Gucci Mane x Sinden x Mad Decent

Honestly, Gucci Mane never really caught my attention. But stir in some of my favorite UK producers like Hudson Mohawke, Sinden, Mosca, Rustie, Scratcha DVA, Duke Dumont etc and I’m all over that shit. Gotta luv this.

Might get a cupcake tat on my forehead now.

“Gucci has been on my radar a long time – I’ve always waited with baited breath for the next tape to drop. To have the opportunity to curate a mixtape of his material and A&R the project is a dream gig and I knew that with the talent over here it would yield some really interesting results.” -Sinden

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Maya Vanya – Around The World

Best mixtape I’ve heard in a while. Croatian/ New Zealandian sister act Maya Vanya for Pomp & Clout. Direct download link HERE.

Mat Bira Kvinnor Weed

My Nu Yorican dawgs from Palms Out left these bangers in my mailbox just recently.  Carli Löf, one half of Swedish DJ/producer duo Savage Skulls (you might remember this post of mine) teamed up with Marcus Price of Basutbudet to drop the EP “Mat Bira Kvinnar Weed” as the 15th release on the Palms Out label, with remixes from Kingdom, Bok Bok, Dubbel Dutch, Crazy Pays, Girl U.N.I.T. and Norrit.

Listen and buy here:

Marcus Price & Carli – Mat Bira Kvinnor Weed (Kingdom remix)

Marcus Price & Carli – Var E Nääken?

Watch the video for “Mat Bira Kvinnor Weed”, directed by Tim Erem and Eric Widerdal:

Big City Bright Lights

Hong Kong based brand CIPHER recently launched the mixtape project “Big City Bright Lights“. The idea behind it is to have 10 artists based in Hong Kong contribute a 10 minutes mix each, inspired by the city of Hong Kong itself. The man behind the visuals is no one less than HK’s lord of the lens, Laurent Segretier. Download and listen to the audial contributions by my brothers and sisters Yao, Enso, Miss Yellow, Drafus, and of course all the other mixes too by clicking HERE.

Yao mini mix for CIPHER

Tracklist:

(Intro) Magnetic Tapes -  Pharoah’s Tune (The Journey) – Leon Thomas
Intro – Outkast
Come Back – TI
Agitation- Erykah Badu
? – Madlib
Donuts Outro – The Roots
It’s Your World – Gil Scott Heron
Music Is My Sanctuary – Gary Bartz
Pontos de Luz – Gal Costa
Mossy Woodland – (Javelin) She Is Asleep: Duet for Voice and Prepared Piano – John Cage
Shine – Willie Isz (prod. by  Jneiro Jarel)
Neqbone’s Lil Brother – Yao aka Yaoser(s)

DJ Enso mini mix for CIPHER

Tracklist:

Junglist Rebel – Intro
DJ Enso (feat. Cheung) – Dark Hawaii
Grizzly Bear – Disappearing Act (Ariel Pink Remix)
Neutral Milk Hotel – Pree-Sisters Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye
Panda Bear – Laughed for a World Filled with Fantasy / Search for Delicious (Live at ZDB Sept 2004)
DJ Enso (feat. Brian Rogers) – Darkly
DJ Enso (feat. Chai Yaping) – Rain Drizzles (像雨丝)

DJ Miss Yellow mini mix for CIPHER

Tracklist:

揸緊中指(Miss Yellow Edit) – LMF
Rock It – Sub Focus
Smack My Bitch Up (Sub Focus Remix) – The Prodigy
Man Or Machine (Feat. KBimean) – DJ Revolution
Justify My Thug – Jay Z
Bitches (South Rakkas Crew Remix) – Killa Queenz
I Blame Coco (Miike Snow Remix) – Caesar Feat. Robyn

DJ Rafik X Faux magazine

TRACKLIST

01. (Intro) Tinie Tempah – Pass Out Instrumental (Edit)
02. Theophilus London – Enjoy The Sun
03. Floating Points – For You
04. Take – Crystallia (Edit)
05. Headman – Dirt
06. Spoon – Don’t You Evah
07. Spoon – Don’t You Evah (Diplo Rmx)
08. Bag Raiders – Shooting Stars (Siriusmo Rmx)
09. Madkids – Bolo Bomba
10. Bingo Players – When I Dip
11. His Majesty Andre – Peep Thong (The Mane Thing Rmx)
12. The Aston Shuffle – I Wanna See You (Harvard Bass Rmx)
13. Vitalic – Valletta Fanfares
14. Mount Kimbie – Sketch On Glass
15. Hudson Mohawke – Fuse
16. The XX – Stars

New Crystal Castles

Crystal Castles – Doe Deer

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The Private Lives Vol III – Live Mix

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Yao / Kid Fresh / Miss Yellow / Drafus -  Live @ Yumla, Hong Kong, 20.03.2010

Tracklist:

0:30 –> Yao:

Sole Fusion – Bass Tone (House Nation remix)
Bookworms – African Rhythms
Zomby – Need Ur Lovin’
Roska – Sheppard
Motor City Drum Ensemble – Raw Cuts #6
Motor City Drum Ensemble – Raw Cuts #5
Moodymann – Hello 2morrow
JW – Queen Of Fools (Yao Disco edit)
Andres – Moments In Life
DJ Zinc – Jekyll & Hyde
Mosca – Square One
Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir – The Fake Left, Go Right Plan
Joy Orbison – J.Doe
Deadboy – U Cheated

0:38:45 –> Kid Fresh:

Of Montreal – Heimdalsgate Of A Promethean Curse
Hudson Mohawke – Ice Viper
I Blame Coco – Caesar (Diplo remix)
Nirvana – In Bloom
Bloc Party – The Prayer
Tweet – Call Me
Sa-Ra – Hey Love
Tobacco – Truck Sweat
The Roots – Distortion To Static
Pharcyde – Hey You
Towa Tei – Technova
Lootpack – Whenimondamic
The Clash – Guns Of Brixton

1:05:00 –> Miss Yellow:

Sufjan Stevens ft Aesop Rock – Star Of Wonder / None Shall Pass
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
Bot’ox – Rue De l’Arsenal (Yuksek remix)
Fan Death – Veronica’s Veil (Erol Alkan edit)
Jolie Cherie – Star
Feist – Sea Lion (Chromeo remix)
Madonna – Holiday
2 Many DJs – Justin LCD
Arctic Monkeys – You Know I’m no good (Amy Winehouse cover)
Miike Snow – Animal (Mark Ronson remix)

1:36:25 –> Drafus:

Maurics Starr – Electric Funky Drummer
Arpadys, Spacial & Co. – All The Bass (1979 Original Mix)
Cymande – Dove
Carlos Santana – Life Is Just a Passing Parade
Ike Yard – N.C.R. (Funkstörung Rmx)
B+ – B-Beat Classic
Funkaho – Bootay
Mondkopf – Chaos Is Mine
Coldcut – Beats & Pieces (Mo Bass Remix)
Kenny Dope – Can U Handle It

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The Private Lives Vol II – Live Mix

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Rafik / Yao / Kid Fresh / Enso Live @ Yumla, Hong Kong, 20.02.2010

Tracklist:

0:30 – 0:27:50 Rafik

-    DJ Shadow – Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
-    Platinum Pied Pipers ft. Georgia Ann Muldrow – One Minute More
-    RATATAT – Loud Pipes
-    Flying Lotus – Tea Leaf Dancers
-    Black Milk and Fat Ray – Welcome To The District
-    Oh No – The Funk
-    Quasimoto – Astroblack
-    Platinum Pied Pipers ft. Tiombe Lockhart – Stay With Me
-    Jay Dilla – Two can Win
-    Erykah Badu – Green Eyes
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0:27:50 – 0:54:30 Yao

-    Bullion – Time To Love
-    Floating Points – Love Me Like This
-    Platinum Pied Pipers ft. Sa-Ra – Deep Inside
-    Erykah Badu ft. The Roots – I Want You Back (live)
-    Roger and Zapp – More Bounce To The Ounce
-    Cymande – Brothers On The Slide
-    Erykah Badu – Amerykahn Promise
-    Dam Funk – Hood Pass Intact
-    LCD Soundsystem – ’45-33’ (Theo Parrish remix)

0:54:30 – 1:16:25 Kid Fresh

-    Santogold – L.E.S. Artistes (xxxchange remix)
-    Spoon  – Don’t You Ever (Diplo remix)
-    Units – High Pressure Days (Rory Phillips remix)
-    The Who – Baba O’ Riley (SebastiAn remix)
-    Pixies – The Thing (Allez Allez bootleg)
-    La Roux – Bulletproof (Nacey remix)
-    Mylo – Paris 400 (SebastiAn remix)
-    Hot Chip – One Life Stand

1:16:25 – 1:44:19 Enso

-    Co-real Artists – What About You (In the world today)
-    Cool C – Glamorous Life
-    The Click – Hurricane
-    RBL Posse – Bluebird
-    The Strokes – Sometimes
-    Le Tigre – My Metrocard
-    The Stooges – 1969
-    Erasure – Oh L’amour (German version)
-    Nena – 99 Luftballons
-    The Mamas And The Papas – California Dreaming
-    Julie Ruin – Tanya

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Jolly belated Valentine’s Day from Alaska

Alaskan homeslice Curtis Vodka conjured this adorable Valentine’s Day mix, and I can’t believe it went past me without any notice until 1 month later. Besser zu spät als nie:

Curtis Vodka & Alexis Lerro – Lovesick Valentine’s Day Mix

Tracklisting:

1. Global Infantalists – Passing
2. ASHES – Run Away of Love
3. The Bodines – Therese
4. Joy Division – Disorder
5. My Bloody Valentine – Sunny Sundae Smile
6. Nullset – To The Point
7. The Cure – Jumping Someone Else’s Train
8. Iron Curtain – The Condos
9. Polyrock – Romantic Me
10. Secession – The Wolf
11. Visage – Fade to Grey
12. Siouxsie & The Banshees – Happy House
13. B-Movie – A Letter From Afar
14. The Fabulous Stains – Waste of Time
15. Psychic TV – Godstar
16. Kuruki – Crocodile Tears
17. Holger Hiller – Das Feur
18. Bush Tetras – Snakes Crawl
19. Q. Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses
20. The Jesus & Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
21. My Bloody Valentine – When You Sleep
22. Pylon – Cool
23. Depeche Mode – Dreaming On Me
24. New Order – Ceremony
25. The Fixx – One Thing Leads To Another
26. Games – Love Canal
27. Trees – Delta Sleep
28. Girls At Our Best! – Fast Boyfriends
29. Ducks In Formation – Darkness Falls
30. The Smiths – The Headmaster Ritual
31. 1000 Ω – Look Around
32. Everything But The Girl – Night & Day

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Best In The Class

Late Of The Pier – Best In The Class

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IAMAMIWHOAMI

IAMAMIWHOAMI – 9.1.13.669321018

IAMAMIWHOAMI – 9.20.19.13.5.723378

IAMAMIWHOAMI – 13.1.14.4.18.1.7.15.18.1.1110

New Major Lazer ft. M.I.A. and Busy Signal

Word on ze streets: Diplo & Switch aka Major Lazer are dropping a new EP in April. First sneak peek is this brand nu choon featuring M.I.A. and Busy Signal.

DL:

Major Lazer ft M.I.A. & Busy Signal – Sound Of Siren

Cheesy-ass pre Valentine’s Day bonus:

Nosummr4u!

I fucking heart spending time with my computer aka the extension of my brain, but yesterday was one of those days where the plopping sound of an incoming email would make me choke. Sky wasn’t exactly clear, but not too soupy either, and the air felt quite summery. Also, Lion Rock’s just around my corner, so I decided to hop on bus # 72 to finally explore those mountainy regions in my close neighborhood for a bit. After a good 2 hours of hiking through the woods, my heart was racing like Jerry The Race Car Driver and I was dripping with Truck Sweat, so I was happy to finally reach the slopes of Golden Hill Rd to relax a bit, guzzle some water, enjoy the view and hang out with a bunch of wild monkeys.

There’s hundreds of them, just doing their monkey-type-thang; eating, sleeping, fucking, fighting, delousing each other, taking care of their families etc.

I was quite an eye-opener to observe those motherfuckers for a while. Makes me ponder about the universe, and, like, evolution and shit. Ya dig? There’s all kinds of different personalities in the monkey world. Some of them are shy, some of them are rowdy, some of them seem smart, some of them seem stupid, some of them are social, some of them are not. You’re not supposed to have eye-contact, as some of them feel provoked quite easily. Like these two.

I’ve had a proper adrenaline rush when one of the older boss-type dudes suddenly stood up in front of me while I was taking pictures of his fam, screeching with his gnarly-ass jaw wide open, looking into my eyes, stating he’s ready to rumble. Trust me, the last thing I thought of in that moment was to take a picture of the nominee. Especially because I was unarmed, unlike some of the hikers I ran across in that area, carrying man-sized woodblocks. I wonder what one is supposed to do? Just beat it like MJ? Run for your life? Are his clan-members going to interfere? I’m not too keen to find out.

Nuff monkey-bizness. I got enough of that shit for now. Chinese New Year is about to begin, shops and restaurants are closing for the holidays, summertime is back and I’m feeling jolly. Might need to turn on the aircon tonight.

Oh and btw, I’m kinda feeling this newish band from San Francisco by the illustrous name of oOoOO right here:

oOoOO – Nosummr4u

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Five for February

I Blame Coco ft Robyn – Caesar (Diplo remix)

Miike Snow – Silvia (Sinden remix)

Joy Orbison – So Derobe

Sebastian Tellier – L’amour Et La Violence (Floating Points Dub Remix)

Joker  – Digidesign (Om Unit’s Pop Lock remix)

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People Make Ecstasy

As one of the rather underrated producers of California’s Bay Area, Roche has been pumping out signature tunes under the Solos records umbrella for quite a while now. This one right here I am particularly in love with these days. You might have heard it before in my part of The Private Lives Vol 1.

Roche – People Make Ecstasy

http://myspace.com/rocheone

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The xx – Mini Mix for Annie Mac BBC Radio 1

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http://bbc.co.uk/radio1

Mishka Keep Watch Vol. XII: Rusko

The friendly chaps at Mishka bring us a new edition of their Keep Watch mix series. Vol XII features one of Dubstep’s highest rated protagonists of today, Leeds based wobblebass conductor Rusko.

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If you like 90s rap, you’re gonna love this.

Ok here we go- Looky what I stumbled upon on an old harddrive.

It’s a 8 year old mixtape of mine, dedicated to the golden years in rap music, the 90s!
I recorded this with my homeboy / brofromadifferentmo DJ Han Shock in 2001!
2 x 45 minutes (It was actually released and distributed on TAPE!! Can you believe that?!)

60 of the most important rap tunes from the 90s in a fast mix.

Recorded live, in one take, with 3 turntables and a hell lot of Vinyl.
You can actually hear it crackle!
Recorded on DAT, No software, no computer gimmicks, no serato, no effects.
All dues paid.
Merely the intro was recorded with a 4-track recorder.

I’m having such a blast listening to this right now!!!
Btw, we were the first ones in Germany to come out with a 90s theme mixtape like that.
After us, dozens followed.
Anyone disagreeing- holla and correct me if I’m wrong.

Nuff talk now. I gotta share this with y’all.
Here’s the download link:

KID FRESH & HAN SHOCK – 60 RAP CLASSICS FROM THE GOLDEN YEARS

Enjoy!

I can’t find the tracklisting right now, but will post it up as soon as I manage to get a hold of it.

Ahhhhh ~~~backpacker memories~~~….

Me & Han Shock, ca. 1998