Movin' Out

Summer is finally over time to move to the big city. Things are looking up, lots of shows to go to and DJs to go see (if I can justify going to clubs alone) and hopefully a new job that will keep me in the freshest of gear. I should get into a normal routine in the next few weeks so I am gonna try to keep this thing half interesting for the maybe one or two people who read it. Anyways here is a Jam until then.

Nick Catchdubs & DJ Ayres Superfriends Mixtape

I was super bummed when i saw this tape on turntablelab.com because i had just made an order. But the kind fellas have offered the mix as a free download which had me stoked to no ends. Catchdub says "We wanted to do a rock mix that wasn't the perrenial joints you always hear out, or the most achingly new blog music - just a cool spectrum of tracks we mess with." It's a fine enough mix some stuff I'm a bit bored with but it stays in the good books by reminding me of how awesome Tones on Tail are.
Tracklist:
Gary Numan - M.E.
Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth
Squeeze - Take Me I'm Yours
Partial Arts - Trauermusic (Alter Ego Mix)
Kaos - My Reputation
The Cardigans - Love Fool (Catchdubs Bongo Edit)
The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control (Soulwax Remix)
Speaker Junk - Foxy Lady
Adam Kesher - Modern Times (908 Remix)
Wolf & Cub - Thousand Cuts (Phones Remix)
Metric - Handshakes
Tones On Tail - Go
The Kills - Love Is a Deserter (Cavemen Mix)
Pixies - Alec Eiffel
Devo - Mongoloid
The Clash - Jail Guitar Doors
The Presets - Are You The One (Van She Tech NYC Rush Mix)
!!! - All My Heroes Are Weirdos
Snowden - Kill The Power
Maximum Joy - Stretch (99 Records Version)
Pyschonauts - Hot Blood
Harry Knuckles - Blisster
Intriga - Nostalgia Dance Orchestra
INXS - Original Sin
Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
Hot Chip - Colours (Fred Falke Remix)
Robert Lippok & Barbara Morgenstern - Please Wake Me For Meals

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Catchdubs has been my fave DJ for a minute now so when he plays in Toronto this sept. best believe I'm there.

Kanye On British TV

At first Kanye was taking it easy and not really saying much about 50 and his albums both coming out on the same day. But in this interview he seems pretty confident on who will sell more. Also note the Casio x Bape DW6900 watch in yellow. Jealous.

ZZT

ZZT is the new collab between Tiga and Zombie Nation. I only really came across it due to the flip of new single having a Justice remix but the original is nice too. Their first single Lower State of Consciousness is out now on Turbo. I found this video on youtube, I'm not sure if it's official but I am sure that bugs are creepy close up.



Bonus-Lower State of Consciousness (Justice Remix)

New Mix

Here is a crappy little mix I through together a few weeks back. I uploaded it and never did anything with it, figured I might as well put it up here. Some might like it some might hate its all good.
Tracklist:
Kid Sister-Damn Girl (Cadence Weapon Remix)
Justice-D.A.N.C.E. (Alan Braxe Remix)
Calvin Harris-The Girls
Kano-I'm Ready
Kavinsky-Wayfarer
Hadouken!-Tuning In (H! Re-Rub)
Thieves Like Us-Drugs In My Body
Glass Candy-Computer Love
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New Kanye-Barry Bonds

Kanye is trying to up the ante in the Sept. 11 battle for sales with 50. This new song featuring Lil Wayne (who is on every song anyway) leaked out today, maybe Kanye is worried and trying to pad the album a bit. I mean 50 has already released (or had leaked) 4 songs from his album and had his wig pushed back multiple times till resting on Sept. 11. So it'll be interesting to see who sells more, not that anyone really buys albums anyway, but 50 said he won't put out anymore albums if Kanye sells more so that reason enough to root for kanye.


Kanye West ft. Lil Wayne - Barry Bonds
I still can't believe that is the actuall artwork for Graduation.

Random Mix-Electroblog

Here is a random mix that I came across, I don't know a whole lot about it other than it's mixed by Woodman and it is killer.
Check out the tracklist, I am all over that. Perfect tight 30 min mix.

Fanny Pack ~ The Theme from Fannypack (Extended Mix)
Justice ~ Phantom Pt 2
The Flirts ~ Calling All Boys
Lo-Fi-Fnk ~ Wake Up
Black Dice/Lil Louis ~ Smiling Off (DFA Mix)/Video Clash
Product.01 ~ Heart Ov Glass
Section 25 ~ Looking From A Hilltop
Selectah Road Runna ~ Boomy Bomb (Thursday Nite Mix)
Run DMC ~ You Be Illin' (Instr)
The Happy Mondays ~ 24 Hour Party People
Gusto ~ Disco's Revenge (Deep Dish Mix)
Cassius ~ La Mouche (DJ Falcon Mix)
Van She ~ Kelly (Cut Copy Mix)
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Tony Wilson

Tony Wilson passed away recently after battling kidney cancer. Tony founded factory records and helped release a lot of music that has had a huge part in shaping my musical taste. Through Peter Savilles graphic design, assiging a FAC nuber to everything (including posters and buildings) and Martin Hannet's production on most of the early releases factory records developed a look and sound that helped set them apart from the more typical punk acts of the time. So here are some of my favorite songs that were released on Factory Records.


Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark-Electricity (Single FAC 6)


Joy Division-Shadowplay (Unknown Pleasures FAC10)


ESG-You're No Good (Single FAC 34)


New Order-The Perfect Kiss (Low Life FAC 100)


The Wake-Here Comes Everybody (Single FAC 130)


Happy Mondays-Kinky Afro (Single FAC 302)

Free Samples

If you're familiar with Madlib at all you know he's not flipping the same James Brown or Al Green samples as everyone else. Hate or love his production his chioce of samples is pretty interesting. Madlib used this particular sample twice first on the J Dilla collabo "No Games" from the album Champion sound. And again for "One Beer" which was originally an extra from the Madvillain album but was used again by MF Doom on MM...Food. The sample comes from the spaced out french Jazz of "Huit Octobre 1971" by Cortex. Madlib doesn't chop up the sample too much, pretty much just looping the vocal and drum break part, and using the weird synth part.


Cortex-Huit Octobre 1971


Jaylib-No Games


MF Doom-One Beer
I got rid of the mediafire downloads its a lot easier for anyone actually reading this to hear the songs if they can be streamed. No sense to put up songs if they don't get downloaded. That being said if anyone hears something they like let me know and I can post a link. Thanks to Chad for the help with the code I was mad lost.

Electroma

Daft Punk's Electroma is hit and miss (mostly miss) but the final scene almost redeems the whole movie. Set to Jackson C. Frank's "Dialogue" it's the perfect combo of film and music.

Bonus Mp3 Jackson C. Frank-Dialogue

Some Velvet Morning

Just read over at pitchfork about Lee Hazelwood's death, and although I am not that familiar with whis work, he did write one of my favorite songs of all time. There's something about the trade off male and female vocals that make the song so good. The song has been covered plenty of times but two of my favorites are from Slowdive and Primal Scream. The Slowdive version was a souvlaki era b-side and the Primal Scream is off their 2002 album Evil Heat, singing the Nancy Sinatra part in that version is Kate Moss.
Some Velvet Morning-Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood
Some Velvet Morning-Slowdive
Some Velvet Morning-Primal Scream

Solo New Edition

More than most put together pop groups the members of New Edition (Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky (my favorite) Mike and Ralph) all found some level of success when the ground broke up.

Bobby Brown was the first to leave the group (he was replaced by johnny Gill) in !986 releasing the album "King of Stage" but it wasn't untill 1988s "Don't Be Cruel" that things really took off. The big single from that album was my perogative but my favorite single by far is Every Little Step. There is something about a stand alone drum machine that pops and sounds better than when everything is computer generated.

Bobby Brown-Every Little Step(Prod. L.A. Reid and Babyface

The next former New Edition members to go solo did so as a group. Bel Biv Devoe was Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins and Ronnie Devoe, they came out of the gate big with the Kool G. Rap sampling "Poison". This was the summertime jam to bang in your jeep in 1990. The part where it breaks down and Ricky is singing is as good as it gets. And other than providing the hot jamz Bel Biv Devoe use their musical platform to offer advice, according to them "never trust a big butt and a smile" words to live by.

Bel Biv Devoe-Poison (Prod. Dr. Freeze)
The Last to go solo and the least prolific of all the New Edition members was Ralph Tresvant. Ralph was the lead singer in New Edition and therefore was probably most identified with the group, and although he waited the longest to release solo material he made the right moves. Hooking up with the hit factory that was Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis was a good move and the partnership produced "sensitivity" the best in my opinion of any New Edition solo release. Sensitivity is more of a pure pop song than the others above and relies less on New Jack Swing's R&B/Hip-Hop than Bobby Brown or Bel Biv Devoe.

Ralph Tresvant-Sensitivity (Prod. Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis)

Bouns Mp3 New Edition-Cool it Now

Free Samples

One of my favorite aspects of rap production is the use of samples. I love seeing how a producer can flip a sample and chop it up until its something totally new, or just use the sample in a new context and give the original new life. Pullin' me back was the firts single from Chingy's 2006 album Hoodstar. I was never a very big fan of Chingy or Tyreese who sings the hook but for like 3 weeks they played the video every night on Rapcity and i sort of started to like it. Around the same time i was reading the internets and came across an article about crazy jazz musician Jaco Pastorius. I decided to check out his self titled firts album. The first track I listened to was Portrait of Tracy. Jaco was a crazy good bass player and supposedly this song is super hard to play or something, but the first thing i noticed was a strong similarity to the Chingy track I'd been hearing so much lately. Sure enough it turns out Jermaine Dupri used Jaco's "Portrait of Tracy" and the basis for Chingy's "Pullin me Back". Very surprising to me because as a rule Dupri sucks, he's still spending Kriss Kross money.

Jaco Pastorius-Portrait of Tracy

Chingy-Pullin' Me Back
I saw the Jaco Pastorius LP last xmas in a record store in Toronto, I totally wanted to buy it but it was 30 bucks. It had a sticker on it "used for multiple Hip-Hop samples" i guess thats the kind of LP you need to find for 50 cents at the thrift store.

Miami Horror

I don't kow much about Miami Horror other than he is a dj/producer from Austrailia, but he brings the jamz. Nothing really that new, sort of discovery era Daft Punk with some 80's prince thrown in too. When I hear it I totally feel like I am on a speedboat with Crockett & Tubbs. Here is an mp3 and a bonus remix.
Miami Horror-Don't Be On With Her
Stardust-Music Sound Better (In Miami Horror Remix)