is the advertising industry trending toward product placement anyway?

I thought this youtube video was actually interesting for all the musicians out there actually pretty interesting for where the guy says "I see this as taking the notes from a beatles melody and rearranging the notes and putting a new guitar effect on it and calling it a new song."

This actually raises some interesting issues relative to parallels in how traditional songs are valued from a publishing rights world view. What he's actually showing on the video is key from one bar and resolving in the way our heads expect it to resolve based on a chord progression we're familiar with. I mean am I the only one that sees this. I know that mash-ups have fallen since the Grey Album days, which held a lot of controversy with the record label EMI, copyright holder of The Beatles, ordered Danger Mouse and retailers carrying the album to cease distribution.

The question I'm asking you is, how far from the original can you take it?

Madvillain 2 has arrived

Really dope collaboration effort with Stones Throw and Madvillain I was hoping to get the package after the 16th because Peanut Butter Wolf would've done a gig at my crib! Drat, they kept their damn word.



Outside cover of the package





For the Smoker's Delight


One thing I like about the folks at Stone Throw, they always keep it gully with a cassette and also comes with vinyl.



The Stones Throw packaging is tighter than a nun's wooo hooo.

The comic strip if you can't find it comes in the CD sleeve.


MF Doom is set to release his Born Into This album after taking a three year hiatus. No longer going by the name MF Doom, his alias will just simply be DOOM. Producers on the album include J Dilla and Dangermouse along with features from Raekwon and Ghostface. A release date of October 21, 2008 is expected, so stay tuned.