The long awaited, soon to be Slammy award winning album from the Doppelgangaz, 2012: The New Beginning will be dropping…wait for it…randomly in December! In the meantime, here’s the artwork I yanked from their twitter page and tracklist after the jump!!
PREVIOUSLY: The Doppelgangaz – The Props (Live @ Bowery Poetry Club)
What say it isn’t true. No!!!!! I wanted another pair of MK2’s for the studio. (Sadface)
The DJing community and the greater dance music scene mourns the loss of a clubbing staple today. No, Steve Aoki hasn’t hung up his record bag, but rather news has emerged that iconic turntable manufacturers Technics will be stopping production on their universally loved Technics 1200s and Technics 1210s.
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The Doppelgangaz hit us with a “Good Hygiene/ Timbuktu” Maxi Single that includes Main mixes, Acapellas, Instrumentals and a bonus Remix of “Timbuktu” produced by EP of The Doppelgangaz. This is how you do it people, applaud these guys!! Tracklist after the jump.
DOWNLOAD: The Doppelgangaz – “Good Hygiene/ Timbuktu” Maxi Single
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Jay- Z sits down with Jo Whiley for an intimate live session where he performs Encore, Roc Boys, and Thank You. We at The Official have the whole set available for download. Thank you, thank you, thank you… you are far too kind.
Here is some audio of President Obama commenting on Kanye West inappropriate outbreak at the VMAs during Taylor Swift award acceptance speech. Its the presidents opinion, yet he speaks the truth. Hope he doesn’t catch heat for this.
If you did not get a chance to catch this FREE show last Thursday, then you missed probably one of THE BEST live shows this year had to offer. Prophit, COTN, and Bad Rabbits tore down Highline Ballroom and left many in appreciation for the performers who blessed the crowd with their talent. I’ll try to recap as much as I can remember, but it went a lil something like this… (more…)
Last week, Skyzoo held a private listening session in The Red Bull Space for his debut album dropping Sept. 29th with Duck Down/Jamla Records The Salvation in NY and talked about what went behind the songs and his inspiration behind the album. Nodfactor came thru with the footage, much props!! Hit the jump for the video for his 1st single The Beautiful Decay and the crazy tracklisting lineup for his LP featuring the likes of Just Blaze, 9th Wonder, Illmind, Nottz and more!!
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Oh sh*t Diddy watch your back, Shyne Po coming for you in time for Halloween lol, hopefully Shyne can return to form and return to the game with a plan and provide us with some much needed relief. According to MTV:
NEW YORK On Tuesday (August 4), a Manhattan judge signed an order that will see former Bad Boy recording artist and onetime Sean “Diddy” Combs protégé Jamal “Shyne” Barrow receive two-and-a-half years of post-release supervision stemming from his 2001 conviction and sentencing in the infamous Club New York case.
An attorney for Shyne — born Jamal Barrow but now going by Moses Levi after converting to Judaism while in prison — said that the order marked one of the last remaining hurdles in the way of his client’s release from prison in October.
“He’s about 90 percent of the way home now,” attorney Oscar Michelin told MTV News following the hearing.
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Heres the tracklisting and snippets of each song on the upcoming Slaughterhouse LP dropping August 11th on E1 Records. That Pharoahe Monch track sounds like something serious!!
DOWNLOAD: Slaughterhouse Album Snippets
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