12.29.11
Bag of Bones
A Playlist of Things I Heard This Year
This mostly started off as a playlist that I shared a few weeks ago on Spotify, which began with The Holiday’s song, Broken Bones. Many of these songs were not released in 2011, but I did listen to them a lot this year. I have to give props to Spotify, it’s a great tool to discover new artists and share music with friends.
You can download the mix or stream it on Spotify. Again, this is just a playlist of tracks, I haven’t gotten around to learning to dj just yet, but it’s on my to-do list for 2012.
Oh yea, and if you already have not checked it out, the homie, Chop Steak, handled the hip hop side of things already with his Occupy Xmas Mixtape.
Tracklist
- Cut Copy – Blink and You’ll Miss a Revolution (Toro y Moi Remix)
- M83 – Midnight City
- The Holidays – Broken Bones
- Ben Westbeech – Hang Around
- Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work (The Twelves Remix)
- Nightbox – Relocate You
- Poolside – Do You Believe
- Grum – Want You
- Miami Horror – Holidays
- Ben Westbeech – Something for the Weekend
- Body Language – Social Studies (Plastic Plates Remix)
- Lemaitre – The Friendly Sound
- Rimer London – Love Dagger
- The Black and White Years – Cold
- Gamble and Burke – Let’s Go Together
- Bag Raiders – Sunlight
12.15.11
Occupy Christmas Mixtape
Chop Steak Xmas 2011 Mixtape
The homie Chop Steak comes through with a year end mixtape, Occupy Christmas. The mixtape drops on Monday 12/19 here on thehonestape.com and on chopsteakmusic.com. In the meantime, check out our summer mix. #occupychristmas
12.09.11
Pase Rock Live in Miami (2007)
Essential Mix to Get Through Winter
This is one of those mixes I always revisit. Makes me forget about dreary winters, for at least an hour. Download Pase Rock Live in Miami.
Pase Rock, Live in Miami Tracklist (From Discobelle)
Pase Rock – I’m So Disco (snippet)
Chaka Khan – I Know You I Live you
T Ski Valley – Catch The Beat (Disco Mix)
Spank Rock – Sweet Talk (Smalltown Romeo remix)
Justice – D.A.N.C.E.
Cassie – Me And U- (Eli remix)
M.I.A. – Pull Up the People (Eli Refix)
MC Lyte – Paper Thin (remix)
Eric B. and Rakim – I Know You Got Soul (remix)
Pase Rock f. Amanda Blank – Sexy MF
Peter Bjorn and John – Young Folks (Eli refix)
Robin Thicke- Cocaine (Spruce Lee remix)
Uffie – Hot Chick (Feadz edit)
LL Cool J- 3 The Hard Way (Eli remix)
Rod Lee – Dance My Pain Away
Luke- Breakdown
Pase Rock and The Posse – Lindsay Lohan’s Revenge
GQ – Disco Nights (Rock Freak)
Brass Construction – Got Myself Together
Kraftwerk – Computer Love (Eli Retouch)
Metro Area – Miura
Stevie Wonder – Another Star
Shaun Escoffrey – Days Like This (Spinna remix)
James Brown – PAPA (Eli remix)
Stevie Wonder – Fingertips Pt. 3 (Pase Rock remix)
Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You
Earth People- Dance
08.18.11
Frigid as February
Summer 2011 Mix
Me and the one and only Chopsteak linked up for a little summer mix. Peep the cover art and tracklisting below. Mixtape drops on Friday August, 19th, which also happens to be my last day at CP+B. It’s been a good summer. I’ll post up the link and streaming options on the 19th. Download the mixtape at Chopsteakmusic.com.
- Freddie Gibbs: Something New f. YP
- 50 Cent: Get In My Car
- Pusha T: Can I Live Freestyle
- T.I.: Rubber Band Man
- 8Ball & MJG: Turn Up The Bump
- Juelz Santana: More Gangsta Music
- Heltah Skeltah: The Art of Disrespekinazation
- DJ Quik & Kurupt: Hey Playa (Moroccan Blues)
- Hodgy Beats: Mystery
- Roc Marciano: Snow Pt. 2 f. Sean Price
- UGK: Swishas & Erb f. Sleepy Brown
- Chip Tha Ripper: Jumanji
- Mannie Fresh: Conversation f. Tateeze
- Little Brother: What We Are f. Quiana
- Freddie Gibbs: Crushin’ Feelin’s
- RZA & GZA: Head Rush
- Nottz: You Need This Music f. Dwele
- The Roots: Ain’t Sayin’ Nothin’ New f. Dice Raw
- Brotha Lynch Hung & MC Eiht: That’s All U Can Do
- Guilty Simpson: Footwork
- Big Boi: Tangerine f. T.I. & Khujo Goodie
05.03.11
Phone Book Type
Cutting Up The Yellow Pages
As part of my exploration for my thesis, I began cutting up some phone books. For my thesis next year I’m going to be focusing on the ideas of Remix and Remix Culture. Still have a lot of research to do, but will start by doing some things by just playing around and experimenting…can’t wait to really get into it all.
04.25.11
Breakbot-Fantasy ft. Ruckazoid
New Track From The French Producer
Currently what I’m jammin’ to in the studio. It’s off of Ed Banger‘s new EP, The Bee Sides.
04.06.11
Nokia Pure Posters
A Set of Posters Using Nokia’s New Typeface
Last week I reviewed Nokia’s new typeface, Nokia Pure. In my research I found these posters, done by several artists and studios, as a promo for the new typeface. The one above was done by Bond. Check out the rest of the posters after the jump.
03.30.11
New Cover Artwork For The LOEGz
First Look at Concealed Weapons 3
In 2009 I began a series of covers for the Austin based rap group, The League of Extraordinary Gz. The original Concealed Weapons cover has taken a life of its own and has been turned into large part of the group’s identity–it was even nominated for a Southern Entertainment Award.
The popularity of the Concealed Weapons artwork is good and bad–good because people seem to love it, but bad because fans seem to expect to see it everywhere. Either way, as my work with The LOEGz continues I’m going to keep trying to challenge what people expect to see from hip-hop projects, particularly southern hip-hop. As the League says, “we gon’ make it.”
03.29.11
Big Krit’s Return of 4 Eva
New Album From Mississippi’s Big Krit
Mississippi’s Big K.R.I.T. just dropped his latest project, Return of 4 Eva. Though I’m not sure if it counts for anything, he was included in XXL’s Freshman Class of 2011. I’m not sure if mainstream hip-hop publications hold any real cred anymore, especially when it comes to picking new acts, but this can’t be bad for K.R.I.T. Hopefully this is a sign that his major label release will be up to par with everything he’s done so far. The cover artwork was done by Eric Bailey.
03.28.11
Redesigned TheHonestApe.com
Welcome to My New Website
Hello everyone. It’s been quite a few years since I’ve updated my website and in those years a lot has happened. I have moved from Austin to DC and now Baltimore where I’m finishing up my first year at MICA’s Graphic Design MFA program. I’m in the middle of a lot of school and work projects right now, but I also realized I needed a new site to showcase all of the work I’ve done up to this point.
I’ll be gradually adding projects to the Work section of the site, as well as fixing any bugs. Feel free to chime in and leave me any comments/tips/hellos anytime.