Insomnia Radio #157: Rappers Ball

Following up on the first all hip-hop episode here at Insomnia Radio back at the end of 2006 (#103 - He’s Playing WHAT???), we eagerly bring you sixteen high quality tracks from a wide selection of regional artists, including repeat performances from NYC’s Metermaids & Atlanta’s Psyche Origami.

We are also honored by a special guest appearance at the head of the show by The Iceberg himself, straight out of Inglewood, CA.

(Definitely NOT work/kid safe)

Original Photo by Mikey G Ottawa

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1) Black Ice - Chevy ‘64 (feat. Feddie DeMarco & Tash) | itunes
2) People Under the Stairs - Tuxedo Rap | e-music
3) Blue Scholars - Joe Metro | e-music
4) Blockhead - Duke of Hazzard | amazon
5) Grand Analog - Around This Town | e-music
6) Psyche Origami - Directions | itunes
7) Nine:Fifteen - Spilt Milk | e-music
8 ) Metermaids - Turn it Up (feat. Camp Lo) | e-music
9) Pic Vicious - Systematik
10) Pigeon John - Growin’ Old | e-music
11) Giant Panda - Speakers Pop | e-music
12) Junk Science - Do It Easy | e-music
13) Blueprint - Boombox | e-music
14) Shane Hunter - Stack of Bibles | itunes
15) The Saturday Knights - Dog Park | itunes
16) Mr. J. Medeiros - Constance | itunes

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Griffen @ Unlabeled Records
Radio BSOTS
MC Jason E.
Spita (IR: Baltimore Theme Song)
Win Ice-T’s iPod Touch!
Soundbed: Kou Chou Ching, Hostyll, Hip-Hop for Kids [Vol 1/2]

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Mixtape: Insomnia is Warped ‘08 [Side A]

$Mixtape: Insomnia is Warped \'08 [Side A]$ The 2008 Warped Tour engine fires up today in Pomona, California (US) and the musicians invited will spend the majority of the summer nomadically performing across the country, storming toward the East Coast and then making their way back to Carson, CA for a grand finale in mid-August.

I’ve done my best to filter out the most breathy angst, gutteral Middle Earth screaming drowning out skillful instrumentation, excessive voice modulation, and tearful weeping hearts.

What’s left are around fifty of the stronger tracks from a more well balanced range of music that I could locate, spread across three mixtapes - the first of which you can listen to here. You’ll find that some artists in this compilation are playing the entire tour, while a few have been chosen to play select dates.

Please enjoy and check out the rest of this series in our festival mixtape section, right on the heels of this hourlong driverless ride. Muahaha!

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INSOMNIA IS WARPED MIXTAPE ‘08 [SIDE A]
1) Four Year Strong - Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die
2) Horrorpops - Where They Wander
3) The Academy Is… - Checkmarks
4) Saint Alvia - Don’t Wanna Wait Forever
5) A Cursive Memory - Everything
6) The Human Abstract - Crossing the Rubicon
7) Edreys - No Joke
8 ) The Dollyrots - Kick Me to the Curb
9) Patent Pending - Cheer Up Emo Kid
10) GBH - Sickboy
11) Evergreen Terrace - New Friend Request
12) Love Equals Death - Pray for Me
13) Your Highness Electric - Handing Out Hairlips
14) Alamance - Waiting on You
15) Letters Burning - Kings and Queens
16) Anarbor - Beat of the Drum
17) Bouncing Souls - Lean on Sheena

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Insomnia Radio #156: Blackbelt

After Stuart’s 45 minute in-flight entertainment programming, our plane touches down in the Far East… well… far enough east - New Jersey. We begin our journey diving fist first into the action with Union City multi-instrumentalist, Thirst for Hunger.

You’ll find that today’s episode has quite a bit of an obvious martial arts flair, and it takes us to some unrelated locations like Ireland, Canada, and throughout the States. We ultimately end up on the West Coast in Santa Barbara, CA, where we close out on a mellow meditative note with up-and-coming singer/songwriter Crosby Loggins.

We hope you enjoy the exclusives, classic Kung Fu/Ninjitsu dialogue, and a full hour long ride through a theatrically charged show featuring some of the best music being released worldwide, as well as the corniest cinematic dialogue we could get our hands on. Enjoy, and as always, please support the artists within.

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FAMILIES / CLANS / SECTS / CULTS
NXNE
MLC PR
Matisyahu / David Kahne / Sly & Robbie
Wookiefoot Charities!
Kenny Loggins (Wiki)
Cloud Cult (IR Photos ‘08)
Nico Stai (IR Photos @ Roxy 6/7/08)
Paper Thin Walls (News)

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IR: 155 - Taking Flight

Following on from Charles’ successful marine adventure last Episode 154 of Insomnia Radio, this time we take to the air for a short flight, the duration of which will be around 45 minutes, and during which the In Flight Entertainment will be some of The Best Music You’ve Never heard. So please make sure that your seat back is in the upright position, and your seatbelt is fastened.

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What’s in this episode

The Handcuffs - Jet Baby

Oranger - A View of the City From an Airplane

Nine Inch Nails - Lights in the Sky

Ghosts of California - Airplane Window

Shawn Harris - Don’t You Know

VIR - I Get It

Low of the Low - Stone Survivor

The Camaro Brothers - Black Camaro

Corey TuT - Everything

Music Bed: Inspired Funk - A Brand New Dub

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Insomnia Radio #154: Sea Chanteys of the Submariner

After a two month turbulent voyage, we believe we’ve located a safespot to service the battle-scarred Insomnia Submariner, and have surfaced to bring you some chanteys from the musicians we’ve collected along our voyage while we conduct repairs.

This new episode continues somewhat where Jason left off in his final all instrumental offering; at least the first track by Saskatchewan outfit, Geronimo whom lead us into the rest of the quality mixed tracks we’ve discovered in our recent travels.

Shows will resume on a 1-2 week schedule with a few rotating regional hosts bringing you new content. Also, the Daily Dose feed is now live again with featured content pumping through the engines seven days a week, keeping us all motoring along. You can subscribe at Feedburner and on iTunes as well. We are about a week in at this point. Also, keep eye out for our regional shows as well!

If you are looking for Jason, he will be returning to podcasting, but as part of a new mixed media project he’s developing at the link farther below.

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From out of the depths, its:

1) Geronimo - A Post 9/11 Instrumental
2) The Royal Heist - Lips Tool
3) Firewater - This is My Life
4) The Secret 6 - Familiar
5) The Brother Kite - Get on Me
6) Doug Burr - In the Garden
7) Meiko - How Lucky We Are
8 ) Fanfarlo - Fire Escape
9) Born in the Flood - Anthem
10) Agents of the Sun - Therapy
11) Adele - Hometown Glory