Heath Ledger wins oscar - download the nvr frgt mixtape

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tradehooks Heath Ledger "Nvr forget y'all" mixtape

Really?

This is the “NVDRS MP3 cassette tape” and comes in 45/60/90 minute sizes.

The weird thing about this mp3 player is that it keeps the conventional mechanics of a cassette. One has to actually manually wind up the battery to charge the kinetic battery and there is no “skip track”. To get to the next track you must wind the other spool to speed up the song, just like a REAL cassette.

Still pretty cool, its got a USB connection and comes in some cool colours with matching headphones. But where do you have to draw the line?

Source: Yanko Design

OH, P.S. Check out the watch…

2009 Grammys + The Biggest Names in Hip Hop Today perform 'Swagger Like Us' Live

I turned it off just after Coldplay won song of the year, and are still wearing their 'Fggt D Sgt Pepper' jackets, but the grammy winners was not all that bad really for me.

Also watching diplo and a-traks twitters were fuckin awesome. some of diplos were (earliest first, meaning more sober)

• Should I bumrush mccartney
• yo quest if u dont give me after partee instructions im gonna bury u in cheesesteaks
• i bigged up karl marx in my head
• where u at now? lets get dronk
• we goi to questlove vs radiohead. meet us at coy resteraunt right now for sushi and whiskey
• Ok gane on.. Flasks refilled pickin santogold and findin questlove and unpluggin hiz serato in 1 hour
• Wuts bigger news mia pregnant swagger or chris brown domesrtic violence?
• I'm gonna robert plant my fist in our driverz face if he don't find this hotel

• Ok.. -Im bak. Santi died of peanut overdose. We r goin to find questlove and hit him like an r4 train. Then do the stank leg with thom york

MIA was pretty much bursting at the baby seems, check the vid

Doc Carter, illin'Kanye (with what HRO calls his new frullet) and EstellierSwagger

Anyway some winners

• Album of the Year: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand - My dad listens to this album all the time, now its got grammy recognition maybe i will too

• Best Rap Album: Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III
• Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Rick Rubin (Death Magnetic, Home Before Dark, Mercy, Seeing Things, Weezer) - Still doing amazing stuff after all these years
• Best Rap Song: Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major, "Lollipop" (D. Carter, S. Garrett, D. Harrison, J. Scheffer and R. Zamor, songwriters)
• Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Estelle Featuring Kanye West, "American Boy"
• Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: Jay-Z and T.I. Featuring Kanye West and Lil Wayne, "Swagga Like Us"
• Best Rap Solo Performance: Lil Wayne, "A Milli"

• Best Electronic/Dance Album: Daft Punk, Alive 2007 - Did Daft Punk accept their awards?
  

• Best Dance Recording: Daft Punk, "Harder Better Faster Stronger"

• Best Traditional World Music Album: Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu

• Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Juno - In my opinion one of the best OSTs ive ever heard

This was sick, Kanye, MIA, Jay-Z, TI and Lil Wayne - Swagger like us LIVE. So impressive

Songs I discover when i put my itouch on random when i clean the brewery -Playgroup - Make it Happen (Ewan Pearson Remix)

©2007-2009 ~yustine

Most sunday mornings i head down the brewery at about 7am and clean up the mess i or g-skillz made on the wheels of steel the night before. It sucks, except for the fact that i can pump the in-house and listen to whatever i feel like.

this morning i turned on the itouch 'new shit' playlist and heard an absolute cracker. It just made me wanna dance with the rain dance lady out the front.

I have no idea where/when i got it, but it must have been recent, and i cant be fucked right now looking it up.

Checkitout

Playgroup - Make it Happen (Ewan Pearson Remix)

What’s going on, atm.

Bloody Beetroots tease

DIM makes Hot Chips

2ManyDj’s continue to dominate

Crookers ya'll

Groove Armada, what the heck?

Fancy Footwork (CSS Remix)

Reminds me of so many video games. Real 80’s Super Mario shit.

 

zshare: Chromeo- Fancy Footwork (CSS Remix)

 

Video is collaborated with Kickers

 

Kickers kicks

New Funk Mixtape - I can't stand the funk

Get it here, 60s 70s 80s funk set

DJ Selecta - I can't stand the funk

Tracklisting

Do you know the way (to San Jose) - Dionne Warwick
JB's Monorail - James Brown
Funky Buttercup - Cymande
Our Lifetime - Marvin Gaye
Do you Like it - Bt Express
Put your love (in my tender care) - The Fatback Band
Pickin Cotton - Johnny Talbot and de Thangs
Find Yourself - Marvin Holmes
Back on the Streets Again - Tower of Power
Ride your Pony - The Meters
Greedy G
Funky So and So
Expo 83
Keep on Dancing - The Commodores
SuperJock
Hot, Funky and Sweaty
Do the Funky Penguin Pt2 - Rufus Thomas
Let's Have some fun - Bar Kays
Pan Handler - Billy Cobham
Im too tough for Mr Big Stuff

New Dior Hightops and Kanye Vuitton Lows and Metronomy, Holy Ghost and Hot Chip Live

Hey kids, i got back to Aus last tueday and today is pretty much my first day off work. i didnt even tell my boss i was coming home early and he has already raped me for all im good for. But welcome back to tradehooks, where we post a bit.

I have been saying for a long time that pure black hightops are the bomb, but no one has made one that has been this pant-moistening. part of the new Dior Homme range these are slick black and unique. get some for me someone, for a sweet $945 USD. Also the Louis Vuitton Don, got together with Louis Vuitton for some 2k9 sneakers.

They be pretty hot too. i think he got the idea for the collar around the back from the movie dune. checkout highsnobiety.com for more details on all the sneakers.

In other news, the whole tradehooks family and extended family got invited up to Hyde Park Barracks to see Metronomy play last Thursday night as part of the Sydney Festival. Pivot, the band who played before, sounded like a half hour tight intro to their own set, which never came. a half hour electronic wall of boredom meltdown. Then these guys stepped out
When metronomy came out, it was a relief to most of us, who needed a break from the continuous round stream to and from the becks bar, serving only becks, a decent bier. Metronomy rock 3 keyboards from what i remember, and have touch night lights on their shirts, which through careful choreography turn on at certain points and entertain the masses. their set was tight, nothing new not on 'nights out', but i could be wrong.me and absentees destroyed the majority of a bottle of bombay in the arvo, and the becks bar had a new fave group of customers (the tradehooks family). but all up, metronomy were fuckin sick, they are a band you really got to listen to if you havent, and go see them live and give them some AUD love.

Part of the tradehooks family went to see hot chip, supported brilliantly by holy ghost!
holy ghost played a set i could have listened to all night, a set alot of djs could learn from. but they were so good. the majority of the crowd turned up not long before hot chip started, so no great movements on the d-floor, except these two crazy kids in diamonte jackets.

hot chip played a great set, stuff from all the albums and i took a great pic. they were tight as, and had the crowd well revved. i would have liked to have seen what they were like at bdo.
I found this sweet holy ghost! Michael Jackson edit over at blouse

Get on the Floor (Holy ghost! edit) - Michael Jackson

Delorean

Last year, every now and again, i would lay my hands on some remixes by Delorean. I would listen to one, love it, i’d hear another, love that too.

I realised that EVERY remix i would hear was great. Like ‘Breakbot’ great.

Recommended listening conditions:

• Sunday late afternoon
• Driving on the Highway on your way home
• Preferably travelling at 88mph, safely.
• Just after buying maccas for the drive home.

REMIXES:

Lemonade - Big Weekend (Delorean Remix)

Mystery Jets - Half In Love With Elizabeth (Delorean Remix)

The Big Pink - Too Young to Love (Delorean Remix)

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Twitter is cool, don’t know if its useful to music blogs yet though.

What’s the difference between adding a feed on your RSS reader and ‘following’ a person on twitter?

I think A-trak ‘tweets’ too much..

Blowin' the Cobwebs Off Tradehooks

Shit last post was on the 17th, wtf guys. I guess we have just been too busy doing other shit.
Selecta is in India still looking for a record shop.
Skillz is living with peoples gff's.
And i have been pretending to have a social life.

The blogs have been putting out some solid tracks lately, so im not going to repost anything you can find somewhere else. I thought i would remind our viewers about our mixtapes and that they are all still available for download.

Tradehooks Djs Heath Ledger - Nvr Frgt ya'll Mixtape

Skillz August Tradehooks Mix (Keeping it Gfresh) (Broken link)

Tradehooks Selecta Vol 1

Bangers and Mash Tradehooks Mixtape No. 1 (Broken link...for now)

Ahhhh shiiiit

So I was cruising through Sydney, with a new pair of jeans in hand, and not a care in the world, humming along to some oldskool Beastie Boys shit... when I spied through the window of a store, some silver kicks.  Now those who know me, know that im a pretty big fan of most fresh kicks... However this wasn't any store.. it was Hugo Boss, and these silver kicks looked pretty fucking similar to some Supra shoes that dropped over 2 years ago... and have been refined a couple of times. 

Here we have "Boss" by Hugo Boss

vs. 

Supra Skytop

Dior also had some silver/gold shoes a little while ago. The point is, Hugo Boss need to lift their shit. Stick to suits/smoking-jackets/business shirts.... You don't see Chad Muska @ Supra trying to make the ultimate corporate power suit do you?. Because up close those "Boss" kicks were not worth the $600 price tag. 

In other news Metronomy made a cool film clip to their track 'A thing for me'

Rant Over. 

Metronomy gets the remix treatment from Anoraak

©2007-2008 ~shecro

Hey yall
Its selecta reporting from the Indian subcontinent. Since i arrived here on the 21st this country has become one of the 20 most dangerous in the world. With a statistic of more people being killed by Jihadis in the last 12 months than anywhere else in the world. Pretty nuts.

My companero is leaving early because of this fact, but i still have work to do. ie listen to as much bad bollywood music as possible, beat konducta style.


ANyway, to the music. I just logged on today for the first time in a while and really needed to get a fat hit of some metronomy beats. and turns out anoraak gave them the RMX treatment. metronomy are by far my chocie for the best group in the world in the last 12 months. Heartbreaker is amazing, as well as every other track off the album. they are coming to Australia for a string of dates mid January, including the Sydney festival, which i will unfortunately miss out on.

HEy to everyone back home, miss you all

ANyways, here it is

Metronomy - Heartbreaker (Anoraak Remix)

Access Mixture - Some Local Talent

Here is a mix created by a local hero, Access. His words:

"Its only a quick 30min mix, feel an hour is too long in this day and age, this blogging world, this financial crisis."

Always thinking about the people, that's what we like.

Tracklist:
1. A Fifth of Beethoven (Soulwax Remix) - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
2. Flex Like Johannsen (Access Mash) - Dizzee vs. The Teenagers
3. Ghosts (Toxic Avenger Remix) - Ladytron
4. Bulbs Burn Out - Boy 8-Bit
5. Beaver Blink (Zodiac Cartel Mix) - Fine Cut Bodies
6. Ghosts N Stuff - Deadmau5
7. The Worm - ZZT
8. Blood Splashing - Fake Blood
9. Blackout (Sinichi Osawa Remix) - The Whip
10. You Dont Even Know Me (GRUM Remix) - Armand Van Helden
11. Rio (Etienne De Crecy Dub) - Bumblebeez

You can sometimes see him pretending to fit in at the Brew.

zshare: Access Mixture

Ha!