Roc

Written by Joel Blizzard :: Saturday, 23 May 2009 19:12

Big ups to the good people of Rochester for a slamming good time last night.  Especially to Bodega Radio for bringing the vibes and the afterhours excitations.  Dubland Underground shook loose from the foundation and took its dance party on a stellar journey.  Those who witnessed the luscious and beautiful vocal performance of Danielle Ponder of Black August, dropped in One More Hand,  know that the great goddess blessed us all!  til next time...

I Like... remix

Written by Joel Blizzard :: Thursday, 09 April 2009 02:14

If you use ILike, click here to visit the Thousands of One ILike site and pick up a couple free songs!  "When I Met You" from the album SoulForce, and recording from rehearsal one evening.  The track is called "Only a Moment (freeform)" because we have never successfully recreated this jam, more of journey than an actual song.  Enjoy!

If you enjoy the art of remix, go to John Browns Body's Myspace page scroll down and find the widget with remixes of "Zion Triad".  Two of the tracks on that list were mixed by Joel Blizzard.  Dig it!  Please do... enjoy the sounds that come from deeeeep in the ground.  ROOOTS!

Hiphop Dance Competition

Written by Joel Blizzard :: Thursday, 09 April 2009 02:00

Helping to awaken the sleeping potential of our youth and their ability to bring us together, last weekends Hiphop Dance Competition delivered big time!  Over four hundred people filled the BJM school gymnasium and cheered a diverse group of local youth.  Four teams competed for prizes such as $200 cash and $400 cash.  Much love to Greatest Common Factor, who claimed victory, and to True Three, who took second place.  Thousands of One played a big role in making it all happen.  Jhakeem organized and promoted the event with an intense drive to make it a memorable night.  Joel designed the poster which was made into a t-shirt, which will be seen for some time to come on kids backs across the valley.  Brent brought in the heavy heavy sound of the homemade PA system.  What a thump!  Those kids were so good, they made it an epic evening we wont soon forget!

Everybody smash up your seats!!!

Written by Joel Blizzard :: Friday, 03 April 2009 20:27

We have all these improvised musical adventures that we recorded at the MusicTank while tracking the songs for SoulForce.  The song "History" on that album is a few unpolished moments of these jams.  In total, we have perhaps a few hours of varied forays into bliss, then wackness, then bliss.  In the past couple months we have begun to mine this treasure chest for new material and we are super happy with what we have found.  At a few recent shows we debuted the song "Speak To Me", a vibed out psychedelic piece that uses the essence of soul and hiphop to create something we have never felt before musically.  This week, we have undertaken another song called "Once in a While", rockin soul in the K1 spirit of things.  YAH! 

 Last Friday we had the honor of playing 3 Clash tunes as part of the Castaways tribute fundrasier for the Waterfront trail.  We watched Tthe Mofos blow the roof off and Hubcap do the same with a nearly perfect version of London Calling.  We got our heads on straight and took the stage.  Hippie hiphoppas meet punks in paradise.  Songs played:  Know Your Rights, Armagideon Time and Revolution Rock.  It could be said that it was a turning point for Thousands of One, but then again that is hard to measure, being that I am inside the band and it usually takes a few years of distance from the supposed turning point to officially call it one.  Nevertheless, it was SOOO damn fun to tear into that music and let it come through.  The high point for us was playing a rawkus version of Know Your RIghts.  It was like a dam crashing!  Look for alternate versions of this song to pop up in future shows.