Happy Freaking Hogswatch!!!

I am back and badder than than ever for the holidaze and all that good stuff…getting my cards all set to mail and what knot so it’s about time I start posting again to this corner/crux of the internet.  I have a new mix for you to download and some stuff off my soundcloud as well and then I will leave you be…Savvy?  OK, let’s ‘go in’ as the kids say these days…

DJ HALO – COLD

I made this mix for a special person, as the title would indicate, but they will remain nameless…maybe it’s YOU.  Either way a great mix was produced and I hope you enjoy it, feel free to post comments or your mama jokes…what?  Track list!?  fiiiine…This is the most rappy mix I have made in forever, so ENJOY!

New Soundcloud Heat!

Not really as it has been up for about a month or so now, but I haven’t had time to post about it until now.  A remix I did for the Scale It Back remix contest held by DJ Shadow, obviously I didn’t win, but I did make a song that I am excited to play for people…peep game.

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YOOOOOOOO!!!  It has been a MINUTE since I got up on here, for that I apologize but life has a way of getting in the way sometimes.  Have no fear though, I will be in FULL EFFECT for the up coming holiday week and sporadically more often from then on…Savvy?  Great!  Now that we are in agreement, I just wanted to shout out a really fun (hopefully well attended) event I will be doing tonight @ Freight Street Gallery in Waterbury.  Freight Street if you have never been there before is a pretty dope spot, a bit out of the way, but very nice as they have done significant improvements to the spot since their opening a few years back.  Any artists looking for a great place to play an ALL AGES show should seriously take a look at this venue.

So, tonight I will be rocking the jammie jams from 10pm until 2am for a rare ALL AGES set, so feel free to bring your annoying little brother for some earsplitting BASS.  Mostly rocking Electro and Dubstep tonight, but if you’ve witness the fitness live before, you know I tend to meander genre-wise…for more info click the flyer above or the link HERE to check the FB invite.  Hope to see YOU there!!!

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W-O-E…It’s Wednesday, I got a year older and finished up rocking two fantastic dates on the MC Homeless, Riddlore & Aceyalone tour in NYC and CT respectively.  Maybe it’s the delirium from lack of sleep, but I feel pretty good about getting older this year…today I have some great stuff to celebrate the release of my long time homies & live show/touring partners, The Metermaids, album on Strange Famous Records!!!  Well, actually it was on the 6th (American records release on Tuesdays don’t cha know…) but time is a relative concept really.  I also have the last two archive links for my FM broadcast show on WPKN as well as some miscellaneous debris from around the interwebs.  Sit down and kick it for a min, you won’t be pissed you did…

The Metermaids ‘Rooftop Shake’

So the homies Swell and Sentence finally released their Opus that has been a long time coming; production from NC super-producer 9th Wonder & M Stine with cuts from world famous turntablist Rob Swift as well as the duo never sounding tighter and more polished on the rhymes.  This is a definiate must have LP.  If you don’t believe me, take a listen to this track and try to say it’s weaksauce…

Metermaids ft. Sage Francis and B Dolan – Bad Things Redux

Still a bit unsure aren’t you?  Well here take the whole thing for a test drive at the Stange Famous Soundcloud…

If that wasn’t enough, peep the video for 8MM…

WPKN Archives!

Here is the two newest archives from my Tuesday morning show; relive the hilarity as if you were there…

Mornings on WPKN 8/30/11

Mornings on WPKN 9/6/11

Free Stuff from Captain Planet!

Captain Planet (not the super hero silly!) and Giant Step decided to give away some tracks off his new record ‘Cooking Gumbo’ for FREE…Enjoy!!!

Captain Planet – Dame Agua

Captain Planet ft. Brit Lauren – Get You Some

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TGIF and such!  It’s been a good week here at the Halodoesntsuck labs, much work completed and fun times were had by all.  So I have for you this Friday some brand new tracks to kick that weekend off correct as well as some goodies to help you waste time before the bell rings and you slide down that dinosaur to your car…

Reform Party

This is a brand new band project featuring Saskatoon Canada homie Kay the Aquanaut, whose most recent album ‘Waterloo’ (Circle Into Square) was a banger, is offering 3 new tracks for download in conjunction with Ominocity.com!  These tracks are quite dopesauce, I am noticing a trend with projects this guy is involved with…preview and DL tracks individually below or grab the whole 3 song zip at Ominocity.com.

Reform Party – Wikileaks

Reform Party – Eros

Reform Party – Thirty Nine

DJ Halo Doesn’t Suck Now Up On Bandcamp!

YUP, I finally got off my duff and put this mix up on my bandcamp; so now you can DL it track my track or just grab the whole thing…peep the link HERE and Enjoy!  More releases coming soon!!!

New Track from Awol One and Ecid

To celebrate the ‘Tomorrows Astronaut Tour’ the homies Awol One and Ecid got together and put a track together…take a listen to how nice the play with eachother…

FIN

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Holler@Your.Boy!!!  Another hump day is upon us and I am excited…why you say?  I have two dope tracks from the homie Donky Kong Jr.  and some hilarious shorts to re-run from the comedy group STELLA (had a show on comedy central, members of The State cast).  Ohhh yes, it’s that kinda day…

New Tracks

For you enjoyment I have two new offerings from producer Donky Kong Jr.  Peep game, these are pretty dope…

Donky Kong Jr. – Dubstep, Sand & Chickpeas…

Donky Kong Jr. – Another Donky Kong Jr. Track

Aaaaand as a special treat I have a super rough in progress mix of a new HALO instrumental too…

HALO – In Progress…

ENJOY!

STELLA Shorts!

I remember commercials about the show when it was on the air on Comedy Central, but had never taken the time to peep the show out…SUCH A MISTAKE I MADE.  Woe, these dudes are hilarious!  Shouts to Eliot and Benji for putting me on to this amazing comedy that I and now you, cannot, should not, will not live without from now on.  I will use the birthday one as an intro because mine is soon (when exactly?)…

If you thought that was funny, peep the whole set HERE…

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Tags: Donky Kong Jr., halo, New Music, Squids, Stella Shorts, Yeah Yeah It's Me

Hey Hey!  So I was away in CA for a bit and ‘off the grid’ for a while but am back and badder than ever with some great new stuff to kick your week off right…right you say?  Yes, right…not YEaaahh Riiiight.

Sheen Bros ‘It’s So Hot’ ft. Greg Nice

This week’s edition has a whole FREE (free you say…) EP courtesy of Scion A/V’s website (website you say…) from the collusion of 4th Pyramid and Cosmo Baker, called Sheen Bros.  It’s really just a bunch of remixes of the same track ‘It’s So Hot’ ft. Greg Nice (Nice and Smooth & solo fame) and mannn does it bang! In the cluuuub, streets, basement or bedroom, if this doesn’t get a head nod out of you I would suggest checking your pulse cause you might be dead.  Just kidding…wait, no I’m not.  Peep the two tracks below and if you are like me and the ‘download and figure out later’ type you can grab the whole thing HERE…

Sheen Bros ‘It’s So Hot’ ft. Greg Nice (The Miracles Club Remix)

Sheen Bros ‘It’s So Hot’ ft. Greg Nice (Torro Torro Remix)

SLOTHS!!!

I couldn’t get the Video to post but it’s ULTRA hilarious; SNL Digital Short, you know the deal…click the link above or HERE to peep the madness.  ”Eat Cocaine Off America’s Grave Stoooonnne!!!”, “Don’t Call Us Slooooooooowwww!!!”…yeah, it’s that good.

SLOTHS SNL DIGITAL SHORT 

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Aww Snap!!!   Life has really been getting all up in my ass these days, so I better work it out huh?  Well I have been and to that effect I have a short and sweet rocker for you today with three (count them!) THREE incredible new tracks from some of the most ahhhmazing talent of 2011.  Peep game and enjoy!

NEW MUSIC

Qwazzar & Batsauce – Till it’s Done (Galapagos4)

Brand spanking new track from the Duo’s new Album ‘Bat Meets Blaine’ due out on Sept 13; a scant 4 months after the release of their first record (pictured above)…when the chemistry’s there use it.

The Metermaids – Graveyard Shift (Prod. By 9th Wonder) (Strange Famous Records)

These cats have been the HOMIES for a minute now and I can’t be happier about their success, they deserve it for real!  Their new record ‘Rooftop Shake’ comes out on Strange Famous Records Sept 6th and it’s gonna be a BANGER.  I would advise getting a preorder on this one…

Astronautalis – Dimitri Mendeleev (Fake Four Inc)

Apparently this track is BURNING up the blogs and internet; as you can tell it made it to my site…mooo whooo hahahaha!  But seriously folks, this is a solid track, and from what I can tell the whole album is gonna be ILLMATIC style dope.  Plus Andy is just a really cool guy to boot.  Check it fool!!!  His 4th LP ‘This Is Our Science’ will drop on Fake Four Inc September 13th.  COP THAT, COP THAT!

FIN

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Allright, Allright, Allright.  Whew!  A whole week without a post, whate whate gwan you say?  I was busy with other work endeavors sadly, but fear not I am back on the grizzly this week in full effect and have a banger of a week lined up (shockingly, I do actually plan these things in advance); so let’s get into this edition of Ruff Mix Monday and take it from there…savvy?  Word.

New Remixes!!!

These remixes are in the last few months, but I haven’t shared them yet so I threw them up on Soundcloud to see what cats thought before I went in and monkey with them any further…the monkeying will commence this week so peep them before the get ruined!!!

Infinite Livez – Lucky You (HALO Remix)

I opened up for Infinite when I was DJing in Berlin and we got to talking…he had some accs up on bandcamp, I like remixing, 2+2=4 and all was right with the world.

Storm Davis – Snuggle Bunny (HALO Remix)

I have known Storm for a while now thanks to the homies The Metermaids and he recently sent me over this acc and I tired to get as busy as I could on it.  In usual HALO fashion, I just kinda evil-ed it up a bit…super rough draft so don’t get to used to the sound.

New Morning Show Archive ft. Data Romance

As you may or may not know, I have been blessed to have a temp co-host for the last month on my WPKN Morning show (Tuesdays 6-9am: 89.5fm, WPKN.org & iTunes radio) as well as have some great interviews.  All making for really enjoyable radio vs. shabby ole me in there by myself (waack) as per the usual.  This week has a great interview with the up-and-coming electronic group of Data Romance at the end of the show in addition to great music, news, views and all that jazz you can’t hear elsewhere on the radio dial (trust me).  Click the link below to stream it off the WPKN site. A downloadable archive will be up soon!

MORNINGS ON WPKN ft. INTERVIEW W/DATA ROMANCE                                                                                                                  

Marcel The Shell…WTF?

This video series is HILARIOUS!!!  Serious, I got put on last night and can’t stop thinking about it or hearing the lines in my head, it’s that good.  I will let the first video speak for its self…

FIN

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Yo, Yo, Yo!  Almost working for the weekend and whatknot right (I like aliteration, sue me).  Have some great vids to share, a flyer for an upcoming gig, a link to my most recent archive on WPKN.org and lots of other nonsense to waste your day till the clock says it’s time to go home.  Word UP…or Down.

Videos

Geto Boys – Bring It On

This week’s thugg pick is an old school track that is totally without a doubt ahhhmazing, hilarious and dope all rolled into one 8 min posse cut opus with every gangster rapper from the 91-94 era ever on it (sorry MC Eight, ya didn’t make it on there).  It’s Bring It On by the Geto Boys and I’ll just let the video speak for itself…

I wake up every morning screaming ‘Somebody Slaughter Me!”

Cassettes Won’t Listen – Into The Hillside

Official video from the homie who is currently one half of The Freeze Tag and killing it on his own with the new album Kevinspacey.  This is my favorite track from his slept on instrumental only album released about two years ago.  Enjoy!

The Freeze Tag – The Hustle

Speaking of The Freeze Tag, here is the first video in the series that follows the adventures of ‘Hamster Kid’ though his adventure throughout the record titled with his namesake.  Ahhmazingly smooth visuals in this video, I am sure the series will be popping up again…

I.E. Merge – DMC World Finals Routine 2004

For all my Turntablist nerds!  This is probably the best routine I have ever seen, very clean, well paced, rhythmic, just incredible…Peep game!

A Midsummer Night’s Dream W/DJ HALO

Ohh Snap!  Fun times will be had @ Soda Bar Brooklyn on this evening!  FB Invite coming soon.  I just really like the moon and stars so I thought I would share with you…sue me.

This Week’s Mornings On WPKN Archive

The archive of my show on WPKN this week ft. guest hostess with mostest Beka Foley and an interview with Archie Bang to boot…Enjoy!

Mornings on WPKN Archive 

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Tags: Archie Bang, Bring it On, Cassettes Won't Listen, Geto Boys, I.E. Merge, The Freeze Tag, WPKN