New Fixed-Gear Bicycle Owner's Manual

Since I've been suffering severely from the Fixed Gear Fever(tm) as reported here earlier, this amused me a lot.

EDIT:
I found the source of the text, it's BIKE SNOB NYC.
After discovering it I no longer have any need to blog about any of this stuff anymore. Ever.

New Fixed-Gear Bicycle Owner's Manual

Contratulations on the purchase of your Bianchi Pista/Specialized Langster/Cannondale Capo/Jamis Sputnik or similar. Your new bicycle should give you many days of enjoyment until you tire of it for aesthetic reasons and list it on Craigslist for the full retail price in order to help fund the purchase of an NJS-certified keirin bike, a vintage Fender Telecaster, or your move to another, trendier city.

Until that moment arrives, here are some things you need to know in order to get the most enjoyment out of your new toy:

A Note on the Fixed Gear Drivetrain

Your bicycle is equipped with a fixed gear drivetrain. For this reason you may want to alter your riding style accordingly. Firstly, ride slowly. Very slowly. This is the best way to avoid obstacles. When riding with friends on city streets, in bike lanes, or in parks, it is acceptable to disregard the flow of car or bicycle traffic and ride in whichever direction you choose. Slowly. If you find yourself traveling in the same direction as traffic and encounter an intersection with a red light or turning vehicle and are unable to stop, simply turn right. Riding around the block will eventually put you back on course and save you embarrassment and injury. In fact, did you know it's possible to get to any point on an urban street grid using only right turns? Well, it is. And it's safe and fun! Remember this acronym: AAL (Always Avoid Lefts).

Furthermore, your drivetrain enables you to enjoy your bicycle without having to actually ride it more than a few feet at a time. Fun things to try include: skidding, skip-stopping, trackstanding, and putting stickers and colorful parts on it.

Upgrading

It is important to begin the process of upgrading your bicycle’s appearance immediately. This can occasionally have the side-effect of improving your bicycle’s performance as well. Fortunately there are increasing numbers of track bicycle boutique shops. These shops dispense with the selection, service, and expertise of old-fashioned bike shops and instead focus on catering to your every candy-colored whim. They can also offer you sound and practical advice. Best of all, they carry lots of cool t-shirts.

Proper Usage

Though the model name or advertising copy for your bicycle may include words like “pista,” “track,” or “entry-level racing,” in no circumstances should you attempt to use your bicycle on or for any of the above. Doing so shall void your warranty.

“Proper Usage” includes: riding slowly to the bike boutique to purchase accessories and clothing; photographing your bike for submission to on-line galleries; participation in ad-hoc skidding contests; and doing track stands for hours outside of the residence of a person you would like to impress.

Handlebars

Your handlebars are wrapped in tape made of synthetic cork. Please note that the purpose of this tape is to protect your bars during shipping. This tape should be removed immediately.

You should be aware that once the tape is removed the bars may be slippery and difficult to grip. If this is the case, remove bars from stem, invert, and re-install. Then, using a hacksaw, cut in the middle of the curved portion until the excess length is removed. Your hands will now be slightly less likely to slip from the bars due to the limited hand position. This is called “flop n’ chop,” and your bicycle is now a gelding.

Brakes

Depending on make and model, your bicycle may have been shipped with a brake or a pair of brakes pre-installed. These brakes should only be used in emergencies. Once you are comfortable bringing the bicycle to a safe and complete stop without using the brakes, they should be removed and discarded.

The term “safe and complete stop” means bringing the bicycle from 5mph to 0mph in a distance of no more than 50 feet.

Safety

Whenever operating your bicycle, safety should be your primary concern. Be sure to have a qualified mechanic install a top-tube pad immediately. Thanks very much for your purchase, and welcome to the exciting world of track cycling!

Cycling in Helsinki. Hazardous business. And then some.

Since we been discussing different aspects of bicycles and cycling here, here, here and here, recently I wanted to bring couple of bits of information related to biking in Helsinki and in Finland that I've read on main national newspaper Helsingin Sanomat during the last two days.

Here we go. Some pro-biking propaganda, or something like that, from yours truly.

1.) Yesterday the newspaper reported a study concerning bike accidents in traffic in Finland. It turned out that according to a serious estimate while there are annually lot of bike accidents, in seventy, yeah you got it right, 70, percent of those the cyclist had been DRUNK. Like what the f**k? People please. And yeah, I've ridden my bike while intoxicated fo'sho but still.

2.) And from today's newspaper: According to survey done by the City Of Helsinki, while the citizens were most happy with the public traffic and less happy about the state of car traffic and they were least happy about the state of cycling lanes and generally thought cycling in Helsinki scary and difficult. Yeah, you got that f**cking right. Don't even get me started on this one.

Oh, and people please do remember, tomorrow, Septermer 22nd, is The Annual World Carless Day. So leave yo polluting metal cows at the parking lot tomorrow and ride yo bikes (or public traffic) instead. It's good for the environment, less car traffic is generally nicer for everybody, your health might actuallu improve and all that.

Oh, one more thing, my salvaged fixed gear bike project (pictured above) is currently taking a lil' time out since I'm still missing some crucial tools and parts but also because I already have my lovely Raleigh USA Racing Gran Prix fixie up and running AND because I just acquired yet another interesting project, and for very reasonable price too.

Rock Star Phenomenon

What's up with this thing, that rappers like to rap about rock stars, about acting like rocktars and such things? First came out Party Like A Rock Star by Shop Boyz, then R Kelly's/Ludacris' "Rockstar" and now Chamillionaire's new album has a song titled "Rockstar". And to top it all Chamillionaire's "Industry Groupie" samples long parts of "Final Countdown" by Europe. Well, judge yourself, if it works...

Chamillionaire - Industry Groupie mp3

Saturday Night's Alright for Pimpin'

Yrz truly, Alppila along with one of the original Helsinki hiphop heads, DJ Fyrre will spin that rap-rnb-related shit. Tomorrow, sat 15th at We Got Beef (Iso Roba, for those of you who grew up in a barrell).

Resident DJ Henrikki cannot make it because of some recent family business. Congratulations to Henrikki & his familia!

Nuff said, homies. See you there.

Dude, where's my Lamborghini?

Kriton is movin again. This time it's commercial.

Yes, we just made our first leap into big budget advertising business, by making this beat for a new Lamborghini campaign, Where Is My Lamborghini?. To be exact, it is a teaser site for a future Lamborghini game (which platform, i don't really know...).

Why, you may ask. Because we friggin could. And Lambo's are cool. Plus, we got to make exactly the beat that we wanted, without no "suits" getting in the way of our creative process (read: beer drinking). So we'll definitely make more stuff like this in the future too! fun. Fun! FUN!

Art direction by fiilin.com, 3d and flash stuff made by some other peeps, who did a great job BTW. Don't you just love fast cars!

Party like a rockstar!

Early last sunday I took a long and a slow longboard cruising session around my hood. When I got to Ruoholahti I found out that some wannabe rockstar seems to live there. That's what I thought 'cos there was this pile of electronics that turned out to be a tv that had been thrown out of the window. After quick investigation I realized that it was no real rock star who had done it: it was a crappy old tv, no HD-ready flatscreen. But it had gone to really small pieces, so the actual throwing must have looked cool though. Totally dude!

What's synthtron? Or anthem breaks?

Yadadamean? If you're not sure, surf to Ishkur's Guide To Electronic Music. It's a cool web site that maps various (techno) styles together and offers soundsamples of each genre as well.

But why isn't there a detailed description of the differences between Punavuori Techno and Kallio techno.

See what I found on a garbage dump today. Fixed Gear Bike Project.

I'm a kind of a person who gets really into something every once in a while and I also love to have all kinds of hobby projects. Well, I recently wrote here about how I got into bicycles again and how I converted my old MTB into a single speed cruiser.

I'm still really into the bicycles and the next logical step after my single speed bike project I had could only be to get a real fixed gear bike, like the kind all bike messengers and hipsters ride. Important part of that game is that you really need to build the bike by yourself, not just to go to a shop with your credit card in your hand and buy a Biachi Pista, Giant Bowery, Raleight Rush Hour or some other fixie that some big bike brands are already churning out from their conveyor belts. No sir, that would be lame.

Interestingly, while I been studying & and getting into the whole fixed gear bike thing, I've found people saying on several discussion forums stuff like: "fixed gear bikes is the new skateboarding...", there are also ex-pro skateboarders making skate video -style movies about riding fixed bikes in San Francisco and Tokyo etc.

Anyhow, now after this over-long intro, here's what happened to day: I was on nice Sunday walk with my girlfriend and our daughter and I just happened to look into a garbage dumpster by a house, like I often do, and now what did I find there?

A cool 1970s vintage steel frame racing bike, with a real leather seat and all. Bit grimy fo'sho but all intact except for the tires. Like whoa, dude! Sure, I took it home and I will convert it into a fixed gear bike ASAP because that's the best thing you can do with those kind of bikes, basically. The actual project with the bike that I'm starting now could be bit complicated but I will keep you posted about the developments. First I need to acquire some things, like new tires, bottom bracket, crank set, chain wheel, chain, pedals, riser handlebar, grips, a track cog and a lockring - just to get my project started...

But wait, there's more. I wanted to know more about the bike but there were no decals or any other markings of any type, only thing I found was that all components had XB3 written on them. After some Googling I found out that the bike was apparently made by Ukrainian Kharkov bike factory, and of course in the Soviet Union. Actually, it was made by one of the only two factories in CCCP making racing bikes, and apparently Kharkov was the better factory out of the two. Nice.

The tipping point

All who have read Gladwell's book by the same name know what the term means. It's basically a point, when a previously rare phenomenon becomes rapidly and dramatically more common. Like crocs sandals some time ago (yucch!, Ok, let's not go there, but crocs are not for adults, and especially not for adult males youhearme!), and now they're a real mass phenomenon.

Well, these last weeks must have been the tipping point for Facebook here in Finland. As I write this a lot of finnish peeps are signing up for the service. Facebook has been quite popular in the US since last september when it opened up for the masses (previously it was a reserved for students), and now it seems to get a hold here in the northern hemisphere. When I tried it last spring it seemed like another place for social networking like MySpace, but it's technically a lot more advanced. You can so easily add cool applications that really work and the interface is pretty good when u get the hang of it. U just gotta play around with it. And I fell for it this week.

What makes me wonder is what's gonna happen to MySpace, or is this going to draw crowds from more "adult" services like LinkedIn.

However the Kriton Posse is alreade there, and we likes it. Let's just wait if this really becomes a mass phenomenon, it sure seems like it, 'cos the buzz is really big at the moment.

The first Kriton video "Scared Money" is finally here!

Okay, this is it then. The first official Kriton High School Bangers video (and at the same time the first video from Kriton Music) "Scared Money". Written, directed, produced and edited by fiilin.com. There's birds, there's a scary looking dude, there's explosions. There's even rap samples!

Recognize it, watch it, rate it, favorite it, comment it on Youtube!

[EDIT]
Okay, check this out: Youtube videos are crap quality. If you wanna check out what the video is REALLY supposed to look like, peep here (.mov = 60mb). It looks damn NYCE!

Dave Chappelle don't smoke weed anymore...

...with black people.

I can still feel it...

We've already posted way too many entries concerning Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight, so why stop now?
I think I'm just gonna go on and on blogging, as long as i've got something to write about that song.

A classic is a classic is a classic, and you can't even ruin it by making an atmospheric tribal deep house remix of it.
Well, I'm sure you could. But Osunlade didn't.

Here's Osunlade's brand new remix of In The Air Tonight (out on 12" on some label which i can't remember right now)
Enjoy!

Osunlade vs. Phil Collins: In The Air Tonight (mp3)

Me a Posenger now. My 'Sinkula' is here.

Ok, while we are on the subject of the bikes, look up, there's a v2.0 incarnation from my old mountain bike. Now turned into a single speed urban cruiser, or basically something like a big 26" BMX.

I had abandoned my old MTB some years ago. Originally I bought it in the mid-1990s, it used to be a good bike then, and I drove it hard until the gears, brakes and other parts where all worn out. Then I just left it in parents' garden shed and forgot about it.

However, this summer while on a holiday trip in Copenhagen I saw so many nice bikes around that it made me remember what I once had. I suppose I had also gotten a bit bored with my Jopo, I must admit. You need to have projects, and sometimes you need to be able to ride faster, right?

Now, with my bike project, basically I stripped off everything that I could and fitted a single speed conversion kit in the place of the old gear system. This changes completely the feeling of the bike, to a much nicer direction IMO. It is hard to explain but riding a single speed bike feels somehow more honest when it will only go as fast as you will pedal - and this is exactly why you wanna ride it fast. Also, having only a front brake forces you to really concentrate on your riding...

Finally, to give even nicer touch to my new/old bike, my man Teemu sorted me out with some nice extra fat slick tires, a more modern riser handlebar and a better seat.

All that fixed gear and single speed craze is apparently bit of a trendy thing now, so that makes me, what, a Posenger?

Kriton team longboard report #2

Last friday the Kriton Posse took their boards to various downhill spots in Helsinki to do some cruising. It was great,we all had a blast, and no one got hurt. We took over the long curvy road leading from Uimastadion to the parking lot of Stadion, and also tried the area around Hartwall arena. This week we gonna try something else. We love it.

It just proved that you can be over thirty and get a new hobby. Besides longboarding I've also started road cycling this summer ( see my bike here). I've been mountain biking for like 7 years now, so this kinda bikes were a bit weird to me. My ride is not a pure road/track bike, it's more like a urban shuttle type-o-thang, it a singlespeed, so there are no gears to get in the way. It has a flip-flop hub), so you could easily turn it into a fixed gear bike, but that's next year, right?

Reggae Album of the year goes to...

Coooooooooolllieeeeeee Buuuuuuddddddz. To make it short: get Collie Buddz's album now. I heard it first time like a month ago (don't ax me how I gottit...), but it took me until this weekend to realize that this one is a true killer. You have heard the biggest singles maybe too many times (come around, mamacita...), but as a whole this is one of the best albums that has come out in reggae for a long time. Me likes it.

And there are some killer tunes that have not yet been released as singles, like "Haterz / Blind to you", which keeps ringing in my head all the time.

It gwaaaan like dis..

"I'm blind to you haterz,
Cya touch me war instigators,
Me say me busy love lately,
Ask you how the world ah run so"

Straight Outta Veruca Salt Lake City

One of the coolest things is to find out what one hit wonders and has been bands or musicians are doing today. I bumped into Nina Gordon's new stuff on the ever great interweb. Nina who, you must be asking. Well, Nina used to be in Veruca Salt, which is one of those nice grrrl pwwwr bands that ruled in the nineties. I'm not all that stoked about Nina's solo stuff but this cover song made me laugh.

I know it's a thing that's been done before, mess some gangsta rap songs with easylistening versions or such (yuh know Richard Cheese with gin and juice), but this sounded... honest? Enjoy this crazy stuff still.

I can feel it too

What a coincidence. I happened to be at the pool in Italy too, when that Phil Collins classic hit the air. Plus various offsprings of us Kriton peeps that we like to call "the second generation Kritons" but that's another story. The deal is that Hennessy was damn right: "In The Air Tonight" was so designed to be listened to at the pool. It was perfect.

And here we got another coincidence: the new album by teen reggae/hiphop/r&b prodigy Sean Kingston just hit the streets this week and guess what. Its got a nice song in there called "I Can Feel It" and you already know which 80's hit it samples. And the album's not bad either, if you don't have anything against poppy r&b/reggae, that makes T-Pain sound like serious art music. It's all good.

So here you go: "I Can Feel It" By Sean Kingston featuring the immortal Phil Collins samples. Mp3

I can feel it

...In the air tonight. Phil Collins is the king. I had to get the "Face Value" album as soon as I got back from my trip to Italy, 'cos they played "In the air tonight" it sooo loud while we were hanging out at the pool. And at that moment the song got a really new meaning to me. I used to dig this song before (hear Kriton's remix of T.I.'s Why you wanna, and you'll find some familiar chord changes there... ), but I had never listened to it at this volume. Really, this song is at the same time the coolest chill out song (as in Miami Vice, you remember...) and a banging tune as well.

And what makes the song interesting is the urban legend about the lyrics as well:

"An urban legend has arisen around "In the Air Tonight". According to the legend, the lyrics are based on a tragic event Collins witnessed, usually a drowning (as in the song's lyrics), in which a man could have helped the victim, but did not do so. A common ending is that Collins invites this man to a show and sings the song to him, often with a spotlight pointed at him. Afterward, the man is arrested or, in some versions, is wracked with guilt and commits suicide. "

Duffle Bag Boys

I admit it. I haven't posted new music on this blog every week, like i said i would. It's my damn summer vacation. I don't have time for all that.

But, right now i have. My bags are packed and the plane is ready to leave for sunnier regions after a couple of hours of sleep.
So here you have the extra-slept-on Playaz Circle, new stuff from Ludacris' DTP label. The track is called "Duffle Bag Boys" and it's hot.

Playaz Circle: Duffle Bag Boys (320 kbs)

And by the way, duffle bags rule!

Hang ten!

I've always been digging skateboarding culture. I mean I tried it in the mid 80's but I realized I needed a lot of rehearsing to master this sport and I chose music instead. But then again I really fell into it in the early nineties, when I discovered hardcore and punk of that time, and this all was kinda connected with skating. I used to hang around skate spots and read Trasher, vear Vans shoes, Gullwing t-shirts and blast Gorilla Bisquits or Descendents outta my boom box. Musically these times were very interesting, 'cos we used to mix some westcoast gansta stuff (NWA rocked) with some speed metal (Slayer) as well. Talk about variety...

But back to skateboarding. This summer I'm gonna learn the sport. I'm not gonna break bones with no small trick board, I'm gonna concentrate on cruising, carving and slow down hill riding with my new longboard, which should arrive any day now. 'Cos I sport style in the first place, I had to order it abroad, the ones available here were filled with modern surf graphics that didn't please my demanding eye. I went for pintail (of course) and simple design, like.... hmmm. yuh know, old skool?

Once I get by board I'll be reporting here, how my skills develope. Until then, skateboarders unite!

Wild Harmaakarhu spotted in Helsinki!

This blog has been about a lot of things, from consumer electronics to latest music rumours. We’ve written about luxury food and different types of beers that we support and diss, but I guess this is the first time we go into deep R&D in the drink section.

Last nite we had a little get-together among friends to celebrate my baby grrrl’s 1 st b-day. While opening presents and banging Spindbad’s cool 80’s mixtape we also experimented with some beverages. The outcome of this R&D session was Harmaakarhu AKA Grizzly. This simple refreshing drink resembles Clara or Shandy but it’s a bit more sour. So what is it you must be asking?

You could ask the bartender to give you a large, preferably a chilled glass and start filling it with:

• 1/3 Ice cubes
• 1/3 Karhu-beer
• 1/3 Lonkero (aka Harmaa, aka Gin Long Drink. A ready mixture of gin and grape juice, a strictly finnish thang)

You mix the ingredients and enjoy. It’s a purrrfect summer drink. And when the night approaches, you could add some extra gin to get your booty in the moody. Let Harmaakarhu take over!

Zeitgeist.

It's out. Leaked on 'teh internets'. What?

It's here.

Smashing Pumpkins' new album, 'Zeitgeist'. And Shepard Fairey made the cover art.
But is it any good?

Straight out the Freezer

Every once in a while I think about blogging new music on this page. it's like one of those things that got me excited about blogging in the first place. Also beacause i like to read other people bloggin about new ish they like.

But it's not so simple. Because i write about music for a living, it kinda gets too boring sometimes, that i don't really wanna do it in my spare time. But now, it's summer vacation, so i'll try and make a "new years resolution": i'll try and blog some new stuff that's hot at least once a week. Let's see how that goes...

Anyway, here's the new Freeway track "Big Spender" with uncle Hova on the feat. This banger is just toooooo hot. The beat is by Dame Grease, i think, and it samples Shirley Bassey's "Big Spender". The Philly Freezer is on fire and Hova''s not too bad either. In fact, this sounds like the Roc/ State Prop never fell apart in the first place. Put yo diamond signs and roca-chains in the air, "Free At Last" (the long awaited new album, to say the least) is gonna be hotter than Kanye's "Graduation". If it ever comes out.

Freeway feat Jay-Z: Big Spender

What is a party?!

This is. Alppila a.k.a. Fiilin Myself, that is me, with Big Pimpin' boss DJ Henrikki spinning records at a nice bar atmosphere in Töölö, Helsinki. Well, at least, i'll be spinning records, Henrikki will be prob'ly spinning those Serato discs that i'm so jealous of him for. Fri the 29th of June. free to get in. Nyce, innit?

But this time it's not gonna be the usual "strictly bangers" law, cos it's a bar. Along with da usual hip hop, we'll play some indie disco, soul, reggae, remixes, 80's shit and whatnot. Special treatment, peoples!

Missing: A Lake

How scary is this?

"SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole. The lake was situated in the Magallanes region in Patagonia and was fed by water, mostly from melting glaciers. It had a surface area of between 4 and 5 hectares (10-12 acres) -- about the size of 10 soccer pitches.

"In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal ... we went again in May and to our surprise we found the lake had completely disappeared," said Juan Jose Romero, regional director of Chile's National Forestry Corporation CONAF.

"The only things left were chunks of ice on the dry lake-bed and an enormous fissure," he told Reuters.

CONAF is investigating the disappearance.

One theory is that the area was hit by an earth tremor that opened a crack in the ground which acted like a drain. Southern Chile has been shaken by thousands of minor earth tremors this year."

What happened to sXe?

Whatever happened to Straight Edge? Veganism, drug-free lifestyles, Ian McKaye?

I dunno. But do yer-self a test, here. It's funny. No, it's not. You decide yourself.

Let the Afro go and rock a Caesar

Ladies and gentlemen, it is finally the time for da Kritons to go international. And we went straight to The Bay Area, where else!

I know, we have blogged about this earlier too, when it was still under construction. But now that it's ready and released, we have to give a special advertisement blog entry about our brand new track, "That Buddy Leezle Joint", or "The Arrival", as Buddy Leezle himself calls it.

It is a remix for Buddy Leezle, a mega talented MC from San Francisco, USA. He is also a part of the group 215: The Freshest Kids, and some other bands too. I dunno if you should really call it it a remix or an original track, since none of us have actually heard the original version. But it's safe to say, that our version blows the f***in roof off yer building. Try it, homie. But don't say we didn't warn ya!

It's gonna be featured on Leezle's new mixtape-album "Hipster Jesus" (probably the best album title in long while!) and you can of course hear it on our myspace site as well as Leezle's.

OR if you are really in need of this track, you just might be able to download it from here, at least for a while...

And as they so often say in heavy metal record covers: play that sucker loud.

Casios and various other stuff too to recycle

The Kriton Boys spent last nite cleaning up our old studio / rehearsal place, the classic "4th line studios" in Kallio. Apparently the neighbours couldn't take the punk rock anymore, 'cos I have rented the place to my good friends Fumble and some other damn well rocking bands too. So I got the eviction note some time ago and now it was time to see what we had left behind. I've had the place for over 10 years, so there were more old speakers and amps than in a jamaican soundsystem. Most of it was pretty beaten, so we had to dump the stuff to the local garbage dump.

The best part is that after sweating the whole night, the Alppilounge (the place where all hotness nowadays happes, our new studio) has now a lot more instruments to play with. First we got 2 keyboards from the 4th line studios: one Casio and one Yamaha DX-? (I'll update all models and makes next week,, can't really recall all of them now), one Ibanez RG-750 el-gitarro (Yepp, the speed-picking-god), a Laney AOR tube amp + a Marshall 4x12 stack, and small FBT-guitar amp, the classic Cry baby wah wah pedal made famous by Jimi Hendrix, and some other cool effect pedals (delay, fuzz, tremolo...)

And to top it all: from the garbage dump we picked another cool Casio keyboard! Couldn't believe how much good stuff peeps leave there. We were so stoked about this recycling thing that Young JzZi also picked up a blue pogo stick (!) and a rechargeable drill from the dump. There was an electric fireplace as well, but we had to leave it there, 'cos it would have been too much, I mean it's summer and all.

I hope all this stuff works too, it would have been a shame to throw all this away. I mean, now they can get a second life as Kriton tools... Can't wait to start tweaking and modifying those Casio babies...

Legally Blend(e)

We like blends, we like doing blends. You already know that.
That's why da Hennyman and yours truly, Fiil Inc, decided to make some new party blends. Not just any party blends. But ones that fit summertime parties. The recipe is easy: step 1) Take a "older" portion, familar to most everyone from summer parties in the past. Step 2) take a newer portion, to make it current, just right for this season.

We took the time to throw together two new tracks by that recipe and here is what you get:

- Hennessy doing his thing with vocals from Ludacris' megahit "Stand Up" and the beat from Petey Pablo's recent banger "Get Me Out Of Jail". Uptempo banger alert!

-Fiil Inc (aka Alppila) effing around with a sure fire classic beat from Was Not Was' "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" version (from 1990) and Pitbull's last year's party anthem "Bojangles". Loose and funky enough to fit a bmore style or a disco set. DJ's take notice!

Enjoy these little babies at www.myspace.com/kritonhigh
(and ask for quality mp3's if you wish)

and ps... The LONG AWAITED Buddy Leezle remix coming up soon!

Make Love Not War: Gay Bomb (and Killer Bees)

You probably all read about this already but it's so funny I need to post it here again:

"In December 2004, The Sunshine Project, a watchdog group based in Austin, Tex., and Hamburg, Germany, that opposes biological weapons, uncovered a "U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting."

The proposal came from the Air Force's Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, which requested $7.5 million to develop a so-called "gay-bomb." Using the Freedom of Information Act, Edward Hammond, director of the U.S. office of the Sunshine Project, obtained a copy which was "part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons." If completed, the bomb would release a chemical aphrodisiac "and by virtue of either breathing or having their skin exposed to this chemical... soldiers would become gay." This would cause their units to break down as the troops "became irresistibly attractive to one another." In addition to a "gay bomb" the proposal also mentions using chemicals which could make bees angry so that enemy forces would be attacked not only by our troops but also swarms of stinging insects.

Defense Department officials have acknowledged that such ideas were proposed by the Air Force in 1994, and then "quickly dismissed." They played down the significance of the Sunshine report, stating that many proposals come their way that are rejected for ethical reasons."

It's even in Wikipedia.

This is where I am coming from...

Ever wanted to know where you are coming from, dear fans of Kriton Music Blog (tm)?
Well, now yo'all can see it, thanks to our super secret high-tech visitor statistics counter system.
Just click on the map above to make it bigger, and remember that the map shows only the visitors today.

I just love maps.

B-More = Jive Bunny

Last night I was listening to the Kovalevy show on Basso Radio where Mr. Fiskars was blasting B-More or Baltimore Club Tracks or whatever you wanna call that stuff.

You know what I am talking about, right? Look HERE and read up if you don’t.

Anyhow, he played several tracks which sampled heavily those ‘60s girl pop groups and similar stuff, like ‘Please, Mr. Postman’ etc. This made me realize one thing:

B-More = Jive Bunny.

Yeah, that’s right. Unlike many of those young jocks playing that Baltimore stuff, I am old enough to remember Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers in the 1980s, unfortunately. And I can assure you that the difference between the classic Jive Bunny tracks such as "Swing the Mood" and "Let's Party" and some of those B-More tracks, is next to non-existent.

So what? I dunno. I guess nothing. Carry on, sir.

I'm Back. Like Take That.

Hi! I’ve been taking a bit of a vacation from writing here for quite some time already. For no reason at all, apparently. Whatever, now let’s see what’s going on with everything/everyone related to the Kriton Universe ™:


The Kriton Boys

We’ve been quite busy on the Alppila studio lately, with a little help of some nice Keko, I guess. The MySpace RMX of Buddy Leezle’s track we been working on is basically ready finally. It’s gonna be da bomb. I promise.

And yea, the Kriton club night in the Vinyl Bar a while ago was a blast. So much so in fact that I guess we will not re-do it too soon again. Especially because of the regulars complaining about our sound not being smooth enough for their distinguished house music tastes.

Then Mr. Fiskars, of two of Helsinki’s most Excellent clubs TOP BILLIN’ & Kovalevy digs us too, check out his TOP 10! (Ok, you need to be logged in w/ your MySpace account to see it but we are #1 !!!)

And even more, the long-overdue video for our track ‘Scared Money’ by Fiilin.com & the BCN posse should/could be out some time soon. It will be dope yet scary at the same time. Watch out!


NAGA!marque AKA Sandal Flamenberg

Mark has apparently also been quite busy in the Kriton Studio/Hangout in Alppila lately. There are two new and new-ish tracks on his MySpace page, both of which include some secret vocal contributions from yours truly, BTW!

The latest one, ‘Hector the Scrambler’ was released on Sunday on his MySpace-page. It’s mad beautiful and very shoegazer-y -too. It’s his most melodic and even ‘pop’ track so far. Congratulations, man.

The rumour has it that the dude might soon finally have enough tracks ready for his debut mini-album to be released by Kriton Music. There’ll be eventually a special limited hand-numbered CD-R run for all yo’ll Wire-reading peoples out there in the Internets.

On the side note, I guess that the Keko is also to be thanked here for keeping our favorite Aussie sitting tight in the studios…


Interflug

Giacbot also has new lovely song, ‘Rosa Mota’ out there on his MySpace-page. It was incidentally released last Sunday just like Mark's new track. It was inspired by a long hot summer day at home in his wooden house in Kumpula, apparently. And some Velvet Underground too, I guess.

The trademark Interflug-style we all love is all there. CasioTone madness, acoustic guitar, the man himself and all, and in a very laid-back and summer-y style. Nice!


Yours Truly, Young jZ

Well, I have only one week to go here at work before going on the longest holiday of my life so far. Which is nice. My Jopo is fixed again, after being broken for months, my guitar fx pedal collection just keep growing and I have already begun growing a proper German-style moustache for the summer. Let’s see how far I can take the moustache project this time, I mean this time it’s 4REAL, maybe.

Get the party started

If you're around in Helsinki and wondering what to do next weekend, seek no further! Next friday the Kriton Trio will be operating on the turntables @ Vinyl Bar. What you'll get there is genuine banging Kriton sound: you really can not be sure what to expect. The sound will be fresh, that's guaranteed: lot's of new Kriton remixes will be played alongside r&b, reggae, hip hop and rock.

See ya there!

The Eagle Has Finally Landed - The first ever Kriton Mixtape is here!

Yessiiiiir, i'm not lying to you!

This is the first ever full blooded Kriton mixtape. This little baby contains a mini-set from each Kriton member - Alppila a.k.a. Fiil Inc, Hennessy a.k.a. Hennyman & Jzzi a.k.a. Young Jzzer. The sound is ghetto through and through, there are exclusive remixes and blends, celebrity shoutuouts and innovative vocoder breaks.

The styles vary from down south rap to r&b, dancehall to roots and lovers rock, old school hiphop to electro and hippie rock. So what i need you to right now is download this lil sucka, grab a bite of that on your iPod while sippin on dat Patron and have a GOOD OLD FASHIONED P.A.R.T.Y.!

64 mins / Hella many tracks / 192 kbs/ 88 mb Download it here playboys!

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Hell, why not. i'll throw in the tracklist for all you bad boys and nasty gals out there.

Kriton High School Bangers: The Eagle Has Landed - A Kriton Partymix


Kriton High School Bangers: Scared Money (Alppila’s Mixtape Edit)
Crime Mob: Rock Yo Hips
Young Jeezy: J.E.E.Z.Y
Brooke Valentine feat. Dem Franchize Boyz: Pimped Out
MIMS feat. Junior Reid & Cham: This Is Why I’m Hot (Blackout Remix)
Mike Jones: Mr. Jones
Trick Daddy feat. Baby: Tuck Ya Ice
Collie Buddz: Come Around (When Kriton Come Around Remix)
Chuck Fender: Judgement
Chuck Fender & Cherine: Comin Over Tonight
Kiprich & Delishus: Joe Grind
Bone Crusher feat Too Short & Pimp C: Can't Get No Helicopter (Hennessy Blend)
Collie Buddz: Tomorrow's Another Day
Buju Banton feat. Pinchers: Don & Dupes
Buju Banton: Driver A
Clipse feat. Slim Thug: Wamp Wamp (What It Do) (Hennessy Blend)
Shaggy: Church Heathen
Gwen Stefani feat Pharrell: Yummy (Kriton's United Ghettos Remix)
The Stooges: No Fun
Stezo: To The Max
Eazy-E: Eazy-Er Said Than Dunn
ZZ Top: Nasty Dogs And Funky Kings
J.V.C. F.O.R.C.E.: Strong Island
Maggotron: Welcome To The Bass Planet
Faith No More: We Care A Lot
Cybotron: Clear
Public Enemy: Public Enemy #1
KRS-One: Sound Of Da Police
Sweet Tee: Show And Prove
Ultra Magnetic MC's: Funky
Op:l Bastards: Funking
Led Zeppelin: Good Times, Bad Times
Poppa Ron Love: I'm A Girl Watcher
3rd Bass: Steppin' In To The A.M.
Stezo: To The Max

WeeMee to the rescue

This is really nerdy, but I had to blog this one... Weeworld is a new service that allows you to create a weemee, aka minime, an avatar that you can link to your blogs, e-mails and what ever you like. The fun part is that this is a live link, so once you alter your weemee, it automatically is updated wherever you have linked this little creature.

I suggest that all Kriton boys blog here their weemees, so that you can get the picture what we either are like or what we would like to be. Here's Henny...



And yeah, it's also fun to play games with your own weemee as the character.


EDIT, this be me, Young jzZi:

Gwar, what is it good for?

Yuh know , in the time of web 2.0 hype it’s so humorous that every week there seems to come more and more new ridicilously named websites and services, like tubeflocks, wikibee, roomle or googster (these names were actually made up by using an web 2.0 name generator .
Most of these r rubbish obviously, but Joost seems quite promising. Ok it’s really hyped, but once they get it up and running for good and get some quality content, it’s gonna be a bomb.

I’ve been using the service for a few weeks now, and although it’s really bugged, it’s got a lot of potential. Last good kicks I got out of watching this Scottish hat wearing Canadian interviewer "Nardwuar" interviewing Gwar. I had totally forgotten the existence of this band, they really rock. I mean Lordi is like a wimp Swedish cousin of this band. I hope that when the Eurovision song contest hype starts to spread next week, we all remember that Gwar is the real thing, Lordi is the diet version. Look at the picture above and you’ll see it for yourself…

We invented the REMIX

Last friday we got into our little studio. The intention was of course the brand new Kriton High School Bangers remix for our man Buddy Leezle, but also to have a spring season bash. Mind you, the last time we had a party at the studio was "Jr. X-mas", when we did the Collie Buddz "Come Aroud" remix.

MPC's, vocoder, guitars and synths were heated. Beer and Jameson was flowing and even some odd herbal scent was in the air.
The results can be heard a tad bit later, when we get the time to record all that strangeness from the MPC. But as far as we remember, shit was real bangin... that trademark Kriton boom.

These pics were taken by yrz truly Fiil Inc and Mr Hennyman himself on his Nokia cell. So you know the picture quality's gonna be off the meat rack. As u see.

After the studio session we paid a visit to Top Billin club, this time at Kuudes Linja in Kallio. And, as usual, it was da bomb. Massive props to da TB set, they even played Boyfriend by Avril lavigne, as well as the usual bmore, electro and crunk bizness.

New Kriton mixtape in sight, prepare for landing...

Yep. You heard it right.

Finally, the 1st ever Kriton mixtape, featuring a set from alla three Kriton dudes is now finished. It's called The Eagle Has Landed - A Kriton Party Mix. And it's a gem.

64 mins, shitload of trax.
Mixing style ranges from ghetto style to smooth, while the sound stays rugged.

Musical styles: far too many to mention... i'll just list some tracks, and you'll prob'ly get some sort of picture:

Kriton High School Bangers: Scared Money (unreleased mixtape version)
MIMS: This Is Why I'm Hot (Reggae remix)
Trick Daddy ft. Baby: Tuck ya Ice
Collie Buddz: Come Around (Kriton Come Around remix)
Shaggy: Church Heathen
Chuck Fender: Comin Over Tonight
Clipse: Wamp Wamp (What It Do) (Hennessy Blend)
Gwen Stefani: Yummy (Kriton Remix)
The Stooges: No Fun
JVC Force: Strong Island
Faith No More: We Care A Lot
Cybotron: Clear

...etc etc etc etc...

Download info coming later!
Watch this space and the Kriton Myspace (www.myspace.com/kritonhigh) for details, homie!!

Pack your beats an go

Although the weather is freezing again, I'm feeling the summer coming. And this summer I gotta get me a boom box. I could go for a traditional boom box, but cool 80's models ones are hard to find. And they eat a lot of expensive batteries.

But if you wanna act modern, you should check this out: Bags as boom boxes.
Just plug in your Ipod and your're banging. That's a perfect idea in my opinion. The popmaster seem cute in Ludacris' hands but the groove master would be my choice. Actually the Kriton Music Posse will build a full mobile studio system around this bag, a powerbook will fit in just fine...

Patrón my french, amigo!

The easiest way to spot trends in consumer culture is to follow certain forms of popular culture. If you can’t decide what watch to wear or what booze to sip, go for hip hop songs and videos. E.g. American Brandstand reports what brands are most mentioned in Top 20 hits, and it’s quite obvious that it’s the rappers who adore the bling, not the emo kidzz.

When it comes to alcohol it seems that after Hennessy, Courvoisier and Cristal the next big thing seems to be Patrón Tequila . What makes it interesting is that this must be the first time that a mexican thing becomes and icon of wealth…

In the year 2005 it was number 33 on the American Brandstand list topping e.g. Moet&Chandon and Grey Goose.There are no up to date facts on Patron’s rise, but it seems to get a lot of attention in recent songs in my opinion.

Patron-dropping rappers include

- Young Joc: Patron
- Young Joc: It’s going down
- Lil Jon & Three 6 Mafia: Act A Fool
- Bubba Sparxxx & Ying And Yang Twins: Ms. New Booty
- DJ Unk: Walk It Out

And, yes, Turtle and the boys drink it on Entourage as well.

Skulls are bad, mmmmkay!

The Kappahl clothing chain is Sweden has stopped selling some of their t-shirts, 'cos some motorbreath-head banging-fire-spitting-Hell's Angels have told that the prints on the shirts resembled the classic HA-logo (a skull with flames/wings).

Later today it was reported that the finnish Hell's Angels have not yet contacted the local Kappahl office. Does this mean that the finnish clothing industry white collar people are too tough to mess with, or are finnish bikers just wimps?

However the swedish clothing industry must be in a lotta trouble soon, 'cos skulls still seem to be a popular theme in the kids/youth clothing. Maybe the bikers should have started with Cheap Monday, they have more skulls than a colombian graveyard.

"No, I won't be Christina Aguilera"

Whoosh, i'm finally posting this. yes, the Snoop/Diddy press, from march 9th in Helsinki, that i've been about to post ever since it happened.
But now, just to break the much too long radio silence in the kriton blog. Above you see mister Broadus and Combs in their press. and yes, that crap photo is taken by yourz truly.

Here's some of the best bits by bigg Snoop. Enjoy it, nephew!

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"I stay ready so i aint gotta get ready. I personally try and always stay ready. I keep my guns loaded all times. Not real guns though"

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"why do we need to make diss records, when we could focus to make hit records. Those who last long, those like Puff and myself, those who make hit records, we dont build on a catalogue of diss records, saying i dont like you, i hate this rapper. "

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"We're live and you see us both together and you see us both having a good time, doing each other’s songs. "

Journalist: ...And you’ll be Christina Aguilera (as in Diddy's hit single "Tell Me")

"I won’t be Christina Aguilera. Unless she grew a nine inch dick on her."

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"Hiphop brings all aspects of the worlds together. You can take away rock’n’roll, you can take away country music, you can take away any style of music that you want to, except hiphop. The minute you take hiphop away from the world, you have no sponsorships, no commercials, no sports, you have no nothing. We’re the only style of music that brings all world together. Look at you all mothafuckas. Don’t none of you look alike. But ya’ll here for one reason: cos you love and respect hiphop. Ya’ll wanna get some conversation with 2 of the most dominant hiphop artists in the game pf all times, so i feel like the music that we make, if we didnt make it the world wouldn't move. "

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"this man (Puffy) employs maybe 500-1000 people, i do the same thing. Anytime you see a hiphop artist make it, you never see him by himself you never see him thinking for himself. You see him looking out for his whole team. "

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Journalist: You have crossed over from music to movies, clothing...

Snoop: "...Bitches..."

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"I aint good at not crackin a bitch. I mean, when its time to crack a bitch, that’s just some of the easiest shit in the world to me. And i have never been not good at that. "

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Snoop. Man, he's still the man.

-- fiil inc --

We on it, just like everyone else. Horns from Chi-Town

Oh, we must not sleep on this one.

The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, straight outta Chi-Town. So hot! Funky horns and gritty drums. This reminds me of the time I stole a trumpet from my school's music class 'cos I wanted to learn to play it but I only managed to learn only the three first notes of the MacGyver theme song.

However, I did return the horn later when my mom found it and started to ask me difficult questions, like where I got it from...

Dubplates, fresh cut, special price, home delivery!

If you're wondering what you should buy for that special person for his/hers birthday, look no further. Dr Dub can cut a full length vinyl record for 29 euros per piece using your mp3/wav/aiff files or such. That's an ideal gift for anyone: put your favourite Kriton traxx on one hot mutha, give it to the local dj and go dance the night away with your loved one!

My german is not too good, so I should get a dictionary to get into this in more detail, but I think it sounds like a good deal. And my birthday's coming up soon...

Learn to dance and get to know the history of Techno in three minutes.

Are looking for new dance moves, you want to have “a personal style”, looking for new fashion tips & dress sense, hair style, are you already bored with all that New Rave crap? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, look no further. In order to get new ideas it’s always good to look back a lil’ bit. Yo, this video shows you how to do it on the floor. Mad styles, yo’all.

It’s a clip from 1982 TV dance program The Scene with some folks getting down to The Seminal Motor City Electro/Synth/Proto-Techno track: A Number of Names: ‘Shari Vari’. It’s also THE TRACK many people claimed to have spawned alone whole Detroit Techno way back in 1981, even if it is not as know as many other classic electro tracks of the time. As the urban lore goes, that track apparently had whole underground sub-culture around it in Detroit with the special style of clothing etc., much inspired by everything European at the time. The Lyric is the key here, and you can sing along with it too:

"Some bread and cheese and fine white wine
Designer chic is a matter of time
Could this be the real thing?
Or is this just another fling?
Seen by millions nationally
L'oumo Vogue, Playgirl, G Quarterly
Because he's down on his etiquette
Shari Vari is really it

Smoking on his cigarette
Listening to his car cassette
Cruising with his hot playmate
In his Porsche Nine Two Eight
Heading for the highest heights
For the climax of the night
The people there they just won't quit
Because the music's really it"

And hey Timbaland, do I hear a very familiar sounding arpeggio there, do I?

Second 'hey', the token white dude with snake like agility in hips who comes on at around 1.22 point in the video looks scarily like Napoleon Dynamite in the famous dance scene, doesn't he?

If you want to see more, look here for a similar performance to the beat of other true classic, sampled by everyone, Kano: 'Are You Ready?’.

Snoop Dogg arrested in Stockholm...

News from Sweden:

"The American rap artist Snoop Dogg was arrested in central Stockholm on Sunday night on suspicion of minor drugs offences.

At around 1.30am the star and a 23 year old woman were taken to a police station in the Södermalm area of the city, where they provided urine samples.

"The people we arrested showed clear signs of being under the influence of narcotics," said Lars-Erik Baarsen at Södermalm police to Aftonbladet.

Snoop Dogg performed on Sunday evening at the Stockholm venue Globen, along with fellow rapper P Diddy.

After the concert he was due to attend a party at the Scandic Anglais hotel in Stockholm's Stureplan - but he never made it to the bash. In what appeared to be a planned raid, the star's car was stopped with several others by police on Centralbron, a bridge in the city.

Earlier in the evening, according to newspaper Aftonbladet, a room at the Grand Hotel, where Snoop Dogg was staying, was searched by police.

On Monday morning the 35 year old star, whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr, was released.

"He is said to have behaved appropriately. Now the prosecutor can proceed with this. It's usually a fine," said Lena Baaki, Södermalm police spokesman, to TT.

The fine for a minor offence is usually based on the individual's earnings.

It is not the first time Snoop Dogg has been in trouble with the Swedish authorities. In summmer 2005 the American rapper caused a stir when he showed a soft porn film before his concert at the Hultsfred festival."

The Lauttasaari Clan Is Nuthin' to F**k Wit

Our academic friend had some nice incidents this morning (read below), but they all seemed to fit the particular place of Helsinki. My last saturday night had some elements that did not fit in their place.

I live in Lauttasaari, which is the equivalent of Staten Island NYC or such. I mean it's a reeeeaally quiet suburb on an island near the centre of Helsinki. Most of it's habitants are elderly people or families, not exactly a real favela in my opinion. A place where sex and drugs and rockn'roll a frowned upon.

Well, last saturday me and the misses had a pleasant nite out, some dining and cinematographic experiences. Once we were returning home we were passed by one, two, three, four, five or more cop cars. We kept joking that they could give us a ride home once they were heading about the same way. Ten minutes later we got home to find out that these cars had actually surrounded our house. According to the paper, there were 14 police units on the scene and the officer in charge tried to deny our access home. Apparently some guy had fired his handgun several times just a few meters from our building. The cop was reluctant to give me any more info on the subject, but it was pretty clear that there was some real threat - I mean I have never seen that many coppers on the Island.

After some discussion the nice officer let us enter our building and we could could carry on analyzing the situation from our living room.

I must say that the cops handled the situation well, they got the bad guy and so on. But the local C.S.I. -team was sloppy. I didn't see any proper crime scene investigation what so ever. Where is Gil Grissom when you need him.

My Monday Morning in Three Episodes

Ok, here we go. I feel the need to tell about how my Monday morning started today. I am doing this by recounting three episodes of life in my hood, Vallila and Sörnäinen districts of northeastern inner city of Helsinki. Everything happened within less than one hours' time.

1.) After having my morning coffee I kiss my baby girl and my baby-momma goodbye and leave my house around ten o'clock to go to work at the university downtown. I take a tram #7 but the first people I meet at the tram stop are this junkie couple in their thirties. They look kinda ok, except that their fashion sense is stuck on 1993 and they are all skinny and pale and trembling , quiet and spaced-out, and they have that creepy Skeletor look with dark eyes deep in their sockers etc. on them. I hope they were on their way to the needle exchange place in Hakaniemi, for their own good. Nothing so special about seeing junkies out & about on the streets of Kallio/Sörnäinen/Vallila but somehow this set the mood of the morning for me.

2.) Before going to work I visit the local Post Office in Kurvi, Sörnäinen to drop off a effect pedal I just sold on rather succesfully on Ebay but at the counter I realize that I left my wallet home and I need to go back home. There was also a freaky looking super-pale, skinny and dirty Heavy Metal dude in black leather outfit hanging around in the post office. He looked like he is planning a hold-up, or something. I head back home.

When I got back in to the tram #7 at my stop the second time to get back to the Post Office, there is another young couple sitting in the back. They look kinda normal, except for the fact that the dude is packing, and very openly too, a good old Missisippi Corn Cob pipe with a seriously heavy load of hashish & tobacco mixture. When they get off, I see the dude lighting the hash pipe immediately. I also see them heading off to the direction of the municipal Bailiff's Office.

3.) Next, when I finally get out of the Post Office the second time after sending the pedal, I see the old guy in red winter coat, as pictured above. He is trying to get over the Hämeentie, a big street with busy fast traffic, but he is so wasted that he cannot stand up, let alone walk. He falls down, rolls on the muddy street, tries to get up, his feet don't carry him, and he falls down again, rolls almost on to the tram tracks and finally ends up just sitting on the ground. I am scared that will get run over by a tram or a buss and I actually call the cops to come pick him up. The police sound very bored on the phone. Then someone helps the old guy a bit and drags his ass away from the car lane and the cops arrive pretty soon. I take my tram and go to work.

This is why we're hot!

Good news for all Mims fans. His "This Is Why I'm Hot" single went from last weeks 32 nd position straight to number one. And I'm talking Billboard charts here, baby!

We here at Kriton Music know who's the man, and who's gonna rule the charts. That's why we've had a remix version of Mims' chart topper for a quite some time already. The og beat is awesome, but we wanted to make one with some twanging guitars and fat bass. Check it out by downloading your copy from here!

Spend it like Beckham

According to Sky TV Victoria Beckham and her ball chasing metro sexual hubby are one of the worst enemies of mama earth. This couple has been chosen as the most unecological celebrities, for they have spent their cheese, gouda and kraft in the most unethical way for the terra.

It was reported that The Posh Posse..
- has 15 cars
- is looking for their 5th house at the moment
- released 15 000 kg of carbondioxide to air last year alone

So what. I guess there are much worse celebrities in the world than this. I mean 15 cars… That’s nothing compared to real playaz, I bet Jay Z has bought 15 cars to his mom alone…

I likeee.... guitars!

I like electric guitars, a lot. So do I like this like 12 times or what? I am not sure but it really looks great. Pity that I have always hated stratocasters as the most boring guitar there is. Anyhow, the 12-neck Stratocaster in the picture is apparently functional too. It's built by Japanese contemporary artist Yoshihiko Satoh, who had been building other cool stuff too, click here and check this out too