Brand new mix for my Flashing Lights cohort, 4 AM Jess, aka Brooklyn’s Bass Sweetheart, aka just Jubilee. Her Firework podcast is one of my favorites, and I’m happy she let me light one up. Listen and download from Brooklyn Radio.

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RCMP – “RCMP II Remixes”

Hip-Hop History by Brooklyn Radio on Mixcloud

Brooklyn Radio got the entire 31 mixes of The Rub History of Hip-Hop up on Mixcloud!  Click the left and right arrows on the widget above to go to previous years in the series, or jump to Hip-Hop History for the mixes on Mixcloud with full tracklists.   Download any and all of the shows right on the Brooklyn Radio website.

I’m super proud of this EP. A few years ago after doing strictly dance records for a while, I got back into making rap beats. As a hip-hop DJ I’ve done a lot of shows with a lot of rappers but a standout for me was GLC, from the Sunglasses is a Must tour that Cosmo Baker and I did with A-Trak. He was on Kanye’s Spaceship and Drive Slow and had some really good records with A-Trak and with Three 6 Mafia. So when I had a rap beat I felt good about, I had A-Trak put me in touch with GLC and we did “Got Me Gone,” which kind of came and went. But then GLC hit me up and said he was getting good feedback on it and wanted to do a video.

He also said “send me more beats,” so I did, and after a few more months he hit me back with four finished songs on the first four beats I sent him, from me and my friends Nacey, Lunice and Derek Allen (aka DJA). Rhek knocked out a great cover, Sammy Bananas helped me tighten up the mixing and boom, here we are! The EP came out yesterday and it’s $2.99 on iTunes / $7.96 on Beatport. The Fader called it genius, and who am I to argue?

Tribe of Issachar – Junglist
Tribe of Issachar – Original Junglist
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Hostage – Witches (DJ Ayres Remix) by T&ARecords

I have two very different remixes out this week, one is a New Orleans Bounce take on Dancehall Reggae, and the other one is Detroit House meets Future Garage. See if you can figure out which is which:

Raw Passion – DJ Ayres Remix by T&ARecords

Click here for Clicks and Whistles “Neva Get Caught” EP with remixes by Tittsworth, Deathface, Unsub, Starks & Nacey and Subvader

BLING DAWG – CUT OFF (DJ AYRES REMIX) by FEDERATION SOUND

Click here for Federation Sound “Flatlands Remix Project” Album

Here are all the songs I sampled on “I’d Fuck Me,” my new EP on T&A Records.

Aphex Twin – Bucephalus Bouncing Ball (right click “save target as”)

Secret Weapon – Must Be The Music (right click “save target as”)

Sergio Mendes – Magalenha (right click “save target as”)

Wynton Marsalis – Skain’s Domain (right click “save target as”)

Herbie Hancock – Watermelon Man right click “save target as”

This was one of the first jazz albums I ever bought, bit shout out to Jamie Hodge for starting me off digging for The Headhunters and The Meters when I was a freshman in college. Herbie Hancock re-recorded this funkier version in 1973; the original jazz version from 1962’s Takin’ Off is also below (after the jump).

Common Sense – Watermelon right click “save target as”

Around the same time, this was my favorite album. Common, pre-Kufi era when he was still talking a whole lot of drunken bullshit. This one was produced by No I.D., who slipped in a sample of Johnnie Taylor’s “Watermelon Man” on the hook.

More watermelons after the jump!
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I’D FUCK ME COMING JUNE 19
preview the whole EP on the T&A Soundcloud