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GOAPELE HOSTS FREE SCIENCE DAY IN OAKLAND

Merlin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:17:21 +0000

Sunday, September 5th

The Community Science Event of the Year is Here!!

FREE DAY AT THE CHABOT SPACE & SCIENCE CENTER

I.S.I.S. (Instituting Science in Schools) Science & Culture Festival

Goapele to host I.S.I.S Science & Culture Festival on Sunday, September 5th at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, California with NASA’s first ever holographic presentation featuring Artist/Actor Mos Def & NASA Astronaut Leland Melvin, encouraging the youth to embrace Science, Math & Discovery
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Science & Tech Inspired Poetry by Youth Speak’s top young poets
Special Presentations by NASA Speakers
Special Appearances
and More!!

VOTE FOR DESIGN BY CHOICE!!! TEXT 101321 TO PEPSI (73774) OR VISIT DESIGNBYCHOICE.ORG

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:42:46 +0000

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I’m extremely proud to present to you an amazing program & opportunity created by my good friend Brandon Breaux of Ends Wealth Corp. called Design By Choice. The program is a fantastic idea where aspiring young designers can work with experienced professionals to foster their business acumen & creative techniques. I only wish a program like this was available for me in my early years…maybe Blind I would be a Fortune 500 company by now! I urge you to check out the video above and VOTE ASAP!!! Every vote counts and with a big enough push we can make a difference! Design By Choice is a mentorship program for young designers dedicated to empowering the design community with resources and access that enable the individual to make powerful career choices and be satisfied with those choices. Recently Design By Choice has been accepted into the Pepsi Refresh Project for voting. If they win they will receive a 25k Grant to make Design By Choice’s event and mentor program a reality.

To learn more about the program you can visit http://designbychoice.org/ and to vote right away Text* 101321 to Pepsi (73774)!

JESSE BOYKINS III F/ TRAE HARRIS & MELO-X-PROTOTYPE (COVER)

Maiya — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:41:54 +0000

Jesse Boykins III teamed up with Melo-X and Trae Harris to create this wondrous remix of Andre3000′s song. The arrangement is beautiful.

In his own words: In Honor of Andre 3000 & The Isley Brothers, I decided to finally produce & record the song I’ve been using to start my live set for the past year. It also marks the end of a great summer filled with love & new experiences. Definitely a thank you to all my believers and supporters. Hope you find your Prototype in 2010. Special thanks to MeLo-X & Trae Harris for being on the wave with me.

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DOWNLOAD JESSE BOYKINS III-PROTOTYPE [MEDIAFIRE]

VIDEO: DEF SOUND – UP.IS.THE.NEW.DOWN. FEAT. NOVENA

NO — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:13:36 +0000

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Dope song. Dope video. All around dope! Whattup Haz!! Whattup Jimi!!

This is what happens when everything happens @ Once !! Welcome 2 the world where Up.is.The.New.Down. Starring Novena Carmel as Hella Fitzgerald, Def Sound as Lando Goodweather, Ty As Cadbury Adams, Haz Solo as Pico D. Bully, JimiJames as Cherry Street, Graham Haynes as Guy Chatterson, Rica & Amber as The Girls Looking Beautiful @ A Table Collective, and Jasmin Golan as Crazy Girl with Bunny Mask On Face. Visuals were Directed by The Ports.. Its A fun watch & Listen so do both! Download the song from the “Alive” project @ defsound.bandcamp.com/

SONNYMOON SIGNS WITH PLUG RESEARCH

NO — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:38:49 +0000

Congratulations to our good friends Dane & Anna, better known as Sonnymoon, for signing to one of todays leading labels in future sound; Plug Research! Plug Research is home to artists such as Bilal, Exile, Flying Lotus, Om’Mas Keith & Shafiq Husayn of Sa-Ra Creative Partners & Quadron just to name a few. Since late 2009, it has been a roller coaster ride for them as they have made a noise louder than bombs with their free debut album they asked us to drop on Christmas, to performing @ SXSW, to getting remixed by Melo-X, to J*Davey twitting their appreciation for witnessing the “whiter & trippier version” of them, to now signing with a label that pushes the envelope on creativity and delivers each artists vision with quality. We here @ Blind I are proud of our folks! Congrats & Jedi Respecognition & LET’S GOOOOOO!!!

Peep their latest song entitled “Blast Off” which can be found on the Potholes In My Blog summer sampler.

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GROOVE THEORY – TELL ME REMIX BY GEORGE FITZGERALD

MarkPLSTK — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:15:26 +0000

A little bootleg/experimentation remix from of Groove Theory’s Tell Me by George Fitzgerald. A beautiful remix of a classic tune that I’m sure everyone one here knows and loves. George Fitzgerald takes Amel Larrieux‘s unforgettable vocal and re-energizes the tune with his signature groove and bassline. Hopefully, we can get this as an official release… hopefully.

Groove Theory – Tell Me (Remix) by George FitzGerald

YAY OR NAY: SULAIMAN & MATHIEN – KEEP RUNNIN’

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:01:49 +0000

I rarely post shit up that I’m involved in directly, but this is just too dope to not share with the people. Singer/songwriter Mathien and I recently got in the lab to see what kind of new sound we could make together, and what has begun to emerge is a refreshing mix of great lyrics, dope melodies, and fantastic songs that shall surely stand the test of time. That’s the motive! Check out Keep Runnin’, produced by Mathien and surely a great sign of more fresh music to come. Indulge, then VOTE! You shall not be disappointed.

Sulaiman & Mathien – Keep Runnin’
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VIDEO: JOHN LEGEND & THE ROOTS – WAKE UP EVERYBODY (FEAT. MELANIE FIONA & COMMON)

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:13:16 +0000

Cool visuals directed by Gil Green for the lead single from John Legend + The Roots new collaborative album “Wake Up!” dropping September 21st. A new spin on a classic, well done!

FAT BEATS TO CLOSE NYC & L.A. STORES

NO — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:03:47 +0000

To some of you this aint news. To me & the rest of the faithfuls, it is huge! Fat Beats is one of the only few record stores around where you can find your hip hop & other musical needs. Homies from J.Rocc to Shames Worthy to House Shoes have held jobs there. It has been a haven for all things hip hop & surrounding itself with the illest of the ills! Let’s face it… record stores have become obsolete due to them becoming desolate. FACT - No one buys schitt no more. FACT - Everyone downloads. FACT - & this is why there are no more record stores. I remember talking to the homies Tanya Morgan off the record about this very same issue. They wrote a song about it too… like to hear it? Here it goes…

Tanya Morgan – She’s Gone

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“Tuesdays me & you day” … damn. Peep the official statement & a video of the history of Fat Beats after the J…

(August 18, 2010 – Brooklyn, NY) After 16 years, Fat Beats has announced the closing of the legendary label’s two remaining retail locations in New York andLos Angeles. Fat Beats will celebrate the legacies of the stores, which are scheduled to close in early September (New York: September 4th, Los Angeles: September 18th) by throwing a series of blow-out sales and tribute parties open to the public during their last weeks. Fans can checkwww.FatBeats.com for updates.

Fat Beats’ longest running and most famed location is at 406 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan. Since the 1994 opening of Fat Beats’ flagship retail location, hip-hop fans have traveled far and wide to visit the iconic store. With locations soon following in Los Angeles (7600 Melrose Ave.), Atlanta, Amsterdam, and Tokyo,the record stores were a place to experience hip-hop culture and its legacy, which became a global phenomenon. “The closing of Fat Beats is just like one of my friends passing away. They promoted vinyl at its highest degree for the culture of good music and that makes it more difficult to say goodbye,” says DJ Premier.

The announcement of the closings is a reflection of the woes that have been plaguing the industry for years. Global chainHMV closed their last US location in 2004. Tower Records shuttered in 2006. Last year saw the close of the last Virgin Megastore, and the story is no different in 2010. For Fat Beats, maintaining two stores well into 2010 is a testament to the stores’ importance to the music and to fans and consumers continuing to support independent hip-hop.

While news of the stores’ closing marks the end of an era, the future is not doom and gloom. Digital sales continue to increase industry-wide; for Fat Beats, currently operating a profitable and growing online retail store, this has provided a boon to business as fans continue to order mp3s, vinyl, and CDs from FatBeats.com. Although digital sales continue to grow, executives at Fat Beats understand the importance of independent retail stores and are planning to re-open a brick and mortar hip-hop lifestyle location sometime in the near future.

The future looks just as bright for Fat Beats Distribution and the label. Fat Beats Distribution, which has been renamed FB Distribution, continues to strike noteworthy distribution deals with independent and major labels worldwide and is now working with different genres of alternative music. Fat Beats Records will continue to release notable albums from their own impressive roster of artists including ILL BILL, TruMaster/KRS-One, Black Milk, Trinity, Sha Stimuli, Q-Unique,and more. Fat Beats owner and President Joe Abajian says, “This is the start of a new era for Fat Beats. We’re adapting to meet the needs of our demographic by revamping and improving our existing systems. While our website, which stocks everything available in our retail stores, continues to do very well, we’re still exploring our options for alternate retail locations in the future. We’re proud of our legacy and will continue to re-invent ourselves. For now, we’ll see you online at FatBeats.com”

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JOYA MOOI-DOCTOR AND PACT WITH THE SUN (LIVE/ACOUSTIC)

Maiya — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:25:14 +0000

A few months ago, we posted a few tracks from Dutch singer Joya Mooi’s debut album Hard Melk. Then, everyone fell in love with her. Now, she sent over these acoustic live versions of “Pact With The Sun” and “Doctor” which appeared on our Quality>Quantity mixtape. Check out the streams below and add them to your collection right away. Lovely.