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The Odyssey Project
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03.02.11Interview with the NHMThe National Hellenic Museum thought this project to be important enough to interview me for, and I'm not telling them how foolish they are! Nevertheless, I've below are my responses. If you haven't done so yet, go check out the museum page here. Homer, tell us your inspiration behind the ‘Hip Hop Odyssey’. What made you want to share the story of the Odyssey in the form of music? The idea for the Odyssey was organic and accidental. I was working on another CD when I created what would become Book II. After I had finished it, I immediately thought this ...
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08.09.10Diachronic MixShout outs to two mic and a kit, mudkids, yannick aka Jazzmen and others who have had nice things to say recently. Freshly mastered by soliq. It sounds pristine. Leave a message if you want a custom stamped and printed CD mailed to your doorstep. Full Time Funk #8: Diachronic Mix
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01.09.10Talib Kweli – Rock On & On – Part Time Monk remixYou may have seen this Moloko video. It bangs pretty hard. I thought I could do better. You see, Talib Kweli is one of the easiest artists to remix from a production standpoint because he is so articulate and true to the rhythm. One of my other favorites - Ghostface - is nearly impossible for the opposite reason; he tears up a track, and you almost have to make it before you can hand it over. With Kweli, you sync the BPM, tweak the EQ and the lyrics really take care of themselves. It's like the difference between breakdancing and salsa. I ...
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03.14.09An explanationHere are a few pointers I gave out to my boy Rich Jones after he made the decision to get involved with this beast of a project. These guidelines apply to all the tracks. In the future, I'll lay this all out on a FAQ, once I figure out how to make a FAQ while treating Wordpress as a CMS.... Did you read the first book? Sparknote it for key themes. The task is to present the chapter as the muse does, telling the story from a omnipresent divine 3rd person perspective. Two things that will help: 1.) Hear it as it was ...
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01.13.09Untitled Waste MixDear Blog, My brain is about to explode from the unfinished product and irons in the fire. Therefore, rather than finishing any of them, I'm throwing them all together into one giant crapfest of beats: Untitled Waste Mix <3
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07.10.08Book IIX + Busta RhymesNote: I dropped the lyrics to demonstrate syllable placement. Nobody does it like bus. But--and let me be very explicit in a different way--content like this will NOT be on the cd. Note #2: Busta Rhymes: Please rap book IIX for me. "In time, when hunger and thirst were turned away, the Muse brought to the minstrel's mind a song of heroes whose great fame rang under heaven: the clash between Odysseus and Akhilleus, how one time they contended at the godfeast raging, and the marshal, Agamemnon felt inward joy over his captains' quarrel"
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07.03.08New Beat: Book XII'So far so good,' said she, when I had ended my story, 'and now pay attention to what I am about to tell you- heaven itself, indeed, will recall it to your recollection. First you will come to the Sirens who enchant all who come near them. If any one unwarily draws in too close and hears the singing of the Sirens, his wife and children will never welcome him home again, for they sit in a green field and warble him to death with the sweetness of their song. There is a great heap of dead men's bones lying ...