Bostonian hip-hop for grownups since 1990. Tommy O'Deed, Matt Reyes, and Bill Ierardi make music the old-fashioned way: for the love of it.
Joined August 2009
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10 Apr 2024
As a bookend to 2022's "Instrumental Health", here are 24 more pieces of music created while on indefinite vacation in Outer Pandemia.
AMAZON:
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Jun 14
Congratulations to the New York Knicks and their fans!!!
I really mean it, I'm not being sarcastic; as a lifelong Red Sox fan, I don't wish long championship droughts on anyone.
So I guess it's time to retire the only two memey things I ever came up with regarding the 'Bockers:
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Jun 11
100-mile road trip today and it's been Kraftwerk in my ears the whole way.
...100 Miles And Rheinland? 😀
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Jun 11
I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, and I don't have any strong preference, but I'm rooting for the Spurs and... wow that was one of the absolute dumbest ways to lose a game in a championship series. And I'm saying that as someone who was a 14 year old Red Sox fan in 1986.🤦♂️
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7 May 2025
Man, can you believe these refs, with all the reffing these refs are reffing and/or not reffing? I mean refs, amirite?
#refs
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This the quintessential story of how sports reflects the state of the world. Thousands of fans have waited for Game 3 their whole lives and now they’re priced out of entering the game and can’t even celebrate outside because one billionaire gets to attend the game for free.
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What's a great song that references shoes, boots, sneakers, or other footwear?
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24 Sep 2024
One factor complicating lists of "All-Time Best" rap albums is how many 80s classics featured distractingly different (and sometimes objectively inferior) "album mixes" of the popular singles which preceded the release of the album and made it a must-have in the first place.
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Jun 7
That's why I never go to Costco without my SP-404 and a good pair of headphones.
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Jun 5
Hip-hop 1988 was a hell of a drug.
Jun 5
What artist changed the way you dressed?
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22 Mar 2022
I was 15, being handed that by a hero. As a friend; "check this out". That album had an EFFECT. Put it this way, when soon after I embarked on the brief but sincere fashion statement of being a white suburban kid in an Africa medallion, it wasn't because of Paris or XClan.😀
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Jun 4
It's a great album, but I will never not look at the cover design and think it looks like one of those Millennium Collection CD compilations.
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Jun 4
From 1998-2001, I was often signed into AOL 24/7, and became a well-known name in chat rooms such as Movie Madness, Guess Movie By Plot, Guess Movie By Cast, and some hip-hop message boards.
I was just thinking today about how much I loved the internet before Facebook & Xwitter.
Jun 3
Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010.
What’s the one website/app you still think about?
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Jun 3
To honor the passing of Dexter Wansel, here's a song I produced in Jan 1987, looping "Theme From The Planets". That beat would go on to be sampled innumerable times, but back then it was the first time many had heard it.
Full description on Soundcloud:
soundcloud.com/type4/coolie-…
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Jun 3
A possible reason is producers saw little value in sampling whole breakbeats, which they could just loop off record à la Sweet Tee's "It's My Beat" & Ultramag's "Ego Trippin". But it was also just a stylistic choice; 87 & 88 saw lots of drum machine songs coexisting with samples.
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13 Nov 2022
A fun thread with many personal memories. Sometimes in retrospect it can seem like a sudden before/after change, but recently digitizing Lecco's Lemma tapes was a fun reminder how in 86-88, old-school-sounding drum machine stuff coexisted awkwardly with emerging sampled stuff.
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Jun 3
To honor the passing of Dexter Wansel, here's a song I produced in Jan 1987, looping "Theme From The Planets". That beat would go on to be sampled innumerable times, but back then it was the first time many had heard it.
Full description on Soundcloud:
soundcloud.com/type4/coolie-…
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