wait til i get my music right...

i have 25,568 songs on my itunes.

wish i could brag. but as fred reminded me a couple of months ago, i can't. if i had to estimate, i'd say about a quarter of those i've never heard. out of every four songs, there's one i've never even clicked on.

while it might seem like its pointless to have songs on your computer just for the sake of having them, in the end i'd rather know half, or even a quater of my library really well than have listened to all of them and not be able to quote or recognize the melody of the majority of them.

which brings me to tonight's post: music that i've spent enough time sleeping on. here are five artists (and fantastic songs of theirs that i DO know - i'm not COMPLETELY square) that i never got around to getting into, and hearby resolve to wax (more) poetically on in the month or so.

Electric Light Orchestra - Four Little Diamonds

Prince - I Would Die 4 U

Basement Jaxx - Rendez-Vu

De La Soul - Rock Co.Kane Flow (feat. MF Doom)

Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man

this blog just got mad decent

who's going to the major lazer show at sob's on june 13? god i wish i knew because i would go up to them and look them in the face and tell them how incredibly cool and hip they were and how jealous i was of them.

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you know i'm posting pix of the tix when they show up in the mail

six degrees of hear mars

everybody knows the 'six degrees of kevin bacon' game, but i bet no one reading this blog is nerdy enough to have wiki-ed it. it's really fascinating stuff: the highest finite Bacon Number (the number of degrees of separation between bacon and an actor or actress) is 8, and only 12% of actors or actress, dead or alive, cannot be linked to him at all.

big deal kevin bacon. inspired by a recent email from a devoted follower of this hear blog (which among other things pointed out that the ending of the vid i made for under the bridge was cliche) i am declaring myself more 'in the know' than bacon-n-bits.

examples?

my friend jelly's mom almost went on a date with tom petty when she was 13.

tom petty's Hear Mars Number: 3

i went to high school with the son of Foreigner's bassist

degrees separating me from being cold as ice: 3

my english amigo becs' friend is cousins with 'one of those guys from daft punk'

one of those guy's from daft punk (please let it be thomas!)'s HMN: 3

i went ice skating on the same rink as kevin bacon when i was in elementary school

bacon, the ball's in your court you smug bastard

additional note: went to five guys burgers and fries today. every other fast food chain in the universe, your move.

like a dee ba day

sorry guys i accidentally posted the wrong video yesterday. here's the real under the bridge remix. i don't know who that douche bag on the left is though.

NEW VIDEO - UNDER THE BRIDGE x GRATIS

yeeeeeeeeeaaahhh booooiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!

also, viewing this at fullscreen has been known to cause severe headaches and nausea.

let's see how long this vid lasts before youboob gives it the kibosh

first real day of summer muzak

i think tom petty's the shit, and that's an opinion i've held for quite some time.

my dad turned me on to the heartbreakers when i was very young, and at this point i listen to them very seldom, but when i do i am always reminded why they are so fantastic.

it's great pop music, simple and plain. i'm not always the biggest fan of greatest hits collections, because when looking for samples the odds are you're usually going to find that special five second clip in an obscure album cut. but tom petty and the heartbreaker's greatest hits collection is just a fabulous collection of pop songs that just hit the nail square on the head, track after track.

sure, there are a lot of petty songs i like that didn't make the final cut, some of which i'll link to below, but after queuing the album up on my itunes for a family picnic today, i was once again reminded of what quality pop music sounds like. it wasn't so overwhelming that it took control of the afternoon's atmosphere, and it wasn't jack johnson to the point of needing to break out a spliff (i will concede that i do enjoy brushfire fairytales every once in a blue moon as well however).

sometimes the music you find yourself listening to just makes a moment, and you find yourself thinking that no matter how hard you tried, you wouldn't be able to create a better soundtrack. this afternoon/evening was one of those nights. thanks tom.

Tom Petty - Yer So Bad probably my favorite tom petty song, from his best album, full moon fever

Tom Petty - It's Good to Be King can i compare this to kanye's amazing? if you really listen to both of them, it's pretty easy to see this single from wildflowers is cut in the same vein

Tom Petty - Big Weekend - this is new new petty, and while the album it comes on is kind of a drab affair, this is just a swell number

kind of funny coincidence, i realized after i picked these three songs that there are only three solo tom petty albums, and i managed to pick songs from each of them. and if i had to pick a fourth, it would be 'you don't know how it feels', which to my surprise is also from wildflowers. heartbreakers, beef does not live in this house.

amazing is not that amazing

here's a first in the hearmars world: i am thoroughly unimpressed with kanye's new video.

although conveniently i can't find the link because pitchfork is covering its ass, the far-cry-from-having-the-pretentious-stick-shoved-up-its-ass website called the song itself something like dull and uninspired when it first leaked. now we don't even get shortsightedness. that's not going to stop me from dusting off the soap box though.

at least when kanye was ripping off ralph bashki he was doing it in style. here kanye rips off every nature documentary ever, and manages to present himself so dully throughout the entirety of the video that there's really no reason for him to be in it. in fact, why don't i just pop in my planet earth dvd, turn the sound down, roll up a doobie and play 808s on some dark side of the moon/wizard of oz? (i would wager that the coincidental cuts matching with the music would be a hell of a lot more interesting too)

saying that kanye is the only hip hop artist that would ever do something like this is a point declared moot ages ago when he stopped being hip hop. the only thing this says to me is that hype williams has never seen a jungle before (or the discovery channel for that matter), because when he points his camera at it all he can muster up the ability to do is drool. mr. west, even though you're pretending to be, i know you can't possibly be this humbled by mother nature. 

i hope ye gives paranoid a better treatment than this because if not you're going to see me get really saucy.

SOME MUSIC IS BETTER WITH iTUNES: nas - stillmatic

when stillmatic came out it was immediately hailed as a classic. the source give it five mics. if i could sum up my reaction to hearing ether for the first time, i guess i'd say it was like gripping a firecracker in my hand and lighting the wick.

i'll admit, it was pretty easy to love this album when it dropped. his fan base was frothing at the teet for anything that sounded remotely like illmatic. since (not so) arguably the greatest hip hop album there ever was and probably ever will be, nasty nas just got lazier and lazier. nasir may never acknowledge it, but jay-z was right:

four albums in ten years nigga? i can divide

that's one every let's say two, two of them shits was due

one was ehh, the other was illmatic

that's a one hot album every ten year average

so when stillmatic dropped it was hot more often than not, hence the preemptive classic rating. but if nas is one thing, he's a terrible editor. he came in the game with the brilliant idea of a 10 track hip hop album that didn't waste a single second, and then proceeded to jabba the hut the rest of the records he's ever put out.

there are some albums that just need a good sifting through. this is one of them, and here's how it should have been done.

1. stillmatic intro

2. got ur self a gun

3. 2nd childhood

4. ether

5. you're da man - oh god it's so good

6. the flyest

7. rewind

8. rule

9. what goes around

10. one mic

discard 'smokin' because i feel asleep a minute into it, throw out 'my country', it being one of the worst nas songs i've ever heard (and that's saying a lot - browse through street's disciple, his double disc) until i heard 'braveheart party', which was probably left off subsequent pressings of the album because its so goddamn embarrassing, and dismiss 'every ghetto', but do it nicely because you can't always be a complete asshole

it was a hard decision choosing between 'destroy and rebuild' and 'rule'. 'rule' is a commercial sore-thumb, a weak rehash of 'imagine' from it was written. 'destroy and rebuild' is a second diss track that only takes away from the mortal kombat of ether, and come on nobody cares about prodigy, cormega or nature anyways.

i rearranged the tracklist because one mic is just such a dope closer, the dj premier track, 2nd childhood should have come earlier, and i didn't really like hearing ether right off the bat.

stillmatic with old tracklisting: 6/10

stillmatic with new tracklisting: 9/10

any version of stillmatic vs. blueprint: sorry, nasty, jay's all over you like butter on mashed potatoes. hot mashed potatoes.

damn my life on rural mars!

i don't usually post more than once per day, or post recycled news that just about every blog on the planet is writing about, but this is breaking news, people.

thomas bangalter, considered at near-deity status here on the red planet, half of masked duo daft punk, oh just showed up at ex-manager busy p's birthday party to spin three songs behind the wheels of steel. no big deal. actually, i'm squealing like a little girl that just met the backstreet boys over here.

oh yeah and he's wearing a fresh nike sleeveless (when was the last time i called a sleeveless tee fresh?????) and what looks a lot a lot like the sunglasses i recently purchased, which have mysteriously gone missing..... he played some songs i've never heard of, something called rollin' and scratchin' (ahhh like my like FAV dp track), signature (!!!!!!!!!!!!) and a prince ditty, raspberry beret (!!.... well okay its not the prince song i'm most aquainted with but it certainly has wtf factor... how did he possibly mix signature into that?).

and of course the videos documenting this have been removed at the assumed request of busy p. before i had a chance to watch them. thomas, if you're reading this, i want my shades back.

don't be a hahater

it is soooo cool to hate lady gaga right now.

which i really don't understand. i would have bet gaga was that rare pop star that would appeal to both the charts and the critics. she's got the weirdo-fashionista female pop star to win over the of montreal fans; her music takes a page right out of hypem's top 50; she writes no. 1 hits in ten minutes; she thumbs her nose at american idol by performing half of her biggest hit in faux barroom cabaret style. for any other artist these would have been positives, but somehow lady gaga gets criticized at every turn.

maybe it's the package. the fame. the materialism. the trl-ity. at first glance her album seems full of the shtick hipsters love to hate. but you can't ignore the irony that the entire album is dripping in - being disgusted by gaga and her music is like not getting the fishstick joke. don't you think she's a little bit smarter than that?

anyways, in this week's new yorker sasha frere-jones had written on an article on gaga. well, sorta, as elise pointed out. there's an opening non sequitur on the mysteries of pop music, and then her songs are compared to britney and eiffel 65. hmm... well maybe that's the point. frere-jones is trying to lure in skeptics by using established hipster-approved bands to qualify lady gaga's talent. you like gary numan's cars right? well look 'just dance' is just like that. GOTCHA! you ironically enjoy madonna, right? ha, just snuck 'eh, eh' under your nose. PWNED! if a = b and b = c, then doesn't a = c? (transitive property, i know pretty heavy)

not to labor the point anymore then i already have, but isn't this a little like when justin timberlake dropped 'like i love you' and everybody thought i was a fag for realizing it was dope?

in ten years lady gaga will be the shit. and i'll be sitting in my ivory tower, probably listening to something else.

NEW MUSIC - Under The Bridge Remix

boo ya!!!!!!

10 days and out since the hypno mix. right before i checked i was thinking two weeks, which i was annoyed about, but i can live with 10 days. especially when i cooked up something as spicy as this.

i'm about to send this to gratis, the guy i filmed tagging two weekends ago. if he gives the go-ahead (aka if it isn't too spaced out and wtf for him) i'll start editing the video down with this track as the audio.

EQing this shit took forever. i don't even want to talk about it. but hear (ha!) it is, hot off the presses. if you put your nose close enough to your speakers, you might even still smell the ink. i think this one'll probably be my most popular one yet, i'm about to do the facebook rounds and see what i can conjure up for total downloads. seacrest out!

The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge (Hear Mars Chinese Finger Trap Remix)

i've got this really hard to reach itch on my back...

it really doesn't get any more fantastic than this. if there was ever a fool-proof case for the artistic use of someone else's music, you're looking at it. or listening to it.

the sample is nestled in george benson's jazz number the world is a ghetto. the audio clip bangalter (the half of daft punk with a better grasp of english) cuts up can't be more than two seconds long, tops.

which makes the entire song an exercise in creativity. based on the two seconds of music he has to work with, i've counted 10 distinct melodies and countless minor variations and fills. not to mention the fact that one melody can sound completely different depending on the drum pattern on top of it.

sampling guitar licks is really hard for me. they all end up sounding really flat and generically twangy, and i'm not sure i've ever put something together that had a guitar in it (and wasn't a lazy sunday 12 second straight loop) that was anything less than cringe-worthy.

spinal scratch is really nerd heaven. square's paradise. a little nugget of ambrosia for those socially inept enough to actually listen to the whole song counting each melody change.

on the sixth day thomas bangalter created spinal scratch. and on the seventh he rested.

Thomas Bangalter - Spinal Scratch

George Benson - The World Is a Ghetto

elise couldn't stop laughing at this

this is the frumpiest animal i have ever seen.

too many youtube posts. that's what all my followers WOULD say to me, if i had more of them and any of them chose to comment on my posts. so, i decree that from this moment on, all youtube posts are put on hold.

The Brothers Johnson - Stomp

this is the opening track from the quincy jones (the dr. dre of the michael jackson era, although qj did all of his work with the bjs (ha!) before off the wall hit) prod. album light up the night. i recently have been playing this album to death, along with right on time because they both fit on one burned cd for two reasons:

you make me wanna wiggle is liberally sampled in justice's i-can't-get-this-radio-station-to-tune-in-clearly track newjack

strawberry letter 23 is used in jackie brown, which is tarantino's best movie!

why didn't i pick either of those songs to post? good question.

this really brings back memories of staying home from school and watching this and just about shitting my pants in terror. not to say that it still doesn't conjure up those same feelings.

everybody bleeds, eventually

it's a beautiful day outside i know. but only because i stepped outside briefly on my way home from work. my tunes are consuming me; if i could spend every waking second in front of ableton and reason i probably would.

which brings me to this ny times article (that's right i'm one of THOSE people), and a proposition along the same lines:

i would be willing to let the newspaper pay me only $25,000 to take a year off. for much less than half of what the lawyer's getting, i would to do zero pro bono work for the community, unless providing them with dope ass beats counts.

speaking of dope ass beats....

oh yeah and i started work on the graffiti track today and it's a DOPE ASS BEAT!

"word to el muerto cucaracha exoskeleton"

so over at hiphopdx.com they have a pretty genius interview with daniel dumile aka viktor vaughn aka zev love x aka king geedorah (gotta love a good godzilla reference) aka metal fingers aka supervillian aka MF DOOM, now known simply as DOOM. i'm not the hugest doom fan, but dude's pretty cool, and anybody who goes around wearing a dr. doom (from fantastic four) mask and letting loose with free associate verbal diarrhea, not to mention having the artistic clout to warrant a remix from recluse and todd-cleary-from-wedding-crashers look-a-like thom yorke, is just an all around good guy.

so anyways, to catch people up, nobody knows what he looks like underneath the mask, and a couple of years ago he got a lot of flack because he sent an "impostor" to a photo shoot in his place, and rumors started circulating that he was doing the same for live shows.

now he's back with a new album, which is i dunno like every other doom album, but this interview raises a bunch of interesting questions. peep excerpt:

HipHopDX: So just to get it out of the way, can you address the recent scandal where you were allegedly sending an impostor to perform in your mask at DOOM concerts?
DOOM: [Laughs] Alright. Here's how I look at it, because the wording in there is kinda funny. "Impostor." Impostor would imply that the character. I liken it to this: I'm a director as well as a writer. I choose different characters, I choose their direction and where I want to put them. So who I choose to put as the character is up to me. The character that I hired, he got paid for it. There's no impostor.

would you go see doom if you knew it wasn't him? i wouldn't go see daft punk if i knew that it wasn't thomas and guy-manuel behind the masks, even though it could not be and i'd never know the difference. maybe that's just me being old fashioned....

MF Doom - Hot Guacamole (feat. MC Paul Barman) prod. Prince Paul

this probably isn't the dopest thing doom ever released, me being a huge fan of his special fingers instrumental series, but having the audacity err... balls to rock over creedance tickles my fancy.

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Down on the Corner

my computer's now suspiciously working....

good grief-itti

grafitti sesh (do you spell it out phonetically?) went well today, besides the fact that memories (and batteries) fade in the coldest winter. no seriously, it was really cold and we were in a fuckin tunnel. anyways, i have about 45 minutes of footage that i can edit down. gratis (that's his graf tag) said he wasn't really feeling the biggie song (he'll come around someday though) so i'm left scratching my chin about what song to make this video for. if my computer worked i would make a new one, but that's still up in the air.

i got this really dope, very expensive takashi murakami book for christmas, after of course being turned onto him by kanye. mr. west is funny that way - he'll post about something i've never heard of and i'm like oh shit that's really cool and i totally just bite his style, but when he went and sampled harder better faster stronger i was like what you just heard that song i was bumpin that back in the womb. its funny how being cool and hip and all up on the latest crazes work.

i couldn't resist. i think this might be a parody of heartless, and if it is it's about ten times funnier than it already is. i've already burned a new copy of 808's with the old version replaced with south park's song because frankly i need a giggle break in between all that heartbreak shit.

sexy MF computer

yep, my main computer is terribly ill. i'm hoping it's something semi-serious but recoverable like strep. i'd even take aids, as long as i can get someone to boot it up one last time so i can retrieve my 120 gb's of music before jumping ship. but my queasy stomach is telling me the black plague.

"main computer?!?!?" all of those embittered by the economy and living in cardboard boxes are probably saying right now.

no music today, but good news on that front. tomorrow i am heading to the town of boston to see my old roommate from ic and get some (hopefully sick) footage of him tagging that i'll edit together for a music video to accompany the biggie post. i know, i'm pumped too.

yeah and this is a sick blog. they must just spend hours upon hours looking for the coolest pictures on the web. it isn't a site i visit everyday, but every week or so i'll log on and scroll through all the crazy shit posted. very jealous of the name too damn!

NEW MUSIC - Hypnotize Remix!!

i swear its not a comparison lol now that kanye's eating humble pie somebody's got to step up to the buffet line

two days without a post; what seems like years since i brought the realness...

and all i've got is some weird outer space shit. as my brother would say, it's avant grad. let it simmer for a lil while though you'll see. smoke some with ya doggs it's the new dark side of the moon

as you can see i'm dabbling more and more in the wonders ableton has to offer. still making all of the beats in reason though. you should have seen the ghetto set-up i was using to get the carl sagan clip haha

let's go for two new music posts a week (that might be a little ambitious though) and culture crap the rest of the time. on three break!

The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize (Hear Mars Pregnant Robots Remix)

the sample:

The Soul Children - I'll Be The Other Woman

this is a test

which is more inappropriate?

a. The Beatles - Why don't we do it in the road?

b. Slick Rick - Adults Only

bonus question, which is more immature?

biggie x aphex twin x thom yorke's remix of gazillion ear x dj premier coming soon

some shit to chew on, not literally

firstly, my sincere apologizes for yesterday's post. from the picture to the mp3, it really just wasn't up to snuff, and this blog's standards committee should have never let that one slip between the five hole.

so since i'm working on new music currently (that's right, something i actually like, since in the last month i've abandoned work on another love lockdown remix and a remix of boom boom pow, which is a great acapella and a pretty shitty song), i'm going to try something different out. i want to try to stay away from just posting whatever music is brand new; every other music blog on the planet does that and it's a little too much like whoring yourself out for site traffic for my tastes.

2000F & J Kamata - You Don't Know What Love Is

this is fairly new, and like everyone else on the internet i owe diplo credit for putting me onto this. it sounds like a hybrid between southern hip hop, a cheap horror movie soundtrack, what's love got to do with it and anything by zapp & roger. but good lord what a terrible name.

The Notorious B.I.G. - I Got a Story to Tell

there are so many totally tubular (tmnt!) songs on life after death it would be pretty hard to play favorites, but this has got to one of them. in the history of music, what other song tells the exact same story twice, in a row, and you still have to listen to it the second time?

"musta been rained out or something" lol

Thomas Bangalter - Club Soda

this has to be the ultimate french touch track. the first song i'm going to play when i have my first real dj gig (yo kids doesn't count) is this with the in da club acapella over it. while i haven't actually tested it out yet, i mean, come on. you'd dance.

oh yeah, new sweatshirt, check it ouuuttt. (not in these colors)

NEW MUSIC - What's For Dinner, What's Your Name

UPDATE: THIS SONG IS NOW CLASSIFIED UNDER PRETTY TERRIBLE

not too much to say today.

what do you think about kid cudi's new song? can a song be sampled while it's still no. 1 on the billboard hot 100? even if it's some exclusive outtake that kanye managed to get his hands on? when he came out with stronger i was thinking to myself hmmmm.... discovery's not even 10 years old.

shame on me for not thinking of it first i guess. can't really see it being as big as day'n'nite though. even with gaga behind it (or underneath it i suppose).

this one's a little uninspired can you tell? the acapella had to be slowed down and it just went on forever and i'm too sick to really sit down and work with it.

so from now on all the posts with new music from me will be clearly labeled as such. that way i get a couple of days to either put something new together or at least put a little bit of effort besides warping the vocals to match the track and sequencing my loop in reason. the bad news (if that wasn't bad enough already) is that you'll have to listen to me sitting in my ivory tower, dieting and and taking it out on the music industry. i didn't really want to have this be a critical blog, so maybe it will just raise thought provoking questions you can chew on throughout your day. you've been warned.

T.I. - What You Know (Hear Mars What's For Dinner, What's Your Name Remix)

Kid Cudi, KanYe, Common & A-Trak - Poke Her Face (har har har what a pun)

samples Lady GaGa - You Know The Damn Song

12 followers "they love me they really love me!" what is that from???

a hydroplane

blogging is a full-time gig! kanye tell me your secret!

got a reply yesterday to one of my numerous groveling emails trying to build interest in my blog asking for more originals, which got me thinking about what this blog is going to be about.

i've already been trying to think ahead about what the hell i'm going to do when i run out of old songs to fuck around with. right now i'm spending about an hour and a half a day trying to get from the really basic music loop on reason to the finished post, and because of that i haven't been working on any new stuff. which means that eventually (i have around 150 music loops on my computer, but i would only consider utilizing 20 or 30 more in actual posts) i'm going to have to quit my job and work full-time on a blog that currently has 8 followers (a VERY loyal 8, mind you).

so something tells me that i'm going to hit the bottom of this 'post-once-every-24-hours' energy drink i'm currently pounding down, or at least get very sick to my stomach (true story, i'm not drinking any rockstars again for a while). do i plow forward for another month or two, going out with a bang, or start slowing my posts down to once every couple of days and just sort of slowly decompose?

Dr. Dre - Forgot About Dre (feat. Eminem) (Hear Mars Hydroplane Remix)

i mean james dean couldn't escape the allure of dying young, leavin a good lookin corpse

edit: although i'll never run out of great pics

warblebird

i've sent this one around to a couple people. warblebird is the first one i've posted in a while that doesn't feature any samples - everything was built in reason with a midi keyboard. 

when i first made it i thought it would sound smokin in some crazy car commercial. now i realize it sounds better under three stacks and daddy fat sacks.

yeah yeah yeah the chorus kinda sounds off when there's a melody playing. the acapella needed to be warped to bejesus to get it to fit right and when i was done i just didn't have the energy to try to learn how to pitch-adjust.

b.o.b is 153 bpm wtf!!!! also the original song sounds super dope at 120. because there's no sample i will post that for your listening enjoyment.

6 followers i feel like perez! although i'm not sure who olddogg is (i have a guess). in any case, welcome.

Outkast - B.O.B. (Hear Mars Warblebird Remix)

Outkast - B.O.B. (Not Quite Chopped and Screwed But...)

the lazy sample post is coming. soon. ish. i promise.

UPDATE: my gf informed me that not everyone might know what bpm is. also she reminded me to remind you that she took the original pic posted. bpm of course stands for boogers penis man-gina.

the tide changer

i was going to do a post about really lazy sampling that in some cases can be completely justified, but as you can see i didn't.

"the tide changer" is one of the ones i always show to people i don't think are going to be that into my fresh beats. on the other hand, it was really a bitch to find a vocal track to fit over this. among the ones i was excited for but just didn't work out were busta's touch it and biggie's hypnotize. here, bussa bus's vocal delivery is pretty constrained within the "bar" structure music follows, so obviously it sounds pretty good, although if anyone with remixing knowledge is reading this they probably know i kind of took the easy way out.

this is also the second song i've put together partially using ableton, i.e. making the beat in reason and then putting everything together using ableton live so i can take advantage of their orgasmic wharping function.

oh yeah and when i originally made the beat i didn't label what sample it was, and i had to skim through 271 songs before i found it. you're welcome to all those people who don't listen to the samples anyways.

oh yeah, that lazy post is forthcoming.

Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See (Hear Mars Tide Changer Remix)

the sample (from the previously championed Stax/Volt single collection):

The Soul Children - I'll Understand

also, check my boy steven's blog, where he posts pictures with hidden vags in them. two thumbs up in my book.

tortoise shell

hip hop instrumentals kind of blow. by themselves i mean. they're boring; they do the same thing over and over again; more often than not they're really uninteresting.

which is why it's funny that for the last two decades, rap (or rap seasoned) songs are really the only songs where an instrumental version is made available on the single. are there really that many asher roths out there looking for the next 8 mile battle?

there are exceptions. dr. dre's 2001 album comes in an instrumental only format, and the good doctor rocks your socks off without "the aftermath staff, trust me, doggy dogg, diggy doctor plus me."

in a really roundabout way, i realized that i don't want to post any more hip hop tracks if they're just going to be instrumental. i'm too lazy to vary them up enough to make them interesting on their own, and as you can see here, throwing whatever acapella over it sounds pretty dope.

Jay-Z - Dirt Off Your Shoulder (Hear Mars Tortoise Shell Remix)

the sample is from an invaluable resource, The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1975. if you're into that old soul shit you really have to get yourself up on this monstrosity.

J.J. Barnes - Got to Get Rid of You

some crazy echo shit

what i've posted so far has all been electronic/house, and that's really not being fair to my musical background because long before i was ripping off justice and daft punk i was ripping off dr. dre and rza and preemo. i won't go into too many details about my wiggerish ways, but i will concede that at one point i rocked rocawear jeans cuz my knots so thick.

i still do the occasional hip hop track, and of all the dre knock-offs i've done, this one is the bees knees. also, this is probably the only dr. dre rip off in the universe that samples a pink floyd song. scott storch, i triple dog dare you.

Hear Mars - Look What I Did With Echoes

aaaaaand....

Pink Floyd - Echoes (i have to pander to my hippie following because without them, well quite frankly it would just be my girlfriend)

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