New Mix: Departure

So this mix was supposed to be up before I left for Asia but I just didn’t have the time to get it up. It didn’t help that my time was all accounted for on my trip and internet connections weren’t always available during downtime. But now I’m in Honolulu, on the last leg of my trip and I can’t sleep at 4:30 AM because of the time difference from Beijing. So now I put up this mix. Included are tracks that I have downloaded and/or received personally from the actual artist. Songs that I have wanted to play for you all before the year was over. But its okay if I missed the deadline…now its up. Here is your chance to enjoy, criticize, hate it…I just want you to listen.

Departure (Week of 01.18.10) – Click to Download

Tracklisting:

1. SIPA Kids – Jock You
2. The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
3. Dam Funk – The Sky Is Ours
4. Hot Chip & Peter Gabriel – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Vampire Weekend Cover)
5. NightWaves – Fascination (Cavaliers of Fun Remix)
6. Wale – 90210
7. The Jacka – Glamorous Lifestyle feat. Andre Nickatina
8. Saint Etienne – Spring (Air France Remix)
9. BP & Odds – Ultramagnetics
10. Zoolay – Gangsta Bitch ’09
11. Snoop Dogg – I Wanna Rock
12. Jay-Z – Empire State of Mind feat. Alicia Keys
13. Alicia Keys – Dreaming
14. Rakim – Walk These Streets feat. Maino
15. Wale – Mirrors feat. Bun B
16. Big Boi – Shine Blockas feat. Gucci Mane
17. La Roux – Bulletproof (Dolor Remix)

New Mix: Studio Fitty Foe

WTF?! Why do I keep doing this electro type music for? I guess it’s because its fun to mix. I feel like I’m going on a journey when I mix electro tracks. I like finding those transitions that just sound perfect together and let them ride for a good 32, 64, or more bars sometimes.

Yeah, I don’t really listen to electro by my own powers but I love it in the club when the bass is hittin’ and the DJs are killin’ it. I sift through a shitload of it too when I am listening to music blogs. At that point, I just get into a “this works, this doesn’t work” mode as I pick songs that I could potentially use in a mix. I never really look for it though. I never search the artists. My trusted blogs, which I probably follow for hip hop, downtempo, bmore, indie, and so on, just seem to love electro as well, so its right in my face. Being the thorough person that I am, I got to listen to all the tracks that the blog is offering up, if I trust the blog. So you see, electro is always in my face, I will always be previewing and downloading tracks, and eventually making more electro mixes. Just hope somebody out there appreciates my work. I do appreciate mixing electro though, because it brings out a lot of my musical creativity that can’t be seen when I am mixing hip hop. Thank you electro, for bombarding me with your hits.

Studio Fitty Foe (Week of 11.09.09) – Click to Download

Tracklisting:

1. Bounce Camp – Good Beat
2. U-Tern – Gwen Guthrie vs. Daft Punk
3. Duck Sauce – Anyway
4. Bumblebeez - Rio (Jimmy2sox & U-GO-B Remix)
5. Black Kids – I’m Not Gonna Teach Your BF How To Dance (Twelves Remix)
6. Barbara Tucker – Stop Playing With My Mind (Full Intention Dub Mix)
7. Dorfmeister vs. Madrid De Los Austrias – Boogie No More
8. Stardust – Music Sounds Better (In Miami Horror Remix)
9. DumBass vs. Flapsandwich – Fuck The Poor
10. Armand Van Helden – I Want Your Soul (Fake Blood Remix)
11. Superpose – Button
12. Bloc Party – Signs (MMMatthias Remix)
13. Bobby LaBeat – Click Clack
14. Glitch – Stringles
15. Ludacris - Move Bitch (Disco Villians Remix)
16. Mongrel – HIt From The Morning Sun (DJ Beware and Motorpitch Remix)
17. DJ Mujava – Township Funk (DJ Rob 3 Remix)
18. Blaqstarr – Hands Up Thumbs Down (Degree Remix)
19. Drlkt Freddie – Airtight (Sonic Truth Remix)
20. Round Table Knights – Freak From Desire
21. A-Trak – Say Whoa (Minus Remix)

New Mix: Hollywood Dive Bar Musical

I really have no thought process for this mix. I just wanted to use some nice Indie and Electro tracks I have been dying to get to all your ears ASAP. I think it came together real nice and I hope you enjoy it. I call it “Hollywood Dive Bar Musical” cause I can imagine the cracked out/hipster versions of the “High School Musical” (which I have seen 20 times; 1, 2, & 3) cast singing the tracks and dance walking (is that what its called?) all over the shadiest Hollywood dive bar. Now that I think about it maybe I should have called it “La Cita Musical,” but I think the more generic name is equally as corny as “High School Musical” and I can’t un-dumb it down, so I’ll stick with my first choice. This is shorter than usual too, take that LinoType. I will start doing 20 minute mixes just so I don’t hear “your mixes are too long” from you anymore.

Hollywood Dive Bar Musical (Week of 03.23.09) – Click to Download

Tracklisting:

1. Jesse Rose – Touch My Horn (Mad Kids Remix)
2. Esser – Let’s Work It Out (A1 Bassline Remix)
3. The Outrunners – These Girls Are Dressed To Kill
4. The Hours – See The Light (Calvin Harris Remix)
5. Breakbot – Happy Rabbit
6. Animal Collective – My Girls (HATCHMATIK Disco Bootleg)
7. The Juan Maclean – One Day
8. Breakbot – Please Don’t
9. Beirut – My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille
10. Sportsday Megaphone – Meet Me In The Middle (David E Sugar Remix)
11. The Ting Tings – That’s Not My Name (LA Riots Remix)
12. Bonde Do Role – Quero Te Amar (Douster Remix)
13. Royksopp – Happy Up Here (Breakbot Remix)
14. Bag Raiders – Shooting Stars
15. Adele – Cold Shoulder (Basement Jaxx Classic Remix Edit)
16. Hey Champ – Cold Dust Girl (DJ LA*Jesus Remix)
17. MGMT – Kids
18. Kanye West vs. The Knife – High Heartbeats (A-Trak Mash Up)
19. The Knife – Heartbeats
20. Metronomy – A Thing For Me (Breakbot Remix)

New Mix: Indienational

I had a lot of fun putting this mix together because I had a chance to get into genres, that before the last couple of months, I didn’t know much about. Thanks to the magic of the internet and music blogs, I was able to explore the music of the world from comfort of my desk job.

I am actually impressed with a lot of the Indie, electro, and international music that is out there. If you asked me 6 months ago, I may have ensured you that I could never get into those genres. But after actually sitting down and giving each track a listen, I have became a fan. I hope you enjoy this like I do.

Indienational (Week of 02.23.09) – Click to Download

Tracklisting:
1. Monkey: Journey to the West – Monkey Bee (Diplo Remix)
2. Shinehead – Billie Jean
3. Spleen – Tu L’aimeras
4. Tosca – Fondue
5. Magic Arm – Daft Punk is Playing in my House
6. Mexican Institute of Sound – Para No Vivir Desesperado (NSM…PSM Remix)
7. Kinky – Hasta Quemarnos
8. Dan Black – I Love Life
9. Of Montreal – Jimmy
10. Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (The Knocks Remix)
11. Junior Boys – Bits & Pieces
12. Nujabes + Fat Jon – Transcendence
13. Cut Copy – Far Away (Damn Arms Remix)
14. Chromeo – 100%
15. Trouble Andrew – Run & Hide (Diplo Remix)
16. 33Hz – Sentinel of Love
17. Holy Ghost! – Hold On
18. Coeur de Pirate – Comme Des Enfants (Le Matos Andy Carmichael Remix)
19. Mike Dunn – Feel the Muzik
20. Air France – June Evenings
21. Ted & Francis – All Ways
22. Hot Chip – Hold On (D.I.M. Remix)
23. Cut Copy – Hearts on Fire
24. Treasure Fingers – Cross the Dancefloor (Designer Drugs Remix)