Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Happy Tuesday Theme Songs: 2 CHAINZ, Twerkathon, and Dope DnB!

Hope y'all are enjoying this lovely day. Whether you're super busy or super bored, here are some songs to get you through the rest of your day...

First up, it's the 2 CHAINZ song of the day. This one is off his mixtape from 2011, T.R.U. Religion and it's called Undastatement... You'll need a towel to wipe your leg... Pronto!

Also, we are keeping Twerkathon OH-13 going as promised yesterday in Happy Monday Theme Songs For Your House Party Hangover. Why? Because it just needs to happen.

But whahappins if you don't know how to twerk? It's OK, I got you. I found this awesome instructional video for those of you out there who are twerk-challenged...

Now that we've got our twerking down.. back to the music... Today is more Ying Yang Twins. Raise your hand if you know this one...

And this one I'm mad into by Busta Rhymes and Nicki Minaj...

I'm also all about some crucial Drum and Bass today...

Lately I've been getting mad into Noisia. This track is pretty brand spankin' new. It's I Am Legion which is Noisia and a hip hop group called Foreign Beggars and it's called Dust Descends.

Also found this one that came out a few weeks ago called Hyenas and it's a collaboration between Noisia, Calyx, and Tee Bee...

But what got me all on Noisia lately is actually a much older track. It's entirely possible I like the track purely because I like the dude who says "Diplodocus" several times throughout it. For those who don't know, a Diplodocus is a dinosaur that had a very long neck and looked quite similar to the Apatosaurus.

Here is the original:

And here is the Upbeats Remix which I also like:

Finally, as you learned from my post 8 Whole Weeks of Being Smoke Free, My Theme Song, and Super Slik Stop Smoking Campaign, I have a huge thing for The Prodigy because they are AWESOME... It would appear Noisia agrees with me. This remix is dope!

BOOM!

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Saturday Theme Songs of the Day... Welcome to the Dark Side of DnB Workout

I decided to change things up a bit today and go for a Jungle/Drum & Bass station on Slacker Radio for my workout. I've been having issues getting up in the 80-85% range to max on my cardio for my target heart rate so I've been going for high BPM workout playlists so I can have a reference point to match and keep pace with during my workouts.

Just FYI, a BPM rate is a term used to talk about both the beats per minute of music and also your heart. Crazy how those 2 are linked right? For those of you who do not produce, spin, or listen to Electronic Dance Music in a real in-depth way, most of the poppy dancey tracks on the radio are probably in the 120-150 BPM (Beats Per Minute) range... Jungle and Drum & Bass can range anywhere from 155-190 BPM.

Anyway, one of my all-time super faves for Jungle is Aphrodite. I've been a huge fan of his and Urban Takeover for about 14 years now. Slacker threw what it considered some other similar artists with similar sounds into the playlist. I actually know a lot of these artists personally and am familiar with their work from my time in the rave scene so I know how dissimilar they really are. But it was all good and my workout was epic. So here are some goodies for your workout playlists....

Aphrodite - Style From The Dark Side