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Bay Area rapper Del the Funky Homosapien has released the first in a series of forthcoming “leak EPs”. The Hieroglyphics member and Dan the Automator collaborator has been in the rap game for 17 years, so you know he has some oldie-but-goodie rarities. Other featured rappers on the leak are Bukue One, Tame One, and Chip [...]
There have been no more soother musician this decade than Jack Johnson becoming this generation’s James Taylor with a surfboard. So hearing that the Handsome Boy Modeling School, which features producers Prince Paul (Del La Soul) and Dan the Automator (Gorillaz), remixed the song for one of their album didn’t sound like it would work, but surprisingly managed to update the song and making it just as...
Kool Keith and Automator come together as Dr Octagon for the '96 classic Dr Octagonecologyst . This EP features originals and alternate mixes of some tracks that appear on the full length. Dr Octagon - 3000 EP VLS [ MoWax ,1996 ] A1 3000 A2 3000 (Automator 1,2 Remix) Remix - Dan The Automator B1 Bear Witness (Automator's Two Turntables And A Razor Blade Re-Edit) Remix - Dan The Automator B2 Tricknology...
“Woody Allen was an auteur: he did his thing, and that particular thing was completely his own. That’s what I decided to do with music. I want to create a director’s role within music… have to be in control of the project I’m doing. I can create different kinds of musical worlds, but the artist [...]
New mixtape from MC Paul Barman, compiled by Memory Man. Production by the likes of MF Doom, Dan The Automator, Prince Paul and others. Link 1. Howler Intro (Live At The Bowery Poetry Club 2007) 2. Radiation (prod. by Memory Man) 3. Sampling Law (Phofo Mix) 4. Word Vs. Meaning (prod. by Memory Man) 5. Oil (prod. by DOOM) 6. Happy [...]
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, three homies named Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Dan the Automator and Kid Koala merged into the form of Deltron 3030, protectors of the free world. Okay, okay, enough with my fan-fiction steez. But Deltron 3030 , released in the dawn of the new millenium, may have been the most influential hip hop album of the 21st century if you think about it. The project...
Happy July 4th. Throw these on the grill for your slammin' holiday pleasure. Scorpio - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five Lyrics To Go (Remix) - Dan The Automator w/ A Tribe Called Quest Got Your Money - Ol' Dirty Bastard w/ Kelis It's The Beat (Teemagers Remix) - Simian Mobile Disco B.B.D. (I Thought It Was Me) - Bell, Biv, Devoe (A classic)
The musical output this decade from former Rage Against the Machine front man Zach De La Rocha has been dismal to say the least. His project with Dan the Automator never saw the light of day, only one track from over twenty with Trent Reznor was actually released. I just kind of assumed he was off fighting injustice alongside a revolutionary faction somewhere in Latin America. Or hanging out in a...
Hip-hop has all kinds of sweet science, but turntablists have some of the coolest. Just scan the technique or song titles of Mix Master Mike or the source materials and juxtapositions of Kid Koala, and you'll find all manner of...
Men Without Pants - Naturally ( Expansion Team ) [ audio ] [ upcoming shows ] This pantless duo of Russell Simins from Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Dan the Automator from Gorillaz, Loveage and many other projects are helped out by members of The Hives, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Mooney Suzuki, Cibo Matto and Sean Lennon. Primarily a great rock and roll record with live drums and electronic embellishments,...
Some of these videos actually predate the formal creation of the Hiero crew, when Del was associated more with his cousin Ice Cube. Del is probably the best known Hieroglyphics member outside of hip-hop circles , thanks to guest appearances on two genre-crossing Dan the Automator projects, Gorillaz & Handsome Boy Modelling School. I skipped [...]
