[Music Video] KiD CuDi – Soundtrack 2 My Life

Although Kid Cudi’s album was titled Man on the Moon, in reality, this cannot be further than the truth. Cudi is one of the most down to earth individuals in hip/hop today. His honesty and ability to express his real life experiences through his music has been a catalyst for his success. With so much of mainstream rappers spitting rhymes exclusively related to the topics of drugs, money and woman, Kid Cudi stands tall delivering lyrics about real life problems and the pleasures that come with enjoying life.

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[Hip/Hop] Kid Cudi – High's N Lows Ft. Bob Dylan

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Kid Cudi – High’s N Lows Ft. Bob Dylan (Produced By Dot Da Genius)

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Dot Da Genius, same producer of “Day N Nite” explains the origin behind High’s N Lows:

This must be the realest shit ever. We did this track like 3-4 yrs ago during the grind, trying to get shit moving. Just knowing what he was dealing with during this time period makes this record more than just a song. The sample used in the song was taken from Bob Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay”. I noticed a bad quality version of it leaked so I figure might as well put out a better version.

Soft and honest, Kid Cudi’s recently leaked song “High’s N Lows” keeps things simple as he opens himself up. Kid Cudi’s recent popularity isn’t just because he is able to sample many indie songs, but because his lyrics are real and unpretentious.

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[DOSVEC Remix] Ciara Vs David Guetta ft Kid Cudi

“Memories” is a track by David Guetta featuring Kid Cudi released back around August 2009. The track is a much laid back club mix than what we are used to here (see post below) but nonetheless it was a “solid” song. Personally, it took me a while to like the beat Guetta laid down but the presence of Kid Cudi facilitated this process.

DOSVEC, moniker of DJ Whatt, thought this song was a complete sausage fest and threw in Ciara to balance things out. The result of adding Ciara’s One Two Step to Memories is completely amazing… but sadly it doesn’t last for long. In the second half, we are back to square one with just Kid Cudi and no sign of Ciara. A complete tease if you ask me as another Ciara appearance would have taken this mash-up to another level. Nonetheless I enjoyed the beginning SO much I had to share it and ask what you guys think about it? Am I asking for too much? Comment Below.

DOSVEC – One Two Memories

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[Fresh] ReBlogging (some of) The Best Music of the Week

Many people do not have the “luxury” to listen to music all day like we do (which is probably a good thing! lol). We visit a lot of music blogs, browse over music blog aggregators like mog.com, hypem.com and elbo.ws. Looking at the way people communicate through twitter we realized that one of the best ways to share and discover music is to retweet someone else’s twitter message. For those of you who do not use twitter, “retweeting” aka RT is basically repeating someone else’s message as our own but still giving credit to the source.aoki

Our goal is to expose you to the best songs out there, no matter if we discover it, or our music blogger friends do!

This remix by Steve Aoki got a HUGE amount of love on hypem.com for the first week of December. Blogged by Disco Punk, Steve used Kid Cudi’s Pursuit of Happiness and transformed it into a much more techno sounding version adding a standard bassline and synthesize melodies. A great remix for any dj to have.

[Remix] Kid Cudi – Pursuit Of Happiness – Steve Aoki Dance Remix

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Covered by The Pop Cop on their Live coverage of Regina Spektor @ Academy, Glasgow describing how she was able take control of the situation after an over enthusiastic fan landed a t-shirt on her face. Her responce “I’m OK. I’m glad it was a soft landing,” really demonstrate her sweet personality.

You Don’t Know Me is the name of the lead-off single from Ben Folds‘ third studio album, Way to Normal

[Pop/Alternative/Acoustic] Ben Folds – You Dont Know Me

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One of the firsts blogs to pick this song right away was our friends at jp917 thought it was really the Spanish blog No Naci en Manchester that was able to promote the higher quality album version.

hot-chipHot Chip’s new single that is dropping early 2010 shares names with the album itself. “One Life Stand is an electronic pop track with hints of electronic disco that almost turns into Caribbean music with its Calypso melodies after the first couple of verses.

[Pop/Calypso??] Hot Chip – One life stand

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Soooo Fresssshhhh. First time I listened to Jurassic 5 and loved it right away. The classy lyrics, jazzy background and calm tone makes them stand out of the hip/hop genre. One Sweet Song turned me to it and now its hard to turn away.

[Hip/Hop/Jazz] Jurassic 5 – If You Only Knew

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Kick in the Peanuts reported Paste Magazine‘s sit down with She & Him (Zooey & m.ward) about their second album “Volume Two” to be released during the spring of 2010 and provided their cover song of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put A Spell On You” which was released January 30, 2009.

[Cover] She and Him – I Put a Spell On You

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[Fresh] Kid Cudi over Vampire Weekend? What!?

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You heard right, Kid Cudi Freestyling over “Ottoman” from the beloved Indie-Rock Band, Vampire Weekend. I never really could imagine someone rapping over Vampire Weekend but if anyone can, Kid Cudi is definitely the man.

Kid Cudi – Cudderisback

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And if you do not know who the hell the Vampire Weekend are! Here is a small preview of their easy listen melodic rock style that often dabbles into pop .

Vampire Weekend – Horchata

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[Games] Dj Hero Sountrack

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If you are a music fan, and by reading this you probably already are one, then you should be familiar with the plethora of musical/timing games, like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Band Hero, and now DJ Hero just to name a few. To celebrate the release of Dj Hero we put together a small sample playlist of some of the best songs we found on the game’s soundtrack, to give you a taste of what you can expect. The game track list is mostly compromised of good quality mash-ups, combining two tracks to try to form a distinct experience for the player. Although these tracks were some of the best we found, we also noticed many mediocre ones that only seem to be enjoyable when you are playing the game but otherwise do not have much playback value.


The game is definitely worth checking out.

Daft Punk vs. Queen – Robot Rock vs. We Will Rock You

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Kid Cudi vs. Black Eyed Peas -Day N Nite vs. Boom Boom Pow

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Jay-Z vs. The Jackson 5Izzo (H.O.V.A.) vs. I Want You Back

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Rihanna vs. The Killers – Disturbia vs. Somebody Told Me

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[Hip/Hop] November 2009 Random Playlist Part. I

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We call this playlist random because it has a little of everything. Hip/hop with pretty heavy electronic beats, Hip/hop with pop/funk and just simply fresh new tracks from Wale and Speech Debelle that we cant stop listening to.

Corynne Elliot, AKA Speech Debelle is a British rapper that has recently released the very sweet track Spinnin’. It is a positive and hopeful song full of soft melodies that go along well with her fast rapping flow.
Speech Debelle – Spinnin

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From his debut album Attention Deficit that will be released November 10, 2009, Wale gets real about the life of celebrities in 90210. Everyday more and more hip/hop artist like Wale and Kid Cudi are embracing electronic elements into their songs creating a whole new hip/hop experience. We can’t wait to listen to Attention Deficit in its entirety but judging from the little that we have listen to, I think November will be Wale’s month.

Wale – 90210 (prod. by Mark Ronson)

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Wale – Mirrors

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Just a feel good awesome mash up from the guys over at The White Panda remixing Wyclef Jean and Alphabeat. They have been releasing a lot of great mash-ups lately (including Badd by Ying Yang Twins) and you can expect to see more of their mixes populating the interwebs.

White Panda – Sweetest Fascination

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We might get tired of our own answer to this questions but so far it has not changed. How to make an electronic beat sound amazing? Simply sprinkling a little of Jay Z to it. (or at times Lil Wayne and Kid Cudi)
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Benny Benassi own take on fusing MGMT, Kid Cudi and Ratatat. Result = Win.
KiD CuDi ft. MGMT, Ratatat – Pursuit of Happiness (Benny Benassi Remix)

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