We love Chiddy Bang, we love Moombahton. Enough Said.
Chiddy Bang – Ray Charles (Skeet Skeet Moombahton Remix)
Skeet Skeet is a Los Angeles Producer, view more songs on his soundcloud.
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Don’t know about you guys, but we get pretty excited about these here weekly playlists. The whole week leading up to the post are like daily grabs in the ultimate surprise bag. Sure, sometimes it ends up being a tootsie roll but sometimes it’s like grabbing a twenty dollar bill. So yeah, you may be a tootsie roll lover, but you still know the latter of the 2 is the best grab. This week’s super grab was a couple of covers we just happened to stumble across. And as we are sure you already know, finding a cover by an artist in a whole different genre then the original can be a total crap shoot or an absolute diamond in the rough. Our lucky asses just happened to find 3 diamonds in a row along with some really shiny gems. Quite the grab if we do say so ourselves. We just hope you enjoy them as much we do!
Download Zip: Indie Dojo January Part 3 [MediaFire]
Peter and Kerry – One Thing (Amerie Cover)
Benjamin Francis Leftwich – When You Were Young (The Killers Cover)
Alice Michel – Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin Cover)
IntotheNorthSea – Throw Away Letters
Turn off your television – I just cleaned the floor
Holland Creek – Through the Window
The wait is finally over, Portland will premier this Friday on IFC. Last year they featured a lot of indie bands as their soundtrack to their show and we hope season 2 is no exception. You can also catch up on season 1 on Netflix today.
The quirky and funny show Portlandia, known to features most of the cast of SNL is back for season numero dos. Also returning is their incredible sensitivity for independent music, not surprising as it airs on Independent Film Channel (IFC). One of the episodes of season 1 featured a rock band played by Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, James Mercer of The Shins, and Brownstein’s former Sleater-Kinney bandmate Corin Tucker, as well as an indie guitarist played by Decemberist Jenny Conlee.
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The UK’s publicly owned BBC have announced the lineup for their choice of who’s going to be big and have full playlist support from them in 2012. Being the most listened to radio station and having huge online and TV presence – this is quite a big deal for the winner.
The lineup is really interesting, from folk to dubstep and also holding some familiar names… [cough] Skrillex [cough]… with others still awaiting the limelight. The rules sate that the winner can’t of had a UK top 20 before November and also they can’t be previously famous – eg. X-factor. Previous winners of the award include Ellie Goulding, Adele, 50cent and Jessie J, all of whom have achieved success with the award helping them along the way. The BBC have only missed the mark a couple of times – little boots & Mika were 2 artists who for me were very over hyped and very over rated.
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Friends{Bandcamp | Soundcloud}
Formed in Brooklyn in 2010, the five piece group recently landed NME’s top 50 artists of 2011 (no mean feat). Self titling their music as “weird pop” – it’s catchy and leaves you feeling a bit more hip!
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Brutally in your face lyrics, the Harlem girl really made her mark with the track ’212′. Spawning from the same Manhatten based LaGuardia High School as Al Pacino and Nicki Minaj she’s now signed to XL Records after making appearances on the 1Love video series and Major Lazer EP Lazers Never Die. Having won NME’s coolest person of the year 2011 and also having her next release produced with Florence + The Machine producer Paul Epworth - 2012 is looking bright for miss banks
Azealia Banks – 212 ft. Lazy J
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Lianne La Havas{Official | Facebook}
I first saw Lianne on the BBC’s ‘Later with Jools Holland’ and her performance was simple – yet stunning. Think of her like a quieter Janelle Monae and let her voice gently bring some sunshine into your day. The 22 year-old has been making music since she 7 and having previously performed backing vocals for Paloma Faith, she’s seems set to make her own path in the music industry.
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Sitting somewhere between Bombay Bicycle Club, Weezer and Metronomy and hotly tipped in 2011′s SXSW festival, Dry The River describe their music as “folky gospel music played by a post-punk band”. Frontman Peter Liddle formed the band in Norway and moved to London in 2010 in set for a huge UK tour in the 2011 spring. Personally I can’t stop playing this song – it’s so bloody epic!
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Flux Pavilion{Official | Facebook}
For me, Flux came on the scene with his DJ Fresh remix waaaaaay back in 2010 so this nomination is a bit late! His 2011 year was amazing and saw the British producer move from a one off top remix, to world touring DJ – working closely with fellow Circus Records label artists. We like Flux, we like his music. We like his face. We like Flux.
Flux Pavilion & Doctor P – Superbad
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Skrillex{Official | Facebook}
After 5 grammy nominations – Skrillex had a mamouth year in 2011. His evolution of the dubstep sound is still a constant hot topic in the dubstep forums and Skrilex’s sound has the power to both divide and unite wobbling bass fans. Whether you love or hate it, it’s impossible not to be impressed by what the 23 year old producer has managed to achieve with his releases, record label and tour. Personally, I love how Skrillex’s sound just makes people completely go nuts and is unashamedly OTT. This track ‘Cinema’ is still my favourite from the LA producer, so crank it and loose yourself for a moment:
Dot Rotten – Normal Human Being.
Jamie N Commons – The Preacher
Michael Kiwanuka – Tell Me A Tale
Niki & The Dove – DJ Ease My Mind
Ren Harvieu – Cryin’ (Roy Orbison cover)
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Swiss remixer Mercury has reworked classic Marvin Gaye track Sunny just in time for the holiday season. A fantastic soul song, ‘Sunny’ has been spiced up with a little dash of electro, making it the perfect winter warmer for Christmas.
Marvin Gaye – Sunny (Mercury Edit II)
A bit ashamed that we missed this track a couple months back but just had to make sure more people heard it. Dallas “DallasK” Koehlke, is an Orlando dj/producer that has been on the rise for more than a year, moreso in the last 6 months supported by Sander Van DoSpencer & Hill – One Touch Away (DallasK Remix)orn, Benny Benassi and BT among others. DallasK’s latest remix of ‘One Touch Away’ is not a complete departure from the original but with tight tweaks to the build ups and drops, he elevates the track a couple of filthy notches.
While we may not talk much about fashion, we definite like to represent in style. The good guys at Karmaloop have given us a pretty sweet Christmas Gift. Together we will be running a contest to select one lucky winner to receive $1000 credit for anything from the Karmaloop store!
They have asked us to curate a page with some of our top clothing picks from their store for this holiday season. Whether you want headphones, sport designer clothes or simple an idea for a gift, check out our guide here!
To ENTER:
All you have to do is enter your information on our special giveaway page and we will select the winner January 5th.
Can;t wait until January to go shopping!? Do not worry, All Music Ninja Members get 20% off and Free shipping. Just enter the code #NINJA.
Good luck!
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Before I say anything I want to tell you guys that we are very excited for this new step for the site. We have always wanted to print out shirts and are very committed to value and feel of the shirt. You are the reason we are doing this, we have kickass fans!
These designs are NOT FINAL, they are merely tentative designs that were provided to us and we are going to have to make the choice of what shirt we would like to print out first.
Design A:
I love the concept of this shirt, it still needs some work as I do not like the 80′s font. It has so much aggression but it still has the abstract vintage look that anyone could wear. I want to get your feedback to see what would you like done to it or would you wear it as is?
Design B:
This might be the second design we print out if we sell a lot of the Design A shirts. I love this shirt because it has OUR BELOVED LOGO! super kickass with a lot of attitude yet looks very clean and it perhaps will appeal more to the hardcore ninja fans.
So please comment on our facebook photo page with your feedback (or bellow this post, we just want to keep this organized). Whether it is a simple “Its cool” to an explanation what you like more than the other (or both). You guys are the reason we are doing this, we have kick ass fans.
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