February 2012
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Current Discography
For the newer folks to check my music, here’s my current discography (going back to 05/06) - might surprise some folks that I also do sample based Jazz beats as “Rise”….also, the Velben tracks listed below were some of my first EVER beats (maybe mid 2005!). Enjoy!
::ALBUMS/EPS:::
Mecca:83 - Ahmad/Yancey (digital)
Coming Next week!
Mecca:83 - D A Y B R E A K (digital)
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January 2012
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Watchdyonamatic:
Adult Swim - Levitating Girl Collage bump
directed by Flying Lotus. music by Teebs
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December 2011
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November 2011
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Life Sketches Vols 1&2 - PreSale Out Now!!!
Grab it a week before anyone else, direct from FreeForm Records:
http://freeformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/life-sketches-vols-1-2
Also available from Phonica Records in the UK:
http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/102953
And from HHV in Germany:
http://www.hhv.de/item_260488.html
iTunes, Emusic & all other stockists will be shipping from 5th December….thanks for your...
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Life Sketches Vols 1&2
Coming 5th December……CD & Digital……….stay tuned!
October 2011
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Back To The Lab......
Music can be the most frustating aspect of my life sometimes. Take this week: i’ve spent the past 4 days trying to come up with a few more tracks to finish off the next Life Sketches installment………….everything coming out of my speakers has sounded like junk since monday.
So this evening I thought “What the hell - i’ve got a few hours to...
September 2011
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WAVEFORM: Worldwide Beat Culture
The first compilation from FreeForm Records features some of the freshest & most innovative talent in the worldwide beats scene. From the jazz infused production of Jesse Futerman to the post-Dilla swagger of Fitz Ambro$e, Waveform documents the diversity and ever evolving sound of instrumental beats.
Featuring: Ta-Ku, Mndsgn, RLP, Kan Sano, Sir Froderick, Called Understandable Souls,...
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.Audio- Mecca 83: Love Story
herheartbeatz:
And the best beat I have heard all week goes to…
<a href=”http://solarsoundsystem.bandcamp.com/track/love-story” _mce_href=”http://solarsoundsystem.bandcamp.com/track/love-story”>Love Story by Mecca:83</a>
:-)
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August 2011
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An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to...
Professor: You are a Christian, aren’t you, son?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Professor: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Professor: My brother died of cancer, even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn’t. How is God good, then? Hmm?
(Student was silent)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fella. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Professor: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From.. God.
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Professor: So who created evil?
(Student didn’t answer)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immortality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them?
(Student had no answer)
Professor: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son.. have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your God.
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God, for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Professor: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, Science says your God doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my Faith.
Professor: Yes, Faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student: No, sir, there isn’t.
(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of Heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was a pon-drop silence in the Lecture Theatre)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student: You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light… But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and it’s called Darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, You would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is, your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?
(The class was in uproar)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter)
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? .. No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable and Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student: That is it, sir.. exactly! The link between man and God is Faith. That is all that keeps things alive and moving!
The student's name was Albert Einstein. Brilliant.
July 2011
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Second-Sight: Second-Sight Vol.1 Compilation →
second-sight:
A small taster of what I have been listening to over the past few months. Please take the time to visit the artists pages and support their music. They’ve been kind enough to give these tracks away for free, so please don’t profit off them. If you’re a lover of instrumental hip hop, chilled…
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A Treatise.....
PREFACE
Some time ago, my friend Daniel Gray Kontar (some of you may know him as Replife) wrote a short piece entitled “Back To The Love”. If you’re friends with daniel on facebook you can re-read it here: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=161375580256
Daniel’s words were born out of a frustration with the present music scene: the same clubs with the same “big name” djs playing...
June 2011
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Loooottuuuussss!!!
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May 2011
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