Friday, July 17, 2009
Best trailer ever
First, that's the best movie guy ever. He just mumbles everything in what must be the worst English accent I've ever heard. He sounds like Uncle Grandfather from Perfect Hair Forever. On top of that, the whole trailer is just him naming awesome things in the movie in a long list. Every trailer should be like this. The trailer for Star Trek could've just been a drunk guy going "Spaceships. Time Travel. Explosions. Sylar. Swordfighting on a tower. Aliens. Water Tube travel. Shaun of the Dead Guy." show the name of the movie, bam, instant blockbuster.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Diggin in FLA and playing in Augusta
Sorry no posts for a while, been a bit busy. Went to Florida with the family for vacation then been gearing up since I'm booked for the next 3 weekends and I'm trying to get some more mixes out.
Went to a small record shop at the Daytona Flea Market called Rainbow Records and came a way with bag full of records. I've been going there since I first got my first set of turntables every year when we go on vacation in New Smyrna. This was the first year I went down with my new Hand Trax portable table and gave my self a full day to really dig. This is mainly the place to go if you're looking for rock records, their collection is huge and one of the guys that works there once told me he had the sixth largest Pink Floyd collection in the world (Where do you find the rankings for that?). However, over the past couple of years they've been getting a lot of people selling their old Jazz, Funk and Soul Collections. I spent a majority of the time looking through their 45s and came away with some real winners, including copies of Funky Drummer - James Brown, the Hand Clapping song and Cissy Strut by The Meters, and Get Out My Life Woman by Lee Dorsey. I got a ton of other stuff as well but really too much to list it all out. I might try and upload a few of the tracks later on.
And this weekend we did a performance down in Augusta for it's First Friday festival thing. Apparently, they every first Friday a ton of people come out to Broad St. to hang out and check out different performers and vendors. We were originally planning to do a street battle with HBO crew, Mixed Motions (from Augusta) and Quic (MZK/Funklordz) and Boogie Linx (Funklordz) just a little ways a away from the James Brown statue. We drew a crowd within seconds of me playing a couple of tracks but it wasn't long before the cops shut us down for being too loud. We had to move across the street aways and started up again. We drew an even bigger crowd but we constantly got hassled by other vendors who demanded we show permits and threatened to shut us down. Apparently if you you're more popular than everybody else...it's a problem. Well, everything had been arranged ahead of time by the Augusta B-boys so they didn't have any grounds to shut us down. We kept it going till 10 when First Friday was over then it was over to b-boy Kid Sonic's house for food, drinks, and fun by a big ass bonfire. It was good celebration overall but I never thought I'd get hassled for playing James Brown too loud in Augusta, GA of all places.
Went to a small record shop at the Daytona Flea Market called Rainbow Records and came a way with bag full of records. I've been going there since I first got my first set of turntables every year when we go on vacation in New Smyrna. This was the first year I went down with my new Hand Trax portable table and gave my self a full day to really dig. This is mainly the place to go if you're looking for rock records, their collection is huge and one of the guys that works there once told me he had the sixth largest Pink Floyd collection in the world (Where do you find the rankings for that?). However, over the past couple of years they've been getting a lot of people selling their old Jazz, Funk and Soul Collections. I spent a majority of the time looking through their 45s and came away with some real winners, including copies of Funky Drummer - James Brown, the Hand Clapping song and Cissy Strut by The Meters, and Get Out My Life Woman by Lee Dorsey. I got a ton of other stuff as well but really too much to list it all out. I might try and upload a few of the tracks later on.
And this weekend we did a performance down in Augusta for it's First Friday festival thing. Apparently, they every first Friday a ton of people come out to Broad St. to hang out and check out different performers and vendors. We were originally planning to do a street battle with HBO crew, Mixed Motions (from Augusta) and Quic (MZK/Funklordz) and Boogie Linx (Funklordz) just a little ways a away from the James Brown statue. We drew a crowd within seconds of me playing a couple of tracks but it wasn't long before the cops shut us down for being too loud. We had to move across the street aways and started up again. We drew an even bigger crowd but we constantly got hassled by other vendors who demanded we show permits and threatened to shut us down. Apparently if you you're more popular than everybody else...it's a problem. Well, everything had been arranged ahead of time by the Augusta B-boys so they didn't have any grounds to shut us down. We kept it going till 10 when First Friday was over then it was over to b-boy Kid Sonic's house for food, drinks, and fun by a big ass bonfire. It was good celebration overall but I never thought I'd get hassled for playing James Brown too loud in Augusta, GA of all places.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
More mixes to come...
Just so people don't think I'm completely lazy, I am trying to improve my mixtape-releasing average. One every year and a half isn't really cutting it for me so I'm trying to up it to once a month. I'll be posting the links here, on my twitter (twitter.com/alphatrionrfta), and at my blog: AlphaTrionsBase.blogspot.com.
Here's what's coming in the next few months:
Funk b-boy mix
Hip-hop b-boy mix
Popping mix (mostly funk and electro but trying to expand out more past Egyptian Lover and Siberian Nights)
House Mix
Probably another Bmore mix
a chill/downtempo mix
and whatever else I'm in the mood to record.
My Summertime Mix for May can be found here if you haven't already heard it: http://sharebee.com/9a60a509
Here's what's coming in the next few months:
Funk b-boy mix
Hip-hop b-boy mix
Popping mix (mostly funk and electro but trying to expand out more past Egyptian Lover and Siberian Nights)
House Mix
Probably another Bmore mix
a chill/downtempo mix
and whatever else I'm in the mood to record.
My Summertime Mix for May can be found here if you haven't already heard it: http://sharebee.com/9a60a509
Friday, May 15, 2009
New Mix for the Summertime
Just finished a new mix for the Summer. If you were at the All Styles Battle at Bashville Stampede you might recognize a few of the tracks from the battles. Tried to keep it diverse...house, hip-hop, new jack, club...Enjoy and share it with anyone you think might like it.
Download Here: S-U-M-M-A-T-I-M-E '09
Download Here: S-U-M-M-A-T-I-M-E '09
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
New Bashville Vids
More on the way once my vimeo post limit for the week resets...
B-boy Top 8: Jive Turkeys Vs Chizo, Namek & Squid
Bashville Stampede 4 B-boy Top 8: Jive Turkeys Vs Chizo, Namek & Squid from Brent Hopkins on Vimeo.
Beat Rock Battle: Adolph Vs Koteratops
Bashville Stampede 4 Beat Rock Prelims: Adolph Vs Koteratops from Brent Hopkins on Vimeo.
B-boy Top 8: Jive Turkeys Vs Chizo, Namek & Squid
Bashville Stampede 4 B-boy Top 8: Jive Turkeys Vs Chizo, Namek & Squid from Brent Hopkins on Vimeo.
Beat Rock Battle: Adolph Vs Koteratops
Bashville Stampede 4 Beat Rock Prelims: Adolph Vs Koteratops from Brent Hopkins on Vimeo.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Finally...
After much laziness and procrastination I've finally started a blog that's not on myspace. Nothing much to show right now, but hope to have some decent updates soon enough.
Peace.
Peace.
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