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Monday, March 23, 2009

Beat!

I had a rough workout today with Cody, Owen & Tom. It was a tag team workout; while one person did one exercise, the other had to maintain a static hold. We did two rounds and it was killer (the exercise in the parentheses is the static hold).

30x pull-ups (ring plank)
30x wall sit-ups (ring dip hold)
30x squats (slosh pipe hold)
30x push-ups (dead hang)

I teamed up with Owen while Tom took Cody's side. It made me realize how out of shape I was. I really need to workout alone before I can get back to at least finishing Cody's workouts in reasonable times. I've slowly been getting back into it on my own these past few weeks but I can't amount to Owen, Cody and Tom. Them dudes is tough! It's hard though with work, school, and the amount of music I plan on releasing. Anyway, I'm gonna go heal and try not to die. Sorry again Owen, for taking so long when it was my turn. Those holds killed me, I can't imagine how they felt for him!

Macbook Pro Song

Turbo's back with a new video! Borrowing the "Pop Champagne" beat, Turbo lets us in on the switch from PC to Mac. Stay tuned for Electrorock V. 5: LLLLL, it's a guaranteed classic! Stop sleeping on Turbo!

Friday, March 20, 2009

Warp Zone

What better way to start off Spring Break than with the new Dedicated Servers release of WARP ZONE!

I'll probably post more stuff about it later, since I gotta sleep (work at 4:30a!) but basically, I've always wanted to do something with video game music. Rap over them, remix them; whatever. Here's one of my ideas in fruition; MCMD and I had a lot of fun over these pieces! All the tracks are from different video games while we wrote to them. Also (hopefully), you'll have a new appreciation for video game music.

I feel like when people think about video game music, they're always thinking about blips and bleeps but the music has come a long way and should be considered MUSIC, as it always has been, just like anything else you would listen to on the radio or a CD or whatever.

This was a really fun project and we hope you all enjoy it. We have a TON more things coming your way, so stay tuned. We're still working hard to get out tons of good music so that you'll never have to listen to bad music again! You can preview the project in the playlist located to your right (properly labeled "Warp Zone") and then click on the picture if you'd like to download it. We have also provided a download link on our Myspace page.

Don't forget to keep checking here as well as our Myspace page for more music coming soon as well as (music) videos.

Most definitely, don't forget to check out myspace.com/spokesmen because the Resident Genius and myself will be releasing a project of our own soon (hopefully).
We have a few tracks already as well as some tracks for the Dedicated Servers! Support good music! Thank you to everyone that has already downloaded and/or listened to it! Here you go!

Spring Equinox

Hooray for the first day of spring! It's beautiful here and I hope it is where you are! We're getting closer and closer to summer...

(can't wait)

PS Warp Zone is available now at myspace.com/dedicatedservers. I'll post more information as well as the project here as well, but not until later because I gotta go to work!

Thursday, March 19, 2009

20:11

Not the year, that's how long it took me to complete today's workout. 20's the magic number!

20x pull-ups
20x push-ups
20x squat
(5 rounds)

Fairly difficult. One day I'll be able to knock them pull-ups out like Owen and Cody...I got some gross blisters from the pull-ups too! This sucks.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The Ecstatic (trailer)

Mos Def's new album "The Ecstatic" is coming out this spring (apparently)! It's been too long and I'm excited to hear some excellent lyricism from the universal magnetic once again!

Mos Def - Words - The Ecstatic - in stores Spring 2009

Uyama Hiroto

Another incredible artist from Japan. His debut album "A Son of the Sun" was released in July 2008 (only in Japan, of course) and quickly became another important piece of life music for me. The whole album is beautiful. All the tracks are very relaxing, laid-back and make for good sleeping music; not to say that the music is boring, but it's just so peaceful. Anyone that is a fan of Nujabes (who coincidentally is a frequent collaborator with Uyama) will certainly enjoy Uyama Hiroto. The songs below are just a few of my favorites from the album. I'm crazy about "Walk in the Sunset" and "Stratus". You HAVE to listen to these!