Beat Kangz Intro PlayaThang iPhone Beat Player

The Beat Kangz have introduced PlayaThang (App Store link) – a beat playback application for the iPhone. Description: PlayaThang offers simple playback of high quality pre-loaded content – 20 professional beats (3 in the FREE version) created by The Beat Kangz; including mixes by Grammy award winning engineer Commissioner Gordon (Lauren Hill, Damien Marley, KRS-One,… Read More Beat Kangz Intro PlayaThang iPhone Beat Player

Jay-Z’s D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EWruiIjBmo Antares’ Auto-Tune is hated by many, but it’s, arguably, the most influential audio effect of our time. With D.O.A., Jay-Z writes the obituary for Auto-Tune, saying “you rappers singing too much, get back to rap, you T-Paining too much.” When Jay-Z’s rapping about an audio effect plug-in, you know it’s gone mainstream. D.O.A. is… Read More Jay-Z’s D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)

Are You One Of The 200? American Most Unwanted Song

David Soldier‘s American Most Unwanted Song is a horribly good piece of work that brings together everything that Americans hate musically, and combines them into one long song, frequently to hysterical effect. By using market research with hundreds of people, Soldier determined that: The most unwanted music is over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between… Read More Are You One Of The 200? American Most Unwanted Song

The Cortex Rap

NAMM demo vet James Bernard was showing off the latest Cortex dj gear when a man came up and started freestyling the Cortex rap. If you can identify the rapper – let me know in the comments!