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• You‘re Now Rockin’ With The Def

  
  
  I'm loving this video by Nabil Eldekin. The skeleton flash is great! Anyway. 'The Ecstatic' was one of my favorite albums of 2009. Stay tuned for Imageyenation's run down on the best albums of 2009 and other ridiculousness.' [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 9:07pm EST
  

• I (Still) Miss My Bike

  
  
  

  
  
  Dear Santa, It's me again. Hook me up this X-Mas.
  
  I Love you. xoxo
  
  - Emeyesi [...]

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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 7:58pm EST
  

• MC Paul Barman Presents a Tempting Fall Bargain, More Knowledge in One Song Than the Next Man's Whole Album!

  
  
  New Jersey-born, Ivy League-educated rapper MC Paul Barman was one of the most maligned of the original crop of so-called “nerd rappers.” He was also one of the very first music artists I profiled here on Imageyenation way back when I started the site almost a decade [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 7:35pm EST
  

• “Are Women as Horny as Men?”

  
  
  I'm not sure this latest video from Gavin McInnes, father of Sophie, actually answers the question it poses but regardless, I have been laughing my man balls off at it.
  
  WARNING: It is the most NSFW I've seen not on or from [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:21am EST
  

• “Are Women as Horny as Men?” (NSFW)

  
  
  I'm not sure this latest video from Gavin McInnes, father of Sophie, actually answers the question it poses but regardless, I have been laughing my man balls off at it.
  
  WARNING: It is the most NSFW I've seen not on or from [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:21am EST
  

• Watch Amp Live do the Robot

  Producer Amp Live, of Zion I and Radiohead remix fame, Trackademicks, and Mr. Micro get “dummy retarded” with a silly robot costume in the video for the Oaktown Electro jam “Gary is a Robot.”
  
  
  
  “Gary is a Robot” is the first single and video taken from [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:27pm EST
  

• The Furcast is Grey

  
  
  “Grey is Old” from California-based duo Furcast is a slinking cinematic symphony equally evocative of film-noir soundtracks and the ‘90s Trip-Hop acts who took inspiration from them.
  
  It also has a furious Heavy Metal breakdown in the middle which makes it sound all the more [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:13pm EST
  

• Animal Collective are “Feeling Envy for the Kid Who'll Dance Despite Anything.”

  This song, “In the Flowers,” makes me tear up, and the video is just beautiful.
  
  
  
  It's from ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion,’ by far the best album of the year. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:34pm EST
  

• Ryan-O'Neil is Hyphenated and Apostrophed

  
  
  Queens emcee Ryan-O‘Neil—the vocal half of true-school revivalists duo 100dBs and Ryan-O’Neil—emerges two years after the release of their debut LP ‘The Adventures of the One Hand Bandit and the Slum Computer Wizard’ with ‘Hyphenated & Apostrophed,’ a 7-track EP!
  
  Released 100% free of charge [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:14pm EST
  

• :Kinema: Babysit Animal Collective's “Girls”

  
  
  One of my favorite tunes of the year—Animal Collective's “My Girls”—gets a bubbly, auto-tuned cover courtesy of :Kinema:, a Brighton, UK-based Indie-meets-Disco-meets-R&B-meets-Pop trio.
  
  :Kinema: “My Girls” (.MP3)
  
  Fans of Lo-Fi-FNK, Erlend Øye's The Whitest Boy Alive side-project, N*E*R*D and their boy Kenna, old-school [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:42pm EST
  

• I Miss My Bike.

  
  
  Dear Santa, Bring me a new one.
  
  xoxo
  
  - Emeyesi [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:33pm EST
  

• Shawn Lee, Money Mark and Tommy Guerrero are Going Through a Phase

  “A Phase Shifter I'm Going Through” is a jammy, Afro-Funk-flavored instrumental from Lord Newborn & The Magic Skulls, the supergroup comprised of Money Mark, Tommy Guerrero and Shawn Lee. The video, directed by Money Mark and husband-and-wife visual team Onkyovizion, features cameos from Daedelus, Gaslamp Killer,' [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 3:42pm EST
  

• KiD CuDi and Patsy Cline Come Along With Sharam for New Single

  DJ/producer Sharam of D.C.-based duo Deep Dish samples Patsy Cline and recruits KiD CuDi for his new single “She Came Along.”
  
  
  
  “She Came Along” is the first single taken from Sharam's new solo album ‘Get Wild,’ which is out now on the [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:30pm EST
  

• It's Lightspeed Champion's Turn, to Record a New Album

  Dev Hynes, the former Test Icicles member otherwise known as Lightspeed Champion, is in the studio working on the long-awaited follow-up to his 2008 debut ‘Falling Off the Lavender Bridge.’
  
  
  
  He's even put together a campy teaser trailer for the first single from the forthcoming album, [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:09pm EST
  

• Kurt Wimmer Throws Salt in Angelina Jolie's Game

  Kurt Wimmer directed one of my favorite movies ever, ‘Equilibrium.’ He also directed a movie I‘ve never seen, ’Ultraviolet.' His latest gig is as co-writer of ‘Salt,’ an upcoming spy flick starring Angelina Jolie.
  
  
  
  The Phillip Noyce-directed film, which also stars Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:02pm EST
  

• Vinyl Life Bring a “Future Beat” Back From the Past

  They‘re not exactly reaching for the pinnacle of lyricism. But Vinyl Life’s commitment to vintage gear and the old-school aesthetic is admirable. And the bouncy 808 beats and jittery synths of their single “Future Beat” are infectious.
  
  
  
  The Arthur Baker-esque “Future Beat,” with its Dan DeGloria-directed [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 7:25pm EDT
  

• Mayer Hawthorne is a Green Eyed Drunk in His New Video

  The latest single from Ann Arbor, Michigan-bred DJ, emcee, producer, multi-instrumentalist and retro-Soul crooner Mayer Hawthorne's debut 'A Strange Arrangment' is the sultry, lo-fi Funk ballad “Green Eyed Love.”
  
  The hallucinatory, absynth-flavored video clip, directed by Mazik of the Los Angeles-based Self Aviary video production outfit, suits [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 3:12pm EDT
  

• 20,000 Spoonfuls of Terror!

  
  
  ‘The Horribly Slow Murderer With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon’ might be the best horror film of the year. [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 11:01pm EDT
  

• Art vs Science vs Mimes

  With “Parlez-Vous Francais?” Australian Dance-Rock trio Art vs Science didn't just kick out a thumping jam, they, and director Alex Roberts, made one of the best Rock videos of the year.
  
  
  
  “Parlez-Vous Francais?” is taken from Art vs Science's self-titled debut EP, which is physically available' [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 7:20pm EDT
  

• Lazerbitch's Libby and Claire Hux Have Some Music for You

  
  
  The boys from Brooklymore trio Claire Hux return, providing beats and backup vocals for their homegirl Libby of Lazerbitch on “Music You,” a big, bouncy early ‘80s-inspired Post-Disco, Electro/Freestyle, Dance-Pop track mashed up with some B-More club beats.
  
  Libby of Lazerbitch “Music You” feat. [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 7:03pm EDT
  

• Mates of State Get Re-Arranged by The Mae Shi

  
  
  This Spring Mates of State, one of my favorite bands, released ‘Re-Arranged: Remixes Volume 1,’ a collection of remixes of songs from their latest LP ‘Re-Arrange Us,’ on limited edition 12'' vinyl.
  
  The EP, which boasted reworks by the likes of DJ Sega, Flosstradamus, [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 6:51pm EDT
  

• Predator 3 Gets Rewound by Swound!

  Backwards videos...From Coldplay to The Pharcyde they‘re almost always entertaining. And the Lloyd Stas-directed backwards video clip for Nottingham, England four piece Swound!’s “Predator 3” is no exception.
  
  
  
  Swound!—whose name is a portmanteau formed from a combination of the words “sweet” and “sound”—releases the “Predator 3” [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 5:24pm EDT
  

• Remember Masta Ace and EDO. G? No? You Must Be a Little Young

  I won't front, “Little Young,” the new single and video from legendary Brooklyn emcee Masta Ace and veteran Boston rapper EDO. G's forthcoming ‘Arts & Entertainment’ collabo as A&E screams “mixtape track.” The beat is repetitive and uninspired and the song itself is lacking in energy. But the concept' [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 5:01pm EDT
  

• Robot Koch isn't Hard to Find Since He Stepped Out of the Jahcoozi

  If you‘ve never heard of Jahcoozi, a Berlin-based trio made up of London-born Sri Lankan Sasha Perera, Israeli-born Oren Gerlitz and Berlin native Robot Koch who made a hybrid of Reggae, Rap and Dance Music, they sorta pioneered the sound and style M.I.A. parlayed into worldwide renown.
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 4:44pm EDT
  

• Blu and Definite are Like a Dream Come True

  
  
  One of my favorite rappers in the game right now, Los Angeles native Blu, is fast becoming one of my favorite producers out here as well.
  
  His recent beat-tapes and ‘ADayLate&ADollarShort,’ the debut album from Brooklyn emcee Sene which he produced in its entirety under [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 4:20pm EDT
  

• Home of the Whopper...

  The Whopper to your face.
  
  
  
  Seriously though. Burger King has a team. They are called the Whoppers. That is awesome. [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 11:28pm EDT
  

• Kaygraphic Casts an Eyeball on the Work of Daniel Johnston

  From Kay of Eyeball Graphics, the woman behind the beautiful i50 edition of Sankofa's ‘The Tortoise Hustle,’ comes this cover of Daniel Johnston's “True Love Will Find You in the End.”
  
  
  
  Here's what Kay herself had to say about the cover:
  
  I [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 5:38pm EDT
  

• You aren't Trippin', the New P.U.T.S. Video is Dope!

  “Trippin' at the Disco” is the first single from Los Angeles Indie-Rap duo People Under the Stairs' 7th album ‘Carried Away.’ The song is a certified dancefloor-friendly banger, but the video, directed by Chris Zamoscianyk and Thes One, elevates it to classic status.
  
  
  
  The press release [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 6:50pm EDT
  

• Sene and Blu are Sharing “WonLover”

  ‘ADayLate&ADollarShort,’ the debut LP from Brooklyn-bred emcee Sene, is one of my favorite Hip-Hop records out right now. It's been rocking my iPod pretty hard for the last couple of weeks, and one of the standout cuts has definitely Sene's neo-“I Used to Love H.E.R.” ode to Hip-Hop “WonLover.”
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 6:23pm EDT
  

• Deru's “Peanut Butter...” Won't Try Your Patience

  I'm not at all familiar with Benjamin Wynn, an electronic musician from Los Angeles who goes by the alias Deru, or his music. But the video for his tune “Peanut Butter & Patience” (a speaker-wrecking song that I can only describe as sounding “like Björk, only without the singing”)' [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 4:05am EDT
  

• A Chromeo Remix So Good You'll Want to Skream

  
  
  UK Dubstep wunderkind Skream turns in a half-speed, old-school Electro-tinged remix of Chromeo's recent Green Label Sound digi-single “Night by Night.”
  
  Chromeo “Night by Night (Skream Remix)” (.MP3)
  
  Like the original version which dropped a few weeks back, the download of the [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 3:32am EDT
  

• People Under the Stairs are Ready to “Hit the Top” With Their Seventh LP

  A full decade after dropping their debut, veteran Los Angeles area Hip-Hop duo People Under the Stairs are prepping the release of their seventh album ‘Carried Away.’
  
  I spent most of the night listening to the album, which is as fun and funky as ever, and now you [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 4:15am EDT
  

• There's a Phantom in the Jookabox

  
  
  In 2008 Indianapolis, Indiana-bred musician David “Moose” Adamson, under the guise of Grampall Jookabox, released his sophomore LP ‘Ropechain,’ which proved to be one of the most ambitious, progressive, and just plain incredible records of the year.
  
  After remaining on my iPod since I got it I'm' [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 3:46am EDT
  

• Shafiq and Bilal are Smokin' Cheeba En' A-Free-Ka

  
  
  The LP version of Shafiq Husayn's “Cheeba” is a fractured bit of boom-bap blessed with spacey synthesizers and a swirl of Jazzy horns and keys over which guest vocalist Bilal does his “Prince if he was a Nuwaubian, and still sexy” thing.
  
  The single-only remix [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 4:50am EDT
  

• Rifle Recoil is a “Prototype” Musical OutKast

  
  
  Layering FX-laden acoustic guitars, multi-tracked harmonies, a quavering vocal and a sputtering beatbox, Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Rifle Recoil gets his coffee-shop Andre3000 on with his off-kilter cover of OutKast's “Prototype.”
  
  Rifle Recoil “Prototype” (.MP3)
  
  “Prototype” is the first single to be taken from the self-titled [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 4:14am EDT
  

• Re-Live Peter Bjorn and John's Latest Album With Mick Boogie and Friends

  
  
  Ohio-bred DJ Mick Boogie curates a collection of original reworks of tracks from Swedish Indie sensations Peter Bjorn and John's outstanding ‘Living Things’ LP by a host of Hip-Hop artists and producers on the ‘Re-Living Things’ remix project!
  
  Contributors include DJ Jazzy Jeff, [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 9:11pm EDT
  

• “Because Orphans Don't Have Parents.” (NSFW)

  These videos were created in 1973 as a part of the FSITO campaign to reduce the rate of drug use amongst orphans.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Or are they promotional videos for the blaxploitation spoof ‘Black Dynamite,’ which is due in theatres on October [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 8:06pm EDT
  

• Relax With Jazz and Indo Afters Cool

  
  
  Back in the day I made a couple of beats for a young rapping dude named Kid Khalid from Hartford, Conneticut.
  
  Shortly thereafter he went away to college in Chicago, Illinois and I pretty much lost touch with him entirely.
  
  Thanks to the internet, and websites [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 7:30pm EDT
  

• ScumLife 9-11 Sale!

  
  
  Brooklyn, New York-based emcee Tone Tank isn't just one of my favorite rappers, he's the owner of ScumLife, one of my favorite streetwear companies!
  
  Seriously, a week doesn't go by where I don't wear one of his many fresh ScumLife t-shirts which pay tribute to' [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 12:37am EDT
  

• DON'T STEAL BIKES AAAAAIIIGHT!!!

  
  
  Bike theft. That was something I feared ever since I got my Mongoose Expert back in ‘85. If I wasn’t on it I had it chained up and locked. TWO TIMES! Granted they were those crazy cheap combination joints wrapped in plastic, but whatever. They got [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 10:07pm EDT
  

• “We Ain't Sene Rain 'Round Here in Nigh on... ”

  
  
  With just a couple of weeks left in the season, Brooklyn, New York-based emcee Sene swings through with what just might be the feel-good Hip-Hop anthem of the Summer.
  
  It's an uptempo Blu-produced body-rocker tited “Please Don't Rain,” that puts a futuristic spin on that' [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 8:33pm EDT
  

• Dumbfoundead Eats Rappers for Breakfast, Literally!

  Remember that Lily Allen-jacking “Peter Pan Complex” MP3 from Project Blowed-affiliated Los Angeles-based emcee Dumbfoundead I posted about a month or so ago?
  
  Well, here's his clasically-conceived, perfectly-executed, Old School-spirit-reviving Adam Stanzak and Tony Oberstar-directed video clip for “Rapper-O‘s,” a tune that’s 100% his!
  
  
  
  [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 7:37pm EDT
  

• Terry Cole Performs a Balancing Act With Othello, Now On, Mayer Hawthorne and DJ Vajra

  
  
  The homie Terry Cole—musician, producer and owner of Middletown, Ohio-based label Colemine Records—just sent me a super-soulful remix he made for “Active Balanced,” a track from Portland, Oregon-based emcee Othello and Denver, Colorado-based turntablist DJ Vajra.
  
  The original version is a slab of [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 4:56pm EDT
  

• Kosha Dillz is Riding a YACHT to the Psychic City

  
  
  If you‘re the type of person who enjoys listening to rappers do what they do over tracks by Rock, Pop or Dance acts then you just might dig Hebrew-Hop artist Kosha Dillz’ remix of YACHT's “Psychic City.”
  
  I can't say I‘ve been following Dillz’ career' [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 3:35pm EDT
  

• “Woman, I Know You Understand.”

  
  
  “The little child inside the man.”
  
  © John Winston Lennon [...]
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  Posted: September 06, 2009, 10:22pm EDT
  

• Don't Front, Blu's Gotcha Open

  
  
  One of the illest cats to regularly touch a microphone or beat-making machine in the Hip-Hop game today, Los Angeles-based emcee/producer Blu, drops another collection of instrumental beats from his archive!
  
  This one is a nearly 38-minute non-stop mixtape-style beat tape titled ‘Open(theInstrumentalAlbum)’ that serves to [...]
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  Posted: September 05, 2009, 2:15am EDT
  

• 100dBs is Feelin' Those Good Vibrations

  
  
  Legendary musician, songwriter and producer Brian Wilson, the visionary mastermind behind The Beach Boys most creative output, is a hero of mine, and should be a hero to anybody even peripherally involved in music.
  
  I know he's a hero to Brooklyn-based DJ and beatmaker [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 4:55pm EDT
  

• Bisco Smith Needs a Mint

  You probably know Connecticut-bred but New York City-based graphic artist and emcee Bisco Smith by his old alias Bisc1, under which he released a couple of records with Embedded Music and a self-published multimedia project.
  
  He's back—under his new monicker—with a new record—titled ‘The Broadcast’—and a [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 4:25pm EDT
  

• Kray and Scott Thorough Find Religion in a Taxi-Cab

  I only just discovered that ‘It’s Not So Much the Heat, It's the Humidity,' the collaborative EP from Nuclear Family members Kray and Scott Thorough as Big Urban, dropped when I was grabbing that The Boys and Girls Club link yesterday.
  
  If you‘ve been' [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 1:56am EDT
  

• A Canadian DJ Takes WHY? and Themselves to the Club

  
  
  When you heard “Canada,” the new callabo track from anticon. affiliates Themselves and WHY? I posted the other day, did it make you want to spin it at a discotheque?
  
  Did you try playing it for your dancefloor audience only to find it lacked [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 1:25am EDT