Before he went solo, Grand Agent aka Jared Talyor was in a hiphop group called NAME out of Philly with DJ Mr Cisum and Ozzie Jones. Every record these guys would drop, I would pick up. Around 2000 or so I managed to acquire the holy grail: NAME’s full length album, Lost Page Of The B-Boy Document from HipHopSite.com as…
Long Live Hieroglyphics.Com!
I save a lot of stuff. I have backups of backups of gifs, videos, Photoshop PSD’s, you name it. And occasionally I will search for one thing, and come upon a treasure trove of Other Things. Such was the case earlier today when I stumbled upon the files that amounted to my departure from the site I created and maintained between…
Cornelius produces new Ghost in the Shell: Arise Anime Soundtrack
Japanese producer (and one of my personal favorite artists), Cornelius is producing the soundtrack to the new Ghost in the Shell: Arise anime OVA-movie. The four-part series is a re-imaging / prequel of the original Ghost in the Shell manga. Production I.G returns as the animation studio and production house, continuing their brilliant work on all things GITS. As much…
End of the Mayan Calendar: BBR – 2013
Here’s a track I produced and recorded with Philadelphia’s BBR (Big Brother Resistance) back in 1999. The track is all about what lies beyond the fabled end of the Mayan Calendar: December 21st, 2012 (which happens to be today’s date, as I post this). The song was the very first release on Arrakis Records, printed on vinyl 12″ in 2000.…
Time Warp! RealAudio Lands at Hieroglyphics.com (16 Years ago today)
It’s funny how these things happen…I was looking through some old files and came across the very first audio recording I ever made in RealAudio. You remember RealAudio, right? Way back when we were using telephones to dial-up our connections to the Internet, RealAudio provided a low-bandiwdth codec that was efficient enough to encode audio in a file size that…
Dead Magazine + Yameen – Top 10, August 2012
DEAD Magazine asked me what I’ve been bumping recently? Check it out: http://www.deadmagazine.de/2012/08/25/yameen-supremeex/ Disclosure: “The Face EP” (Greco-Roman, 2012) Frank Ocean: “Channel Orange” (Island Def Jam Music Group, 2012) Killer Mike: “R.A.P. Music” (Williams Street, 2012) Hit Squad Catalogue: (everything – EPMD, K-Solo, Sermon’s solo joint, the Knucklehedz..) Lone: “Galaxy Garden” (R & S Records, 2012) Mosca: “Eva Mendes EP”…
Sutpen’s Jungle Video – Dieselboy, J Messinian, MC Foxy – Philadelphia, July 2000
As I continue the spelunking of my vast DV tape archive I came upon some footage of classic Philly jungle / drum and bass party, Sutpen’s Jungle from back in 2000. The party was thrown by Goodie Goodie Productions, and this particular joint features Diselboy, MC Foxy, Bryan Gee, DJ Kane, MC Dub2, J.Messinian and MC Fats. Check the two…
Black Dynamite Anime – Jamie Vickers Collabo
Ya’ll know Jamie Vickers, right!? He’s the animator and director of the Yameen, “Light of Love” video (embedded below). He’s just wrapped up work on the animated Black Dynamite television series, broadcasting now on [adult swim] / Cartoon Network. Jamie storyboarded the last episode of the series. So be sure to check out the trailer linked below, and catch the…
Hieroglyphics – Live (Video), Pomona CA, 2000
Last weekend I dumped over 131 gigs of DV video tapes of all kinds of stuff from 12+ years ago. Among the tapes was some live footage of the Hieroglyphics crew performing at The Glass House in Pomona, California on March 16th, 2000. Youtube’s upload limits at the time of this writing forced me to split the footage in two.…
A Better Tomorrow – Live Action / Anime Short by Mitsuo Miyazaki
Props to Mitsuo Miyazaki on this fantastic live action / anime short. And to the cast involved as well: Animation section directed by Koji Morimoto & the homie Jamie vickers, along with animators: Yasuhiro Aoki, Atsuko Fukushima, Bahi JD, Toru Yoshida, Nakazawa Yuuichi, and Satoru Utsunomiya.