So I haven’t made a mashup in a long time, but i decided to test out the program I usually use for original productions/creations – Ableton Live, as a mash up remix tool.
It fucking rocks.
I remixed Justice Cross’ track Waters of Nazareth with rapper Large Professor’s song Radioactive. I think it works really well together – you got that angry punk-electronica thing going with Large professor’s staccato old school rap about radioactivity? How can you go wrong?
Check it out! Comments welcome:
(note: if you have heart issues, you probably shouldn’t play this track. It’s got a really in-your-face analog dirty intro that might make you think your computer is going to blow up…)
I’ve decided to start a weekly post about good articles that I read on Saturdays. I have a subscription to Haaretz / International Herald Tribune combo paper daily. There’s nothing I love more than to veg out on Saturdays, read the weekend-shabbat paper, and drink some coffee. So here’s my wrap up of what I was perusing over while eating some left-over-challa-french-toast:
Something that I noticed as well during the election – Obama has amazing ideas and inspired hope for a post-race ideal. Unfortunately, if you want to become President of all of America, you still have to be careful where you go and who you associate with. Now that he’s going to be President, it will be interesting to see if he comes back to those ideals instead of pandering a bit.
What have you learned from the political-media affair in regard to your relations with Obama?
“It proved once again that to be of Palestinian origin and to be publicly opposed to the occupation and critical of U.S. policy is grounds for public defamation as a ‘terrorist.’ It attests to the survival of McCarthyite tendencies in the U.S. media and politics. It also reaffirmed that Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians specifically are still the ‘other’ in American society. A higher percentage of Arab-Americans voted for Obama than any other ethnic group besides African-Americans, and they voted in record numbers too, I believe, and yet they are still pushed aside, almost literally. For instance, two Arab-American women in hijab were removed from the camera’s gaze at one of Obama’s rallies during the election. Obama did not visit one mosque or Arab community center throughout the entire two-year campaign, and he never mentioned Arab- or Muslim-Americans in his speeches. Whatever may have been the ‘strategic’ political reasons for these actions, they show the kind of atmosphere we in the U.S. live in. “
Another bit I liked…I really believe that the American ‘pro-israel’ lobby needs to be more diverse and more accurately represent American Jewish (and Israeli for that matter) public opinion.
Do you believe that J-street and Arab-American peaceniks can contain AIPAC and Jewish right-wing organizations?
“They appear to have begun to make some headway. They need to convince American politicians, Democrats in particular, that where Israel and Palestine are concerned, leaders of the main institutions of the American Jewish establishment, notably AIPAC, do not represent the views of the majority of the American Jewish community. In fact, the hawkish views of most of these leaders are far closer to those of the 24 percent of that community who voted for McCain than they are to the 76 percent who voted for Obama.”
Hey peoples… Here is the second episode of Street Beat Radio! This episode is about hiphop songs dedicated to women. You know, Loki and are are gettin’ quite cold and lonesome in these frigid (ha, yeah right!) tel aviv 70 degree swoons. So without further freddie-ado, here it is: Click play to listen!
To download the whole podcast mp3 to your computer, right click the link below and hit save target as (save link as for a mac).
1. Atmosphere – The Woman w/the Tattooed Hands
2. Nujabes feat. Substantial – Eclipse
3. Yungun – Liquid Love
4. Dr. Octagon – Girl Let Me Touch You
5. Kev Brown – Albany
6. Pharoahe Monch – The Light
7. Diverse – In Accordance
8. A Tribe Called Quest – Bonita Applebaum
9. Loki – Sigh
10. The Roots – The Hypnotic
11. Cannibal Ox – The F Word
12. Kashmere – Veronica R.I.P.
13. Soul Position – No Excuse For Lovin’
14. Common – The Light
15. Soul Position – Right Place, Wrong Time
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