Guilty Simpson - Stray Bullets Podcast # 25 Mixed By Rhettmatic

Stones Throw Video Podcast
STRAY BULLETS
GUILTY SIMPSON MIXED BY RHETTMATIC
Guilty Simpson is from Detroit. Rhettmatic is from the World Famous Beat Junkies

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Too Short, PBWolf. The Bay. Oct. 23 2007 - (Photo)

Too Short & PBW. Impromptu, in the Bay. October 23, 2007.

MP3: Malcolm Catto of the Heliocentrics - (Free!)

Unreleased song from his Mo’ Wax Popcorn Bubblefish sessions circa 2000.

http://rapidshare.com/files/65041217/Malcolm_Catto_Heliocentrics_Untitled.mp3.html

Percee P Interview HipHopGame.com

http://www.hiphopgame.com/index2.php3?page=perceep

Oh No Interview At Rhapsody

http://blog.rhapsody.com/2007/10/if-hip-hop-was-.html

Stones Throw Records - 'In Living The True Gods' (DVD)

Stones Throw's first DVD anthology, "Stones Throw 101," served as a primer course for those unfamiliar with the label's groundbreaking video releases and included one of indie hip-hop's greatest visual moments, the animated Madvillain "All Caps" video, alongside more classic, live-action fare by the likes of Madlib and J Dilla. Directors of the early Stones Throw 101 videos have gone on to great heights, working for the likes of Nas, Young Buck, Ludacris and alongside visionaris like Michel Gondry. For the label's follow up, the West Coast mavericks have assembled a more advanced curriculum, "In Living The True Gods" (a line from the Madvillain "Accordion" video, seen for the first time on this collection). From the surrealist Quasimoto "Bullysh#t" animated video to the late J Dilla's last appearance on film in MED's "Push" to the neo-noir animated nightmare of Madvillain's "Monkey Suite," this anthology demonstrates Stones Throw's ever-widening, and never retiring, creative base. Includes a series of bonus features ranging from a J Dilla interview from 2003 to a mini-documentary of Egon's rediscovery of the Kashmere Stage Band shot by acclaimed photgrapher/filmmaker B+.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Madvillain - 'Accordion (Video)
2. Madvillain - 'Monkey Suite (Video)
3. MED - 'Push (Video)
4. Stones Throw Singers - 'Rain Of Earth (Video)
5. Gary Wilson - 'Gary’s in the Park (Video)
6. Aloe Blacc - 'Busking (Video)
7. James Pants - 'Do a Couple of Things (Video)
8. Dudley Perkins - 'Testing Me (Video)
9. Oh No feat. Dudley Perkins & Georgia Anne Muldrow - 'T. Biggums (Video)
10. Oh No feat. J.Dilla & Roc C - 'Move (Video)
11. Baron Zen - 'At The Mall (Video)
12. Roc C feat. Aloe Blacc - 'My Life (Video)
13. Lootpack - 'Crate Diggin (Video)
14. Quasimoto - 'Bullyshit (Video)
15. J Dilla - 'Nothing Like This (Video)
16. Madlib - 'Take It Back (Video)

BONUS FEATURES:

18. J Dilla 2003 Interview
19. Quasimoto(?) Live in S.F.
20. Jaylib Live at Conga Room
21. Charizma & PB Wolf 'Studio Time ’92
22. Kashmere Stage Band Doc
23. The J Dilla Ruff Draft Interviews
24. The Funky 16 Corners Rehearsal
25. 'Move' Behind The Scenes

Baron Zen - Burn Rubber (Dam Funk Remix) - (Free Mp3!)

MP3: Baron Zen "Burn Rubber(Dam Funk Remix" from At The Mall Remixes

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Baron Zen - At The Mall (PB Wolf Remix)

Nuovo video Podcast di Baron Zen "All The Mall"...

Heliocentrics In Wax Poetics

Wax Poetics Fall 2007

In the early part of the sixteenth century, a Polish astronomer by the name of Nicolaus Copernicus flipped the prevailing view of the universe on its head by claiming that our solar system revolved around the sun rather than the earth. His idea was known as heliocentrism, and at first nobody believed him. Almost five hundred years later, there is another great shift at hand, one where the sampler-driven genres of hip-hop and nu-jazz are taken back by the flourishing sensibilities of a live band and then mashed into an overflowing pot of musical stone soup flavored liberally with free jazz, psychedelic rock, and funk, to name just a few.

The goal of the Heliocentrics is, according to drummer Malcolm Catto, "a return back to something more humanoid, like the intricacies of a group of musicians communicating together and the subtlety of a living, breathing rhythm section, rather than have the musical straightjacket of quantizing or two-bar loops."

With their mission to turn back the clocks to a time when music was made by relating to others rather than sitting alone in the glow of a computer screen, it's clear that these aren't some musical new-jacks who think they can buck conventional wisdom with youthful idealism and vigor. The Heliocentrics' rhythm section, consisting of Catto, bassist Jake Ferguson, and guitarist Ade Owusu, were all members of the U.K.-based throwback group the Soul Destroyers and have been working together for more than a decade, "in which time we have probably been through more keyboard players than Spinal Tap has had drummers," Catto jokes. The rest of the group sports an equally impressive résumé, with players hailing from groups like NESTA, Popcorn Bubblefish, and the Poets of Rhythm, and with some live experience gigging alongside Quantic and DJ Shadow.

With dues paid playing in acts squarely rooted in the traditions of funk and soul, the Heliocentrics are now looking to explore some uncharted waters. "Though fun and great for getting our chops together, we soon got fed up with any strict musical genres along with the clique scenes and attitudes that go with them," Catto explains. "We have not, since the Soul Destroyers, tried to recreate a certain sound or musical style, but instead combine all our influences together to come up with our own musical identity and something hopefully unique."

While "genre-defying" has become a bit of a cliché lately, it is one of the few adjectives that can be used aptly to describe the group's far-reaching musical product, a collection of jazz- and funk-soaked grooves that has been schooled by the catalogs of Ennio Morricone and David Axelrod: it is fusion on an epic scale. Over the last four years, the time it has taken the group to conceptualize and complete their debut, Out There, the group has been listening to everything from Sun Ra and the Silver Apples to Broadcast and King Tubby. "As a musician, I think you generally do soak up what you listen to and subconsciously re-assimilate it and encompass it into your own style, meaning that in some ways, you really can't help but be influenced by what you listen to," says Catto.

While Out There may be another appropriate description of the Heliocentrics' sound, for Catto, it is an also an expression of their being a live group who performs in a space rather than digital circuitry, but who also strive to transcend that space: "Whereas some of our material has a definite feeling of a real space – you can picture us in a room playing – other material has a more abstract feeling in that you can't picture where or how the music is being played. That's probably the two main facets of the Heliocentric sound – rootsy playing styles mixed with spacey psychedelic production techniques."

Peanut Butter Wolf’s 2K8 B-Ball Zombie War - (Video)

Oh No & Percee P in XXL

http://www.stonesthrow.com/ohno/xxl2007.html

Guilty Simpson In Dazed & Confused

http://www.stonesthrow.com/guiltysimpson/dazed.html

U.S. TOUR DATES: B-Ball Zombie Tour with Madlib, Karriem Riggins, PB Wolf, J.Rocc

U.S. TOUR DATES: B-Ball Zombie Tour with Madlib, Karriem Riggins, PB Wolf, J.Rocc and others to be announced