After unearthing the brilliance of Jan Terri’s hit single “Losing You” yesterday I went on an investigation to find out more about the creative genius behind the greatest music video ever made. I discovered the following video article from 2000 on the Daily Show. As you’ll find from the video Jan Terri is no one-hit wonder, she has recorded several hit songs with amazing visual accompaniments such as “My Little Brother” and the chilling “Get Down Goblin”…

Links:

Jan Terri’s Wikipedia entry

Jan Terri videos

This is something I’ve been meaning to post up for a while, inspired by a blog post by my mate in London a few weeks ago I spent an afternoon watching Billy T. James videos on Youtube. Billy T. was the man eh, we’ve got Flight Of The Conchords and what not taking over the world these days but to me there will never be another comedian that comes close to Billy T, he put on for Aotearoa!

The following is my all-time favourite Billy T clip, check it out and share your favourite videos and memories in the comments yo…

God bless the person that uploaded this to youtube, I’d searched for this numerous times in the past so I could share it with the shotthen massive to no avail. This song/vid is a bonafide classic, when the drinks are getting poured and this song comes on - forget it. 3 classic verses, 3 classic performances. Omilio Sparks deserves an oscar for his overacting, Oschino praises a girl for having straight teeth, and Young Chris reminds females worldwide that time’s the only thing you can spend with him. School yourself.

Update:
Appears Universal are fronting about the embedding as per usual, here’s the link to the vid.

State Property - Mami do you want me

Jacked from Nah Right. This blend is too ill, classic Big L joint mixed with one of my favourite beats from J Dilla’s Donuts LP.

Here’s an old internet favourite that I always find myself coming back to. Kinda like the Star Wars Kid or All Your Base.

Someone has written fan fiction based on Roc-A-Fella Records. The great thing about these stories is that they were started in the heyday and continued on til around the time Jay-Z signed Nas. It’s like a varitable time-line of what happened with Roc-A-Scenes. Obviously having an imagination and brief knowledge of people signed to the ROC helps.

I was reminded of it while reading someone complain about how Game’s next album will be full of name-dropping. Check out this episode where Jay invites Game to discuss the beef that was brewing.

Or, start from episode one, not exactly the best one but it sets up the running joke about Bleek pretty nicely.

Free mixtape! As promised earlier today I had to turn over everything in my bedroom but I managed to find the master copy of my mixtape, phew, I had a feeling it had been chucked out. This is a 20 minute segment that I recorded for the third installment of DJ Sirvere’s underground hip hop mixtape series ‘Sirvere Punishment’ which was released in April 2004. Phil was on the first Hook Up tour at the time I recorded my segment so he lent me his digital 4-track, I learnt how to use it and progressively recorded my mix over the course of three days. The 4-track recorded to zip disk and I had no idea how to convert that to CD so I had to get P-Money to help me with that before I couriered my finished mix to Phil’s accomodation in the Palmerston North leg of the tour.

I tried to fit as much as I could into the 20 minutes so I mixed between the joints fairly quickly, also the zip disks could only hold 30 minutes of recording time, I used heaps of it up at the start with my turntablist shit so I had to lay off the tricky shit towards the end of the mix LOL. I basically tried to make a mixtape that sounded like the late nineties turntablist DJs that inspired me like Vinroc, Melo D, J-Rocc and Babu. Enough ranting from me anyway here’s the intro to the mixtape and if you wanna hear the rest hit the download link below it. Enjoy

DOWNLOAD: DJ Mouli ‘Sirvere Punishment 3′ mixtape [zShare]

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Bit late for the bandwagon on this one (Kanye posted this last week) but fuck it - Weng Weng is the man…

DJ Vinroc was one of my favourite DJs in the late nineties and the turn of the century so I was stoked yesterday when I found that TSS did a post about Vinroc’s classic mixtape from ‘97 ‘Recon-Struction’. For those that don’t know Vinroc was the ITF world champion two years in a row in ‘97 and ‘98, he’s a member of the 5th Platoon that included Roli Rho, DJ Daddy Dog (check for his Tribe Vibes mixtape) and one of my favourite mixtape DJs of recent time Neil Armstrong, he also later formed Triple Threat with Apollo and Shortkut (both originally ISP members) who had a well deserved reputation for tearing up parties. He was also one of the first DJs that I could remember from the east coast that could scratch on par with his west coast counterparts who were running shit at the time, thus he was the only DJ featured on Q-Bert’s ‘Wave Twisters’ album that wasn’t an ISP member.

Back to the mixtape anyway, Recon-Struction was made when the turntablist culture, which was big at the time, influenced how mixtapes were made, it was all about a DJs skill at selecting, mixing, blending, juggling and scratching (none of that yelling over a rusty MP3 shit that passes for a mixtape these days). Head over to TSS to peep Vinroc’s interview where he discusses making Recon-Struction and provides a download link

It was DJs and mixtapes like Vinroc that influenced the DJ that I later became. You’ve probably all heard the mixtape me and Truent recently made for Dave by now… well I’m gonna be extra generous and dig in my vaults to bring you my favourite mixtape production, I did a 20 minute segment on DJ Sirvere’s ‘Sirvere Punishment 3′ from a few years ago that I was really proud of that I wanna share with ya. I’ve just gotta find where I put the CD, LOL, I’ve got a master copy of it stashed away somewhere haha, stay tuned…

Whoa, this past week has been pretty intense for me, two assessments down and I’ve got one exam to go. I feel like I’ve been living in a bubble ‘cos outside of study I dunno what’s been going on in the real world recently, I’ve been studying pretty hard out with little break. When I have taken time off in the past few days, I’ve been watching the following two vids to loosen me up after hours of reading and writing, this shit never fails to crack me up. Shot to Askew for reminding me how funny this news report was!

^^LOL @ T-Pain

now peeps the rap video…

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