Topher Sipes, the creative vision and artistic director behind ARTheism, recently captured a going away house party filled with major creative expression. Part of the night included performances by Chief and TheDoomsdayDevice, Kinder, and Vegetable Kingdom.
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This is episode 3 from “Here’s to the Firing Squad” a video ep from Mnolo and Jaysin that will be released on 4-6-12. All the footage was taken during occupy events in San Francisco and Oakland.
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This is episode 4 from “Here’s to the Firing Squad” a video ep from Mnolo and Jaysin that will be released on 4-6-12. Mofoz is once again behind the camera and helping with design all along the way.
For more info and to pre-order visit Jaysin or Mnolo.
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You know the drill… Da’Shade Moonbeam is the real deal. A true original, he effortlessly blends different cultures and genres with ease, and in a package that most folks may not be ready to accept, but will be forced to in the near future. He’s changing the game, and bringing back the days when it wasn’t about something surface level, like swag or style… he’s taking it to a place where you have to stand out on your own terms in order to be truly heard and appreciated. Check out “Stylin’ On Em” for an example:
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Some of my old .::liquidstereoproject bandmates have formed another band that mixes acoustic and digital elements… Paperthreat is normally a beautiful blend of those elements, but for this particular occasion, they went acoustic. The results are equally powerful… dig it:
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There are a small handful of people that I would call true influences… people that I got to see in the flesh as a young man with aspirations of being a hip-hop musician. People who were local to Austin like myself, and already doing things on a scale even greater than I could initially imagine.
One of those artist was Notes Floats. He went by Grapefruit when I first met him, and he was a standout from a crew known as the Cool Out Kids. He was one of the first artists I knew who I had on vinyl, a treasure for a young DJ like myself. He was a producer as well as MC, and his beats fell somewhere between De La and Digable Planets.
Notes is still doing his thing now more than ever. He recently released a video for his Continue, and it perfectly captures his essence. Get hip to Notes, because he’s been hip for a while.
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Over the next few weeks, Jaysin and Mnolo will be releasing a video a week from their newest project Here’s To The Firing Squad. This is the second selection, titled Sire. Here you go…
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I’ve known Nosaprise for close to ten years… friends of friends. He’s always continued to amaze me at his ability to both push the boundaries of his creativity and his comfortability zone. Never one to have a mundane, repetitive sound, Nosa recently released a new video for Hot Nights. Featuring some beautiful vocals by Kam Franklin of The Suffers, and some stellar directing by Apollo Stackwell, it is well worth the watch. Check out Nosaprise during SXSW 2012 this Saturday at Malaia on 6th, 8:00pm.
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Right on time for the madness of SXSW comes a gem of an Austin hip-hop album. This one is by Kydd, and it’s the highly anticipated The Sounds In My heAd PT.2. A banger from end to end, it shows why the LNS crew is a forced to be reckoned with. Check out the video for Now and Then featuring Pac Div, and produced by Keef.
Get your copy RIGHT NOW… perfect music for jumping from show to show this week.
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I’ve probably said it before, but let me state it again : Ernest Gonzales is always on point. This time, DNTEL took a swing at When Synchronicity Prevails from the recent Friends Of Friends release Natural Traits. They even threw in some truly old school getdown footage for you.
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The creative minds behind Exploded Drawing have come together once again to form some audio-visuals worth your while. “Spilled Nip” is a gem from my man soundfounder‘s solo LP Complete Dream Home, and with Butcher Bear on the visuals, you know it’s dope. Take a second for some audio-visual hypnotism, won’t you?
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