#188 Fiat and Faithless = Fiatless

The youtube film above is the new Faithless single / the new Fiat Punto commercial.
Fiat and Faithless have signed, what some regard to be, "a historic deal that may signal the future of the music industry".
The full three minute "prommercial", a new word indeed, was launched during a commercial break two weeks ago and followed up by regular 30-second edits of the prommercial a week later.

Faithless, who have no record label right now, haven't received any money for this thing but consider it a great promotion for upcoming releases and a nice way to shoot a big budget video for one of their songs.
Founding Faithless member Member Sister stated: "They want to sell cars and we want to sell music, it's getting that symbiotic relationship to work, which is interesting and challenging, they wanted us to be involved in the creative process, check the script and the director and be totally involved in every way."

I'm very curious to find out how the results will be for both brand and band in the long run. If these are positive it's very possible that we'll see a lot more of these band-brand match-ups.

#187 Perfect Into the Great Wide Open (according to Jan-Willem van den Pol)

This is the Perfect compilation about this weekends three day festival Into The Great Wide Open. A festival with pretty sweet bands, location (Vlieland, somebody should make a movie here), great weather (you hope) and a Perfect thanks

His liner notes are here. The download link here and there's even a Spotify playlist

#186 The Wilderness Downtown

This popped up all over Facebook yesterday. The Wilderness Downtown by Chris Milk featuring Arcade Fire's single "We Used To Wait". I guess it can be described as an interactive music experience harnessing the powers of HTML5, which for 30+ virgins all over the world is kinda like a big deal.

Go watch!

#185 Shots Shots Shots, Yeah, What!

I know this iPhone app is way old, but I just discovered it this week. It's the Lil Jon: Official Soundboard app for iPhone. For as little as 79 Eurodollarcents you can here classics such as Yeah! and What! over-and-over-and-over-and-over again.

Lil' Jon, by the way, used to look like this (note the dutch football jacket!). Your retarded nephew might have a chance of becoming a retarded superstar after all.

#184 Punk Rock Friday

#183 The Hip-Hop Map

Thanks to the über powers of Google and their Maps, you can now easily check out the world wide Hip-Hop related hotspots on The Rap Map.
Whether it's Biggie's childhood home, 2Pacs elementary school or the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, it's all there and all conveniently organized for your next Hip-Hop pilgrimage.

#182 Das Oath Part Two

As promised: Part Two of the Das Oath Discography. The band that I, Marcel Alexander Wiebenga, was playing drums for from 2000 to 2007.
Part One can be found right here.

What we have here is the band's first full length album that came out in 2004 on Dim Mak Records. I feel that this is the best thing we've recorded.
The record features the song Awesome Rape, which was the closest thing we had to a hit. Awesome Rape eventually ended up on the Tony Hawk Underground II soundtrack. Selling out to a skateboarding game moving 3 million plus units proved very lucrative making every band member 150 dollars... yeyeah!

The writing process for this record was quite intense. Since band members came from two sides of the Atlantic, we were forced to work super fast, practicing, writing and touring Holland, Belgium, Germany and England in 7 weeks. We were playing shows on weekends, practicing two times a day during the rest of the week and finally recording for one week straight in the end.

Dim Mak records, is the super duper popular label ran by the super duper popular Steve Aoki. Who is mainly known for being a horrible DJ these days. I however like to refer to him as: "the biggest douche I've ever encountered". Up to this date he screwed the band on every form of royalties.
Seriously Steve, if you read this, and sooner or later you will when you google your own name twice a day you , you're a prick (with a really hot sister)!

Having said that. Download the record here. Enjoy and let me know what you think.

Tracklist:
1. The Kult Starts (Some) Where 1:17
2. Great News From the South Pole 1:21
3. Awesome Rape 1:30
4. Quiet!: Subtle Pretext Chiming In 0:44
5. The Leaning Tower of Pisa Crap 1:08
6. Blood Oranges 1:26
7. Comatose Life of Wonderment 1:36
8. The Great Anything 1:20
9. Oh Gruesome Lunar Cycle 1:39
10. Disney Surgery 0:33
11. Get Out of Your Scene 0:52
12. Nobody's Married Me in Years 2:57
13. A Biggot is a Spic 0:33
14. Harmonized 1:15
15. The Virtue of Elitism 2:04
16. [Untitled/Unlisted Hidden Track]" (Not listed in album booklet) 6:58