Whats up on our technics 1200’s?

We at Crumpet always have the freshest beats up on our techincs 1200’s. We are constantly digging and scratching the surface for artist and music that are pushing the boundries and making us groove. And whats even better we LOVE to share the goodness with ya’ll….

James Pants– All The Hits

The hotly anticipated follow up to his début release Welcome has just hit the shelves; yes folks… James Pants is back, space synths and cowbells all in-tacked. James Pants is one of those artists that cannot be pigeon holed, and what’s the point when the music is that great anyway. “All The Hits” sounds like he placed all of his influences in a blender and came up with a smoothy that’s so fresh and unique that it could only be portrayed as the James Pants musical persona. A somewhat “deeper” take on things the  the dance floor friendly “Welcome” but none the less a hit on our 1200’s. Purchase at Bleep

Wanna know what the music moguls demand (sorry, require) when on tour? (and there’s not a blue M+M in sight).

JAY-Z

$400,000 luxury cars and rooms heated to a specific temperature (22 degrees), Sapporo beer, vodka, tequila, two bottles of $300 champagne, two bottles of expensive 2004 Sassicaia red wine and a pack of Marlboro Lights, ‘good quality’ peanut butter and grape jam, two fruit platters, chicken, cheese, one martini shaker and 12 shot glasses. Because he can.

(source: celebritywonder.com)

50 CENT

50 Cent has been known to demand KFC chicken buckets and a well-done expensive fillet, along with peanut butter, various jams, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, French toast, pancakes, waffles and crepes. All food served to Fif is to be on the finest china and correct silverware. Because presentation is important to him.

(source: thesmokinggun.com)

P DIDDY

P Diddy is a mac. But is his rider just plain wak? Puffy requires 204 towels, 20 bars of soap, two bottles of Hennessy cognac, two bottles of Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio, two bottles of Veuve Clicquot, a bottle of Dom Perignon, a bottle of Grey Goose vodka. Drinking problem? He also needs (apparently) a boom box, bouquet of white flowers, cheddar cheese, sour-cream chips and sweet tarts.

(source: thesmokinggun.com)

MARIAH CAREY

We all know ol’ mate Mimi is high maintenance. Even her rider is high maintenance. If she’s not sulking for fluffy and cute puppies and kittens, the diva is demanding Cristal champagne (natch) with one box of bendy straws. She also needs one special attendant to dispose of used chewing gum and tea service for eight, a Honey Bear pack of honey and two air purifiers. Random!

(source: davidrowan.com)

THEOPHILUS LONDON
LOVER x BROOKLYN EMCEE

THIRD EYE CAMERA NECKLACE – “I found this in a dusty vintage store three years ago. It’s a kaleidoscope, when you look through it you see 15x images. I own 13 different pieces. I wear it because I’m all about capturing moments. Oh and yeah, this gets you a lot of head turns and plenty of women.”

ROCKSMITH TOKYO ENGINE 9 TEE – “This shirt is one of my favourites. It’s a play on vintage Chanel No. 5 and Engine Engine #9 by Black Sheep. It’s not in stores yet, so look out for it.”

LEATHER JACKET – “The jacket is a very intimidating piece I must say. People don’t say much to me when I wear it – they just stare. It’s actually made out of horse. When I first got it, it was stiff. I started sleeping in it and performing in it to wear it in. In about 15 years this jacket will be the shit.”

LEVI CUSTOM-MADE JEANS – “I bought these in Montreal for the hell of it. I love jeans. They make up my whole steez. They were actually baggy when I got them and I didn’t wear them for six months. One day I had a dream that some one could make them a tighter fit. I went to the cleaners and they made them tight. Now they are comfortable and I’m in the process of getting them duplicated many times.”

CIPHER SEDITIONARY – “These remind me of Michael Jackson in Bad. Through out my whole sneaker collection these are the cleanest. In two months these should be finished!”

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1. GUERRILLA ART
Forget Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock. Street art is where it’s at. Sure Warhol and Pollock were big in the ‘60s (okay their legends still live on) but these days we’re more interested in stencils, paint, oil brush, stickers, posters and airbrush from artists like UK’s Banksy or the graffiti-inspired street art pioneers Futura, Ramm:ell:zee and Blek le Rat. Guerilla Art takes care of this with interviews from international street artists – Banksy, Os Gemeos, Invader, Barnstormers, Futura, Ramm:ell:zee, WK Interact, Zevs, Blek le Rat, Andre, Noki and Eine – discussing their own work and the scene around them. Accompanying the book is a DVD showing some of the artists at work. And it wouldn’t be a street art book without big colourful pictures. *** BP
$45 published by Laurence King, distributed by Thames & Hudson

2. GRAFFITI WORLD
Graffiti World is what Jay Z is to hip hop – on top of the game. The mother of all graffiti books, Graffiti World has over 2000 photographs, comprehensive information on grafs history and insight into the worlds top graf writers (it’s even divided into alphabetical sections of America, Europe and The Rest Of The World). Did you know graffiti was derived from the Italian word ‘sgraffio’ meaning scratch? And in 1904 toilet graffiti was focused in a magazine for the first time. But we all know how it really started – on the streets of New York and Philly in the ‘70s. This weighty tome reflects the changes of early graffiti to new school graffiti, the direction it’s going in and a look at all the different types of expressions these artists use in the graffiti world. If you’re a bit of a novice with this street art business then this is the book for you. Get your bookworm on. ***** BP
$59.95 published by Thames & Hudson, distributed by Thames & Hudson

OHH yeah! Crumpet coming atcha on the podcast tip. Expect to hear only the freshest of the freshest from selected deejays on our Crumcast network. Deejay Galaktika hits off the first episode with cuts from The Jazz Liberators, Edan, Rashann Ahmaad, Dam Funk, Dorian concept among others. Download below

 

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His music shaped a nation and on the day of his death Crumpet reminisces on an artist that changed the game for ever. Your music will never be forgotten MJ… Condolences to his family and friends.

We at Crumpet always have the freshest beats up on our techincs 1200’s. We are constantly digging and scratching the surface for artist and music that are pushing the boundries and making us groove. And whats even better we LOVE to share the goodness with ya’ll….

The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble – Summer Suite

What do you get when you put 5 mc’s and 3 deejays together?.. No, not the Partridge family….
The Dirtbox Kings, A fresh new crew hailing from Sydney. Tight rhymes is the ying and dope beats is the yang. Mic control stars Sleeping Monk, Loko 1, Robbie Randall, Dave & Bang and on repping the ones & twos, Smokin’ Jodes, Jimmy the Hand & R-Type. Debut album drops late June 2009. Visit their Myspace page for a free download.

I had the pleasure to attend the recent 20 year anniversary tour of De La Soul’s “Three Feet High and Rising” album release and boy did they deliver. A group that has been around for 20 years, inspiring generation after generation can be easily described with words such as timeless and inimitable, De La Soul is definitely part of the hip hop hall of fame. Rolling Stones magazine recently caught up with De la where they dissect the album track by track, read here

This mix has definitely been on heavy rotation at crumpet headquarters. The so called “brotha from anotha planet” Ras G, hailing from the Brainfeeder LA collective which includes among others Flying Lotus, the mother fucking Gaslamp Killer and Samiyam. Expect hypnotic space beats from this mix that was recorded a few years ago for bts radio. Rotate heavily! download below

 

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Eminem Augmented Reality Screencast from Outside Line on Vimeo.

Yup. Eminem is using the latest in Augmented Reality with his Eminem A.R Comp. Print the E, Turn on your webcam, and graff the E. We’re sketching up our entry right now.

If you have been living under a slab of 15 foot concrete, Augemented Reality is all the rage on the internet, apart from play him off keyboard cat.

Sickly sweet internet promo for Eminem’s sixth studio album Relapse released earlier this month.

Enter here

Freaky freaky freaky frequency. Sydney hip hop artist Scott Burns makin sure we’re on that and yes indeed we are like gravy on fried chicken. This clip catches our attention as our good friend Alice Fenton [on the red phone] is also in the clip. Check the rhyme.

And check Scott’s online channels via scottburnsday1.com

Mr many alter egos  the one like the Madlib drops a set for French radio Nova. Download here

The man of the moment Dam Funk previews his new album on Mary Anne Hobbs Experimental show broadcasted on BBC’s radio.TOEACHIZOWN is due for release on Stones Throw soon. The anticipation is killing ….. download here

Last time Brooklyn rapper and owner of Psycho Logical Records Necro came to Australia; things got a little buck wild. He dishes the goss to Crumpet on the craziest things he has done with his infamous MySpace girls…

“I could name up a list of crazy shit. Okay whatever comes to mind. I noticed a lot of girls that I meet have sliced up arms from self-mutilation. That’s one thing I noticed, a custom thing. Girls that are attracted to me are lunatics because I attract sick fucks. These are girls that have mental problems.”

“I was in Switzerland and I was having sex with a girl in the bathroom and she fainted in the middle of me having sex from whatever drug she was on. Me because I’m a scum bag, I don’t think I did anything wrong, but I say scumbag because I would be considered an arsehole by other people but in my world I think I have a right, so you know, I already had my dick out and I’m already worked up and I’m hard already, so while she passed out on the floor like that I busted my nut on her head. I came on her head. I figured I had it coming to me, it was rude – what she did was rude she shouldn’t have go that high. I even took it another step so I help her up and bring her back up after I came in her hair and I told the tour manager that was outside, ‘Come inside! Come inside! This girl blah blah blah, here grab her by her hair’, and he puts his hand on her hair where all the cum is. He was like, ‘What the fuck is all this?’, hmm there’s been all different types of shit.”

“I had my first foursome at a show in Toronto. The first time I did a tour in Toronto I had three girls at one time. I don’t really care for a foursome to be honest. Like two girls is enough for me. I can handle three but you know it’s kind of a lot of work and you can’t really focus on a specific girl. It kind of looks good on camera in movies but in real life, doing three girls at once, it’s okay. I prefer two really hot ones than three mediocre ones. Actually probably I’d rather one really super, super hot girl over even two. Then I can focus on her.”

er… stud or dud?