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Peep the new mix from the We Make It Good Series, this time featuring Gaslamp Killer.

“The GLK goes from dirty scratch beats to dirty south rap, to some new new beat shit, to Nirvana! Then straight to Bombay India for some Bollywood fun, right into some Jaylib! And that’s all within the first 10 minutes of this mix. Nuff said. Peep it.”

-Gas Lamp Killer

We Make It Good Mix Series, Vol. 5 feat. Gaslamp Killer

Track Listing:

GLK INTRO
BUCKETHEAD – SKRATCH BEAT
UGK – INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS ANTHEM
ROBOTO – VORTEX COOKIES (fLako Rmx) – GLK EDIT
NIRVANA – SCENTLESS APPRENTICE
KALYANJI ANANDJI – DHARMATMA THEME – TOMMY’S EDIT
JAYLIB – CHAMPION SOUND
DABRYE – ENCODED FLOW INSTRUMENTAL
FUZZ FACE – BRAINSWAPPER
SAMIYAM – PORNO SLAP
THE ROOTS – GET BUSY
THE CLIPSE – GRINDIN’
DJ SIGNIFY – LISTEN / THE ISOLATIONIST – INSTRUMENTALS
ALEXANDERS DARK BAND – DRUM ATTIK
OHNO – FAST GAMBLE
BULLION – I KNOW THERES NO ANSWER
THE SLAPPED EYEBALLERS – REDE HET SIE GSEIT
LES MOGOL – KALEIDOSCOPIC DREAM
THE GASLAMP KILLER – SHOWSTOPPER
FLYING LOTUS & THE GASLAMP KILLER – GNG BNG
…FIN…

While vinyl may becoming popular again among regular listeners, I don’t foresee CD’s experiencing any type of revived popularity in 15 years. So if you were wondering what to do with all those CD’s you mistakenly thought would turn into collectors items, then this may be for you.

Danny Seo took 150 CD’s he got from a Goodwill thrift store and recycled them into a dumbell weighing 10 pounds.

Sweet Dude!

If the highly celebrated SNL skit VH1’s Behind The Music: Blue Oyster Cult starring Will Ferrel and Christopher Walken taught the world one thing, its that you can never have too much cowbell. But despite this fact, the cowbell is still rarely used to its full potential these days. And they wonder why the record industry is down!

Luckily there is a solution. The website MoreCowbell.dj allows you to upload a song of your choice, and then choose the amount of cowbell you would like added to the track. And as if that wasn’t awesome enough, you can even add some tasty vocal samples of Bruce Dickinson (Walken) for extra flavor.

Here’s the first one I tried out. Feel free to put yours in the comments!!

Here’s some nice footage of Z-Trip doing his thing at the Manifest Hope Gallery during the Democratic National Convention.

If you smoke cigarettes then you are probably familiar with those quirky TRUTH commercials that attempt to expose the evil marketing tactics of tobacco companies while informing viewers of smoking-related illnesses. As an ex-smoker (70 days since I quit as of today) I certainly remember how uncomfortable watching those commercials was, I mean talk about a guilt trip!!

But regardless of what your feelings are on the commercials, I recommend checking out the TRUTH Website as the organization recently enlisted the services of several heavy-weight DJ’s to remix their Sunny Side of Truth jingles, including Z-Trip, Pete Rock, Mix Master Mike, and Diplo just to name a few.

Some of you may remember hearing about a guy called Paul Mawhinney several months ago when he put the worlds largest private record collection in the world up for sale on eBay due to advancing age and health problems. Mawhinney started the collection 46 years ago, which has been appraised at about $50 million, and includes more than 200,000 vinyl 45s, 300,000 compact discs and a total of more than 2 million recordings.

Well the sad news is, the eBay auction in february fell through, and even at a (reduced) asking price of a mere $3 million, no one wants to buy it. Or as he puts it “no one gives a damn”.

Here’s a clip from cinematographer Sean Dunn:

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

Read more about it Here

If you use Reason 4 for your music production, then head over to the Propellerhead website as you can download a free ReFill that was especially made to honor the legacy of Robert Moog. The ReFill giveaway was an idea proposed by Propellerhead in an effort to assist the Bob Moog Foundation, in addition to Propellerhead donating money themselves.

There are 20 patches in total, all of which were created by three leading synthesists who were asked to create a series of Thor patches inspired by Moogs innovations.

Free Moog Foundation ReFill Download

Propellerhead + Moog Foundation

The book See Label For Contents: A Survey of 45 RPM Label Art In America 1955-1980 is an exclusive collection of record label art compiled by long time crate diggers Josh Davis (a.k.a. DJ Shadow) and Dante Cargagna.

The collection feaures 254 images that highlight the “arcane, imaginative, befuddling, and often hilarious graphics” used as label art on the 45 RPM format.

Go to powerHouse Books for more info