hyperadmin | Music,Video | Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
The long wait is over for Captain Hooks fans as we just released his latest visual offering, “Good,Good” Music Video Preview.
This record is produced by T-Minus who is one of my favorite producers from Canada. Through this clip you can see the main theme setting is in space, with the futuristic look. Captain Hooks and his record label Ahoy! Entertainment are planning for a strong 2010 campaign, as they are planning for a country wide tour with an established mega-star from south of the border. At this time, I am not allowed to discuss the current details of this tour. Check out the mini preview of the video, “Good,Good” Below and stay tuned for the official release coming soon. This video was shot and produced by the good people of NME.
Circle Research get their electronic-funk on with “Out Of This World” from the album Gardiner Express (available for digital download April 20th).
Nik and Gil have been kickin’ it since the early ’90s when they were part of a b-boy crew back in high school. In 1994 they officially joined forces as Circle Research, and began deejaying parties around the city. Soon enough they were playing shows with legendary Toronto crews. Armed with an arsenal of music and some boisterous friends, Nik and Gil accepted an offer to enter the world of community radio. In 1998 the Circle Research Show hit the CKLN 88.1FM late-night airwaves and provided listeners with entertaining banter and choice selections. The show continues today in podcast form @ www.thecircleresearchshow.podomatic.com.
As well as producing beats for rappers, 2 full-length albums, and various singles, Circle Research have also been steady rocking remixes and are creating some of the freshest re-rubs for Toronto’s finest. Artists that received the CR treatment include the acclaimed MC Abdominal, the soulful Ivana Santilli, singer/songwriter Maylee Todd, nu-jazz singer Elizabeth Shepherd, indie darlings Apostle of Hustle, legendary MC/DJ Anonymous Twist, folk-soul-pop outfit SUNSHINE STATE, rock quintet The Framework and experimental turntable musician’s iNSiDEaMiND. – excerpt from official bio.
Arabesque returns after a long hiatus with a brand new joint called “Caravan of Love”. His new album Nuclear Ambition drops in June! To re-familiarize yourself with Big Besque peep his videos on his YouTube channel including “Stardust”, “Nature’s Phone” and “Anna Conda”. My favorite joint is still “Choked Up” though. Sick artwork from Besque as per usual.
Malvern reps US (Jesse & Probs) hook up with MegaMan again for “Lifestyle’s Clean”. Peep “Rain” below also if you’re just hearing about these guys for the first time (dope joint!).
Chris Stylez FINALLY returns with some new music. For those that have been following OTA Live from its inception we were playing this DIRTY R&B joint over 3 years ago when the show started called “High On Love”. As far as we know, that was Chris’ first real single (produced by 2Rude and featuring Quinn Maybach) but after that he kinda disappeared. Rumour had it that he was down in the states doing his thing for a bit but whatever the case it looks like he’s back to releasing joints. Here’s a new one called “Fade Away” and “High On Love” is here for download too as it’s a must have joint for any R&B head.
Here’s some new music from an artist I was recently put on to named Cook Thomas. “Get Yur Ass Up” is a new joint leading up to his new mixtape and to get familiar “’96 Chicago Bulls” is an older joint pre-Cityonmyback days.
’96 Chicago Bulls is a joint produced by a production team called The Produce Section. The Get Yur Ass Up freestyle is just a freestyle to get the people ready for the mixtape.This freestyle was also produced by The Produce Section. We have a lot more projects in store…this is just the beginning.
Currently #5 in the city on The Megacity Countdown (get your vote on daily), here’s the DJ Pack (main and instrumental only) for Harvey Stripes‘ joint “Material Girl” feat. Jay Vado (produced by Beat Merchant). If you haven’t seen the video starring the incomparable Anaya Hayes peep that below too.
Here is the DJ Pack for Harvey Stripes new single “Material Girl” featuring Jay Vado, produced by Beat Merchant. Look out for Harvey Stripes’ new single featuring Lloyd dropping in late April.
New Erik Flowchild called “What Up”. Look for the “Delivery Boy” project to drop real soon.
Ironically this pic was shot on the exact day, at the exact moment KRS-One was supposed to be on OTA Live for an OTA Talk interview. And if you were able to zoom out of this pic, you would’ve seen me standing there just shaking my head in disbelief. I had left OTA Live (which was already on the air) and spent an hour trying to convince his people that if he didn’t show up there would be a lot of disappointed listeners; but it just wasn’t gonna happen.
As I stood there watching The Teacher peep Flowchild on the mic I realized, you can schedule a b-boy for an interview, but sometimes you just can’t take the b-boy out of the cypher. A very surreal moment (lol).
A-Trak is not an uncommon name in this crazy music industry. We all know this humble story of this Montreal-er – a multiple DMC Champion handpicked by Kanye West to be his touring DJ, co-founder of Fool’s Gold Records, a pioneer in this electro dance scene, an avid twitter-er, a renowned hotel reviewer and the list goes on. EIKNARF and Asian Dan in collaboration with Media Contender & KLOUD had the opportunity to be invited into Alain’s apartment/studio to get a candid view into how he got to where he is, what it took to get there and where he is going. djatrak.com
