Beneath The Beat: Hip Hop explores the authentic essence of hip hop culture. We offer an independent voice, free from record label and big business imperatives.
This is part two of our Legend series. Hip Hop legend Guru (formally of Gang Star) joins forces with Super Producer Solar as co owners of 7 Grand Records. Guru and Solar have worked with some of the biggest names in Jazz, Hip Hop, Funk & Soul. It is recognized that Guru is one of the founding pioneers of the Hip Hop Jazz component of Nu Jazz fusion. Check out the audio interview below.
1. “Plenty” Guru Featuring Eryka Badu
2. “I’m Jazzy” Guru Featuring Slum Village
3. “Power Money Influence” Guru Featuring Jean Grae & Talib Kwali
4. “Real Life” Guru Featuring B. Real.
5. “Step in the Arena 2 ” Guru Featuring Doo Wo
6. “Lift Your Fist” Guru Featuring The Roots
Showbiz focuses on iTunes music reviews and IMDb movie and film reviews. This is part of the Beneath the Beat Showbiz and Entertainment Reviews Podcast.
When I listened to “Earth Intruders” It hit me like a scene straight out of a Spiderman Trailer – visually its appetizing like those SILENT 360º panoramic in-your-face CG moments aurally suspending your senses in amniotic verbal textures. This track has a rabble-rouser edge like “Army of Me” and evokes atmospheres and wails found in songs like “Human Behavior” and “Cvalda.” Her voice is persuasive like a siren rippling her aquatic thoughts through your headphones convincing you to loop the track. I lust it because it features her signature operetta echoey vocals weaving in and out of unrelenting tribal drums over an 80s hip-pop electronic melody. My iTunes player suggests that I’ve played it 18 times since I first downloaded it. The moment “Volta” goes on sale and after a few listens I’ll be sure to podcast and blog about it.
Beneath The Beat: Hip Hop explores the authentic essence of hip hop culture. We offer an independent voice, free from record label and big business imperatives.
This is part two of our Legend series. Hip Hop legend Guru (formally of Gang Star) joins forces with Super Producer Solar as co owners of 7 Grand Records. Guru and Solar have worked with some of the biggest names in Jazz, Hip Hop, Funk & Soul. It is recognized that Guru is one of the founding pioneers of the Hip Hop Jazz component of Nu Jazz fusion. Check out the audio interview below.
In the audio segment above features the following artists:
1. “Down the Back Streets” Guru Featuring Lonnie Liston Smith
2. “Feel the Music” Guru Featuring Baybe And Paul Ferguson
3. “Talk to Me” Guru Featuring Jaguar Wright
4. “State of Clarity” Guru Featuring Common and Bob James.
Webbiz reviews and spotlights stuff related to online entertainment and web culture. This is part of the Beneath the Beat Webbiz Podcast.
On Monday July 1st, I was sending a clip to Zadi Diaz to show her the madness over at the 5th Avenue Mac Store in Manhattan, and she wrote back… “that’s insane! Hey — if you’d like, we can probably feature a part of it on Jetset this Monday.”
Actually its no longer called The Jetset Show, its now called Epic-Fu, but in the spirit of preserving an archived memory lets just refer to it as The Jetset Show. Jetset happens to be one of the few shows that I check out regularly. For those of you who do not know, Jetset is a show created by Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf. They conduct interviews and showcase whats hip and cool on both online and offline. For me I watch to see coverage of the newest online applications and to see what is interesting on the web. They also touch on the music scene and there are some very funny skits throughout the 5 min episodes. Oh did I mention that Zadi is a real hottie, (oh and yeah Steve is a dashing young devil as well). But Jetset is so much more because they are an “Internet and pop culture show for young adults featuring cool, weird, fun, geeky, underground, true-to-life, curious, quirky things and people found online and off.” I also wanted to mention that Jetset has accumulated rave reviews from the online community by winning Vloggie and a Webby awards and they just have a growing number of fans world wide.
I highly recommend the Jetset Show and hope you will watch the clip below and go to the following links to support the Jetset movement: website, youtube, mix.jetset
Beneath the Beat makes its presence known on iTunes. We are doing Beneath the Beat music reviews on the artists and entertainers that we appreciate featured in iTunes. Please come by and check out what we have to say. Our most recent reviews: Bjork’s “Earth Intruders” 2007 Single, Mos Def’s “The New Danger,” Bjork’s “Debut” 1993 Album.
Our show Beneath the Beat: hip hop joins forces with Rapstation, founded by Chuck D (frontman of legendary rap group Public Enemy). Rapstation.com has become one of the leading entertainment sites on the net, partnering with, RealNetworks, House of Blues Digital and TWOCOWS. Our team is honored to be part of this growing media network… come check out rapstation.com and be part of the movement.
Music | bendrix | 
March 5, 2009 7:39 am | 
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