DJ Ramsey Scratch Tape Decks

This is some of the most innovative hip hop making I've seen in a long time. I'd like to see Ramsey team up with some dope mc's and produce an album using his tape-scratching skills.

Breez Evahflowin' & Dirt E. Dutch: Don't Be Afraid.

YouTube Version:


Video produced by Elasticbrand.

Blip TV Version:


Excellent interview by Freelance journalist Adam Bernard with the Dynamic Duo here.

Scion presents Biz Markie's Stomping Ground

Check out a tour guided by none other than the diabolical Biz Markie at scion.com/broadband.

Free Troublemakers Show in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, February 27

The Subphonik Crew is presents Breez Evahflowin's new project with Dirt E Dutch called Troublemakers. Check them at http://www.myspace.com/tmakers.

Their tracks are rocking the CMJ HIP HOP Charts (#3 THIS WEEK!)!

This is that Classic Hip Hop!

"Troublemakers, a collaborative effort between Dirt E. Dutch (IndieFeed Hip Hop) and Breez Evahflowin (Stronghold) is a personal yet accessible statement on how music can shape a man's life and cultural views. The album features 12 quality tracks surrounded by colorful sound bites serving as a harsh narrative to the reality ridden rhythms. The Troublemakers LP takes a
mature approach to covering various topics: politics, relationships, loss, and good times."

They're also proud to be launching
The Subphonik Beat Battle.
They need six contestants for this production battle! The winner will receive a free production class at Dubspot.


SUBPHONIK WEDS
Live-Hip-Hop-Soul-Jazz-Dub-Electronic
+ Freestyle/Jam Session
02.27.08
10pm-2am
cost: FREE

where: ROSE Live Music
345 Grand St. Btw. Havemeyer and Marcy
L train to Bedford
J train to Marcy
or G train to Metropolitan

hosts: Core Rhythm + Baba Israel
live beats: Baba Israel + Yako 440

ONE RING ZERO with THE PARKER STRING QUARTET

This Sunday 1/20/08 at 9pm
at Barbés
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.) Park Slope, Brooklyn 718.965.9177


The Parker String Quartet will go on at 7pm. During their set they will perform several songs written and arranged by One Ring Zero.
At 9pm One Ring Zero will go on. During our set we will have the Parker String Quartet join us for several ORZ songs. Fun!

THE PARKER STRING QUARTET
Founded in 2002 by four NEC students, the quartet has already gone on to win the Grand prize at the Bordeaux String Quartet competition and has been called "something extraordinary" by Allan Koznin of the NY Times in his review of their Carnegie Hall debut, last November.

ONE RING ZERO
"One Ring Zero's ethno-pop could have been played in the background of a Balkan-embassy party in the 1930s, but that's not all there is to the band: The songs on its ambitious As Smart As We Are–which features lyrics by literary figures including Paul Auster, Rick Moody and Margaret Atwood–touch on They Might Be Giants whimsy, Residents-style unease, Tom Waits clank and Marianne Faithful melancholy." -Time Out New York

"Brooklyn Boys Make Tambourine Dream" Flagrant Fowl article on New York Observer

...On a sweltering night this past summer, at a crammed two-story house party deep in the outskirts of Williamsburg, Cole Gerard dropped his remix of Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire” on a pair of turntables. You could hear the pounding “slow mo disco” beat (as Mr. Gerard describes it) from the rooftop, where revelers escaped for a smoke and a view of the industrial skyline. In the kitchen, Springsteen’s original plinking guitar line was the lullaby for partiers passed out on the tile floor. Spank Rock, the underground Philly party rapper, was getting a lap dance in a dark corner. The living room was packed, the air thick with sweat and cigarette smoke and hormone-induced heavy breaths from dancers making out, shouting out requests and falling off tables and sofa cushions. It’s here, where Mr. Gerard, 28, otherwise known as DJ Cousin Cole, was at the front of the room, hunched over the turntables, ending his set with Springsteen’s carnal ballad...

Read further on New York Observer.

Barbés Records showcase at Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) Conference

ONE RING ZERO
will be performing at Barbes tonight at 10pm!
376 9th St (and 6th Ave) Park Slope, Brooklyn

And then…

Tomorrow One Ring Zero will also be performing at the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) Conference:

at the

The Barbès Records Showcase at the Hilton Hotel in New York City
This Saturday January 12th - 2:30pm to 6:00pm
EAST Suite 4th floor .

The APAP presentation will showcase the following bands:

Hazmat Modine, Las Rubias del Norte, Chicha Libre, Slavic Soul Party and One Ring Zero.

At the New York Hilton Hotel - Saturday 01/12

2:30pm - Chicha LIbre
3:00pm - Slavic Soul Party
3:30pm - Las Rubias del Norte
4:00pm - Hazmat Modine
4:30pm - Chicha LIbre
5:00pm - One Ring Zero
5:30pm - Las Rubias del Norte

OFFICIAL TAMBOURINE DREAM RECORD RELEASE PARTY

Rezound (War & Moon)
Cousin Cole (Flagrant Fowl)
Pocketknife (Flagrant Fowl)
Pandemonium Jones (Savalas)

The infomatix:
http://www.myspace.com/cousincole
http://www.myspace.com/flagrantwhittler
http://www.myspace.com/rezoundandworkweek
http://www.myspace.com/capsyjones

To purchase the picturedisc online, go here:
http://www.turntablelab.com/vinyl/217/1698/36661.html

Cop That: Troublemakers LP - Dirt E. Dutch & Breez Evahflowin'

GO on over to Little Ax, grab two absolutely free tracks off the great new TROUBLEMAKERS album by Dirt E. Dutch & Breez Evahflowin' and if you like, buy a copy of the LP, why don't you.

Freeload: Pocketknife's FADER Holiday Mix, Live From The Peppermint Palace

Word to my man Skooby a.k.a. Pocketknife for getting us this Holiday Cheer!



Direct link to Mp3.

Tracklisiting:
Pocketknife's FADER MAGAZINE Holiday Mix -- Live From the Peppermint Palace

The Knife, "Reindeer"
Treacherous Three, "X-Mas Rap (X-Rated Version)"
Ying Yang Twins, "Ho! Ho!"
The Who, "Christmas (Hockney Peacockney Edit)"
Sufjan Stevens, "Put the Lights on the Tree (Pocketknife's Radioshack Remix)"
Hall and Oates, "Jingle Bell Rock"
Tittsworth, "Titts'mas Time (2007 Edit)"
Vince Guaraldi, "Linus & Lucy (Pocketknife's Hark, the Holler Remix)"
Luke, "Ho Hoe Hoes"
The Beach Boys, "Little Saint Nick"
Ringo Starr, "Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On"
Material, Nona Hendryx "It's A Holiday"
Bruce Springsteen, "Santa Claus Is Comin To Town"
The Muppets, "Christmas Is Coming (Pocketknife's Stackin Ha'pennies Remix)"
Slumber Party, "J.C. Is Born (Pocketknife's Little Town Remix)"
Belle & Sebastian, "Santa Claus, Go Straight To The Ghetto (James Brown cover)"
DJ Nephet, "Jingle Juke"
Was (Not Was), "Christmas Time in the Motor City (Hockney Peacockney Edit)"

Björk - Michél Gondry Collabo

Tiny Masters of Today

Representing Brooklyn and touted as the Next White Stripes among other things, young Indie rockers Tiny Masters of Today" are taking the world by storm. They have an impressive sound already... now add 10 years of experience to that in your head and try to imagine what that could mean...

You thought the Avant Garde was dead? Apparently it was reborn when no-one was looking.

Check them out at.

Breez Evahflowin Back in Brooklyn

Get the new album:


Breez is back on the Mic after a few years of studio recording:

Friday Nov 30th
DJ's-
Phono Stars (Tao & Damus)
Jedi
Synapse
FTL
Special guest MC sets-
Breez Evahflowin
Lodeck

at Supreme Trading
213 N. 8th street
Williamsburg Brooklyn
L train to Bedford
Free!

http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
--
http://www.myspace.com/breezevahflowin


http://www.youtube.com/breezevahflowin


http://www.breezart.wordpress.com

Breez podcast clearing house of unreleased tracks and other hard to find material:
http://www.johnhenryradio.com

http://cdbaby.com/cd/breezevahflowin

Fly EP:
http://payplay.fm/breezevahflowin

Aesop Rock: None Shall Pass

Enough said. Aesop's the Greatest. Buy Aesop Rock: None shall pass.

Semi Precious Weapons - "Magnetic Baby" Music Video

This Rocks. Check out this video for the Semi Precious Weapons directed by Pamela Romanowsky and co-directed/edited by David Becker (Director of the PBS Documentary Small Steps: Creating the Highschool of Contemporary Arts).



Follow Semi Precious Weapons on their rock 'n roll journey at www.magneticbaby.com.

New Apollo Program Website

Elliot Earls relaunched his TheApolloProgram website.

Earls:
As early as 1995 I began to understand my work as serving two primary functions. The first being intrinsic, while the second was extrinsic. Intrinsically, I see my work as a kind of test bed upon which I attempt to work out a form of interpersonal ethics. First and foremost I see myself as a contrarian and a social critic. And while I realize that my work appears highly formal, at it's core it is essentially Instrumentalist. Extrinsically, I see my work functioning as a form of cultural criticism dealing with issues of race, class and sexuality in America.

SMALL STEPS: CREATING THE HIGH SCHOOL FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS

This fantastic documentary, produced by Academy award winner Barbara Kopple and Directed by David Becker of Cabin Creek Films, airs Thursday, September 6, 2007, 10:00-11:30 p.m. ET.

Skooby Laposky composed an amazing 27 track score for it and yours truly created the main title and graphic design throughout.

Songs For Ice Cream Trucks on ABC World News

Check out Michael Hearst on ABC World News Tonight, he talks about the album as well as about all the novelty instruments he used to create Songs for Ice Cream Trucks.

Also check out the cover art by yours truly in all its glory for a few seconds!

Songs For Ice Cream Trucks" CD release show

A reminder to come see the big CD release show on Saturday!

There will be free ice cream provided by local ice cream makers 5 Borough Ice
Cream. There will be tap dancing. There will be an amazing children's band singing. There will be Allyssa Lamb, Ron Caswell, Greta Gertler, and Michael Hearst, all dressed like buffoons and playing strange instruments. What's not to love? Bring the entire family! In fact, kids under 10 get in for free.

Songs For Ice Cream Trucks' CD release show
Saturday, May 26th 7:30pm
Housing Works Bookstore Cafehttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
http://www.housingworks.org/usedbookcafe/
128 Crosby Street, NY
Plus FREE ICE CREAM provided by local ice cream makers 5 Borough Ice Cream!
http://www.5boroughsicecream.com/

Did everyone see the piece in the NY Times? Very exciting! (Even though they let Mr. Softee have the final words.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/nyregion/thecity/20song.html?ex=1180324800&en=c02cfcc74ff2719a&ei=5070&emc=eta1
Also, if you missed the segment on WNYC's "Soundcheck" with host John Schaefer
last week, here's the link.

A review of the first test run by "the Ice Cream Man" can be found here.

And don't forget to watch Michael's funny homemade video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z-N2YkrNpc

Music/Man: Niklaus Troxler (AIGA Event)

If you like your Jazz with some great Typography and Illustration (or the other way around), go attend this event organized by AIGA New York and the Cooper Union and see an 80 poster retrospective from over 3 decades by Niklaus Troxler.

Songs For Ice Cream Trucks on READYMADE.com

From Readymademag.com
Nothing says summer like the sound of an ice cream truck cruising down the street. Enter Michael Hearst of the Brooklyn band
One Ring Zero and his newly released solo album, Songs for Ice Cream Trucks..

For the CD release show, front man Michael Hearst had hoped to buy an ice cream pushcart—which he planned to wheel through the audience on his way to the stage—and hand out ice cream to the crowd. But he quickly discovered that even used ice cream carts sell for $500 to $1000—more than he was prepared to shell out.

Being a resourceful guy, Hearst took a field trip to his local discount shop, picked up a $25 grocery cart, and swung by the hardware store for a sheet of white Masonite on the way home. That’s when the [cell phone] camera started rolling. Watch Hearst in action as he builds his own cart, then heads over to Barbès in Park Slope, Brooklyn for One Ring Zero’s big debut.

The video’s audio tracks are from the new CD. Give ‘em a listen—or better yet, buy the album—here.

Graphic design by Elasticbrand.

Rob Jones, Resident White Stripes / Raconteurs designer

I came across the intense, bizarre and inspiring work of Rob Jones via IceCreamMan.com who's webmaster I ran into at the first SongsForIceCreamTrucks.com show at Barbés last Sunday evening. (Phew, did you get all of that?). He is the resident designer for The White Stripes and The Raconteurs.

Check out tons of great posters at Rob Jones's website.

Opgezwolle: Eigen Wereld

I love the animation and design of this video for one of my favorite hip hop groups, Opgezwolle. Note that I am not saying, my favorite DUTCH hip hop group. These guys' lyrics, beats, production values and well everything else are so tight and refreshing that it most definitely competes with any english or other language hip-hop record. However, I'm posting this because I was particularly impressed with the design and animation of the video for their song "Eigen Wereld"("My own world"). Design by Superelectric from The Netherlands.



Also check RUSTUG, another opgezwolle video by Superelectric:

Londonsquared Films

Husband & Wife Filmmaking team Londonsquared produce an array of original content. Form documentary style shorts to stop motion animation, commericials and music videos. Their humor is infectuous and many of their animations put a big smile on your face. Check them out at Londonsquared.net

Michael Hearst [of One Ring Zero] - New CD: Songs for Ice Cream Trucks

From Michael Hearst's Press Release:
"SONGS FOR ICE CREAM TRUCKS"

A new album by Michael Hearst of One Ring Zero

Are you tired of hearing the same old two or three ice cream truck songs over and over? Michael Hearst certainly is. That's why he's created an entire album of NEW songs for ice cream trucks. Fun for the whole family!

I am very excited about this CD and am incredibly grateful to Arjen Noordeman of Elasticbrand,llc for designing the entire package (CD, postcard, sticker, and website).

In addition to the CD now being available for purchase, there will also be two release shows:

Songs For Ice Cream Trucks
unofficial release show
Saturday May 6th (7pm)
Barbés
376 9th St. (corner of 9th st and 6th ave in Park Slope)
Brooklyn, NY
$10 suggested donation
with an after party at Colson Patisserie (next door)

Songs For Ice Cream Trucks
OFFICIAL release show
Saturday May 26th (7:30pm)
Housing Works Book Cafe
128 Crosby Street (Soho)
New York, NY
$10 gets you in plus a free drink