The Stussy Make Beats Contest is about the fun of modern music making. Whether you’re a beat-maker, rapper, DJ or listener, this contest combines the creative aspect of making music with the fan’s point of view all tied together with some fresh tees and hats. The contest will be judged by Stussy, Low End Theory and Swedish synthesizer company, Teenage Engineering, who produced a new drum machine/synthesizer called the OP-1. In the music world today, it’s rare for a company to develop a piece of hardware, because most people use their computer to make beats. The OP-1 brings it back to the days of drum machines like the 808, when making beats meant banging them out on a machine. The Make Beats contest will start on 8/31/11 and invites the public to upload their own original tracks (made on any machine/computer) via the Stussy Make Beats Drop Box on Soundcloud. Send us your beats!!!
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Make Beats will run until 9/14/11 and is open to everyone around the globe. All beats must be submitted by 9/14/11 to be considered for the contest. The winner will be chosen by a committee from Stussy, Low End Theory and Teenage Engineering and announced on 9/20/11. Contest rules include one entry per artist, who can use anything to make an ORIGINAL instrumental beat, at least 2 minutes in length. The winner will receive the release of their EP, paid travel to Los Angeles to perform at the Low End Theory event, a Teenage Engineering OP-1 portable synthesizer and a box of fresh Stussy gear.
BASS HEADS. a new series of mixes will now be released starting today with our first milc lab 'bass therapy sessions' Bringing you our favorite heavy tracks all recorded in a small studio with 6 woofers bouncing off the walls! Don't sleep on these exclusive sets! The first vol is mixed by milc's SE7EN [US]
The whole reason for my 2 week stay in India last month was for this exciting project with the Korean electronics giant, Samsung. Unlike most of the worlds apple driven cell phone market, the Indian market's number one leader in sales is Samsung. Since there has been a recent boom in the hiphop dance community in India, the company wanted to launch a campaign with a street dancer, for they're new promotion for the app store called "Hip Apps". A store in which customers can view the top apps for android powered samsung phones in a fun and "hip" way, utilizing and integrating live dancing, flash video & web design to create an easy to use & interactive experience as they browse through apps. Every week or two new apps along with new flash video will be added with me Robert Muraine featured in it! Here is the intro of what is to come! :D
I know this is two Tankman videos in a row, but this one has been edited by one of the homies out in Pheonix, Francis Lazaro. He just put it up on my page, thought I'd throw it up since it's fucking sick! Check out more video work by Francis and PheosiA Films at http://vimeo.com/pheosiafilms
If you have a bad case of the hiccups that won't go away, the absolute only 100% way to get rid of them is to go into your drawer grab your little jar of weed, unscrew the cap and take a huge whiff of the bud inside. If you still have hiccups after a couple whiffs, something is wrong with you.
Sources say this information came from the grandmother of a Brazilian clown spotted in the LA area a year or two back.
DJ Aenima has been featured on the follow up mix to the first cookies & milc mix that the milc DJ trio Bassgowst (SE7EN, Aenima & Robert Muraine) put out earlier this year. Vol 1, which was a double mix release of mixed music genres is also out on hard copy now! Email aenima@milc.tv for a free CD or wait for the mp3 DL later this week on soundcloud.com/milc Also check out his other mixes at soundcloud.com/aenima-2
Aenima brings a pile of dark electro, house & disco to make you wanna dance with the hot zombie nurses from silent hill and bone the main nurse in red with no eyes.
One of the most memorable live events of my life! First of all let me say Daddy Kev threw down a set with old school beats as well as his usual batch of hidden characters, absolutely killing it! Nosaj Thing backed up Kev with a garage-type 'VIP of most of his old songs' set which was fucking awesome I have to say perfect for the "mood" I was in. De La Soul are who really blew my mind, they're live set was one of the best hiphop performances I've seen (and I've seen my share). To top the night off DJ Z-Trip pulls LL Cool J out of his bag of tricks and does a straight old school LL Cool Set with LL Cool J on the mic. Truly mind blowing and worth the 30$ Here is some video :D Enjoy...
Daddy Kev destroying the early hours of the night with beats unknown
LL Cool J 's opening song "Rock The Bells performed with DJ Z-Trip
I know its pretty late to be posting the June edition of Bass Camp in late August, but I've just been tied up with traveling and dancing. When I did get back to the states, my playlists went to a couple of live shows. So here I am armed with 4 playlists of doom ready for the Bass Camp! Here is number 1 or 4 to come in the next couple weeks!
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Modified ecstasy or MDMA could one day have a role to play in fighting different blood cancers. Scientists say by chemically re-engineering ecstasy by taking some atoms away and putting new ones in their place, the drug could have less toxic effect on the brain. Not only that but one of the changes has increased cancer-fighting effectiveness 100 times more than the normal ecstasy. Meaning that if 100g of un-modified ecstasy was needed to get the desired effect, only 1g of the modified ecstasy would be needed to have the same effect.
Scientists & researchers say that this treatment may not be available for 10 years, since most of the testing has been in a tube so far. Time to bring in the rolling monkeys!
1. Actual track racers use aerospoked front wheel because aerodynamic drag is greater at the front wheel (a like 2% advantage can be had by going aero on the front) than it is at the rear wheel (the rear wheel is in the aerodynamic "shadow" of the seattube, you can only gain like 0.6% more efficiency back there). So, you gain the greatest aerodynamic benefit by using a aero front wheel. Using an aero rear wheel doesn't give that great a benefit, so some track racers have a more "standard" rear wheel so they don't have to run two "brick style" wheels.
2. Some messengers like to go wicked fast, and since they are on track bikes too, why not also run the same setup?
3. Hipsters see what the messengers are doing, even though they don't know why they are doing it, so they do it. They later try and figure out why they did it, and come up with crazy ideas like "Doood, I run an aerospoke 'cause I can lock it up real quik in the rear" STFU!
4. Barneys who are interested in becoming hipsters get caught up in the hype and bid up the Ebay for aerospokes, just because they don't want to miss out on the next BIG THING!
Don't sleep on this cat Addison Groove, Ive actually been collecting tracks by this man for awhile now and mixing his stuff lately, he definitely tears house up with his garage-e feel, heard he only makes shit on an 808. Come support UK artists!
Now is a time of incredible opportunity for graduates entering the video game genre!
With rising "Bedroom Game Developers" video games have been easier to produce and actually bring to the market without having to use big 3rd party developers and publishers. This is a huge breakthrough & downfall to the current video game industry and is something we can compare to the big fall of major music record labels and rise of smaller digital music labels in the early and mid 2000s. Martyn Hunter, a UK game developer & interviewee of BBC News said, "'Casual Games' for mobile platforms, Facebook and social networks are the way forward. They require a lower budget and give a lot more creative freedom - which gives birth to such amazing new games. It's very inspiring and very exciting to be able to have the technology in your bedroom where you can sit down with a couple of friends and build something new, you can post it online. You don't need a publisher and you don't need any funding."
With the internet and it's unlimited information at our fingertips, people have been literally learning the ins and outs to virtually every industry, and putting back the power to the artists and people. Support your local game developers, musicians and artists!
This is great for the Graff artists of Russia as well as for the Graff artists of the world! All of us artists need to make sure what we do is legal, and if its not then we must fight to make it! The importance of art's legality is that to "the people" the art isn't portrayed as something wrong to do. Getting sanctions or permits only helps spread the love and art and shit maybe you'll get some extra cash to buy some legit cans for the next piece!
Tonight was my definition of a perfect night. Surrounded by great people with great vibes, beautiful faces, and beautiful artwork. So much amazing talent, and absolutely amazing hospitality. Of course thanks to the milc crew, none of this would ever happen!
#milcdoesitright
Only 3 days after getting back from Mumbai, India, Robert Muraine was invited to join the 'We Run This EP' Release Tour! Hitting random clubs throughout So Cal in August & September with an Allstar Dubstep lineup with LADN artists including: 6Blocc, Tankman, Pow Shadowz, Zaku Chan, Mershak & not to mention milc's very own Robert Muraine! This mix will be Robert's first released mix since his live performance at Heavy LA!
Experience this journey through the pre-dubstep garage era, bouncing all the way to early 2007 Dubstep era, a time line of different styles of dubstep old and new. Subwoofers on Please.
My long time neighbor and friend 'Chad' locally known as DJ Foniks, has been putting out dope funktastic beats before I even met him a few years back! He has actually been a well established DJ out here in LA for some years now, and has been recently hitting the scene with his upbeat & synthy analog beats! Foniks just playeed up in San Francisco at the Madrone Art Bar on Divisadero St. and rocked it solid! milc is happy to announce forth coming projects with Foniks, both live and in studio! Check out his stuff at the following links!
Here are some links to videos that I think are important to show the variety in what popping can become. The people in this list have been inspiration to poppers all over the world. I hope you all look at these videos as not what you want to be as poppers, but instead as inspiration of what you guys can become as individuals in popping. There are so many styles in this umbrella term of poppinf & all of them are great in their own ways! Choose what you want to do with these styles & foundations, use them to help develop your own style! Remember be on beat always and to learn your foundations and history before you start trying to learn!
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David "Elsewhere"
Elsewhere was one of the first to take popping in a very new and inspirational direction, using his own inspiration from animals & film and projecting his interpretation of those through his dance. Isolation, roboting and waving were his strong points and inspired many in the early 2000's to become poppers, like myself. His original style is what stood out, and I give him much credit as to what popping has become today. Many critics will say that elsewhere's dance is not considered popping, but I on the other hand believe that the popping techniques he had applied to his own dance, were far more superior than any poppers around at the time. He is now a successful web designer and travels the world showcasing his abilities in commercials, movies and various international ads.
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Marie "Pandora"
Pandora, recognized as the best female popper in the world and known for her precise and innovative tutting, has been a part of the underground popping scene for over 10 years and is a huge success as an all around popper. She is currently traveling the world judging, showcasing, battling, and has also been a part of the movie Step Up 3D and has been recently inducted into the LXD.
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"Madd Chadd"
One of the best roboters that have ever lived has been a true master of roboting, ticking, dime stopping and isolation! Much of his style and technique derived from OG Boppin Andre has got him to places such as performing on the Oscars as well as to being a lead dancer on Step Up 3D not to mention a modeling career!
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"Poppin Todd"
Also a student of Boppin Andre and former roommate of Madd Chadd, Poppin Todd is a huge inspiration to me and has been teaching popping to many poppers all over the united states. Todd uses all the styles & techniques that popping has to date and is one of the most dedicated and sick poppers I know! Today he travels to better himself and his popping, teaching and influencing others from the underground scenes of LA to the politically frenzied competitions and battles we have all over the states. He is part of Soul Botics Crew and smashes the competition in any battle he enters.
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OG "Boppin Andre"
Boppin Andre, one of the creators of the bopping style and one of the greatest OG poppers of all time! He creates a different make believe environment around him every time he goes into a cypher, projecting situations that all people face in day to day life, creating a connection with all people, dancer or not. A very technical, hard hitting popper that you must see in person, to feel the true effect of the presence in his dance.
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Poppin Pete
Poppin Pete, one of the original members of the world famous "Electric Boogaloos" and younger brother of the founder of the style called "Boogaloo", Boogaloo Sam, is considered to be one of the most influential poppers of the 90's and today. He has been traveling the world for years, showcasing, judging, battling, teaching and sharing his history with poppers and dancers all over the world. He and the "Electric Boogaloos" must have introduced popping to more people around the world than any other popper of his time.
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"Wave-O-Matic"
One of the best and most creative poppers I have ever learned from, OG Wave-O-Matic is still building the evolution of popping and waving with his innovative ideas and techniques to this day. He has been the inspiration of many poppers including myself in the greater Los Angeles area and also does private lessons through Skype to novice poppers, gives advice to anybody that seeks it on not to mention is dedicated to helping poppers every Monday at Homeland, in Long Beach, CA (the place to be in the US for popping). Wave-O-Matic not to mention is a music producer for "The Shape Shifters" and is also a very talented director and editor, not to mention a college professor. He has been huge a influence on myself, Elsewhere, Skywalker, and some of the best wavers that ever lived.
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"Boogie Frantick"
Boogie Frantick, my FAVORITE popper of the present day, is a master of ticking, hitting, waving, roboting, animating, glides and pretty much all the styles of popping. He is the closest in my opinion to what being the full package of popping is. See for yourself.
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"Slim Boogie"
Slim Boogie is also a great inspiration to me, being around my age, we kind of came up as popping acquaintances in the club scene in local circles and cyphers, now he is traveling the world as an all around great popper! He had a strong boogaloo influence & foundation when he began his journey as a popper now joins his style with all the other styles of popping and has become one of the most feared battlers in the states! He at one time was the hardest hitting "boogalooer" I had ever seen, now he's up there with the hardest hitting poppers of all time! I wish him much luck on his long journey as a professional popper!
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"J-Smooth"
J Smooth I believe has more 1st place American popping titles than anybody I know. He has been invited to participate in huge world competitions such as Juste Debout & How The West Was Won and has seen, battled and beat some of the worlds best poppers. He has just recently debuted in Step Up 3d and is now a part of LXD. He is also disputed as one of the best finger tutters ever known!
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"Salah"
Salah, from France, has been an inspiration to me not only as a popper but as a B-Boy as well. At a point in my early years of dancing, a B-Boy was something that I was aspiring to become. Around this time Salah's crew, "Vagabond Crew" had been part of the ever influential "Battle Of The Year" (BOTY) world finals. In both styles of dance, popping and breaking, Salah had showed something that most street dancers lacked at the time, and that was character. After his long streak with Vagabond Crew winning events, he had gone solo, and started focusing on the next part of his dance career, popping. With his very innovative style, and at sometimes hilarious tricks he has won over that hearts of many people that are dancers and many of those that dont dance at all. He has perfected his style popping, in which is heavily influenced by clowning, miming and circus to an art in itself. Salah is now one of the most recognized popper, bboy & locker in the world!
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"Tetris"
Tetris has no videos up that arent more than 5 years old, but he is honestly the best and most influential tutter that the world has NEVER seen, make sure you do your research on tetris. You can catch him on occasion at Homeland in Long Beach, CA. He is a very humble cat and is willing to help any dancer with advice and critiques! I wish there was more footage of him dancing so people can see what level tutting has gone to. He is actually the one that owns and runs the biggest popping website on the net: http://westcoastpoppin.com.
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OG "Jeckle"
Last and not least, the most influential popper in my personal popping life, OG Jeckle. Also a mentor of almost everybody in this list, that wasn't an OG, has inspired so many hearts and poppers from all over Los Angeles and still deserves much more credit than he gets, he is one of the only OG's that is still hitting as hard as he did when he was a kid, still able to keep up with the evolution of all these great dancers at his age. This man truly lives and breathes dance. He and his twin brother as youth, were considered one of the best duos around in Los Angeles and were known as Heckle & Jeckle. In his early years of popping he had modeled for Calvin Klein and even been in music videos with 80's pop sensations such as the "Gap Band". You can even see him now in Kilo's "Lean Like A Cholo" Music Video. Jeckle has just givin life to a beautiful daughter and is starting the next part of his life, not only as a family man, but a as a dance teacher at a local Los Angeles middle school as well. There is not much footage of Jeckle but here is a video of him a couple years ago, talking about the lost history of popping.
Do not watch American news. It is 100% legal for news corporations to blatantly lie to its people! USE the internet as your news source, people need to be aware that this debt ceiling was the last "Jenga" block to letting our nation fall apart!! We are already passed the point to where one individual can save an entire country. The only way to save it is to care about where you live and to be informed. Would you let your house burn, if you knew how to put out the fire? If you are an American and care about your kids future, and your grandparents retirement than please be informed and inform others about the truth! Not caring will only lead to further unemployment, tax increases and poverty in America! Tell your friends & let people know what is going on right under our noses. Banks and government leaders are pocketing our this last final debt, so that way when America DOES finally fall apart, it's leaders & CEOs will be the only ones that have money to buy an escape plan. I smell a revolution very soon. Don't let violence, cheating & stealing be the answer, let it be knowledge and awareness, lets overcome these idiots in rule, and change this fascist country back to a democracy, the peoples country! We can start with our own education through the internet.
