THE MONDAY MORNING MOTIVATE | 5.20.13

“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.”

- Kevyn Aucoin

THE FRIDAY JUMPOFF| 5.17.13

One more time we’re gonna celebrate, oh yeah, all right, don’t stop the dancing…oh wait, that’s next week - shit!

We’ve been in a dancing mood ever since we got off the plane from California, and it’s no time to stop now. With a little motivation from our friend James Murphy & a little mixtape from our two favorite robots it’s only fitting we keep the party moving with a proper jumpoff.

Speak of the devil…she’s telling you to dance, so get out your seat and do it already!

Stay Blessed…

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person - without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.

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THE SOUL DYNAMIC INSTAGRAM WEEKLY | 5.15.13 “Slivercup Studios” @katiehenry1 There is something about the sun coming up or the sun going down that just let’s you know that everything’s right with life. The Soul Dynamic Instagram Weekly, is weekly series showcasing one dope Instagram pic, which we post here every Wednesday. All can compete, only one can win. Throw up the hashtag “#thesouldynamic” on Instagram to participate.
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“Slivercup Studios”

@katiehenry1

There is something about the sun coming up or the sun going down that just let’s you know that everything’s right with life.

UntitledThe Soul Dynamic Instagram Weekly, is weekly series showcasing one dope Instagram pic, which we post here every Wednesday. All can compete, only one can win. Throw up the hashtag “#thesouldynamic” on Instagram to participate.

THE TUESDAY MIXTAPE | 5.14.13 Daft Punk is back. After an eight year hiatus, yesterday they began streaming their album for free via itunes. If you haven’t listened to it yet or copped a version of your very own—what the hell are you waiting for?! Get after it people! And just to supplement your fix, we’re reissuing our dopest mixtape to date: Daft Punk Is Playing At My House | A Soul Dynamic Playlist Click here or above to listen to our Mixtape via Spotify.
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THE TUESDAY MIXTAPE | 5.14.13

Daft Punk is back. After an eight year hiatus, yesterday they began streaming their album for free via itunes. If you haven’t listened to it yet or copped a version of your very own—what the hell are you waiting for?! Get after it people! And just to supplement your fix, we’re reissuing our dopest mixtape to date:

Daft Punk Is Playing At My House | A Soul Dynamic Playlist

Click here or above to listen to our Mixtape via Spotify.

DYNAMIC SHOW REVIEW | NYC | Jame Blake | 5.13.13  James Blake will put your ass to sleep. At least that’s what I used to think. I’m more of a rock n roll type of dude, I like to wild out when I see shows. As one of our writers likes to call him, he’s post dubsteps Aaron Nevile. Whatever you want to call him, James Blake came through Terminal 5 last week with a musical vengeance and nobody was sleeping. Nobody. His brillance is in his beats. Forget about the Bon Iver sounding voice, it’s about big build ups and huge deliveries. He wasted no time getting to this with, “I Never Learnt to Share” as the slow track starts with a solid minute of Mr. Blake of singing “My brother and my sister don’t speak to me,” and then steadily gets into a back and forth of base crescendos before he dropped synth bombs on the crowd. Chill at first, then, explosion. Like great foreplay. All this even before he busted out “CMYK,” which was the moment I knew there was gonna be some dancing at this party as well. He’s certainly beginning to master the art of showmanship. The sound. Take Kid A, add the EDM portions of the Watch the Throne LP, mix in Bon Iver’s auto tunetasticness and throw that whole mess in a blender…you’ll be sipping on James Blake when you’re done. It’s his beat play (“To the Last” has an 808’s and Heartbreaks feel), the loops of “Unluck” and housey vibe of “Voyeur” that has my mind going in these directions. Notice those last three tracks are off his new joint (album). Tweaking with different tempos, along with his evolved new layers of varied musicality, has him truly coming into his own. While Blake is expanding his horizons, he has not forgotten about his base. Come on, New York City girls were dragging their non-willing partners to this show for a “romantic” evening out. Rocking out “Limit To Your Love,” “The Wilhelm Scream,” and his new awesome sauce track, “Retrograde,” he took care of the lovers and sentimental types with the smoothness of his piano. As he rocked a thankful Terminal 5 crowd, I couldn’t help but wonder where he’s gonna take his music next. And even though I’ll always be the jump around, rock n’ roll type of music man — my new found respect for Mr. Blake’s performance has me wide awake now. Stay up on, and up for, his shit. Writer + Photographer | Rene Ramirez THE SET LIST Air & Lack Thereof I never Learnt To share CMYK To The Last I Am Sold Limit To Your Love Lindisfarne Our Love Comes Back Digital Lion Overgrown Voyeur Retrograde ENCORE The Wilhelm Scream A Case of You
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DYNAMIC SHOW REVIEW | NYC | Jame Blake | 5.13.13 

James Blake will put your ass to sleep.

At least that’s what I used to think. I’m more of a rock n roll type of dude, I like to wild out when I see shows. As one of our writers likes to call him, he’s post dubsteps Aaron Nevile. Whatever you want to call him, James Blake came through Terminal 5 last week with a musical vengeance and nobody was sleeping. Nobody.

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His brillance is in his beats. Forget about the Bon Iver sounding voice, it’s about big build ups and huge deliveries. He wasted no time getting to this with, “I Never Learnt to Share” as the slow track starts with a solid minute of Mr. Blake of singing “My brother and my sister don’t speak to me,” and then steadily gets into a back and forth of base crescendos before he dropped synth bombs on the crowd. Chill at first, then, explosion. Like great foreplay. All this even before he busted out “CMYK,” which was the moment I knew there was gonna be some dancing at this party as well. He’s certainly beginning to master the art of showmanship.

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The sound. Take Kid A, add the EDM portions of the Watch the Throne LP, mix in Bon Iver’s auto tunetasticness and throw that whole mess in a blender…you’ll be sipping on James Blake when you’re done. It’s his beat play (“To the Last” has an 808’s and Heartbreaks feel), the loops of “Unluck” and housey vibe of “Voyeur” that has my mind going in these directions. Notice those last three tracks are off his new joint (album). Tweaking with different tempos, along with his evolved new layers of varied musicality, has him truly coming into his own.

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While Blake is expanding his horizons, he has not forgotten about his base. Come on, New York City girls were dragging their non-willing partners to this show for a “romantic” evening out. Rocking out “Limit To Your Love,” “The Wilhelm Scream,” and his new awesome sauce track, “Retrograde,” he took care of the lovers and sentimental types with the smoothness of his piano. As he rocked a thankful Terminal 5 crowd, I couldn’t help but wonder where he’s gonna take his music next. And even though I’ll always be the jump around, rock n’ roll type of music man — my new found respect for Mr. Blake’s performance has me wide awake now. Stay up on, and up for, his shit.

Writer + Photographer | Rene Ramirez

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THE SET LIST

Air & Lack Thereof
I never Learnt To share
CMYK
To The Last
I Am Sold
Limit To Your Love
Lindisfarne
Our Love Comes Back
Digital Lion
Overgrown
Voyeur
Retrograde

ENCORE
The Wilhelm Scream
A Case of You