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As many of you have noticed, the site is currently suffering from its monthly bout of web hosting incompetence, courtesy of brinkster.com. The database went down on Friday and has been unreliable, at best, since then. I've begun to suspect that Brinkster really isn't an international company, as they tout in their advertisements, but is in fact being run out of some kid's basement. Hopefully we'll get things fixed by tonight, but if not an rss reader (google reader, for example) is probably the best way to access our posts for the next day or so.
To tide you over until everything gets sorted out, here's a promo I received from Pittsburgh native Boaz, off of his upcoming album The Audiobiography:
Boaz featuring Josh Everette - Crazy World
What caught my attention on this song was the sample for the beat, taken from Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity, a song that was virtually inescapable for much of the late 90's. Here's hoping that if Boaz ever does get around to making a video for this song, he gets Jonathan Glazer on board as the director to put together something as memorable as Jamiroquoi's gimmick of conveyor-belt dancing, which turned a decent song into a global phenomenon.
In other promotional-related news, I received an email from Amalgam Digital today with a link to "behind-the-scenes" footage from the video shoot for Touch and Go. The footage isn't particularly memorable, but what is worth noting is the announcement that his album has been pushed back again, to October 28th. With the push back, and the decision to go with a radio-friendly single as the lead off for the album, one has to wonder if his management is determined to repeat all of the mistakes that they made the first time around. I'd rather see a three part video for Who Killed Hip Hop.
(Oh, and "the world's most boring rapper"? For real?)
8/4/2007 08:35:01 PM posted by Fresh