Mini MPC 2000XL Sampler and SP1200 Drum Machine USB Flash Drives

www.hiphopflashdrive.com

WORDS FROM THE HERO

It's crazy the ideas that we come up with sometimes. I remember vividly the 1st time I came across A CD in which you could customize yourself..... Hahaha you think about that now and Burned Cd's aren't anything special, but imagine A time before that technology was Available to the wide public. I grew up making mixtapes by the dozens each week, and everyone knows that the ultimate way to a teenage girl is thru the making of a custom mixtape. Lucky for me, my friend Celph Titled was one of the 1st people to get ahold of the Burned CD tech, so when my girlfriends birthday arrived and I gave her a CD with custom songs, even my voice on it, she melted..... As Time change and the Tech gets better and better we find new ways to use them to our advantage.

On the Flip side of this tech story. I once had a show, and before hand I spent my hard earned money on Cheap Walkmans and headphones.... This was around the time my Debut album "JUNKPLANET" was coming out. So bought A Grip of Walkmans and cassettes and made A Mix of my song "Just me and my Walkman" produced by Deeskee and put it on repeat over and over..... During my set, once I broke out and performed "Just me and my Walkman" on stage, I threw walkmans into the crowd instead of T-shits.... Needless to say, I dont think anyone used Cassette Walkmans anymore at that point, but the love and thought I put behind it won over some very thankful and loyal fans.......

I bring those stories up because since then, and with the change of the music industry going from cassette to CD to now I-tunes or just plain old downloading bootleg copies, and blogs and podcasts... I've been thinking in Investing in cheap 2 to 4 gb USB flash drives customizing them and putting my new album on it and selling em instead of pressing up Cd's

These Mpc2000XL and SP1200 Flash Drives reminded me of those ideas, tho Im sure there will be alot of people wishing they sold the Flash Drives in Ensoniq ASR10 (whatup SlopFunkdust!) or even MPC3000 formats hahahaha.....

anyways, I would love for the person who brainstormed and followed thru with this to shoot me an email at (dutchmassive[at]gmail.com) if they ever read this hahahaha...

Heres some actual info on the products themselves.....

The 4GB flash drives feature Toshiba memory with casing constructed from PVC rubber fashioned in near exact detail of the original Akai MPC 2000XL and EMU SP1200 samplers.

At the moment both drives are pre-order only with a scheduled ship date of June 12, 2009.

See the website for complete details.

Q-TIP - THE RENAISSANCE - Album Preview

(PREVIW / LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE ALBUM HERE)

"The Renaissance" is the latest album from A Tribe Called Quest's Super Emcee Front man, Q-Tip. This would be his 2nd offical studio album, following the [unreleased] and hella slept on Kamaal the Abstract (2002). The Release date for "The Renaissance" is November 4, 2008, the same day as the ELECTION! So I Beg and I can only hope that Most of America will be "Gettin ' UP" Early, VOTING! & SUPPORTING Q-TIP WITH A SOLID PURCHASE OF A SOLID ALBUM!!!!!

The Album features: J Dilla, Norah Jones, D'Angelo, Raphael Saadiq & Amanda Diva.

Words From The HERO

Q-Tip & Artists Like Digable Planets, Pharcyde, Etc.. were all catalyst for TheHobbyshopHero, Dutchmassive becoming a Musician himself. Hearing such great content coming from voices that lacked bass or any deepness gave me alot of inspiration and actually gave me alot of extra confindence in myself. As the years go by I watch as reviewers constantly compare my music 2 Q-tip, Common or Eminem hahaha, which is fine with me but I cant wait for the day I pass the torch and read a review where someone reminds a Reviewer of Dutchmassive hahaha

Ive Always been one to give respect and props t0 the artists that I grew up listening to, "GHIBLI" which is featured in the player above, you hear me give tribute to Q-tip and Large Proffessor (extraP) and give thanks for all the people who have Sampled my music, like Ive done to those before me. On my album "MUSIC 2 SLEEP TO" which will be RELEASED ON DOMINATION RECORDINGS soon (after 5 years of keeping you all waiting ahahh) There is a Track titled "Quest for Fans" where I talk about Actively Searching for Fans of A Tribe Called Quest and Converting them to Dutchmassive FAN'S being that 98% of The People Who Enjoy A Tribe Called Quest or Q-Tip Usually Enjoy Dutchmassive.

THE HOBBYSHOP HERO