House | Wild World vs. Watch the Sunrise (Egesten Bootleg)
Posted by GMONEY on December 29, 2011
Swedish DJ Oskar Egesten newest bootleg has all the makings of a great house song: infectious bass, dirty synth work, and sick melodies. This is one of the many gems in his thirty minute house set “Egesten Sessions 11” featured below.
DOWNLOAD: Wild World vs. Watch the Sunrise (Egesten Bootleg)
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DOWNLOAD: Egesten Sessions 11
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Hit the jump for the full tracklist.
Hip-Hop | BLU & EXILE – Give Me Flowers While I Can Smell Them [Full Album Stream]
Posted by W8 on December 19, 2011
Blu is the most under-rated rapper of his time and one of the very few still left painting this language with color. Blu, if you let him will amalgamate your thoughts together for an explosion of sophisticated wisdom, a firm reminder that we haven’t lost all our lyricists just yet. Hip Hop has been consumed by senseless lyricism, candy electro beats and worst of all – generations to come have only this garbage to draw inspiration from. Artists such as Blu fly so far out from the boundaries of mainstream music, they occupy another dimension of lyricism. They remain significantly unknown because there’s not enough of us to relate to such genius, only few are privileged to know it exists. Moral of the story – it takes one to know one.
Now what should deeply astonish you is the relevancy of this video above, not only does Blu rap but he’s also a phenomenon in motion art. That video is one of his many masterpieces symbolizing his godlike patience. One of the best videos you will ever watch in this lifetime, I guarantee it.
Hip-Hop | G-Eazy – Lost In Translation
Posted by dshaq on December 19, 2011
This picture makes me LOL. Thinking about bay area rapper, G-Eazy, as Bill Murray,who went to my high school NBD, is not something that comes to mind. Enough talking about quality movies that you should see if you haven’t. G helps produce this one along with Christoph Andersson and Swiss Chriss. Like always, G goes in on the beat and delivers. The sample is taken from a Japanese song called PONPONPON which you can watch here. Follow this man on Twitter and like his page on Facebook.
Download: G-Eazy – Lost In Translation
DJ-Set, Progressive House | Swanky Tunes – 2011 Annual Report
Posted by Middy on December 16, 2011
The end of the year means end of the year mixes from some of the best DJs in the world and one of the first to surface is the 2011 Annual Report from Swanky Tunes. This mixes all the releases that they have done this year into a 72 minute house marathon. They have had a brilliant year and will only continue to get better, so be sure to watch for their upcoming releases such as their “Calling” remix with R3hab and others in 2012. Tracklists after the jump.
Listen: Swanky Tunes – 2011 Annual Report
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I also included the Hard Rock Sofa December Podcast, which has some of the best songs from the past month or so and some quality bootlegs.
Listen: Hard Rock Sofa – December 2011 Podcast
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Videos | The Connects – Christmas in the Club (Music Video)
Posted by Jess on December 9, 2011
You might remember The Connects from their absolutely ridiculous video for their song “Summer In The City” this past summer. You know.. the one with them roller blading around in short shorts and a couple “little people” who keep bothering a lovely lady who just wants to wash her car. Yeah, that one.
Well, Mr. Dan and D-Truss are back and wish you a Merry Christmas in the only way The Connects can. Any attempt at describing this latest video is futile. Just watch the video.
Contests | Jon Kilmer Music Video Contest Winner
Posted by GMONEY on December 8, 2011
At the beginning of November, we launched the Jon Kilmer’s Music Video Contest, in promotion of his upcoming free beats mixtape, Sheeps Jeeps and Beats, which drops Christmas morning. After the first round of the competition narrowed the field down to two finalists, Matt Molfetta and Dylan Owen, the results are finally in. Congrats to Dylan Owen! You can check out his track in the video above and download it below. Watch out for Sheeps Jeeps and Beats!
Mashups | 3LAU & Acetronik – Journey Without You
Posted by Juicebox on November 29, 2011
3LAU & Acetronik bring back this classic in a completely new light. While you’re probably just as sick as I am of mashup dj’s using Journey mashed with top 40 tracks, 3LAU and & Acetronik mashed these so well that you won’t even care. Watch it, download it, party to it.
DOWNLOAD: 3LAU & Acetronik – Journey Without You