You know we love Hip Hop here at Shilo and this is one of the most creative forms we’ve seen in a while. It’s amazing what you can do with a violinist and a DJ. These guys are amazing.

By: Jose from WeMakeItGood.com

By: Jamie Portman,
Canwest News Service

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The ghost of Heath Ledger is haunting The Dark Knight these days. That’s inevitable. The Australian actor’s sudden death - officially attributed to an accidental drug overdose - last January at the age of 28 is casting a long shadow over the release of the latest Batman adventure.

That bothers Gary Oldman, who’s reprising his role as Gotham police lieutenant Jim Gordon in the new film. Oldman dislikes the continuing tabloid speculation about Ledger’s passing. He sees it as an unfortunate distraction from what audiences should be focusing on - Ledger’s remarkable performance as The Joker.

Oldman is no stranger to portraying vile villainy in films like True Romance and The Professional, but he says that anything he has done pales beside his late colleague’s achievement.

“There are actors who sometimes go through the sound barrier,” Oldman explains. “I would arguably say that psychologically, this is one of the most frightening screen villains ever. I think it’s up there with Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth in Blue Velvet. That’s pretty scary. We’ve got the original Cape Fear with Robert Mitchum - that is a true villain. There’s Hannibal Lecter. I think he (Heath) moved the bar.”

Oldman remembers being shaken by his first scene with Ledger during filming in Britain last year. “What’s Heath like?” a friend asked him later in the day. Oldman still recalls his answer. “He’s f—ing sensational. It’s like he’s tuned into a frequency. He’s found a radio station that none of us can hear.”

Oldman was also struck by Ledger’s commitment.

“You’re not only watching the skill of how he does it, but you’re responding to a commitment to the work,” Oldman emphasizes. But, he adds in exasperation, “people want to see something in him dying. I think they always look for a darker story and they want to see something a little bit darker and sinister.”

Oldman prefers to remember a superb acting colleague who, when the cameras weren’t rolling, “would come out of character and sit down on the curb with me, have a smoke and laugh and joke.” As for Ledger’s death: “I believe it was an accident, and that was it. He’s probably looking down now and saying, ‘Are you kidding me? I’m going to get nominated for an Oscar? Now?”’

Talk of a posthumous Oscar for Ledger is very much in the air now that Warner is letting audiences have an advance look at the film which pits Christian Bale’s Batman against Ledger’s chilling, smiling sociopath.

“I think the most wonderful thing about Heath, if you look at his body of work, is that he throws himself into a character in a very fearless way,” says producer Charles Roven who had worked with Ledger previously on The Brothers Grimm. Roven says that in casting The Joker, Ledger was the first choice of himself, fellow producer Emma Thomas and director Christopher Nolan - always assuming that Ledger could be persuaded to play it. They needed an actor capable of erasing memories of Jack Nicholson’s over-the-top operatics in the role 19 years ago.

Hi friends,

Rafael DeOnate, Andrews Lorenzana, Jake Jefferson & OBI present to you this Monday night July 14th DJ Blaqstarr at eXposure, lets Shake It To The Ground and with host Eddie Barberiz, Nessa Haim & our dance floor DJs Johnny Strokes, Robot Unicorn, AL B Rotten & Johnny The Boy!

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Here’s something from The FADER
By Nick Barat about DJ Blaqstarr >>>>
Airborne
The ethereal club bangers of DJ Blaq Starr

Bmore producer DJ Blaq Starr still can’t decide on the name of his studio. “I call it the Dungeon because the vibe is just like, when you come in, it’s a whole different world,” he says, before pausing to think on it some more. “Nah, I ain’t gonna call it the Dungeon. I’ll call it the Cloud.” The contrast couldn’t be a more perfect fit for Blaq Starr, whose chirpy raps and airy vocal melodies float over macadam slabs of bass and snare-replacing Glock bursts like a hood version of Peter Gabriel. It’s a heady, heavy mix that doesn’t sound like anything else in Baltimore Club, let alone any other kind of popular music.

Blaq Starr was making a name for himself DJing teen parties until his brother brought home some beatmaking equipment. Before he even turned 18, his gunshot-based club song “Tote It” had hit radio rotation, and he followed it’s success by penning massive singles for local artists like DOG (“Ryda Girl”) and Young Leek (“Jiggle It”), both of which were buoyed by his unique voice, which he says is influenced equally by John Legend and Bob Marley. In recent months, consummate tastemaker Diplo released an EP of Blaq Starr tracks on his Mad Decent label, and MIA trekked down to the Dungeon/Cloud to record with Blaq Starr for her upcoming sophomore album. “We pulled it from the dirt and just turned it into, like, the Empire State building,” he says of the collaboration with Ms Arulpragasam. “It’s in a different lane, but still with the Baltimore swagger in it.”

Yet Blaq Starr still keeps his strangest—and best—music for himself. His song “Feel It In the Air” was jamming all winter in the rush hour mix on Baltimore station 92Q, and with the song on the stereo and the setting sun in the rearview it felt like the world could end at any minute. Its percolating drums and looped up “HAH!”s were instant dancefloor fodder, but the ghostly refrain of I can feel it in the air/ I can feel it in this beat/ I can feel it in my bones/ That’s why I’m out here moving my feet couldn’t be pegged as easily; it was uneasy, anxious and completely addictive. As long as listeners don’t know exactly what to call it, Blaq Starr is on the right track. “Coming from the DJ side of things, I witnessed first hand what elements made people do certain things,” he says. “In my create mode I was thinking, ‘The bass make ’em do this, the voice make ’em do that, put this together and make ’em do this.”

eXposure
Every Monday night @ White Room
1306 North Miami Ave,
DowTow MIA, FL 33136
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Kanye West, Flashing Lights.

Colin Munroe-I Want Those Flashing Lights (Kanye West Remix).

KLEVER is saving some of his fireworks for MIAMI and will be setting it off on the turntables! FRIDAY, JULY 11th @ White Room, 1306 North Miami Ave. DowTow MIA 33136.

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Dam this takes me back to the good old days >>>>

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The buzz downtown is centered around the new Monday party EXPOSURE, GRAND OPENING at the White Room. Rafael DeOnate, Andrews Lorenzana, Jonathan and Kristian Gonzalez are poised to burn downtown to the ground. The gasolina will be supplied by ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE, SUJINHO, CASSIANO, FINESSE & RUNWAY. The match will hit the floor on June 23th…we don’t need no water let the motherfucker burn!

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Mickuy Rourke in Miami at Club Mokai >>>>