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Big One (Wobble Mixtape)
The Big One (Wobble mixtape) is a compilation of California bass artists who wobble. Get it? Because it is the Big One that people are always talking about, knock on wood? The video is some old footage from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 from the Prelinger archives. I may have also been inspired by [...]
Manufactured pop music, literally
This is old news if you are Japanese, but for the rest of us, the latest trend in pop music is literally manufacted pop stars. Meet Hatsune Miku they biggest pop sensation to hit Japan since karaoke. The teenage pop star is a hologram projected on stage using mirrors. She sells out stadiums in Tokyo, [...]
Old vs. New West
It took so many tries for me to get them to let me upload this freaking mix! First I tried to use Three Loco “We Are Farmers” featuring Diplo, because its such a badass flow, that it did not seem fair that State Farm made them take it down. But apparently you can not upload [...]
Steampunk (Dubstep Time Machine)
Steampunk themed video remixtape and multimedia collage. Travel through time with dubstep. Mix includes the Rolling Stones ‘Gimme Shelter” (Zed’s Dead remix), Nancy Sinatra “Bang, Bang” (White Noise remix), Mamas and the Papas “California Dreaming” (Minnesota remix), Pink Floyd “Time” (Pretty Lights remix), Led Zeppelin “No Quarter” (Chris B remix). Production by Black Betty.
Mission and Front Street
My new video mixtape is based on a mixtape I made earlier this year. It is dubstep and EDM with a heavy West Coast rap influence. So they know how we get down in California. Although I have been meaning to make it for a while, I just recently had a chance to edit it.
As the record turns
With the arrival of the Adobe Creative Cloud — thanks for telling me, jerks! I was able to put a background in a short video I produced using the YouTube video editor. It is composed of things that spin in the same manner as a record playing, against a green screen. The music is by [...]
Skrillex banned from St Albert, Canada
Skrillex has been denied a concert permit from the City of Saint Albert in Canada. The city cited a shortage of police and lack of time to prepare for such a large 10,000 person event to explain their reasoning. Consequently the July 20th leg of the Skrillex Full Fledge Express Tour will now be taking [...]
Dutch choir sings Skrillex ‘Bangarang’ a capella
When DJ Roosmarijn asked a choir to make an a capella version of ‘Bangarang’ by Skrillex, she got Dario Fo to sing it on her radio show 3VOOR12RADIO last week. Watch the viral video of the event below. Critics are citing this as further proof that dubstep is now a full fledged style of music.
Itsy Bitsy spider goes down dubstep spout
Youtube user Dynamiteringo video taped a spider on his monitor while playing a psychedelic video. Since the video has a dubstep soundtrack it briefly seems as though the spider is traveling through a soundscape or into another dimension with the power of bass. The video has gone viral nearling overnight, garnering over 200,000 views in [...]
Diplo’s booty shaking contest
As per the dance move aptly demonstrated in the music video for his latest single “Express Yourself” featuring Nicki Da B, Diplo recently announced a new contest on the official Mad Decent YouTube channel. It is the featured video. All you have to do is post a video of yourself doing the dance move in [...]
New YouTube Videos 5/28/2012 – 6/2/2012
Avicii vs Lenny Kravitz – Superlove Nause – Mellow (Official Video) Chrispy – Goodbye (Broken) feat. Eline OFFICIAL VIDEO Dr Meaker – Music In The Night Tiësto & Showtek – Hell Yeah!
Deadmau5 has a dirty mouth
Deadmau5 is at it again. This time he is venting his irritation on Pauly D. You can watch him discuss the issue in detail on the one minute video interview from TMZ below. “OK, let’s break it down: does a DJ have any DJ-ing talent? Is this song player any better than this song player? [...]
New YouTube: 5/13/2012 – 5/19/2012
Levels – Avicii/Skrillex Remix (Piano Cover) WITH DROP “Now Hear This” – Dillon Francis Travis Porter Ft. Jose Guapo & Skooly – All About A Sack (Official Video) Diplo feat. Lunice – Talkin’ Dry Clean (Freestyle) Bassnectar – Ugly ft. Amp Live [OFFICIAL VIDEO] Simian Mobile Disco – Pareidolia Drop The Lime – Bandit Blues [...]
Adam “MCA” Yauch musical tribute
These are some of the best music videos and live performances the Beastie Boys ever released since they broke through to the mainstream with a strange new genre called “hip hop” in the Eighties. When I was rocking out to the Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique in my room as a teenager, I never really thought [...]
Dubstep heavy Call of Duty trailer
Activison released the dubstep heavy trailer for the highly anticipated Call of Duty: Black Ops II and you can watch it right here. The video game is set to drop November 13th in time for Christmas. This time around Activison asks: what would happen if America’s advanced weapons technology were turned against us? Rumors are [...]
Tom Morello still raging against machine
Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman) lead a protest through Manhattan yesterday to commemorate the passing of International Workers Day. Das Racist was there to help, along with Immortal Technique and Dan Deacon. You can watch the Ustream video below. Video streaming by Ustream Morello’s “guitarmy” marched from Madison Square Park to [...]
New YouTube 4/29/2012 – 5/5/2012
FREE DOWNLOAD: MIA – Bad Girls (MartyParty Remix – Official) KillSonik – Girly Inna – Wow (Official Video) Mainstream break through’s MODESTEP – SHOW ME A SIGN TOUR PT1 *KERRANG! EXCLUSIVE* Crookers – That Laughing Track Ft. Style Of Eye & Carli (Milano Remix)
Scientists invent robots that can pick music
Dr. Nick Collins of Sussex University has developed three electronic judges with their own individual tastes for an upcoming dubstep competition in London. The machines are programmed to have a “taste” for music by listening to a specific genre and uploading complex algorithms using a program called SuperCollider. Supposedly they can identify other good music [...]
DJ back on tour after freak accident
DJ Jonathan Toubin is back on tour after a grueling year long recovery. The New York DJ suffered a broken back, fractured skull, and internal bleeding while on tour in Portland, Oregon after a taxi crashed into the hotel room he was sleeping in. The good news is you can watch this short documentary all [...]
New YouTube 4/15/2012 – 4/21/2012
FREE DOWNLOAD: Major Lazer – ‘Get Free’ feat. Amber (of Dirty Projectors) OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO + HQ AUDIO FREE DOWNLOAD: Slugabed – ‘Sex’ (Daedelus remix) FREE DOWNLOAD: Wiwek – Mangrove (Mad Decent) Fam-Lay | “Skrung Owt” [Official HD] Produced by The Neptunes Sub Focus – Out The Blue (Xilent Remix) Skrillex & Damian “Jr. Gong” [...]
Dubstep dancers protest in the Red Light District
These girls can dance. And what’s more, they are sending a powerful message about human trafficking straight from the heart of Amsterdam’s notorious Red Light District. After an energetic routine to dubstep in front of a crowd of whistling men and other onlookers in a red light storefront, a screen illuminates reading, “Every year, thousands [...]
New YouTube 4/8/12 – 4/15/12
Benga – I Will Never Change MTV Unplugged > Unplugged: Florence + The Machine Datsik – Light the Fuse (OFFICIAL) PORTER ROBINSON – VANDALISM (12TH PLANET REMIX) Warrior Official Video – Mark Foster, A-Trak, and Kimbra Flux Pavilion – Daydreamer (Ft. Example) (Dillon Francis Remix)
N.A.S.A. footage syncs to L.A. Riots with no editing tricks
It’s because dubstep is alien noise or whatever ha ha ha jackass. There was the minimal editing required to actually stick four or five videos together and then render them with better music. This was made using the YouTube video editor and creative commons media. The song is N.A.S.A. by LA Riots feat Redman, E40 [...]
Blind Hawaiian prodigy plays dubstep on piano
Meet Kuha’o (roughly Ku-ha-uh’oh) a 15 year old blind Hawaiin musical prodigy who can play any dubstep track on the piano after hearing it once. In this ten minute YouTube video you can watch him as he listens to “Cracks” by Freestylers and then renders it perfectly on his acoustic piano. You can tell he [...]
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