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Monthly Archives: December 2009

EMPT: Greatest Hits 2009, forthebeat Edition

As if Le Miel du Mois wasn’t already on fire, Steph and Kristin of Forthebeat took the popular mixtape’s best of the best to provide you with 9 of ’09, 9 remixes and 9 originals from our first official year in business. Just when you think this tape is gonna slow down and its safe [...]

Chromeo – Momma’s Boy

She says I remind her of her father and I know she likes it, she want’s a guy that’s got his game locked tight.” I was reading an article in the New York Times recently that was talking about new trends among famous and powerful men to marry “young women whose job it was to [...]

Kevin Casey’s Sample Saturday – Herb Alpert / Biggie

After Biggie’s funeral, a motorcade of cars including the hearse carrying his casket proceeded through his old neighborhood in Brooklyn.  When someone started blasting “Hypnotize” the mood on the crowded streets changed from mourning, to a celebration of his life… and his music.  Herb Alpert could never have imagined that his music would have contributed [...]

EMPT: Greatest Hits 2009, Vol. 2

Round 2: Fight! I feel bad for anyone who see’s those words and doesn’t immediately hear the Street Fighter voice in their heads, this post would have started off a lot more entertaining for you. So last week we started our greatest hits series which will be one post a week till the end of [...]

Voxtrot – The Start of Something

I dedicate this song to the main man Liger Woods… Is this the end or just the start of something really, really beautifulWrapped up and disguised as something really really ugly?” I won’t go into the subject too much because what Liger does outside of his profession is none of anyones business but I’ll just [...]

Shawn Lee & The Ping Pong Orchestra

Sometimes my severe eclecticism and ceaseless desire for new music leads me to all sorts of obscure artist and genres, most of which is flat out weird and never makes it to EMPT but this time I think I’ve found a happy medium, Shawn Lee & The Ping Pong Orchestra. I came across Shawn Lee while [...]

Xuman – Panic

You ever have that feeling of being so overwhelmed with life that you either get really dispirited or you turn into Rocky and ride the storm like a true champion? Well, this song represents the latter. You can’t avoid life’s ups and downs but the worst thing you can do in difficult times is wallow [...]