Dubstep

When i first heard dubstep i thought it was the filthiest druggy music ever, now i like some of it, im not a massive fiend but this is pretty cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35cKvLz0ipw&feature=related

Also, i generally hate australian and kiwi hip-hop because they usually have nothing to talk about other than how much beer they drink, how their upbringing was hard because they had to actually work like everyone else and they put on the filthiest accent ever just to clarify where they come from.

BUT! i heard this song by Kolab in a video and thought it was a legit black american hip hop group but they are from Auckland, it's got a pretty good backing track too.
I mean, look at how white they are...pretty good effort considering.

unfortunatly i cant find a link to the track, but i know its on itunes store so if you want to check it out its called "Party to Rock" which sounds like a Miley Cyress song...but its not...

one other thing, a friend showed me this the other day, sooo funny, it makes me laugh everytime i watch it, you: may have already seen it but if you havent then you are in for some LOLS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiCOmqvWUaw

Change is good...

Im getting sick of posting these daily reports from my trip, its far too structured so this blog is going to become far more impulsive and spontaneous, no doubt it will still highly cover my travels however i will post an update when i have had a sick day and want to share it with everyone rather than post the boring stuff just for the sake of it.

continuing along that theme there will be a lot more random, shorter posts most likely containing links to youtube videos or album art of music i really like and want to share because quite often i find something and go wow everyone should love this. if you happen to find a new favourite band, track or album then i will be content. i realise that some things may cause certain people to cringe....let them haters hate.

here is an example:

This track was in the poor boyz productions ski movie Revolver and was set to a section of one of my favourite pro skiers- Dane Tudor, skiing one of the places i have to ski before i die- Niseko, Japan. That only made this song even more interesting for me, one of the main reasons is the intelligence and beauty behind it that can easily be overlooked and/or under-appreciated to the un-trained mind and ears. the following lyrics from it may help you to uncover that.
"a society, quote, free to borrow and build upon the past, is culturally richer than a controlled one."

if you think about that and keep it in mind while listening to the track you start to hear that the guitar riff is from another song, so is the bass line so is almost every component other than the drums , and the best part, there are vocals extracted from another source which are used almost as an instrument without altering them in any way other than cutting and pasting sections of them. The oppening lyrics also sum that up.

it sums up one of the main reasons i like hip-hop, the fact that you are free and uncontrolled in how you produce things and you take the good things from something and make them stronger by combining them with other good things. if you get my point :P

anyway i think i have explained myself there, so now the name of this amazing track, it is called once upon a past and is by an amazing artist called wax tailor, he has also made another track using similair techniques which is called Que Sera and i really like that too.

here is the track:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_21-ip0FjNE

and here is the ski section i first heard it in, its also amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r_bWqD3s5M

I hope you enjoy it and can see where im coming from :D

Thredbo Day 3

Thredbo Day 3:
(Tuesday the 20th)

Woke up at about 7 o'clock and the weather outside was really nice, only about 3cms of fresh snow but at least it was clear and not windy, went and had breakfast at the restaraunt and then got ready to head out.

View from our hotel room

the mountain looking a lot softer and fresher than it actually was.

Daws and I went to the top of kozi chair and skied all the way down to friday flat on the other side of the mountain and caught the gunbarrel chairlift up, Antons T-bar near the peak was open for the first time this season so we thought we better go check it out, i was hoping there would be fresh snow and some interesting terrain but it was ridiculously icy and very boring so we skied down and then met Bennet back at the supertrail area under kozi lift. we did some super fast racing lines down world cup a couple of times which was fun

Daws chillin...get it...because he's sitting in the snow...haha

Then we went over to friday flat and met the others, had some food and then caught the gunbarrel chairlift back up to the cruiser area, this was the first time Nada Courtney and Alex Vickery had snowboarded anywhere other than the beginner area and they were doing really well.

Ollie Daws and Bennet on the cruiser chairlift

This is a run called boundary riders under the cruiser chairlift, looks like it would be ridiculously fun but as you can see there is almost no snow and skiing it would of just been stupid.

I kept doing park laps while the others kept skiing and boarding down the cruiser area, I managed to land railslides to normal and fakie, butter on a box, a few more 180s and nearly a 360 but kept landing on my ass cheek. then the others headed in and i stopped off at the "intermediate" park to check out the big air comp that was on, it was pretty cool and the competitors were doing some sick stuff on the first two jumps, i skied down the rest of the park which was set up to an extremely high level, double kink rails, a rail jam into a bonk bin, huge hitching post and a massive C-rail, they were all set pretty high above the ground with big gaps which made it pretty scary, I think the guys who built it made it suit them rather than everyone else seeing as there wasnt enough snow to open an advanced park up top...i thought that was pretty poor form as you went from flat dancfloor boxes on the ground and 5 foot jumps in the beginner park to 40 foot jumps and crazy rails in the intermediate park...nothing inbetween.

the big air comp showing the two 40 foot jumps.

fantastic photography of someone hitting the second jump

That night everyone got dinner then got beer, got drunk and headed to the Heller Keller night club, was good times.

intoxicated youth

Thug life.

being all rockstar and trashing the hotel room