Gone For the Weekend

I'm going to GW for the weekend, so there won't be any posts till Sunday night(ish). I'll leave with you some news and a song or two though.

First some news,

The death of the skillfull mashup is approaching rapidly. Definitely could have seen it coming for a while now. Now you can choose two songs, and that's it. The computer will do the work, including the change of tempos and key...click the "merge" button and that's it. You're a DJ now. Great.

Asher Roth released/had leaked a snippet of "Am I Em," featuring Chester French, from Asleep in the Bread Aisle, you can find it pretty easily I'm sure. I'm done posting tracks from the album, in order to keep some suspense. The album should be awesome if everything is this unique and skillfull. I only listened to this snippet once but it sounded like he was rapping/singing over the instrumentals played backwards at one point, something I haven't seen in any music in a long time.

If you peruse through a lot of music blogs and hate clicking through the ads of sharebee, etc., and waiting for the 45 seconds and whatnot, awesome news. Super awesome invention right here, called the SkipScreen, for Firefox. No more waiting and clicking through ads after you download this.

I found out with this drop website, my space is limited, so I'm going to be deleting songs a week or so after I post them. I'll delete em as I need em, shouldn't be a huge issue, you just won't be able to back in my posts from a while back and access the drop file.

This is funny. PETA asks the Pet Shop Boys to change their name.

Let's get to some music,

Ivan Ives Feat. Cappadonna of Wu-Tang - Honor (drop)

Girl Talk - Knife (Grizzly Bear Feat. Clipse Remix)
Girl Talk - Let's Call It Off (Peter Bjorn And John Remix)

Girl Talk that you may not have known? Yeah, weird, right? It's old news though so I'm sure some of you know it. I like when he remixes a single song though.

I'm taking a history of rock n' roll in the 70s and 80s class, last week we found out the song that singlehandedly brought copyright issues to the forefront. And it's by a band you wouldn't have expected, at least not I. Especially after the Beastie Boys got away with releasing a #1 hit, quite deliberately called "Rhymin' And Stealin'", featuring samples of Zeppelin and others. Anyways, De La Soul inadvertently jumpstarted the copyright revolution when they were sued by The Turtles for sampling the Turtles' "You Showed Me." When The Turtles won the million dollar lawsuit, the standard had been set, everything needed to be cleared from then on out. Of course, the laws put in place weren't as complex as they are now; you needed to get permission, include the sampled artist(s) in the track information, and if the artist wanted, you had to pay money up front for the use of it. I couldn't find the mp3 of De La Soul's controversial sampled song "Transmitting Live From Mars," but I snagged another heavily sampled song from the same album, sampling Otis Redding, Sly & The Family Stone, and Steely Dan.

De La Soul - Eye Know (drop)