As this week is Reconciliation Week and the 10 year anniversary of the Reconciliation Bridge Walk, the New South Wales Reconciliation Council held a Schools Reconciliation Challenge to raise awareness of the concept of Reconciliation amongst young people. Yesterday, some of the Heaps Decent crew headed down to their Awards Ceremony where we were privileged to experience a fantastic choir performance by Revesby South Public School students and Major Award winner Paige Lagettie’s stellar performance of her Major Award winning song!
HEAPS DECENT: SCHOOLS RECONCILIATION CHALLENGE
May 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
NEW MIX: END OF THE NIGHT – THE RAP ONE
May 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
So I made a new mix of rap songs just in time for Halfway Crooks this weekend.
It’s the first in a series I’m gonna do featuring songs that I like to play at the end of the night. I mean I like to play most of these songs at the beginning and middle of the night too but these songs in particular are ones that I’ve ended a few parties with over the years – or continued the party with at a kick on!
Some of these songs are old, some are new, some of them are a little obscure and others were big hits. They’re all Southern rap songs either based around a soul sample or with a sing song hook. All the songs are pretty anthemic, even to a dude like me on the other side of the world from where these songs were made.
End Of The Night – The Rap One
Tracklist
GANGSTA BOO, PB, PLAYA FLY & BUN B sippin & spinnin (DIRTY DOCJAM remix)
OUTKAST feat SLEEPY BROWN elevators (me and you)
BIG MIKE world of mine
SOULJA SLIM love me or love me not
UGK use me up
THREE 6 MAFIA feat REMY MA pussy got ya hooked
MAC feat SILKK THE SHOCKER & FIEND be all you can be
OUTKAST spottieottiedopaliscious
DIAMOND & PRINCESS georgia girls
LUDACRIS feat FIELD MOB & JAMIE FOXX georgia
GETO BOYS six feet deep
UGK one day
HOOD HEADLINAZ soul glo
TYTE WURK mary jane
DEVIN THE DUDE doobie ashtray
DEVIN THE DUDE stray
Z-RO i hate u
X.O. feat CEECEE grind baby
DAVID BANNER cadillac on 22’s
YOUNGBLOODZ feat BIG BOI 85
UGK feat OUTKAST international player’s anthem
LIL’ WAYNE shooter
LIL’ WAYNE feat BOBBY VALENTINO mrs officer
DEVIN THE DUDE feat SNOOP DOGG & ANDRE 3000 what a job
OUTKAST feat CEE-LO and BIG GIPP git up, git out
UGK in the mornin’
DJ ZINC LIVE MIX ON RO SHAM BO SUNSET
May 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Here’s an awesome live mix and interview that DJ Zinc did on our radio show last week.
Me and Moriarty have been huge Zinc fans for a while (Moriarty probably has ten years of fanboy-dom on me) and it was great to have him in. The mix is fucking killer too.
HALFWAY CROOKS YAYYYYYY
May 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Halfway Crooks is back this Saturday night at Phoenix! We realised we missed our first birthday! Oh well.
Come celebrate our 14th month with us this weekend.
DOOD FOOD
May 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
10 dudes came round for dinner the other night and received the works: cheeseburgers with bacon, pickles, red onion and rocket on a charred bun. I tried to cook em pretty rare too.
After smashing 2 burgers each and a handful of hand cut fries, I still had the deep fryer going and a bunch of leftover pickles. I make my own dill pickles using cucumber grown by B’s Dad and they’re super tasty. I’d read about deep frying pickles over at Meatwave and decided to give em a try. We didn’t have any cornmeal in the house so I used masa. Different but good.
They came up terrific, the batter of masa and flour puffed up and went nice and crispy while the pickles stayed juicy. The taste was off the hook. Deep fried pickles would be the ultimate bar snack! Serve them with some toothpicks and some good beer. Mmmmm.
May 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
So my housemate Jeremy convinced me to buy the new Pokemon Heart Gold game (he opted for Soul Silver), which is the first Pokemon game I’ve played since I stole a kid I was babysitting’s Gameboy in in 1997.
I defeated the Lance bro (after 30 hours of addictive gameplay) and now have to go destroy a bunch of other pussy gym leaders in some other town. It’s a pretty great game but for real, Joey needs to stop calling me.
http://yolevins.com/so-my-housemate-jeremy-convinced-me-to-buy-the-new/
BONE THUGS AUTUMN
May 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
So for the first song of every Ro Sham Bo Sunset radio show in Autumn, Moriarty and I played a Bone Thugs-N-Harmony track. Over the course of the leafy season we played:
Thuggish Ruggish Bone
Foe tha Love of Money
Tha Crossroads
Notorious Thugs
Get’cha Thug On
Weed Song
Get Up and Get It
Down Foe My Thang
Resurrection (Paper, Paper)
Thug Luv
Creepin On Ah Come Up
(and psst… we’re gonna play 1st Of Tha Month as a BONUS song next week on the 1st of June!)
We also did a call out for listeners to decide which rap group we should play a song by for the first song each show in Winter and the response was huge! It came down to three main contenders – Outkast, Slum Village and Wu-Tang Clan – but the majority spoke and it looks like we have a WU-TANG WINTER to look forward to…
Listen to Ro Sham Bo Sunset with Levins & Moriarty, Tuesdays from 6pm – 8pm on FBi 94.5FM.
“YOSHI!”
May 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
IGN has a massive new article celebrating 20 years of Mario’s dinosaur sidekick Yoshi. The little green dude is mine and Bianca’s favourite video game character ever and we can often be heard making ridiculous Yoshi noise at each other. It’s embarassing.
Also I gotta say that I actually like the game ‘Yoshi’s Story’. Stop hatin!
DETOURS AND DESTINATIONS STARTS TOMORROW
May 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Detours and Destinations opens TOMORROW!
Our biggest program yet starts this Wednesday in the Studio at the Opera House and we would love for everyone to come and get involved!
Heaps Decent has been working along side Shopfront, The Sydney Opera House and the Dept of Juvenile Justice to create a mix of music, dance and technology called DETOURS AND DESTINATIONS. It’s been an intense and exhilarating couple of months putting this show together, and now you can experience it too!
SESSION TIMES
Wednesday 5 May
1.15 – 3pm
6.30 – 8pmThursday 6 & Friday 7 May
11 – 11.45am
12 – 12.45pm
1.15 – 3pm
6.30 – 8pmEach of the 6:30pm sessions will feature guest vocalists rapping over the beats produced during the Detours workshops. These vocalists will be:
Wed: D-Minor & Low Tee
Thurs: Young Nooky & Marley, Miracle
Fri: MC Shureshock & breakdancersFor more info head to the Detours and Destinations page on The Sydney Opera House website: LINK
Check out the projects blog: www.detoursanddestinations.com.au
Listen to and DOWNLOAD the four mastered songs we made with the kids at Miimali & Lomandra! SOUNDCLOUD
Aaaand: follow http://twitter.com/detours_tweets for your chance to interact with the visuals at the show!
Everyone is welcome! It would be fantastic to see you there!
DICKS ON THE WALL AT THE METRO THEATRE
April 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If you’ve ever been backstage at The Metro Theatre on George St you’ve surely seen at least one of the dozens of penis drawings that adorn the walls of the venue.
Recently I tried to take a photo of each wanger. Here’s the meaty evidence.
That’s a lot of D. If you’ve seen more than that at another venue let me know!!
