I had my little graff 15 minutes (or should I say 15 nano seconds?) of fame back in 1986. Below is a tag I caught at the Radiotron that happened to end up in the movie Tough Guys . Kind of embarrassing to point out actually..when you look at (and compare handstyles with) some of the other names on the walls along side it. L.A. graff pioneers: Risco, Shandu, (LA Bomb Squad), Geo R.I.P. (TWA), Crime aka Rick One, Prime, Cartoon (K2S). Although my graff years were brief, I had the privilege of growing up and meeting people in this era back when there were still things to discover and it was all for the taking. These names are now legendary in the art and graff community. I met and kicked it a few brief times with Prime and Geo back in the day… and Rick One, who I still keep in touch with to this day, actually gave me the name Crook in 1985.

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Crook One tag (Radiotron, L.A. 1986)

Shandu tag (Radiotron, L.A. 1986)

Geo One tag (Radiotron, L.A. 1986)

Cartoon tag (Radiotron, L.A. 1986)

Save the Radiotron & Geobot piece by Crime aka Rick One, Prime, Zender (Radiotron, L.A. 1986)

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MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AFP) - American funk-soul legend and Academy Award-award winning musician Isaac Hayes was found dead Sunday at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, officials said. He was 65.

I thought I’d share this old mixtape I put out in ‘97 (cassette cover art and cassette hiss included).

Just 2 turntables/mixer and this trusty old Tascam. The story behind the cover art was that I was thinking of using a pic of an old sweat shop factory with mad sewing machines, but then I was like…lemme take this to a different level. So I called my boy Slick and asked him if he had any flicks of someone with their head stitched up. He laughed and said “Well, I’m looking at this book right now called ‘Death Scenes’ (or something like that).” I started cracking up..Slick never ceases to amaze. So he kindly made me the cover art and didn’t DISSappoint. This mix includes various homemade remixes I did (slapping a capellas over some of my beats), a song I produced for Sac based hip hop outfit known as Socialistik as well as an older 4 track mix on side 2 that me and my old partner DTM did back in ‘88. 

This was an all vinyl mix put on cassette, duped and passed out in the streets with no web addy attached to it..Yeah I ain’t new to this. I hope peeps today appreciate how easy it is to slap a mix up or even an ‘mp3 playlist’ on a blog or myspace and get mad exposure/props etc.. (I know I sure do). And what’s with mixtape release parties?! Ok I’ll stop now… Here’s the track listing, enjoy!

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ALL SEWED UP (Dj Crook)

SIDE 1

1. Smiling Mutha Fucka (Intro)

2. Crook Talk (Turntable Talk)

3. Jeru - The Bullshit

4. Natural Resource - Say What?

5. Kool Keith - Untitled Skit

6. Bahamadia - Paper Thin (Dj Crook Remix)

7. Mobb Deep - More Trife Life

8. Socialistik - Rap Addicts (Produced by Dj Crook)

9. Mohawks - Champ

10. Charisma - My World Premiere (Dj Crook Remix)

11. Al Tariq - Think Not

12. Dj Shadow - Hardcore Hip Hop (Inst.)

SIDE 2

1. Intro

2. Rasco - Hip Hop Essentials (Dj Crook Remix)

3. Common w/Just Ro - Confusion

4. Kool Keith - Don’t Crush It

5. Money Boss Players - Walk with the Limp

6. DTM & DJ Crook 4 Track Session (Recorded in 1988 w/Docdawhoo? on the mic - then known as ‘The Lyrix’)

7. Charisma - Methods

8. Outro

Here’s a new mix, bear with us as we are still in the process of loading these last 2 mixes to our Podcast Page

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DevilCast 11 - Dj Crook

jdilla - say it! feat. ta’raach & dj exile

bill laswell - work song

beck - soul of a man

bullion - caroline, no

flying lotus - gng bng

asher d & daddy freddy - brutality

dabrye - game over feat. jay dee & phat kat

chill rob g - wild pitch (kday remix)

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So.. over some drinks and some fresh off the grill portabellos, the conversation between Crook, myself and a few friends, as usual ends up on Alejandro Jodorowsky. Don’t ask me how or why, but it does. Over the years i became totally obsessed with this movie. Visually from beginning to end its straight eye candy. Sure its bizarre, and can be written off as some Hippie LSD trip shit. But Jodorowsky was definitely on some next level shit back then. He was originally supposed to do Dune! That project was intended to involve Orson Welles as the Baron, Salvador Dali as the Emperor, Mick Jagger as Feyd Rautha, Pink Floyd, and H.R. Giger to name a few. Jodorowsky claimed it was sabotaged by the major studios in Hollywood which led to David Lynch stepping in.

Crook is telling me he just copped the Jodorowsky DVD set. Pretty cool considering The Holy Mountain along with El Topo was banned in the states for over 30 years after his falling out with Allen Klien. Least now i wont have to bust out the VHS player when my stoner friends ask me to play that sick fuck of a movie i always subjected them to!  -Frank-

Meek-FM is an interpretation of type as sound. Using new software and the M.E.E.K. typographic synthesizer, the musician/designer develops sounds and typographic visuals in parallel….

Been following Rob Meek and Meek projects since MEEK 2.0. Great download-able font creating tools. Tired of the same old and overused? Make your own. Also check Fontstruct. Devised and developed by Rob Meek for Font Shop. Build, share and download fonts. Good tools for getting those ideas down. Or at least wasting time between your stealing, stalking and sharing on the inter-web.  -Frank-

So we all know by now that the legendary George Carlin recently passed away. Man I used to record his skits on cassette off the Dr. Demento show waaay back in the day (’81-’82ish?), on one of them radios that would not only record what’s on the station but also me sneezing. I put a quick (and a lil sloppy, sorry) mix together with these songs, none of which have anything to do with George Carlin…but I figure I’d just do something in his honor.

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DevilCast 10 - Dj Crook

george carlin - son of wino (intro)

quiet village - circus of horror

studio - escape from chinatown

herbie hancock - autodrive

midfield general - disco sirens (club mix)

ghostface killah - charlie brown (dj mehdi remix feat. mapei)

modeselektor - sucker pin

eye beta rock - super rock body shock

mc hammer - pump it up

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