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HARD NYC
Boys Noize / Major Lazer
Buraka Som Sistema (MC/DJ Set) / Proxy / Destructo

Major Lazer at Hard NYC on April 03, 2010 at Terminal 5

Major Lazer is a Jamaican commando who lost his arm in the secret Zombie War of 1984. The US military rescued him and repurposed experimental lazers as prosthetic limbs. Since then Major Lazer has been a hired renegade soldier for a rogue government operating in secrecy underneath the watch of M5 and the CIA. His cover is that of a dancehall night club owner from Trinidad and he enlisted the help of long-time allies and uber-producers, Diplo and Switch, to produce his first LP. His true mission is to protect the world from the dark forces of evil that live just under the surface of a civilized society. He fights vampires and various monsters, parties hard, and has a rocket powered skateboard.

As part of a plan to subdue the forces of evil with a batch of futuristic dancehall bangers, the three encamped at Tuff Gong Studios in Jamaica to record the Major Lazer record. The product of this collaboration is Guns Dont Kill People Lazers Do, a collection of tracks that draws from the rich dancehall tradition of Jamaica, the futuristic dance-floor-killing aesthetic of Diplo and Switch, and contributions from some of the biggest names in dancehall today. The record runs global pop culture through the filter of Major Lazers particular brand of 80s-inspired digital dancehall, at once an homage to a bygone era and a look to the future of dance music.

Diplo (Philadelphia-based DJ and producer Wesley Pentz), incorporates such disparate influences as Miami Bass and Baile Funk into the high-tech ecclecticism of his productions. Known for his forward-thinking productions for MIA, Bonde Do Role and many others, and for the solo LP of cinematic, sample-based hip hop entitled Florida he recorded for the Ninja Tune imprint. Diplo is also the founder and owner of Mad Decent records, which has put out records by DJ Blaqstarr and Bonde do Role.

Switch (the pseudonym of British producer and DJ Dave Taylor) is the owner of one of the most progressive and respected underground dance music labels around, Dubsided. His work as producer is revered by critics, emulated by his fellow DJs, and sweated hard by dance floors on both sides of the Atlantic. Switch also permanently endeared himself to the bespectacled music cogniscenti with his contribution to Santigolds critically acclaimed self-titled debut.

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Ana Leah, or Ena Leih, An English subtitled video – tribute for all Nancy Ajram’s fans !

Ana Leyh (Why Do I)

My Nancy’s videos at : http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F5A35A6240835816

Ah We Noss (Arabic: آه و نص‎) is the hit 2004 album by Nancy Ajram. This was the follow-up project to 2003’s Ya Salam. In 2003, the album launched Nancy Ajram to the heights of Arab music, thanks to a string of hit singles which have become part of pop culture today. Naturally, there was pressure for this album to achieve the same success as its predecessor had done. The lead single Ah W Noss, went on to achieve massive airplay and video time on the major music channels, commanding the top spot for several weeks. The album was a big hit, on the strength of the lead single. Summer 2004 saw Nancy launch a major world tour on the strength of her new single. In late 2004, Nancy Ajram became the Middle Eastern face of Coca-Cola, which opened a whole new promotional phase for the young starlet.

Nancy Nabil Ajram or Nancy Ajram (Arabic: نانسي نبيل عجرم‎) (born May 16, 1983) is a multi-platinum Lebanese pop folk artist. Considered one of the decade’s most important superstars of the Middle East & Arab world, Ajram has sold, by 2007, over 30 million records ranking 3rd best selling female artist in Lebanese history !!!

All About Nancy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Ajram

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From 1998 Album: “Capital Punishment”…..

Big Pun Tribute Site:
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Christopher Rios (November 9, 1971 – February 7, 2000) R.I.P., better known by his stage name as Big Pun (short for Big Punisher), was a Puerto Rican-American rapper who emerged from the underground rap scene in The Bronx in the late 1990s. He first appeared on albums from The Beatnuts, on the track “Off the Books”, and on Fat Joe’s second album Jealous One’s Envy, on the track “Watch Out”, prior to signing to Loud Records as a solo artist. Big Pun’s career was cut short in 2000 at age 28 when he died of a fatal heart attack. He is survived by his wife, Liza Rios, and three children.

He grew up in a Puerto Rican community in New York City’s South Bronx neighborhood. By all accounts from Rios’s family, his early years were very difficult, including witnessing his mother’s drug abuse, his father leaving the family, and a stepfather who was very hard on Rios. According to his grandmother, Rios would become angry and self-destructive, punching holes in the walls of his family’s apartment and eating pieces of broken drywall. Rios dropped out of high school and for some time was homeless staying in abandoned buildings or at friends’ homes

Sometime during the 1980s, he formed the Full a Clips Crew with Triple Seis (rapper), Prospect and Cuban Link who was at the time named “Lyrical Assassin”. At this point Big Pun was operating under the alias Big Moon Dawg. Rios met fellow Puerto Rican and Bronx rapper Fat Joe in 1995 and made his commercial debut on Joe’s second album, Jealous Ones Envy, in addition to appearing on a b-side to Joe’s “Envy” single, “Fire Water” and “Watch Out.”
Later, “I’m Not a Player” (featuring an O’Jays sample) was supported by a significant advertising campaign and became an underground hit. The song’s remix, “Still Not a Player” (featuring Joe) produced by Knobody, became Big Pun’s first major mainstream hit. His full-length debut Capital Punishment followed in 1998, and was the first album by a solo Latino rapper to go platinum, peaking at #5 on the Billboard 200. Capital Punishment was also nominated for a Grammy, but lost out on the award to Jay-Z’s Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life. He became a member of Terror Squad, a New York-based group of rappers founded by Fat Joe, with most of the roster supplied by the now-defunct Full a Clips Crew who released their debut album The Album in 1999. In 1999 he co-starred in the Albert Pyun-directed ghetto-movie Urban Menace, alongside his frequent collaborator Fat Joe.
Also Big Pun had a small role in the 1996 film High School High which starred Jon Lovitz.

Excluding his adolescence, Big Pun struggled with his weight for most of his life; his weight fluctuated in the early 1990s between obese and morbidly obese. Big Pun enrolled in a weight-loss program in North Carolina, in which he lost 80 pounds, but he eventually quit the program before completing it, returning to New York and gaining back the weight he had lost. On February 7, 2000, Big Pun suffered a fatal heart attack and respiratory failure while temporarily staying with family at a Crowne Plaza Hotel in White Plains, New York during a home renovation. Pun was pronounced dead at the hospital after paramedics could not revive him. He reportedly weighed 698lbs at the time of his death.

A new tribute documentary Big Pun: The Legacy is currently in post-production. The film will contain multiple interviews with artists, actors, close friends and others whose lives were touched by Big Pun, as well as rare exclusive performances and scene interviews with Big Pun himself. The film will feature appearances by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Snoop Dogg, DMX, Method Man, U-God, Liza Rios, Xzibit, Cuban Link, Swizz Beatz, DJ Skribble and many more. Film is directed by Vlad Yudin. The documentary will come out September 15, 2009. It is distributed through Vivendi Universal and The Soundtrack is released through Legacy/Columbia Records, Sony Music. Footage from the documentary included Prodigy, of Mobb Deep, saying that Big Pun, “ordered like all the entrees and all the appetizers.” He stated that Big Pun had become out of control to the point where when Prodigy, Pun, and Fat Joe would be in the studio and Joe left for a few minutes, he “would order two buckets of KFC, like two, three buckets and try to eat them before (Fat) Joe came.”

Extended & updated info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Pun

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Artist: Androcell
Track: Atmos-spheres (wrriten and produced by Tyler Smith)

Directed, filmed, and edited by: Jason Major (J.Major Productions)

Additional sound design by Androcell.

© 2006 Jason Major and Tyler Smith.
All rights reserved.

The Atmos-Spheres Music Video is more of a visual documentary film than a standard music video. Filmed and edited entirely in digital format by Jason Major, it was shot using time-lapse techniques, providing a dramatic, organic and visceral fusion of film with Androcell’s musical stylings. Many hours of film footage were captured over a four-month period throughout northern Arizona during Jason’s numerous hiking expeditions amid the monsoon season of 2005. The outcome is a captivating, synchronous, audio/visual experience.

Atmos-spheres appears on the Androcell album Efflorescence released by Celestial Dragon Records. www.sonic-dragon.com

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Christopher Rios (November 9, 1971 – February 7, 2000), better known as Big Punisher or Big Pun, was a Puerto Rican-American rapper who emerged from the underground rap scene in The Bronx in the late 1990s. He first appeared on albums from The Beatnuts on the track “Off the Books” and on Fat Joe’s second album Jealous One’s Envy, on the track “Watch Out”, prior to signing to Loud Records as a solo artist.

Sometime during the 1980s, he formed the Full a Clips Crew with Triple Seis, Prospect and Cuban Link who was at the time named “Lyrical Assassin”. At this point Big Pun was operating under the alias Big Moon Dawg. Rios met fellow Puerto Rican and Bronx rapper Fat Joe in 1995 and made his commercial debut on Joe’s second album, Jealous Ones Envy, in addition to appearing on a b-side to Joe’s “Envy” single, “Fire Water” and “Watch Out.”
Later, “I’m Not a Player” (featuring an O’Jays sample) was supported by a significant advertising campaign and became an underground hit. The song’s remix, “Still Not a Player” (featuring Joe) produced by Knobody, became Big Pun’s first major mainstream hit. His full-length debut Capital Punishment followed in 1998, and was the first album by a solo Latino rapper to go platinum, peaking at #5 on the Billboard 200. Capital Punishment was also nominated for a Grammy, but lost out on the award to Jay-Z’s Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life. He became a member of Terror Squad, a New York-based group of rappers founded by Fat Joe, with most of the roster supplied by the now-defunct Full a Clips Crew who released their debut album The Album in 1999. In 1999 he co-starred in the Albert Pyun-directed ghetto-movie Urban Menace, alongside his frequent collaborator Fat Joe.

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The biggest record to come out of House music in years. Heres the brand new music video.

The track is already a global phenomenon, youve heard the remixes, now prepare to be blown away by this thought-provoking video from acclaimed director Johny Mourgue.

Rather than go down the obvious route of the same-old dancefloor action, heres a highly original story featuring some incredible performances; something we hope deepens your understanding of the track and does justice to an incredible song.

The video has shot straight onto the playlists of all the major music channels, MTV Dance, Clubland TV, Dance Nation and The Box after its worldwide exclusive on The Sun website.

www.defected.com

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Learn tips on how to loop record using Polar by digital performer in this free video clip on how to record music.

Expert: Jeff Pence
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Bio: Jeff Pence has been in the music business for over 25 years He is a Producer / Songwriter / Musician that has been signed to 5 major record labels including EMI Records, SBK Records, Capitol Records
Filmmaker: Jeff Pence

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Music video by Major Lazer performing Hold The Line. (C) 2009 Downtown Music, LLC.

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It seems Less Stores get Indie records. Yes, I do know that Most Indie labels can only produce so many records but couldn’t stores like FYE support Indie labels a tad more? If it weren’t for P2P file sharing I’d be listening to +shudder+ mainstream MUSIC!

Well, that’s the problem with indie labels as a marketing technique– the CDs they put out are not widely listened to, so a record store has to have a commitment to indie records (or a reputation as being the place to get indie records) or they aren’t going to think it’s worth their time because not as many people will buy those CDs. Which it won’t be worth their time, because they can sell 50 copies of top 40 stuff to one copy of an obscure indie group.

Besides, if FYE sold more indie records, how could indie kids feel as superior and be as pretentious? : )