VIDEO: SEAN PRICE- "Shut The F*ck Up"

Sean Price always drops the ill freestyles!

VIDEO: BLACK SHEEP - "For The Record"

BLACK SHEEP returns with the first single from upcoming album "From The Black Pool Of Genius". Original member DRES, is carrying the Black Sheep brand solo this time.

New! THE ZRO HOUR S06E19 with C.CRAZED

Back with a fresh episode for the Independence Day (U.S.A.) weekend! The show features new music from REFLECTION ETERNAL, RHYMEFEST, LADY DAISEY, FRESH VETZ, ETERNIA & MoSS, DRAKE, RAH DIGGA, AUDIO KNOX, MONSTALUNG, MARCO POLO & KALAE ALL DAY. Classics by MASTA ACE INCORPORATED and PETE ROCK & C.L. Smooth round out the show.
 

Rising on the indie scene, Brooklyn, New York rapper C.CRAZED calls in to chop it up about his upcoming project THA LOYALTY 2. C.Crazed first appeared on THEZROHOUR back in 2004 as a part of my Indie Showcase podcast. Check out "Tha Loyalty 2" First Official Street Single below. It features, C.Crazed, Sos Pachino, Hollywood, & Redemption On The French Rappers Jil Aston Produced Record "Foreign Exchange" Be On The Look Out For The Jil Aston/C.Crazed collab "Foreign Exchange Part 1"-



Enjoy the show!







THE ZRO HOUR S06E19 (108MB)

PLAYLIST

THE B-SIDE- Masta Ace Incorporated
RESILIENCE- Fresh Vetz
WHO I BE- Diamond District (Marco Polo RMX)
THE BBQ (RMX)- Eternia & Moss feat. Tiye Phoenix & Jean Grae
BALLAD OF THE BLACK GOLD- Reflection Eternal
ONE THING- Freeway & Jake One feat. Raekwon
HOLLOW BONES FREESTYLE- Safari
FANCY- Drake feat. T.I. & Swizz Beatz
SAY WASSUP- RHYMEFEST feat. Phonte
SEARCHING (RMX)- Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
4 A.M.- Lady Daisey
SO I- C.Crazed
INTERVIEW WITH C.CRAZED
THE TRIP- C.CRAZED
ANY MAN- Eternia & MoSS
THIS AINT NO LITTLE KID RAP- Rah Digga
ON LOCK- Audio Knox
FRESH LIKE DOUGIE- Monstalung
THE INTRODUCTION- Mitch L. Hennessey
KEEPONPUSHIN (THISISIT)-Kalae All Day

New SAFARI Freestyle- "Hollow Bones"

SIX ZRO's own SAFARI drops a new freestyle over a classic Wu-Tang instrumental. Hit him up and tell him what you think! Safari's debut mixtape, "WILD LIFE: WHO LEFT THE GATE OPEN??" is right around the corner. Stay tuned..

VIDEO: FRESH VETZ (Dashah & DJ Pause)- "So Good"

FRESH VETZ "SO GOOD" from FRESH VETZ on Vimeo.

Love this video Dashah! The look is crisp and the imagery is completely hip hop..

DJ Premier & Pete Rock to Join The Large Professor at Show & Prove, the First Event of BHF '10!

Brooklyn Bodega, producers of the 6th Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival (BHF) announced today that legendary producers DJ Premier and Pete Rock will be joining The Large Professor for a special DJ set at BHF '10 Show and Prove Super Bowl. The event will be held at Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Avenue on Monday, July 5th.
Description: Previously only done in Japan, for the first time ever, fans in the United States have the opportunity to see three of the greatest producers in Hip-Hop rocking the same stage. Brooklyn Bodega and YUME Music have partnered up to showcase this "Unforgettable Set" as the headlining act of its Show & Prove Superbowl where six aspiring Hip-Hop artists compete for two slots that open the stage at the Main Day of the Festival, Saturday, July 10th.

Show & Prove Superbowl Finalists are: Kalae All Day, St. Joe Louis, Poetic Republic, The Crowd, Mikeflo and Ashy L. Bowz.

Kalae All Day is a definite favorite and of course I am also rooting for Randy Mason and his group THE CROWD. Both have been featured here on this site and podcast.

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE IT'S ONLY $5 bucks!!!

The 2010 Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival featuring headliner DE LA SOUL is just a week away. Cop your tix HERE

MUSIC TECH: Heavyocity EVOLVE Mutations bundle from Native Instruments

What is the EVOLVE Mutations Bundle?

EVOLVE Mutations 1 and 2 are both kontakt player instruments that bring the creative and experimental sounds that Heavyocity are known for, into the studios and bedrooms of musicians of all kinds. Not only does it follow the same basic categorical layout of EVOLVE (Rhymthmic suites, percussive kits, stings and transitions, tonality and fx) it also picks up right where EVOLVE left off. It’s not a replacement for, it’s definitely an addition to EVOLVE, yet stands on it’s own.

The bundle is made up of version 1 and version 2, with 2 being the most recent and is full of 317 kontakt instruments, mutations 1 has 275. Each stand on their own, and definitely shine when used together.

This library is ready for any electronic music producer, video game sound designer, film composer, experimental hip hop producer, or anyone that loves the let the sound take control.

Quick Specs

* Content: 593 kontakt instruments (4gb)
* Format: Kontakt Player or Kontakt 4
* Price: $169 (bundle) or $119 each

How does it sound?

Well, depending on which sounds you use it can sound scary, vicious, epic, soulful, experimental, edgy, terrifying, esoteric, ambient, alien, monstrous, airy, metallic, demented, angelic, demonic, percussive, chilled, spine-tingling, blood curdling, soothing….well I think you get the point.

I honestly have NEVER played an instrument like this, anything you load just sounds wonderful, ready to go. Everything is produced with the up-most quality and creativity.

The Multis…oh my….you could literally complete a movie trailer with just the multis! I promise to you the first night I installed it I couldn’t even make it through demoing all the sounds without opening it up in Ableton and putting it to work for some hardcore movie style compositions.

Everything you can imagine, all the small little fx, the stuff you hear on commercials or in the theaters…that stuff is here. It may not be the exact sounds, but it’s the styles I’m speaking of. Because to me, this is easily one of the most unique and irreplaceable instruments you’ll ever come across. Heck…I’d say Heavyocity as a company is irreplaceable because I know of no one that is doing it like this. Not that I’ve come across.

Everything has a sheen and shine that says “I’m ready for my closeup!”

What’s your favorite part?

Man…that’s such a tough call, I love this bundle so much it’s really hard to say, but one of the things that really sticks out to me are the trigger fx in Mutations 2. I installed Mutations 2 before I installed Mutations 1 or the original EVOLVE library, and I see why Trigger FX were such a big deal! It let’s you get some morphing, mutating, randomly sick sounds just by “flipping switches”

The interface is made up of tiny switches that control things like dirt, cabinet, saturate, lofi, pan, eq sweep, pitch, delay 1, delay two, and glitch! And these all respond to keys on your keyboard as well…so you can hit the keyboard keys which control each one, play your sounds, and let the sound organically mutate right before your ears and eyes….yes…these sounds have so much personality I feel like I can see them.

Seriously, I found myself wishing the other libraries included trigger fx…BUT since they can all live with each other inside of Kontakt 4 or the Kontakt Player…I’m free to layer, trigger, mutate, and experiment as much as I wish!

If there was one thing outside of the sound design and organization that makes Heavyocity stand out…it’s their use and abuse of fx…and how creative they allow you to be with them.

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