The Australian electronic artist Nick Bertke, better known as Pogo, records sounds from his favourite games and movies, and piece them together like a jigsaw puzzle to create completely new music.

Pogo has videos that have collected over 40 million views on YouTube, and has produced remixes for Disney Pixar, Microsoft, Showtime, the United Nations and more. Also he is known for mixing movies (“Alice in Wonderland,” “Up“) and the entire world into song.

Here is a fresh take on a crowd-favorite “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” titled “Jaaam.” Highlights include Dr. Phil busting a move, Jeffrey saying “Arnold Schwarzenegger,” and of course, signature dance steps from Will and Carlton.

Last we heard from Pogo, he was remixing the Bhutanese people as part of his “Remix the World” project, so this is a move back to his pop culture-driven work.

Download the mixes here

The 20-year-old singer-songwriter (real name: Abel Tesfaye) from Toronto is on the forefront of an idiosyncratic new cut of R&B. Thanks in part to support from fellow Toronto native Drake, he’s been in heavy rotation since 2011 with the release of his mixtape debut “House of Balloons”

This album is a part of a trilogy which includes “Thursday” and “Echoes of Silence”. The song “High for This” was featured in the promo for the final season of the HBO show Entourage On June 16, 2011, “House of Balloons” was named as a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize.

On July 6, the album was named as one of ten shortlisted nominees. In December, The Weeknd released his highly anticipated third album “Echoes of Silence”. The Weeknd’s site crashed shortly after due to the large number of downloads.

Since hitting the scene, The Weeknd has received praise from a number of musical publications, including those of MTV, BET, Rolling Stone, XXL, The Source and 2DopeBoyz, who have all dubbed him the “Songbird of his Generation”, as well as the “best musical talent since Michael Jackson” (John Norris, MTV).

The Weeknd’s two shows SOLD OUT in less than two hours. Due to the high demand of the event, The Weeknd will be performing two nights in a row in Waterloo on January 18 & 19 @ the Turret Nightclub inside the Wilfred Laurier University.

Latest tracks by The_Weeknd

Footage was released earlier today on Neptunes fan site TheNeptunes.org of Grammy Award-winning producer Pharrell Williams recording with the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music’s H.M.I. Orchestra, on a new theme titled “I Am Other.”

Between a plethora of creative projects and visits around the world, Pharrell manages to step back into his primary domain of music. Partnering with the University of Miami Frost School of Music and the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra, Williams works his musical magic over a “mixed-genre orchestral work—which features soft and ethereal atmospheres contrasted with fortissimo brass themes and driving rhythms—to explore a different side of his musical creativity, and to encourage his hip-hop fan base to expand their musical horizons.”

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This is a small glimpse in to what went down November 10th, 2011 featuring performances from The Get By show @ Starlight. The Get By is made up of Justis, Mantis, and Pangea Delphi with two of the members coming back their hometown – Waterloo, ON. I got a chance to see them for the first time LIVE and man I was not disappointed!!!

The show also featured Tona, Tanika Charles, and Jared Bellenie of Ace Kinkaid. Also a performance by Pocket City. The album features Shad, Saukrates, Rich Kidd, Tona, Tanika Charles, Promise, MFP, Fraction, GMF, and Rufus JohnMusic, Love, and Hijinks.

You can pick up a copy right here @ LOOP.

This video was shot and cut from by our good friend CHAR LORO for Lovehard.ca

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Diplo has a New Year’s gift for all you Moom bah ton lovers out there. A new EP called Express Your self which comes out in a few days and is set to fea­ture Sabi, Elephant Man, Nicky Da B, Datsik, LAzer Disk, Billy the Gent, GTA, and Excision. Take a listen!!!

DIPLO express yourself EP sampler by diplo

T. Dot emcee Tona starts out 2012 much like how he closed out 2011, with some good music. He puts his current state of mind in song with this jawn “New Year” featuring Torae and Eternia, with Lyve on the beat. All these years later, that Bill O’Reilly soundbite in the intro is still the funniest shit on the internet. Look for Tona’s new tape, Reform School, to drop next month.

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Shout out to crew from 1LOVETO for this post –

Here is a sneak preview from Kardinal Offishall with his latest track “The Invention Of Truth”, off his upcoming album “Allow Me To Re-Introduce Myself”. Produced by Nottz. FIRE!!!

“The Invention of Truth” (dirty) KARDINAL OFFISHALL & Nottz by KardinalOffishall

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Take a look at the latest video from Lykke Li, for her single ‘Sadness Is A Blessing’. The video, which also stars Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård, was directed by Tarik Saleh, with Carl Nilsson as D.O.P.

To coincide with the release of their new album undun, The Roots recruited the services of director Clifton Bell of The Ghettonerd Company, LLC to create a black & white short film featuring four tracks from the LP “Tip The Scale”, “Sleep,” “Stomp,” and “Make My‘”. undun is available on iTunes now.

The Roots – UNDUN from The Ghettonerd Company, LLC on Vimeo.

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Today VOYR published the second episode of their behind the scenes series of the Watch The Throne tour. In this second episode the tour stops in Chicago, Kanye’s home town. Kanye talks about school and he visits his old house and neighborhood together with Jay-Z.

The Chi by toobu13

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Watch this album teaser for Ladyhawke’s new album ‘Anxiety’, to be released on March 19th 2012. The album was recorded over the summer in the south of France with long-time collaborator/producer Pascal Gabriel.

From the big screen to the TV screen, club floor to Grammy stage, the 39-year-old rapper, Common, embodies every bit of what it means to be a Renaissance man. Coming off his first successful publication, a memoir entitled, “One Day It’ll All Make Sense” and the launch of his television acting career with AMCs Hell on Wheels, the critically acclaimed artist recently stepped back into the studio to cook up his latest album, The Dreamer, The Believer, slated for a December 20th release. With plenty to discuss, Common sits down with online lifestyle magazine, Interview, to divulge what makes him so awesomely cool. Touching on topics like his friendship with the late J. Dilla, acting endeavors, and a track on his new album referencing the softer side of hip hop, this brief interview is a must read, no matter what art you prefer from the talented Chicagoan. Check out the full article through Interview Magazine.

Did you act when you were growing up?
I acted when I was young—there was one play that I did. I felt I did well, but I remember my mother raving over my friend’s performance [instead]. I kinda lost my faith at that point in acting, and I had interest in other things. I loved plays, I loved films, but I had no desire to act until I had just put out my album Like Water for Chocolate. Creatively, I felt like I’d hit a ceiling, and I needed something else to express myself, and I just decided to take acting classes. The first opportunity that came up was with Girlfriends—someone that I work with was just talking about that, saying, “See how far you’ve come, from Girlfriends to Hell On Wheels. We’re very proud of you!”

But you’ve also done some acting in your videos.
Yeah. Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called “Retrospect For Life,” which Lauryn Hill directed and featured an actress by the name of N’bushe Wright, who played my girlfriend who was about to be pregnant. I remember being so nervous about it, but now I feel like I can conquer the world with it. I got a long way to go—I want to keep growing, but it’s something that I’m very into.

What made you decide that it was time for you to write a memoir? You’re quite young.
I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

There’s a part in the book where you talk about living with J Dilla.
Yeah, we had an apartment together in LA. It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats—it was one of the greatest experiences I’ve had. I used to get really, really excited when I was getting a JD beats CD. But to have that access and see him create things live every day. There were times when he was sick and couldn’t work as much, but every time he was able to, he would work. He loved music.

What do you think made him so special?
God gifted him with that talent, and then he just loved it so much—he was born to be that creative. One thing that allowed him to continue to be special was that he wasn’t controlled by the industry. He didn’t care if it was the popular rapper calling him or the label telling him they wanted something, he really did stay focused on the music. He had a unique perspective—he was brought up in the hood in Detroit, but he was into jazz music, and sampling Bobby Caldwell and people like that. He had a wide variety of information and talent.

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Named after lead singer and songwriter Mark Foster, Californian trio Foster the People chewed up the charts this year after the band’s contagious, up-beat anthem ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ got everyone whistling and head bobbing along.

Mark Pontius, Cubbie Fink and Mark Foster are living the dream. Currently coming to the end of their first international tour, the lads will soon be touching down in LA to take time off for Christmas, before embarking on the second leg of their travels across South East Asia and South America. Playing back to back gigs whilst working on new material, Foster the People are in huge demand after the band’s debut album Torches topped the US charts and their first single ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ went platinum twice over. Writing alternatively orientated music about the state of society and the backlash that selfish political actions can have upon today’s youth, Mark Foster addresses current issues through up-beat music. Unique and ironic, his approach to making a stand and having a voice is melodic and massively pleasing to the ear. If only all protests could sound as sweet. Discussing his creative processes, Mark explained “When I write, a lot of the time it’s free association, I just start riffing stuff and things that are subconsciously going on inside of me will start coming out lyrically and I’ll focus in on it and it’s very therapeutic. I notice a lot of similar themes start coming out.”

Citing this year’s gigs at Glastonbury, Lapalooza and Coachella as the highlights of their career, 2011 took Foster the People from obscure proximities to award-winning heights. The boys peeked down from their ivory towers to tell us what we can expect to hear from their corner in 2012.

Source: ID Magazine