Auto Reverse Future Ape Tapes

If you remember auto reverse then you had a cassette collection of hip-hop that you lost once you went digital. Fast forward and now we have another F.A.T. update from our favorite internet neighbor, Future Ape Tapes to add to our digital collection. While us mortal humans toil away at our daily lives, Future Ape Tapes have begun to build “Temples”. Their “Temples” consists of musical sound waves that will crash against your ear lobes. If you have not gotten it yet “Temples” is the brand new album from F.A.T. The first song on the album titled, “Mirror Images” just made me keep hitting repeat. On their Bandcamp site you can “Name Your Price” for their new album which includes a video of their first single, “GameGirl”. Also you can check out their other releases which I own and also highly recommend.

Temples, as an album is about stumbling onto something that is thriving now but could be lost forever in the future.
~The ArcHItecT

Steam Holiday Sale Total Purchases

Here is everything that I acquired from the Steam Holiday Sale that ended on January 3, 2010. This should satisfy my gaming needs until 2011 (we will see if I don’t buy more games before then).

Stuff That Was Bought:

Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter $9.99 (Daily Deal)

Red Faction: Guerrilla $9.99 (Daily Deal)

Torchlight $4.99 (Daily Deal)

Dead Space $10.19 (Daily Deal)

Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box $7.49 (Daily Deal)

Crysis Maximum Edition $13.59 (Daily Deal) (Shot of the day in 2007 maybe now my computer can run it)

Street Fighter IV $9.99 (Daily Deal)

Mass Effect $4.99 (Daily Deal)

Clive Barker’s Jericho $4.99

Dark Sector $4.99

Nation Red $4.99

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky $4.99

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 $4.99

Ghostbusters $6.79

The Chronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena $6.79

ESP Music Agenda: Albums Of 2009

It is here a new year and time to take the music out of the crates…uh I mean hard drive and see what I played in 2009. I didn’t want to make the typical top 5, 100 or whatever number you want to throw in there. This is the music in 2009 that I consumed and enjoyed without having to put one album over another. Maybe there is something on this list that you missed and can pick up for 2010.

  • 5 O’Clock Shadowboxers – The Slow Twilight
  • 8Bit Cynics – Toothpick EP
  • 14KT – Nowalataz LP
  • Alpha MC – Loving Life
  • B-Real – Smoke N Mirrors
  • billy woods – Camouflage [Re-Release]
  • BISC1 – Strange Love : WENF Remixtape
  • BK Cyph – Rhymes Are Easy, Life is Hard
  • Blu – HerFavoriteColo(u)r.
  • Braille & Symbolyc One – Cloud Nineteen
  • Breez Evahflowin’ – Breez Deez Treez
  • Breez Evahflowin’ – Breez Treez Free
  • C-Rayz Walz – Who The F%@k Are You?
  • Cage – I Never Knew You
  • Charlie Ross – The Charlie Ross Project
  • Charlie Smarts – f’alex
  • Columbo Black – DJ Flipcyide Presents Blood On My Blade Mixtape
  • CunninLynguists – Strange Journey Volume Two [Deluxe Edition]
  • Cunninlynguists – Strange Journey Volume One
  • D-Sisive – Jonestown
  • Damu The Fudgemunk – Same Beat (EP)
  • Danger Zone – We Heart Cali
  • Del The Funky Homosapien & Tame One – Parallel Uni-Verses
  • Del The Funky Homosapien – Funk Man ( the stimulus package)
  • devonwho – WaVES
  • Diamond District – In the Ruff
  • Dillon & Paten Locke – Studies In Hunger
  • Diz Gibran – Crooks & Castles Presents: Soon You’ll Understand
  • Donny Goines – The Breakfast Club
  • Doom – Born Like This
  • Dumhi – Flowers EP
  • Dutchmassive – Big Man On Campus
  • El Prez & Dale Danja – Perfect Strangers
  • eLZhi – The Leftovers Unmixedtape
  • Eternia – GET CAUGHT UP
  • Freebass 808 – MoonBass EP
  • Grey Matter – The Problem EP
  • Has-Lo – You Can Live Thru Anything If Magic Made It
  • Hawthorne Headhunters – Hawthorne Headhunters Mixtape (mixed by DJ Needles)
  • Heltah Skeltah & DJ Revolution – The Midnight Madness Remix EP
  • Intuition & VerBS – Buzz
  • Inverse – So True EP
  • Jabee & aDDLib – Black Cotton
  • Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
  • Jay Dee aka J Dilla – Jay Stay Paid
  • Jordan Santana – American Idols Mixtape
  • K’NAAN – Troubadour
  • K-Murdock – iMANGANation Vol. 1
  • Killah Priest – Elizabeth (Introduction To The Psychic)
  • Killah Priest – Exorcist
  • Killah Priest – I Killed The Devil Last Night
  • Killah Priest – Untold Story Of Walter Reed
  • King & The Cauze – ThisIs50 / DJ Whoo Kid Presents: The Shadyville DJ’s: Dre Boogs: King & The Cauze Mixtape
  • Kooley High – Kooley Is High
  • Kos – YES!
  • Koushik – Out My Window Instrumentals+Bonus Beats
  • Last Emperor, DJ Mickey Knox & DJ Concept – Science Team…Go!
  • Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
  • Loer Velocity – Uninfatuated EP
  • Luckyiam – The Present
  • Madlib – Beat Konducta, Volume 5 & 6: A Tribute to…
  • MarQ Spekt x Lex Boogie From the Bronx – Guilty Party
  • Marq Spekt – Bloodlust vol 2
  • Memory Man, Wu-Tang Clan, D.I.T.C. – Wu-Tang Clan Vs. D.I.T.C.
  • Method Man & Redman – Blackout! 2
  • Mos Def – The Ecstatic
  • Mr. Lif – I Heard It Today
  • Muneshine – Status Symbol
  • N.A.S.A. – The Spirit Of Apollo
  • Novel – Suspended Animation
  • Oddisee – Mental Liberation
  • Oddisee – Odd Autumn
  • Oddisee – Odd Summer EP
  • Oh No – Dr. No’s Ethiopium
  • Ohini Jonez – Ikarus Fell
  • Opio – Everyody Loves The Sun EP
  • PH – My Era (No Skinny Jeans Allowed)
  • Paten Locke – Super Ramen Rocketship
  • Phil Nash – Phil Of The Future Pt. 2 Mixed By Dub Floyd & Presented By Mick Boogie & illRoots.com
  • Phil The Agony – Think Green
  • Punchlyne & Fokis – The Appetizer
  • Q-Tip – J.Period Presents… The [Abstract] Best
  • QuESt – Broken Headphones (Remastered)
  • QuESt – Distant Travels Into Soul Theory
  • Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II
  • Rakim – The Seventh Seal
  • Ras Kass – QUARTERLY
  • Regina Spektor – Far
  • Rhymefest – Rhymefest & Scram Jones present THE MANUAL
  • Sarah Chang – Sarah Chang: Selections
  • seOUL avengeR Presents … – Fill in the Blank a tribute to M_dL_B Disc 1
  • Skipp Whitman – Mixtape
  • Slum Village – Village Manifesto – EP
  • Souls Of Mischief – Montezuma’s Revenge
  • Starrs & Murph – Boxes For Sale Final
  • Super Chron Flight Brothers – Deleted Scenes
  • Super Chron Flight Brothers – Indonesia
  • Tab-One – The Tabloids
  • Tame One – Acid Tab Vocab
  • The ARE – IRAN
  • The Kid Daytona – The Daytona 500 {Presented by Mick Boogie}
  • The Niyat – Raxus Prime Mixtape
  • The Physics – High Society (Extended Play)
  • The Red Giants (Jermiside & Brickbeats) – Chain Reaction EP
  • The Undergods (Canibus & Keith Murray) – Canibus and Keith Murray are The Undergods
  • TiRon  – Ketchup (mixed by DJ Low Key)
  • Tone Spliff – AUTHENTIC
  • Tor & Sufjan Stevens – Illinoize
  • Tor & Sufjan Stevens – Illinoize (Instrumentals)
  • Truck North – Truck Jewels
  • U-N-I & Ro Blvd. – A Love Supreme
  • United States of Mind – KiLL the BuLLSH!T
  • Utada – This Is The One
  • V.P. Rao – Obrigado Advogados
  • Various Artists – JDub Presents: Wild Peace
  • Various Artists – Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 Mixtape
  • Various Artists – Notorious Soundtrack
  • Various Artists – PotholesInMyBlog Presents: Transmitting Live Volume One Mixed by DJ Traumatix
  • Various Artists – Saavn Celebrates Bollywood
  • Various Artists – The Advantage Music Group & Domination Recordings Present: Chapter 2 : Street Soul
  • Various Artists – The New Classics.
  • Various Artists – The New Classics. BONUS TRACKS.
  • Various Artists – The RZA Presents Afro Samurai Resurrection The Soundtrack
  • Various Artists – Verve Vault Presents: Rhythm, Strings and Cool Breezy Jazz Sampler
  • Wale – Back To The Feature – Mixed By Nick Catchdubs
  • Willie Green & Nasa aka Adam Warlock – Law & Order
  • Willie Green – …Of Heroes and Villains
  • Wu-Tang Clan – Chamber Music
  • X Clan – Mainstream Outlawz
  • yU and the1978ers – Before Taxes
  • Zerostar – Are We There Yet?