KIDZ IN SPACE - Ghost Album Release Tour [TV Spot]:

Kidz In Space TV spot from KirkMTC on Vimeo.

KIDZ IN SPACE at iTunes:

The album is off to a great start at iTunes.

It's currently #1 on the Electronic chart and #4 on the overall albums chart.

Thank you for your support.

KIDZ IN SPACE Album Out Now:

Grab yourself a copy of Ghost at or your favorite retailer.




Kidz In Space - "Gladiator": by KirkMTC



KIDZ IN SPACE - "Best Foot Forward": by KirkMTC

KAYO - "BTSTU" Remix [Audio]:

Kayo takes on BTSTU...

Get your Free download here

KIDZ IN SPACE - Music 101 [Interview]:

Sam Wicks sits with the Kidz to discuss their career thus far...

Kidz In Space - Music 101 interview by KirkMTC

KIDULT - Illegalize Graffiti:

Here's an insight into the mind of the guy who recently hit the Supreme store in Soho:

KIDULT ITW (uncensored) "ILLEGALIZE GRAFFITI" from eric on Vimeo.

KIDZ IN SPACE - "Gladiator" [Audio]:

Here goes another joint from Kidz In Space's debut album, Ghost. We leaked this one last year, but it has since been mixed and mastered.

Ghost is available to all next week folks.

Kidz In Space - "Gladiator": by KirkMTC

ERMEHN - "Trained To Kill" [Album Trailer]:

Just uploaded this for the bro... album dropping soon...

ERMEHN - "Trained To Kill" from KirkMTC on Vimeo.

TYREE - "I Do It For My City" Available Now:

Tyree's new joint is now available to purchase at

KIDZ IN SPACE - "On The Road (Bulletproof Remix) Available Now:

The Bulletproof remix of "On The Road" is now up at

Video coming soon...

Embassy - "Auckland" feat. DERTY SESH [Video]:

Dope video, dope track.

Nice work fella's.

Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify:

Interesting...

Source: Forbes

Facebook has partnered with Spotify on a music-streaming service that could be launched in as little as two weeks, sources close to the deal have told Forbes.

The integrated service is currently going through testing, but when launched, Facebook users will see a Spotify icon appear on the left side of their newsfeed, along with the usual icons for photos and events.

Clicking on the Spotify icon will install the service on their desktop in the background, and also allow users play from Spotify’s library of millions of songs through Facebook. The service will include a function that lets Facebook users listen to music simultaneously with their friends over the social network, one of the sources said.

The partnership is another indication of how Facebook is moving towards becoming a hub for media like movies and music. Last March for instance, Warner Bros. announced it would make movies available to stream and rent through Facebook using Facebook credits.

It has yet to be decided if the new service will be called “Facebook Music” or “Spotify on Facebook,” but it will only be available for Facebook users in countries where Spotify has a presence, excluding the all-important United States.

While news reports have suggested some success to Spotify’s recent negotiations with music labels about bring its streaming service to the U.S., those talks are still ongoing. Once completed, however, Facebook’s Spotify will be launched Stateside too.

A Spotify spokesperson claimed to have no knowledge of the new music deal with Facebook: “We have a Facebook integration. We’re continuously working with them to make that as good as it can be. But that’s the extent of our relationship.” Spotify’s co-founder Daniel Ek did not wish to comment.

Spotify already has Facebook Connect integrated into its own desktop interface, allowing users to see what their friends on Facebook are listening to, and opt to have music choices show up on their news feeds. The new service on the Facebook platform will have similar social features.

No money is changing hands with this partnership, but the benefits to both are obvious: Facebook gets the music service it has wanted for years, having reached out to the likes of Last.FM and others way back in 2008. And while Spotify won’t get a cut of Facebook’s ad revenue, it will reach millions more users, offering them the option of its premium service which costs £10 per month in the U.K. and 10 euros in parts of continental Europe like France, Spain and the Netherlands. Spotify has a free service, but it only allows 10 hours worth of listening time per month.

The partnership with Spotify signifies how Facebook is flexing its muscles in the media space, offering services that keep people within the social network, rather than scouring other parts of the web for content. With movies and now music being integrated into the social network, TV shows are bound to find their way in too, as people become more inclined to consume their content in a social way. (Why listen to a great new song by yourself when you can hear it with your friends too?)

Facebook initiated this social aspect of entertainment with social gaming, to the benefit of some games developers. Zynga, which makes the wildly popular social gaming app FarmVille, is now a $10 billion company on the road to an IPO, in large part because of its successful integration with Facebook. Spotify will be looking capitalize on Facebook in a similar way.

The company’s challenge till now has been raising money through advertising and premium subscriptions, to offset the costs of royalty streaming payments to the big four music labels: Sony BMG, Universal Music, Warner Music and EMI. Hopping onto the platform of Facebook should significantly boost its chance of picking up more paid-for subscribers. As the service gets licensed in more countries like the U.S., Facebook will help it compete with other existing music services like Shazam and Last.FM with a unique social element.

Facebook and Spotify share a number of investors: billionaire Li Ka Shing has a stake in Facebook and Spotify. Yuri Milner’s DST Global, which owns roughly 10% of Facebook, is also in negotiations to buy a stake in Spotify. Facebook’s founding president and Napster founder Sean Parker, also sits on the board of Spotify.

Facebook’s ability to stream music will also fulfil a long-held dream of Mark Zuckerberg, who was working on a music streaming service around the same time he was first developing Facebook in the dorm rooms of Harvard. Zuckerberg, who has publicly professed his admiration for Spotify, launched a peer-to-peer file-sharing service called Wire Hog in 2004, which was designed to sit on top of Facebook like a software application. Sean Parker allegedly killed the service, which was thought to be ahead of its time.

Tarantino: The Disciple of Hong Kong:

Really looking forward to this:

French duo Jac & Johan present a new trailer for their upcoming made-for-tv film, Tarantino: The Disciple of Hong Kong, focused around the relationship between famed Director Quentin Tarantino and his love for regional Asian cinema. Featured in the film will be a slew of impressive interviews, the most intriguing being City On Fire Director Ringo Lam, who gives his first interview in a decade. The trailer is featured above with further details on the film to come in the following weeks.

Source: Hypebeast

Tarantino, Le disciple de Hong Kong from jac & johan on Vimeo.

KIDZ IN SPACE - "Best Foot Forward" [Audio]:

Kidz In Space's debut album Ghost is finally released next Monday.

Here's a lil' something to entice you into buying the full album next week...

KIDZ IN SPACE - "Best Foot Forward": by KirkMTC

This weeks IMNZ Charts:

The Kidz' single maintains on both charts, but we should see an increase in airplay in the next week or two with ZM adding the track to their daytime playlist this week...

TYREE - "I Do It For My City" [Video]:

The first look from Ty's forthcoming album Motivation.

"I Do It For My City" will be available to purchase next week on May 23rd.

Video directed by Roko Babich.

Track produced by Khaled.

First single proper, "Saviour"; coming soon...

VILLAINS - "Noize Control" [Video];

KIDZ IN SPACE On The Road:

Jon Stewart Slams Bill O'Reilly:

Jay Adams x Tribal Gear:

The legend speaks on his career...

Jay Adams X Tribal Gear Collaboration from Tribal Gear on Vimeo.

Tha Movement – "Don’t Want It With Us" feat. KOMA [Video]:

Heat!

KIDZ IN SPACE iTunes Pre-Order:

Ghost is now available to pre-order at iTunes

KIDZ IN SPACE Tour Dates:

June 2 - Finn MacCahulas, Taupo

June 9 - Juice Bar, Auckland

June 10 - The Crowded House, New Plymouth

june 11 - Imbibe, Tauranga

June16 - San Francisco Bath House, Wellington

June 17 - Convention Center, Palmerston North (all ages)

June 18 - Butterbank, Whangarei

June 24 - Revolver Bar, Queenstown

June 25 - Minta Bar, Wanaka

June 30 - Re-fuel, Christchurch

July 7 - Barluca, Invercargill

More details coming soon...

DAVID DALLAS - The Rose Tint Album Is Available Now:

D Dots's new album The Rose Tint is now available for you listening pleasure

Head over to his website to cop the free download.

Dave & P Money have been flying the flag at full mast for NZ Hip Hop and we should all be proud of their accomplishments to date.

















































Well done boys.

Pre-Order KIDZ IN SPACE's Album Now:

Pre-order Ghost now and receive an autographed copy!, only at Mighty Ape

SKYPE Sells For 8.5 Billion:

Last week it was reported that Facebook and Google were in competing talks to buy Skype, the pioneering video chatting and VOIP calling service, for $3 to $4 billion. Today we learn that both the buyer and the price were way off. Turns out Microsoft has agreed to purchase the company for a staggering $8.5 billion. <--- Whoa! That kind of puts the recent Warner sale in check.

The company which was launched in 2003 by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the two guys behind Kazaa, will become a new business division within Microsoft with Skype CEO Tony Bates assuming the president of the Microsoft Skype Division role, according to The Wall Street Journal.

This acquisition marks the most expensive deal in Microsoft's history. It is believed that Skype will be worked into a number of Microsoft's Internet services including Bing, Xbox Live, and Windows Phone 7, to compete with Apple's FaceTime and Google's Voice products.

SOURCE - Wall Street Journal

KATSU & His Fire Extinguisher:

Another mystery revealed to me... i always wondered how they did these big tags...



Props to HELLYUP

East Muzik Group - "Fly Shit" feat. SIR T & Spycc [Audio]:

KIDZ IN SPACE Debut On The IMNZ Charts:

Been a while since we had an act on here, i guess you could say that we are back...

WARNER Sells to Russian Billionaire:

Access Industries, a holding company founded by oil baron Len Blavatnik, won the auction to buy (MTC distributor) Warner Music Group Corp. for $3.3 billion in cash, the companies announced Friday morning.

Blavatnik edged out more than a dozen other suitors including Sony Music Group, supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, Platinum Equity, Live Nation Entertainment and investment firm Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts, whose unsolicited offer late last year kicked off the auction process. KKR's partner in the bidding was German music company Bertelsmann.

The deal calls for Warner to receive $8.25 per share, a 34% premium over the company's average stock price over the last six weeks, the company said. It's also 75% higher than Warner's closing price on Jan. 20, the day before the New York Times published news of the bidding. Warner's share closed at $7.90 on Thursday.

Blavatnik, whose all-cash bid was the highest, had other advantages, said a source familiar with the sale. The Russian-born industrialist, who had been a Warner board member between 2004 and 2008, was also knowledgable about the company's operations and finances.

More importantly, Blavatnik's offer had an edge over Sony and Bertelsmann in that it would not run into antitrust hurdles by combining with another music company in a market that is already concentrated in the hands of four companies -- Universal Music Group, Sony, EMI and Warner.

The sale comes at a challenging time for the record industry, whose revenue has been ravaged in the last decade by piracy and a profileration of legal but free alternatives, including online radio services such as Pandora and Slacker.

Another music company, London-based EMI, is expected to be put up for sale later this year, presenting Blavatnik with an opportunity to acquire the company and combine it with Warner to produce the world's largest music company.

-- Alex Pham, Los Angeles Times

KIDZ IN SPACE Album Cover:

KiDZ IN SPACE x Rip It Up:

KIDZ IN SPACE x Balcony TV:

P-MONEY - Video Beats #2: Crenshaw Drive:

This is a dope idea.

P you should do this in every city you go to. You could've had a mean Austin one ripping around on penny cab!

MOBB DEEP - Shook Ones Pt II x Herbie Hancock:

I just picked up Prodigy's new book My Infamous Life and am currently reading about this track.

The transition between Herbie and Havoc's drums coming in is incredible.

GILBERE FORTE - "Born in '87" [Video]:

'Bere unleashes a new video for 'Born In '87" from his EYES of VERITAS mixtape.

i dig it:

THE BULLITTS - "Landspeeder" [Video]:

Another banger from The Bullitts:

New TYREE Track Coming Soon:

Tyree's gearing up to let this track and video go to warm things up for his single "Saviour" and album Motivation.

KID MAC - Who Is Kid Mac? Episode 7: Mickey Down Under:

HOME BREW - "Underneath The Shade" [Video]:

Dope video.

Shout out the the hombre Chris Graham.