / Thunderheist

21) Take Me to the Hospital (Hostage Remix) / The Prodigy

22) Sex O'Clock / Tiga

23) We Gonna Give You the Lesson / Mr. Miyagi

24) Jakk'd & Skrew'd (Dem Slackers vs. Mom & Dad Remix) / Jon Kennedy

25) Jack U (JFK MSTRKRFT Edit) / Felix Da Housecat and Diddy

26) AA 24/7 (Nacey Remix) / Dance Area ft. Austin Boston

27) Hello (Nacey Remix) / AC Slater

28) Erotic Discourse (Audiojack Remix) / Paul Woodford, Bobby Peru , Clock Work / Juelz Santana (acapella)

29) Disappear (Mikix the Cat Remix) / Star Eyes

30) I Took The Night (DJ Ayres Flatbeat Mix) / Chelley vs. Mr. Oizo

31) Infonia Della Notte / Dennis Ferrer

32) Connect the Dots / Daz the Dominant

33) Blinded By The Lights (Nero Remix) / The Streets

Bonus oontz oontz:

Zuendli - Remute