Michel Gondry x (Tokyo + Steven Seagal’s Daughter) = Oh hell yeah!!!

Synopsis via BBQCHICKENROBOT.

Whether you’re an indie film geek or the casual fan, you have probably heard about Tokyo!; the new 3-part film by directors Bong Joon Ho (The Host), Leos Carax (Bad Blood) and Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine). Tokyo! is about just that, Tokyo! It’s a 3-fold film with 3 directors envisioning 3 different stories that take place in Tokyo.

Michel Gondry’s Interior Design is based on a comic book written by Gabrielle Bell called Cecil and Jordan in New York. The film is about a young couple who is trying their luck at a happy future in the big city. The guy follows his ambitions to make films and sadly the couple starts to peel a part. The girl, played by Steven Seagal’s Japanese daughter Ayako Fujitani, begins to turn into a CHAIR! WHAT?! Heck Yea!

Break… “Steven Seagal’s Japanese daughter” WTF?!! Worth the ticket price alone!!!

French born Leos Carax’s Merde is still quite a mystery to me. It involves a perhaps crazy and demented individual who causes a stir up in Tokyo. Apparently this Merde attacks people and blows things up with grenades. He gets captured and justice has its way on him. The media gets heavily involved and creates kookoo craze and I think you are going to have to watch this one a few times!

In Bong Hoon Jo’s Tokyo! finisher, Shaking Tokyo, Teruyuki Kagawa plays a Hikikomori, yea read all about that. It’s a strange yet intensely interesting topic. Kagawa lkives off of pizza and when a beautiful young pizza delivery girl gets knocked out from an earthquake in his apartment, he begins to fall in love. And if I tell you anymore of the story you will probably punch me and turn me into a Hikikomori too so I’ll leave it up to your imagination for now!

That boy Pikahsso (@Pikahsso on Twitter), creator of the Fat Ass Albert in the Hood series is a FOOL, with a capital F.O.O.L!!! If you haven’t been keeping up with the series, do yourself a favor and get fam, STAT! Dallas, Texas reppin!!!

This week’s episode, BLOW “The Cocaine Game”, features music from friends of BuhbOmp, Roger Riley and Teddy Troutman aka Death of Autotune.

Peep all of the episodes here.

In this new episode 8 of Fat Albert In The Hood Albert realizes that if he wants to get the fly honeys, jewelry, cars and clothes he has to get his money right so he enters the cocaine game. So he can live the lavish life but little does he know living life in the fast lane comes with major consequences and problems. All his troubles begin when he is sent on a trip to move some weight to the Southside of Dallas for a ruthless Drug Kingpen named Sherman who is notorious for putting hits out on anyone who crosses him or his money …

KC Flightt – Planet E

Jungle Brothers – I’ll House you

Twin Hype – For Those Who Like To Groove

Mr. Lee – Get Busy

Bonus #1: “House of Trez” Documentary from 1991 on House/Hip House dancers in the NYC club scene. Via Dance Masterz.

Bonus #2: Footage from the 1992 PBS documentary on Hip House and Freestyle dancing. “Wreckin Shop From Brooklyn”. Also via Dance Masterz.

Just like the movie “Flash Dance” is so important for the history of bboying culure, this clip is extremely important when we talk about hip hop dance culutre. This clip you see here is actually edited sequence of several excerpts from a documentary “Wreckin Shop from Brooklyn”. This documentary was aired in PBS in 1992. Directed by music video director, Dian Martel, this documentary captured the vibe of golden age of hip hop era -early 90s. It features hip hop and house dancers in New York such as Mop Top Crew (Buddha Stretch, Peter Paul, Caleaf, Henry Link, E-Joe) and Misfitss (Rubberband, Marquest, Kito, Peek A Boo, Prancer). As many people consider this era as golden age of hip hop dancing, I recall music videos in this era featured lot of real hip hop dancers unlike today’s music video where you see the mixture of jazz and hip hop. One interesting dancer in this video is Kito from Misfitss. He has his unique rhythm in dancing though it may hard to see that in this video. But I saw him dancing in other video and he was different in a sense that he seems to dance off beat purposefully but still look fresh. The best scene comes at the end of the documentary which is the battle at club. In this clip, it starts around 7:20.

Dancers appeared in this video are

00:35 Kito
00:41 Marquest, Prancer
01:47 Buddha Stretch, Link, Loose Joint
03:42 E-Joe, Tony?
03:57 Caleaf, Ramier (Caleaf’s Brother)
04:51 Rubber Band, Prancer, Kito, Marquest
6:23 Kito
7:03 Marquest
7:25 Loose Joint
7:30 Caleaf
7:33 Loose joint
7:43 Peek a boo
7:49 Peter paul
8:00 Stretch
8:15 Rubber band
8:23 kito
8:27 Peek A Boo
8:36 Peter paul
8:47 Kito
8:51 Marquest
9:01 Rubber Band
9:10 Marquest
9:14 Ramier
9:19 Marquest

Lead single from the album Crack.

Karizma is on some other shit.

A couple of years back, after years making a name for himself on the house and club scenes, the Baltimore native unleashed his heavy debut album, A Mind of Its Own, onto the world. Top to bottom, that shit hit hard.

Now, he’s getting ready to put out his follow up, A Mind Of Its Own Pt. 2, and he put together a sampler to showcase some of the tunes on the record:

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===> DOWNLOAD IT HERE (RE-UPPED) <=== There's so much ill shit on here, I don't even know what to say about it. Peep the way he flips “Apache” on the tune he drops right around the 10-minute mark. You won’t hear the “Apache” right away, but give it a couple minutes to build up, and then BAM.

He’s showing no mercy in this sampler. He twists up Dilla real nice. He takes Bugz In the Attic’s monster remix of Vikter Duplaix’s “Looking for Love” and creates a whole new beast. Uptempo. Downtempo. Hip-Hop. House. Bruk. Dude kills on all levels. DO NOT SLEEP.

I saw Karizma spin at Ian Friday’s Libations party (one of my favorite parties in NY) a while back, and I promise you, dude is just as major live as he is on the boards. If he comes to your town to spin, you best to be there to check it out.

Holler at dude on Twitter to keep up with what he’s working on, and check out the video below to get a glimpse of where dude is coming from musically. It’s an older clip promoing his previously mentioned debut album, so it’s a good introduction to where he’s at now as he gets ready to hit us all with Pt. 2:

Sickness and snow kept me homebound today, so I’ve been catching up on some downloads from the past week. At the top of the heap is this masterpiece tribute mix by J.Period paying homage to the man Q-Tip, who’s instant classic The Renaissance album topped my list of favorites from last year.

My fondness for the Abstract Poetic’s music goes back to People’s Instinctive Travels, and it’s safe to say dude is one of the most influential artists in my humble little life. J.Period’s mix pulls together classic Tribe breaks, Tip verses, cameos, remixes and all kinds of other good shit to create one of the dopest mixes I’ve heard in a long, long time. And as a long-time Tribe fan, this shit really made my day.

If you haven’t already checked this out, GET. ON. IT. NOW. (Hint: those are all various download links, so try whichever suits your fancy).

BuhbOmp‘s own Cashless has this to say about it in a review he wrote for Hater Magazine:

There’s an old saying about how we should give someone their flowers while they’re still alive or something like that. I’m paraphrasing, but it seems like I haven’t heard this good a send-up of a living artist since … well, never. J-Period pulls out all the stops in paying tribute to one of the most transformative figures in hip-hop — and that’s a conservative statement. Matching the game-changing nature of the subject matter, Q-Tip and his legacy, the mixtape’s incredible composition, structure and production aesthetics are heretofore unparalleled. There isn’t enough space here for me to express how much you’re fucking up by not having this in heavy rotation right now!

Bonus (from Cashless): Earlier today on Twitter, Q-Tip and I shared a mild-mannered exchange of opinions. It seems however, that we both had the same point of view and I was employing out of pocket, non sequitur logic per usual. Let’s enjoy, shall we?

Q-Tip: ok ! this is easy for me.. radiohead? [link to YouTube video of Radiohead’s Paranoid Android] coldplay! [link to YouTube video of Coldplay’s The Scientist] easy!

Me: Did @QtipTheAbstract just imply that Coldplay is better than Radiohead?! Crazy talk revealed! Just stick with the hip-hop for now bruh.

Q-Tip: @cashless are u nutso??? what a creep u r! [link to Youtube video of Radiohead’s Creep]

Me: @QtipTheAbstract I’ll be a creep, I won’t listen to Coldplay though. Advantage: @Cashless

Me: @QtipTheAbstract I’ll fall back if this is somehow related to an inside joke. Play on playas. However, will not retract Radiohead > Coldplay

Q-Tip: @cashless ummmm… we all vote for head homie….c’mon

(Oddly enough, I had an almost indistinguishable Twitter exchange with Amanda Diva on Grammy night for her bigging up Coldplay and calling Radiohead’s live performance of 15 Step, “cacophonous”. Sorry, but in that situation, invoking “crazy talk” was well beyond warranted.)

In the middle of my exchange with Q-Tip, he sent this message to all of his followers: “cant do the inside joke things with the community u are the only one who fucks with me.” Could this all have been an inside tweet that I intercepted and got all Perez Hilton -vs- Noreaga with it? Could Tip’s Coldplay-versus-Radiohead posts have been intended for Amanda Diva, who is featured on Q-Tip’s song, “Manwomanboogie”? Regardless, I still greatly respect Q-Tip for the music he’s made in addition to being one of the most valuable contributors to the hip hop community and Black music at large.

Final note: I don’t want it to appear as if there was an actual beef or that Q-Tip is a bad guy. In fact, he sent me a direct message saying that everything was all in fun and that he would correctly pick Radiohead over Coldplay.

— Cashless

Excerpt from Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987).

I gotta cop the DVD, stat! This review alone (snippet) should make this a must-have.

The plot, where it exists, concerns a drug-running ring on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Donna and Taryn are assigned to stop the evildoers, who are led by a Goldfinger-like leader who delivers contraband in a radio-controlled helicopter (a scale model, not a real one…guess the drug business isn’t what it used to be on Molokai).

Somehow, the storyline changes from smuggled drugs to smuggled diamonds along the way, but who cares? …

In the interim, we are treated to such unforgettable lines as “Let’s hit the jacuzzi…I do my best thinking there,” “I don’t want to control your life, I only want to suck the polish off your toes,” and “If brains were bird poop you’d have a clean cage.”

We also run afoul of a homicidal skateboarder armed with a pistol and a blow-up doll (why?) and a transvestite who is spying on the spies. Plus any number of nubile women, none of them at all foul.

A sushi-eye view of patrons at a sushi restaurant in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan:

Courtesy of Q-Burns and Laughing Squid.

Peep “the only successful Arab/Jewish collaboration since the beginning of time” doing a joint about proper hygiene boogie style on Yo Gabba Gabba!