Katajjaq or Inuit Throat Singing

A week or so ago I was watching Ray Mears’ Northern Wilderness, his new series, on BBC2, about the history of exploration in the wilderness and wintery northern reaches of Canada. In the episode I was watching, Mears visited with Inuit to hone his igloo building skills, as one does, and learn more about the [...]

Classics: EPMD, “Strictly Business” and Erick Sermon, “React”

I was messing around in iTunes and when I mess around in iTunes without a purpose there are a few songs I end up playing. “React” is one of them. Which then sent me to YouTube to dig up some EPMD videos. As a result of my excursions you get the video of the EPMD [...]

Backtrack: The Beatnuts, “Off The Books”

You may have asked yourself where the folks from 100b went? I mean, heck, the apartment has been empty for more than a month. You tried ringing the doorbell. You checked with the super. Their mail has been spilling out of their mailbox. Well, I can say we’re back and any squatters in the apartment [...]

100best: Jay-Z

From the projects to the stage to the boardroom, hip hop performer and entreprenuer extraordinaire Shawn Carter – alias Jay-Z – has established himself through 10 (soon to be 11) albums as perhaps the greatest hip hop artist of all time. He is now almost a charicature of himself so it is easy to forget [...]

Poptastic Day: G. Love & Special Sauce, Yeah, It’s That Easy

I bought Yeah, It’s That Easy simply based on the name of the band and the cover of the CD. I was walking through Amsterdam Central Station in 1997 on my way to a party and ducked into a small branch of a CD chain store in the station. The cover artwork caught my eye. [...]

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