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Blockhead grew up in downtown New York City. The son of an artist, early on he found his passion was for music. A fan of a whole range of sounds, especially hip-hop, Blockhead steadily built a tremendous collection of tapes and later CDs from innumerable artists. After a brief stint as a rapper, he realized his calling was behind the boards and not on the mic, and from there he began to produce beats. Since making that decision, he’s been kept pretty busy. Blockhead produced 9 tracks on Aesop Rock’s critically acclaimed album Labor Days. Additionally he produced half the tracks on Aesop’s follow up EP, Daylight. Blockhead has also been working with other indie giants such as Slug of Atmosphere, Murs, Mike Ladd and Sa Smash. He also found time to complete a break beat album entitled Blockhead’s Broke Beats, with 10 hard hitting instrumental tracks, which was released on Mush Records, the US home of cLOUDDEAD. And just to prove that he ain’t all about art-rap, Blockhead produced 2 tracks on the newly crowned Skribble Jam Battle Champ, maclethal’s full-length album. Oh, and the guy does comedy, too. He’s a member of the Party Fun Action Committee whose hip-hop/comedy debut album was recently released on the legendary Def Jux. And what was the other thing? Oh yeah, exquisite, emotional instrumental hip-hop on the one and only Ninja Tune…
‘Blockhead’ is also the name of a Swiss Darkwave band that existed in the early/mid 90s.
‘Blockhead’ is also the name of a Swiss Darkwave band that existed in the early/mid 90s.
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Shoutbox
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lomu69 wrote:
So good set... have to be known
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jpsnuze wrote:
How about Peanuts in Your Mouth? Some real decent remixes there.
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yoeril wrote:
Anyone else got some blockhead mixes? Just got my hands on his dj set in New York in 2004, and loving it!
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Kubaduba_pvp wrote:
Daylight, 86 plays last week :(
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aimless_prophet wrote:
solid.
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dgsmigliani wrote:
ill.
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asiek89 wrote:
triptych 1. - the nicest beats I've ever heard ;)
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Yoooo! Since when was Blockhead this popular?! Early in the millenium, you only knew about this cat if you fucked with Aesop. This exposure is definitely enlightening. Keep choppin' 'em samples, boweeeee!
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SamG7777 wrote:
for reference: http://www.definitivejux.net/news/895
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SamG7777 wrote:
It's good to see dudes opinions on Lil' Wayne, the overwhelming way in which he is lauded kinda makes me feel bemused and isolated sometimes, good to see an artist speaking out on a subject without worrying about self interests.
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Octavious_Me wrote:
Fire!!!!
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cwall wrote:
wow. this guy is impressive. love 'expiration date'. what's his album on Def Jux called?
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descendre wrote:
adam foster made me listen to this.
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hunnybunny21 wrote:
his dj sets are so good.
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theleft wrote:
the bees knees
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BET-TheDarkSide wrote:
fabolousssss!!
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ersai wrote:
http://www.last.fm/group/Blockhead
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mynameisstrange wrote:
THANKS TONY
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AKDoc wrote:
Cool beans !
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tstorm004 wrote:
and this is why I love last.fm, thank you for pointing me to this artist
News
peep my OTHER blog. it’s way funnier.
6 Jun 2008 | from blog.myspace.com/theblockishot
so, the lovely folks at definitivejux.net have given me the opportunity to be a prick and pop shit about whatever i want. that's right, they've given me a blog. it'll be updated once a week. …
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18 Jan 2007 | from blog.myspace.com/theblockishot
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