Life As a Shorty Shouldn't Be So Rough

Mixtage #1

2011-02-25T21:27:00.005-05:00

A long due mix.
A broad selection of vintage nuggets I deemed good.
Dedicated to Lea.

Tracklisting is as follows:

Art Webb : Melon Grove
Henri Guedon : Fanfaria Seis Por Ocho
Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band : Wintersong
Jacques Denjean : The Cult
J.J. Band : Requiem For A Lost Planet
Burnier é Cartier : Mirandolina
Newban : Easin' Through
Spice : Happy Music
D.R. Hooker : Kamala
Felt : World
Heaven & Earth : Feel The Spirit
Junie Morrison : Seaman First Class (Jock Rock)
Cabo Frio : Tales From Virgin Gorda
Pierre-Alain Dahan & Slim Pezin : Neo Rythmiques 2
Elton Dean's Ninesense : Nicrotto
Grachan Moncur III : When
Vivian Weathers : Street Talk
Ishan People : Sweet Chariot
Chico Medori : Ferrovias
Monika Linges Quartet : The World Was Young
Untitled Vodun Rhythm
Pierre-Alain Dahan & Slim Pezin : Slim Bertha
Guy Skornik : Gurdjieff
1619 Bad Ass Band : For A Taste Of Your Love
Merry Clayton : Loving Grows Up Slow
Lyman Woodard Organization : Joy Road
David Durrah : Hole In The Pocket
Jorge Dalto : I've Got You On My Mind
Darwin's Theory : On A Lovely Night Like This
Mighty Ryeders : Let There Be Peace
Norman Connors : Morning Change
Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society : When Souls Speak
Lenny White : Prince Of The Sea
Brother To Brother : Visions

Podomatic only allows downloads of audio files at a downgraded bitrate (128kb/s instead of the original 192kbps in this case) for non paying accounts, so additionally I uploaded the original here.

Enjoy.

2010 RetrospecMix

2011-01-21T22:49:00.003-05:00

download
01 - secret intro
02 - Madlib - Tear Gas and Bullets For Freedom
03 - Motion Man - Pouring Mo' Champagne
04 - Kanzulu - Holy Grass
05 - Munoz - Illnoize Pt. 1
06 - Dibiase - Circuit Breakin'
07 - Black Milk - Warning (Keep Bouncing) Instrumental
08 - Rah Digga - Back It Up
09 - J Dilla - Safety Dance
10 - Jordan Rockwell - Winter Warfare
11 - Gonjasufi - Love Of Reign (Bear In Heaven Remix)
12 - Flying Lotus - Satellite
13 - Mono/Poly - In The Air (Anahata)
14 - Dâm-FunK - 3012 Love Affair
15 - Von Pea - New Pair
16 - Hueston Independent Spit District - Sheetrock
17 - Roc Marciano - Pop Instrumental
18 - Strong Arm Steady - Needle In The Haystack
19 - Flick Brown - It Be Called NC
20 - Exile - We're All In Power
21 - Ras_G - Deep Space 9
22 - Guilty Simpson - Hood Sentence
23 - Madlib - Episode XVIII
24 - Oddisee - Long Beach
25 - LMNO - Psychomicrocosmic
26 - Kan Kick - Kiye's Groove
27 - Jneiro Jarel - Can You Compute Bruuhzeel
28 - BUDAMUNKY & mabuana - Brown Herbs

duration: 01:02:50

Nas X Oh No

2010-08-15T13:00:00.003-04:00

Shootouts (It Was Written, Columbia, 1996) / Fresh Bacon (Ethiopium, Disruption Productions, 2009) blend

Nas X Kankick

2010-07-07T13:19:00.004-04:00

Life's a Bitch (Illmatic, Columbia, 1994) / Hold It In (Seeing Spirits, Illmindmuzik, 2005) blend

The World Is Yours (Illmatic) / Untitled beat blend

Madlib & Peanut Butter Wolf @WPS1

2010-01-03T11:03:00.007-05:00

Quite a rare radio mix from 2004. Two sets: part 1 is Madlib's, part 2 Peanut Butter Wolf's...or vice-versa lol. It doesn't really matter anyway ;-)

part 1
part 2

Enjoy.

Let's Wrap It Up !

2009-12-26T09:53:00.024-05:00

End of the year mix. 2009's been good to me

Listen and/or download here

Tracklisting is as follow:

Exile : It's Coming Down - Shafiq Remix
Hudson Mohawke : Polkadot Blues
Ras G : HollyHood_Where Dem Trees
Phat Kat X Flying Lotus : Katakombz
Percee P feat. Diamond D : 2 Brothers From The Gutter - Madlib Remix
Oh No feat. MED : The Clap
Raekwon feat. Inspectah Deck, GZA, Ghostface & Method Man : House of Flying Daggers
Kankick : Untitled
Thavius Beck : Go!
Foreign Beggars feat. Kashmere, Jehst & 2tall : No More
Flying Lotus : Melbourne Marvels Cut 3
Mono/Poly : Distant Form
Bei Bei & Shawn Lee feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow : Make Me Stronger - Floating Points Remix
Shafiq Husayn feat. Bilal : Cheeba - Nottz Remix
J. Rawls : Casina
Sabrina Malheiros : Cade Vocé
Shape of Broad Minds : Stiff Robots and Drunken Horses
Sa-Ra Creative Partners : Traffika
Lavender Ticklesoft : Hippie Chicks
14KT : Needing To Win (0-16)
Reflection Eternal feat. Jay Electronica, J. Cole & Mos Def : Just Begun
Blame One : Perseverance
Oh No : The Funk
DOOM : Gazzillion Ear - Dave Sitek & Jneiro Jarel Remix
Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen : Mama England
MED : Soon Find Out
Georgia Anne Muldrow : Generation / You Got It
Suff Daddy : Now That You're Mine
Souls of Mischief : Postal
Gagle : Goin' My Way
Madlib : Dil Cosby Interlude
Keith Murray : The Rhyme - Jay Dee Remix
Nas : The World Is Yours - Kankick Remix
Y Society : In Command - Instrumental
DJ Spinna feat. Tiye Phoenix : Golden
K-Def : Orig Blind 1995
IG Culture : Untitled
Nicola Kramer : Last Time - Domu Remix
Cream De Coco : Disco Strut
Dâm-Funk : Burn Straight Thru U
Flying Lotus X Burial : Untitled
Ras G : Crazy Alien
Mono/Poly : Let's Take A Trip
Count Bass D : Internationally Known - Chord Mix + Instrumental

length: 134 mn

Whatever Mix

2009-11-05T15:14:00.006-05:00

Wondering when all those previously "announced" mixes are gonna see the light of the day...

in the meantime

length: 50 mn

Announcing...

2009-08-20T10:31:00.001-04:00

Coming soon...

- "...Before the summer ends" MegaMix
- Count Bass D Mix
- Georgia Anne Muldrow Mix

Stay tuned...

Spencer Doran "Puzzles" (2006)

2009-05-11T11:25:00.010-04:00

I found out about this young californian producer while trying to identify the first hidden song on the last track (titled "Momentary outro") of Sadat X's Black October album. It's a remix of the originally DJ Spinna-produced cut "God is back".

So today I don't know why I made some effort and decided to find out more infos about this cat and couldn't even find a myspace page. I just found some infos mainly on japanese websites about what he released so far on the Female Fun label I think. For some reason all he did was only distributed in Japan. That sucks doesn't it ? Thanks to the power of the internet and social networking I was able to find his first album Puzzles and I'm just finishing to listen to it. It's a very good instrumental Hip Hop album filled with dope breaks and samples with an ounce of experimentation. Fans of cats like Shin-Ski, Fat Jon or Lark Chillout will surely love it. If anybody was able to put their hands on this 12'' get at me.

01 First of All
02 Light (Our Time)
03 Hungry Air
04 Parks
05 Hip Hoperation/Plateau

06 Rest
07 Jumper/Everybody
08 Montage 01:42
09 Turn it Up/Form of art
10 Fresh Breath
11 Wreckage

12 End of the Night
13 Sunday
14 4 Beats (Bonus Track)
15 Galaxy (Bonus Track)

Enjoy!

Kankick Mix

2009-05-08T12:15:00.006-04:00

Back at it focusing this time on Kankick (aka Kanzulu) . Da groove sensei (I gave him that title) is one of the most slept-on producers in Hip Hop.
Enjoy! (length: 1h14)
alternate link (just in case zshare fucks up again one of those days):

Next installment: Count Bass D.

4-Tracker of the week

2009-04-21T08:19:00.002-04:00

AFTA-1 "Pluto Moon"
Noel Zancanella "Where edges Meet"
Karriem Riggins "Ride Out"
Bullion "Time For Us All To Love"

Madlib Mix

2009-04-16T14:14:00.006-04:00

Played around with audacity the last couple days. Old and new (not too obvious for the most part) Madlib joints.
Enjoy! (length: 1h00)
alternate link

King Koncepts "Project: Ambershine" (1997)

2009-04-04T13:32:00.013-04:00

Side A
1. Open Sky Intro
2. Remember?
3. Ballad Pt. 1 Feat. Evil East

4. I'd Like To Know Feat. The Artist Presently Known As Me
5. The Prophecy Feat. Merle Corey
6. Book Of The Dead Remix Feat. Evil East
7. Vicious Betrayal

Side B
1. Two M.F.'s Troopin 2 The Sun
2. 360° Beat
3. We & Dem
4. The Gate Feat. Bad Batz Maru (MURS) & Merle Corey

5. Travelin'
6. Present Tense Remix
7. El Cantanto
8. Amber Shine Outro

side a + side b: grab it
alt 1
alt 2
splitted tracks: alt 3 (correct tags)
alt 4

King Medallion vs. Arch Angel "Blak Majik" (2006)

2009-04-04T13:15:00.018-04:00

1.: Intro

2.: Supernova

3.: Black Music

4.: Kausion - King Medallion & Arch Angel/Rasco

5.: Tombstones

6.: Tombstones Pt 2

7.: Malcolm X Vs Mr Marcus

8.: Claps

9.: Nonstop

10.: This Is It

11.: Science

12.: Impulses

13.: Stay

14.: Fallicies - King Medallion & Arch Angel/Del The Funky Homosapien

15.: Precedent

16.: Switch - King Medallion & Arch Angel/Holocaust

17.: Omega

grab it
alt 1
alt 2

Peanut Butter Wolf "Lunar props EP" (1996)

2009-04-04T13:07:00.009-04:00

A1 Creeping Mardi Gras
A2 Lunar Props
A3 When You Feel Good, Things Can Turn
B1 The Chronicles (I Will Always Love H.E.R.)

B2 The Chronicles (Instrumental)

grab it

10 Bass T "Do You Know The Way ?" (1996)

2009-04-04T11:37:00.014-04:00

01 Beat Generation (Preview #1)
02 Hip Hop Culture
03 Good Times
04 10 Bass Hit (On & On)

05 Scratch 'n' Sniff
06 What's the Definition of a 10basst
07 Good Times (Remix)

08 Open Your Eyes
09 Third World / First Person
10 People Gettin' Down
11 Some Say We're Spanish Some Say We're Black
12 Beat Generation (Preview #2)
grab it

J Dilla 911

2008-04-11T11:36:00.006-04:00

I looped my favorite beat from Donuts a few months ago. That beat is so intense. Enjoy...

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Now playing: MF DOOM - Gas Drawls

I'm Still Alive !

2007-12-09T20:09:00.000-05:00

New posts coming soon ;-)

More info about Erule

2007-07-03T17:11:00.000-04:00

I found some informations about Erule today. That dude was one of several active MCs of the early 90's burgeoning underground Hip-Hop scene in the LA area who used to work together. Among these artists the (then unknown) acclaimed rapper Ras Kass. Here are some scannings of the December 94 issue of Rap Pages with a focus on the concerned artists. Enjoy !

         scan 1                   scan 2                     scan 3

         scan 4                   scan 5                   scan 6

         scan 7                   scan 8                   scan 9

        scan 10                   scan 11                   scan 12

     scan 13

Classic video of the week : Erule "Listen Up"

2007-07-02T23:15:00.000-04:00

This song is a classic from 1994. I don't know much about that dude Erule but this song right here should have launched a successful career. I never heard a Hip-Hop song so well-crafted production wise. God bless YouTube and only Him knows what went wrong...