MOSTLY ROBOT VIDEO
Live @ Electronic Beats Festival 2012, Budapest.
Between our festival appearances, Mostly Robot also literally sat down with the kind and innovative folks at CDR Berlin. We did some “acoustic” versions of our tunes, spoke about our band formation and workflow, and gave motivational nuggets of silliness. Check it out:
I’m pretty sure all of these toppings are going to tear it up in 2011.
Honorable mentions: Strawberries, Cole Slaw, Cream Cheese + Mustard, Corn, Raisins, Chestnut, Oil & Vinegar, Mashed Potatoes, & I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.
Once again, I’m going to have my cake and eat it too. But wait, does this expression make any sense? Is there ever a situation in which a person would have cake and not eat it?
“Excuse me, yes, waiter. I’d like a cake…Noooo, not to eat, I’m going to take it home and hang it on my wall!”
And so, here are my 30 favorite dubstep (& related) tracks I heard in 2010. Note some overlap with my overall 2010 list, but who are you? The list police? Get off my back!
2010 TOP DUBSTEP
Addison Groove – Footcrab
Benga & Walsh – Biscuit Factory
BioViolence – Nothing
Bird Petersen – Zutopong
Coki – Chief Dub
Crissy Criss & Youngman – Kick Snare (Drumstep VIP)
D Double E – Street Fighter Riddem
Dirty Deeds – Captain Planet VIP
Dizzee Rascal, Chase & Status – Heavy
Doctor P – Sweet Shop
Felix Da Housecat – Kickdrum
Flux Pavilion – Got 2 Know
James Blake – CMYK/Untold – Stop What You’re Doing (James Blake Remix)
Joker & Jakes – 3K Lane/3K Lane 1999
Katy B – Katy On A Mission
Lauren Flax ft. Carrie Wilds – Stronger (Bare Noize Remix)
Little Jinder – Youth Blood (12th Planet & Flinch Remix)
Magnetic Man – Flying Into Tokyo/Mad/Perfect Stranger
Marco Del Horno – Ho! Riddem (Swerve ft. P-Money Remix)
Mexican Institute Of Sound – Cumbia (Deathface Remix)
Mimosa – Silver Lining
Mount Kimbie – Carbonated
P-Money & Sukh Knight – Slang Like This
Rx & Sonkin – Stop Being A Bitch
Rusko – Hold On/Sub Focus Remix
Skream – Raw Dogz
Spooky – Spartan
Starkey – Capsule/Playing With Fire/Rain City
TC – Where’s My Money (Caspa Remix – Munchi’s Kinda Agressive Right Now Moombahcore Remix)
Zomby – Digital Fauna
F what you heard, unless what you heard was that 2010 was the year of the sandwich topping. If that was what you heard, then my apologies to what you heard, and would you please tell what you heard that it looks very attractive today.
Here are my favorite sandwich toppings from 2010. Traditional sandwich additions like cheese don’t count. Although, quick story. This is a question I often ask my DJ classes as an ice breaker: what’s your favorite sandwich topping? Once, one guy, answered “Steak.”
“Wait a second, are you telling me that you get a sandwich with meat already inside, and then on top of what you already have in there, you put a whole steak?” I inquired.
“That’s right” he retorted, with a look of confusion on his face as to why there was a look of confusion on my face.
More power to you, brudda. Here are my fav sandwich toppings from 2010.
Honorable mentions: chocolate (w/ Camembert), sweet peppers, mayo, chipotle mayo, walnuts, cream cheese, another sandwich, honey + butter, potato chips, salsa, apple, gravy, and a dash of brandy.
Hip Hop mecca Fat Beats is sadly closing its doors after this week. Fat Beats has always been one of my favorite places in the world. Read about my first trip to Fat Beats on the Dubspot blog HERE. I was 14 years old at the time (the gun show below is free of charge):
In honor of its final week, Fat Beats NY is having a ridiculous line-up of in-store performances:
I wrote an article on practice habits for the Dubspot Blog. Practice your reading by reading it HERE.
For a sense of my views concerning the vastly important issue of practice, consider the following quote and image from the article: “Quality can trump quantity, as the saying goes, and quality pastrami trumps all.”
DJ Tech Tools Party
I’m playing the DJ Tech Tools party @ Tresor in Berlin this Friday, July 23rd. Oh joy!
However, DJing aside, let’s focus on the important issue here. Which Midi controller is best in an actual fight? The NS7? Too cumbersome. A quick opponent could easily dodge the attacks. The NS7 would be a good finishing tool however. Once, you have your opponent down on the ground, haduken, NS7 to the jaw.
What about those Korg Nano controllers? Clearly too flimsy in a fight. That’d be like bringing a knife to a gun fight, or a banana to a knife fight, or pudding to a banana fight.
Akai keyboards? Now we’re talking. Not as heavy as the NS7, but still can pack a punch. If you saw someone coming at you with an Akai keyboard, you’d probably run away in tears. I, on the other hand, would counter with the following:
Kontrol X1 nunchucks! Simply take two KX1′s, connect them via usb and duct tape, and bada bing bada boom, you have yourself the ultimate Midi fighting weapon. BONUS: make sure your usb cable is made of barbed wire. DOUBLE BONUS: make sure you are a certified ninja.
This is probably old news to many of you, but Old Spice is killing it lately on the comedy tip.
Maybe you’ve seen their advertisements on television, such as
Certainly lots of humorous original material here. But what is truly next level, and perhaps unprecedented on this scale, are the incredible personalized response from “The Old Spice Guy” himself to users on twitter. The sheer number of these videos is impressive, but the humor, which stays fresh and funny in every video, is what knocks off my socks. Nonsensical jokes, character jokes, relationship jokes, etc. It’s all there.
Here’s the link to all of them: http://www.youtube.com/user/OldSpice#grid/user/484F058C3EAF7FA6
The Alyssa Milano series if one of my favorites, especially the last 2 (he also does many non-celebs):
Beyond laughs, the videos seem to represent some new ideas in internet marketing:
Unfortunately the video responses are done for now, but salute to Old Spice for done changing the game.