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October 15, 2009 0

King Cannibal – Chaos ADD Mix

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King Cannibal – Knowledge mix by knowledge

* King Cannibal – Intro (Ninja Tune)
* Svarte Greiner – Where Am I (Type Records)
* 2562 – Channel Two (Tectonic)
* Unknown – Unknown, Acappella
* Distance – Night Vision, Skream’s So Nasty Version (Planet Mu)
* Moderat – Rusty Nails, Shackleton Remix (B Pitch Control)
* Freund Der Famille – Pewars (Freund Der Famille)
* Moderat- A New Error, Headhunter Remix (50 Weapons)
* Mims – Like This, acapella (Capitol)
* Clouds – Protecting Hands (Deep Medi)
* Bakongo – Bambara (Roska Kicks & Snares)
* Sendai – Sustaining The Chain (Time To Express)
* Milanese – The End, Untold Remix (Planet Mu)
* Vaccine – Radiate (Offshore)
* TIgerhook Corp – Evil Eyes (Vamp Tech Recordings)
* Sendai – Sustaining The Chain, Peter Van Hoesen Remix (Time To Express)
* Pearson Sound- Wad (Hessle Audio)
* Pearson Sound – PLSN (Hessle Audio)
* SP:MC – Taiko Dub (Tempa)
* Burnkane – You Will Forget (Planet Mu)
* Scuba – From Within, Marcel Dettmann Remix (Hot Flush Recordings)
* Monolake – Titan (Imbalance Computer Music)
* Page – Ballin Is My Hobby Remix acapella (unknown)
* Von D – Echolow (Black Achre)
* Monolake – Titan (Imbalance Computer Music)
* Scuba – From Within, Marcel Dettmann Remix (Hot Flush Recordings)
* Micronauts – The Jazz (Loaded)
* XXXY – Constant (Mindset)
* Babylon System – Loaded (Argon)
* SP:MC – Taiko Dub (Tempa)
* XXXY- Reflections (Mindset)
* Sarantis – Nitroglycerine, MRK 1 Remix (Senseless)
* Martyn – All i Have Is Memories (Applepips)
* Shortstuff – Progression (Formant Recordings)
* Skream – LIghtning (Tempa)
* Scuba – Klinik (Hot Flush Recordings)
* Athues – Sphere One (Baum)
* Shortstuff – A (Formant Recordings)
* Peter Van Hoesen – Attribution One, MLZ Remix (Time To Express)
* Sendai – Sustaining The Chain  (Time To Express)
* Monolake – Titan (Imbalance Computer Music)
* Freund Der Famille – Pewars (Freund Der Famille)
* Jeff Mills – The Bells (Purpose Maker)
* Aviv Geffen – It Was Meant To Be A Love Song, King Cannibal Remix (Mars Records)
* Scuba – Ruptured, Surgeon Remix (Hot Flush Recordings)
* Round One – I’m Your Brother, Chicago Mix (Main Street)
* Vaccine – Radiate (Offshore)
* LL Cool J – Goin Back To Cali (Def Jam)
* Huey – Pop Lock & Drop It, Acapella (Jive)
* South West Clik – All Chrome 38 Blacked Out 9, Acapella (unknown)
* Freund Der Famille – Symbian (Freund Der Famille)
* Master P – I Need Dubs, Acapella (Koch)

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October 13, 2009 0

The Rub

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Thanks to theshipment over at DiS for pointing out this veritable goldmine of hip-hop mixtapes dating back from 1979 all the way to 1999.

If you’ve got a spare 20 hours, you could do worse than heading over to The Rub and getting schooled.

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October 11, 2009 0

Chromeo – DJ Kicks

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Disco is not dead. Which is a shame. Montreal duo Chromeo are the latest group to contribute their mostly disco-oriented record collection to the !K7 collection. The first since Booka Shade’s 2007, this collection represents an uninspiring return for the usually strong label that gave us the classic Kruder & Dorfmeister mix.

The mix rolls in at just under one hour and features the kitsch likes of Toba (Movin’ Up), Lovelock (Maybe Tonight) and Leo Sayer (Easy to love). For those seeking a mix that dwells in the chic, spinning light of an ‘80s glitter ball whilst suspect funk is churned out by an aging DJ in danger of falling asleep – this record is the one that you must immediately pick up.

But, ironically, this is an hour’s worth of records that most people would rather not hear. Ever.

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October 10, 2009 2

Whose Flat Top Ruled In ’89?

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Who’s Flat Top Ruled In ’89? by BobaFatt

(’89 Intro)
De La Soul – Transmitting Live From Mars
Biz Markie – Just A Friend
EPMD – It Wasn’t Me, It Was The Fame
Boogie Down Productions – Hip Hop Rules
The DOC – It’s Funky Enough
Bizzie Boys – Droppin’ It
Special Ed – Think About It
Kool G Rap & Polo – Truly Yours
(Mary Jane Girls – All Night Long)
Big Daddy Kane – Smooth Operator (All Night Gone)
De La Soul – Plug Tunin’
De La Soul – Potholes In My Lawn
Digital Underground – Underwater Rimes
(Edwin Starr – Easin’ In)
Tone Loc – Loc’ed After Dark
Ice T – High Rollers
London Posse – Live Like The Other Half Do
Demon Boyz – Lyrical Culture
Soul II Soul – Ambition Rap
Eric B & Rakim – In The Ghetto
MC Lyte – Poor Georgie
MC Lyte – Stop, Look, Listen
Special Ed – I Got It Made
Young MC – I Come Off (Southern Comfort Remix)
Def Jef – God Made Me Funky
NWA – Express Yourself (Remix)
Queen Latifah – Evil That Men Do
Heavy D & The Boyz – You Ain’t Heard Nuttin’ Yet
K Solo – Your Mom’s In My Business
Chill Rob G – Court Is Now In Session
(De La Soul – Buddy (Remix))
Nice & Smooth – Early To Rise
3rd Bass ft KMD – The Gas Face
EPMD – So Wat C ha Sayin’
EPMD – The Big Payback
Digital Underground – The Humpty Dance
Slick Rick – Children’s Story
Slick Rick – Mona Lisa
Slick Rick – Teacher Teacher
De La Soul – Ghetto Thang
De La Soul – Say No Go (Say No Dope Mix)
Beastie Boys – Shake Your Rump
Kool G Rap & Polo – Poison
Ultramagnetic MCs – Chorus Line
Redhead Kingpin & The FBI – Do The Right Thing
Chill Rob G – The Power
Kid Frost – La Raza
Big Daddy Kane – Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now
LL Cool J – Jinglin’ Baby (Still Jinglin’ Remix)
LL Cool J – I’m That Type Of Guy
She Rockers – On Stage (Broad Beans Mix)
Young MC – Know How
(Big John Hamilton – Big Bad John)
Big Daddy Kane – Warm It Up, Kane
Masta Ace – Letter To The Better
Jungle Brothers – What U Waitin’ 4?
Digital Underground – Doowutchyalike
De La Soul – Jenifa Taught Me
De La Soul – Me, Myself & I
Silver Bullet – 20 Seconds To Comply
Hijack – Badman Is Robin
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – The Groove (Jazzie’s Groove)
(’89 Interlude)
Public Enemy – Fight The Power
(Bill Nunn & Spike Lee – Love Vs Hate)

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September 13, 2009 2

Snow Patrol – Late Night Tales

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Stadium stalwarts Snow Patrol are the latest artist to add the most favourable aspects of their record collection to the burgeoning Late Night Tales series.  Attempting to bring about a lulling calm with their selection of ‘choons’, Gary Lightbody and Tom Simpson take to the wheels of steel to produce a selection of relaxed electronic and acoustic meanderings that may be the perfect remedy to a hard day’s night should any fans of the band return home to find their extensive collection of Snow Patrol albums inappropriate for that precise moment. With the duo appearing to have little experience in either turntable proficiency or DJing in general, the listener should expect to find a somewhat crudely assembled and moribund mix.

Though successfully beat-matching Captain Beefheart (‘Observatory Crest), A Tribe Called Quest (‘Midnight’), DJ Food (‘Dark Lady’) and King Biscuit Time (‘I Walk The Earth), none of these individual moods are matched, which makes for a disparate listen. Unfortunately, things take a turn for the worse as tracks are merely started up as the previous track ends, making this sound like it could have been put together by an eleven-year-old armed with a tape deck who’s been granted access to his father’s record collection. In fairness, that’s offensive to many eleven-year-olds: they probably know their way around a digital sequencer better than any member of Snow Patrol and have never seen a tape deck.

It’s not that the mix is a complete failure: the transition between Arthur Russell (That’s us / Wild Compilation) and Jim Noir (Eanie Meany) is well judged and yet, for a band that survive on their sense of melody and harmony, segueing into the jarring discord of School of Seven Bells (Half Asleep) is bewildering to say the least.

Snow Patrol’s Late Night Tales threatens pace in its final third with a contribution from Holy Ghost! (Hold On) before the duo decide to follow it with Super Furry Animals’ ambient Download. Lacking any sense of adventure whatsoever, this seems to be the only way to include their exclusive acoustic rendition of INXS’ New Sensation.

An ignominious addition to the series, Snow Patrol should stick to what they do best and continue to charm the pants off Live Nation whilst leaving the art of DJing well alone, because there’s little demonstrable knowledge of it to be found here.

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August 24, 2009 0

DJ Bobafatt – Whatever, innit (III)

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Part III of this rather smashing series of mixes by DJ Bobafatt is now available for your aural delectation. Here’s the download link to the 70+ minute mashup, here’s the link to the previous mixes and the tracklist is below.

Major Lazer ft Mr Vegas & Jovi Rockwell – Can’t Stop Now
Cherine Anderson – Talk If Yuh Talking
The Heavy – Cause For Alarm
James Brown – Sunny (Featurecast Regroove)
The Burbs – Organic
Amede & The Soundsmith – The Underground Reprise
Shafiq Husayn ft Fatima – Lil’ Girl
Jay Z / Beyonce / Arrested Development – Bonnie & Clyde ’03 (DJ Crooked remix)
Jill Scott – A Long Walk (Dodge Remix Pt 1)
Mystro – Mess I Ever Had
Jay Z – D.O.A. (Chase & Status Remix)
Peter, Bjorn & John – Nothing To Worry About (Troublemaker Remix)
Jazmine Sullivan / Missy Elliot – Backstabbers
Faith Evans – Mesmerized
Kid Cudi – I Poke Her Face
Brooklyn Slamlords – Keep On Movin’
Alborosie ft I Eye – Mama She Don’t Like You
Blondie / Souls Of Mischief – Heart Of Glass (’93 Til Infinity Al Fingers Remix)
Muhsinah – Re:Outsourced
Mr Scruff – Cheeky
Burial & Four Tet – Moth
Floating Points – K&G Beat
Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators – If This Ain’t Love
Duck Sauce (A-Trak & Armand Van Helden) – Anyway
Gramophonedzie – Why Don’t You
MSTRKRFT / John Legend – Heartbreaker (Laidback Luke Remix)
Major Lazer ft Vybz Kartel – Pon De Floor
The Nextmen ft Ms Dynamite & Andy Cato – The Lion’s Den
Groove Armada / Bassnectar – Superstylin’ Smashup
Eve / Benga – Me N My
Mungo’s Hi Fi – Haffi Rock
Beenie Man – Trendz
Cessa – Recon Sbtrkt Remix
Hackman – Illusionz
MJ Cole – Sincere (Nero Remix)
The Moody Boys – Free

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July 29, 2009 0

DJ Ayers – Michael Jackson Mix

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Still not got around to buying all of Michael’s hits? Still listening to ‘Dangerous’? Stop. DJ Ayers put together an hour’s worth of MJ hits in 2008. Spanning his entire career, it’s not bad – or it is bad – depending on your definition.

Download it here, play it at parties, enthral your mates. He had some good tunes, that Michael.

http://www.zshare.net/download/53748048b24e0397/

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July 15, 2009 3

1969, baby!

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Created by @MandrewB, this 69 minute mix of groovy oddities is definitely worth a download.

Download 1969 Baby.

Tracklist

1. Alice Coltrane – Huntington Ashram Monastery
2. Howlin’ Wolf – Smokestack Lightnin’ (’69)
3. Iron Butterfly – Soul Experience
4. Funkadelic – I’ll Bet You (single version)
5. Snatch & The Poontangs – The Signifyin’ Monkey (part 1)
6. Frank Zappa- Willie The Pimp (feat. Captain Beefheart) (edit)
7. Serge Gainsbourg – 69 Annee Erotique (avec Jane Birkin)
8. The Upsetters – Live Injection
9. Can – The Empress and the Ukraine King
10. Isaac Hayes – Hyperbolicsylabicsesquedalymistic
11. Nina Simone – To Love Somebody
12. Colosseum – Elegy
13. Phil Upchurch – Black Gold
14. The Byrds – Jesus Is Just Alright
15. Rotary Connection – The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
16. The Winstons – Amen, Brother
17. Elephant’s Memory – Midnight Cowboy
18. Bobbie Gentry – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again

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June 21, 2009 0

J Dilla – Dillanthology 2

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“Dilla. He wasn’t just a producer, he was the best producer.” Busta Rhymes (2007).

Volume 2 from much missed hip-hop producer, J Dilla, is comprised of little-known remixes by the artist who sadly passed away in 2006. With an innate ability to manipulate beats, this relaxed selection of 11 tracks sees Jay Dee messing with artists such as Busta Rhymes, The Pharcyde, De La Soul and DJ Cam rendering them practically unrecognisable from the originals.

Opener ‘Stakes is high’ featuring Mos Def is an absolute treasure: hearing the MC now famed for average film appearances back in his glory days as the dapper rapper he really was is a nostalgic delight. Similarly ‘Whoo Ha’ has been stripped of its intensity and dropped into a fizzing bath of jazz where it comes out smelling fresher than ever. Listening to this compilation, the listener gets the impression that Dilla never let anything out of his hands until his upper body swelled  rhythmically in and out of time to the beat.

Though this anthology won’t offer much to the dusty-fingered, crate-digging obsessives and whether or not label !K7 is guilty of exploiting the legend surrounding the man himself or not; this is an enigmatic slice of of hip-hop to play after a night out, hunkered down in a room with your favourite people.

Dillanthology 2 is released on June 22nd (Rapster Records)

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Whoo Ha (Jay Dee Remix)

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June 21, 2009 0

Scratch Perverts – Beatdown

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The Scratch Perverts‘ latest mix strays somewhat from their more traditional hip-hop / rock offering. Though still content to wind up their set with drum n’ bass, the trio do so in an altogether more varied fashion, pulling in cuts from the dubstep, electro-house and bassline genres.

The mixing is as one would expect: exact with some scratches and skills thrown in on occasion. Sadly, there are no scratch routines which makes this more representative of a mix that you would hear the Perverts banging out in a club. After 13 years of mixing and scratching their way across the globe loaded down with old skool hip-hop joints and bags of vinyl, the group like many other DJs can now carry laptops loaded with tunes that don’t weigh a ton. This growing diversity is to be welcomed, and though the quality of the song selection throughout Beatdown is never in doubt, bass heavy tunes are the sole item on the menu.

But with thousands of free mixtapes floating around the internet, similarly spliced using the latest technology, what makes this mix individual? Well it’s not just some kid in Chepstow who’s put this together with his mate, and Dynamite MC pops up every so often  to remind us just who it is we’re listening to, but that’s as far as the exclusivity goes.

I have no doubt that the DJs simply believe that they’re moving with the times, but in doing so, they’ve left a little of their originality behind and that’s not a good thing. Nonetheless, the Perverts have given us a powerful snapshot of club culture as it stands in 2009.

Beatdown is released on June 22nd (Fabric Records)

Tracklist
01. Caspa – Rat-A-Tat-Tat Ft. Dynamite MC
02. High Rankin – Money For Guns
03. Benga – Stop Watching
04. Skitz Ft. Buggsy – Born Inna System (DJ Prime Cuts Mix)
05. Digital Mystikz – Eyez
06. The Qemists – Dem Na Like Me (Subscape Dub)
07. Skream – Aggy Face
08. Joker – Do It
09. Foreign Beggars VS Rouge A Levres – Hit That Gash (DJ Prime Cuts Itchy Naan Re-Rub)
10. Chase & Status – Saxon
11. Kutz – Grit Your Teeth
12. The Others – Credit Crunch VIP
13. DJ Prime Cuts ft. Dynamite MC – Warning
14. Rusko – Jahova VIP
15. Flying Lotus – Roberta Flack (Martyn’s Heartbeat Mix)
16. Zomby – Rumours & Revalations
17. Buraka Som Sistema – Sound Of Kuduro ft. DJ Znobia, M.I.A., Saborosa & Puto Prata (DJ Mehdi’s Sound Of Terror Remix)
18. Feadz Ft. MC Wesley – Subiu, Desceu
19. Zombie Disco Squad – The Dance
20. Kissy Sell Out – This Kiss (Jack Beats Mix)
21. Laidback Luke and A-Trak – Shake It Down
22. AC Slater – Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats Remix)
23. Mujava – Township Funk (Boy 8 Bit Remix)
24. Boy 8 Bit – Baltic Pine
25. Jesse Rose – Touch My Horn
26. Zinc – 128 Trek
27. Hervé Ft. Marina Gasolina – Who Da Champ?
28. Diplo & Laidback Luke – Hey
29. Jack Beats – U.F.O. (The K-Hole Bass Riddim)
30. Dirtyphonics – Vandals
31. Logistics – Jungle Music
32. Lomax – Faith Massive
33. Jakes – Warface [D*Minds Remix]
34. Spor – Aztec
35. DJ Fresh – Off World
36. Dirty Harry – Fools
37. Sigma – Paint It Black


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