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( 3 / 337 )This First Friday at Limelight!
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Rewind Cinema is our new monthly experiment in film and music. Each month we will be hosting a throwback classic and djing. We got Big Trouble in Little China for our first one May 17th. Click here to read more about it.
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( 2.8 / 305 )http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2009/04/next-k ... ales-remix
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( 2.7 / 285 )Wonderful news this week for Diego Bernal. First off, URB Magazine caught wind of the album. Check it out straight from URB:
"Dilla, Madlib, Dre, Alchemist, etc., all the greats of late...what is one thing they all have in common? None of them are wearing a sombrero. If they did? You'd get Diego Bernal, the new crime fighter from Texas. That's right, he is an attorney for a national civil rights organization. But what does he do in his spare time? Well that is easy. Just listen to his newest release, For Corners.
For Corners is a beat album for the people, by the people...or person. Diego has soaked up quite a bit of hip-hop culture throughout his life and travels, as well as latin music, jazz, funk, R and B, and many other things that shine through his music. And Diego is humble enough to pay his respects. The very first track is titled "Diego's Donut (R.I.P. J Dilla)." Although it does not hold a flame to the recently legendary beat master, because face it, who can hold a flame to Jay Dee?, it still announces great effort into not only the work Diego puts into his music and who he in inspired by, but also what Diego gets out of his music. "Armor Ali'd Out" and "Dusty Sanchez" show Diego's range and his Latin influence, while many other tracks do the same...gathering amazing breaks to create melodies and beats that are relatively unheard but still sound familiar to the hip-hop regime.
Diego has done what most beat producers long to do; he has taken part of his culture, and other cultures for that matter, and let them burst out in his music. His merge of hip-hop and Latin roots is specifically impressive, and done seamlessly. For Corners is what beats are all about, and Diego has mastered his craft. "
On top of that we came across "Ballface", an experimental multimedia piece that uses one of Diego's tracks as the soundtrack.
Ballface. from totee on Vimeo.
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( 2.7 / 242 )Texas, our SXSW 2009 compilation, is officially out this Tuesday March 24th. People have been saying many good things about it and so we rounded up some links to press to go check out!
Big Bad Medium
Needle Drop
UndoMondo
Mainstream Isn't So Bad
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( 2.9 / 338 )We've got a fine release in store for you for SXSW...17 tracks of solid music from Texas' producers and artists. The album is an entirely free download tooDownload the Album Here
To celebrate the release we are throwing a 2 day blowout in San Antonio with some amazing talent.
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Friday March 13th Day 1: Eliot Lipp, Michna, AM Architect (as a live band for first time) and Radscarsss
Saturday March 14th Day 2: Thavius Beck, Yarah Bravo, Cerebral Vortex, and Ernest Gonzales
Everyone that attends will receive a download card to get the album
Each day at the door will be $7 but if you act now and buy tickets ahead of time its only $10 for both days.
Purchase tickets now!
Presales Tix no longer available.
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( 3 / 440 )Latina.com posted up a review of For Corners this week. Peep the strategy at www.latina.com
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( 3 / 458 )All Music Guide featured Diego Bernal's For Corners this week on it's blog. The review is wonderfully written.
"Not too proud to pay tribute to his most evident inspiration, Diego Bernal opens his absorbing beat suite For Corners with “Diego’s Donut (RIP Dilla),” a track that is modestly regal and mournful at once, anchored by an uncomplicated but effective break and draped in stately horns, accented with several subtle touches and tricks that poke through with each play. Instead of a Jadakiss cackle or siren to signal the next track, there’s sampled dialogue, stitched together and heavily reverbed: “What you got down there, Diego?” “Dust…” Only Bernal could know how many particles were inhaled while pulling up the material repurposed throughout this set. While the San Antonio, TX-based producer, a civil rights attorney, has the wistfulness-tinged warmth down, the lesson Dilla impressed upon him the most could be the drive to dig as deep, far, and wide as possible while reshaping it all in a way that reflects his own life. The format here — sample-based instrumental hip-hop vignettes — is not new, but it has never been given this Southwest touch, certainly not by a producer who can whip up an astonishing, Latin-flavored synthesis of disparate elements. Startling synth drones, hurtling dustbowl-psych guitars, jubilant flutes, and rhythms for the hammock and dancefloor only scratch the surface. All of it is streaked across a shrewdly paced sequence of tracks, 40 minutes of soul-soaked beats that feel like 20."
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