tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80619691804942430642024-03-14T05:47:39.557-07:00Pure Funk Dance BlogDance, Music and all things creativepurefunkdancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11872848685097126667noreply@blogger.comBlogger1214125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061969180494243064.post-19226087060061983572020-05-02T15:36:00.001-07:002020-05-02T15:40:50.229-07:00What I've been watching<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">deliver a weekly dose of just the good news. Whether it’s viral video clips, tributes to the frontline heroes </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">or even </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX1MiHNM0MY" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">surprising a young Hamilton with an all-star serenad</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">e, this will bring equal parts smiles and tears.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7pZgQepXfA" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Rolling Stones sing You can’t always get what you want </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">- The together at home concert was hit </span><br />
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<a href="https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/beastie-boys-story/umc.cmc.6d0mrskjsusw2jd2d228p88c2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Beastie Boys story on Apple TV+</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> - This one might cost you but it’s a great visual history of the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> band based on a live show they did last year. If that’s too long, relive them blowing out the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">speakers on </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ5yKJlhbiA" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Letterman from the mid-90’s</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EXGqGTcyG8" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">That Thing You Do watch party with the Wonders </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">- Adam Schlesinger was an awesome musician who </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">wrote That Thing You Do for the movie of the same name. He also died of Covid-19 a few weeks back. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Wonders reunited to celebrate Adam, raise money and commentate the movie along with you </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">including </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDfEBmjtkAQ" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">this one</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZLfasMPOU4" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">this one</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZxJNZMyn-4" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">this one</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, and 157 songs for the TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend over 3 years, </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">including</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS39vMhag-A&list=PLVL8S3lUHf0QsWacjABw4Fn4ktBMPMf3d&index=57" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Conan plays Old-Time Baseball</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHGH83i_c-Q&list=PLVL8S3lUHf0QsWacjABw4Fn4ktBMPMf3d&index=22" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Conan goes Apple picking with Mr. T a</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">nd </span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-0e1a2094-7fff-cd67-4e4b-99d9defad042"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stephen Sondheim tribute - the theater legend had a home tribute in his honor last weekend and the 3some of</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAVTFtUAVfM" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski& Audra Mcdonald</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> belted a delightful Ladies Who lunch whilst wearing Bathrobes and drinking wine. If you liked that check out the awesome </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjgePPgtWbo" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Patti Lupone</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as well.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pete Davidson "Stuck at home" - Saturday Night Live is still chugging along in quarantine, and nothing describes being in quarantine better than this rap from Pete Davidson. Do I need to tell you Adam Sandler does the second verse at home with his family? If you liked this, SNL has tons of videos, another from this ep that made me cackle was <a href="https://www.metatube.com/en/videos/452123/What-Up-With-That-At-Home-SNL/">What up with that?</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These two dynamo's create an innovative and original piece that gets the judges pumped in the early rounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1Million Dance studio's Lia Kim takes a crack at Queen Bey's 'Formation'. A lot of hot sauce in that bag right there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Silly yes, but Ellen slapping dancing legs onto celebrities is always worth a look. This week The Pope and Adele amongst others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Michelle and Barack hosted 106 year old </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Virginia McLaurin at the white house, as she fulfilled her dream of getting down with the president and first lady.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not technically a dance routine, but this music video by M.I.A. was taken from a documentary by Inigo Westmeier that looked at the struggle for three young girls at the most prestigious and tough Martial Arts academy in China.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another big name this week as <a href="https://instagram.com/parrisgoebel/">Parris Geobel</a> from ReQuest Crew (Royal Family) and Step Up 5 goes all in at Urban Dance Camp with Ice Cube's booty anthem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This showcase for Dancetitude (terrible name, but never mind) showcases everything a great promo video should be - Great chorey danced well, street location and swift editing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">My name is Rob Burt. I do lots of things, writing is but one. Find me at </span><a href="https://twitter.com/purefunkfriends" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">twitter</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">, </span><a href="https://instagram.com/purefunkdance/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">instagram</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/purefunkdance" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">facebook</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;"> and </span><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/blog/purefunkdance" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">tumblr</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">. Our website: </span><a href="http://purefunk.com.au/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">purefunk.com.au</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week we have the return of Fik-Shun, a couple of SYTYCD newcomers and the best thing you'll see all week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Freeze frame favourite Fik-Shun returns with the on-point Dytto!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jana is back for another go at getting that SYTYCD Vegas ticket and... you'll just have watch and see. I can say she gets buck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Watch this so you can watch the next one. These guys are tight, but then watch the next video for the definition of 'next level'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like the title says, it's a dude dancing in a 100 different locations. Not matter how many times someone tries you always end up watching it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember watching Adelaide's own Germein Sisters perform during the Fringe recently and thinking how much they'd improved in such a short space of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd initially taken notice of them when they released their video for 'Golden', which was filmed on their uncles farm near <a href="http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Australia_and_Oceania/Australia/State_of_South_Australia/Minlaton-1872899/Things_To_Do-Minlaton-TG-C-1.html">Minlaton </a>on the Yorke Peninsula. I grew up in Mid North Yorke Peninsula and it was great to see it represented on screen, even if just for a few minutes. I also wondered where the inspiration for the video came from.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With hectic touring schedules, interviews and all the other work that goes into being a musician, you can't help but wonder where they find the time and energy to write songs, and great songs at that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's great to see the Clara, Ella and Georgia making a splash overseas, and here's hoping we see (and hear) a lot more of them in the years to come!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To find out more about the girls...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is pretty solid. I love <a href="https://twitter.com/maikalilpixy">Maika's </a>flow, she has groove for days and controls every movement like a puppeteer! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hit her up with your supportive comments on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MaikaAmazingKidDancer">Facebook</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hate to post the same artist two weeks running (I don't really), but I love this video! All you really need is a dope wall and of course dope moves. Maybe you also need an identical twin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was your favorite meme last year, so this week saw JCVD decided to recreate his famous dance scene from Kickboxer on Conan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dylan surprised the crowd and judges with his on point cover, the boy is on fleek!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dance your socks off... it's a metaphor, but that really happened here. SYTYCD Alum's tWITCH and Allison (they're now on Ellen and DWTS respectively), whoop it up in their </span><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoldToeSocks?src=hash" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #2fc2ef; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #82daf5;">#</span>GoldToeSocks</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a well-executed dance cover! The chorey and execution is tight, the production value is up there for a cover band and the boys certainly look the part. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My favourite dance clips form the week are collated here for your viewing pleasure! And if you like what you see, subscribe to the artist channels and subscribe to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjI3uJGETXIu6Y6W-tG-oPQ">purefunkdance</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Yak films kids get it with some more NaeNae before that dance rides out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our personal faves, Les Twins, at our friends Breakin Convention 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another awesome performance from the king of flow and former SYTYCD winner <a href="https://twitter.com/dance10fikshun">Fik Shun</a></span></div>
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<span class="watch-title " dir="ltr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="We Are Toonz - Drop That #NaeNae | Hip-hop choreography by Ira Zaichenko | D.side dance studio"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MWN570xzo1A" width="560"></iframe></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The Production presents "The Key" ft. Marvel Superheroes <br />| FRONTROW | #WODBAY2015</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Again, not a huge fan of crews that try acting half their routine, it ends up being as funny as 99% of rap skits. That said, these guys are pretty tight.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/C8m4JLeUmcs" width="560"></iframe></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">‘Michael Jackson’ dancing protester rocks Baltimore rally</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xHA1f_410A8" width="560"></iframe><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Scarlett Johansson dances provocatively on SNL</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0" height="270" id="flashObj" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=4212708546001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Ftvshowbiz%2Farticle-3065897%2FScarlett-Johansson-performs-provocative-dance-hosts-SNL-thigh-skimming-white-dress.html%23v-4212708546001&playerID=2730234011001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAFSL1bg~,CmS1EFtcMWF3qCwIkkoMNkVkOrxR00Hs&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=4212708546001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Ftvshowbiz%2Farticle-3065897%2FScarlett-Johansson-performs-provocative-dance-hosts-SNL-thigh-skimming-white-dress.html%23v-4212708546001&playerID=2730234011001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAFSL1bg~,CmS1EFtcMWF3qCwIkkoMNkVkOrxR00Hs&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="480" height="270" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you thought you were in danger of not seeing an overweight boy dancing to house music, you have nothing to fear.</span><br />
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<span class="watch-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Kaelynn "Kay Kay" Harris | FRONTROW | World of Dance Bay Area 2015 #WODBAY2015"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">I liked Kaelynn "Kay Kay" Harris going in to Missy's Pass that dutch at World of Dance Bay Area 2015</span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes we find it hard to describe ourselves. What are we? Dancers, writers, film-makers, visual artists? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of the above?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to speak to <a href="http://www.bedtimes.co/old">Conor Grebel</a> a 'creative' form San Francisco, mainly because I wasn't completely sure what it was he did. Turns out he's not quite sure either! Read on and find out why that might be a great thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I don't know if I'd call myself a designer! I used to just be a kid that drew a lot and loved making worlds, then wanted to be an animator, then found out motion graphics was a thing...then just...got into it. I inspired myself to do these things. Along the way you see work/artists that inspire you...piece by piece. I don't even know what I am or want to be...musician? SFX artist? Animator? set builder? live stage designer? Music video director? Human? Ant? Still unsure on most of those. The most liberating thing that ever happened is when I stopped trying to discover what type of artist I was, or what direction or style was 'my calling'...and started accepting an open passion to any thought/style/project/medium that inspired me...project to project. Being open to whatever you wanna do and then doing it...even if its jumping from animating to woodworking. Do it. Freedom!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conor is passionate about whatever he chooses to do. Being inspired is the first step, but then you have to take that passion for your craft and believe that you can add to the world in your own creative way, whatever form that may take. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course it's not easy once your on that journey, and the road is destined to be littered with speed-bumps. What do you do when it feels like you've run out of ideas?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Stop struggling. Let yourself be unmotivated and stop giving yourself a hard time about it. The more you struggle with it the worse it will get. When you get a cold you don't work hard at getting rid of it, right? You cant exercise and stress out and get upset about it...otherwise you will tire out more and the cold will get worse. The best thing to do is to accept your situation, relax yourself, and take care of yourself. Same with periods of low motivation. Trust in yourself, your body, and your mind. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/95464977" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/95464977">Bedtimes - It's a Trick</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/conorg">Conor Grebel</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't forget to chill out. No-one is going to arrest you if you take a break. Get your sleep and have some down time. You'll find this is the time when the ideas start to flow. Don't force it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That said, taking a breather might relax you about your situation, but it won't in itself give you ideas. If you're still struggling to break the shackles of your creative prison, get out and experience the world. You can do this in any number of ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Watch / experience other peoples work. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Start making a habit of writing down ideas. Once you start doing this, ideas seem so much more real...and you start to expand on them.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Music.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Take a walk.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You never know where your inspiration will come from. Just get up from the computer, step away from the canvas and go interact with the world around you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And don't forget, if you think we all have things sorted, we don't. None of us know what the heck we're doing! Just get out and do it and the rest will fall into place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I'm still figuring out shit myself. We all are! Everybody has no clue what they are doing, they are all trying to figure it out as they go.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like the great <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Goldman">William Goldman</a> once said about Hollywood, "<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/457097-nobody-knows-anything-not-one-person-in-the-entire-motion">Nobody knows anything</a>"!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Check out all of Conor's work. He is a very talented dude, but more importantly he is very passionate and imbues his art with a quality borne of hard work and belief in his ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conor Grebel performs as <a href="http://www.bedtimes.co/projects/">Bedtimes </a>and his great EP 'It's a Trick' can be found <a href="https://soundcloud.com/bedtimes/sets/its-a-trick-ep">HERE</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He contributed to Vice's Creators Project with his video for <a href="http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/see-how-sfx-artists-shaped-the-elements-for-tychos-see-video">Tycho's 'See'</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Check out his Vimeo portfolio <a href="https://vimeo.com/conorg">HERE</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ConorGrebel">@ConorGrebel</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Check out the fantastic 'Box' below, which was a Vimeo Staff Pick in 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Azealia Banks is 23.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's important to remember that fact when you consider the tumultuous two year period leading up to the release of her schizoprenic and excellent debut album. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In those two years, she has amassed a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Jv9fNPjgk">mega-hit song</a>, several acclaimed <a href="http://www.djbooth.net/index/albums/review/azealia-banks-fantasea">mixtapes</a>, won and lost a major label deal and instigated many twitter beefs. She went from unbeatable to, in her own words, "untouchable".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whilst the <a href="http://www.complex.com/music/2014/06/a-history-of-azealia-banks-twitter-beefs/ti-2">twitter beefs</a> don't look like they'll abate any time soon, there <i>is </i>this album, and what a gorgeous mess it is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In an age when average-joe consumer is likely to say that all music is mainstream, lets be clear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is not a mainstream album, but it is a great one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been listening to the album in the background most nights, not really deeply listening, and it's almost as if that's the way it should be listened to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One time I walked in to the lounge-room and Azealia was adopting a perfect Spanish flow like a true <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chica">chica </a>on the funkily salsified "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvvzfomaizQ">Gimme A Chance</a>", whilst another time I found her doing her best <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ngTd7SPFCw">Annette Funicello</a> impression on the 60's Beach Party banger "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_hhyoMPMEo">Nude Beach A Go-Go</a>". It's not a concept you're brain easily grips on to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It doesn't stop there. Having equal skill in both singing and rhyming allows Banks to be flexible, but it also means she's spoiled for stylistic choices. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I'm so good at all these styles, why not do them all? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ3nZlcSjYc">Garage</a>/<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoKYkbDxqBo">2-Step</a> track "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XznLpNC8YlM">Desperado</a>", sampled from the fantastic early aught's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_JvvALgD9Q">MJ Cole</a> classic and there's of course her house-influenced 2012 world-beater "212".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can see why <a href="https://www.facebook.com/interscope">Interscope </a>was baffled with how to market her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regardless of whether she's mainstream or not, Banks is just being herself, a product of a broad cultural upbringing. She hails from Harlem, which up until the 90's was predominantly populated by african-americans. By the time she was a teen, she might not have even noticed that her neighbourhood had become more multicultural. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Banks would have grown up in a populus that was infused with the DNA of local Hip-Hop denizens like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWOsbGP5Ox4">Tupac</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgfZgBpDzPM">Cam'ron</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eWdbMBYlH4">A$AP Rocky</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrAyOGMq5G4">Mase </a>and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-ImCpNqbJw">P. Diddy</a>. Added to that, she would also have felt the influence of incoming White, Hispanic and foreign-born African communities, who have increasingly made up Harlem's numbers as Manhattans property prices have risen sharply in price.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This diverse cultural background partly explains her list of collaborators, which is as varied as it it is long. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KcOZ2qHz5g&spfreload=10">Lone</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKaL7WL-onI">Diplo</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV0LHCHf-pE">Baauer</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93ASUImTedo">Disclosure</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYZqhYl12Nw">MachineDrum </a>and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_MWuP2Qj7U">Hudson Mohawke</a> are among the better-known producers who have worked with Bank$, none of whom are among the mainstream soundsmiths that we typically associate with chart-topping pop acts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, it's precisely this melange of differing collaborators that ensures that <i>Expensive </i>is as restlessly interesting and entertaining as it is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtTjzDTpx8o">Chasing Time</a>", produced by Philly producer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gQJkJGyILI">Pop Wansel</a>, is classic Banks. It's an uptempo dance track that allows her to flex her considerable house muscle, but also challenges her to keep pace with her rap verses. This she does with an ease that very few, if any, of her contemporaries could manage. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How does this happen? </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How does Banks rip through a track that most pop stars wouldn't even consider? Wansel has an idea. "Most rappers are not in a space right now to be innovative or to be open to different shit. They want to chase what’s on the radio. They want a “club banger.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Banks wants club bangers too, but she also wants 60's pop songs and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCIXjKSwuWA">Garage </a>tunes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This record is not for everybody, hell, I'm pretty sure it's not even meant to be for me. For the person that it is for, Banks herself, it's important.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's shows an artist in motion, someone who has spent the last three years working out who she is, and someone who is still working that out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As fascinated as I am following her journey, I kinda hope she never stops searching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any Bboy or Bgirl who hasn't heard the name <a href="http://www.battleoftheyear.de/news/news/date/2013/11/19/boty-interview-special-thomas-hergenroether.html">Thomas Hergenröther</a> probably hasn't competed in Battle of the Year. Hergenröther is synonymous with <a href="https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDMQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.battleoftheyear.de%2Fabout.html&ei=jellVNibEsTAmQW_3IAI&usg=AFQjCNGtgOThpOMYWfMpqNQoPP_mWzTqig&sig2=-lqyysoSq9pBo3gNq6Xjew&bvm=bv.79142246,d.dGY">BOTY </a>because he was the man that created it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a fan of many BOTY's and of course the stellar 2007 documentary <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpntYFfVoQU">Planet BBoy</a>, I knew I had to talk to Thomas about creating an event that has gone on capture the worlds attention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thomas was very generous with his response and his story encapsulates what happens when you have a great idea, a little motivation and an inclusive attitude. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most big undertakings start from humble beginnings with a few creative and motivated people, so my question was to find out what or who inspired Thomas to create Battle of the Year in the first place?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I was a Bboy and in the end of the 80s it totally died out in Germany/Europe. I kept on dancing and finally found few other Bboys who were still left. We sat down, discussed and then decided to try to bring it back and show the public that to us Hip Hop including Bboying is more than a <a href="https://bboyoriginal.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/b-boy-fashion-70s-2012/">fashion </a>but passion. That was my/our first motivation to start the BOTY without knowing of course that in the future it will last so long and will grow so big.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>In the end of the 80s we also met <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpJmISV30uo">Battle Squad</a> with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFQT8i8LiQI">Storm </a>and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjAz--wbucY">Swift </a>and they probably were our main inspiration at that time encouraging us to do something.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Creative people challenge the status quo, knowing that our best as human beings is always still ahead of us. Thomas found that although popular culture at that point had chewed up and spit out breaking, the spirit of the culture was still young and there were people crying out for a unifying event, not just in Germany, but around the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Motivation especially in the early years was easy. It was all a big adventure during the age of no you tube, facebook and emails. You never knew what will happen and every BOTY from 1990 to 2000 was kind of unpredictable in terms of knowing which dancers and crews and also how much crowd will show up. Especially the first five BOTY editions (1990 – 1995) still had that original jam character, it was a very close and interactive atmosphere, very original in terms of the true meanings and vibes of hip hop culture.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>It was more in and after 1999/2000 that I questioned our ideas a lot since we got quite some negative feedback in terms oft hat BOTY got too big and commercial, saying that we sell out the hip hop culture, which from my side really never was the case. My heart was and still is always with the culture and dancers of course with adapting to time and in the end of course business.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>But I totally got over it since today I am totally convinced of our event and philosophy we spread for BOTY, plus nowadays we have so many BBoy events and the scene and audience for everything is so big that everybody can choose were to go and where not to go.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>My main inspiration and motivation up to today still are important people keep on pushing us such as <a href="http://www.stormdance.de/?cat=21">Storm</a>, <a href="http://www.mode2.org/about">Mode 2</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcMCq5SJkYw">Crazy</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twGTlKx2vfE">Vartan </a>/ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEdreF32b90">Flying Steps</a> and also my brilliant team which is like family, with some we work together since 1995.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Youthful enthusiasm and having low expectations can provide motivation when you're starting out, but the inspiration you get from others you've met and work with because of your creation is what keeps you working on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Battle of the year is over 25 years old, and Thomas is a veteran of the scene now, so I was curious to ask Thomas if there are specific things that he does that helps him get in a creative state of mind?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I travel a lot all over the world watching different kinds of dance events, not only Bboy event but of course mainly Bboy events. I think we can learn from younger/new events sometimes. If we would still do the same things with BOTY as we did in the early 90s it would not work, time is running and the kids and also the Bboys change in attitude, needs, behaviour …</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Beside that I do a lot of sports especially outdoor activities in my life and this keeps me down to earth plus calms me down a lot to think about new ideas and concepts for our events.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although BOTY is Thomas's focus, he has other hobbies and sports that allow him to take time out from his work. Sometimes when you work <i>in </i>your business, you are so concerned with the day-to-day operations you forget you need to work <i>on </i>your business, and some of those business decisions require a clear and creative mind. The time away from work gives you the opportunity to think differently and more broadly, helping create new ideas and to remind you why you started in the first place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thomas has worked hard to create an event that has stayed as true as it can to the original spirit of the Hip Hop culture whilst still growing and changing with every generation. If you're looking to stay relevant creatively and culturally for the long run, taking Thomas's example is a good start.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's very, very few Hip Hop MC's that you can say were relevant in 1990 that are still relevant today. The list of relevant producers is even shorter, but DJ Quik is both relevant as an MC and a producer. More than relevant, he excels at both.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Midnight Life is his 9th studio album, and it's one of his best, which is saying something.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Beauty is the promise of happiness" - <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stendhal">Stendhal</a>, 19th-century French writer </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"My music is flawless" - DJ Quik, Pet Sematary </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The live instrumentation that Quik raps over bears the signs of a restless producer who's been searching for the perfect sound for more than half his life. If beauty is truly the promise of happiness then Quik is trying make a lot of people extremely happy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although this album revels in perfecting old school styles (G-Funk, Jazz, Vocoders) there are signs that Quik has one ear to the mainstream. With a little Ratchet here, and a little Trap there, Quik can co-sign the latest fads without giving over to them. That he is able to mesh more contemporary beats with the sounds that have cemented his legacy since Quik is the name, is all the more impressive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In taking the best of all genres, Quik constructs a well-designed piece of art, a package of sound that acts as a reminder to us of the values we wish to see in ourselves - clarity, attention to detail, integrity, depth, dexterity and perfection. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, Quik doesn't let perfection get in the way of a good time. A party starter from the get-go, the music of the Midnight Life reflects the attitudes of the easy-going Quik.
The Jazzy late-night groove of 'Pet Sematary' lulls you into Quik's world, one that is simultaneously partying like its 1989 and 2014. 'Puffin the Dragon' even sounds like a TV theme song from the 1970's. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's not all gin and juice though. Anyone who heard the more scathing tracks on Quik's 2011 album <a href="http://youtu.be/WvtUBFDW5Ls">The Book of David</a> will know his real life has not been easy, and this every present fear pervades every verse of this album.
Hailing from the notoriously violent suburb of Compton, and entering the game with the likes of <a href="http://youtu.be/TMZi25Pq3T8">NWA</a>, Quik knows the gangsta life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His hood side is present on bangers like 'Trapped on the Tracks' and 'That Getter', although the paranoia explicit in those tracks is also sprinkled right through his album. Like the mafioso in the diner, Quik never has his back to the door. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Where does this perceived fear stem from?
Maybe Quik feels that his comparative lack of success is unwarranted? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I suspect that he is keenly aware that his take on West Coast Hip Hop long ago ceased to appeal to the casual rap fan, and I believe he doesn't mind being the odd one out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If Quik is truly aiming for beauty in his art, and if art really is the "<a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/35785/Matthew-Arnold/415/Arnold-as-critic">criticism of life</a>", then Quiks art comes at a price, which may be in the form of decreasing radio spins and albums sales. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That may be all be true, but in any case, the world is better off when Quik's trying to rupture the status quo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Buy now at <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-midnight-life/id912629394">Itunes</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not here to comment on the already exhausted arguements about Australian-born rapper Iggy Azalea not rapping in an Australian accent, in fact I support her doing it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where would <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ds9CeG-VY">Hugh Jackman</a> be if he didn't switch to the american drawl in his blockbuster role 'Swordfish'. Aussies have been donning the american slang since <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuXcMzs8PQY">Errol Flynn</a> was in tights, so why should we be angry that an Aussie</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> popstar has done the same.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That said, making Hip-Hop in an American accent probably disqualifies you from claiming you are making Australian music, much the way Hugh can't claim that X-Men is an Aussie Franchise. This may expain why Iggy has <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/10/28/meet-iggy-azalea-the-street-smart-blonde-bombshell-behind-puy">long since distanced herself from her heritage</a> in as many ways as possible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"To be 100% honest, I don't have any friends in Australia, just my family. I identify with Australian culture, of course; I was raised there. But there are parts of other cultures I identify with more, which is why I moved". </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I don't really want to talk about that, as fascinating as that conversation is. No, I want to talk about the other controversy</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> plaguing the Iggy persona - <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/5-things-white-people-cultural-appropriation/">cultural appropriation</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Much has been made of her story - Girl from a small town learns to rap to American Hip-Hop in an American accent, is pushed out of the local hip-hop scene and runs away to the USA to become a star. I make it sound like an overnight success, but to be clear, her road to success actually took quite a number of years. I digress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Along the way, as we know, she developed what <a href="http://www.o-dub.com/wp/">Oliver Wang </a>described as “a hat trick of appropriation: not American, not black, not southern”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With this triumverate of acquired skills, she has accumulated a hit single and the co-sign of one <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/18/rapper-t-i-on-prison-weapons-death-threats-drugs-justin-timberlake-tower-heist.html">America's most successful rappers</a>. The question is then, where does she go from here? She has the skillset, work ethic and connects, but she's yet to make a compelling personal record. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If she doesn't have the benefit of american cultural DNA and she's unwilling to discuss her Australian upbringing, where is she going to get her lyrical content from? she can't adopt much more from African-American culture you would think, but it's an interesting question - what's Iggy's <b>Appropriative ceiling</b>?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you look at the best African American, Southern hip-hop albums of all time, you can start to paint the picture of the directions Iggy would have to take to actually record a new classic .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the characteristics of some of the best known Southern Hip-Hop albums.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Personal self-reflection - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7zw5XnSc-w">8 Ball & MJG</a> - In Our Lifetime, Vol. 1, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHyqs0PoBgE">Scarface </a>- The Fix, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGfQ27le-Pw">UGK</a> -Ridin' Dirty)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Street persona - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lasNkDLH08&list=PLAF8A61FC3E0BBB63">Rick Ross</a> - Teflon Don, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIhgAbd1o_I">Young Jeezy </a>- Let’s Get It, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woY6pG-WUZ8">T.I.<span id="goog_1425367343"></span><span id="goog_1425367344"></span> - King</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Social commentary - (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=outkast+ms+jackson">Outkast </a>- Aquemini)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spirituality (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6begU7Ts6Y">Goodie Mob </a>- Soul Food)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Violence and mayhem (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M8GszEN9MM">Geto Boys</a> - We Can't be Stopped)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For most of these artists, and indeed Hip-Hop artists in general, their best albums were recorded early in their careers. The characteristics listed above are not adopted, they're ingrained in ones upbringing and provide a life-times worth of first-hand experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I find it hard to think that Iggy will be able to embed her lyrics with these same regionally specific characteristics. At best you can hope she imbues her content with more story-telling qualities, recounting her travels through her early years in Australia and the US with the specificity and soul her music currently lacks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Iggy's not lyrically complex, and this holds her back in any argument for her Hip Hop immortality, and it doesn't stop there. Although her flow is precise, it's very studied and not yet lived-in, a product of performance over naturality. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a sense that her flow will relax with time, into something that feels more an exaggeration of her true self and less like a Siri-fied T.I.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another interesting point is that The New Classic doesn't sound geographically southern either, an indicator of a more globally-focussed Hip-Hop industry and a commercial sound designed to appeal to the largest number of music fans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As she gains more autonomy over her sound, there is a chance that she would find productions that better suit her flow and even more promising, producers who craft tracks specifically for her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apart from the Southern Hip-Hop artists listed previously, Iggy's most obvious female comparison would likely be to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UODX_pYpVxk">Missy Elliot.</a> Whilst other female rappers have made sexuality the focus of their lyrics (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhCD9qxlczo">Lil Kim</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8qwpzn0fcs">Gangsta Boo</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABZDZY5aCLY">Trina</a>), Elliot carved her own way, through the tripped out party music of frequent collaborator <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/TimbalandVEVO">Timbaland</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her distinctive style set her apart, and yet Elliot found that she was able to stay largely away from personal lyrics whilst still being commercially and critically successful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, Iggy doesn't have Missy's cartoonish personality or a frequent collaborator like Timbaland, she lives or dies on hot beats from a coterie of collaborators. This typically works short term, but in the long term just focusses peoples attention on your producer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Iggy could refashion herself into a trend-setting,globe-trotting chameleon, much like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKaL7WL-onI">Diplo </a>or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYs0gJD-LE">M.I.A.,</a> however for now she seems content to stay her lane. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wherever she goes from here, it will be an interesting ride. Lets just hope that her success leads to more homegrown American female rappers getting deals and making great albums and not to more thinkpieces like this one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, it seems like a different experience this time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time I wasn't young, and I wasn't getting off a crowded bus in Las Ramblas having slept fitfully the night before, but it didn't matter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The excitement was still there, in as much as I can muster excitement at 39.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we dropped our bags off at our apartment, headed downstairs in our creaky two-man elevator and stepped outside through the heavy door, the surreality set in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a calm; a sense of 'what do we do now?'; the kind you get when you realize the event you've been waiting for these past few months is in reality a non-event, and adjusting your expectations accordingly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We walked around a couple hours, acquainting ourselves with our neighbourhood. We passed through Passeig El Born, our temporary main street that looked under and overwhelming at the same time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was right. This was no Woody Allen movie, no, this was more like a Miyazaki dreamscape, complete with fantastical creatures in beautiful costumes. It dragged me in, I wanted to be one of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My bare spanish proved to be a burden in Spain, and not just for my mediocre pronounciations. Catalans do not in fact speak common Spanish, which impacted me in the most direct of ways. I did not find out until the end of our trip that coffee with milk was in fact two entirely different words in Catalan than it was in Spanish. This was not held against me as a Spaniard, but it did out me as a foreigner, which is an entirely different 'ism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After all that, the coffee was almost entirely awful. If not for the fact that we lived around the corner from the crowned kingdom of Catalan coffee 'Cafe El Magnifico', I dare say I may not have drank coffee for several days (a record by several days).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Cafe El Magnifico' was not only rare in it's coffee quality, it was also one of the few genuinely friendly conversations I had with retailers in Barcelona. That's no dig, Barcelona has the best service I've encountered anywhere in the world, it's just that service comes at the expense of friendly banter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Picasso museum beckoned us, but only in the way an unchecked to-do list beckoned you to pick up some extra onions from the shops. We weren't here to get stuff done, we didn't have to do anything, so we didn't. In that way we were free to do everything, at our own pace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The weather was hot, but not hot in a way that made you want to strip down to near nothing. You couldn't anyway, it would appear, because civilization was all around you, and stepping outside was an invitation to be judged on the Catalan catwalks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catalan's dressed to the nine's and ten's, and heat would not deter this. Taut, light fabrics were tailored to the summer sun, allowing the locals to maintain a conservative and European cut to their cloth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We followed suit (pardon the pun). The best way to deter pick-pockets was to dress like a local, which we took as an invitation to shop. The clothing was indeed light and somewhat prudish, however it was never less than stylish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My search lead me to Espadrilles, a shoe which I had been trying to buy for at least 12 months, with no success. Here they numbered in the hundreds. The appeal is simple. A light summer slip-on that covered the foot and looked stylish? Sign me up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The beach was a like a sandy Las Ramblas, with tourists claiming a stake in almost every square inch of real estate. We sat on deckchairs that were surprisingly empty, only to find out later that they were owned by the council, and inspectors would come around from time to time and collect fees for sitting on them. Obviously they're not as diligent as our parking inspectors, as we sat undisturbed for at least a couple hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The beach sand was the mid-point between sand and dirt, and therefore was not as soft or pretty. Not pretty could also describe the multitude of local octogenarians who felt it was their duty to walk up and down the beach completely naked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sure, a few girls were morbidly curious enough to want a picture with them, but what about the rest of us. The sight of their sun-scarred, low-hanging dried fruit was enough to make you run for the nearest bar, which we did. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a much better view, and the heat subsided under the shade of the restaurant. A cold pint of Estrella went down well with the lap of the beach and a balearic house DJ as a soundtrack. If it sounds idyllic, it was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, then you had to walk all the way back to apartment, some 15 minutes walk away, but there was never a dull view, and so a stroll went quick.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The city looked so unfamiliar upon our return. Even spots I knew I had walked on seemed different, as though I'd shot a film and come back 14 years later trying to replicate the camera angles from the home movies of my memory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Montjuic castle, where we had spent an exhaustive evening back in 2000, sitting on our bags while an orchestra played in time with its namesake fountain, felt new if unexciting. Perhaps I was letting my brain convince me that the castle was not beautiful or breathtaking. In fact, the 'moment' of that visit was the old man and his lovable dog that doted behind him. He was forever calling it to catch up, and we tailed behind too, until we got close enough so that Kirsten could interrupt and be allowed to have a hold of the furry puppy. We laughed as he struggled and licked, as only a puppy can, and his owner conversed with us in his native language.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No coins for the train, getting a 50 euro note turned down at the Organic grocers. We had to buy pepsi's from a chain restaurant to get home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is not chronological, but I like it like that. I'm sure at some point I will sit down and mark dates and activities and food, but for now I like that it doesn't track the way it usually does. Every day feels like a dream.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although this hardly touches the surface of new music in 2014, it does give some shine to a bunch of styles and sounds that have caught my ear, and have provided me hours of pleasure. I can understand if some of this stuff is not for everyone, it can get pretty niche. However, if you love music, I'm hoping this will be enough for you start deep-diving a few of these styles yourself and enjoying them as much as I have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chicago is known for its holy marriage of music and dance. It is the home of house music, and the birthplace of footwork and juke. Even more than house, footwork is inextricably tied to its signature dance style as much as the music that drives it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so it is with Bop. Influenced by the pulsing beat of house, the dance and percussive elements of Footwork and the swagger and flow of Hip-Hop, Bop is a sound definitively of this time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's also a sound of its location. The minimal beats and melody of Bop relay celebration, but it comes with a sinister undertone, like a bunch of mobsters living it up the night before a heist. Given the history of high murder rates in #chiraq, it shouldn't a surprise that even its most celebratory music is couched in paranoia and the threat of violence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although the stark beats feel dangerous, the intention of the sound is to get you on the floor. The Bop dance is a combobulation of loose yet precise chicken wing arms and complicated footwork. The sound ebbs and flows, the speedy high-hats competing against standard hip-hop snares, allowing the dancer to deviate between dance styles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Given that the dance is as synonymous with the music as the music itself, it's no surprise that Bop dancers are getting as much if not more love than the musicians. Lil Kemo is the undisputed king of Bop and can be seen #boppin with local acts in several Chicago area videos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As for beakout acts, Sickko Mob have taken the sugar rush of Bop into the mainstream, signing to the record label owned by pop hit-makers Stargate, so you may hearing Bop grace the top ten sometime soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Either way, its yet another example of how place, time, cultural lineage and youthful enthusiasm feed into the way we create and the way we live.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lisbon is a city that has seen hard times in recent years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Long standing rental laws keep young people out of the city, forcing them into isolated suburban ghettos. But whilst ghettos inherently trap people in cycles of poverty, the close proximity to others and depth of population in project building areas also provides interaction and therefore inspiration and innovation through communication.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DJ Marfox, a lifetime resident of Quinta do Mocho, a housing project 30 minutes from the city, was approached to join record label 'Principe' by its directors Pedro and Nelson Gomes. For the Gomes', the idea was to take the ghetto sounds they were hearing blasting out of local cars and expose it to the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marfox and his contempories (including DJ Nigga Fox, Niagara, Lilocox and more) take traditional Afro-Portuguese styles such as kuduro batucada, itself a sub-style of samba, and mix them with batida, kizomba, funaná, house, afro house and tarraxinha, genres mostly (but not exclusively) rooted in Angola, Cape Verde and São Tomé E Príncipe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Godfather of the lisbon sound is a man regularly touted by Principe artists, DJ Nervoso. He was a heavy contributor to the seminal Lisbon compilation DJ's Do Guetto Vol.1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Lisbon sound itself is hard to define, due to its ever-expanding strains and sub-genres. However, if you had to describe it, it would be a style that is faster than traditional Portugese dance, with highly repititive drums and rhythms, programmed to perfection through drum machines. As Phillip Sherburne puts it in Spin, it's like "U.K. funky, the uptempo, Caribbean-flavored strain of British house music; but this stuff is even more intense".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're sick of pristine commercial EDM and want something with a little more edge and rhythm, then this raw, ghetto dance style will get your booty shaking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hy Brazil is supposedly a mythical phantom island in the Atlantic. However, in the present day, it's also the title of a series of compilations of various Brazilian music compiled by veteran producer Chico Dub.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brazil is on the economic up-swing, so it shouldn't be a surprise that fully-formed bands and musicians are being curated and presented to the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It also shouldnt surprise that a country that is so culturally rich is producing such high-quality music. What is surprising is that up until now, it's been so hard for so many to be heard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The music covers the spectrum of genres, with Baile Funk, Trap, Garage, House and Hip-Hop all finding there way into the various tracks across the four Hy Brazil compilations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the World Cup and Olympics coming up, it might be 'Hy' time that you bone up on your Brazilian and get into carnivale mode with this series of albums.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grime is a dormant genre, the successor to garage and 2-step and the birthplace of EDM stars like Dizzee Rascal and Wiley. It's driven by its basslines, another bass-heavy strain in the lineage of the hardcore contiuum, and sounds to newbies like angular Hip-Hop. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Garage and 2-Step became mainstream, other producers started creating harder edged sounds, darker and sometimes enhanced by equally grave staccato rap flows. This became the template the for Grime, a sound that is said to have originally been created on Playstations (necessity breeds innovation).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first wave of Grime rose quickly and died even quicker, taking Garage and 2-Step down with it. Violence, drugs and the media co-erced to bring an early end to any mainstream aspirations for grime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So where has it been and why is it back? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grime, like most of the genres in the hardcore continuum before it, crashed and burned, and yet out of the ashes it birthed styles and stars that went on to become influences themselves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without the violence and heavy-handed posse mentality of Grime, would we have seen the birth of dubstep? Dubstep was once an insular, hazy low-end dream, the polar opposite of Grime, but it was also direct descendant of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whilst dubstep morphed into the backbone of the first wave of EDM in the late noughties, strains of Grime DNA were finding their way back into UK clubs through new genres like UK Funky and the Purple sound coming out of Bristol. Not only did these both sounds lead to the third wave of UK House that is dominating charts all over the world currently, it also lead producers young and old back to Grime itself, an alternative to the safe, pristine sounds of groups like Disclosure and Rudimental.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been suggested that Grime didn't have the chance to grow and mutate as it should of at the time, and it's only now that younger producers are taking the templates of earlier incarnations of Grime and re-purposing and re-contextuallizing them for the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The beats and sounds are still minimal and stark, with clean, crisp synth stabs and staccato kick drums. But the melodies are more complicated, and in the hands of the more experimental, prettier and more melodious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That an album would appear this late in the groups rise is both a surprise and a relief. With the benefit of hindsight it's easy to say that after four years of working together it was inevitable that these two could make a dope album, but lets be honest, we all thought it could have been a disaster.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thankfully it's another solid entry in the discographies of both of these artists catalogs, and that's saying something. This album was made with a purpose, and that purpose was to make you dance and dance as furiously as a Tony Jaa roundhouse kick.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The album kicks off with 'Chariots of the Gods' and does not let up for it's length. Sometimes the extended length of the tracks wears, but that's only because this music was designed for the stage and not for the headphones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'It's you' and 'Barbara Streisand' sound like novelty hits, but they also move, bringing levity without losing the tempo. On an album that is both pounding and funny, these tracks are a welcome interlude.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The apex of the sound of Duck Sauce has always been at the crossroads of the artists styles - the sample-driven House chop and flip of Van Helden and the turntable dexterity and humour of A-Trak. This comes through in spades on highlights like 'Radio Stereo' and 'NRG', although it could apply to 90% of the LP.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whilst this album is better heard out in a field surrounded by like-minded duckologists, it still bangs in the bedroom and cranks in the car.</span><br />
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Schoolboy Q is one of the signature pieces in the wardrobe that is TDE, the cohort of Californian rappers and producers that includes Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Jay Rock and board-smiths like Digi+Phonics and THC.<br />
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This San Fran gangsta not only plies his trade one of the most eclectic and exciting franchises in Hip-Hop, as a solo artist he operates in the tightly packed tranche that rests just below the upper echelons of Hip-Hop's ivory tower, and he is knocking on it's door.<br />
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Oxymoron then, is Schoolboy Q's coming out, the album that is required to build upon the success of his debut <i>Habits & Contradictions</i>, and give him an all-access pass to Kanye-like fame.<br />
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'Los Awesome' rides an uptempo synth-stabbing beat and trunk rattling drums courtesy of Pharrell. Typically, the backpacking sound of Q's early work would seem at odds with this speedy maximal offering, but the track showcases a sweet balance of low-end Hip-Hop and Neptunes-era gloss.<br />
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The backpackers get their shout-out in the form of 'Collard Greens', another uptempo banger, yet one that is more spacious and hollow. The openness of the beat allows Q and Kendrick Lamar to showcase their voices and lyrics. Both men appear lusty for the low-end bass and drums, with Kendrick introducing the track as "your favorite song".<br />
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The throwback boom-bap gets even thicker on 'Hoover Street', which starts a psychedelic treatise on familial relations over staccato drums, and then switches up into a buzzy, dusty groove that Odd Future would kill to be freestyling over. 'Prescription' is a gloriously trippy concoction that finds Q taking Recovery-period Eminem and restyling him as a sorry-for-himself addict rather than an empowered ex-junkie. It's pretty intoxicating.<br />
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Did someone say Odd Future? Not surprisingly, Tyler the Creator drops by for 'The Purge', a paean to death and destruction custom made for both men to go in with deliriously decrepit (c)rhymes. Another spiritual brother-in-arms arrives for low-key head-nodder 'Blind Threats', as Raekwon the Chef preaches street justice in typically realistic fashion.<br />
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'Hell of a night' feels like an almost-single, a track too authentic to trouble the top 40 but important and street enough to live on car stereos for the duration of the summer. It stays the somber lane that the rest of the album refuses to deviate from, and yet you can still find fun in the middle of the paranoid haze.<br />
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The album closes with the celebratory 'Man of the year', its muted synths and hard drums making it almost jubilant in comparison the rest of the album.<br />
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The darkness and fog that pervades the album threatens at times to turn it into a downer, but the engaging flow of Q and his high-caliber guests turn it into one of the years most distinctively enjoyable long-players.<br />
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Every year we name the Top 20 tracks that we bumped throughout the year, whether that be in class, at home or in our cars. As our studio focuses on Hip-Hop, Dance, RnB and K-Pop, the list reflects that focus. Hit us up with some tracks that we've inevitably missed, because we can't get around to listening to everything! Merry Christmas!</div>
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Based on the early 90's hit '<a href="http://youtu.be/CPm7oCnpld8">My Boo</a>', this sexy smooth RnB jam ended up being too slow for the clubs and too raunchy for the charts. Which is a shame, because it contains one of Mike Will Made it's best beats and perhaps Ciara's sexiest vocal performance (which is saying something). Don't forget to check the video too, featuring Ciara's real-life beau Future trying to chat her up.<br />
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When I first heard this track as Kanye debuted it on SNL, I was not sure what I had just witnessed, which I'm sure was a reaction most people watching would've had. After several years of EDM RnB and '<i><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kanye-west-claims-the-stage-in-atlantic-city-20120707">808s & Heartbreaks</a></i>' style Hip-Hop, 'New Slaves' was a course correction sonically, and an layered call-to-action lyrically. It set the table for his polarizing album and equally polarizing rounds of talk-show appearances.<br />
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The track is now better known for it's '<a href="http://www.vulture.com/2013/11/jerry-saltz-on-kanye-west-kim-kardashian-bound-2.html">new uncanny</a>' video and <a href="http://youtu.be/nRckgn36lzY">related parodies</a>, but the song itself was an ode to the nostalgia of love and was couched in gourgeous soul samples and Charlie Wilsons angelic vocals. It's also hilarious too.<br />
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This track had me constantly hitting rewind for at least a month. Although the nimble bassline suggested a sultry love song, what we got was a tribute to a doomed relationship. "I never was in love, you know that you were never good enough".<br />
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This song lived with me for a couple months as Track 11. It wasn't until I got frustrated and googled it that I found out it was a sneaky bootleg from the ubiquitous <a href="https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fbrenmar&ei=mfq4UvquAs7kkAWm54DABw&usg=AFQjCNEn0el28G3pedMQnYJCuR7AZTBu6w&sig2=w7pp7LmHmaVNnYVTNebroA&bvm=bv.58187178,d.dGI">Brenmar</a>.<br />
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Calling your song Aaliyah is setting yourself up for failure. Luckily that's exactly what the song is about, as two of the best british dance pop singers of this generation find themselves having to leash their men around the ethereally untouchable <a href="https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CD4QtwIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DxcIvIladNnQ&ei=sfq4UpmSN8ihkAXFq4GAAQ&usg=AFQjCNF9u6LSo4yLM5-IaoukXD43cMUj6w&sig2=moACklPKwCQqcP6V2ZlWtA&bvm=bv.58187178,d.dGI">Aaliyah</a>. Part tribute, part floor-filling ode to jealously, the Batman and Robin of bass music weave back and forth through this slinky heater from bass vet <a href="https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDMQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fgeeneus&ei=zvq4Uom1MMXZkAXLtYGgAQ&usg=AFQjCNFGvrmgg3Hwa81boB1tVxXWPSvVsg&sig2=qW17KLVWTbMXXcCNuSSCPw&bvm=bv.58187178,d.dGI">Geeneus</a>.<br />
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Alunageorge wore on me by the end of the year. Ubiquitous singles were flying all over the place and they began to wear out their welcome. Luckily Brenmar was around to beef up the already excellent Just a Touch and unleash it's potential as a dancefloor crusher.<br />
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10. <span style="font-size: large;">Chance The Rapper</span></div>
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<b><i>Chain Smoker</i></b></div>
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After a year in which he's supported Eminem and Kendrick Lamar, It's hard to believe that this track and all of Chance's success came from a mixtape.<a href="https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.datpiff.com%2Fmixtapes-search%3Fcriteria%3Dacid%2520rap%26sort%3Drelevance&ei=8_q4UouMMoWViQe_y4CwCg&usg=AFQjCNFDlkZ-U5gKC6cqLD0Ft0o5-lJ6KQ&sig2=u_4xBCr1NcstsokI4aL96A&bvm=bv.58187178,d.dGI"> <i>Acid Rap</i></a> was a complete surprise when it came out, a Hip-Hop album influenced musically by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juke_house">Juke</a> and any number of other regional sounds that provided a unique base for Chance's desperate sing-rap narratives. Chain Smoker illustrates the juxtapositions of his work, with footwork and a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1NAGhiVqdg">Bruce Hornsby</a> sounding piano loop, with Chance going in with a vocal turn that sounds forward-thinking and nostalgic all at the same time.<br />
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11. <span style="font-size: large;">Duke Dumont feat. A*M*E</span></div>
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<b><i>Need U 100%</i></b></div>
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Leading the charge of the House brigade with Disclosure was Duke Dumont, a veteran DJ with a preternatural ability to craft instantly likeable tunes. The langurous vocals of <a href="http://youtu.be/SAbCYkE2QMM">A*M*E*</a> helped out with that.<br />
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12. <span style="font-size: large;">Pusha T and Kendrick Lamar</span></div>
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<b><i>Nosetalgia</i></b></div>
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Pusha had 'dope' tracks this year, but none had the street-level feel of this stripped back banger. Then the white-hot Kendrick Lamar comes through asking if "you wanna see a dead body?" and it was done, son.<br />
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13. <span style="font-size: large;">Sophie</span></div>
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<b><i>Bipp</i></b></div>
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How do you subvert EDM without becoming a joke or an instant target. Drop the bass and pitch up your unashamedly sincere vocals. A unique one-off that remains listenable because of the sum of its parts. Do it, it'll make you feel better.<br />
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14. <span style="font-size: large;">Lorde </span></div>
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<b><i>Royals</i></b></div>
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No artist outside of Kanye caused more trouble this year. By becoming one of the first artists to strip back RnB to Bass and space instead of maximal EDM, Lorde had already done something drastically different from her peers. That she then laced her first couplet with <a href="http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/92279/shell-grow-out-of-it-the-lorde-backlash">disses to the Bling dynasty </a>currently dominating Hip Hop and Pop pushed her over the edge. The right artist for the times.<br />
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15. <span style="font-size: large;">Drake</span> </div>
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<b><i>Worst Behaviour</i></b></div>
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Some virtuoso rapping from Octobers Very Own. Drake at his hardest, this track stood out amongst the rap balladry of <a href="http://statigr.am/tag/nwts">#NWTS</a>. When Drake gives space to the track and asks us to "Remember..." the track really <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKw5mBh4rYs">comes for your money like ODB</a>. Plus the video is hilariously awesome.<br />
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16. <span style="font-size: large;">Kingdom feat. Kelela</span></div>
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<b><i>Bankhead</i></b></div>
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Kingdom gifts Kelela a spacey, bassey beat that presages <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvL0RlN87MI">Yonce's </a>latest musical direction and signals a new force in RnB.<br />
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17. <span style="font-size: large;">The Range</span> </div>
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<b><i>Metal Swing</i></b></div>
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I put on the Range's debut album Non-Fiction with no expectations of what I was about to hear. It very quickly sucked me in, and this slow-burning bass-driven piano looped track worked its magic immediately. That the instrumental is interrupted bya repeated fractal vocal clip of a cockney grime artist querying a threat in rhyming slang is just relish. Give in.<br />
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18. <span style="font-size: large;">Disclosure</span></div>
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<b><i>Latch</i></b></div>
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Somehow I actually missed Latch on its first go around, but I certainly made up for it once I picked up Disclosures stellar debut album Settle. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUK6HlzNWEg">Sam Smith's yearning vocal</a> is leant extra sincerity via the insistent house rhythms cooked up by the Lawrence brothers. I won't be letting go of this tune for a long time.<br />
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19. <span style="font-size: large;">Rhye </span></div>
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<i>Open</i></div>
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The violins, the falsetto and the lyrics that could sound ridiculous if spoken directly to an actual person. But driven through the airy vocals of canadian singer Milosh, you find yourself unable to resist the coo. You'll be a fool for their belly.<br />
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20. <span style="font-size: large;">Justin Timberlake</span></div>
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<b><i>Suit and Tie (Four Tet remix)</i></b></div>
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I had to get some Justin on here somehow, even if its via a Four Tet remix.<br />
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<b><u>Honourable Mentions</u></b><br />
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So, three things have happened recently that are inter-related and have caused me to do a complete 180 on my wardrobe.<br />
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1) I started reading <a href="http://www.overdressedthebook.com/">Elizabeth Cline's Overdressed: The high cost of cheap fashion</a>. It made feel that I shouldn't indulge in cheap fashion anymore, and the reason was twofold. One, the obvious one, that the people that make my clothes are not paid enough to do it, and live in poverty and 2) the fashion industry has devolved into a world where clothes are defined by great design, but not great quality.<br />
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2) A bunch of my clothes, which I bought from a trendy fashion chain and are trendy like clothes I've never had before, have started falling apart. Now, considering the cost and effort of repairing them, I have been considering replacing them. They were cheap and cost me $30, so why not just replace them? <br />
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3) <a href="http://au.eonline.com/news/482850/kanye-west-slams-zappos-ceo-he-sells-all-this-shit-product-to-everybody">Kanye West</a> was interviewed by novelist Bret Easton Ellis last week and had a great quote, which book-ended a lot of the stories in Elizabeth Clines book and struck a chord with me as a philosophy worth following. He said “I got into this giant argument with the head of Zappos that he’s trying to tell me what I need to focus on,” West told Ellis. “Meanwhile, he sells all this shit product to everybody, his whole thing is based off of selling shit product."<br />
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He also said he was “super dedicated to awesomeness, and making things better.”<br />
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So why does Cline despair about the industry and why does West feel that he needs to make things better?<br />
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The fashion industry, made up of industry giants like Zara, Forever 21, ASOS, Zappos and many more, are just not able to give us quality product.<br />
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Yet they are able to give us great design. Why? The demand we as consumers put on them to keep prices low and the speed in which we need them to get the clothing lines out to us.<br />
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The process of fast fashion means they literally copy styles right off the runaway and get them in and of the stores quickly. Lax copyright laws mean that styles can be copied without recrimination. This is great for you and I, as design teams can slap the latest photos from Paris fashion week into a computer program and have the finished product on the retail floor in two weeks.<br />
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But where are the designers in all this? Aren't they responsible for the clothing they put out? No.<br />
A designer designs, and if the price point for their designs is too high to keep to low prices consumers demand, then operations teams in the fashion houses will ask for a cheaper design or they will redesign it themselves. Designers in places like Forever 21 barely even see their designs make it to the retail floor.<br />
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Look, I'm not slagging people for buying cheap clothes, lord knows we lived through too many years of poor design. I'm just asking you to consider where your clothes come from (Bangladesh, China), what they're made of (non-biodegradable Polyester) and think about what this industry is doing to the people that have to work in these factories and live in these cities. And think about what it's doing to the way we perceive fashion. With great design should come great quality.<br />
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There are ethical fashion choices out there, companies that won't accept anything less than quality products that are also fashionable.<br />
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And people like Kanye, who want only the best for us, and who want to move on from a world of unethical and poor quality fashion, are what we desperately need.<br />
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I've been reading with interest the back-and-forth diatribe's between the top dogs of EDM and it's detractors. The one thing that I seem to see a lot on the side of<a href="http://doandroidsdance.com/features/robert-sillerman-sfx-man-enough-handle-edm/"> those who have a stake in the future success of EDM</a>, is a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/fashion/a-200000-a-night-dj-known-as-kaskade-is-really-ryan-raddon-a-mormon.html">perceived optimism about it's future</a>. I thought that instead of running my mouth with uneducated opinions, maybe I should let others speak for me.<br />
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The post below is comparisons of quotes from articles and books about the 90's and early 00's dance scene and the current EDM scene. I thought it would be good for all of us to look at the current scene in context, and also reflect on it's similarity to previous scenes. I haven't even covered all the elements of the scenes, missing such crucial effects as the criminal element, but you'll get the picture.<br />
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If you don't understand your past mistakes, you're almost certainly doomed to repeat them.<br />
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<b>Corporatization </b><br />
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As soon as the money-makers arrive, the dilution of quality begins.<br />
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<i>You started to hear the murmerings of disquiet in 2001, when normally booster-ish dance mag Muzik claimed that the entire industry was in denial about the oncoming crisis. Attendance in clubs was declining, record sales were sliding, the only real growth area was chill-out compilations...</i><br />
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<i>The next generation of cool kids were turning away from faceless techno-bollocks, toward more face-full music...</i><br />
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<i>Dance musics mainstream was imploding,leaving an array of micro-scenes and little undergrounds orbiting a collapsed centre...</i><br />
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<i>Music usually becomes muzak only after it has been chart pop for a good while...</i> Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash<br />
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<i>As with every genre before it, corporate influence in a previously untouched genre is cause for handwringing, not least because the dilution of the music seems inevitable the bigger it gets. Live Nation’s acquisition of Hard was especially upsetting, because of Hard’s reputation for supporting underground as well as marquee artists and respecting the purity of the experience. For instance, the upcoming line-up for Hard Summer 2012, in Los Angeles, places big names like Skrillex, Nero and Boyz Noise alongside more boutique artists like Araabmuzik, Buraka Som Sistema and Brenmar. With the influence of Live Nation, one wonders if this sort of juxtaposition will continue to flourish or if ticket prices will become even less affordable?</i> Alternet.Org, 2013<br />
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<i>According to Billboard, Sillerman's strategy is likely to be an "end-to-end program encompassing on-site presence at SFX-owned events; endorsement from SFX-managed artists within paid, owned and earned media channels; editorial support from SFX-owned entities; and newly developed mobile or other technologies to tie it all together." In other words, a vertically integrated marketing behemoth. In the same way that Google is an advertising company that runs a service allowing you to type questions and find answers on the Internet, SFX will be an advertising company that just happens to put on concerts.</i> Phillip Sherburne, Spin 2013<br />
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<b>Drugs</b><br />
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Drugs go hand-in-hand with dance music, and users have always suffered in the long-term.<br />
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<i>In ecstacy subcultures, too, there tends to be a point where the MDMA honeymoon phase comes to an abrupt end; again and again, from Manchester in 1990 to Los ANgeles in 1993, the descent into darkness occurs.</i> Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash<br />
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<i>But what happens when an ethos built around a drug collapses, yet people keep getting high? Think about the Summer of Love of 1967, when the LSD utopia of San Francisco devolved into a haven for crime and drug abuse. Think about Altamont, where the chemicals that enabled a generation’s divine visions later inflamed the violence that left Meredith Hunter dead. We've felt the quakes of this same force in the mainstreaming of EDM in the last half-decade, where lyrics about the indestructibility of love, the clarity of the horizon, and the remedy of the bass have given way to Miley Cyrus’s braying electronic anthems about “dancing with Molly.” Themes of transcendent universal harmony have dissipated into bitter Tweets about how Olivia Rotondo and Jeffrey Russ ruined EZoo for everyone else. This force hasn't knocked the revolution off its axis, per se—it has simply made the axis illegible.</i><br />
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<i>It’s too soon to tell how the Electric Zoo tragedies will influence the cachet of either the music or MDMA use in America, though many believe they go hand-in-hand, to such an extent that it’s hard to determine exactly which came first.</i> The Atlantic, Sep 2013<br />
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<b>The music</b><br />
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Dance music itself has always turned dark when it's back was against the wall.<br />
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<i>Two things replaced Rave’s smiley-face fervor with skrewface attitude. The first was ‘darkness’, the trend for producers to deploy sinister atmospherics and sick-joke soundbites that reflected the paranoia and psychic malaise engendered by excessive, long-term Ecstasy use.</i><br />
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<i>The second factor was ‘blackness’, as ragga, dub and Hip Hop influences (already percolating in Ardkore) broke Rave’s ties to House and disco.</i> Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash<br />
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<i>Right now the EDM scene is an uneasy coalition between the slamming rocktronica of Skrillex and Bassnectar and the fluffy feel-good trance-house of DJs like Avicii, Kaskade, Swedish House Mafia, and Steve Aoki. On one side, there's Hard's Gary Richards who wants to push electronic music even further away from rave's disreputable and daft past. On the other, there's Electric Daisy Carnival, which has preserved not just rave's hands-in-the-air euphoria but some of its subcultural ritual aspects too. Simon Reynolds</i> The Guardian 2012<br />
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<i>Soon as they like you, make em unlike you.</i> Kanye West, Yeezus 2013<br />
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<b>Compare Simon Reynolds accounts of the demise of Ardkore rave and rise of Jungle in 93, with the quotes of Hard Festivals Gary Richards. Is the more serious Hard festival just as reactionary as Jungle was in 93? Is this the death of rave-style EDM?</b><br />
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<i>Since 1993 and Rave’s slide into the twilight zone, Hardcore has periodically been convulsed by debates about “where did our love go?” Some mourn the eclipse of bonhomie by moodiness and attitude; many of these disenchanted ravers sloped off to form the Happy Hardcore scene, currently massive in England and Scotland. Others defend the demise of the euphoric vibe, arguing that Jungle’s atmosphere isn’t moody, it’s ’serious’. This faction pours scorn on the happy ravers for their cheesy music, white gloves and other nostalgic trappings of the rave dream, which is felt to be not just lost, but utterly discredited.</i> Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash<br />
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<i>Hard's Gary Richards can't stand the glove-dance phenomenon: "I'm like, 'look at the stage, not your friend's fingers". But by suppressing this element from his events, he's effectively reducing the participatory aspects of rave that gave it so much of its charm and distinctiveness as a subculture.</i> Simon Reynolds, Resident Advisor 2013<br />
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<i>Hard Festival's Richards wanted to lose the "goofy fashion" side of rave that EDC revels in. "Why do we have to dress up like idiots to listen to this music? All those girls in the furry boots, they look like Clydesdale horses!" As "hard" suggests, Richards presents electronic music as modern rock: an old spirit encased in new digital flesh.</i> Simon Reynolds, The Guardian 2012<br />
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A few weeks ago I was put on to the hilarious comic strip adventures of a character named 'Dr McNinja'. I was skeptical at first as to whether I would like it, but within a few minutes the odd sensibility of the humour, coupled with great illustrations, suckered me in.<br />
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I, like most men, was once a boy, and when I was young I appreciated the beauty of a well-drawn comic. However, as I got older I stop reading comics, passing over them because I mistakenly viewed them as lesser intellectual fare. I was probably too busy reading <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corrections">The Corrections</a>.<br />
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I eventually realized my mistake, and comics like 'Dr McNinja' continuously remind me of the value of a great story and beautiful visuals.<br />
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The illustrator behind the '<a href="http://drmcninja.com/">Dr McNinja'</a> series is <a href="http://christopher-hastings.com/">Christopher Hastings</a>, who created the comic back in 2004 and is now a writer/illustrator for <a href="http://marvel.com/">Marvel</a>, among other things. Being blown away by 'Dr McNinja', I decided to get in touch with Christopher to find out the secrets behind his creative success.<br />
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The first question I wanted to ask was where it he got his inspiration from in the first place, where did he start? As it turns out, he began drawing as a child, and found he couldn't put down his pen.<br />
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<i>"I've heard it said before that all children are artists until they decide to stop. So I just never stopped".</i><br />
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Another key inspiration for Christoper was that not only was this an activity he liked to do, it also gave him direction for the future.<br />
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<i>"But I think when I started dramatically improving when I was about 11 years old, I started to really identify as an artist".</i><br />
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These days, motivation doesn't seem to be a problem for Christopher, but even he finds that stepping away from his work increases his desire to get straight back to it.<br />
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<i> "I think my brain just won't let me stop being creative. If I manage to have a weekend I can step away from work, I'm pretty itchy to get back to it by Sunday evening".</i><br />
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Sometimes the desire to be creative isn't enough for you to actually put pen to paper, so it helps to find activities or places that encourage you to act on your desires.<br />
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<i>"If I'm going to get writing done, I definitely have to get in the right headspace, and usually that means making some sort of locational change. A short walk, and settling down at a coffeeshop or a quiet pub usually does the trick. Sometimes I'll take my laptop to sit on my fire escape if it's pleasant out. Really it's just about telling my brain "Time to relax. Time to write." and those little habits click it into place".</i><br />
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If you truly enjoy creating, then it should be pretty obvious, just as it is for Christopher. If you have to force yourself to do it every time, and if it not turning out the way you thought it would, maybe try something different. Or may be just try a change of scenery.<br />
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Listen to your creative impulses and put yourself in a place that optimizes your ability to indulge them.<br />
Don't forget to check out the talented Christopher Hastings and his crazy creation 'Dr McNinja' via his website <a href="http://drmcninja.com/">drmcninja.com</a><br />
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Christopher writes for the legendary Marvel Comics from time to time, and his credits include writing <i>Fear Itself: Deadpool</i> and <i>Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe</i>. You can find out about all these and more at his personal website <a href="http://christopher-hastings.com/">http://christopher-hastings.com/</a><br />
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