6 posts tagged “fave”
I
met this brother in podcasting last year and I have been boppin' my
head to his beats from that day on. It's one thing to love music but to
have an ear for beats: when to blend them, when to let them fade out,
how long to let it flow...I do not care what anyone says, to me that is
a gift.
Todd Kelley is a guy that every time I hear a new mix from him he give me hope that true hip-hop is not dead. I have to be honest, I gave up on dj mixing for a very long time and it was not that I met this gifted cat through Fave that I realize that it's not dead...you just have to look for great things. Some things you have to dig for and when you find them you share it with the world and this Big La is a that gold mine vein I tap into time and time again. What really hooked me on Todd is when he created the flow for T.J. Brown's "The Chance of Rain". When hearing that cut only thing I could do was shake my head in delight and say to myself, "Where the heck has this dude been...better yet...why haven't you come across this guy sooner?"
One of my favorite mixes by Todd Kelley
{to download right click...click here to download other mixes}
Macedonia is a guy again I heard from Fave's netcast and I have to admit I am great gratitude for Macedonia and BSOTS. I tell people time and time again (and showing my age) that being a 70s kid we had the best of both worlds. I came up in an age where the Walkman first appeared, when video games first became popular and in the late 70s and early 80s hip-hop first caught my ear. For me that is when you had true djs digging through crates of music mixing beats together that could stretch out for hours on end you did not what the party to end. This is what Macedonia brings to the set. Again I say you have to have a gift for this and this cat does. I know you have to practice at your craft to get better but to me some men and women either you have it or you don't. I truly love music but mixing beats is not my gift...my gift is sharing it with the masses because in todays world of homogenized music BSOTS is a breath of fresh air. I'm a Jazz/New Age/Bluegrass kinda fellow but you can never forget where you began. I was blessed to be exposed to different genres of music but I always pay attention to the people in the background rather than focus on the singer my focus has been the musicians or DJs because without the beats (especially now days) many singers will not have a ghost of chance making it.
A great mix from Macedoni
{right click to download...click here for other mixes}
I thank dudes like Todd, Macedonia, Fave for having me rethink my view on hip-hop and R&B because for me I thought true innovation was long dead in those genres.
I downloaded and listened to Fave's BART 2007. I love music. Always have, always will. Coming up listening to my older cousins 8tracks, LPs from The Platters, The Beach Boys, The Temptations, The Four Tops to The Ohio Players, Con Funk Shun, Aerosmith...the list goes on and on. Years have past and my love for music has grown to Jazz, Fusion, Bluegrass, New Age and new music.
After the Eryka Badu/Maxwell/D'Angelo, Ice Cube, Bone, Thugs, & Harmony I stop listening to R&B, Hip Hop because nothing was catching my ear and many of these kind of artists fell to the curb. This year has been an eye opening experience for me because after meeting ToddKelley and ejflavors and hearing more music on Fave's podcast. what's really cool about the artist they are showcasing takes me back to the 70s and 80s where you sit out on the stoop with your boombox and with these artists I'm longing for the LPs where you checked out the artwork, the liner notes(which I do that with CDs and the this is why I will always by CDs either used or check them out from the library)
If you get a chance, listen, download this podcast...intelligent talk, true music lovers that dig deep within each of the 10 artists that is showcased with this show.
A track from my "Brothers In Podcasting"...Fave (feat. Big La remixing this bad boy)
Some of the stories that caught my eye this past week:
- Instead of doing what children are suppose to do on Summer vacations, Chinese children spent it online
- New iPods and cutting prices on them to boot
- If you are an IT person, you still don't feel at ease about job security
- HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY...mobile technology turns 20 ^_^
- IT Workers Second Guess Career Choice
- It's time to PIMP YOUR iPhone(that line went over so well in production)
- On again, Off again, On again rumor of Microsoft acquiring Yahoo
- The elephants and 800 pound gorillas that are not going away for IT employees
- Top IT Starting Salaries(you know I had to find some good news for my geeks)
- Before you start that email, do your homework
- Who says cyber criminals don't want to share the wealth(for a price that is)
- Tips to help you stay safe online
- Would you call him a sucker?
- New iPods...YAY!!!, apple cuts 200 bucks of iPhone...BOOO!!!!
- But Steve offers a $100 credit...awww(you know we couldn't stay mad a you Steve my man)
- Could Microsoft really be this childish?(I think so)
- Ajax Startup Launches Web Desktop Linked To Gmail
Software pick of the Week
:
AVG Anti Virus(the free version of course)
Foxit(small PDF app that is not a H-O-G)
Tips On Converting your old cassettes/vinyl to Digital Tunes
(the night before do the following)
- Defrag your hard drive
- Run your Anti Virus/Anti Spyware(you don't want to encode junk and pass it on do ya?)
- Disconnect from the web
- Shut down apps that are running in the background(anti virus, anti spyware, stuff like that)
- Turn off your screen saver
or just plop down $200-$300 for this
Tunes for today
Peter Gabriel...............................Red Rain
Fave & Todd Kelly........................Anything But No(from the block is hot Friday Favecast podcast)
Chet Atkins..................................Put Your Clothes On
CONGRATS TO MY MAN FAVE FOR HIS BLACK WEB BLOG AWARD!!!(Friday Favecast) 
come across any cool websites, software shoot me an email and the link to dktechlabs@yahoo.com
