Tag Archives: Iller Than Theirs

Cool’s NOT Defined By Blog Updates?

July 29, 2008 – 11:11 am
It wasn’t billed as a mixtape like those profiled yesterday but Columbus, Ohio-based emcee/producer Blueprint’s Blueprint vs. Funkadelic project from earlier this Summer might as well have been one. Its underlying concept, building tracks on samples from Funkadelic songs, bordered on the sort of mashup-style shenanigans mixtapes are often made of these days. […]
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Free Equals a Broke Emcee Squared

July 17, 2008 – 11:02 am
Over the years I’ve been a huge supporter of Brooklyn’s Nuclear Family both here on Blogarhythms and elsewhere. I’ve blogged about their projects dozens of times. Their music has provided the backbone of my radio playlists numerous times. I keep all of their albums — save the crew’s debut The New Singles, […]
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Music To Survive a Robot Uprising To

May 21, 2008 – 10:15 am
So far this week’s class of Blogarhythms graduates has included a “keyboard band” that doesn’t play “robot music” and a couple of True-School Hip-Hop revivalists who added synthesizers to their arsenal without sounding like the latest retro-electro bandwagon jumpers. And although one of the latter asked us to “Do the Robot In Cyberspace,” their […]
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