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)

Spotlight on Zoolay

Zoolay, formerly ZooLA, is a duo (Don Ron and Big Illz) hailing from Los Angeles, California that I have had the opportunity to work with on many occassions in the last couple of years. I met Zoolay through Phazze Beats. Phazze Beats came to SIPA (Search to Involve Pilipino Americans) looking for a DJ for a show with Zoolay. I quickly jumped at the opportunity and eventually hooked up with Zoolay for rehearsals at my former apartment in Palms. We did our first show at The Knitting Factory in Hollywood alongside Chino XL and Pharoahe Monch. The experience was pretty amazing and I wanted more. I did more shows with them from LA to Victorville and even as far as San Diego. They commissioned me to handle their mixtape (The Ape Tape) too but my tight work schedule hindered my ability to complete it so it was handed off to Tommy Blak who handled the job well. I don’t do as many shows with Zoolay anymore but I still make them show cds if I can’t be there in person. I may be performing with them soon though. Be on the lookout.

Besides working on new tracks, Zoolay has linked up with Main Vybe and Tommy Blak to promote The Lion's Den, a monthly hip hop show that has included acts such as Large Professor, the Beatnuts, Evidence, Blu & Exile, U-N-I, Dibiase, Fashawn, VerBS, 2Mex, Sadat X, Ras Kass, and THX.

Worthy Useless FYI: Play any 90s hip hop track for Don Ron and he will repeat the lyrics word for word.

Check out some of Zoolay's tracks:

Zoolay – Problems

Zoolay – Gangsta Bitch (Prod. by Dibiase)

Zoolay – Backstabbaz (Spingineer Show Remix)

Zoolay – B-Ball Love

Download:


The Ape Tape: Mixed by Tommy Blak (Click Here To Download)

Follow Zoolay:
Zoolay on Myspace
Zoolay on Twitter

New Mix: Guilty Pleasures Vol. 1

I came up with an idea more than a year ago to create epic mixes that included a lot of the music that we all love so much that we never admit to like at all. The kind of music our parents used to force us to listen to when we were kids. Lionel Richie, Hall & Oates, Sting & the Police, Queen, David Bowie, and the like. After hitting a lot of dive bars I found out that there are people that are proud to listen to this music and the rest of us need to join them and stop pretending to be too cool for this music.

So the original mix I created more than a year ago was never recorded and my setlist was lost in a move. This mix was actually created for my ex-girlfriend since she is really into cheesy 80s music. She never got the finished product and I thought about just deleting the mix altogether but I felt like it was decent enough to put out there and my older cousins might appreciate it as well.

The actual name “Guilty Pleasures” was thought up by the homie Alagy a.k.a. Budda Baboon, who is a dope MC/Producer that I met at SIPA (Search to Involve Pilipino Americans). Much love to Alagy for the name, whom I haven’t seen in a minute, where you at?

Check the mix.

Guilty Pleasures Vol. 1 (Week of 07.13.09) – Click to Download

Tracklisting:

1. Europe – The Final Countdown
2. Cherrelle – Saturday Love feat. Alexander O’Neal
3. The Whispers – Rock Steady
4. Midnight Star – Midas Touch
5. Nocera – Summertime Summertime
6. Kool & The Gang – Fresh
7. Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough
8. MC Shy D – Gotta Be Tough
9. Madonna – Holiday
10. DeBarge – Rhythm of the Night
11. Newcleus – Jam On It
12. Patrice Rushen – Forget Me Nots
13. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – White Lines
14. Parliament Funkadelic – (Not Just) Knee Deep
15. De La Soul – Me, Myself, & I
16. Evelyn “Champagne” King – I’m In Love
17. Skyy – High
18. Shalamar – Second Time Around
19. Tom Brown – Funkin’ For Jamaica
20. Luther Vandross – Never Too Much
21. Culture Club – Karma Chameleon
22. Pat Benatar – Love is a Battlefield
23. Beastie Boys – Paul Revere
24. Juicy – Sugar Free
25. Brothers Johnson – Strawberry Letter 23

SIPA Sessions Are A Must!!

Whoever thought you could learn how to DJ, make beats, and record music for free without being a hot girl or having a Dj in your family or circle of friends. Well people this is your chance to learn it all. Come to SIPA (Search to Involve Pilipino Americans) Sessions, where the love for music brings together men and women of many different races, ages, class levels, and religious backgrounds to do one thing, make dope music.

Learn how to DJ from Laurent with opportunities to learn more from seasoned vets like Linotype, Jeffrey.Soulspeak, Phatrick, Waxstyles, and myself, Spingineer. Feed off each other in roundtable type mix and scratch sessions. Making beats your thing? Soulspeak and Phatrick are there too provide priceless knowledge in making beats, recording tracks, and so on. With a good amount of MCs that make their way to SIPA for every session are always down to freestyle with you over some hot beats.

So make your way to SIPA Sessions at the corner of Temple St and Dylon St every Monday and Thursday from 5PM-8PM. This also a great place to network for those DJs, producers, and MCs who already know a little something about the business. I was a DJ for almost 11 years when I first got to SIPA Sessions and the networking opportunities are never ending.

DJs currently affiliated with SIPA:
Linotype
Jeffrey.Soulspeak
Phatrick
Waxstyles
Laurent (Don’t know his alias)
Matt (His either)

MCs/Producers currently affiliated with SIPA:
Budda Baboon
Proda-Gz
Phazze Beats
Queen Herstory

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