Since the eight of us here at BGB have varying tastes in our favorite flavor of music, we've decided to each put together a Top 10 list of our favorite go-to jams for 2011. We'll each post our own list every day up until new years. Here's a little taste of what we (Luke and A.Koos) have been listening to throughout 2011 . We tried to get a nice mixture together , but it was mad difficult to cut it down to just 10 (there's 11), so [...]
Since the eight of us here at BGB have varying tastes in our favorite flavor of music, we've decided to each put together a Top 10 list of our favorite go-to jams for 2011. We'll each post our own list every day up until new years. Here's a little taste of my favorites throughout 2011 . I'm allll about a nice beat, whether it be hip hop, techno or dubstep (not that dub/robotsex/fingernails on a chalkboard noise... that hurts to listen to). I tried to get [...]
Think of the first James Bond movie you ever saw as a kid. Was the opening action sequence, a staple of the franchise, not the most thrilling thing your young eyes had ever witnessed? In a few short minutes you learned everything you needed to know about 007: he's clever, he's lethal, he has toys cooler than anything your parents let you buy, he has women you can only dream of, and he never ever gets hit by the innumerable bullets shot at him. Those crafty escape or chase sequences set the tone for the rest of the film, bringing [...]
If you are going to be in Tempe Arizona next Friday, Septemper 23rd, you won't want to miss this. One Be Lo - enecS eht no kcaB RSVP HERE and Purchase advanced tickets HERE .
I wish L anguage A rts B ased O n R eality was a course at my school. Fuck you '18th century British authors' and your lack of practical application. It was almost a year ago when One Be Lo previewed LABOR . Now, it's here and it's a hefty, heavy-lifting 21 tracks in length. He dropped some knowledge earlier this year. For LABOR he picked through tracks he has leaked in years past, "PIGS" featuring Mike Posner, as well, a fresh crop of new music. Binary Star's most versatile [...]
Click Image To Go To The Forums Click To Go To Featured Topic I'ma keep going with the production thang I think, see if I can entice more of you in to the forum through it. So after askin for how people flips sample s, seeing how you personally flip samples (if you do at all) and favourite beats and producers , it only follows naturally that the question ' what's your favourite sample'? is posed and 602Diggler's beaten me too [...]
Back in December, Murs and Guerilla Union teased at the lineup for their sixth-annual Paid Dues Festival , giving us only headliners Immortal Technique, a "reunited" Black Star, and Murs himself. All long waits must come to an end, however, and the lineup for the So-Cal independent hip-hop fest is upon us. Appearing with Black Star and Immortal Technique on the Paid Dues Stage will be Bun B, Sage Francis, Dead Prez, Asher Roth and Nottz as Rawth, Heavy Metal Kings (Ill Bill and Vinnie Paz), P.O.S., Binary Star and more. The second [...]
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Binary Star dropped this one ten years ago on Masters Of The Universe . MP3: Binary Star - Reality Check Filed under: redthreat
Amanda Jo Williams and Tommy Santee Klaws covered each other's songs for this digital release by local psychedelic guitar master 5-Track's label Binary Stars . Light Bloomer is the best $3 you can spend today. Then spend $5 more on November 20th to see both these bands play at HM157 for the Rakes record release show . It's good that AJW and TSK have come together. Their initials look nice side by side, and both bands seem to reside on the same astral-extraterrestrial plane, though in different parts of cosmic town. They're making [...]
Amanda Jo Williams and Tommy Santee Klaws covered one of each other's songs. She took on "Late Bloomer" and he did "Light On." It's a fine way to spend $3, buying this little digital album released by guitarist 5-Track on his Binary Stars imprint.
this guy's a fucking brilliant artist PaperMonster Ate That Little Boy @ Vincent Michael Gallery Time-Lapse from PaperMonster on Vimeo . ...... now for some hip hop. my sick uncle - lil wayne Vs (500) days of summer OST = (500) days of weezy. a mixtape of acapella weezy over samples built from the (500) days of summer soundtrack. verse like. .. 'she pulled me over... pulled me out [...]
Came across Binary Star while testing out a three-day trial on MOG. I'm not so sure about the whole MOG thang - can't justify $10 a month to use on the iPhone when there are comparable (free) alternatives. It's got some promising features, though. Anyway, I was pretty impressed by Binary Star's "Honest Expression", so I decided to check out their album, Masters of the Universe . It's got a few standout tracks, and the rest of the album is above most others. What I love about these guys is their witty [...]
Throwback, because it's Saturday and I'm drinking my first ever Four Loko (caffeine + 12% alcohol? Yes, please.) As much as I love to listen to a lot of mainstream hip-hop, it's hard to defend sometimes. I guess there shouldn't be a need to defend what music you like listening to, but I used to be one of those kids who valued creativity, originality, and content above all. As much as I like some of these new songs about drinking, selling drugs, fucking bitches, whatever, every now and then a wave of guilt comes over me. It's not [...]
*Slaps own-self across face* How in the flying frick did I miss this one? Just now spotted at MichiganHipHop , Ann Arbor native One Be Lo's Taco-Neck-Syndrome -inducing ode to the judicial system, "The Pigs" was a Loosie forever ago on August 27th. That's two weeks that I could've been bumping the former Binary star rapping in between my man Mike Posner's menacing hooks, over those submarine horns. Like my pops embarrassingly says at Pistons games, 'that's horse pucky!' I blame LC. She's the one from [...]
Been putting in work getting this campaign and album rolled out for our man One Be Lo (of Binary Star). Today we officially announce that One Be Lo will be releasing his third full length solo record, B.A.B.Y. (Being A Black Youth) with the team over at Myx Music Label . The album, set for a February 2010 release, includes features from Royce Da 529, Freeway, Zion I, Phonte, Jean Grae, and more. Get the full details and press release via AudibleTreats . To celebrate the [...]
Reading a BBC piece the other day about the legendary "miming vocalist" fallout surrounding Black Box 's 1989 hit "Ride on Time", i got to thinking that Milli Vanilli got a pretty raw deal out of their whole experience with same. The point's been made before that their biggest crime was essentially being twenty years ahead of their time (see this DKPresents piece for a concise and interesting precis). But was it? Or was it more serious for MV that they failed to pay lip service to pop culture's bizarre and uneven obsession [...]
^^ Senim Silla will kill me for using this picture, hah! We're very excited to say Binary Star is back in business working on new material and their 10th Anniversary Tour. East of L.A. Lifestyle Group will be working with the legendary duo on strategy & marketing alongside Subterraneous Records . Official press release & media to come, stay tuned! If you're not on Binary Star's first and only album, Masters of the Universe , it's about time you [...]
Words By Prop Jay Some people see circa 2003 as a dark period that passed through Hip-Hop: The Jansport Era. I gave a chance to the music many people were either oblivious to or quick to dismiss through ignorance. While I can't front and pretend it was the best of times for H.E.R., it was a breath of fresh air from the Shiny Suit era. In fact, some memorable music came out of it and there are quite a few tracks that still get play if I have time to do some reminiscing. Here [...]
Since lately theres been a lack of quality Hip-Hop coming out I'm gonna bring it back a little and post a song with some serious substance. Now A days artists put out songs about fucking nothing. theres always gotta be a message involved, something that you should be trying to get across to the listener...a feeling that you are trying to create. Lately Hip-Hop artists have forgotten where they came from and what this music is all about. This is a song by Binary Star that i have personally loved [...]
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