Word: hiphop
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...DJs/producers/rupture and esp are not new to Harvard. Jace Clayton (/rupture) and Mike Esposito (esp) started the Toneburst Collective while they were undergraduates here. The loose-knit collective spans multiple genres and media, uniting jungle, ambient and hiphop DJs and producers like DJ Flack, Embryo and Electro Organic Sound System with video-and installation-artists like Synergy Promixions. They organize numerous events in the New England area which are more like carnivals than raves or concerts, combining abstract beats, video experimentation and performance art in unorthodox spaces. A production last year, Junk, was staged in a church and featured junglists...
Among those featured at the Cultural Show Saturday night will be the Mountain Brothers, an Asian-American hiphop group that has recently signed with Columbia Records for an album this spring, Chung said...
These groups will be rounded out by individual performances of hiphop, jazz...
...repertoire consisted of tunes that were rooted either in jazz, hiphop, or dancehall. The hip-hop and jazz tunes worked out best overall, but there was a sense that with all of the elements in place, the music still didn't grab you. It was smart, it was cool, and it was very tastefully arranged, but it didn't reach any new realms of musical experience. In other words, it was hip, but it didn...
Funk aerobics is a relatively new development in the mega-bucks exercise industry. On paper, it could be described as a multimovement free-style cardiovascular workout in which instructors use the latest hiphop dance movements as their steps, which they build into different combinations. This description, added to the fact that funk aerobics surfaced in trendy New York and L.A. health clubs, makes it sound like fat burning for the stars. As the converted know--and addictions usually result form the first hit--it's authentically fun exercise and a liberating experience...