| antiTHESIS afterparty playlist |
[Jul. 2nd, 2007|11:56 am] |
Something for everyone...
1. UGK feat. OutKast - International Players Anthem
2. Ghostface Killah - Holla
3. J Dilla - Two Can Win
4. Charles Mingus - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
5. Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill - Spanish Rice
6. Caetano Veloso - Marinheiro so
7. Animal Collective - Winter's Love
8. Akron/Family - Running, Returning
9. J Dilla - U-Love
10. Prince - I Would Die 4 U
11. Parliament - Flashlight
12. Ghetto Brothers - Ghetto Brothers Power
13. James Brown - Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved
14. Incredible Bongo Band - Apache
15. Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love (Long Version)
16. Brother 'D' and the Collective Effort - How We Gonna Make The Black Nation Rise
17. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - Scorpio
18. T.I. - What You Know
19. Young Dro - Man in the Trunk
20. Jaylib - The Red (Produced by J Dilla, vocals by Madlib)
21. Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II
22. Rick Ross - Hustlin'
23. Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler
24. The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing
25. Hot Chip - Over and Over
26. Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches
27. Cadence Weapon - Oliver Square
28. Yo Majesty - Club Action (Bagraiders Sailing to Baltimore Edit)
29. Kelis - Milkshake (FBS JQueen Remix feat. Tigarah)
30. Cansei De Ser Sexy - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (Spank Rock remix)
31. Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
32. SebastiAn - Walkman
33. The Rapture - Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks
34. The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control
35. Gang of Four - Ether
36. ESG - Moody
37. Liquid Liquid - Bellhead
38. New Order - Age of Consent
39. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
40. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
41. The Walkmen - The Rat |
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| Rum, Sodomy and the Lash |
[Jun. 8th, 2007|02:53 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | conferencing | ] |
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| | DJ Drama & Lil Wayne - Walk It Off | ] |
An abstract I've put together for the conference I'm helping to organize....The title of the conference is Rum, Sodomy and the Lash and it's on piracy (new, old, etc.).
Mixtape Drama: Piracy, the RIAA and the Case Against DJ Drama
By Graham Preston
This paper thinks through the cultural resonances of piracy through an investigation of the recent arrest of DJ Drama who is a well known hip-hop DJ, entrepreneur and mixtape producer responsible in part for the rise of platinum selling artists such as T.I., Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy. On January 16th, 2007, acting upon a tip supplied by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Fulton County, Georgia police officers and SWAT teams raided the recording studio and office of DJ Drama. The police confiscated over 81,000 CDs, computer equipment, recording gear, four automobiles and assorted promotional material. DJ Drama and his associate DJ Don Cannon were arrested on racketeering charges related to the allegedly piratical aspects of the production and dissemination of mixtapes. I argue that this incident reveals two important valences of piracy in the music industry of the United States. First, piracy itself can be an important economic driver in the industry and the arrest exposes an incoherence in the RIAA’s war against digital piracy. That is, DJ Drama’s mixtapes work as promotional tools for the artists’ “official” albums released by transnational corporations, related concert tours and ventures like the film ATL which starred T.I. and featured contributions from DJ Drama. Thus, while the arrest of DJ Drama is an attack on piracy itself, it simultaneously works against the interests of the music industry to market artists, sell records and make profits. Second, the fact that DJ Drama has been charged under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act suggests that DJ Drama’s mixtapes have been defined and policed as tools of organized crime rather than as artistic documents. The significance of this shift cannot, I think, be easily overstated. |
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| I heard she messin with a famous rapper / I'm not gonna say his name, he might go home and smack her |
[Mar. 12th, 2007|12:20 pm] |
Holy fuck!
So, I just geeked out when I found out I'll be presenting on the same panel as Oliver Wang aka O-DUB from the mighty Soul Sides blog, probably the most prominent if not best rap blogger ever. He's also apparently an academic at CSU Long Beach in Sociology and he's talking about Joe Baataan. I'm on first and my paper's on Charles Mingus. I better not suck.
I'm going to email him and see if we could go out for drinks or something. He's bound to have some sort of hip-hop related hook-up in NYC that I should attach myself to.
We're on at 3:30 on Saturday April 7th somewhere in the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York (opposite Grand Central Station). |
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| ack? |
[Feb. 4th, 2007|11:23 pm] |
a few things:
-been feeling a bit uh out of sorts recently. little motivation to actually work on the thesis, slightly emo at times, restless yet lazy, etc.
-currently obsessed with Rich Boy's "Throw Some D's" (thanks Neebs) and the Walkmen's "the Rat." I have no idea why on either account.
-after relative frugality, i broke the budget in the past few days. even bought a ticket for Laneway Festival (Peter Bjorn and John/Walkmen/Love Is All/Camera Obscura/Youth Group/Sleepy Jackson/etc.) although I may have to roll solo.
-was going to go to a cricket match today but ducked out after fully considering the cost of sitting in the sun for 8 hours in 38C weather.
-about 3 days until conferencing in Brisbane/Sydney. I may "freestyle" the Sydney presentation. I don't really give a fuck and haven't done any work on either talks (well, except for writing the papers awhile ago and reprinting them on friday).
-superbowl tomorrow! i missed last year because i was on a bus from ottawa to toronto, the year before i hosted a party in my quad with a whole bunch of people (one i'd rather forget about, others i haven't seen in too long). this year i'm going to the pub at 10 AM to watch the game with a friend from new zealand. drunk on monday at 10 am- class all the way.
-go bears.
-rich boy/walkmen mashup? |
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| The plan |
[Jan. 23rd, 2007|11:02 am] |
This is how we bend (as in bender):
Feb. 7 - Melbourne -> Brisbane
Feb. 8-9 - Rhizomes III conference, scout the scene in Brisbane, party, maintain Melbourne Massive reputation, stay in dodgy hostel
Feb. 10 - Brisbane -> Sydney
Feb. 11 - Free day in Sydney, try not to riot at Cronulla
Feb. 12-14 - The Value of Knowledge conference, determine if Sydney sucks as everyone says it does, party, stay in dodgier hostel
Feb. 14 Sydney -> Melbourne
Feb. 15 onwards - rest |
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