Welcome to Bluntbeats.com

"Classic and unique beats, down and dirty round the edges, for people who should know better."

Podcast – Mr Phipson

Mr Phipson's logoIt’s been a while since we covered a podcast with a Latin angle or a Brazilian flavour. In fact my apologies go out to you as it’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve covered any podcasts!

To make up for it I’ve found an absolute gem to proudly present to you this week. It’s all about Mr. Phipson’s Incredible Podcast this week!

The description goes like this: Sportive Baile Funked up jazzy audio joints. Berlin based Mr Phipson presents you an urban mixture of tunes from the past and future. Bossa Nova, Jazzed Up Beats, Electronica, Tropicalectro, Brazilian Beats, Tropicalia, Rare Grooves, Afro-Latinized Funk, Drums’n Breaks, Drum’n Bossa, Deep Beats, Baile Funk, Hippy Hoppy and other funky oddities.

From the good old times back in the days to the era of dual processor powered favela funk. The sound of shantytowns worldwide from underground to Roots Jazz and all the good things inbetween. Stay open minded, discover krazee urban soundtracks and tune in to Mr Phipson’s incredible Podcast!

After listening through a few episodes at Blunt Beats HQ, I was tasked with catching up with Mr. P for an interview. The following is the transcript of a Skype convo we had last week: Continue reading…

Obey Giant

obey1.gifJust a quick video post today to give Agent M a break from trawling through video sharing sites compiling media freebies for you. I’ve dug out a three part series on Shepard Fairey – the incredibly influential graphic-designer, street-artist and sticker/stencil activist out of California.

Shepard is best known for the “Andre The Giant Has a posse” craze of the early 90’s (described in part 1), that has now matured graphically and evolved into the brand Obey Giant and clothing label Obey Clothing. Continue reading…

Radio Flyers (finally) uploaded to view

elecperiodic.jpg

Well, it had to happen sometime. Lots of you have been hassling us to put up copies of our radio flyers for public viewing for absolutely ages. For those of you that aren’t sure what we’re talking about here, its quite simple. Every week we post a flyer/ad for our Wednesday night live radio show, and we started to make these as tongue-in-cheek (i.e. stupid) as possible.

Nobody and nothing is safe. From fat people, to midgets, to smoking children, national monuments, and fried chicken…we’ve used them all as backdrops for our promotions.

As we said, this is all tongue-in-cheek, and just done for a bit of a giggle (if you’re offended by any of them, please feel free to bugger off to a lentil-eating hippy commune somewhere, and leave the rest of us alone to swear and burp and make fun of stuff!!)

Anyway, thanks to some head scratching and button pushing, you can now take a look at our flyer gallery. Funnily enough, its on the gallery page….

Daim 3D graffiti and other artwork

daim02.jpg

Whilst looking for inspiration on a project I’m working on right now I came across the work of Daim, a supremely talented graff artist based in Germany. There are a few artists out there who dabble in the third dimension in their work, but this guy has the technique completely nailed! Continue reading…