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Life for the Better

The Soundtrack For Dis-Enchanted Youth.

About Me

Revamped and revitalized Life for the Better, LFTB, & The LFTB Group Page,
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What's up netsects!!! If you have the chance, come to my myspace page and listen to some tracks from the newest album, "Fossils." It features remixes from my last 3 albums, along with some new tracks
featuring the one and only DJ Stereotype
Ophotn Presents: Featuring Offbeat, The Mole, Gadget & Wut of Identical Opposites with Production by Offbeat, Elephant Gerald and Non Euclidean 1. Put Them Boys in the Underground (Intro.) 2. Missing Mission 3. Walkinâ In the Park with A 4-D 4. Loaner 5. Turn the Pages 6. Poem of Freedom 7. San Francisco 8. Ills of Life Soliloquy 9. Perfect World 10. The World Is Mourning 11. Hold the Mic Like a Memory 12. Ray Guns and Spaceships 13. I Think To Myself 14. Power and Strength 15. Sorry (and thank yous) Also available on Ophotn Records
Featuring Ofcelfe, Banana 9, and Joshua Tree from LFTB
Tracks: 1. Introduction 2. Shooting the Breeze 3. Sojourner 4. Idols 5. Swindoll's Illustration 6. Contentment 7. $uper Celebrity (Produced by Ofcelfe) 8. Ecclesiastes 9. Question of Relevance 10. Absolute Truth 11. Side Two 12. The Fact of the Matter 13. Space Kidette 14. Nature (Ft. Banana 9) 15. Letter to Christ (Co-produced by Joshua Tree) 16. Small World 17 To My Dying Child 18. The Cat 19. Slow Thoughts

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- Other good buys: www.cdbaby.com BenYomen - "Headphones Hum and Spraycans Rattle..." - http://cdbaby.com/cd/yomen2 BenYomen - "Circles in which we walk" - http://cdbaby.com/cd/yomen CLEEN - "Old Man Winter" - http://cdbaby.com/cd/cleen2 CLEEN - "Audiobesity" - http://cdbaby.com/cd/cleen1 Banana9 - "Specialty Composed Vehicle Banana ..9" sPEAK. - "VOID (double Ep)" sPEAK. - "NUMB:REDUX" sPEAK. - "All The Above Stranger (soundtrack)"

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/22/2005
Band Website: lftb.net
Band Members: Cleen Plural Clarity Ofcelfe Elephant Gerald Stereotype Demune Morb One Precise One June Howard
Influences: anticon, def jux, the faint, broken spindle, books on tape, blood brothers, radiohead, buck 65, liars, yeah yeah yeahs, mars volta, life for the better, dj shadow, rjd2, weezer, liars, iggy pop, tom waits, johnny cash, the shins, dj q-bert, beastie boys, adult., interpol, afi, the stills, the shins, M 83, snow patrol, danger mouse, saul williams, beck, death cab for cutie, the pixies, sage francis, eyedea and abilities, shapeshifters, elliot smith, clinic, dfa, the rapture, the moving units, interpol, justin riner project, popbandalice, her space holiday, awol one, dj food, ninja tune, kid koala, freestyle fellowship, the faint, pretty girls make graves, cat power, the black keys, white stripes, amon contact, prefuse 73, nada surf, galapagos 4, granddaddy, morse code, glue, themselves, illogic, blueprint, xo, silversun pickups, earlimart, kennedy, dandy warhols, david bowie, dj krush, Milosh, Calamalka, Dntel, Nobody, Mia Doi Todd, Ammon Contact, Adventure Time, Soulo, Chessie, John Tejada, Thomas Fehlmann, Damon Aaron, Build An Ark, Najite, Languis, Meanest Man Contest. Also, Sun Ra, Ethiopiques, Joanna Newsome, Sa-Ra, Coco Rosie, Devendra Banhart, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Dorothy Ashby, Brian Eno, Velvet Underground, Caetano Veloso, Aphex Twin, Iron & Wine, Fela Kuti, Can, Silver Apples, Burning Spear, King Tubby, A Tribe Called Qeust, Kool G Rap, Kanye West, Gang Starr, B.I.G., Vashti Bunyan, Lali Puna, Nina Simone, Cat Power, Stevie Wonder, Madlib, Jay Dilla, Dabrye, Belle &; Sebastian, Koushik, Dungen, The Beatles, Lee Perry, Oh No, Daniel Johnston, Phil Coran, Andrew Pekler, Superpitcher, Bright Eyes, The Shins, N.E.R.D., Blaze, Fennesz, KMD, MF Doom, DJ Premier, The Faint, Carl Craig, Dimlite, Archie Shepp, Linda Perhacs, Nick Drake, Ras Michael, Eric Dolphy, Rythm &;; Sound, Charles Tyler, Max Roach, Brigitte Fontaine, Anthony Braxton, Drexciya, Kraftwerk, J-Live, Common, Grand Puba, Pharoahe Monch, Mos Def, Craig Mack, Outkast, Fruit Bats, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Slint, A Hawk &;; A Hacksaw, The Residents, The Roots, Candi Station, Ray Charles, The Pixies, el-p, dj signfy, boom bip, mf doom, piegion john, mars ill, mr. dibbs, slug, octavius, tv on the radio, mum, sixtoo, amon tobin, blockhead, voodoo glow skulls, weezer, the rapture, atmosphere, catpower, busdriver, silversun pickups, qwel, sole, dose one, jel, odd nosdam, automata, automator, kool keith, kutmaster kurt, the locust, hive, aceyalone, devo, the talking heads, beans, subtitle, beastie boys, glue, adeem, jupitersciples, bang bang bunny, dance dance disaster, dthe vandals, portishead, fishbone, public enemy, mile davis, interpol, godspeed you black emperor!, galapagos 4, qwel, offwhite, fisher j. price, hong kong kaviliers, shrodur, grand buffet, charles mingus, bad brains, automator, aesop rock, anti-pop consortium, restiform bodies, bizzart, black flag, bjork, inor threat, fugazi, city of caterpillar, del the funkey homosapien, eyedea and abillities, soul junk, postal service, the clash, sex pistols, nirvana, fog, ornette coleman, subtitle, labwaste, of monteral, p-love, Soft Pink Truth, End, DJ /rupture, Sickboy (Milkplus), Knifehandchop, Kid606, Numbers, Total Shutdown, Electric Company, Uprock Rhizome + Aphasia Group, Nathan Michel, Dwayne Sodahberk, 8 Frozen Modules, Mochipet, Dynasty, Drop the Lime, Stars as Eyes, Crack: We Are Rock, People Like Us/Wobbly/Matmos, Nudge, Original Hamster, Rip Off Artist, Ziegenbock Kopf, The Bug, Com.a, MAIN, Black Dice, Max Tundra, Cex, Xanopticon, Gold Chains, Pimmon, Lesser, Erase Errata, Kevin Blechdom, Blechdom from Blectum, Merzbow/Kouhei Matsunaga, Dalek, Aelters, Dat Politics, Timeblind, Joseph Nothing, Masami Akita / Zbigniew Karkowski, SHOCKOUT, VIOLENT TURD, RAZOR X, busdriver, bloc party, self-jupiter, omid, daedalus, american analog set, andrew bird architecture in helsinki, bronnt industries kaptial, caribou, the decemeberists, electrelane, elizabeth anka vajagic, espers, final fantasy, jackie-o-motherfucker, josé gonzales, low + dirty 3, m. ward, martin grech, mice parade, mugison, of montreal, outhud, part chimp, regina spektor, salaryman, shipping news, spoon, the swords project, télépopmusik, the third eye foundation, white out w/ jim o'rourke and william winant, van der graaf generator, arab on the radar, the jews, deer hoof, rubber o cement, Year Future, 400 Blows, Arab On Radar, Defacto, I Am Spoonbender, Melt Banana, Fatal Flying Guilloteens, Hello Astronaut, Goodby Television, Skull Sküll, The Home Recording Project The newest member of the LFTB Family:CLICK ON IMAGE .. Branded
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............................................................ ........................... ............................................................ ...........................CLEEN - "I'd Like To Get To Know You"the films of Zenoscope Productions....."Dark Sunshine" directed by Bob Low score by sPEAK. (aka elePHANT Gerald)"All The Above Stranger" directed by Bob Low score by sPEAK. (aka elePHANT Gerald)"MAN" directed by Bob Low starring BenYomen score by sPEAK. (aka elePHANT Gerald)"BITCH" directed by Bob Low music by sPEAK. (aka elePHANT Gerald) from the double ep, 'VOID""West Coast Blues" directed Bob Low music by BenYomen from the Lp, "Circles in which we walk""Destruction Exhibition" directed by Bob Low"Shadow" directed by Bob Low music by sPEAK. (aka elePHANT Gerald)"Magic In The Plant" directed by Bob Low music by Banana 9 ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------
Record Label: http://www.ophotn.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

LifeForTheBetter Blog Feb 07

LFTB blog - Feb. 2007"From our lips to God's ears!" Hi folks, this is Cleen (your favorite rapper) and this here is the second of 12 monthly blog installments just to let you, our fans, know what we L...
Posted by Life for the Better on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:47:00 PST

"From our lips to God's ears!" - Jan. '07 - LFTB Blog

"From our lips to God's ears!" - Jan. '07 LFTB blog - January 2007"From our lips to God's ears!" Hi folks, this is Cleen (your favorite rapper) and this here is the first of 12 monthly blog installme...
Posted by Life for the Better on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:39:00 PST

New Soberminded Review...

SoberMinded :: Points, Thoughts, and Stories :: Life for the Better as reviewed by Jason De Zilva Religion has always occupied some place in mainstream hip-hop music, acting more as a point of influe...
Posted by Life for the Better on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:31:00 PST

LAIST album review for Ben Yomen Headphones Hum and....

Album Review www.laist.com Hold the Mic Like a Memory The sophomore album by BenYomen is a progression towards the consciousness that hip-hop was meant stand for, living up to the Life For The Bette...
Posted by Life for the Better on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:58:00 PST

soberminded album review on www.hiphoplinguistics.com

* hip-hop album review SoberMinded - "Points, Thoughts, and Stories" Genre: Indie Hip-Hop Release Date: August 31, 2006 Website: SoberMinded BlogLabel: LFTBPurchase: PTS  Rating: &n...
Posted by Life for the Better on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:12:00 PST

Jive Magazine Review of BenYomen's Headphones Hum and Spraycans Rattle

Jive Magazine Review of BenYomen's Headphones Hum and Spraycans Rattle BenYomen Album: Headphones Hum and Spraycans Genre: Alternative/Underground Hip Hop Release Date: 2006 Posted: 08/01/2006 B...
Posted by Life for the Better on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:22:00 PST

LFTB 2006 Releases as Recomended by www.erasoul.com

............................................................ .......................... Ophotn/LFTB Album Reviews Cortursey Of: Erik Nasinnykhttp://www.erasoul.com/reviews ::The following are a couple ...
Posted by Life for the Better on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:45:00 PST

ophotn films

Check it the films of Zenoscope Productions..... "Dark Sunshine"directed by Bob Lowscore by sPEAK. (aka elePHANT Gerald)http://www.ifilm.com/efp" quality="high" bgcolor="000000" name="efp" align="midd...
Posted by Life for the Better on Tue, 30 May 2006 11:35:00 PST

Demune Solo Album Reviews "Crossbreeding and Grafting"!!!

this is very cool!!! Reviews of "Crossbreeding and Grafting"... Erasoul.com ::Demune - Crossbreeding and Grafting LP (Ponowai Flora) If aliens brought hip-hop to our planet, it would probably sound li...
Posted by Life for the Better on Fri, 05 May 2006 10:06:00 PST

awesome review for cleens old man winter in rapreviews

Cleen :: Old Man Winter :: LFTB/OPHOTN Records as reviewed by Andrew Matson Cleen represents Lancaster, California, a place he calls "a little sandbox outside L.A." Cleen describes Lancaster as a pla...
Posted by Life for the Better on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:44:00 PST