By Ryan Van Etten on 05/26/2010
“You’ve just got to be open and free, because that’s the way people want to get content on the web”, says Dallas Penn. “Don’t be afraid of someone stealing your work so much, just have more work to give, and, if people are stealing it, you know what you’re onto something. You’re moving in the right direction.” continued Penn. Frank Talk summarized it in poetic terms, “If they’re stealing from you, [then] you’re on the right track.”
Posted in Discussion, Infoculture, Media/Journalism, Music, Music Flux | Tagged bandcamp, blogging, blogosphere, blogspot, circular promotion, community, content, copyright law, counterculture, culture, curating music, hip hop, internet, music bloggers, MusicBiz, net neutrality, new media, Oddisee, open, openness, personal brands, video
By Ryan Van Etten on 03/17/2010
Freematik (Tom Freeman) is a San Francisco-based hip hop music producer. But outside of his fully-equipped studio, he is armed only with his iPhone and imagination. For months he’s been experimenting with apps that let him make beats and riffs on the go. The iPhone’s limitations forced him to improvise and he found himself feeling “more creative than he had in while.”
Posted in Apps, iPhone Apps, Miked, Music, News, Popular, Reviews | Tagged album review, app review, Bay Area, beatmaker, beatmaking, creativity, development, DJing, flare, freematik, hip hop, idrum, imatik, interface, interview, iPad, iPhone, jasuto, mobile, mobility, music review, phat beats, production, psychedelic, scratching, technology, touchscreens
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/21/2010
These people are awesome: South African rap-ravers Die Antwoord (translation: The Answer) have dazzled the interwebs in a matter of weeks with their latest music video Enter The Ninja. A literal butterfly effect is happening here—Die Antwoord is rippling the music world with Zef flow.
Posted in Editorial, Music, News, Reviews | Tagged arts, awesomeness, butterfly effect, counterculture, culture, Die Antwoord, diversity, enter the ninja, hip hop, music review, next level, rap, south africa, video, zef
By Ryan Van Etten on 01/07/2010
The film Bomb It portrays graffiti as the “biggest art movement in humankind.” With any movement there is opposition and many see graffiti or tagging as mere vandalism. Art or vandalism—where do you spray the line? “Graffiti is energy” says Bronx graffiti artist T-Kid and “it represents life” says artist Pose 2. The same can be said about dance—
Posted in Activism, Music, Photo Journal | Tagged Adelaide, arts, artwork, B-boying, ballet, Bomb It, breakdancing, breaking, brooklyn, cities, culture, Dance, dancing, EDM, Elvis Presley, energy, Flamenco, gender, graffiti, hip hop, history, hosier lane, IDM, Josephine Baker, Keith Haring, laws, Lisbon, manchester, manhattan, Melbourne, Michael Jackson, movie, NYC, Paris, people, Photo Journal, photos, seville, sheffield, spinning, spray art, stencil graffiti, Street Art, tango, urban, valencia, world