{"id":105,"date":"2012-10-11T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bourbonandcoffee.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2015-12-04T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T20:12:47","slug":"beefy-bowling-for-shiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bourbonandcoffee.com\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Beefy, &#8220;Bowling for Shiva&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/octave.is\/djempirical\/shivablast-produced-by-dj-empirical\" data-octave-track=\"djempirical\/shivablast-produced-by-dj-empirical\">Listen to &#8220;Shivablast (produced by DJ Empirical)&#8221; by Beefy.<\/a><script src=\"https:\/\/octave.is\/api\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tabletopfetus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rusty Shackles<\/a>, the amazing artist who did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dj_empirical\/6142006337\/\">my birthday show poster last year<\/a>, had the idea to put together nerdcore rapper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beefyness.com\/\">Beefy<\/a> with a slew of producers to create a tribute EP to the show <i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theleaguefx\" target=\"_blank\">The League<\/a><\/i>, a comedy about fantasy football. Knowing I had at least a passing interest in the show (I&#8217;m a huge fan of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earwolf.com\/show\/how-did-this-get-made\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Did This Get Made<\/a><\/i>, a podcast co-hosted by some of the same actors involved), he reached out to me to contribute.<\/p>\n<p>I produced two of the tracks, which bookend the EP. First, the lead-in track &#8220;Shivablast&#8221;, which musically homages NFL music* while incorporating elements of Indian music, referencing the ethnicity of &#8220;Shiva&#8221;, the girl their trophy is named after. She comes in again at the end of the EP, with the other track I produced, &#8220;SKSK&#8221; (short for &#8220;Shivakamini Somakandarkram&#8221;, Shiva&#8217;s full name). This one&#8217;s not a proper &#8220;song&#8221;, so much as just a funny way to end the record: the guys on the show sing her name to the tune of &#8220;Hava Nagila&#8221;, so I sampled them, added Indian drums, and some sub bass.<\/p>\n<p>Go check it out &#8212; it&#8217;s free, and fun. The other folks involved are great, and the end product came out nicely.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and here&#8217;s the instrumental of &#8220;Shivablast&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/octave.is\/djempirical\/shivablast-instrumental\" data-octave-track=\"djempirical\/shivablast-instrumental\">Listen to &#8220;Shivablast (instrumental)&#8221; by DJ Empirical.<\/a><script src=\"https:\/\/octave.is\/api\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">*This&nbsp;had to be suggested to me, as I have no knowledge or interest in football.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to &#8220;Shivablast (produced by DJ Empirical)&#8221; by Beefy. Rusty Shackles, the amazing artist who did my birthday show poster last year, had the idea to put together nerdcore rapper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21],"tags":[447,2,446,448,449],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-selfshare","category-sounds","tag-beefy","tag-dj-empirical","tag-how-did-this-get-made","tag-rusty-shackles","tag-the-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bourbonandcoffee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bourbonandcoffee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bourbonandcoffee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bourbonandcoffee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bourbonandcoffee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bourbonandcoffee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"http:\/\/www.bourbonandcoffee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bourbonandcoffee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bourbonandcoffee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bourbonandcoffee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}