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Damn! I thought last weeks remix was fire….for the second in The Five One’s series of remixes and cutting room floor material we have a The Five One’s remixed and revamped version of N.E.R.D.’s “Kill Joy.” Not only does it feature new verses from The Five One, but it’s reproduced with some added sections and keys. Peace!

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NERD-KillJoy (The Five One Mix)

Links
Five One Official Page
Five One on Myspace

A few months ago I posted up a track by Virginia based band, The Five One, off of the latest series of work they have out entitled the Virginia Complex. If you missed that post or missed their latest, “The Green Complex” go check it out now. If you have checked it out and are fiending for more, starting this week, Medium will be putting out a weekly track of cutting room floor and mixtape material. This week we have The Five One Remix of Lupe Fiasco’s “Fighters.” Peace.

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Lupe Fiasco- Fighters FiveOne Mix.wav

Links
Five One Official Page
Five One on Myspace

The Five One - Playground

If you were to just listen to the song above you would have no idea just how many genres and sounds the group manages to pack into each release and sometimes individual songs. The Green Complex is the second release in the group’s Virginia Complex series and 4th release in just two years. The three members of the group are Red, Green and Blue (RGB) all bring something to the group and what comes out is a series unique songs and sounds that are bigger than their individual parts. The group themselves describes the sound of The Virginia Complex series as “…the raw approach of rap with the sensibilities of rock , pop , and reggae music.” Genre mixing, genre bending, genre defying…whatever it is, it’s not your typical rock/rap or hip-hop with live instruments. What I can say is that it’s good fuc*kin music, so don’t sleep on it.

The group has just released the second part in The Virginia Complex series entitled “The Green Complex.” It’s available now at FiveOneband.com and if you need to catch up with the movement you can download their other projects fore free. Go check it out and thank me later.

Links
Five One Official Page
Five One on Myspace

Videos
Music Video for “Active”
Earth Intruders V.1

Artwork for “The Green Complex” by KatiKut.