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Trust In The World

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You find your happiness inside.

My brother posted on my FaceBook wall the other day. Seemed harmless, but its impact was wide and forever.

I have been wanting to remix and produce tracks for some time now. I’ll buy gear and software, and then muddle around with them to only give up hope. Apparently some learning was taking place, but either the pace or my patience was too slow or too short to make a go of it before.

You can do it… let me know how i can help.

Those were the words preceding the hyperlink he posted on my “wall” Friday morning.

The link is to a contest on indabamusic.com. The details for the contest are as follows:

Weezer has provided you with the stems for “Love Is The Answer”, a track off of their latest album, Raditude. Before the song was finished, the band reworked the song with their friends Ananda and Amrita Sen. Weezer liked the resulting version so much that they put it on Raditude. Now, Weezer is asking you to re-imagine the track in your own style to continue spreading the message of the song. They would love to hear as many different sounding versions as possible. Be it Ska, Reggae, Hip-Hop, Dance, Trance, Death Metal or Scream-O. Hopefully by the end of this contest there will be inspiring interpretations of the song in different languages from different countries with different styles but all relaying the meaning of the song…”Love Is The Answer”.

Step up to the challenge and show them that your mix is the answer. Use the stems to create a remix or cover the song in your own style to show the band what you’ve got. Weezer will be hand-picking the top submissions to be released as an official compilation and the winners will be paid appropriate royalties based on their version being on the release. One winner will also be selected to create a brand new song by collaborating with Rivers Cuomo on Indaba.

Granted I have put together some great DJ mixes over the last 10 years, and have done some reedits and mashups for these mixes, but an actual remix has always been a failed endeavor for me.

His confidence hit a chord in me. I wanted to do this. I was not going to fail this time. Even though I hated this new Weezer album, maybe I could create a remix that I loved. I cared less about winning a contest, but needed to jump over this final hurdle.

I download the stems. Drop them into Ableton, and begin fiddling around. Disaster. Delete.

Attempt number two, I just grab the drums stem. Looking for a loop that will define this sound for me. Finally I find a sound, and the right amount of effect that makes me move my head. I think I am onto something. I bring in the other stems. The bass, background vocals, keyboard all get included and manipulated. Some more than others, I leave the keyboards almost untouched. It’s going to be what ties my remix to the original.

The vocal is the part that makes me the most nervous. I want to loop the 4 main words of the chorus and leave it be, Love is the Answer and be done with it. A dub remix of sorts. It feels like a cop out though, so I add more of the song lyrics to the project.

It feels like the tough part is over, and now I just need to sequence these parts into a song. I need to create an intro and outro, I need breakdowns and buildups. I need a body for the hands and feet!

I need a break.

I step away from the project and play long stretches of Borderlands on the Xbox and take The Little One out to shop. We watch movies and eat dinner. Throughout all this I am formulating my plan. The road map to finishing this remix. It’s going to happen! I am stoked!

When I get back in front of my trusty Macbook, I start to build these individual parts. First the intro and a solid 32 bar main section. Then I work on a small breakdown after that. It’s at this point that I think I want to add a new kind of sound. Up until this point, every sound I was using was created from the stems that Weezer has provided us. When TLO and I were shopping, I found a beat up old drum that I quickly purchased. I love collecting instruments. I decided to use this drum in the song and it would make its appearance in the break down and later in the build up.

I save my work and grab the drum. I can’t find my drum sticks, but I already spot a replacement object to bang the drum with. A wood back scratcher in hand, I start recording myself playing along to the intro of my remix. I just want to record some sounds to manipulate with some effects processing. I am not sure even what it might turn into. Recording done, and I am cutting up the drumming and dropping some effects on it. Suddenly it sounds like some message from outer space. A message of love? I think so!

I scramble to finish the rest of the song. I want to see the finish line. Then a disaster. I seem to have knocked something out of time. I feel failure looming. TLO is home from work to eat lunch with me and I try to ignore her comings and goings so I can get the problem fixed. She makes it difficult to do this by making food. I love eating, so I must leave my remix in disarray.

After eating and chatting, TLO returns to save the world and I shrug off the feeling of defeat. I push through, reworking the screwed up parts and life is good again.

I make some final adjustments to track volume and the triggering of effects parameters. It’s done.

Love Is The Answer (Geebus Speaks to Me Remix)  by  geediablo

It’s not going to win, of this I am sure. After I uploaded my remix to Indaba I perused some of the other entries. There was some amazing work up there. Winning was not my goal though. My goal was to prove that I could do this. The final hurdle in my rearview, I feel relief.

Now I can’t wait to remix another song! Oh look! Indaba has a contest for Matisyahu! I can’t wait!

The best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom

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I don’t think I have told you this yet, but I play poker once a week. Used to be a lot more. I mostly stick to poker tournaments, as I think the added level of strategy gives me more of an advantage. I have played in two World Series of Poker events in two different years. Both times I didn’t make the first break because my rockets didn’t hold up. Did you know the odds you get dealt pocket aces only 220 to 1?

A lot of people don’t understand the intricacies of tournament poker. It’s not about winning the most money like it is in a cash game. The chips you use in tournament poker don’t stand for anything except keeping score. In a poker tournament those that are patient get rewarded. Cash game poker versus tournament poker is the difference between dedication and inspiration. Cash game play values steadiness, repetition, consistently making the mathematically correct play, showing up day after day and playing better than your opponents. Tournaments value “seizing the day.” The ability to inspirationally find a successful play in critical situations is far more valuable in a tournament. There are times you step on the gas and times you just quietly fold away waiting your turn to attack. In both types of games though, this one fact is true: There can be hours of boredom around moments of excitement. It takes discipline to not get bored and play any hand. I have a tool to keep me from getting bored and playing bad.

Some of you could care less about poker, and I understand that. You are here for some music enlightenment and I have given you the poker equivalent of a “slow roll“. Here is the tie-in. I listen to an enormous amount of media during these tournaments. I will usually play in these tournaments for 5 or 6 hours. During this time I listen to podcasts and music. I often load up my iPhone with potential albums to review for the site.

Sometimes those albums suck and I end up going through my albums looking for something to get me through. It was today that I rediscovered an album I love that I haven’t heard in such a long time. Caution by the band Hot Water Music.

This album is 36 minutes of perfect punk rock. Is it something in the water in Gainsville Florida where this band, and many of my other favorite punk bands (namely Less Than Jake) originate from? I dunno, but this album saved my butt today. Sometimes it’s not about keeping from being bored. Sometimes it’s drowning out the Chatty Cathy at the table. I swear that some people play poker just to force 9 other people to listen to him or her. That’s what happened today, and I was blissfully drowning that person out with loud punk rock!

The song that stands out most on this album is track two… Trusty Chords.

Download Hot Water Music – Trusty Chords

I hate this place but I love these chords
“an empty fate just means an even score”
And the pain this morning……
it filled my head
It’s JAMESON.
It means that I’m not dead.

Jameson whiskey I presume? Tasty. But that’s neither here nor there. That’s an example of a great song. The entire album is fantastic. By the way, you might be wondering about the band’s name? It’s also the title of a Bukowski book. You have read Charles Bukowski right? That’s a convo for another time and maybe another blog… (perhaps I am ready to create books.inALLcaps.com hmmm…)

You don’t get high on your own supply

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Mike Morales, aka DJ Kue, is quickly becoming one of dance music’s fastest rising deejays and producers. His music has been garnering support from Judge Jules, Kissy Sell Out, Bloody Beetroots, DJ Am, DJ Dan, Donald Glaude, Charles Feelgood and many others.

Not only are Kue’s skills as a producer in high demand, but his skills as a dj as well. Approaching his 15th year of djing, he has been known for innovating his own style, taking the listeners on a journey through music. It is not only Kue’s track selection that one should look out for, but his constant manipulation of tracks through the use of of doubles, vigorous scratching and other turntablism techniques.

With a combination of great track selection and turntablist techniques, he does what he can to rock a party right!

Download DJ Kue – Don’t Get High

15 years? I’m late to the party. I almost thought I discovered DJ Kue. The day I stumbled across his work on hypem.com, I was in love. This man’s remixes are top notch. They are the sound I want to hear and to play. Besides the electro house sounds that get me excited, he even remixes artists that I love! NWA, Ke$sha, Fall Out Boy, the fucking Shangri-Las?!?! It’s unreal.

As an up-and-coming producer myself, whenever I heard Kue’s tracks I pictured the most awesome studio. I was surprised to discover that he just uses Ableton. I just switched to Ableton as well. It’s actually an amazing bit of software. It’s just software. Don’t you need a ton of awesome hardware? no. Not if Kue can produce these bangers with just that.

It makes me want to refocus. I’m in the purgatory of studiotopia. I’ve been displaced by this housing market of ours. So it’s just me and my macbook, shoved into a little corner of a room. Struggling to find time and space. Having a hard time getting inspired.

Kue offered to answer some questions, so I thought… Padawan can ask the Jedi something? How about: “What inspires YOU?”

Music in general, inspires me. I grew up listening to lots of stuff as a kid and it really just evolved into getting into djing and then production. As a dj, there were always really great tracks I loved but never really had that dancefloor appeal. So, I started making lots of bootlegs. It was really reworking other tracks that I started to learn about production as a whole and make my own stuff.

Like Twisted Sister!

Download Baskerville vs. Twisted Sister – I Wanna Rock (DJ Kue re-edit)

Seriously. Me too! That’s why I become a DJ, and why I inspire to remix and redit. To make music that I could share on the dance floor! It’s why I started the blog. It’s great to get to chat with DJ Kue and I am thankful for his work.

If you drop beats on huge dance floors or melt faces in the privacy of your bedroom, Kue’s tracks need to be in your set list.

In the meantime…

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The Little One let the cat out of the bag so to speak…but I have been dying to tell you about Blakroc. This little band from Ohio called The Black Keys is made up of two dudes named Dan Auerbach and Pat Carney. They love hip hop, the blues, and make some of the most interesting rock music I have heard.

Damon Dash, co-founder of Roc-A-Fella records, happens to be a fan of The Black Keys. Well he is now. He was a little late to the party. Here is how he explains how he became a fan:

My assistants, who are now actually A&Rs, were going to a Black Keys concert for their birthday and I wasn’t invited,” he explained. “Usually on their birthdays we all do it together and the reason why I wasn’t invited was because the concert was sold out. And I had never heard of The Black Keys and I was like y’all still gonna go without me. And they was like ‘Yo it’s The Black Keys.” So I was like, lemme hear this group. So I start listening to them and they actually became my favorite group.

He made a call to the band about being interested in working with them. An awesome studio in Williamsburg was booked and the band recorded 8 instrumentals in 2 days.. Dash calls some big time rap star homies. RZA, Mos Def, Raekwon, Ludacris, Q-Tip, Billy Danze…The BlakRoc project now is inexorably in motion.

After my brother makes me a copy of the CD to check out, I immediately load it into iTunes. I had been anxious to learn about this project I had heard so much about. Then I listened to it again.

Then I frantically scour the internet. I need more.

I find the official site for the project.

I watched every video off blakroc.com that documents the 11 days it took to bring this project to fruition. On these videos you can see all these amazing artists coming in fresh, never hearing the tracks that the Keys had put together, and dropping rhymes.

Watching RZA get on the fucking guitar and start working a rhythm. The man commands the room and everyones attention. It’s really amazing. His execution on the mic is just explosive. Even Dan and Pat make mention of the collab with RZA saying that, even with a guitar in his hand…what comes out of him is that Wu-Tang sound. “The music is so deep in him. It’s like whatever instrument he’s using it’s like his sound coming out.” If you watch the video, you can see it looks a little awkward at first. Like, “RZA wants to play a guitar? /sigh ok…bass or guitar?” Then they realize it’s gonna be ok. No, it’s legit for sure.

Joel Hamilton co-produced this album with The Black Keys. It’s his studio that you see in all the videos I mentioned above. You will catch Joe in a few of the videos. Here is what he says about the RZA collaboration:

I would say when RZA said my name at the beginning of this track “Oh man Joel” and then he goes into his first verse and it’s like I thought something was wrong and fucked up and I turned around in time to just see him rock the control room. Everybody on the couch, everybody standing around, felt it in the room at that point. He’s doing it like that while there’s people like Billy Danze, Pharoah Monch and all these guys are around and that hadn’t happened for a long time.

Download Blakroc – Dollaz & Sense

The entire album is great. I hear they are already working on a new album. I’m so stoked.

fantabulous

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Howie Weinberg is a fantabulous motherfucker. That’s what Dimebag Darrell of Pantera told me. Well not me directly…

But more about Howie in a few…

I was getting an early listen to the new album Transference, set to be released January 19, 2010 by Austin, Texas band Spoon. I was really feeling the album and decided to do a little research and see what I could come up with for a post. You see, I just didn’t know much about Spoon, and wanted to familiarize myself with them if I was going to write a post about them for you.

I was surprised with all the things I learned. For example how the band is loved for it’s music as well as its perseverence in the face of major label abandonment.

In 1996 the band released it’s first full length release Telephono. It was loved by fans and critics alike. Then these Indie heavyweights get courted by the label Elektra Records.

By 1998, Spoon’s Elektra debut is brought out into the world to hear. A Series of Sneaks was also well received by fans and critics, and was considered a big creative leap for the band. Sadly, this album did not sell fast enough for Elektra, and the band was dropped from the label. Four months after the album release date.

Fascinating information right? Yup. But I want to tell you about Howie Weinberg.

But discovering that the band was using Mr. Weinberg to master the album, I thought that was something special.

Mastering always used to sound like a cakewalk of a position. You just make it sound better and coherent. How hard could that be? It’s hard. I got into some mastering work before, and it’s painstaking work. Also coupled with the pressure that you are the last person to lay hands on the music, a lot of blame can get dropped on your head.

Howie Weinberg is the best in the buisness. I think you can tell on Transference how well that album moves from track to track and how great each indivudual track sounds. With a resume that looks like a selection of all my favorite albums and artists (Nevermind, The Mars Volta, Public Enemy, Muse, Modest Mouse, 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of…, Licensed To Ill) it’s probably not a bad guess that the bands and albums he works on will come out platinum on the other side.

Just like Transference will. At least I think it will. If you do your part…

EDITOR’S NOTE: All right…The Web Sheriff and the bands label have asked us to take this one down. You can stream the whole album here. It really is a good album. Go pick it up. -mookie

PS: Evil will always prevail.

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Henry Rollins (born February 13, 1961 as Henry Lawrence Garfield) is an American singer-songwriter, spoken word artist, writer, publisher, actor, radio DJ, and activist…and on and on…He’s even a movie actor! The guy is a workaholic.

I didn’t speak to anyone today. Not one phone call, nothing. I only saw a few people in traffic and
a woman who pulled over across the street from where I live get out and vomit on the ground. I heard her talking to someone else in the car. She sounded pretty drunk. I don’t wonder why I don’t get lonely. I like hearing that alligators are eating people. It gives me hope.

–Henry Rollins

It’s weird to me that I am quoting Henry Rollins in two of my back to back posts. I am a fan of Mr. Rollins, just never thought I would get to writing about him. Honestly, I keep seeing the book A Dull Roar: What I Did on My Summer Deracination on my desk while I sit with my head in my hands trying to think of what to write.

Now that I have decided to write about Henry Rollins I can finally just make this thing happen. This won’t be tough for me. I like Black Flag and Rollins Band and I loved his show on IFC. After watching his IFC shows, I discovered that this guy is also someone with ideals and opinions that are not so far off from my own. I began reading his blogs and then I picked up one of his books at my local music store. After I finished reading A Dull Roar, I asked my friend Juan if he would be interested in reading it. He loves music, we work on music together, we share a lot of books. He said “Hell yes!” And then he went on and on about the man’s music and how much he loved it. Especially “Liar” (probably everyone’s favorite) off the album Weight.

The Little One even knows the lyrics to Liar! (She’s singing it behind me while I play it for some blog posting inspiration. I shouldn’t be surprised. She is probably a bigger fan than I am. In fact, her nagging me to take her to one of his shows may have been what got us together.)

I don’t know why I feel the need to lie and cause you so much pain
Maybe it’s something inside, maybe it’s something I can’t explain
’cause all I do is mess you up and lie to you

I’m a liar, ooh, I’m a liar

But if you’ll give me another chance I swear I’ll never lie to you again
’cause now I see the destructive power of a lie,
They’re stronger than truth

Download Rollins Band – Liar

If you like Liar, and you like your punk music hard and loud, I also suggest you look into the album Nice. This album has a sound that I like a lot. I discovered a lot of it has to do with the new backing band. The lineup from 1994’s Weight had begun to fall apart in 1998. Henry was producing a album for Mother Superior, and invited them to form a new incarnation of Rollins Band. Nice is the result of this new synergy.

I really like track 5. “What’s The Matter Man?”

Download Rollins Band – What’s The Matter Man

Don’t just grab the one track though, as really the whole album is a punk rock machine.

Please check out this man’s movies, music, and books. I know, for one, that I will be buying A Preferred Blur: Reflections, Inspections, and Travel in All Directions ASAP…

BTW…trip out on a few selections of the many movies Henry Rollins as appeared in:

Think I’ll buy me a football team

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With a new year comes resolutions.

The history of making New Year’s resolution began with the Babylonians approximately 4,000 years ago. The Babylonians New Year’s Day was March 23rd which was a logical time because spring begins and crops are planted.

We can thank Julius Caesar for the fact that we celebrate the new year on January first. Julius Caesar choose January 1 to honor Janus, the two-faced god who looks backwards into the old year and forward into the new.

Still, it was the Babylonians that gives us the idea to make resolutions. They made resolution’s to the gods to get favor. Then if a resolution is broken it was considered bad luck. One had to give great thought to a resolution to be better, yet one they would have a good chance at keeping

Like quitting smoking for New Years is just asking for failure.

Download The Mother Hips – Smoke

The Mother Hips are a Country tinged rock band from San Francisco. This song come off the album Green Hills Of Earth, the title of the album was taken from a sci-fi book by author Robert Anson Heinlein.

You might have once had a resolution to lose weight. It’s a great idea, but 12 months is a long time to keep those pounds off. I mean, you gotta exercise AND watch what you eat! That’s tough!

Download Cage – Fat Kids Need An Anthem

Chris Palko, better known by his stage name Cage, is an American rapper from New York City. He has released three studio albums and two extended plays. Cage is also the founder of the underground hip-hop supergroup called the Weathermen.

Of course, a common resolution for 2010 will be to save some money, With the year of the Great Recession behind us (so they say) it might make more sense to save more than we have in the past.

“The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.”

–Henry Rollins

Download The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs With Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon – Money

This is probably my favorite album of 2009. The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs With Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon was a creative rethinking of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of the Moon.

I am just so enamored by all these people collaborating on this one project. It’s an epic thing and it turned out great.

We here at inALLcaps hope that your 2010 is super great and fantastic. That all your wishes come true. That milk and honey rain down on you from the heavens. We hope you quit smoking, lose weight, and save tons of money. Just be sure that you spend some money on these awesome CDs below.

I’m in the streets fo real.

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Did you get what you wanted for the holidays?

Me neither. I asked Santa for the Tom Tom Portable GPS kit with the VoiceSkin.com addition that makes your GPS unit give you directions in Snoop Dogg’s voice.

That’s fo rizzle. The big homie that brings us a totally new language voiced the directions to get you to just about anywhere. From the local drug store to the nearest joint to get you some munchies at 2AM.

But that’s not what I got for xmas. Seems like wires done got crossed. Instead I gotta get it poppin’ with his latest album Malice ‘N Wonderland. It’s no Doggystyle, Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broadus’s debut album released in 1993.

Malice is Snoop’s 10th album and sounds about 10 times as watered down. It’s not that it’s not good, it is…it’s just not as raw as Doggystyle or that dope Dre single Deep Cover that Snoop was featured on. Maybe watered down was a bad way to describe it. It’s 10 times as blunted. Stoner rap music is ok, but it’s no replacement for a GPS unit.

At least there is some decent party anthems on here, my favorite has crunk superstar Lil’ Jon in the cut. Check out 1800 ft.

Download Snoop Dogg – 1800 ft.

Merry Happy!

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Christmas.

It’s not a holiday that I am terribly fond of. The one thing about Christmas I like is the music. There have been amazing covers of traditional Christmas songs and new holiday tunes throughout the years, and I want to share some with you.

The holiday season to me is about music. No surprise since music is such a big part of my life. When we are young, the Christmas Carol Standards are quickly ingrained to our psyches. Most of us can recite a few lines of any of the countless xmas songs out there. For me though, the covers and deep cuts of the holidays are what I want to hear.

If inALLcaps.com has a Christmas party next year, this is what you can expect to hear while you drink egg nog and nibble on Winterdoodles!

For any party, you have to start the music selection on the more calm/background tip. You want to get people in the mood yet create and environment for people to chat and mingle.

Download Sufjan Stevens – Come On! Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance!

That’s when you bust out the Sufjan Stevens Songs Box Set. It’s an amazing collection of holiday favorites and originals, like “Sister Winter” and “Star of Wonder”, by an amazing artist that you should already know about. If you haven’t let me fill you in.

Sufjan Stevens is an American singer-songwriter and musician born in Detroit, Michigan. His musical styles range from indie folk to symphonic orchestra to electronica.

The name “Sufjan” means “comes with a sword.”

Ok. Well. It’s something. I mean there is a lot to tell you in regards to Sufjan, but I gotta stay focused. Did you boogey to the elf dance? I bet you did!

The box set is 5 EPs that Stevens has made over the years for friends and family. Many of the songs are religious in nature as Stevens is a devoted Christian, but there are some fun carol-like songs in the collection. In fact during Stevens’ international tour in the later half of 2006, he regularly performed the original song “That Was the Worst Christmas Ever” while releasing inflatable Santas into the audience. It’s not quite as lively as the Elf Boogey.

Download Sufjan Stevens – That Was The Worst Christmas Ever

Once the party gets warmed up you can get into the more rockin’ tunes!

How about a Ska version of “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” by one of our favorite Punk/Ska bands to watch live!

Download Less Than Jake – Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer

That track comes of the album It’s a Punk and Ska Christmas Gone Wrong from Drive-Thru Records. It’s a clutch holiday album for all of you that rock non-stop!

One of my favorite bands, of all fucking time, is Bad Religion. You would think a band with a name like that would not sing a Christmas song. Well you would be wrong!

Download Bad Religion – Joy To The World

I can’t remember anymore
Of this crazy song
But hey it’s chrismas time
But hell it’s chrismas time
And he he, and ho ho ho
It’s chrismas time

That’s right. Bad Religion did a Christmas album for kicks in like 1992. It’s super rare and hard to find. If you do find it…drop me a line. I gotta get a copy of it!

its my song but I’m still trying to learn the words

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Passion excessive passive agressive
the first one to strike, the last one to exit
castles unprotected, capture the princess
fasten the seatbelt, drive and count the inches

Well. It was Jeremiah Edmond who led me to discover this band. This band called Felt.

Well. Jeremiah is the drummer of Manchester Orchestra, a band that we love and have written about a few times on this blog. Jeremiah runs the record label Favorite Gentleman and the production company Fifth Story Music. This doesn’t have a lot to do with Jeremiah except that I trust his taste in music. When he recommended a great hip-hop album in Felt 3, I decided I better check it out.

Now that you understand how this album was discovered, let me continue introducing you to the music and the players involved. Felt is a hip hop group consisting of Slug of Atmosphere and MURS of Living Legends. Both excellent hip-hop outfits separately, but I must admit that getting Murs and Slug together is something special.

The Felt project is currently on volume 3, A Tribute To Rosie Perez. Tribute to who? I look into the other projects by Felt and discover that the previous two volumes are tributes to Lisa Bonet and Christina Ricci. All chicks Murs and Slug have lust over but also have fallen off career wise. The group says it’s a karma thing and we wouldn’t understand. /shrug

Every album has had a different producer, keeping each album fresh and new. The Grouch produced the first volume. The Grouch is an MC and producer for Living Legends. Volume 2 brings Ant from Atmosphere to get the production done. Volume 3 goes outside the groups home bases to reach out to Aesop Rock! Aesop has always been on the forefront of Alternative Hip-Hop groups, so the synergy is totally there!

I gotta share a song from each album, just to make sure you buy all three.

Suzanne Vega is a track of the first Felt album. Vol 1 A Tribute to Christina Ricci. This is a a slow and dizzy, unsteady song. It’s about not getting high, yet sounds super stoned! One thing to note is that on the first two albums two tracks were named after singers. On volume 3 though, it’s actors. Kevin Spacey and Paul Ruebens! WTF!

Download Felt -Suzanne Vega

Life Vegas is just a fun party track off the second album. In fact, the whole second album is a light, fun, party album. I suggest you pick it up and buy your self some drinks for you and your friends and get it in the CD player!

Download Felt – Life Vegas

In the track Give It Up, it’s Aesop Rock’s work as producer that truly shines. When the guitars come in, it really has the feeling of a story being told. Fantastic production work that the the Felt boys have no problem running with when they lay down their rhymes.

Although, one might argue that what Aesop Rock brings is too dark for this particular project. Normally a light, fun, antic filled style is what the last two albums have been about. This latest Felt album is kinda twisted with rhymes of drug addiction and wrong turns and either is Aesop’s fault, or was a part of the vision of this Felt album. You know me, I like it gloomy. Especially when the winter grey rolls in, I guess I’m just a product of too many high desert winters.

Download Felt – Give It Up

Check out this video from another track off volume 3, and then get your credit card out and click these links!