Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Game's Got The Viral Marketing, Er... Game On Smash!
Mixtapes, Epic Freestyles, leak track after leak track and now two videos in one day?? One for the Cool N Dre-produced "Shake", the other a behind-the-scene promo for a video shot for a mixtape track (apparently the full 20 minute version of "400 Bars"). Wow....
Bonus:
Another leak track! This one, produced by The Neptunes, sounds a little dated, like something Hov mighta spit over on The Black Album but Game sounds not too bad on it to my ears although I know some think its too soft a track for him.
Game - Ain't No Doubt About It feat. Justin Timberlake & Pharrell [mp3 stream]
And BTW: everyone's jockin' the 'Bawse' (aka Officer Ricky) for having Stacey Dash in the "Super High" video but Game just beat him to the punch with her cameo in this "Shake" video - dude's now lost to 50 and Game. Double wow...
["Shake" video spotted via Ozone]
Labels: Cool and Dre, Justin Timberlake, Pharrell, The Game, The Neptunes
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Music Video: Lupe Fiasco feat. Kenna & Mike Shinoda - Resurrection
"Lupe Fiasco and Kenna have released a music video for "Resurrection" (produced by Mike Shinoda) from Music For Relief's Download to Donate for Haiti compilation.
The collaboration is part of Music For Relief’s Download To Donate for Haiti campaign, raising funds to aid earthquake victims. Visit www.musicforrelief.org to download tracks from Alanis Morissette, The All-American Rejects, The Crystal Method, Dave Matthews Band, Enrique Iglesias, Hoobastank, Jack Johnson, Kenna (track co-produced by Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda and The Neptunes’ Chad Hugo), Linkin Park, Lupe Fiasco/Kenna (collaboration produced by Mike Shinoda), Metric, Slash, and Weezer.
Linkin Park also released a video for their Download To Donate for Haiti track, "Not Alone" which is now available on iTunes HERE."
Labels: charity, Kenna, Lupe Fiasco, MTVu, The Neptunes
Friday, October 09, 2009
New mixtape: Blind I Presents: The Neptunes – Decemvir (A Decade of Rare Gems & Unreleased Material)
modi breaks down what this collection is all about:
"Today the music blog of all music blogs, Blind I For The Kids, has dropped a powerful, two disc compilation of everything that production gods The Neptunes haven’t leaked to the masses. I consider myself a Neptunes superfan, but most of these I’ve never even heard of. It’s like uncovering fossils or ancient ruins to me. I could talk, but I’d rather let the creator, my ninja Sulaiman out the Chi, do the rest of the talking while you jam this unreleased Fam-Lay snippet featured on the tape."
Or hear from the blog themselves:
"I’ve been working on this for a LOOOONG time and I finally completed another masterpiece. For those not in the know, The Neptunes are a record production duo consisting of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, who are credited with contributing the sound for some successful Hip hop, R&B and Pop artists in the late-90s and 2000s. The Neptunes’ sound is a distinctive brand of off-kilter, stripped-down electronic funk. Along with Timbaland and Dr. Dre they were the driving force behind many of the musical characteristics of late-90s/2000s hip-hop, helping to re-introduce sci-fi style sounds into the hip-hop mainstream, along with sounds from Middle Eastern and Asian music including percussion and woodwind.
I decided a few months back to make a collection of my favorite rare, b-side, and unreleased Neptunes production, from 1999 to 2009, in order to create a dedication to over 10 years of next-level music that still stands the test of time. I swear listening to these tracks puts you in a state of mind where everything’s better around you. Decemvir, which is the latin term for “ten“, is used to describe this decade of incredible works from the stellar production duo. Their music can speak for itself more than anything I can say, so without further ado, I give you…"
DOWNLOAD the The Neptunes – Decemvir (A Decade of Rare Gems & Unreleased Material) mixtape: [DISC 1 | DISC 2 - megaupload links via DCtoBC / Blind I]
Labels: mixtapes, Pharrell, The Neptunes
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Michael Jackson - The Remix Suite I
The plug:
"MICHAEL JACKSON: THE REMIX SUITE is the first batch of music to be unveiled from Universal Motown's innovative five-part digital suite of remixes paying homage to the most thrilling entertainer of all time.
The suite boasts five exclusive new renditions of beloved tracks by Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5 remixed by five of the hottest producers in the game: Stargate ("Skywriter"), The Neptunes ("Never Can Say Goodbye"), Dallas Austin ("I Wanna Be Where You Are"), Polow Da Don ("Dancing Machine"), and Salaam Remi ("ABC").
Upcoming installments of MICHAEL JACKSON: THE REMIX SUITE series feature remixes by everyone from Akon, Swizz Beatz, and Q-Tip to Ryan Leslie, Rodney Jerkins, and Mark Hoppus from Blink-182 (! ed note: not at least Travis Barker??), among many others. Each volume contains five exclusive new tracks, which will be released online every two weeks from August 25th to October 20th."
Part I of The Remix Suite dropped this past Tuesday. Check 'em out here:
"Never Can Say Goodbye" [audio streams: wma | quicktime | yousendit mp3 download] produced by The Neptunes
"Dancing Machine" [audio streams: wma | quicktime] produced by Polow Da Don
"ABC" [audio streams: wma | quicktime] produced by Salaam Remi
"I Wanna Be Where You Are" [audio streams: wma | quicktime] produced by Dallas Austin
"Skywriter" [audio streams: wma | quicktime] produced by Stargate
Online:
Michael Jackson - The Remix Suite I-V: website | myspace
Labels: Jackson 5, Michael Jackson, The Neptunes
Sunday, April 27, 2008
New music: Madonna feat. Kanye West - "Beat Goes On"
Produced by The Neptunes:
Madonna feat. Kanye West - "Beat Goes On" [zshare stream/download mp3 link via YG]
From her 'hip hop' album, Hard Candy dropping this coming Tuesday (I think). The "4 Minutes" video above for those who've been living under a rock the past couple months.
Labels: Kanye West, Madonna, The Neptunes
