Why cant I turn on the computer without reading about Calvin Harris anymore? May be because he’s got a subscription on high chart entries. Just like Dizzee Rascal has. After Calvin Harris did “Dance Wiv Me” for Dizzee Rascal, he hooked him up with the next straight to number one single. “Holiday”. Dizzee went to the UK top from zero for the third time in a row with this one (listen below).

I liked Bonkers better. Its a thin line between pop and pop. Would this be the time for another “why didnt urban dance get brought to the charts by new cats before the mainstream exploits it” rant? Probably. Holidays suck, schakker hart (thats “work hard” for you 1st world citizens).

Still, Dizzee comes to Germany and I might wanna check him out again. So let me note the tour dates.

11.11. Frankfurt – Batschkapp
12.11. Münster – Skater’s Palace
13.11. Hamburg – Uebel & Gefährlich
14.11. Berlin – Astra
17.11. Köln – Stollwerck
18.11. München – Backstage
19.11. Stuttgart – Zapata

Dizzee Rascal ft. Chrome – Holiday (prod by Calvin Harris)

[podcast]http://schakkerhart.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/dizzeerascal_ft_chrome_holiday-_prod_calvinharris__schakkerhartcom.mp3[/podcast]

In related news, the attempted murder of the vocal effect called “Auto Tune” failed miserably. Sean “Jay-Z” Carter, you loose. Although I would say Jay-Zs “back to the basics, fuck rappers who put melodys in their raps and everything the South brought to the game” is a classic case of “aus der Not eine Tugend machen” (somebody translate that), it was a nice try. So sad it failed.

British singer/ band (this is like a Mike Skinner/ The Streets type of confusing thing) Mr Hudson has his album Straight No Chaser co-produced by Kanye West. Auto Tune in the first single wasnt surprising since Mr “biggest star in the universe” West needs his walking frame for his ambitions as a Hipster-ish pop singer. Mr. Hudson wouldnt and being Kanye’s protege aint doing bad neither. The album appears on Kanyes G.O.O.D. Music and 1st single Supernova topped the charts right ahead.

Mr Hudson feat. Kanye West – Supernova (Calvin Harris Remix)

[podcast]http://schakkerhart.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/MrHudson_ft_KanyeWest_Supernova_CalvinHarrisRemix.mp3[/podcast]

Eurochart Hot 100 Singles 9
Irish Singles Chart 2
UK Singles Chart 2
UK R&B Chart 2
U.S Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles 12

DOA, huh? Jiggas personal Bay of Pigs aside, talk of the town Calvin Harris made Mr.Hudsons well produced electronic alternative RnB 80ies pop bounceable. The synths make you throw up your hands like its Sensation White again. Or some big ass commercial house event.

Straight No Chaser is out in october.

Ah yeah: the joke about all of this is that Mr.Hudsons song tops Dizzee’s. Mainly due to the fact that Calvin’s remix for Hudson is better than the beat he gave Dizzee’s single. Still strange. Once you start doing pop your battle skills won’t get you far, Mcee.

Bmore club is one of the genres that been around for years and get their earned attention back now, over the course of all  the new dance rap coming out.  Bmore Club legend DJ Class took that chance when he released “I’m the Ish“, featuring Kanye West, this winter. It was his first release since 2001 and brought him back to the forefront. Actually he’s signed to Universal now.

If you dont know by now, start geeting Bmore club knowledge with Dj Class‘ tear the club up.

Lets get to the news: Kanye West posted Dj Class‘ new  Remix, to their track.

[podcast]http://schakkerhart.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/DJClassftKanyeWestImTheShitRemix.mp3[/podcast]

bout to go to see the kanye wests show tomorrow in hamburg. ive allready been to his last gig in oberhausen, together with my editors from hiphop.de. was fun, man i nearly passed out in the middle^^

no, this is not oberhausen, and no, i didnt film that whack myself


drinkin aside, kanye did his daft punk inspired ufo show. loved it. yeah, i was surprised to, but somehow this musical-like stuff was dope. more a pop- than a rap show but refreshing and perfectly staged.
like i said, kanyes show reminds me of daft punks alien dj sets on top of their neo rave-coloured pyramid. kanye stood on a huge laptop first and kept a colour-changin planets and universe background through the whole show. starting to fukk with electro after sampling daft punk and ripping their concepts for your live show afterwards? kanye keeps it thorough.





seeing consequence before kanye took over was funny to. all he did was shaking his left wrist, dancing a little and rap through his songs like he was training for something. a real nineties concept. minus talkin to the audience.
40 minutes later kanye took over, did the same (only adding his trademark pirouette) and everybody was amazed as fuck. what a difference some planets make.

looking for a pic to show the similaritys i just found a kanye statement to swagger jacking accusations:
“MY SET DOES NOT HAVE A PYRAMID IN IT OR ANYWAY FEEL LIKE A BITE OF DAFT’S SHOW.”

seen no pyramid, true.

thatshiphop.com just reported that kanyes album 808s & heartbreak leaked to the net. still hes not worried about sales. let me give you the story and a preview plus which meaning it has for techrap and such. plus the last track that leaked, Anyways:

Kanye West feat Kid Cudi – Anyway
Download audio file (Kanye_West_-_Anyway.mp3)

Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak

“Mother [freakers] is leaking my [stuff]. The only [stuff] I leaked was ‘Heartless’ and ‘Love Lockdown. The label moved it up to get more Thanksgiving sales… I’ve been a cocky mother [freaker] and talked my [crap] and all that. And the people would love to see me not sell — hey, it is what it is. That’s the way life is, man.”

the album is now coming out on november 24th. i read a real cool pre listening report about it that forecasted 2 million albums old. i wouldnt bet against that. i even think kanye might out do lil wayne, if not regardin sales, than regardin his worldwide status. if hes not allready doin that. with his own version of electro rap (a lot of 808 drums and an 80ies electro type of sound) hes surely improtant for the topic of our blog. its the same with kanye in techrap than it was in rap, of course: hes too much of a metro to be on his side. thing is, in electro, being a half-gay nerd is the bst thang to be. so he done picked a good way to take his shit pop. i dont see him being played on every electro party, but i do see him being one of the biggest pop stars of our time.
kanye west ‘s singing on 808s & heartbreak, using goddamn auto-tune, using pop beats, still doing stuff every critic gon love. gay enough for europe – and he allready took the states, no robbie williams.
the topics on 808s & heartbreak gon be pretty impressing too i guess. i never liked kanyes swagger talk cause it sounded like a pimply geek bragging about being the better human. now he has some serious stuff to deal with – feel sorry for the geek but im sure he gon make some good pop music outta it. now, hes the superstar he allways wanted to be allways felt like being. on the verge on filling stadiums, like he announced. the most important thing in his life was his mother. he move with her to hollywood, shes famous now, too, decides to get her breasts made (you see my respect for the geek, i didnt say tits). sad part of the hollywood-worthy story: she dies during in that operation. so kanye feels like he reached what he wanted and killed his mums with that. 808s & heartbreak.

“I didn’t do any interviews after my mom passed. I wasn’t ready to speak about [it]… Now I’d rather talk it through than commit suicide. I’m super devastated. I feel like I moved to California, then my mom moved to California, and she did stuff she wouldn’t have done if we’d stayed in Chicago. If I’d never made it in the music business, it never would’ve happened.”

Evil Activities is not the only one that loves using Jay-Zs lyrics. French electro DJ Don Rimini took on “Jockin Jay-Z “, thats supposed to be on upcomming “Blueprint 3 ” and produced by Kanye West in the originoo version.

Imma give you both versions which add up to: the electro thing is nice but still electro (somebody call Evil Acitivities) and the original wins by technical KO due to Kanyes old school beat. Hit the comment button to retune me.
Ah yeah: the friendly sponsor of the electro tune can be found on discobelle.net .

Jay-Z – Jockin Jay-Z (Don Rimini remix) (zShare)

Jay-Z – Jockin Jay-Z (produced by Kanye West) (zShare)