It's just another case of the Eclectical Empire minimix collection.
This one's comedy based, just a few of my favourite pieces with some sweet instrumentals to back them up.
Enjoy kids.
Grab that mofo right HERE
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Strictly for my 'Nilla's...
Here's the 90's Minimix from the last Eclectical Empire show.
BTW, if you're wondering what the hell the title of this post means, since i'm a white boy the word N***a is obviously out of bounds for me, so it's been replaced by the word 'Nilla (short for Vanilla).
I'm trying to bring this replacement word into the everyday lexicon, so use it, love it, and get everyone saying it.
Let's band together Nilla's, we've been stepped on for too long!
Peace
Grab your 90's goodness right HERE.
BTW, if you're wondering what the hell the title of this post means, since i'm a white boy the word N***a is obviously out of bounds for me, so it's been replaced by the word 'Nilla (short for Vanilla).
I'm trying to bring this replacement word into the everyday lexicon, so use it, love it, and get everyone saying it.
Let's band together Nilla's, we've been stepped on for too long!
Peace
Grab your 90's goodness right HERE.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
I took a blues break.....
....and I Broke it.
Here's minimix 5, i've lost one of these somewhere along the way, and i'll try and re-up it if I can work out which one is missing.
Grab a handful of funk right HERE
Peace,
Broke A.K.A. Baroke Obama.
P.S. This is the 50th post here at the Trim. Happy half-century to all, and cheers to everyone who have stopped in to peep my random musings along the way. I mostly do this for me, as it keeps me busy and relatively sober, but to paraphrase Jigga...
"I do this for my culture,
to let 'em know what a white boy writes like
when the keyboard's out the holster".
Peace
Here's minimix 5, i've lost one of these somewhere along the way, and i'll try and re-up it if I can work out which one is missing.
Grab a handful of funk right HERE
Peace,
Broke A.K.A. Baroke Obama.
P.S. This is the 50th post here at the Trim. Happy half-century to all, and cheers to everyone who have stopped in to peep my random musings along the way. I mostly do this for me, as it keeps me busy and relatively sober, but to paraphrase Jigga...
"I do this for my culture,
to let 'em know what a white boy writes like
when the keyboard's out the holster".
Peace
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Witness the Slackness...
Man, my bad people. It's been a while since my last post, been trying to detox and sort out a bunch of shit in my life, so blogging has been a secondary concern for the last little while.
Anyways, here's the catch-up.
This week on The Empire we'll be rocking out with the worlds best lyricists. There's no way we can hit upon every great lyricist in the measy hour we have, but we'll try to cover most genres, and we'll at leat hit the main contenders for greatness.
Speaking of our sweet radio gig, here's part III of the minimix's. This bad boy's pretty rough, as I had major technical issues and had to re-record this about an hour before going to air, but it's still listenable.
Grab that mofo right HERE.
In case you're not as huge a fan of The Daily Show as I am, you probably missed Jon Stewart's epic rant against Rick Santelli and CNBC, so here it is. Gawker also posted this a few days ago, but it's well worth re-posting.
Thirdly, it seems the rest of the world is catching up with myself and BigDubbs (northoftheriver.wordpress.com) and proclaiming The Wire as the greatest thing on television since Wildboyz. OK, most wouldn't compare the two, but I will, 'cos that's how I roll. So if you're not up on it yet, crawl out from under your rock and get busy downloading or buying or whatever, just watch it. I'm sick of explaining the brilliance of this show to slack jawed idiots who can't understand how TV can be revolutionary.
Fourthly, my brother in arms PMM is a busy man, being that he actually studies and has a job and all that, so i'm pretty much holding the fort by myself (damn, two military analogies in one sentence, gotta expand my vocabulary). The point being, if anyone cares to join me here in cyberspace and feels that they could bring something to The Trim, then get at me and i'll add you to the Admin. No need to be exceptionally verbose, judging by the majority of my posts as long as you're semi-literate you'll fit right in.
Fifthly (OK, i'm gonna stop that now, they don't really work after thirdly) I love a good birdman rally. Nothing better than idiots hurling themselves off a pier with a pair of cardboard wings attached. And the shonkier the costume, the better. If it's too well constructed, then the fun is taken out of it. Noone watches a Daytona 500 to see cars driving really fast in a circle, they want to see massive stacks. And the same goes for a Birdman Rally, more failure, more enjoyment. Here's some highlights, courtesy of The Age website.
Birdman Rally Photo Gallery
And finally, I should weigh in on the Chris Brown/Rihanna debacle. I should, but I can't really do better than the homeboy here.
Well, i'll be back soonish, probably.
Peace.
Anyways, here's the catch-up.
This week on The Empire we'll be rocking out with the worlds best lyricists. There's no way we can hit upon every great lyricist in the measy hour we have, but we'll try to cover most genres, and we'll at leat hit the main contenders for greatness.
Speaking of our sweet radio gig, here's part III of the minimix's. This bad boy's pretty rough, as I had major technical issues and had to re-record this about an hour before going to air, but it's still listenable.
Grab that mofo right HERE.
In case you're not as huge a fan of The Daily Show as I am, you probably missed Jon Stewart's epic rant against Rick Santelli and CNBC, so here it is. Gawker also posted this a few days ago, but it's well worth re-posting.
Thirdly, it seems the rest of the world is catching up with myself and BigDubbs (northoftheriver.wordpress.com) and proclaiming The Wire as the greatest thing on television since Wildboyz. OK, most wouldn't compare the two, but I will, 'cos that's how I roll. So if you're not up on it yet, crawl out from under your rock and get busy downloading or buying or whatever, just watch it. I'm sick of explaining the brilliance of this show to slack jawed idiots who can't understand how TV can be revolutionary.
Fourthly, my brother in arms PMM is a busy man, being that he actually studies and has a job and all that, so i'm pretty much holding the fort by myself (damn, two military analogies in one sentence, gotta expand my vocabulary). The point being, if anyone cares to join me here in cyberspace and feels that they could bring something to The Trim, then get at me and i'll add you to the Admin. No need to be exceptionally verbose, judging by the majority of my posts as long as you're semi-literate you'll fit right in.
Fifthly (OK, i'm gonna stop that now, they don't really work after thirdly) I love a good birdman rally. Nothing better than idiots hurling themselves off a pier with a pair of cardboard wings attached. And the shonkier the costume, the better. If it's too well constructed, then the fun is taken out of it. Noone watches a Daytona 500 to see cars driving really fast in a circle, they want to see massive stacks. And the same goes for a Birdman Rally, more failure, more enjoyment. Here's some highlights, courtesy of The Age website.
Birdman Rally Photo Gallery
And finally, I should weigh in on the Chris Brown/Rihanna debacle. I should, but I can't really do better than the homeboy here.
Well, i'll be back soonish, probably.
Peace.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Scratchin' for the Oldies....
So here's the minimix from Tuesday's show, I realised after i'd recorded it that apart from the Big L blend, it's pretty much all Classic Rock.
Hence the title of this post.
CLick right HERE to get your goodies.
Enjoy kiddies,
Broke.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
On the 2 turntables I would say i'm nice....
Hey Kids,
so for those that tuned in to the show today, or even for those who didn't, here's the minimix from the end of the show today.
Hope y'all enjoyed it, tune in next week for more of the same. Only better.
Minimix 1
Peace,
Broke
so for those that tuned in to the show today, or even for those who didn't, here's the minimix from the end of the show today.
Hope y'all enjoyed it, tune in next week for more of the same. Only better.
Minimix 1
Peace,
Broke
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Heavy Rotation Part IV
So for part IV of heavy rotation, I thought i'd give you guys a treat. Not that the other tracks have been weak, but this is an extra special HR.
DJ Jaguar Skills put together what may be the craziest thing i've heard in quite some time. 800 tracks, played over 48 minutes, in essentially chronological order charting the rise of Hip Hop from one-time fad to the worlds most dominating form of music, language, dress sense etc.
Beginning with the Fatback Band, and their track King Tim III (unbeknownst to most laymen of Hip Hop, this is widely believed to be the first Hip Hop track ever pressed to wax, 2 years before Melle Mel came through with The Message, but that's really another story for another post) you only get 6 seconds of King Tim before we're onto the next one. And then the next one. And then the next one. And so on, through 797 banging tracks. Don't worry if you're not feeling the current selection, as you only have to wait 6 seconds for a new beat.
But seriously, this is an awesome accomplishment, and well worth listening to, as it gives you a great feel for how the sound of hip hop has changed since those days way back when.
For those interested, track list can be found here
Grab that Bad Boy right here
Props to Jaguar Skills, obviously.
Peace.
DJ Jaguar Skills put together what may be the craziest thing i've heard in quite some time. 800 tracks, played over 48 minutes, in essentially chronological order charting the rise of Hip Hop from one-time fad to the worlds most dominating form of music, language, dress sense etc.
Beginning with the Fatback Band, and their track King Tim III (unbeknownst to most laymen of Hip Hop, this is widely believed to be the first Hip Hop track ever pressed to wax, 2 years before Melle Mel came through with The Message, but that's really another story for another post) you only get 6 seconds of King Tim before we're onto the next one. And then the next one. And then the next one. And so on, through 797 banging tracks. Don't worry if you're not feeling the current selection, as you only have to wait 6 seconds for a new beat.
But seriously, this is an awesome accomplishment, and well worth listening to, as it gives you a great feel for how the sound of hip hop has changed since those days way back when.
For those interested, track list can be found here
Grab that Bad Boy right here
Props to Jaguar Skills, obviously.
Peace.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Heavy Rotation Part III
Lil' Wayne - Best Thing Yet
It was always going to happen. In fact, i'm surprised it didn't happen earlier. In fact, i'm surprised all these Heavy Rotations' haven't been Lil Wayne tracks.
There's not really an awful lot that needs to be said about this track. Off The Empire's "The Drought 6: The Rebirth",this track shows Wayne back at his lyrical best. Still not talking about anything more susbtatial than cars, chicks, and why he's the best ever, but who cares?
Stick it out until the last verse, it's pretty much stream of consciousness rapping. Some wild shit.
Grab that bad boy right here.
It was always going to happen. In fact, i'm surprised it didn't happen earlier. In fact, i'm surprised all these Heavy Rotations' haven't been Lil Wayne tracks.
There's not really an awful lot that needs to be said about this track. Off The Empire's "The Drought 6: The Rebirth",this track shows Wayne back at his lyrical best. Still not talking about anything more susbtatial than cars, chicks, and why he's the best ever, but who cares?
Stick it out until the last verse, it's pretty much stream of consciousness rapping. Some wild shit.
Grab that bad boy right here.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Heavy Rotation Part I
So this will usually happen on a Sunday night, but my mate Bunners knocked me out with a fat bowl last night, so it's happening today.
This weekly (hopefully) post will be to highlight whatever track has been heavy in the rotation of songs i've been listening too. It won't necesssarily be a track released the previous week; in fact knowing the state of hip hop at the moment it probably won't be from the previous week unless it's a good week for Hip Hop.
It'll just be a track that is good enough to get me to stop listening to Get This for a while, could be from years ago, could be something crazy, could be a rarity.
Or it could be none of these things.
So, part I.
Promoe - Headache
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Promoe (Mårten Edh) is a Swedish rapper, and a founding member of Swedish hip hop group the Looptroop. This track has been getting the first play of the morning for quite some time now, and will continue to do so.
Taken from White Man's Burden, it's been a while since i've heard a track that uses interplay between the rapper and the sample so well. Headache uses a decent selection of samples from Julie Driscoll's A Word About Colour, taking the chorus as it's own (as do so many tracks these days), but unlike most chipmunk soul beats released these days, the original inspiration for the beat is brought in throughout the verses themselves, in a variety of different ways.
As highlighted below, the Julie Driscoll track individual lines of A Word about Colour are sometimes brought in to link one bar to the next. Sample is in parentheses:
"My semen's sedated from stress and toxic waste,
my whole being's mutated;(my soul)
don't even mention my soul,
it's been gone for so long...."
A clever and mellifluous way to link the original feel of the sampled piece into the new track, and it is put to better use a little further on when samples are used to rhyme 2 lines, and close out the verse:
"Stumblin around in a state of mass (confusion),
and i see no solution, (confusion)
but to turn up the music to soothe this (pain that i'm feeling).
This continues throughout the track to great effect, increasing the effect of both the beat itself and the potent lyrics. And the lyrics are potent enough without needing to be propped by the beat. Again, keeping with the theme of the original sample, the track is heavily politically motivated, although the lyrics lean more towards highlighting the feelings of inadequacy and helplessness that accompany people who feel left out of the political system about the issues For example,
"We spiral downwards,
inbreeding a bunch of spineless cowards
livin' in an illusion we define as ours.
Nationalism's that kind of prison
we assign all power,
desperately clinging on to it until the final hour..."
As Rex Hunt might say, this is dizzy stuff folks.
Ghostface raps over "Superman Lover", and uses the concept to structure the feeling of his rhyme, but doesn't really play with the original song during his verse at all, and most MC's rhyming over a track with a sample based chorus will use the first line of the chorus to dismount from the verse e.g. Lil' Wayne's "Best Thing Yet":
"And that's because I know the sun will raise again,
And when it do, Im'a praise the Man.
They say "You crazy Wayne!" but I just bake a man,
And thats Ms. Baker saying that i'm the...(Best Thing Yet)"
Nice, but not nearly as impressive as appropriating a whole track into your lyrics.
Well, that's it. Enjoy the track, and as an added bonus, here's the original inspiration for you to compare the two.
Julie Driscoll - A Word About Colour
Now, i'm going to drink Vodka and Cranberry and watch The Wire until I crash out.
Peace,
~Broke
This weekly (hopefully) post will be to highlight whatever track has been heavy in the rotation of songs i've been listening too. It won't necesssarily be a track released the previous week; in fact knowing the state of hip hop at the moment it probably won't be from the previous week unless it's a good week for Hip Hop.
It'll just be a track that is good enough to get me to stop listening to Get This for a while, could be from years ago, could be something crazy, could be a rarity.
Or it could be none of these things.
So, part I.
Promoe - Headache
Download
Promoe (Mårten Edh) is a Swedish rapper, and a founding member of Swedish hip hop group the Looptroop. This track has been getting the first play of the morning for quite some time now, and will continue to do so.
Taken from White Man's Burden, it's been a while since i've heard a track that uses interplay between the rapper and the sample so well. Headache uses a decent selection of samples from Julie Driscoll's A Word About Colour, taking the chorus as it's own (as do so many tracks these days), but unlike most chipmunk soul beats released these days, the original inspiration for the beat is brought in throughout the verses themselves, in a variety of different ways.
As highlighted below, the Julie Driscoll track individual lines of A Word about Colour are sometimes brought in to link one bar to the next. Sample is in parentheses:
"My semen's sedated from stress and toxic waste,
my whole being's mutated;(my soul)
don't even mention my soul,
it's been gone for so long...."
A clever and mellifluous way to link the original feel of the sampled piece into the new track, and it is put to better use a little further on when samples are used to rhyme 2 lines, and close out the verse:
"Stumblin around in a state of mass (confusion),
and i see no solution, (confusion)
but to turn up the music to soothe this (pain that i'm feeling).
This continues throughout the track to great effect, increasing the effect of both the beat itself and the potent lyrics. And the lyrics are potent enough without needing to be propped by the beat. Again, keeping with the theme of the original sample, the track is heavily politically motivated, although the lyrics lean more towards highlighting the feelings of inadequacy and helplessness that accompany people who feel left out of the political system about the issues For example,
"We spiral downwards,
inbreeding a bunch of spineless cowards
livin' in an illusion we define as ours.
Nationalism's that kind of prison
we assign all power,
desperately clinging on to it until the final hour..."
As Rex Hunt might say, this is dizzy stuff folks.
Ghostface raps over "Superman Lover", and uses the concept to structure the feeling of his rhyme, but doesn't really play with the original song during his verse at all, and most MC's rhyming over a track with a sample based chorus will use the first line of the chorus to dismount from the verse e.g. Lil' Wayne's "Best Thing Yet":
"And that's because I know the sun will raise again,
And when it do, Im'a praise the Man.
They say "You crazy Wayne!" but I just bake a man,
And thats Ms. Baker saying that i'm the...(Best Thing Yet)"
Nice, but not nearly as impressive as appropriating a whole track into your lyrics.
Well, that's it. Enjoy the track, and as an added bonus, here's the original inspiration for you to compare the two.
Julie Driscoll - A Word About Colour
Now, i'm going to drink Vodka and Cranberry and watch The Wire until I crash out.
Peace,
~Broke
Friday, December 26, 2008
A few Christmas goodies....
The Star Wars Holiday Special
"The Star Wars Holiday Special was a two-hour television special set in the Star Wars galaxy. It was the first official Star Wars spinoff produced.
In it, Chewbacca and Han Solo visit Kashyyyk, Chewbacca's home world, to celebrate Life Day. Along the way, they are pursued by agents of the Galactic Empire who are searching for rebels on the planet.
The main storyline of the film contains a variety-show segments as well as a cartoon produced by Toronto-based Nelvana that officially introduces the bounty hunter Boba Fett.
The film is notorious for the almost universal hatred it garners from the nerd platoon, or really anyone with any taste. George Lucas had limited involvement with the film's production, and he was understandably unhappy with the outcome."
Cribbed from Wikipedia
This film is shit. But funny as hell after a few drinks, and it's kitch value makes it one of the more bearable Christmas specials.
Click here for the highlights clip
This is 2 hours long, just warning ya.
Biz Markie and Big Daddy Kane - XXXmas Freestyle
Recorded live at Club Uptown, Worcester MA. 1987, this is a classic early Hip Hop routine between 2 of the best to ever pick up the mic. Biz Markie invented the Beatbox (really, he invented it), and spits some tight beats here, but more importantly than the beats themselves is the way he responds to Big Daddy Kane's rhymes, which is the sign of a truly great beatbox. Just like a great drummer, it's about more than creating a metronome beat for an MC to rhyme on, it's about reacting and responding to highlight the flow of the MC. And very few can fuck with Big Daddy Kane on the Move the Crowd tip.
Jason Alexander and the Aristocrats
To close it out, if you haven't seen the Aristocrats yet, get to it ASAP. It's unrated (meaning it's too filthy to get a rating from the OFLC) so be prepared to hear the dirtiest language you've ever heard, but it is hilariously funny. It's worth buying or renting just to hear Kevin Pollack do his famous Christopher Walken impression.
For now, here's Jason Alexander of Seinfeld fame riffing for 5 minutes or so on the infamous Aristocrats joke.
"Never open with that....". Classic.
"The Star Wars Holiday Special was a two-hour television special set in the Star Wars galaxy. It was the first official Star Wars spinoff produced.
In it, Chewbacca and Han Solo visit Kashyyyk, Chewbacca's home world, to celebrate Life Day. Along the way, they are pursued by agents of the Galactic Empire who are searching for rebels on the planet.
The main storyline of the film contains a variety-show segments as well as a cartoon produced by Toronto-based Nelvana that officially introduces the bounty hunter Boba Fett.
The film is notorious for the almost universal hatred it garners from the nerd platoon, or really anyone with any taste. George Lucas had limited involvement with the film's production, and he was understandably unhappy with the outcome."
Cribbed from Wikipedia
This film is shit. But funny as hell after a few drinks, and it's kitch value makes it one of the more bearable Christmas specials.
Click here for the highlights clip
This is 2 hours long, just warning ya.
Biz Markie and Big Daddy Kane - XXXmas Freestyle
Recorded live at Club Uptown, Worcester MA. 1987, this is a classic early Hip Hop routine between 2 of the best to ever pick up the mic. Biz Markie invented the Beatbox (really, he invented it), and spits some tight beats here, but more importantly than the beats themselves is the way he responds to Big Daddy Kane's rhymes, which is the sign of a truly great beatbox. Just like a great drummer, it's about more than creating a metronome beat for an MC to rhyme on, it's about reacting and responding to highlight the flow of the MC. And very few can fuck with Big Daddy Kane on the Move the Crowd tip.
Jason Alexander and the Aristocrats
To close it out, if you haven't seen the Aristocrats yet, get to it ASAP. It's unrated (meaning it's too filthy to get a rating from the OFLC) so be prepared to hear the dirtiest language you've ever heard, but it is hilariously funny. It's worth buying or renting just to hear Kevin Pollack do his famous Christopher Walken impression.
For now, here's Jason Alexander of Seinfeld fame riffing for 5 minutes or so on the infamous Aristocrats joke.
"Never open with that....". Classic.
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