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Threw this together for a (super) last minute entry in another YouTube contest. It didn’t win, apparently because I didn’t rap about how good I am at rapping, but I had a bunch of fun making it. I just got a neat little HD camera called a GoPro and my buddy Andrew Doman helped me film. Making this video was sort of a test run for the camera and a day for me to blow off some steam. Both worked (camera and steam apparatus). The vocals were recorded the morning after, hehe. The beat was made by the contest’s host (an english chap who calls himself ‘Hyperaptive’). The above video is the result.

Oh and you can download the .mp3 here:
Download PUNY HUMANS!!!! (20 Bars Strong Beat by Hyperaptive).mp3

I’m just now finishing several of the other (perhaps more important) things mentioned in the last post. I’ll be putting them up as I do.

DOWNLOAD THE ALBUM!!

Will is one of the few other people I like to make things with. He just put an album of his youtube songs on iTunes. You better get it. It’s pretty much bonkers and all over the place as far a subject matter, style, and tone. You can Download it HERE.

If you like “Lightening Bolts” stay tuned. Will and I will be collaborating on another album in 2010.
Because its the future.
And it’s time to make some music that sounds like it.

For the same reason, I’m also working on some stuff with this guy, G. Ghostboy.
Check out our track “Floats Ghostly”. There will be a video for it. No guarantees on when, because it will be elaborate, but there will definitely be a video.

And I’m making some other music videos. Some of them are Earth Beasts Awaken ones.

Watch out.

-Historian

This is one of the dudes I called out on the last cypher I did on YouTube:

He goes by the name of Nomad and he solves DNA sequences. He then applies his biochemicals to the rhythm to completely re-sequence the beat. The resulting verbal synthesis is capable of rapid mutation and adaptation to a wide variety of sonic environments.

I decided to do another spooky rap video for halloween. Hopefully I can do one every year for a while, they’re really fun to make. Just like last year I made this in just over one day.

Download Spooky Spiders (Halloween Spider Cypher Remix).mp3

ALSO you can download the instrumental if you want:
Download Spooky Spiders (Halloween Spider Cypher Remix).mp3

Anyway, I started to write spooky spider rhymes and then I remembered that this dude on youtube had a cypher going called the “Spider Cypher”, so I remixed the beat from the cypher and posted my video to that. Sort of double dipping… Or killing two birds with three stones, as I like to say.

Hope you have a spooky Halloween!

Hey great news! I’ve been hired to direct my first music video! Here’s a (really) quick rough animatic I threw together.

The final animation will be done partially stop motion, partially hand-drawn and composited onto water colored backgrounds (in other words it will look way better than this animatic…)

Anyway, I’d love any feedback anyone might have, especially with regards to the clarity of the storytelling. It would be great if you could point out any specific points where it gets confusing.

The guy who hired me is named Blake Pullen and he is the lead man for a group he calls “Sonic Impulse.” If you like the song in the above video, you should definitely check out their website, and consider buying their album:
http://www.hearsonicimpulse.com/

Whaaaaa!?!?!

This is the other dude I called out in the summer cypher. He goes by the name Trey Peepers.

Sometimes it’s nice to get your expectations blasted by a lazerbeam strait to the face, especially when those expectations are already pretty high. I hope some of you like this as much as I do.

Oh, and he’s letting me share his mp3 with you! So nice!
Download Trey Peepers’ Track ‘Hallucinations’.mp3

BTW, that electric guitar you hear was played by him.

If you read the post just prior to this one then you know all about ‘cyphers’ and ‘hip-hop’ and ‘getting called out.’ You may also know that I called out my friend Will Hyler (willhyler.com). This is why:

Oh, and you can download the mp3 here:
Open Your Eyes.mp3

Haha, I heard the beat this dude made for his Youtube “cypher” and I thought the synth line was really catchy and cool and I was initially totally impressed. Then I found out that its a sample from some ‘Lady Gaga’ song that apparently everyone except for me and my grandma has heard a bajillion times. Gah. Oh well. This video attempts to articulate the kind of imagery that comes to my mind when I hear a synth line like this… Mmm… brain flavors.

By the way, I was called out in ‘The Summer Cypher’ by an MC named Knoxie Ty. For those that don’t know, getting ‘called out’ in a ‘cypher’ is a good thing. Like getting an ‘invitation’ to a ‘rap party.’ Check her out, she is good:

Yeahyeahyeah that vid ^ is from a different cypher (with an obnoxious intro on the beat, ugh), but I chose that one because the audio quality is really good and I really like the line, “I rap for freedom, listen to the message fool. You rap for what? I still question you.” If you want more lines like that, check out her free mixtape “Respect My Opinion in the Shade”, here:
Respect My Opinion in the Shade

How did I do that veiny effect, you ask? Black lights and yellow highlighter.
Easy.

Hey, my friend Will Hyler (link in sidebar) made this rad music video for this song we collaborated on. Watch it. It makes my brain tingle.

Hey, good job! Do you feel it?

It’s kinda funny, but one of the first songs we ever collaborated on was weather themed… Apparently we bond over a shared fascination with the raw elemental power of nature, in particular, sudden weather. I think this shared interest was nourished by the context of our meeting each other; we were randomly paired up as roommates when we studied abroad in Germany. In Germany we wandered the land encountering gorgeous landscapes, epic medieval art and architecture and of course dramatic weather. It was good.