Live and direct from one of my top 5 favorite shows featuring New Zealand's "4th Most Popular Folk Parody Duo". In this video, Bret and his gang, the Tough Brets, battle a couple of kids West Side Story style. Meanwhile, Murray, Jemaine and Greg face off with a group of Austrailians. Watch the hilarity ensue. Enjoy.

Labels: APRIME, Flight of the Conchords, Planet Awesome

This cat got his start on Kids Incorporated, a show that launched talents such as Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mario Lopez and Fergie. After a long hiatus, he reemerged in 1997 with his self-titled debut. In this video, he tears Michael Jackson's "Human Nature" a new one. Rasaan Patterson is probably the most talented singer that you've never heard. Don't believe me...put on your white wig and judge for yourself. Enjoy.

Labels: APRIME, Planet Awesome, Rasaan Patterson

It's the year 2010 and for several decades we've been amazed by the wonders of Stevie.I thought that I witnessed it all, but thanks to my fellow You Tube obsessed brother, TrellMatic, I found that I was mistaken. In this video, the multi Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter/producer does a talkbox rendition of The Stylistics classic "People Make The World Go Round". Enjoy.

Labels: APRIME, Planet Awesome, Stevie Wonder

For as creepy as they are (I grew up in COUNTLESS cribs with roaches, bugs, etc) these joints are hilarious on levels rarely seen on tv ads. Orkin finally is on to somethin here...It could be EPIC if they keep it goin...better than ANYTHING on the Super Bowl this year...

Labels: gangsta bugs, Orkin Ads, Raze, roaches

Smoove....that's all I can say bout this joint. Classic Daz/Saadiq sounding beat, Snoop actually attempting to rhyme like he gives a shit...all the elements are there. Even the weed references...

This will be helping me get thru my day NICELY. Well, it would if my fkn iPod wasn't DEAD.

F*ck Apple as a staff, record label and as a mf'n crew!!!



R = out.

Labels: Daz Dillinger, Midnight Love, Raphael Saadiq, Raze, Snoop

This post comes from the most controversial figure to hit Comedy Central since Dave Chappelle. Sarah Silverman is super funny, witty and loves a good poop joke. I wish that You Tube had the actual video, but I guess just the song is good enough. Enjoy.


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Labels: APRIME, Planet Awesome, Sarah Silverman

You've watched him grow up on the hit MTV reality show Run's House, now witness the son of Run carry the torch. I'm not gon' front, I was very impressed, but I'm not the only one. Word on the street: Diggy just inked a deal with Atlantic Records yesterday. Can he really spit? Put on the white wig and judge for yourself. Then download his mixtape "The First Flight". Enjoy.

Labels: APRIME, Diggy Simmons, Planet Awesome

You don't have to like ME to like my music.

As a matter of fact, I would almost prefer it, mainly because I'm a glutton for dynamic relationships and compromising circumstances. Lately I've been thinkin about the differences in our entertainment industry NOW versus how it was circa 1989. I chose that year because it was to my belief, the turning point. The point where the lines of being fans, friends and stalkers were ultimately blurred to the transparent nothingness they are now. See, around that time the internet started gaining popularity, and the ever so important "Reality Show" pandemic started its worldwide scurge on humanity. These two elements converged, creating a perfect storm of everyman attention whorism, NEVER witnessed by generations past.

See, there used to be news stories about "stalkers". Remember those? They used to follow celebs around, break into their homes, steal their belongings and basically reek havok on their personal lives? Yeah, well they've been replaced by youtube, live streaming video feeds and of course, TWITTER. The age of the stalker and the "tour following fan" have been replaced by TMZ.com, tweeting nutcases and handheld HD camera concert footage uploaded to worldstar.com.

So, now that I've stated what many will refer to as "the obvious", what does it mean to artists? Simple, it means "fans" don't know their place as FANS. All of a sudden being a fan of the music simply isn't enough. Now you gotta know the artists shoe size, what they wore to bed last nite and what they were eating at PRECISELY 4:27pm on February 11th of 2008. Not meant in the slightest bit disrespectfully, but our personal lives are just that, PERSONAL. Some of us share so much thru our music that giving any more (especially if its unintentionally) is painfully gut wrenching. For example, the whole Nas/Kelis divorce. That was way too much and quite frankly, I don't care about his personal issues (whether celeb marriage or not) to know what his alimony/child support payments are. Ultimately my relationship with him (no brokeback) isn't dependent on that. Its his MUSIC that makes or breaks how we "kick it". I've never lost friends because they didn't like my music. I've also never made friends because they DO like my music either.

Its ok to just dig someone's music and leave it at that. It makes you no less a fan at all. Once the CD ejects, so do WE.

R = out.

Labels: Fans, Raze, Real Talk Wit Raze

I first became a fan of the Toronto born rapper/singer in 2002 when I heard Superstar Pt. Zero from his debut album Exit. Eight years later, he's still awesome on his latest offering Yes! This is Zambony (Sex Ed. remix) Enjoy.


http://www.k-osmusic.com/

Labels: APRIME, K -os, Planet Awesome

This Austrailian singer/guitarist is certified awesome! Highly Strung is a shread fest featuring the legendary Steve Vai. Watch this video and tell me that it's not crystal clear why the late, great Michael Jackson handpicked her for his This Is It tour. Enjoy.


http://www.orianthi.com/

Labels: APRIME, Orianthi, Planet Awesome

I figure I'll occasionally help some of the new jacks out and post up some tips to get ya'll mixes sounding a lil better.

For starters, when making your final pre-master mix, assuming you're recording digitally (into a computer), the best rule of thumb is to export you're final mix with LOTS of headroom. This way the mastering engineer has more "volume space" to work with. You may need some eq, and you'll definitely need some compression to make ur final mix "louder" and commercial release ready.

I suggest having your final mix peak no higher than -12db on the master level meter. If anything is lacking in eq/effects, and finally compression, these should be added in the final master of the song. So give your mastering engineer some room to do his job.

As a sidenote, also make sure that your channel faders are NEVER higher than your master channel fader. For example, if your master channel fader is set to -4db, NONE of your individual track faders or bus faders should be higher than -5db, and personally I think THAT'S too close. I can't explain why this is a classic rule of thumb other than headroom/bandwidth issues, but IT IS. Believe that, and make adjustments. Trust me you'll hear the difference.

That's all for this one ya'll. Hope it helps you out.



R = out.

Labels: Raze, Raze's Engineering Tips

So, to those of you unfortunate enough to have NOT been in attendance, Coppa's album release party was AMAZING. Great turn out, crowd was awesomely into the performances, they loved the "grab bags" and some awesome people from the scene showed love (shout out to FlagshipLabel, amongst others...sorry for the lack of name dropping.)