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N.A.S.A. (North America South America) is an international collective of musicians spanning a wide spectrum of musical genres, centered around Squeak E. Clean (Sam Spiegel) and DJ Zegon (Ze Gonzales). Sam and Ze met in April of 2003 at a friend’s studio and began making music together the following day.

At first they sampled rare Brazilian records from the 60’s and 70’s to make tracks. However, what started as two crate diggers making music for the fun of it soon developed into something much bigger. Having forged a strong friendship through their passion for music, Sam and Ze decided to make a record with all of their heroes and favorite musicians.

The idea was to bring people from different worlds together through their shared inspiration and love of music. Thus N.A.S.A. was born, with crazy collaborations like Ol’ Dirty Bastard (Wu-Tang Clan), Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), and Fatlip (Pharcyde) on one track, David Byrne (Talking Heads), Chali 2na (Jurassic 5), and Gift Of Gab (Blackalicious) on another, and even the unlikely pairing of Tom Waits and Kool Keith.

Soon Sam and Ze realized they could expand the concept to encompass an entire record. The idea is to ignore all of the boundaries and borders that are in place to keep people divided, such as musical genre, race, politics, geography, language, etc.

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Top Tracks

1	Gifted (feat. Kanye West, Santogold & Lykke Li)	439
2	Intro	297
3	N.A.S.A. Anthem	209
4	Whachadoin? (feat. Spank Rock, M.I.A., Santogold & Nick Zinner)	190
5	Way Down (feat. RZA, Barbie Hatch & John Frusciante)	172
6	Spacious Thoughts (feat. Tom Waits & Kool Keith)	171
7	Gifted (Steve Aoki Remix)	156
8	Money (feat. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge & Z-Trip)	154
9	Gifted Feat. Kanye West, Santa	153
10	The People Tree (feat. David Byrne, Chali 2na, Gift Of Gab & Z-Trip)	146
11	Hip Hop (feat. KRS-One, Fatlip & Slim Kid Tre)	132
12	A Volta (feat. Sizzla, Amanda Blank & Lovefoxxx)	131
13	N.A.S.A. Music (Feat. Method Man, E-40 & DJ Swamp)	119
14	The Mayor (feat. The Cool Kids, Ghostface Killah, Scarface & DJ AM)	109
15	There's A Party (feat. George Clinton & Chali 2na)	104

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thedolab wrote:
Tuesday morning

See N.A.S.A. live in Los Angeles on Valentine's Day!! http://lucentlamour.com

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MasqueradeMai wrote:
Monday afternoon

AWESOME "GIFTED"

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saintsdontcry wrote:
9 days ago

Gifted is on our top tracks of this year! http://saintsdontcry.blogspot.com/2009/12/potential-social-suicide-motherfucker.html

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Shad4k wrote:
10 days ago

"lol who tagged this "hipster shit"? I had no idea this was "hipster" music, atleast not by the definition of hipster that I have :/" <--- Pitchfork rated this album a 0 out of 10, which I think qualifies it as the least hipster album ever recorded. Anyway, here's to my third favorite album of the year.

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S247 wrote:
11 days ago

Cool collabs

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energyneverdies wrote:
13 days ago

whachadoin?

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doctorbagr wrote:
15 days ago

Have you seen their videos? FUCKING EPIC. Just so fresh.

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presidentalien wrote:
15 days ago

Love this album, =D

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doctorbagr wrote:
15 days ago

And there they are, shining in my top 50. :)

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doctorbagr wrote:
16 days ago

What an album.

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FFake wrote:
16 days ago

thanks to iTunes + Facebook

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jvmunduruca wrote:
17 days ago

Gifted é demais!!

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shoreline4 wrote:
22 days ago

there is an undeniably hipster element to this international collective of musicians O_O

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ShornStarMusic wrote:
22 days ago

My review of N.A.S.A.'s 'The Spirit Of Apollo: http://shornstarofficial.blogspot.com/2009/12/21-album-of-2009-spirit-of-apollo.html

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agren wrote:
22 days ago

lol who tagged this "hipster shit"? I had no idea this was "hipster" music, atleast not by the definition of hipster that I have :/

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LasVegasCritic wrote:
last month

check out my review for The Spirit of Apollo on www.lasvegascritics.com here: http://www.lasvegascritics.com/reviews/nasa-has-spirit-apollo.html

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anakin45 wrote:
last month

NASA - Spacious Thoughts (feat. Tom Waits et Kool Keith): http://atticawebzine.free.fr/blog/?p=1325

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Gemini92 wrote:
last month

hells yeah

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arms4wardraise wrote:
last month

Wow. The cast of characters is pure epic!

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miqmiranda wrote:
last month

coco

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Jan 29 St. Jerome's Laneway Festival Alexandria St off St Paul’s Terrace, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Jan 31 St. Jerome's Laneway Festival Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle, Australia
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Feb 1 St Jerome's Laneway Festival Red Square at Britomart, Auckland, New Zealand
68 shouts | 99 attendees