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For those that don’t know, we’ve officially moved to a new location. You can now find us and all thing BMB @ www.brilliancemakesbillions.com. Be sure to download the new mixtape, Brilliance Makes Billions II

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Stay Tuned

The good folks here at Beautiful Music, Baby are currently in a transition period. We have a lot of new product that we want to show off, so be on the lookout for the re-launch, as well as the next installment in our mixtape series, Brilliance Makes Billions vol. 2. 

Until then, stay ugly.

BMB

Underrated

In my opinion, Inspectah Deck has been overlooked by many as just another member of the Wu Tang Clan. Personally, I think he’s pretty fuckin’ dope and I believe he doesn’t get his proper due.

Who can forget “I leave scientists mentally scarred, triple extra large. Wild like rockstars who smash guitars.”

Rebel I-N-S ya highness.

Around 2 mins into the video.

Ugly Beautiful

Take out your trash in style. Everyone’s trash should look as good as they do…

– Dirty D

You took the whole cake and mushed it in his face? the whole cake.

Someone give me a late pass. I know I know…but to the suggestion of Just One I watched Paid in Full and found out many things.

1. That it was a Rocafella film.
2. Cam’ron was in this movie.
3. The movie was based off real people.
4. The Young Jeezy ft. Akon song “Soul Survivor” music video is based off of the movie. (Shouts to Dirty D for pointing that out to me) They even got Cam for a cameo and re-enacted scenes he was in. Fuckin’ Genius.

I feel like I’ve found a piece of my life that’s been missing. I hate when I get references or connect things hella late. Same thing with Carlito’s Way…which I only watched recently and I don’t wanna talk about it.

-FabFiveFebby

Aviators @ Work

The Aviators (Febrio & Rae) were hard at work in the studio, as usual. I was able to take a couple flicks of them doing what they do best.

– Dirty D 

Braun vs. Apple

Via Gizmodo.com

What most people don’t know is that there’s another man whose products are at the heart of Ive’s design philosophy, an influence that permeates every single product at Apple, from hardware to user-interface design. That man is Dieter Rams, and his old designs for Braun during the ’50s and ’60s hold all the clues not only for past and present Apple products, but their future as well:

When you look at the Braun products by Dieter Rams—many of them at New York’s MoMA—and compare them to Ive’s work at Apple, you can clearly see the similarities in their philosophies way beyond the sparse use of color, the selection of materials and how the products are shaped around the function with no artificial design, keeping the design “honest.”

This passion for “simplicity” and “honest design” that is always declared by Ive whenever he’s interviewed or appears in a promo video, is at the core of Dieter Rams’ 10 principles for good design:

• Good design is innovative.
• Good design makes a product useful.
• Good design is aesthetic.
• Good design helps us to understand a product.
• Good design is unobtrusive.
• Good design is honest.
• Good design is durable.
• Good design is consequent to the last detail.
• Good design is concerned with the environment.
• Good design is as little design as possible.

Spotlight: Rygar

My memory isn’t that great, so I can’t remember exactly when and where I first met Rygar. Most likely he was DJing a party that I attended. Rygar drinks old white man drinks and makes a mean “Man Chowder” (pause). He also likes to stare at you in creepy ways while you’re washing your hands at an airport bathroom. Beware.

My name is…
Ramon Ryan Gonzales Garcia jr.

a.k.a…
Rygar

I’m from…
Union City mayn.

But i’d rather be in…
Japan eating hamachi sashimi with hella pickled ginger.

You should know me because…
i DJ drunk and end up blacking out

Im currently working on…
Another mixtape

Some people say I look like…
hella people

Don’t let anyone tell you…
they can eat faster than you


The last time I said never again…
was when I threw up on myself.

The cure for a hangover is…
a Vitamin Water and Red Robin’s bottemless french fries.

Mama always said…
Eat this…its chocolate meat.

Happiness is…
Money with good company

The Key to success is…
Slappin anybody that gets in your way.

If you see me, you should…
Buy me a Black Label on ice and give me a hug.

My future projects/plans are…
DJ around the world and then go to medschool so i can heal fools.

Final words/Shout outs…
2009 is gonna be a good year. stay tuned….

shouts:
Melissa, 600inc/hvy rsnl family and supports, BMB for making beautiful music, and the person who the invented the silverback.
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You can find Rygar mixes & remixes @ myspace.com/djrygar

Superbowl Sunday.

by keen

It’s hard to fade a President Obama endorsement but you gotta love the audacity of hope. I wasn’t a fan of either team so I didn’t really care who won, but when that’s the case I tend to lean towards the underdog. On top of that I was pulling for Kurt Warner and I really like Larry Fitzgerald. I was very close to positive that the Cardinals would pull off the major upset, but in the end at least you could look back and say it was a really good game.

With all the pageantry of Super Bowl Sunday, comfort food is the glue that holds everything together.

Return of the s’mores. Those don’t look as appetizing as these though.

Make-shift 7-layer dip / carne asada fries. Make the best out of what you have and not the other way around.

It’s no Ace Of Cakes but I can make it out…

The girls started icing cupcakes with various different designs in their ode to football. Meaning it looks like whatever they saw on T.V., they recreated it into the form of pastry. Check the bugged out Cardinal on the far left and what I think is the NBC logo right up front.

Exactly like the blueprint below, very good.

Last of the apple juice.

Throwback Thorough “Stealers” tee, made a while back but happened to be perfect for the day.

Hitsville, U.S.A.

Hitsville according to Wikipedia:

The Hitsville U.S.A. building in Detroit, Michigan.

“Hitsville U.S.A.” was the nickname given to Motown Records’ first headquarters. Located at 2648 West Grand Blvd. in Detroit, Michigan, Hitsville U.S.A., formerly a photographers’ studio, was purchased by Motown founder Berry Gordy in 1959, and converted into both the record label’s administrative building and recording studio, which was open 22 hours a day (closing from 8 to 10 AM for maintenance).

Since 1985, The Hitsville U.S.A. building has been the site of the Motown Historical Museum, dedicated to the legacy of the record label, its artists, and its music.[6] Owned and operated by Esther Gordy Edwards, sister of Berry Gordy, the Motown Museum contains exhibits featuring costumes, photos, and records from Motown’s success era. Also featured are Motown’s “Studio A” and Berry Gordy’s upstairs apartment, decorated to appear as they did during the 1960s. The museum is one of Detroit’s most popular tourist destinations.[6]

If you’ve seen The Temptations movie and other Motown films, the Hitsville in those movies is actually the real Hitsville. I went through a period in my life where I was obsessed with Motown. I read books on the label and listened to any music I could get my hands on.

In the process, I discovered many people behind the scenes like the almighty Funk Brothers.

The Funk Brothers was the nickname of Detroit, Michigan, session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown Records recordings from 1959 until 1972, when the company moved to Los Angeles. The Funk Brothers played on Motown hits such as “My Girl”, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”, “Baby Love”, “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours”, “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone”, “The Tears of a Clown”, and “(Love is Like a) Heat Wave”.

They often aren’t mentioned at all when people discuss Motown. Why? I mean shit, they did play the music after all right? It’s sad when you realize how little recognition they got and are getting after playing on all the classics. There’s a DVD Standing in the Shadows of Motown which tells the story of the Funk Brothers while reuniting the remaining members to play classic Motown songs with newer artists. One of the few DVD’s I have in my collection.

Here’s a snippet:

Also Holland-Dozier-Holland:

Holland–Dozier–Holland is a songwriting and production team made up of Lamont Dozier and brothers Brian Holland and Edward Holland, Jr.. The trio wrote and arranged many of the songs making up the Motown sound that dominated American popular music in the 1960s. During their tenure at Motown Records from 1962–1967, Dozier and Brian Holland were the composers/producers for each song, and Eddie Holland wrote the lyrics and arranged the vocals. When the trio left Motown, they continued to work as a production team (with Eddie Holland being added to the producer credits), and as a songwriting team until about 1974. In 1990, the trio was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Well this is getting kinda long…my whole point of this post is…I’m tryna go to Hitsville at least once in my lifetime.

-FabFiveFebby