Song of the moment

Justice Remix of MGMT’s Electric Feel.

MGMT - “Electric Feel (2008 justice remix)”

Song of the moment

Michael Jackson - Rock With You (Masters At Work Remix) (zShare)

WTF is Bounce Music, you say?

Emynd did a nice little write up and mix regarding this subgenre. It explains a bit of the history for those of us not in the know (or the NO, ha!).

I started listening to Bounce music about two years ago and, over the past couple years, have acquired a pretty extensive collection of CDs, MP3s, and records of this really rich music. For those unfamiliar with Bounce, it is a fairly unique strain of club-oriented hip-hop that originated in New Orleans sometime around 1991 with MC TT Tucker’s “”Where Dey At.”” Almost 20 years later, Bounce still dominates the urban club and block party scene in New Orleans with very little major label backing. Just as Baltimore Club is based on the Lyn Collins’ “Think” break and the Gaz “Sing Sing” break, Bounce beats are based on samples from The Showboy’s “Drag Rap” (aka “Triggerman”) and Derek B’s “Rock The Beat” drum break (more commonly known as “the Brown Beat”). The best club music seems almost always to thrive on calculated simplicity, and Bounce is no exception, relying on MC work that is based on simple call and response chants, straightforward rhyme schemes/patterns, and repetitive dance refrains. My buddy Noz has helped me learn a lot about this music and several years ago (right after Katrina), he put together a really great collection of earlier Bounce songs that you can download here. Also, the first podcast on New Orleans rap has got some good stuff on it as well.

In contrast to Noz’s collection of songs, I made my mix as an effort to put people onto some more recent New Orleans Bounce songs and artists that they likely aren’t very familiar with. As you’ll notice pretty quickly, I’ve kept the mixing and DJing to a real minimum and tried to move pretty quickly from song to song to fit in as much stuff is possible. There isn’t a real rhyme or reason for most of the selections on here. They’re mostly just a bunch of Bounce songs I really like, and I’m hoping some of y’all will enjoy this stuff enough to go and support some of these artists. I’ve provided links wherever possible to help make that search as easy as I could because a lot of these folks have a pretty strong presence on Myspace. Please hit these dudes up on their Myspace, support their events, and buy whatever you can from them.

via Mad Decent Worldwide Radio #30: BOUNCE IT

Mix of the moment

DJ OB-One’s Resident Mix for the Playboy Club at the Palms in Las Vegas. Lot of heat here. About 20 minutes.

1) Hef’s intro
2) Masta Ace-Born to Roll
3) Kidz in the Hall-Drivin’ Down the Block
4) N.E.R.D.-Spazz
5) Bill Withers vs. Fat Joe-Bird Peterson’s Lean Friendship Anthem
6) LMFAO-Can’t Help It (transition mix)
7) Young MC-Bust a Move (Don Rimini ravekid rmx)
8 ) Common-Universal Mind Control
9) Sawtooth Sucka-Letting Go (Andy George ‘hype” rmx)
10) Sister Nancy-Bam Bam (Fashen b-more rmx)
11) Bone Thugs-n-Harmony-Thuggish Ruggish Bone (Disco Tech b-more rmx)
12) Voodoo Chilli-Streetplayers
13) Pitbull-Go Girl (Spinstyles Go Baile Girl less drummy edit)
14) Machines Don’t Care-Afro Jacker
15) Rico Tubbs-Gangsters (Discobelle edit)

DJ OB-One - Playboy Club @ The Palms Resident Mix

Time Saving zShare Tip

If you’re anything like me you spend a significant amount of time downloading music off of sites like zShare.  When I found out about this tip I flipped out.  It’s saved me a lot of time and annoyance.  Every time you download a file, zShare has a timer every that counts down to the actual download link.  If you don’t click fast enough, you have to start this all over.  Since I download multiple files doing multiple things at once… I often lose the download.  Needless to say, it’s annoying.

Anyhow, once the timer starts ticking enter this into your address bar and it’ll bring the timer down to zero and allow you to click and instantly download the file.

javascript:var time=0

Hope that helps!

Mix of the moment

New Crookers Essential Mix

Two bouncing hours taking in Italo-house, Dubstep, Hip Hop, Fidget, Ghetto and Techno from Italys Crookers.

Broadcast: BBC Radio 1, SAT. Tracklist:

1. Betin Cocek - Intro Ca-Ca - PIC
2. Erykah Badu - The Healer - Motown
3. Nostalgia 77 - Seven Nation Army
4. Dabrye - This Is Where I Came In - Ghostly
5. Dabrye - Game Over (Flyin Lotus mix)
6. Mr Oizo - Z - Ed Banger
7. Portishead - Machine Gun (Island)
8. Ratatat - Bird Priest - XL
9. CSS - Lost (Mehdi mix)
10. Syl Johnson - Different Strokes - Twilight
11. Benga - Pleasure - Tempa
12. Rusko - Mr Chips
13. Alter ego - F**kingham palace (Modeselektor mix) - Klang Elektonik
14. Radioclit - Secousse - Mental groove
15. Radioclit - Secousse (Crookers Spino mix) - Mental groove
16. Crookers - Il Buono - Mad Decent
17. Tommie Sunshine - Limit Of Your Mind (Nic Sarno mix)
18. The Crookers - Il Cattivo - Mad Decent
19. AC/DC - Thunder (CRKRS 10 min re-fix)
20. Plastikman - Spastik
21. Jape - Floating (DIM mix)
22. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (DIM mix)
23. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Crookers mix)
24. Boy 8 Bit - The Things That Freeks Are Made Of
25. Kw Griff - The Force
26. NERD - Everyone nose - Phra (re-fix)
27. Outlander - Vamp
28. Crookers - Il Brutto - Mad Decent
29. Crookers - Il Brutto (Bloody Beetroots Il Bruttissimo mix) - Mad decent
30. Alan Braxe - Addicted
31. AC Slater - Jack Got Jacked (Jack beats mix) - Palms Out Sounds
32. Don Rimini - Let Me Back Up (Crookers Tetsujin mix) - Mental groove
33. Crookers - Sveglia - Southern Fried
34. Crookers - Knobbers - Southern Fried
35. Duke Dumont - Hoy - Dubsided
36. Math Head - Get Hype - Trouble and Bass
37. Math Head - Turn the music up - Trouble and Bass
38. Kid Cudi - Day N Night (Crookers mix) - Fools Gold
39. Busy P - To protect the entertain (Crookers mix) - Ed Banger
40. Crookers - Big Money Comin - Southern Fried
41. Yelle - Ce Jeux Acapella
42. Foamo - Rockerman
43. TJR - Sonic Chronic (Lee Mortimer mix)
44. Bumblebees - Rio (Crookers mix) - Modular
45. Crookers - Magic Bus - Southern Fried
46. Crookers feat Kid Cudi - Embrace The Martian - Southern Fried

Download

via newmixes.com

Song of the moment

I’ve been listening to this track a bit from Foreign Exchange’s 2004 Connected album. Foreign Exchange, if you don’t know, was a collabo group between North Carolina’s MC Phonte and Dutch proucer Nicolay. Needless to say, it was a stellar album, and this especially is a great summer track.

Foreign Exchange - Downtime (Remix)

Where to get the best Baltimore Club Music

Regarded as original purveyors of the Bmore sound, these links will get you everything you need and more (if you ask, maybe).

Unruly Records
http://www.unrulyonline.com/unrulyrecords/unrulyrecords.html

Baltimore Club Tracks/DJ Technics
http://www.baltimoreclubtracks.com/

Club Kingz/Rod Lee
http://www.harmsquad.com/

Bmore Original/DJ Excel
http://www.bmoreoriginal.com/

Tittsworth
http://www.turntablelab.com/search/index.html?action=search&search_field=tittsworth

Brick City Club/Brick Bandits/DJ Tameil
http://www.myspace.com/itsyamandjtameil

Brick Bandits (DJ Sega, DJ Tameil, DJ Tim Dolla etc)
http://www.myspace.com/djdeluxxx

DJ Phinesse
http://www.djphinesse.com/store/process.php?pname=ShopfrontProcess-Start

Curtis Vodka
http://www.turntablelab.com/vinyl/0/0/17851.html
http://www.turntablelab.com/vinyl/0/0/14742.html

DJ Amaze
http://www.crooklynclan.net/cart/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=43

Song of the moment

Produced by Eli Escobar (!) - track is major.

GET MONEY KIDS

via Fully Fitted