Hits

A Look At: De La Soul

A group that changed hip-hop in the 80's forever.

Girl Talk's All Day

All Day by Girl Talk is quite the mash-up album that you'll want to keep in your mp3 until the next album comes out.

Only The Best Chip-Tune From George and Jonathan

Chip-Tune music described as "only the best..from 5 years of work."

Elbow, Not Just An Arm Joint...

Rockers Elbow: if you don't know them, you're going to.

The REAL Tuesday Weld

An old actress lives on in the name of an original English band.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Girl Talk Mashup Mayhem

First, no samples of the artist on this blog when you can download the album for free at his website (Girl Talk's All Day album). I know you'll want a snipet to know if you'll like it, but trust me, if you've followed radio at all, can take a music joke (Having Pitbull's "Hotel Room Service" being played over the happy Depeche Mode's "I Just Can't Get Enough"), and have the time to sit down with the whole album, this album will blow the clothing off of you and leaving you sitting naked on your sofa wondering what just happened and if it can happen again.

In all seriousness though, albums like this (All Day by Girl Talk) are meant to be played all in one go, to be taken as a whole idea and not to be broken into songs. All of the samples flow seamlessly into each other, all 372 of the songs being sampled in fact. Surprisingly, you'll recognize all of these chart-hitting songs, or at least close to all of them. You'll laugh at some of the combination, be amazed at how some songs worked amazingly well together, and find yourself hitting repeat to replay through some of the 10 second mash-ups you wished were longer.

Girl Talk (originally known as Greg Gillis, hard at work in the photo above) is a remarkable mash-up artist. This album is another remarkable non-stop dance album. Not much more to say other than just get it, dance about, and then wonder how you ever survived without it.

Look forward to hearing more about this artist and keep a lookout for tour dates. If you can listen to All Day  or Feed The Animals and not at some point say, this is quite epic, let me know. Hell, give me more recommendations for Mash-Up artists you think make the world explode sonically with new ideas raised from old. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

-FoX Out

Re: Website Update

Sorry for the constantly changing design for the website. I keep finding templates to use for blogger--sometimes I think I should just use wordpress--and by the time I've happily started building this foxy website, some line of HTML becomes incompatible and instead of going through everything, I just decide to start over with a new template. I think I'd learn, but sadly no.

New news... new news... oh yes! New SoundCloud profile was easiest for uploading music. No really, it is. Free profile only gives you two hours of music, but I mix about 15 minutes of music a week, so I figure if I keep it cycling I can get all the music uploads I could ever need. That means you, the listener, either has to find a way to download all that music--again I apologize for the huge file sizes for all the music, Torq only wants to record in giant quality .wav files and I don't feel like converting them to anything less just to put it online to listen to-- or just ask for the songs and I'll send them to you in a way that's best for you.
Profile at Minimal FoX's SoundCloud.

On that same note, I'm trying out Torq 2.0.1 . Sadly, at the moment, I don't entirely recommend it. I think Tracktor pulls off the software you'd be looking for for a four turntable computer set-up. But, I still recommend Torq 1.5 for any 2 turntable software needs. I love it very much in comparison to most of the others out there, and it's served many a good live performance for me. This is just a short version of an indepth review I could give.

Still looking for new writers. It doesn't pay, but you'll get your ideas out there. Send in a sample and maybe we'll hire you. If we can get this successfully off the ground, then we'll talk salary, but for now, GSSE feels like keeping this free.

As for fans still reading, I'll try keeping a decent sleep schedule one day and it'll lead to a decent updating schedule. I have quite a few new amazing artists to share with everybody, and some groundbreaking music as well, as well as a earth-shattering studio--GSSE of course--to talk more about as well.

We have a new logo once again, thanks to one of our writers : Igloo. Please tell him thank you very, very, very much!

So, as a thank you, here's one of my most favorite chip-tone tracks:


-Minimal FoX <3's You All

Saturday, June 11, 2011

New Mix Up



Singin' At Sunshining Summer Mix

A quick mix using Torq. Had the idea in mind and had to get it down. There's some hard transitions and beat-matching messups, but overall I think the idea is at least... danceable?
Track list:
Singin' In The Rain (Mint Royale Remix)
Bonkers - Dizzee Rascal
Stickin' (Original Mix) - SonicC vs. Gifted (The Ashton Shuffle Remix)- N.A.S.A.
Blow Your Head (Wassup Wassup Crookers Remix) - Diplo feat. Rye Rye
No Turning Back - Gui Boratto
Sabali (Uproot Andi Remix) - Amadou & Mariam
Pyramid At Night (Hardwell Mix) - John Dahlback vs. Shakedown
Singin' In The Rain (Mint Royale Remix)


Singin' At Sunshining Night Mix by DJ Minimal FoX


Hope you all cat get at least a good headnod in at somepoint. Let me know what you think. Anything it reminds you of, tracks that should be included, thoughts on how your summer is going, what music are you listening to? The FoX wants to know!

-Minimal FoX

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