Weblog: Shion Abdillah
I have been looking for hip hop production on soundcloud where people have written beats and put an acapella over it. I found this guy from Liverpool, Four Twenty who has created this remix of Mos Def Ms Booty. He has some good beats. Check him out.
Peak Oil is a topic I take great interest in and encourage others to too. The pending oil shortage will hit my life directly and already has started to. It explains many of the things we are witnessing today, from increased prices to the wars being waged around us. It is certainly going to effect my life here in the UK and everyone around. This post introduces my thoughts on this and a short video also which really explains the issue in great detail.
In response to newly passed SOPA bill recently passed by the US congress designed to protect copyrighted material the site is planning a 24 hour staged blackout of the site. Many feel that this bill allows the US the power to crush free speech on the web while using the excuse of copyright protection. It [...]
GOP Candidate Ron Paul makes a lot of sense in his words. This is an old video now, but a great example where he goes head to head with Ricky Santurum, who surprisingly managed to gain 10% out of nowhere on the 15% he was polling at and beat Ron Paul in the Iowa vote [...]
J Live is one of my favourite Hip Hop artist who still remains one of Americas most talented and totally unrecognised rap artists. I found this guy on soundcloud who has basically taken J Live acapellas and reworked them. They sound wicked!
He also has some Jay Z tracks too check him out:
Black Star are finally making a return after many years. The duo consisting of Mos Def and Talib Kwali have released a sneak preview of their new material. This trck called Already Knew is my favourite of the two.
New compilation on the way from Stonesthrow Records. This sounds great. Will be interested to see how the rest of electronic mashoup pans out:
A few months back I went to the premier of the film the Economics of Happiness. It is a film that explores the impact of our current way of living on us humans and our world. It encourages and formulates the notion of localisation practice amongst individuals, encouraging us to support our local communities and [...]
The second podcast mix is now done and dusted and posted on soundcloud. Like the last one it covers a few house genres from deep house to jackin and finishes off on the soulful end. It features tracks by Robert Babicz, Nico Lahs, Inland Knights, Fred Everything, Shur-I-Khan and Christian Arenas.
You can listen and [...]
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