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SATURDAY MATINÉE: Sean Price - The Joy Of Painting With Sean Ross

Sean Price shows us “The Joy Of Painting” as Sean Ross for this week’s Saturday Matinée. Who remembers Bob Ross? The American painter calmed a nation with his soft spoken painting show, The Joy Of Painting between 1983 and 1994, before his unfortunate death in 1995. He has been parodied countless times (all in good …

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SATURDAY MATINÉE: Emile Haynie Sampling Records As Inspiration

This week’s Saturday Matinée features Kanye West and Eminem collaborator Emile Haynie talking about his sampling process when making a track. NYC producer Emile Haynie, aka Emile has worked with some of the best in the business: Kanye West, Eminem, Raekwon and Kid Cudi and a couple of weeks go, he kicked it with Future …

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SATURDAY MATINÉE: Scratch DVD - Digging In The Crates

Check out this clip from Scratch featuring Jazzy Jay, Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow, amongst others, going through their crate digging exploits. This is only 9 minutes long, but it should entice you to get the whole documentary. In 2002, a documentary called Scratch was released all about DJing, vinyl and digging, some of the …

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SATURDAY MATINÉE: Michael Jackson's Origins Of The Moonwalk

Enjoy the wonders of dance in this video of Michael Jackson’s Origins Of The Moonwalk for our Satuday Matinée this week. It was the 30th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s Motown 25 performance this week and after watching it back (oh, the goosebumps!), I found a video of all the origins of the move and plenty …

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SATURDAY MATINÉE: Brasilintime (2004)

Our Saturday Matinée this week is dedicated to Brasilintime, featuring a large section of the Stones Throw alumni. Brasilintime is a 2-hour journey into the world of Brazilian music and its impact on hip hop. Including extensive talk with some of the greats in samba, Brazilian rock and bossa nova, the documentary leaves no stone …

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SATURDAY MATINÉE: Beat Digging With Waajeed

Waajeed discusses hip hop, beats, PPP, the ladies and the Detroit sound while crate digging in this week’s Saturday Matinée. Before Waajeed was shedding light onto the mystery behind Dilla beats, he was (and still is) a hip hop producer and what do hip hop producers like to do best? Crate dig. In 2006, Waajeed …

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SATURDAY MATINÉE: The Meteor Man (1993)

How many films do you know that start with a Michael Jackson track? The Meteor Man is definitely one to watch in this week’s Saturday Matinée. Movies depicting black superheroes were quite popular during the 90s. Films such as Spawn, Steel (the infamous Shaq movie), Blade and X-Men (featuring Halle Berry as Storm) were some …