Presented by Animal Bikes and Chess Move Cartel, Live from the Streets is a video series created by beatmaker Mr. Green and director Sam Lipman-Stern. The series is based around showcasing street musicians and turning their performances into hip hop beats. New episodes will be released every two weeks
In the second episode of Live From The Streets you find yourself at Philadelphia’s First Friday with Peter Gaffney, the co-founder/director of Cabaret Redlight. Cabaret Redlight is a Philly based theater group that performs vaudeville, burlesque, spoken word and puppet theater, set to original music by the band The Blazing Cherries. Peter was playing his accordion on the street while promoting for his show “The Man from Orphan Island” (which unfortunately is no longer running) and was cool enough to agree to be a part of Live from the Streets. The beat is titled “Live Gypsy Swing Music”
Live from the Streets is a video series created by beatmaker Mr. Green and director Sam Lipman-Stern. The series is based around showcasing street musicians and turning their performances into hip hop beats
In the first episode of Live From The Streets you find yourself in Rittenhouse square with Brenda, a super cool lady who was singing along to her radio in the park. You see Mr. Green record her singing, then take her vocals back to the studio and make a beat with them. The beat is titled “Man with a Broken Heart”
It’s no exaggeration to say that were it not for Hank Shocklee, hip hop would probably sound entirely different. His early Bomb Squad production with Public Enemy didn’t just break all the rules in rap music at the time… it rewrote them, forever changing the trajectory of the still-young cultural movement. To this day, Shocklee’s production stands alone in its identifiable sound. We spoke with him recently to find out how he learned about Reason and what caused him to adopt it as his ‘weapon of choice’ for beat production