Forrest Armstrong's Blog, page 16

3 new Gasoline Monk beats

Just put up a new batch of three, made over the last month or so – listen here.  "House Party in the Snow," "Tie Your Drums in a Knot," and "I Made it Easy to Dance to This."  The tie your drums one is especially fun because it's built out of samples off this band we used to play with in high school called Twists, Slugs & Roscoes.  These guys were absolutely insane, their full-length album Naw Les Ge Dawn, Vol. 1 was a masterpiece.  But underground as hell, as these things happen.

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Beat Diggin

I've been lookin for things to sample and new drum sounds to rock so much I haven't thought of writing anything here the past couple days.  All I can hear in my head is snare drums.  Recently I watched this documentary that's pretty nice about the never-ending looking-for-things…

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Eraserhead Press featured on io9

As well as a lot of other publishers who are helping to revise the outdated methods most of the majors are still practicing.  Definitely worth checking out.  Read the article here.

Q-Tip is Smart

& he says some really important things about the state of hip hop in this interview.  In 2008 he put out The Renaissance, which is kind of shocking in how much it preserves the energy he originated in the beginning of the 90's with A Tribe Called Quest.  Check out a song like "Shaka" to know what I mean.  This is calling for a renewal of creativity in hip hop, an abandonment of the emphasis on style above music.  He's doin' it right. 

I'm about to make your day 7x iller

First off, I just spend the last 24 hours battling a computer virus. Or as roommate Jeff Burk tells me, not a virus, because actual computer viruses don't really hit computers anymore.  So malware.  It wouldn't let me open FL Studio to finish the beat I was half-done with when the virus hit, and kept opening up porno.com and porno.org, spliced in with some "Cure Erectile Dysfunction!" sites.  But I killed it, valiantly.  I feel like a gladiator.

There's actual reasons I started typing this. ...

Asphalt Flowerhead gets digital & nude

You can read 33% of Asphalt Flowerhead for free and buy it as an e-book now.  Which makes me really happy, because now you don't have to pay money to experience it.  It's at this great site called Smashwords that sells it as an e-book in all formats, pdfs for your computer or whatever-the-fuck for your electronic readers, for $3.99.  Check out the sample they got up over there!

And if you like the book and want to get a physical copy, hit up

Shatnerquake is free today!

Until midnight of November 17th.  Find out all about this at Jeff's blog.