After months of well received tracks in HipHopDX’s Audio Section; DX favorite Wordsmith is releasing his new anticipated mixtape as a free download to the DX viewers and Wordsmith fans. The mixtape is blended by DJ Furious Styles and features all of The Nu Revolution Camp (Wordsmith’s collective associates). Get yourself 20 featured tracks and 2 bonus songs with production by Sketchman, DeMo, Strada, Capish, Street Level and more.

As a special bonus to show appreciation to the fans of both Wordsmith and HipHopDX.com, there is also a 10% off code for Vintage Limited (since we sponsor Wordsmith) included in the download.

HipHopDX Presents: Wordsmith - The Revolution Begins With a Takeover Vol.1 downloadable HERE (101mb)

My favorites and highlights of the mixtape include: “05. Grudge of a Madman”, “08. Microphone Bully”, the HOT laid back banger “16. Mrs Musica”, and “19. Hard to Forget”.

Support REAL hip-hop.

-Shaun

4 Weeks ago, One Ten Magazine, the hottest Music Magazine in the North Carolina Market, reached out to Vintage Limited sponsored artist Wordsmith for an exclusive interview. The result, a 3 page feature in their current Winter Issue that is probably one of Word’s most in-depth interviews to date. Vintage Limited got a half page mention and website shout out! The tear pages for the Wordsmith Interview can be downloaded HERE in PDF for anyone who would like to check it out!

Thanks for the press Wordsmith!

-Shaun

Wow, can you really believe its 2008 already!? I don’t know about you but 2007 was a tough year for me. I always take a few moments to reflect on the past year on New Years. I try to think about all the mistakes I’ve made, and successes I’ve achieved. Try to put things into perspective and move ahead.

2007 was the year Vintage Clothing Limited was born. Since that 5th of May we have had allot of grass roots success and the word is spreading like wildfire as the brand grows up a little. As designers Eric and I really try to think outside the medium of what everyone else is doing. I call that a good thing. We’re not too concerned with following trends and we definitely take risks. I think in the end that will pay off.

Going into 2008 we are working on some of our best pieces to date. I’m really excited about what this year has to offer and we’re making great strides to build a brand that remains timeless. Quality is a big issue with us. For me, its my #1 priority. Our stuff has gotten allot of positive feedback and the absolute high level of quality be it the materials (fabrics), the graphics, or the intricate printing techniques. Its good to see the emails come in that proves I’m not alone.

So I’ll end this by saying… in 2008, you have no idea. You are in for some fresh new designs and quality threads! Watch what happens.

-Shaun

Download the new mixtape “Special Education of Theory Hazit” from this Vintage Clothing Limited sponsored artist for free!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8L3JWA78

-Shaun

Indieclothingblog.com has named Vintage Clothing Limited as their “Brand of the Week”. Head over there and leave us a nice comment while your checking it out.

-Shaun

MTV and Pepsi linked up to follow 3 fashion designers as they undergo the struggles to break into the clothing world and make their mark. 8 web episodes take you from pre-show bio’s on the designers, to the mecca of apparel known as the MAGIC tradeshow in Vegas. The booth setups, the samples being made, trying to solicit buyers to look at their lines, even post show wrap-ups all voiced over by designer Danny Shaw’s punchy commentary and rules for exhibiting. This is great! We’re looking at exhibiting at MAGIC in 2009 and these are some good insider looks at the what-to-do’s and what-not-to-do’s. I really enjoyed watching these. Check it out for yourself HERE.

-Shaun

DJ Idull and Braille linked up to give you a MEGA mixtape which is actually a collection of Braille’s 13 years rhyming. The mixtape is a collection of Features, Classics, Rarities and Upcoming Material. The 60 minute mix was cut as two mp3 files for easy downloading and burning to disc for your listening pleasure. There’s some HEAT on here! Stuff I never heard before and I thought I had the definitive Braille collection. Guess I was wrong. haha!

Go cop this FREE download while you can! Available HERE at the interactive website. If you dig the tunes you can donate some change via Paypal to support future projects. Be sure to check out the track list too. Its the rhyme book pages on the site. When you mouse over different parts on the site it takes you to different stuff. You can even download the album art and embed it into the mp3 using an iTunes friendly file size. Nice job guys!

ps. Be patient! Takes a little while to load.

-Shaun

Imagine if you will a grooved record that actually plays on a turntable but is only the size of a standard CD. Below the vinyl record side is the same optical shinny silver media you put in your cd player and listen to. Fact or Fiction?

Well, a Germany based company called Optimal Media Production has made that a reality to cater to some special interest media buyers. The vinyl/CD hybrid is just like a normal CD except that on the top, it has vinyl grooves etched in. Place a VinylDisc on your turntable, drop the needle at the start of the track, and you’ll hear up to 3.5 minutes of music at 33 RPM. Since CDs have a hole at their center that’s too large to fit on a vinyl spindle, you’ll need to use the little rubber adapter that comes with each disc to center the disc on your record player; otherwise, it’ll go off-center and you’ll hear the music speed up and slow down with each revolution. Now that’s a pretty cool way to add some spice to your marketing campaign!

Now artists and labels can offer something new to their customers: a CD that everyone can play, with a secret bonus track in the grooves on top for those who have record players. For hip-hop heads and DJ’s this is a really cool spin to get people talking. Some other weird stuff they make is multi-colored discs, scented discs, a pretty cool transparent disc technology, a freestyle disc that “due to a partial metallization of the disc, specially chosen images float through the room, appearing three-dimensional and extraordinarily vivid”, etc. It’ll be interesting to see how new media affects the way we buy and sell music physically. As the digital medium continues to grow and evolve, the physical manufacturing, distribution, and sale of albums has been playing catch up to peak peoples interest again. Not a bad idea to spice up the discs themselves. Guess we’ll have to see how the market takes to it.

-Shaun

Well, the Holidays are finally upon us. The mall frenzy and the hassle of shopping for your loved ones and friends has begun. Yea, great. You go have a good time fighting with the mall check-out lines and traffic on the highways. I’ll stick to online shopping thank you very much! So with the Holidays looming we decided to activate our Gift Certificate feature in our online store. Now you can feel free to purchase gift certificates to please those hard to buy for fashion aficionados anxiously waiting to get their hands on some Vintage Clothing Limited gear. Its simple. Its fast. And its mall free, returns free, and a hassle free way to go!

-Shaun

I came across a pretty cool gadget today during a random web surf. If your an old school head like me you probably made your share of mix tapes in your day. Collecting my favorite jams from random places and assorting them on a series of single cassette tapes to play in the car on my way to high school was pretty much the norm. Giving them really lame names and drawing random art on the labels (okay, maybe I’m alone on that one but oh well Haha!).

So anyway, I came across this cool actual working tape dispenser masked as an old school cassette tape and I said to myself “I gotta get me one of these!”. Go ahead and laugh all you want. You know your gonna get one too. You can pick one up here for about $19.99 + shipping.

–Shaun