It’s about time! The following artists are probably the most talented, and when it comes to hip hop have had more of an effect for its development, than any single rapper or group ever could – and they do it all from behind the scenes. Half of these guys you’ve never heard of but you’ve def. heard some of their work or work by someone who was inspired by their beats.
This is, in my opinion, the most important list rebellion will make..
Some of these guys rap as well, but what separates their music from others is the quality of their beats/their production value – I’d recommend grabbin’ a few songs from each one and studying them religiously if you call yourself a hip-hop fan..
Pretty crazy right? As soon as I saw that video I went out and bought Drink the Sea, the Glitch Mob’s newest album
Wanna give a HUGE shout out to THE Glitch Mobwhile I’m at it..
I have recently fallen in love with this group (bromance, you may call it..)
What I like about them: They truly bridge the gap between all the new age production capabilities (aka dubstep, drum n bass, house, electro music type) and yet with a solid, even old school hip hop influence. Most of their songs you could genuinely classify as hip-hop, and yet they infuse elements from all the previously mentioned genres.
I am a huge fan. 5 stars
Guess where they just performed on June 5 on their promotion tour for “Drink the Sea”?
MY HOMETOWN! Portland, Oregon
They also are performing in Los Angeles tonight – and I will most certainly be there as I am in love with their new album. (sorry no samples from it for you – as it just dropped I want to encourage you to purchase it and support the artists, it is worth the price)
Who are they?
“When four friends, Ooah, edIT, Boreta & Kraddy all noted fixtures on the West Coast underground team up with a creative vision and positive intentions
the result is
A relentless sonic assault on the dance floor of
ferocious drums, catastrophic sub bass, and sounds from another world
It is an unforgiving and punishing physical audio
experience that will leave your body beat to the
core and your soul wanting more
It is the gift of music from this four man
collaboration with the intention to unite the masses
on the dance floor through trying times
It is the experience of being slayed……
by The Glitch Mob
And now for something completely different…
I’d like to take today to announce that THIS BLOG WILL NOT EXIST in 2 days time
Now now… don’t cry (but, at least pretend you care a little bit..)
Actually, I decided recently to purchase some real domain spaces and I will be moving this blog hopefully into a much more large scale operation…
There will be a three day notice but in the meantime, take a moment to GET INFECTED
by..
SwineFluLives.com
“The Last music blog you will ever need”...
The launch of this site and multiple affiliates will ultimately allow me to do what I love doing: gathering music, learning about artists, making dj mixes and remixes, and sharing it all with you!!
PS, swine flu is pimped out.. check it:
- I’ve been workin out recently, and gettin my bling’ on..
Be ready for:
daily free tracks in BULK. my library is too big and I want give some of it away.
daily content, basically whatever I find online that interests me or I find funny.
new SwineFlu remixes and mixes available for digital download (however, they may be given away for free for promotional purposes as well – email inquiries to Swine Flu at swineflu.dj@gmail.com)
Whatever else I want. I have some interesting ideas – a line of t-shirts and swineflu masks are MOST definitely in the making. Be excited.
“A blog site run by college students for students.”
Great for djs, promoters, blog enthusiasts, and people who just straight-up love music (especially lots of it, and WAYYY too loud, with a HUGE subwoofer so that the neighbors call the cops..)
Stay posted for upcoming blog-tastic following of the EDC, by the waty, which grows closer and closer..
pause..
seriously I’m really excited for Electric Daisy Carnival this year, it’s going to be raw this year and the first time I will have seen Dada Life live (who I have been listening to a lot of recently..)
Hey people, sorry I been MIA for a bit. Been in the process of moving all my stuff into the off-campus student housing at USC, and getting ready to start my summer jobs.
Also, met up with an old friend of mine, Yohei Nakajima, CMC class of 2009, who got me stoked and involved in EntertainLA, a new social media site focusing on REAL social interaction as opposed to online socializing. You sign up by invitation only, and then collect friends on the site – available to all members for free is a weekly party inform, access to hundreds of ratings of over 700 bars, clubs, and events in LA, made by fellow members whom you trust and know. See what your friends are up to at any given day on the calender, leave comments RSVPing for their events, share stories about last night or about a specific bar, and most importantly RECONNECT WITH OLD FRIENDS AND MEET NEW ONES!
Props to EntertainLA for reconnecting me with old- college friends and helping me to make new friends and have the hook-up for cool events going down in LA. I’m all for this site and wish it the best!
“Rebellion is a refusal of obedience or order [1]. It may, therefore, be seen as encompassing a range of behaviors from civil disobedience and mass nonviolent resistance, to violent and organized attempts to destroy an established authority such as the government. Those who participate in rebellions are known as “rebels”. A Rebel is distinguished from an outsider. An outsider is one who is excluded from a group whereas a rebel goes against it. Also, a rebel’s potential to overthrow the leadership is recognized and substantial, unless the rebellion is crushed, whereas an outsider has been marginalized and is considered to be degenerate.”
Swine Flu: According to reports, the virus is a “never-before-seen form of the flu that combines pig, bird and human viruses” which consists of an intercontinental mix of viruses from North America, Europe and Asia.
“CDC officials detected a virus with a unique combination of gene segments that have not been seen in people or pigs before,” according to an Associated Press report.
“This strain of swine influenza that’s beencultured in a laboratoryis something that’s not been seen anywhere actually in the United States and the world, so this is actually a new strain of influenza that’s been identified,” said Dr. John Carlo, Dallas Co. Medical Director (video clip here).
Alarming reports are now filtering in about people catching the illness who have had no contact with pigs whatsoever. These include a man and his daughter in San Diego County, a 41-year-old woman in Imperial County and two teenagers in San Antonio, Texas. In fact, in all U.S. cases, the victims had no contact with any pigs.
Combine the two, and you are in a LOT of trouble.
My apologies…
I have been really busy the past couple days because I have a Macroeconomics midterm coming up on monday, but I was able to turn out one solid mix this weekend, as well as update the house session from April 7
A list of things to do that might show a girl how much you care about her, for all you romantics out there..
leave 2 dozen roses and a love note on her bed, secretly, so she finds it as a surprise (bonus points if you get her friends involved and she has no idea what you’re doing)
take her to the beach and teach her to surf, sunbathe, then get margaritas after
go get bagels, coffee, jamba juice, or Ihop after a night when you both had way too much to drink (bonus points if she stays the night in your bed)
go on a west coast roadtrip across minimum 2 states
bonus points if:
- you stay in a coastal hotel complete with hottub and queen size bed, and then you comp bottles of wine to the room like theres no tmrw
- extra bonus points if you go on a romantic walk and watch the waves hit the shore
- go up in the gondola and have an aerial view/hike through all the amazing huge redwood trees in Northern cal (also, if possible, go to the drive thru tree, and let her drive through it)
stay with her in an apartment in San Francisco **this one is a must** make sure you take her out to dinner, party and buy her drinks, and be sure to try the watermelon wheat beer from the Beanbag (but watch out for the crazy stalker guy..)
pick her up from the airport whenever she needs you to
share all of your music with her and make her playlists that remind you of her
buy her earrings and scarves from foreign countries to show how much you’ve missed her, and make sure they highlight/complement her beautiful eyes
take her on a tour of London and introduce her to the ‘snake-bite‘ (great drink, if you didn’t know..) – pretty much any major european city will do, just make sure you know where to take her
introduce her to your entire family, even if they’re strange..
take her to a super secret spot on the beach and watch shooting stars together **this one is tough but required**
write her a song on the piano
wait for her outside as long as you have to; in the end, its worthit
supply all the alcohol and come up with the theme for her birthday party and make friends with all her friends, so you can all hang out more often
watch ‘kitchen nightmares’, ‘modern family’, and/or ‘better off ted’ with her just to relax and snuggle, even when you have TONS of work you should be doing
spend hours editing her spanish HW, essays, and help edit her application essay for abroad, even when her getting accepted to abroad means she’s gone for the entire next semester
give her massages whenever she is stressed or pretty much just whenever she wants; soft kisses are also a plus
name your first imaginary child in advance, naturally after the best cereal ever (lucky charms, duhhh)
talk about/come up with super secret plots to steal cute adopted asian babies
brag to everyone about how beautiful and perfect she is, even if she doesn’t do the same for you
leave pictures of cute puppies on her computer
always forgive her for anything and everything she has ever done to upset you or break your heart, even if she doesn’t do the same for you
After I finish my midterm, I am going to be performing for a few days straight as well as making mixtapes, so please stay posted, got some interesting stuff coming soon..
- TNC/hiphop/R&B Party Mixtapes
-Reggaeton Mixtapes
- Tons more House/Electro and Dubstep/Grime
- Trance/HighER energy (what, you thought it wasn’t possible?)
So I guess what I have learned is that life is a process. It has its ups and downs, a lot more frequently than we all would like; it’s filled with injustice and sorrow sometimes, other times its beautiful and simple. Those times are the best, but we can’t have the good without the bad. That’s just reality.
The best we can do is keep our heads up and keep fighting for what we love. And every day we must remember, that not all of us are even fortunate enough to be blessed with life, so we who are must take nothing for granted.
‘It Was Written’ (Chasing Shadows Remix) – Damian Marley
Ghosts N Stuff (Nero Remix) – Deadmau5 ft. Rob Swire
Feeling’s Gone (Rusko’s Rock The Stadium Remix) – Shiny Toy Guns ft. Sam Sparro
Must apologize in advance, all the mixtapes are rough and unmastered, so there will be some places with normalization/sound issues. However, I think this is the best one yet.
I will be continually editing/fixing/mastering and reposting all my mixtapes, so stay posted. New ones are in the making as well.
This post is for all you music-lovers out there.. I know I spend a long time looking over the internet and elsewhere to find new tracks, and unlike many DJ’s who preciously guard their music collection, I am all about sharing the music that I love.
Following are photos of most of my current favorite house/electro/club artists.. If you have a similar music taste to myself, then you really need to get up on these artists..
TODAY (April 6) marks the end of my digital hiatus and also my first trip to my blog in probably a month. I must apologize to the few fans that I (might have) had. I intend to return and do so in a big way, so thank you for the faith, please stay posted. To all those who read/enjoyed/hated my lists, I will no longer be making them anyway, so don’t worry. My blog from now on will focus on daily bringing you hot new tracks that I am listening to, promoting my personal mixtapes as a DJ and producer, and sharing funny content with the world.
Firstly, I would like to take moment to thank this online enthusiast for making me pass out on the floor laughing:
To briefly explain my fall-out from digital-awesomeness..
I started this blog a while back while I was abroad – England first, then Spain – and since I have returned to the great United States I have been stuck with two very difficult jobs – in the midst of a recovering-ish economy I have been seeking a job, and in the midst of a bunch of really smart people (Claremont McKenna College) I have likewise been trying not to fail out. Unfortunately, those two objectives kept me so busy that I had not had time to edit or pay any attention to my blog, which really was just for fun and to pass the time while I was in England.
Pics from abroad can be found on my facebook page (but, *gasp* you have to know who I am and or friend-me to be able to see them!)
I now plan to devote my extra time to researching new artists, studying new styles of music, podcasting, blogging, and in all ways promoting the music that I make and love, as well as playing other musics that I enjoy (at least when I’m not busy with schoolwork, real work, and or practicing) and I hope you will enjoy it.
I have recently acquired two pairs of rare european technic 1200 mk2′s,WHOOO!!! a mixer, serato live for Mac, and an akai MPD 24 midi pad control unit (already had that actually), and officially begun my career, once again reborn as Swine Flu aka DJ Swine Flu aka H1N1. For those of you who made it to the last TNC before they got cancelled, yeah, that was me, and sorry about that. It was a rager. The cops were called three times, bottles were broken, and fights did break out. Security needed to be a lot tighter, but props to my peeps who kept their energy for positive use on the dance floor. The mosh/dance pit in the middle was incredible, had a great energy and it was a fantastic debut. I have gotten great feedback from my peers on it and I plan to rock equally or harder at every show in the future, so SHOW UP!
As of right now I only one official upcoming gig at:
However, I have spoken to management of table manners and am prepared to start making weekly appearances on staff for next year, so please be prepared.
My whole life I have been interested in digital music production. I began on a 4 track when I was very young, then upgraded to an 8 track, and upon entering college, acquired preamps with Ableton live (currently using 8, with operator = sickkk). So when I found myself going clubbing 4 or 5 times a week while living in England, I very naturally became interested in learning to DJ, as I sat there thinking, well I certainly feel like I could do that. That is the philosophy of Mamy Rock, the 70 yr. old English/French dj who became interested in DJing from going to one of her grandson’s birthday parties. It’s the shit.
Originally learning my style in England, working as a club promoter and hanging out in my free time with DJ’s, I began to amass a very very large music collection (currently 200 gigs give or take). My style quickly became an eclectic, rave-tastic combination of house, electro, dubstep, progressive trance, rap, and even reggaeton (when I went to Spain) that is guaranteed to make you move some part of your body.
2 kick ass rusko remixes: (if you don’t know Rusko yet, you best act like you know)
Those who are new to the site, be prepared for a song of the day, every day, a combination of weird, funny, and/or amazing videos that I decide to post, as well as the occasional rant (oh how I love ranting!)
- Click the widget box on your upper right for any of my work as a producer (Vocal Rebellion)
Since I have been recently determined to re-start up my site, despite the fact that my top ten lists have caused me generally nothing but trouble – I have decided I will re-visit the reggae list and make amends where amends are due.
Firstly,
Thank you, the online public, for all the feedback on my list – I made it a while back and had completely forgotten about it until today, to be honest, but I will address a few errors.
Most importantly, I apologize to all those who have suggested greats like King Tubby, Toots and the Maytals, Culture, Junior Marvin, Peter Tosh, etc. -
I do have mad love for roots reggae, and would like to here and now say: I LOVE ROOTS REGGAE! I absolutely do. I love it in the same way I love Elvis and listening to old blues or jazz records – it provides a background, a great way to learn, and shows you where the music came from and also gives you some idea how it has evolved over the years. And I don’t mean to boast but I do have a pretty decent collection of it myself, a look at my roots playlist: Culture, Buju Banton, Lee Perry & Friends, Toots and the Maytals, Bunny Wailer, Junior Marvin, Steel Pulse, Aswad, Eek-A-Mouse. However, you must take into consideration the context of my list.
Culture
I am young, around 21, and currently a full-time student/DJ. I am all about moving music forward – I listen to music for at least 5 hours a day, and most of it is new, progressive types of music.
So..
I made my list to reflect a growing generation of new, up-and-coming groups, who are taking the music in a new direction.. Great modern groups like Groundation, Slightly Stoopid, Matisyahu, Tribal Seeds, they are the ones who are blazing the paths to the future – combining elements of ska, roots, dub, hip hop, and even electronic music elements, and are feeding my insane hunger for new tracks while developing/growing reggae music in the process.
eek a mouse
I am a product of my environment – I am pretty sure a famous person said that at some point – and my reason for making the list was that I wanted to share what I listen to with the world because I love music and want to share that music with others.
Junior Marvin
Cartoon Depiction of King Tubby (left) and Lee Perry
Buju Banton
Errors to be fixed:
Bob Marley did not write Rivers of Babylon, and I never meant to imply that he did. But does do a wicked cover of it. See the list..
Also my man here has a point:
“This is a great list. Just one thing. 54-46 That’s My Number is a Toots and the Maytals song that was covered by Aswad. Please give credit where credit is due. Also Sublime really only sampled the chorus from that song, they didn’t cover it.”
- Yes, Sublime did cover the song, albeit, as you say, loosely.. That is absolutely correct. Toots and the Maytals did originally write 54-46 that’s my number, followed by Aswad, Sublime, and numerous other covers (most songs today come out with an entire record or CD of remixes anyway)
toots & the maytals
Wanted to give a great shout out to my man with this comment:
“really good list, not trying to be a know it all, but bradley nowell left behind a son not a daughter lol. thought you might wanna know. and i agree sublime is the greatest band ever. “
.. because it is one hundred percent true, very tragic, and yet another reason I love sublime. Thanks for the input bra.
Apparently, unbeknownst to me, the Sublime cover of ‘No Woman No Cry’ is actually a cover group with a lead-singer who sounds a lot like Brad Nowell of sublime. Oops mistake. Still a great song, so gonna go ahead and leave it posted.
Also I would like to adjust the list: a great new band called Tribal Seeds is very hot in LA right now and I have greatly enjoyed their first two records (names?)
Heres some sample tracks, but as always please support the artist and download their entire work for yourself..
I feel like, for me they come in at around 4 or 5 right now.
I have also been listening to a lot of dub recently, when I’m not busy overloading my ears with dubstep, house, progressive, trance, electro.. etc.
check out: Buju Banton, Dub Syndicate, Michael Franti & Spearhead, The Gladiators, John Brown’s Body, Israel Vibration, 10 ft. Ganja Plant
As far as the world goes, I am sorry if my list angered you, but I am happy if you enjoyed it. It took me forever to gather the information and I know it is not perfect, but it was for fun anyway. I make no revenue from this sight and in no way benefit from it other than to promote my music and my love of music.
vocal rebellion is all about the spirit and the art of music - please share it with your friends!
..besides who can say no to free music downloads?
stay posted for new songs daily, new intellectual content to stimulate that thing in your head (god what's it called? ...oh ya your BRAIN) and whatever else rebellion necessitates!
vocalrebellion@gmail.com
It’s about time! The following artists are probably the most talented, and when it comes to hip hop have had more of an effect for its development, than any single rapper or group ever could – and they do it all from behind the scenes. Half of these guys you’ve never heard of but you’ve def. heard some of their work or work by someone who was inspired by their beats.
