This one is hand-picked by me, giving love, support and shout-out to my friend Jam Master A (Adam Munter) of Scottsdale, Arizona.
- Direct link to his blog/page of his Silver Medallion remix:
http://jammastera.com/2009/10/silver-medallion-the-iggy-jam-master-a-chronic-electro-house-remix/
Silver Medallion “The Iggy” (Jam Master A chronic electro-house remix)…
by JAM MASTER A on OCTOBER 26, 2009
in FRESH NEW TRAXSilver Medallion are a pretty awesome edgy hip-hop/electro crossover act based in Scottsdale, AZ that are kind of blowing up. They’ve opened for acts like LMFAO, the “Dyslexic Speedreaders” (Dirt Nasty, Mickey Avalon, Andre Legacy, Beardo), Lil Jon, Far East Movement, and a bunch of others I can’t remember. They also DJ some badass electro music and put out mixtapes, and are on the radio in about a dozen major markets. Not bad for an indie band!
Anyway, I dig what they are doing, and have spent some time remixing their trax. The first drop is “The Iggy,” I love the attitude of the original version, and thought the rap would work really well in a 4 to the floor electro-house banger. Whoop, here it is:
Silver-Medallion-The-Iggy-Jam-Master-A-chronic-electro-house-remix.mp3
Links…
You can hear the original track “The Iggy” by Silver Medallion at
http://www.arizonabeats.com/forum/local_links.php?linkid=658&catid=4
Silver Medallion Blog: http://getyourswagup.com
Silver Medallion Myspace: http://myspace.com/silvermedallion“Scottsdale,” the first song by SM that I heard, I was like – damn this track is hot. The hilarious thing was that within 30 mins of hearing it, Oren and Carnegie rolled through where I was at.
“Gravity” is the most recent video they dropped. It was filmed in my hood – downtown Phoenix, AZ. Except they left the homeless people, crackheads, streetwalkers and Sherriff Joe’s thugs out of the video.
While the norm for most tracks go anywhere between 3:30 to 6:00 minutes in length, I prefer 15:00 minutes or longer, like the four seasons. Give me 4 long tracks to fill the hour, and I’ll be one very happy Iraqi. I love tracks that take me on long journeys through various movements. One of my all-time favorite synth-pop groups is PROPAGANDA from germany … who sound like twisted ABBA + Industrial + TechnoPop + Darkness. My favorite Proganda track is P:Machinery. I’ve taken two 12-inch vinyl versions of that track and conjoined them together as one … the way I want to listen to P:Machinery by:
Propaganda
Although he produced only a handful of tracks of renown and disappeared into obscurity almost as quickly as he had emerged from it, Manny ( Man ) Parrish is nonetheless one of the most important and influential figures in American electronic dance music. Helping to lay the foundation of electro, hip-hop, freestyle, and techno, as well as the dozens of subgenres to splinter off from those, Parrish introduced the aesthetic of European electronic pop to the American club scene by combining the plugged-in disco-funk of Giorgio Moroder and the man-machine music of Kraftwerk with the beefed-up rhythms and cut’n'mix approach of nascent hip-hop. As a result, tracks like “Hip-Hop Be Bop (Don’t Stop)” and “Boogie Down Bronx” were period-defining works that provided the basic genetic material for everyone from Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys to Autechre and Andrea Parker — and they remain undisputed classics of early hip-hop and electro to this day.
Man Parrish
What made Trevor Horn’s productions stand out was his unique and genius production techniques and the heavy use of state-of-the-art pro-audio gear, which made him become the torch-bearer for the kind of technology-led pop music which was hip and incredibly disciplined. Trevor Horn’s 12-inch remixes were uniquely long (anywhere from 8 to 13 minutes in duration) and told stories which took the listeners through long instrumental journeys at the begenning of tracks until the climax is reached (around the 5/6 or 7 minute mark). After the climax, the original or alternate full vocal version of the track takes over from that point on to the end, lasting additional 3.5 to 5 minutes in length.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Trevor Horn is the guy who produced and performed “
The Buggles
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