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Deltron 3030 – it’s what you get when you mix Dan the Automator with Kid Koala and Del tha Funkee Homosapien

minha galera — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:15:25 +0000

Things you can do

Dan “the Automator” Nakamura is the brain behind many of the best hip-hop acts of the last 20 years, such as: Lovage, Handsome Modeling School, Gorillaz, Peeping Tom and he mingles along the likes of Mike Patton, Prince Paul, Dj Shadow, etc.

Kid Koala is …. Kid Koala -- the turntable master, signed to Ninja Tunes and constant inovator, mixing turntables, games and graphics into a big ball of fun.

Del tha Funkee Homosapien is that voice that you will never forget but never quite put your finger where you heard it for the first time. Well I’ll spare you the effort of googling it: he is Gorrilaz’s Del from Clint Eastwood & Rock The House. But he’s also a regular on many underground hip-hop acts, such as Jurassic 5, Handsome Boy Modeling School, etc.

Important info: The song Time Keeps On Slipping, featuring Damon Albarn, is said to have been the influence on the creation of the Gorillaz.

In this formula, Deltron 3030 is born, telling the story of Deltron Zero’s fight against an oppressive government and powerful corporations, while also battling to be the Galactic Rhyme Federation Champion.

Madness

Time keeps on slipping (with Damon Albarn <3).

3030

Turbulance

Love Story

Memory Loss

Myspace

Dälek

domnux — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:23:33 +0000

Dälek (pronounced ‘Die-a-leck’) is an experimental hip hop duo from Newark, NJ. The group comprises MC Dälek (vocals) and the Oktopus (production). They have often toured with artists from radically different genres, such as Godflesh, Isis, Prince Paul, The Melvins, De La Soul, and Lovage. Dälek’s music is dark, noisy and atmospheric, equally inspired by industrial music like Einstürzende Neubauten (the band of Blixa Bargeld), the layered noise of My Bloody Valentine and the dense sound collages of Public Enemy. Their sound is often constructed through sampling and a musical base atypical of most hip-hop, making it difficult for people to classify their sound. They have been described as trip-hop, glitch-hop, and metal- shoegaze-hip-hop, as well as criticized for their broad range of sound.

Paragraphs Relentless

Tarnished

Spiritual Healing (with ZU and Okapi)

Isolated Stare

Classical Homicide

Links: Official page, MySpace, LastFM, Wikipedia.

Dabrye

domnux — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:54:15 +0000

Dabrye is an alias of Ann Arbor, Michigan-based musician Tadd Mullinix (also known as James T. Cotton, SK-1). He is best known for creating head-nodding beats with saw-tooth bass lines and a keen eye to forward-thinking production. With support from both the hip-hop underground and the electronic music press, he has earned a place in URB’s Next 100 and XLR8R’s Top 100 albums, among other accolades.

Piano -- listen here.

Smoking the Edge

Remix of Fake emotion (of Modeselektor)

Bloop

Air Remix (with MF Doom)

Get It Together (with Invincible and Finale)

Hyped-Up Plus Tax (this track was used as a jingle for the Motorola RAZR V3 commercial)

Links:
- Official page
- MySpace page
- LastFM page
- Wikipedia page

Roguish Armament

domnux — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:29:56 +0000

Roguish Armament remains even in our days an underground hip-hop band. There’s almost nothing on the net about them. I was playing for the first time an pre-recorded audio tape in the 90’s with this song: Circus of Mayhem.

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Roguish Armament “New York’s hardest alternative hip-hop crew” is formed by G-Pace, Danny ILL-CHUCK, Chip-Love/ Hesher and Morgan Hariss. “An underground classic”.

Roguish Armament was at the opening act at Woodstock 1994.

Chip Wolfson aka Hesher a.k.a. WHISPER, the singer/songwriter for Roguish Armament, is also a painter and graffiti artist, an MTV-2 VJ, host of MTV’s reality show “I Bet You Will,” and a member of the legendary band Bad Brains. As a painter, he started tagging in Queens about 1980, had his first art show at “Downtown Beirut”, and was part of the 80’s emerging LES “neo-expressionist” movement. He exhibited for three years at the East Village Gallery.

G-PACE also was dj-ing for Bad Brains.

The members of Roguish Armament formed a short-lived band called “The Shining Path” with Maltby from Dog Eat Dog and with Daryl Jenifer from the Bad Brains (the american hardcore punk band formed in 1977, widely regarded as being among the pioneers of hardcore punk).

Quasimoto – Come on Feet

domnux — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:32:39 +0000

If someone ask me what underground hip-hop i recommend, i say Quasimoto.

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Quasimoto, or producer Madlib’s alter ego emcee, hails from Oxnard, California.
One day in the studio, Madlib decided to rap to his own beats. He didn’t like the sound of his voice (his friends in Oxnard call him ‘Barry White’ in reference to his deep voice) so decided to simply change the pitch of the vocals to produce Quasimoto’s distinctive high pitched voice.

Links:
- Official page
- MySpace page
- Madlib MySpace

Jurassic 5

domnux — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:45:01 +0000

Jurassic 5 is a hip hop group formed in 1993 by rappers Chali 2na, Akil, Zaakir aka Soup, Mark 7even, and turntable maestros DJ Nu-Mark and DJ Cut Chemist, who came together from two separate crews, The Rebels of Rhythm and Unity Committee. The group formed at the Los Angeles health store The Good Life Cafe, where they performed at the open mic nights. According to Cut Chemist, The Good Life was a renaissance period in hip hop. Cut Chemist left the band in 2006 to pursue a solo career.

The Influence

We Know (with DJ Format)

Swing Set

Freestyle session with Tom Green

Acetate Prophets

Thin Line (with Mya)

Battlestar Scralatchtica (with Incubus)

Links:
- Official page
- MySpace page
- DJ Nu-Mark MySpace
- Cut Chemist MySpace
- Chali 2na MySpace
- Akil MySpace
- Zaakir MySpace
- Cut Chemist page
- Cut Chemist Wikipedia
- Chali 2na Wikipedia
- DJ Nu-Mark Wikipedia
- Mark 7even page
- DMC World DJ Championships
- DMC World DJ MySpace