Merry Christmas

chrispop will have you popping and locking.

Allow  me to introduce Chrispop... Now allow him to do the rest. ;)

My name is chrispop, but friends call me christian or poppy. Born and raised in a tiny village in the woods, but for the last 9 years I've been mainly living in paderborn, a mid-sized city in the center of germany

I've been djing for close to 15 years now. started out on 90s hiphop & bigbeat, took a long detour playing mostly 60s & 70s funk/soul/rocksteady/ska/beat/psych etc, and only got back into "modern" music over the last 3-4 years, when labels like bombstrike and goodgroove started releasing what's now known as "ghettofunk" or "nu-funk", combining all of my musical interests (breakbeats, classic funk samples, hiphop vocals, heavy bass etc) into one "genre", allowing me to play music from all my "roots" on one party...
I've always been into music (played the organ, guitar, bass...as a kid), and did mashups/bootlegs/remixes mostly for myself to relax, but after I switched to djing digital 2 years ago I could finally play "my" stuff, so I focused more on tracks that I'd like to play, but that didn't exist yet...

Where do you draw your inspirations from?

Numerous people, but if I have to name a few it would be folks like fatboy slim, andy smith, a.skillz, krafty kuts, bobby c. sound tv, daigo, nick thayer, spinforth, stickybuds, slynk, the whole ghettofunk.co.uk posse...
What I really love about this "scene" is how warm, friendly, open and accessible it is...most of the music is put out for free on platforms like soundcloud & bandcamp, and there's a great worldwide community supporting and working with each other. It's amazing to be a - however little - part of something that's not driven by monetary interests, but by the love of music and sharing it with others.
musically I'm influenced by pretty much anything but standard 4/4 dance music and rock. as long as it sounds organic, funky and bassheavy, I'll probably like some of it, be it breaks, hiphop, reggae, glitch, dubstep, funk, "ethnic" balkan & world music, soul, jazz...

I'm constantly digging around for new music & artists, and all the time palying around with remixes/bootlegs of tracks I'd like to fit into my sets or that in my mind sound great combined. I mostly do my stuff to play out myself, but it's awesome to see people elsewhere digging what I do...

I'm working on a ep with tracks fusing ghettofunk with "classic" german hiphop vocals at the moment, also there's a few more tracks in the pipeline. I try to come up with more original material, but coming up with my own melodies and sounds is not easy in a genre defined by sampling classic stuff...
for the "scene" in general I honestly hope it doesn't blow up too soon and become the next big thing for 5 months. Just look at how moombahton was the thing for a few weeks an is apparently already dead again...ghettofunk/nufunk/funky breaks/(what ever you want to call it) has been growing really organically over the last few years and it's getting bigger daily. It's a music that's "mainstream-accessible" without selling out or dumbing down, and definitely the most fun i ever had in a club:)


If you would like to contact chrispop for any reason. Perhaps to commission a song or two (he is very talented). He can be reached at the links below. Don't forget to check out his video collaborations as well they are pretty good too.

FACEBOOK       SOUNDCLOUD

White Man Group

So, you've heard of Blue Man Group.  Have you heard of the White Man Group?

I Like Tea!!

Look At Me Now (Karmin Covers)

She has got some skills!

For more of Karmin's covers, go here.



Look At Me Now - Chris Brown ft. Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes (Cover by @KarminMusic)

Dom Mazzetti vs. Dubstep

Robot Koch And John Robinson "Smorgasbord"

Baths - "Lovely Bloodflow"

My friend sent me this one to me. I think she has really good taste in music!



Baths - "Lovely Bloodflow" from anticon. on Vimeo.

Tyler The Creator - Yonkers

A really good friend of mine sent this to me for inspiration so I am passing it on. :)

THE GLITCH MOB : BETWEEN TWO POINTS feat. SWAN by MOTIPHE

Between Two Points from motiphe on Vimeo.

Graffiti Analysis v3.0

I wanted to share this because this is just sooo great. :)

Graffiti Analysis is an extensive ongoing study in the motion of graffiti. Custom software designed for graffiti writers creates visualizations of the often unseen gestures involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived as Graffiti Markup Language (.gml) files, a specifically formatted XML file designed to be a common open structure for archiving gestural graffiti motion data. GML files are saved in an open online database, 000000book.com, where writers can share analytical representations of their hand styles. Graffiti Analysis is an open source project that is available online for free in OSX, Windows and Linux. Graffiti writers are invited to capture and share their own tags, and computer programmers are invited to create new applications and visualizations of the resulting data. Since the launch of Graffiti Analysis, dozens of GML compatible applications have been built and over 10,000 tags have been uploaded to the 000000book database. What Martha Cooper did for archiving graffiti on film, and Chalfant/Silver did for archiving graffiti in video, Graffiti Analysis intends to do for archiving graffiti in code. The project aims to build the world's largest collection of graffiti motion and bring together two seemingly disparate communities that share an interest hacking systems, whether found in code or in the city.

Graffiti Analysis is a project by Evan Roth. All of the software changes in GAv2.0 and GAv3.0 were written by Mzz Chris Sugrue, with support from the Fondation Cartier and Les Grandes Traversees. GA1.0 was created at Parsons Art Media & Technology with input and advising from Zach Lieberman. Graffiti Analysis was built in Open Framewerkz. Other code contributions included in GAv3.0 from: Theo Watson (laser input integration), Kyle McDonald (audio analysis) and ps / TPOLM (.gml RSS system).

Graffiti Analysis Website              Contact

AMAZING! INCREDIBLE! ROBOT HANDS!

Ruben's Tube + Dubstep = Awesome Sauce!

Who Remembers This?

Taking it back to the old-school...

To Be Ambitious and to Want to Be Successful is Not Enough!

Just one more reason...

Just one more reason to go to Coachella, or any festival for that matter...Burning Man, Lighting in a Bottle, etc. Festivals are great! :)

After Laughter

Underwater base jump!

Can you believe this guy does this all on one breath?

FREE FALL: World champion freediver Guillaume Nery special dive at Dean's Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world filmed entirely on breath hold by the french champion Julie Gautier. Edited my BLUENERY (c). Music: ARCHIVE - you make me feel.

And now a word from Glÿph

Happy Birthday me and a Gift for you. ;)

If you don't know about LaBlogotheque you should. ;)

Yeasayer play "2080" and "Tightrope" near Jourdain in Paris, France

"And then the piano, beer, and songs; '2080's lyrics written quickly and messily on a sheet of paper; Lyn relaxing on her hammock; hands, glasses, and bottles clinking on the floor as if in response to the neighbors reprimands. A joyful hippie communion..."

Read the whole article and see more videos here:

http://www.blogotheque.net/Yeasayer,3966

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