In February, things have been relatively quiet here, so we decided to treat you with a tasty sonic morsel for fortyFive Friday! Enjoy this Tha Silent Partner flavored remix of C-Doc’s “Me Nots”, the original version of which can be found on his album “Divided We Stand”.
Thanks to TSP…
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Yesterday Mercedes-Benz released the latest volume of their excellent Mixed Tape series, “(The) Amplified A”.
Included among the twelve track line-up are two from our own Liam Stewart! His rocking “Moody New Star”, from the great new album “Losing The Tortoise Race”, opens up the compilation in a big way…
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A little over ten years ago, in 2002, I began working for SLAMjamz, the label run by Public Enemy’s Chuck D. I began by designing cover art for their digital single series. Among those digital singles were seven designed for Connecticut avante-garde power pop group, The Scallions, consisting of members…
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With this being the 41st volume in our most excellent netBloc series, I felt it only fitting that I make plunderphonic artist Fortyone an integral part of it. So what you’ll find is his wacky and adventurous explorations in sampling both opening and closing this collection… making for a righteous…
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Back in 2008 I first came upon the music of an artist who, a year later would play a large role in blocSonic’s transition to a full-fledged netlabel with it’s own original releases along side it’s netBloc series. That artist, Just Plain Ant made his first appearance on “netBloc Vol.…
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Just Plain Ant will always hold a special place here at blocSonic, since his was the first original album and the first Xtended Edition that we released. We now enter his fourth year here and he returns with another great new album of formula smashing downtempo, “All Becomes Dust”.
“Love(d)”…
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A very Happy New Year goes out to all of you! Thank you for all your support in 2012, it was a great year! 2013 is looking to be even better. We’re cooking up a new website which we’re hoping to relaunch around late spring. We’ve got a bunch of…
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If you didn’t pick up on the not so subtle hint of repurposing the RIAA logo for the cover art and the title “AAIR Attack”, I still have something to say about the sad state of the music industry.
It’s now going on 14 years since Napster was launched and…
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To close things out for Liam Stewart’s terrific “Losing The Tortoise Race” is the second single from the album, “Moody New Star”. MNS can be best described as moody, addictive & rockin’. Along with the album version are three remixes… two of which by the great C-Doc and one by…
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Liam Stewart returns to blocSonic with his fantastic new album “Losing The Tortoise Race”. If you enjoyed his previous album “Sixteen Words”, the new one will not disappoint. If you’re just now discovering Liam’s music, then you’re in for a treat, since you have two albums to catch up on!…
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