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Got an email last night. It made me feel good. It made me feel this excitement I haven’t felt in a while.
N.A.S.A. (North America South America) is an international collective of musicians spanning a wide spectrum of musical genres, centered around Squeak E. Clean (Sam Spiegel) & DJ Zegon (Ze Gonzales). Sam & Ze met in April of 2003 at a friend’s studio & began making music together the following day. At first they sampled rare Brazilian records from the 60′s & 70′s to make tracks. However, what started as two crate diggers making music for the fun of it soon developed into something much bigger. Having forged a strong friendship through their passion for music, Sam & Ze decided to make a record with all of their heroes & favorite musicians. The idea was to bring people from different worlds together through their shared inspiration & love of music. Thus, N.A.S.A. was born. Soon Sam & Ze realized they could expand the concept to encompass an entire record. The idea is to ignore all of the boundaries & borders that are in place to keep people divided, such as musical genre, race, politics, geography, language, etc. As a result, they gathered the craziest and most eclectic collection of musicians ever assembled on one album in the hope that they can show, through music, that all those superficial divisions are an illusion.
N.A.S.A. proves we are all one race of human beings interested in collaboration and unity, ignoring preconceptions, and transcending genre definitions.
Grab a taste of N.A.S.A.’s The Spitit of Apollo after the jump!
N.A.S.A. – SPACIOUS THOUGHTS FT. KOOL KEITH & TOM WAITS
N.A.S.A. – GIFTED FT. KANYE WEST, SANTOGOLD & LYKKE LI
N.A.S.A. (Squeak E. Clean & DJ Zegon) assembled an all-star team for this track from their debut album “The Spirit Of Apollo”. The agit-prop video is directed by Syd Garon & Paul Griswold, & features the work of artist Shepard Fairey, best known for the infamous Obama “HOPE” posters.
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Hola amigos!
do you have the song?
VERY nice. this album is going to be fucking amazing!
PS: Really like the way you highlight the MP3s. NIIIIICE!
the N.A.S.A album is looking like its my best of 2009 already.
this looks awesome. Here’s a tracklist I found at pitchfork:
01 Intro
02 The People Tree [ft. David Byrne, Chali 2na, Gift of Gab & Z-Trip]
03 Money [ft. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge & Z-Trip]
04 NASA Music [ft. Method Man, E-40 & DJ Swamp]
05 Way Down [ft. RZA, Barbie Hatch & John Frusciante]
06 Hip Hop [ft. KRS-One, Fatlip & Slim Kid Tre]
07 Four Rooms, Earth View
08 Strange Enough [ft. Karen O, Ol' Dirty Bastard & Fatlip]
09 Spacious Thoughts [ft. Tom Waits & Kool Keith]
10 Gifted [ft. Kanye West and others TBD] (we now know who!)
11 A Volta [ft. Sizzla, Amanda Blank & Lovefoxxx]
12 There’s a Party [ft. George Clinton & Chali 2na]
13 Whachadoin? [ft. Spank Rock, M.I.A., Santogold & Nick Zinner]
14 O Pato [ft. Kool Kojak & DJ Bãboa]
15 Samba Soul [ft. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien & DJ Qbert]
16 The Mayor [ft. The Cool Kids, Ghostface Killah, DJ AM & Scarface]
17 N.A.S.A. Anthem
These songs are amazing.
Ive just been converted to the new religion-Ive given away all my posessions and Im now living in a cave somewhere in S.Dakota all I have is my i-pod and all im playing is “money!,money,money,money,money,money-money is tha root of all evil” Great song-who is Ras Cong? he sounds superb!! I cant wait for tha album and the animated video is giving me orgasms.Damn!!
sorry guys, really like your blog. But that NASA stuff is really completly overrated.
i can’t believe that you just need some uninspired vocals from this years blog-darlings to make everybody go crazy over a less than mediocre electro/hiphop track. terrible songwriting and not even very good production work…
the only decent track i’ve heard from them so far is the one with kool keith & tom waits (still sounds like something dan the automator did about 10 years ago…)
99% hype, 1% substance
^hater
i think its great .
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