We Love Dj Kool Herc Too!

Okay guys- maybe I've been sleeping on my writing a bit and should have shared this story waaaaaaaay back. So I'll sum it up. Amerca's health care system is broke, Kool Herc was a victim in the setup. Our lovely music community stepped up to help cover his bills for kidney stone treatment and more. One of the side effects of this was this release We Love DJ Kool Herc. I can't stress it enough- this guy started it. this beat mixing, funky evolution we call hip hop. He and kraftwerk are like great uncles to beat imprint and all this shit we do.

Check it out- quite a tribute, and it's free. But know the cost of getting it created and out- the suffering of one of the old school greats in a broken system.

I hope you dig it! For more background on Kool Herc's medical issues and to donate click here.

DJ811: WHITE NOISE EGG MAN

Beatimprint associate & mash up maven DJ 811 is back @ it, this time mogwai vs. beastie boys

White Noise Egg Man

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BEATIMPRINT PODCAST EPISODE #1

UPS!! HOUSTON!!!

Soundwaves, Houston

300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Our Sun (by astrophotographer Alan Friedman)

Two Sun's in 2012, we'll get back to that, first wrap your head around 300 Sextillion stars! That's 3x more stars in the universe than was previously projected, "and many, many planets that could support life."

Meanwhile back in our galaxy, global solar storms erupted across the Sun. This "Great Eruption" consisted of 'over a dozen shock waves, flares, filament eruptions, and coronal mass ejections that covered half of the sun's surface' in just over 24 hours.

Finally (if you are still a follower of linear time), here's a realistic view of a passing comet while your traveling on the mothership towards the edge of the Universe (after taking Stephen Hawking's advice to abandon Earth).

...oh, and the two Suns I mentioned, Betelgeuse (the second biggest star in the universe), is "running out of fuel in its centre" and before collapsing upon itself a giant explosion will occur, tens of millions of times brighter than the sun. 'One day, night will become day for several weeks on Earth...we’ll have incredible brightness for a brief period of time for a couple of weeks and then over the coming months it begins to fade.' says Dr Brad Carter, Senior Lecturer of Physics at the University of Southern Queensland.

Hendrix - "Third Stone From The Sun"

Basquiat again- it's beat.imprint but visual.

for anyone else out there who likes Jon-Michel Basquiat, here are 2 interviews from 98bowery.com, an archive of art videos & history. these are both from ART/new york, a video magazine on art from new york in the 80s. it is an interesting resource for anyone interested in that pivotal time, in the shadow of wall street and ronald reagan. enjoy!

Watch it! Basquiat @ 98bowery