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Minesweeper Suite
''Minesweeper Suite'' is the second mixtape by breakcore DJ and producer DJ /rupture released in 2002 on the Tigerbeat6 record label. Track listing # "Jibal Al Nuba/Gemini Dub" (J Boogie, MahmoudFadi) – 4:37 # "High Resolution/Tectonic" (DJ /rupture, Heat Sensor) – 3:14 # "Rumbo Babylon/Limb by Limb (Acappella)/Latoya: Version/Tables Will Turn" (Baby Cham, DJ /rupture, Foxy Brown, General Degree, Cutty Ranks) – 4:16 # "Untitled A1 /Ruff Enuff nstrumentaTables Will Turn ega Mix (Akrobatic, Baby Cham, Foxy Brown, So Takahashi) – 2:22 # "Serranito/Froggy/Maffe Rhythm" (Kazamix, Rober Kimou, Nettle) – 4:03 # "62 Ouf" ( Mad Killah, Mister Faycal) – 2:28 # "Bad Man Lighter ump Up MixDrums Conductor/Angels: A cappella" (DJ Rush Puppy, Elastic Horizons, Wax Poetic) – 2:37 # "In Front of You" (DJ /rupture) – 4:18 # "Fallen Angels/Same Time: A cappella/3.37/I Remember Nothing More J /rupture's needlepoint mix ( Cul de Sac, DAT Politics, Mentol Nomad, Missing Linx) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad Killah
Mad, mad, or MAD may refer to: Geography * Mad (village), a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia * Mád, a village in Hungary * Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, by IATA airport code * Mad River (other), several rivers Music Bands * Mad (band), a rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina * M.A.D (band), a British boyband * M.A.D. (punk band), a 1980s band, which later became Blast * Meg and Dia, an American indie rock band Albums * ''Mad'' (Raven EP), released in 1986 * ''Mad'' (Hadouken! EP), released in 2009 * ''Mad'' (GOT7 EP), released 2015 Songs * "Mad" (Ne-Yo song), 2008 * "Mad", by Dave Dudley from ''Talk of the Town'', 1964 * "Mad", from ''Secret Life of Harpers Bizarre'', 1968 * "Mad", by The Lemonheads from ''Lick'', 1989 * "Mad", from the album '' Magnetic Man'', 2010 * "Mad", by Cassie Steele, 2014 * "M・A・D" (Buck-Tick song), 1991 Organizations * MAD Studio, an architectural firm * Make A Difference, an Indian NGO * Might ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djivan Gasparyan
Djivan Gasparyan (var. Jivan Gasparyan; hy, Ջիվան Գասպարյան, ; October 12, 1928 – July 6, 2021) was an Armenian musician and composer. He played the duduk, a double reed woodwind instrument related to the orchestral oboe. Gasparyan is known as the "Master of the duduk". In 2006 he was nominated for Grammy awards for the Best Traditional World Music Album. Biography Born in Solak, Armenia, to parents from Mush, Gasparyan started to play duduk when he was six. In 1948, he became a soloist of the Armenian Song and Dance Popular Ensemble and the Yerevan Philharmonic Orchestra. He won four medals at UNESCO worldwide competitions (1959, 1962, 1973, and 1980). In 1973 Gasparyan was awarded the honorary title ''People's Artist of Armenia''. In 2002, he received the WOMEX (''World Music Expo'') Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a Honorary citizen of Yerevan. A professor at the Yerevan State Musical Conservatory, he instructed and nurtured many performers to professio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaliyah
Aaliyah Dana Haughton (; January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001) was an American singer and actress. She has been credited for helping to redefine contemporary R&B, pop and hip hop, earning her the nicknames the "Princess of R&B" and "Queen of Urban Pop". Born in Brooklyn but raised in Detroit, she first gained recognition at the age of 10, when she appeared on the television show '' Star Search'' and performed in concert alongside Gladys Knight. At the age of 12, Aaliyah signed with Jive Records and her uncle Barry Hankerson's Blackground Records. Hankerson introduced her to R. Kelly, who became her mentor, as well as lead songwriter and producer of her debut album, '' Age Ain't Nothing but a Number''. The album sold three million copies in the United States and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). After allegations of an illegal marriage with Kelly, Aaliyah ended her contract with Jive and signed with Atlantic Reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Flack
Roberta Cleopatra Flack (born February 10, 1937) is a retired American singer. She topped the ''Billboard'' charts with the No. 1 singles " The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", " Killing Me Softly with His Song", " Feel Like Makin' Love", " Where Is the Love" and " The Closer I Get to You", the latter two duets with Donny Hathaway. Flack is also noted for her influence on the subgenre of contemporary R&B called quiet storm, along with her interpretations of songs by various songwriters, such as Leonard Cohen and members of the Beatles. Flack was the first artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in two consecutive years: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" won in 1973 and "Killing Me Softly with His Song" won in 1974. Early life Flack was born in Black Mountain, North Carolina, to parents Laron Flack, a Veterans Administration draftsman, and Irene (Council) Flack a church organist, on February 10, 1937 (some sources have cited 1939 but the 1940 Census give ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Abrams (musician)
Joshua Abrams is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. Career While living in Philadelphia in the late 1980s, Abrams was a member of Square Roots, a street music group that developed into The Roots. He moved to Chicago and played as a bassist with Tortoise, Town and Country, Hamid Drake, and Matana Roberts. Abrams was the house bass player at Fred Anderson's Velvet Lounge and for several years he played a weekly club date with Tortoise's John Herndon and Jeff Parker. He was a member of Mike Reed's Loose Assembly and Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble. In 2003, he played bass on Godspeed You! Black Emperor's album '' Yanqui U.X.O.''. He has worked as a studio musician on recordings made in Chicago, such as Jandek's ''Chicago Wednesday;'' Bonnie "Prince" Billy's '' Beware'' and albums from Chicago musicians such as Joan of Arc, David Grubbs, and Sam Prekop. In the early 00's, Delmark released his acoustic quartet album ''Cipher'' and Lucky Kitchen released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Mutamassik
A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at a nightclub or music festival), mobile DJs (who are hired to work at public and private events such as weddings, parties, or festivals), and turntablists (who use record players, usually turntables, to manipulate sounds on phonograph records). Originally, the "disc" in "disc jockey" referred to shellac and later vinyl records, but nowadays DJ is used as an all-encompassing term to also describe persons who mix music from other recording media such as cassettes, CDs or digital audio files on a CDJ, controller, or even a laptop. DJs may adopt the title "DJ" in front of their real names, adopted pseudonyms, or stage names. DJs commonly use audio equipment that can play at least two sources of recorded music simultaneously. This enables them to blend tracks together to create ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Prez
Dead Prez, often stylized as dead prez, is an American hip hop duo composed of stic.man and M-1, formed in 1996 in New York City. They are known for their confrontational style, combined with lyrics focused on both militant social justice, self-determination, and Pan-Africanism. The duo maintains an ethical stance against corporate control over the media, especially hip hop record labels. Career Background (1990–2000) In 1990, M-1 headed to Tallahassee, Florida, to attend Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University where he and stic.man met and formed a relationship due to their mutual love of music and similar leftist political ideology. While there, their views solidified, M-1 becoming particularly interested in the Black Panther Party. M-1 joined the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement in Chicago for three years, while stic.man remained in Florida. Burned out by the arduous labor of Uhuru, M-1 and stic.man chose to focus on music. Brand Nubian' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), known professionally as Nina Simone (), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, and pop. The sixth of eight children born from a poor family in Tryon, North Carolina, Simone initially aspired to be a concert pianist. With the help of a few supporters in her hometown, she enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. She then applied for a scholarship to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where, despite a well received audition, she was denied admission,Liz Garbus, 2015 documentary film, '' What Happened, Miss Simone?'' which she attributed to racism. In 2003, just days before her death, the Institute awarded her an honorary degree. To make a living, Simone started playing piano at a nightclub in Atlantic City. She changed her name to "Nina Simone" to disguise hers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Whitehead
Gregory Whitehead (Nantucket, MA) is a writer, radio program maker and audio artist based in Lenox, Massachusetts. Allen S. Weiss considers him to be a major figure in the fields of audio art and radio art.Allen S. Weiss, ''"Lost Tongues and Disarticulated Voices: Gregory Whitehead’s Pressures of the Unspeakable", in Phantasmic Radio, Duke University Press'', January 1995,, February 2, 2010 In 2001, Whitehead made a generous private donation to the Åke Blomström Award. Works Active in cassette culture during the 1980s, his early works include ''Disorder Speech'' (1985), ''Display Wounds'' (1986), ''Beyond the Pleasure Principle'' (1987), ''The Pleasure of Ruins'' (1988), ''Writing On Air'' (1988) and ''Reptiles and Wildfire'' (1989). In 1991, RRRecords released a 7” vinyl record titled ''Vicekopf''. Whitehead collaborated with Christof Migone on the 1995 radio play, ''The Thing About Bugs'', for New American Radio. Other radioplays from the 1990s include ''Pressures of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missing Linx
Missing or The Missing may refer to: Film * ''Missing'' (1918 film), an American silent drama directed by James Young * ''Missing'' (1982 film), an American historical drama directed by Costa-Gavras * ''Missing'' (2007 film) (''Vermist''), a Belgian film that was a 2007 box office number-one film in Belgium * ''Missing'' (2008 film), a Hong Kong horror film directed by Tsui Hark * ''Missing'' (2009 film), a South Korean film directed by Kim Sung-hong * ''Missing'' (2009 short film), a film starring Susan Glover * ''Missing'' (2010 film), a Jordanian film directed by Tariq Rimawi * ''Missing'' (2016 film), a South Korean film directed by Lee Eon-hee * ''Missing'' (2018 film), an Indian film directed by Mukul Abhyankar * ''Missing'' (2019 film), a Hong Kong film directed by Ronnie Chau *''Missing'', a 2007 film featuring Nao Ōmori * ''Missing'' (2023 film), an American thriller film * ''The Missing'' (1999 film), an Australian film directed by Manuela Alberti * ''The Missing'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mentol Nomad
Menthol is an organic compound, more specifically a monoterpenoid, made synthetically or obtained from the oils of corn mint, peppermint, or other mints. It is a waxy, clear or white crystalline substance, which is solid at room temperature and melts slightly above. The main form of menthol occurring in nature is (−)-menthol, which is assigned the (1''R'',2''S'',5''R'') configuration. Menthol has local anesthetic and counterirritant qualities, and it is widely used to relieve minor throat irritation. Menthol also acts as a weak κ-opioid receptor agonist. Structure Natural menthol exists as one pure stereoisomer, nearly always the (1''R'',2''S'',5''R'') form (bottom left corner of the diagram below). The eight possible stereoisomers are: : In the natural compound, the isopropyl group is in the ''trans'' orientation to both the methyl and hydroxyl groups. Thus, it can be drawn in any of the ways shown: : The (+)- and (−)-enantiomers of menthol are the most stable among ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
