Space Pirates Ltd.

Aightchyall, listen up. For dis week’s Pick of da Week, I picked a phat jawn from across the pond.

Of course, by “pond” I mean the Atlantic Ocean and by “phat jawn” I mean an interesting pop-cultural anomaly.

Hip hop is an American verbal art form, plain and simple. Tibet has throat singing, Pakistan has sufi musiqi, and we have that salvo of syllables called hip hop. Rooted in east- and west-coast scenes in the 1980’s, hip hop is now popular all over the world. (more…)

Several months ago, I learned of this album’s existence during one of my many trips to Wikipedia.org. I was astonished to find that Dave Lombardo, one of the finest drummers to ever grace the double bass, had worked on a hip-hop album. (more…)

Air: French Band have been a staple of my music catologue since their record label debut “Moon Safari” in 1998. I have and would strongly recomend any of their releases to anyone, no matter what their musical tastes are. Their next album “Pocket Symphony” is due this February and looks to be interesting as they’ve learned how to use traditional Japanese instruments and will be including them on various tracks along with their usual collection of electronic and rock instrumentation.

Recently, I stumbled upon a nice collection of live Air tracks, which was pretty surprising and incredibly good. One of their more well known songs is “Sexy Boy.” This video is of them performing a very different and funkier take on the song along with the band Phoenix. Instead of having the straight forward 4/4 distorted blast that’s found on “Moon Safari,” they put more emphasis on the percussive side of things and turn the song more danceable. It’s almost as if they extracted the skeleton of both “Sexy Boy” and “Funky Town” and made an unstopable groove robot.

Air and Phoenix - Sexy Boy

Dan and I have decided to revive the pick of the week. Picks will now be posted via YouTube, so that you can enjoy music not only audibly, but visually as well! Ain’t that swell?

My first choice is a goofy, yet awesome one. The band is a early 70’s hard rock group from The Netherlands called Focus. The song is their only hit, “Hocus Pocus.” This song shows the diverse musical capabilities of the band’s leader singer, who pulls triple duty on the instruments (as you’ll see). The guitarist has some really good leads, and the drummer seems to walk the line between rock drumming and jazz drumming. Enjoy this.

Focus - Hocus Pocus

Let it be known that all of the material in this podcast was improvised. NO SCRIPTING WAS DONE CAN YOU BELIEVE IT FOLKS?!?!?

Prevent shrink!

What’s on the table? Internet failure and Facebook, that’s what! Dammit!

Glink

Ethan and Dan take a gander at the flock! Listen to them talk about the internet.

Clink clunk.

This will be the first post of many in which David Randle and Dan Delaney flex their word muscles to create delightful rap ditties.

Dan: DAVE LETS RAP

Dan: Cause i aint seen a good shower in about three or four days
Dave: I got fiddy seven chevrons and a bottle of glaze
Dan: i got a mercenary’s heart and a pretty pink vase
Dave: Why’s this blue jelly shit all over mah face?

Dan: well wait a second davey you gotta be polite
Dave: man I ain’t got time ta bleed only got time ta bite
Dan: youse a hungry mother fucker, no doubt about that
Dave: sucka all these chimichongas gonna make me fat

Dan: HA HA HA, we are a joke creating duo
Dave: I crashed my motherfuckin pod like fuckin Mars Guo

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Dave: dinosaur betty had a rap that tore her
Dan: all of her dino friends simply adored her
Dave: but I ain’t layin eggs to propagate the sands of time
Dan: illegal protein use will merit a hefty time fine

Dave: pteredactyl tyrants be droppin dey bombs
Dan: till they gotta own up to their prehistoric moms
Dave: now every thunderlizard in the club’s extinct
Dan: all dinosaurs be out the window save the kitchen sink

Dave: yo dan delaney I gots fossils ta dig
Dan: well that’s what we do! we a fossil findin’ crew!
Dave: so slide me some bones an’ I’ll dance you a jig
Dan: a dance that’s so true! dino jig through and through

Dave: yo yo yo somebody gimme a word from the dino crypt
Dan: a word that you’ve heard? like roar, smash, eat or space comet?
Dave: nah raptah I’m talkin a word what we ain’t never let slipped
Dan: davey im not sure i follow can i get a hint or a tip?

Dave: I’m talkin DINOTOPIA
Dan: DINO
Dave: DINO TOPIA
Dan: DINO
Dave: DINO motherfuckin TOPIA
Dan: AWWWWWWWWW DINO TOPIA

Dave: everybody get down to the perfect dinociety
Dan: of t-rex pornography they have a calliope
Dave: it’s a place with no extinction of any variety
Dan: joe the single celled organism is their oldest retiree

Dave: hey darwin, what’s up bro what’s happenin
Dan: survival of the fittest, predator and prey and all that
Dave: now all these herbivores dey give me a bad rap
Dan: tell those plant eating pussies what im about to say
Dan: you gotta devour they bones all night and all day
Dan: this is the plan, this is the way
Dan: the scientific community gave me the “OK”