by oddbodkins on May 16, 2012
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As if you couldn’t already tell by yourself, i’m taking a self-imposed hiatus while i’m up to my eyeballs in alligators at work. Fortunately, i have a huge Disney vacation with the fam starting tomorrow which has the added double geek punch of incorporating Star Wars Weekends into the mix, as well. Once i’m back and settled, i’m sure we’ll return to our regularly scheduled beats.
In the interim, i would be remiss if Odd Bloggings didn’t offer up a moment of music (we don’t deal with silence ’round these parts) for the 22nd anniversary of the passing of Jim Henson. You can go elsewhere for memorials (this one always chokes me up), but never let it be said our geekdom doesn’t lead down a Muppeted path.
And what better beat tribute to talented genius than Him Jenson by Durlin Lurt, arguably the most slept upon beat masterpiece of all time! ‘Cuz, you know, we eschew hyperbole ’round these parts, too. 26 tracks for each letter of the alphabet, comprised entirely of Jim Henson samples.
mp3: Llamas (feat. Tone Live, Decay, & Selfish) (Durlin Lurt from Him Jeson)
mp3: Magic (Durlin Lurt from Him Jenson)
by oddbodkins on May 7, 2012
By now, you surely already have heard that Beastie Boy MCA aka Adam Yauch passed away this past Friday, May 4, 2012, after a long battle with cancer. This would be a pretty shitty beat blog if we didn’t pause for the man with the beard like a billy goat. The Beasties will go down in history as legends in hip-hop, and, for our purposes, as some of the greatest innovators of the sample game. Hell, Paul’s Boutique alone contains more samples than probably any dozen rap records that would be released today, thanks to a somewhat more liberal scene back in the day (or simply because the labels hadn’t figured out how to start suing samplers yet; either/or). i remember sitting on the front steps of my grade school, oversized boom box in hand, spitting the lyrics to “Paul Revere” at top volume alongside my best friends. While my group got into hip-hop pretty early (how many other 10 year olds were rocking out to BDP’s Criminal Minded when it came out, i couldn’t tell you, but i doubt we were many), it was the Beasties that brought hip hop to most white suburban kids, for better or worse. i was fortunate enough to catch the group live a couple of times, once during their infamous ‘94 Lolapalooza run and again when they were touring To the 5 Boroughs. i’ve long held a sad theory that once an artist hits a certain age, s/he seems unable to produce music that still speaks to the masses. MCA and the Beastie Boys kept proving that idea wrong, and for this, among countless other reasons, you shall be missed, Adam.
mp3: RIP Adam Yauch (Aka MCA of the Beastie Boys) (Mochipet from his Soundcloud)
by oddbodkins on May 4, 2012
Realizing it was May the Fourth, a high holy day for Star Wars geeks like myself, i knew today’s post was going to have to be on topic. i assumed i’d have at least one submission from a galaxy far, far away, but i quickly found the lack of such beats in my inbox disturbing. An 18-parsec perusal of Band Camp quickly gave way to the answer to our prayers, however, as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced when they saw that some of our absolute favorite purveyors of plunderphonics brought us Far Far Away on this particular May the Fourth of 2012. How this hasn’t blown up on geek sites all over the place is beyond me, but their loss is our nerdish, beat-driven gain, kids.
May the Fourth be with you. Always.
mp3: Yoda Yodel (Pogo from Far Far Away)
mp3: I Know… (P.SUS from Far Far Away)
