13th Witness – “Escape From Tomorrow” These shorts from 13th Witness continue to impress. Very well shot and edited, aaand the man has damn good taste when it comes to the soundtrack. Grab the latest from 13th’s ever expanding soundtrack below. DJ Krush – “Intro” (from ’94’s Strictly Turntablized) Lalo Schifrin – “Escape From Tomorrow”...
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Nigel helps me bring back memories of when I was younger and could actually pull of some of this stuff. He also shows us the finer side of urban bicycling along side a sick playlist for the video featuring music from DJ Krush and Lalo Schifrin.
Title: My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style Artist: Dream Warriors Hip hop jazz and toasting from Toronto. Who knew? I kid, I kid. They’re actually very polite. My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style I love the fusion of jazz and hip hop. Both are dynamic styles, whose artists make up new rules as they go along. Hip hop looked to jazz for funky hooks, break beats and themes to create tonal...
The next night (see the following exhibit) in their own concert, the Imani Winds drew upon music from their CD The Classical Underground. They began with the late Astor Piazzolla's Libertango, a brief example of the heterodoxy with which...
Click to Watch SD | Click to Watch HD | iPod/iPhone The opening sequence and credits to Don Siegel’s “Dirty Harry” plays long, mean…and breathless? Cream-pie cool Clint Eastwood susses death and a devil atop skyscrapers to a tough Lalo Schifrin score. The soaring set piece sets your teeth on edge, the soft howl of wind [...]
Pic by Josef Hoflehner Greg from Acid Girls passed this onto to all of us Grindin peeps yesterday, it’s not really the style we’ve grown accustomed to from Acid Girls but it’s the perfect workday mix right now. Acid Girls will be going on tour soon together with Jokers Of The Scene, they’re also heading over [...]
YouTube via OrbVroomer "This file is cursed or something. Every time I upload it the audio & video go out of sync. All live playing. No tracks or sequences are used here. I will upload a new version with dialog. Stay tuned to OrbVroomer." High Roller, Crystal Method : OrbVroomer drumKat live "Only two little synth notes not triggered live here. The L.I.S.A trigger plays those. Everything...
This is part of Chicagoist's continuing coverage of the 45th Chicago International Film Festival . In 1939 Carmen Miranda arrived in New York, making her American debut. By 1945 she was the highest-paid woman in the entire country. Dubbed the Brazilian Bombshell, her presence in the US was only the first shot fired in a revolution that continues to influence music all over the world. Beyond Ipanema...
The world-famous British Museum, home of the contested Elgin Marbles sought by Greece, is leaping into another controversy with a special exhibit re-examining the life of Montezuma, the doomed last ruler of the Aztecs.
It’s already hard enough to sit stationary long enough to gather material, but on Saturdays it get twice as hard (||). Add in college football & you have cement anchoring one to the couch while watching contest after contest. Yet, I know you want entertainment…and then I remembered these pics that have been sitting on [...]
Marvin Hamlisch’s soundtrack for The Informant! - the latest production from director Steven Soderbergh - uses a recurring set of playful themes to prance along the edge of the absurd while still maintaining a level of expected Soderbergh-hipness. A prolific composer in the ’70s and ’80s, Hamlisch has only scored three films in the 21st [...]
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