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0 Comments VIDEO: Kendrick Lamar at Sneaker Pimps NYC

Article written by the brilliant Jeremy Ervins on the 18 Nov 2011 , in the Announcements category

KarmaloopTV caught up with Kendrick Lamar at Sneaker Pimps NYC to talk sneakers and original style.

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0 Comments VIDEO: Kareen Abdul-Jabbar highlight video

Article written by the brilliant The Elitaste on the 05 Jun 2011 , in the Originators category

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0 Comments Video: “Blue Gold: American Jeans” documentary trailer

Article written by the brilliant The Elitaste on the 29 Dec 2009 , in the Clients category


If you remember back in July when Posner signed, I got him a custom varsity jacket from Old 2 New Designs in Boise, Idaho. Well thanks to my friend Bo who is an Idaho-native, he made me aware of this documentary that stars Eric, the guy who helped me put together the jacket. How cool does this look?



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0 Comments Video: Synth Brittania on BBC

Article written by the brilliant The Elitaste on the 25 Nov 2009 , in the Originators category


Mike Posner put me onto this documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage.

In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including the Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Volatire were inspired by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard and dreamt of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain.

The crossover moment came in 1979 when Gary Numan’s appearance on Top of the Pops with Tubeway Army’s Are Friends Electric heralded the arrival of synthpop. Four lads from Basildon known as Depeche Mode would come to own the new sound whilst post-punk bands like Ultravox, Soft Cell, OMD and Yazoo took the synth out of the pages of the NME and onto the front page of Smash Hits.

By 1983, acts like Pet Shop Boys and New Order were showing that the future of electronic music would lie in dance music.

Contributors include Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant. (more…)

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0 Comments Mike Posner is #1 and #4 on iTunesU

Article written by the brilliant The Elitaste on the 10 Nov 2009 , in the Announcements category


if you haven’t downloaded the mixtape yet, what are you even doing here?

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0 Comments Video: Roll One Up with Devin the Dude

Article written by the brilliant ddoff on the 17 Aug 2009 , in the Announcements category

Who better to educate you on blunt-rolling than Devin?

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0 Comments Video: AZ “Sugar Hill” (CLASSICK!!!)

Article written by the brilliant The Elitaste on the 29 May 2009 , in the Announcements category


AZ is one of my favorite rappers of all time.

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3 Comments New Warren G “Mr DJ”

Article written by the brilliant The Elitaste on the 01 Apr 2009 , in the Announcements category

warren g

Click HERE to download.

New Warren G… He and I have been talking about management…should we work together?

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0 Comments World’s most important drum break

Article written by the brilliant The Elitaste on the 23 Mar 2009 , in the Announcements category


Spotted this on Daniel Merriweather’s blog and had to repost. Goes from rock to hip hop to jungle. It’s crazy.

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0 Comments Work of Drew Struzan

Article written by the brilliant The Elitaste on the 19 Mar 2009 , in the Announcements category



I spotted this over at Bobby Hundreds’ blog on Hypebeast (featured with Wale’s new Hypebeast blog)
Click HERE to check out his work. Had no idea the same guy was behind the artwork for all my favorite films growing up. Wish I had $100,000 to throw around so I could buy one of these.

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