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Ballin' Oates - the only Hall and Oates/Hip Hop mix tape you need today
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Bobby Roberts
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CANT WAIT.
downloading this the instant I hit work.
downloading this the instant I hit work.
I'm not a fan of any of the hip-hop used typically, but they did a good job mixing it up, so it works...
PalaceBrother
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If Girl Talk hadn't used all of the samples before (better, imo) then this might have more staying power.
It's not bad by any means but it does feel like it's been done.
It's not bad by any means but it does feel like it's been done.
Agreed. H&O songs seem to work shockingly well as backing tracks.
soundscream
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Rich Girl meets Rich Boy <3
First track is brazy, second track is kind of ehh...And for poops and giggles, the original records still exist so go listen to them and stop bitching.
Bobby Roberts
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Only awesome.
teruterubozu
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Darryl Hall has more street cred than this poser.
http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/live/the-hipster-renewalism-of-hall---oates-214425920.html
youre out of touch
sorry couldnt resist
donkey show
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You at LEAST have to appreciate the humor of mixing The Chain with 2Chainz.
PhoncipleBone
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Aww, shit. Fleetwood Mac as well? Awesome.
Is the Skeetwood album called D.R.E.A.M.S
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Bobby Roberts
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An article containing 500 more words of the same bullshit as the initial statment doesn't somehow validate that initial statement. It's just more bullshit.
Nothin' hipster about Hall & Oates. If Hipsters wanna like 'em? That's fine. But just because there's a Yahoo Blog about the premise doesn't make it true.
Downloading this mixtape now.
Bobby Roberts
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People bringing up Girl Talk are way off base. Not even close to the same thing. This dude basically covers the original song, and then bounces acapellas off it.
Maneater + C.R.E.A.M. works pretty fucking well, as does "Out of Touch + What You Know."
edit: Really liking Overnight Celebrity + Kiss on My List, too. Basically, he's half-timing the instrumentals, which makes em feel *just* different enough (along with the re-instrumentation) that the raps go over the top pretty smoothly.
Maneater + C.R.E.A.M. works pretty fucking well, as does "Out of Touch + What You Know."
edit: Really liking Overnight Celebrity + Kiss on My List, too. Basically, he's half-timing the instrumentals, which makes em feel *just* different enough (along with the re-instrumentation) that the raps go over the top pretty smoothly.
i get what hes doing it just sounded like girl talk from the description when its more like the grey album. theyre both good in their own ways, but it proves, imo, how good h and 0 always will be
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
Lazy covers. this one is better.
hell yes it is.
FallingEdge
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Fantastic. Love me some Hall and Oates.
MilesWebber
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Its ruining my Hall and Oates!
Make it stop!
Make it stop!
PalaceBrother
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I brought up Girl Talk and I stand by it. The fact that this artist is crafting the music differently is interesting, but the end result is the same acapella hip hop vocal tracks layered over a song you recognize.
I can only speak for myself, but having spent a fair amount of time with the Girl Talk mixes it's where my mind immediately went.
The artist doing this work is clearly talented, and perhaps the craft is much more in-depth...but I wouldn't call the comparison of the final product off-base.
spindashing
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quoted to remember this when I get home
Bobby Roberts
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It's absolutely off-base. Girl Talk uses about 10-20 samples per track, no live instrumentation, and cycles through at least 2 or 3 different songs before the track "ends," which is more like just blending seamlessly into the next track (the albums aren't really meant to be played in any other way but straight through)
This guy is sticking to one song the whole way through, bouncing a full song's worth of rap lyrics off a verse & a chorus from the original recording. Each song is it's own composition, with a natural beginning, middle, and end.
What Girl Talk does is, to my mind, not only way different from what Melker is doing, but way harder from a production standpoint. Definitely way more complicated in technique and structure. But what Girl Talk does isn't the baseline. It's not ground zero. And Melker isn't even trying to do what Girl Talk does anyway.
A remix is not a remix is not a remix.
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