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Skratch Bastid & The Gaff – Soul Sisters STAND UP!

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Beyond being acclaimed Canadian DJs, Skratch Bastid and the Gaff share a love for ’60s- and ’70s-era soul music. Over the past couple of years, the pair spent two years in the lab concocting Soul Sisters, Stand Up! – a funky as hell 80-minute mix of sister funk n’ soul tunes. In Scratch Bastid’s own words:

Well, here it is. Soul Sisters, Stand Up! is our long awaited, brand new 80-minute mix filled with 100% Female Funk/Soul/R&B/Breaks. 2 DJs. 2 years in the making. Featuring the sounds of soulful ladies from the mid-60s & mid-70s – a snapshot of love, pain, happiness, oppression, strength, struggle and more from an era where records were the primary outlet for these voices. These messages are driven home by the beats and grooves from what is undeniably the funkiest decade in music history. From Freda, Aretha, Nina & Diana to Betty Everett, Lavette & Davis, we take you on a journey to a mindset, using tunes both classic and criminally overlooked to tell the story. Mixed together in classic mixtape fashion… you know, with mixing.

The selections are funky, sequenced and blended flawlessly, showcasing the voices of Marlena Shaw, Lyn Collins, Merry Clayton, Etta James, Aretha and many more. Some of the O.G. samples are looped live, recreating the classics on the fly in the context of the mix without losing momentum.  Stream the tape to preview if you must, but smart money says a download might be in order as this is likely to get repeat listens from any avid fan of quality music.

Download here (both parts 1 & 2 together in one mp3) – 105mb, 1 hour 27 minutes, .mp3 format

(article source credits to Smokingsection and Totallyfuzzy)

Greg Wilson live at DEMF 2012

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Greg Wilson has been a pioneer in electronic music ever since the early 1980s. Specializing in jazz-funk and disco, Wilson is known for being the first DJ to ever mix live on British television, as well as the teacher of a young Fatboy Slim. Yet perhaps the British producer is most famous for his DJ sets, in which he scratches and mixes using two reel to reel tape machines.  I’ve posted about him before, specifically his awesome BBC Radio Essential Mix and later an except from his essay on the roots of electro.

His set in May 2012 at the Movement festival in Detroit was a tour-de-force of disco dancing and seamless remixing.  Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Garbage, and many others get a disco rework that’s both surprisingly funky and faithful to the originals.  I’ve been listening to it constantly since May and have to share it here:

Download here  (79 minutes, 145 mb, 256kbps .mp3)

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Catnap – A Fire In My Bones

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This mix bounces a number of different musical styles off each other, building up steam into high energy dance party.  I was inspired by some fascinating interpretations of the blues by Kenny Larkin (in his Dark Comedy alter ego) and an Akufen track from the Blu Tibunl remix project.  Then after a short detour into the “heroin house” style, I got down to business with some jackin’ house and then electro from Riton, Beck, and a medley of classic Prince tunes.

Where do you go from there?  Ghetto house, Bmore breaks, and some straight up dance rock from folks like Blues Explosion, LCD Soundsystem, Blur, The Libertines, DJ Mujhava, and much more.  I did lots of edits throughout this mix and even threw in a remix of Juney Boomdata’s “Cookies” I did myself.

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137mb /// 60 min.  /// 320kbps

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Brooklyn Slow Motion: Jay-Z & Lil Wayne vs. the STALAG riddim

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Chris Macro, the mixologist behind the awesome Macro Dubplates series (download here) has a new track up on his site.  “Brooklyn Slow Motion” mashes up Jay-Z and Lil’ Wayne’s “Hello Brooklyn” with one of the most famous riddims in dancehall history, the Stalag. The results are excellent:

Brooklyn Slow Motion by MACRODUBPLATES

Download here (right click and “save as”) 3:52 /// 9.08mb /// 320kbps .mp3

MF Doom – Supervillain Blends

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Mmmmmmmm… FOOD!  This is some tasty stuff.   DJ Food Stamp blends tracks from Outkast, KRS One, The Game, Perceptionists, Method Man and more with MF Doom instrumentals.  Yeah, you need this.

Listen now:

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49.9 mb /// 58 minutes /// 192kbps .mp3

Tracklist:

1.Outkast-Wheelz Of Steel (MF DOOM REMIX)
2.Mc Lyte-Paper Thin (MF DOOM REMIX)
3.People Under The Stairs-Tuxedo Rap (MF DOOM REMIX)
4.Method Man-Release Yo Delf ft Mary J Blige (MF DOOM REMIX)
5.KRS-One-Mortal Thought (MF DOOM REMIX)
6.3rd Bass-Derelict Of Dialect (MF DOOM REMIX)
7.Mobb Deep-Survival Of The Fittest (MF DOOM)
8.Pep Love-Crooked Angles (MF DOOM REMIX)
9.Eminem-Any Man (MF DOOM REMIX)
10.Cocoa Brovaz-Super Brooklyn (MF DOOM REMIX)
11.Jeru The Damaja-El Presidente (MF DOOM REMIX)
12.Charizma-My World Premier (MF DOOM REMIX)
13.The Game-Wouldnt Get Far (MF DOOM REMIX)
14.Defari-Say It Twice (MF DOOM REMIX)
15.Common-Carhorn (MF DOOM REMIX)
16.East Flatbush Project-Tried By 12 (MF DOOM REMIX)
17.Perceptionists-Memorial Day (MF DOOM REMIX)
18.Lord Finesse-Soul Plan (MF DOOM REMIX)
19.II Unorthodox-Just A Little Flava (MF DOOM REMIX)
20.Outkast-So Fresh So Clean (MF DOOM REMIX)

Mos Def + Dub Reggae = MOS DUB

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On first listen a couple months ago, I wasn’t really feeling this mash-up album.  But after a couple re-listens, it’s really grown on me.  The tracks work well, and are reworked to an interesting degree, making Mos Dub more than the sum of its parts.  In other words, this doesn’t sound like hiphop acapellas overlaid on dub instrumentals, but a deeper and more thoughful re-working.   The creator of this mash-up, Max Tannone, had this to say:

While listening to these dub tunes, which are often heavily based on the drums and the bass, would also sound great if sampled for hip-hop tracks. Being a huge Mos Def fan (and Mos who sometimes breaks into a Jamaican patois himself), I knew he would fit well over the tracks. His lyrics are often socially poignant – a common theme with reggae music too. He is one of my favorite musicians and I hope he heard Mos Dub and enjoyed it.

If you enjoyed this mash-up, check out Tannone’s other works: Jaydiohead (Jay-Z vs Radiohead) and Doublecheck Your Head (Beastie Boys).

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Wu-Tang vs. The Beatles – Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers!

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Best hiphop mash-up I’ve heard since Mos Dub.  Period.  I’m gonna let the Tom Caruana, creator of this mash-up, speak on it:

This project came about unintentionally, really. I’d done a Large Professor remix album and an MF Doom one, and then I was starting on a Wu-Tang one. One of the tracks that’s on there, “R.E.C. Room,” I made a couple of years ago. I had this easy-listening record of this orchestra playing cover versions of lots of different ’60s stuff. It had this instrumental version of “Girl,” and the whole thing was just stunning. But I didn’t want to just take a little bit of it. I took the whole song, and sped it up to the right tempo, so it has the complete arrangement and feel of the original Beatles song. Then I made the “C.R.E.A.M.” remix. And then I was like, O.K., I’ve got two tracks now that have Beatles samples with Wu-Tang a cappellas. A few days later I found Ol’ Dirty Bastard talking on YouTube about how he was influenced by the Beatles. And I just thought: This is it.  Being a lifelong record collector of things to sample, I’ve got loads of orchestra records that have got covers of Beatles songs. Once I thought, “O.K., I’m going to do this,” I started going through all my records again. It just then seemed to click.

For more of this interview, check it out at the New York Times.  Otherwise, get your listen on:

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180mb /// ZIP Archive with all tracks /// 320kbps .mp3