I am not opposed to the Occupy Movement, but this song is somehow better if you don’t take it with that layer to it. It’s gonna get stuck in your head.

In another great post from Soul-Sides.com, there is an interview with Thes One of the rap group, People Under The Stairs. He talks about how he likes to challenge himself not repeat using the same beat for any his songs. He also mentions how it is not uncommon for some producers (mentioning Kanye specifically) to re-use beats. After listening to Kanye’s “Gone” (in Austin’s great last post) a bunch, I started to listen to the sample from it, Otis Redding’s “It’s Too Late.” That was followed by trying to figure out what song the beat came from, which is another cool song called “Upon This Rock” by Joe Farrell. Kanye, Common, Redman and Methodman have actually been sued for using this beat.
So the whole point of this post is point to a couple songs I have been listening to lately:

• Kanye’s “Gone”
• Otis Redding’s “It’s Too Late”
• Joe Farrell’s “Upon This Rock”
• People Under The Stairs’ “Acid Raindrops”
• Mac Miller’s “People Under The Stairs” (same sample from above track)
• Hoodie Allen’s “James Franco” (on the topic of Mac Miller and other white rappers I am not sure about)
• The Meter’s “Handclapping Song” (sample from above song and reason I think I might like it)

New jam by Black Keys. Love how great their videos are whether they put a bunch into the production in a song like “Howling for you” and then do something as simple as this video for their new song, Lonely Boy. And good song too.

This was on in the bar last night, and I thought I would share it:

THe Hives: “Hate To Say I Told You So” (Live)

Dídac | Myspace Video

Soul-Sides.com is a blog that can go for a little bit of time without much that impresses me, then all of a sudden will have a couple amazing posts. A recent one, which falls into the amazing category, is from a side project called Soul-Sides/Sliced about the production behind Sly Stone’s Simple song. It is a quick article about his use of the left and right channels of stereo which includes an edited version of the song illustrating what they are talking about. The only other post in this side project dissects Cypress Hill’s “How I Could Just Kill A Man” (did you know it samples a Jimmy Hendrix song?).