MOODY BLUES

FREE THE ROBOTS

the ill

&

HODGY BEATS

the illest

via HYPETRAK

Two killer tracks, hope you enjoyed.
-gonz

HAPPY SAINT PATTY'S DAY

Here's some dubby dubrewskis for ya.

YOUTH BLOOD & 12TH PLANET

Jinder (remix)[DL]

12TH PLANET & SKRILLEX

Father Said(DL)

Sigur Rós - Ára Bátur (Andy's iLL DubEpic) by Andy's iLL

to download click the arrow pointing down on the right side of the soundcloud player.

IN THE LAND OF

PART 1

Nothing in life is free... except VICE magazine.  This monthly periodical, created in 1994 by Suroosh Alvi and Shane Smith is one of my favorite ways to stay connected to pop culture and independent artists.  What sets VICE apart from other magazines of similar natures is the price.  Any magazine that features articles written by those in the mix of fashion, art, or anything relevant usually costs 8 bucks or more at your local magazine store.  However this mag is distributed worldwide in 28 countries and modified specifically for the readers and is (once again) completely FREE.  The targeted demographic is trendsetting young people from the ages 21-34 who support the 100% pick up rate VICE mag receives.  This provides the ideal platform for companies like Nike, Scion, and Red Bull to advertise their latest product and fund VICE's efforts.  Taking a look at the magazine, it's abnormally large dimensions  make it easy to spot, hard to lose, and make for a great read anytime of the day (especially on the pot).  Here are a few covers from over the years.

 

Now that's just the magazine, VICE also has a website (VICELAND.COM ) where you can find any article they've ever published.  Furthermore, the laundry list of divisions that comprises the VICE brand includes VICE Films, VICE DVD, VICE Music, and VICE Books.  The film division has worked with the UK Film Council, Academy Award-nominated director Spike Jones, but is most known for their production of the critically acclaimed rockumentary , Heavy Metal in Baghdad (trailer below).

Titles under VICE DVD include the notorious VICE Guide to Travel that has been called "60 minutes meets Jackass"  and the award winning skate series Epicly Later'd.  VICE Books has published The Vice Guide to Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll, The Vice Photo Book, and the fashion critical Do's & Don'tsBook which will be followed by a second Do's & Don'ts later this year.  Saving the best for last, VICE Music is a company that has some of the sickest groups under it's label. 

Sorry folks, but that was just Part 1 of  IN THE LAND OF VICE which is a 3 part post.  Check back later this week for Part 2.

MUSIC VIDEO MONDAY: HIP-HOP

PHAROAH MONCH

Simon Says (DL)

THE ROOTS

The Next Movement (Right click, save as)

THE PHARCYDE

Runnin' (DL)

OUTKAST

Players Ball Right click, save as.

WHO LIKES PARTY?

Two of Hearts (DL)

THIS GUY

NEW JUSTICE ALBUM ART

CIVILIZATION

While browsing HYPETRAK, I found this little piece (above) and supposedly it's artwork for the new Justice album. Needless to say I am super stoked! Justice has been out of the spotlight for some time, but hopefully their release of "Civilization" later this year will catapult them back into the electro music scene. If you don't remember their success in 2007 with † or "Cross Symbol" then here are a few videos from that album to refresh your memory.

D.A.N.C.E.

DVNO

STRESS

A good friend, Peter Ebiner, saw them in concert for New Years Eve last year and only confirmed how hard they throw down on the decks when they perform live. Coachella 2k12 anyone? I'll have my fingers †ed.

Have a good weekend kiddos.

-gonz

IT'S RAINING

CATS & DOGS

Some rainy day tunage for yall. (I'll post links to DL after class)

GORILLAZ COVER THE XX

Crystalised(DL)

NUJABES

Lady Brown (DL)

TORO Y MOI

Minors (DL)

ELLIE GOULDING VS DAFT PUNK

There's Something About Us Under the Sheets(DL)

Stay dry.

-gonz

MTV SUCKS

Less 16 & preggers MORE MUSIC VIDEOS

FLYING LOTUS

In the beginning, we have the Jade Emperor, The Creator.
He creates the 12 year Zodiac cycle as a way of measuring time.
The animals compete in a swimming race for their place in the Zodiac.
In the middle we have the Demon, the Destructor.
And so the Yin and Yang balance is complete, and the Zodiac is destroyed.
At the end we see the cat, who was betrayed by the rat in the race for the Zodiac.
The rat pushed him off the Ox into the water.
And this is the source of the cat's hatred for the rat.
-adriansmithmusic

Zodiac Shit (DL)

NEON INDIAN

 Mind Drips (DL)

YEASAYER

ONE (DL)

I'm feeling today's colors.

-gonz

PRIMAVERA SOUND

Get your Coachella fix without being in California.

Hello

What is Primavera Sound? My answer, a Spanish version of Coachella that rivals the Californian music festival by it's sheer number of musical acts.   It may not have the trippy shit everyone loves like color changing balloons or that huge cube thing, but the location is incredible and beautiful Barcelona is a must visit city (pictured below).

Everything so far is just cool, let's take a look at the line up:

Aias (SPA) » Ainara LeGardon (SPA) » Animal Collective (US) » Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti (US) » Arto Lindsay (US) » Autolux (US) » Avi Buffalo (US) »  Baths (US) »  Battles (US) »  Belle & Sebastian (UK) » Berlinetta (SPA) » Big Boi (US) »  Blank Dogs (US) »  BMX Bandits (UK) »  Caribou (CAN) » Carte Blanche (FRA) »  Caspa (UK) »  Cloud Nothings (US) » Comet Gain (UK) » Connan Mockasin (NZL) » Cults (US) » Cuzo + Damo Suzuki (SPA/JAP) » Dan Melchior und Das Menace (UK) » Darkstar (UK) » Das Racist (US) » Deakin (US) » Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500 (NZL) » Deep Sea Arcade (AUS) » Del Rey (US) » DJ Shadow (US) » DM Stith (US) » Ducktails (US) » Dúo Cobra (SPA) » Echo & The Bunnymen performing Heaven Up Here & Crocodiles (UK) » Einstürzende Neubauten (GER) »  El Guincho (SPA) »  El Mató A Un Policía Motorizado (ARG) » Emeralds (US) »  Explosions In the Sky (US) »  Factory Floor (UK) »  Fernando Milagros (CH) »  Field Music (UK) »  Fleet Foxes (US) » Ford  Lopatin (Former Games) (US) » GAF (SPA) » Gang Gang Dance (US) »  Girl Talk (US) »  Glasser (US) » Glenn Branca Ensemble (US) »  Gold Panda (UK) » Gonjasufi (US) » Grinderman (UK) »  Half Japanese (US) »  Holy Ghost! (US) »  Incarnations (US) » Interpol (US) »  Islet (UK) » James Blake (UK) » Jamie XX (UK) »  Jason Collett (CAN) »  Javiera Mena (CH) »  John Cale & Band + BCN216 perform PARIS 1919 (UK) »  John Talabot (SPA) »  Julia Kent (CAN) »  Julian Lynch (US) »  Kode9 And The Space Ape (UK) »  Kode9 Burial Set (UK) »  Kokoshca (SPA) »  Kurt Vile & The Violators (US) »  Kyst (PL) »  La Célula Durmiente (SPA) »  Las Robertas (CRC) »  Les Aus (SPA) »  Lichens (US) »  Lindstrom (NOR) »  Low (US) »  Lüger (SPA) »  M. Ward (US) »  Male Bonding (UK) »  Matthew Dear - Live Band (US) »  Me And The Bees (SPA) »  Mercury Rev perform Deserter's Songs (US) »  Mogwai (UK) »  Money Mark (US) »  My Teenage Stride (US) »  Nisennenmondai (JAP) »  No Joy (CAN) »  Nosoträsh "Popemas" (SPA) »  Odd Future (US) »  Of Montreal (US) »  Oneohtrix Point Never (US) »  Ornamento Y Delito (SPA) »  P.I.L. (Public Image Limited) (UK) »  Pájaro Jack (SPA) »  Papas Fritas (US) »  Pere Ubu plays "The Annotated Modern Dance" (US) »  Perfume Genius (US) »  Perrosky (CH) »  Phosphorescent (US) »  Pissed Jeans (US) »  PJ Harvey (UK) »  Pulp (UK) »  Rubik (FIN) »  Salem (US) »  Seefeel (UK) »  Shellac (US) »  Simian Mobile Disco (UK) »  Sonny & The Sunsets (US) »  Sufjan Stevens (US) »  Suicide (US) »  Suuns (CAN) »  Swans (US) »  Tannhäuser (SPA) »  Tennis (US) »  The Album Leaf (US) »  The Annuals (US) »  The Birkins (SPA) »  The Black Angels (US) »  The Car Is On Fire (PL) »  The Fiery Furnaces (US) »  The Flaming Lips (US) »  The Fresh & Onlys (US) »  The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (US) »  The Monochrome Set (UK) »  The National (US) »  The Soft Moon (US) »  The Suicide Of Western Culture (SPA) »  The Tallest Man On Earth (SWE) »  The Vaccines (UK) »  The Walkmen (US) »  Thelematicos (SPA) »  Toundra (SPA) »  Triángulo De Amor Bizarro (SPA) »  tUnE-yArDs (US) »  Twin Shadow (US) »  Ty Segall (US) »  Warpaint (US) »  Wolf People (UK) »  Woody Alien (PL) »  Yuck (UK) »  Zurych (SPA) »


WOW, I may not have enough money to go to the whole music festival, but they are selling one day passes and   Saturday is looking pretty good right now.  If you have any doubts about going, here are a few music videos from some of the acts that will be playing.
 

OFWGKTA

CASPA

BATHS

EL GUINCHO

CARIBOU

Get your tickets before prices go up and maybe I'll see you there.

TGIF

-gonz

HOW TO...

USE BitTorrents

Don't steal or download what you haven't paid for (disclaimer on the side). With that being said kiddies, you've got some learnin to do. Today's lesson is about BitTorrents or torrents. According to wikipedia, "BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data and is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files." It begins when one person creates a torrent descriptor file where it is hosted on a torrent website (I will list the sites later). Once activated, the original uploader becomes a 'seed' or 'seeder' and anyone is free to download that file. The way it works is a 'leecher' begins downloading pieces of the file until their download is completed and they too become seeder. A 'swarm' is the group of leechers who are known as a 'peers' or a 'peer'. These peers help alleviate the burden off the seeders by making available more pieces of the original file. The more seeders that are hosting the file translate to faster download time depending on your internet connection.

This is torrenting in action.

WTF

The process of BitTorrent downloading makes the original file available for an unlimited number of peers while changing the file is made impossible by a cryptographic hash. Basically, unless you download a bad torrent you won't get a virus.

THE MAGICAL WORLD OF TORRENTS

Now that you've had a very brief explanation of how torrents work, here's how to start using them. First, you need to download a BitTorrent Client which is a program that manages your downloaded torrents. I currently use VUZE, but I recommend uTorrent because it is more lightweight than VUZE while functioning exactly the same (download links at bottom). Once you have the program installed, it should be updated to the latest version and BLAM you're ready to start downloading. Your next step is to find a torrent to download which can be the trickiest part.

Torrent sites that I recommend are isohunt.com and piratebay.org. Once on one of these websites simply use the main search bar to locate the file you want. FOR EXAMPLE, we will be searching for the movie Wayne's World in isohunt. Type in 'Wayne's World' and you will be given a list of torrent names that include what you want and what you don't want like Lil Wayne's discography. There is a blue bar that says Category/Age/Torrent Tags, Name/Size/S/L and you need to click 'S' for Seeds and rearrange the list so the torrents with the most seeds will appear top to bottom. Scroll down to your desired video (ours is on the second page) and select it. It is important to read the comments to learn about the sound and video quality (if that matters to you) and to see if it is actually what you are looking for. In our Wayne's World example, according to the comments it is good quality and works so you can click 'download torrent'. Once the torrent link is downloaded from the internet it will appear in your torrent managing program (VUZE or uTorrent) and you can watch it's progress.  At first there will be no seeds or leechers then 1, 2, 3, 4.... they will start to appear and the torrent file itself will begin being downloaded.  Once the torrent is finished downloading SHWING you have you first torrent, congrats!

But, you're not finished yet. To torrent safely (and to be kind of a dick at the same time) you need to stop the torrent from uploading by right clicking the torrent name and selecting stop. A problem with videos that people may encounter is that they do not work with Quicktime. The solution is VLC which is basically the same thing as Quicktime, but is able to play much more video formats and functions slightly better.

The electronic world is your oyster with torrents, being smart is being safe when downloading.

Go get 'em tiger.

-gonz

VLC media-player download (click link)

You don't need both BitTorrent clients so just choose one.
uTorrent BitTorrent client download (click link)

VUZE BitTorrent client download (click link)


if you have any questions, ask me!