Truesday Triple Threat

So I'm trying to keep up the pace with the posts but blogging is hard. Here's a couple joints I had laying around.

Like everyone else and their mother, I gave the Santogold album a lot of play in mi casa this summer. Can't lie, I kinda agree with people who say the album is a little hit and miss, but when it hits it hits, and I also don't begrudge her for cashing checks off licensing parts of the album; its 2008, and CDs aint paying bills like they used to. Anyone with half a brain should be happy to have the music in commercials, and the concept of "selling out" is so 1998. Anyway, besides her album, Santi put out a mix cd with Diplo. One of my favorite tracks on the original lp is "I'm A Lady", despite it being on a more mellow 80's rock/new wave kind of tip. On the diplo mix, it gets reworked into a more club friendly track, with bonus "I Need Love" interpolation! I havent seen a full-legnth version of it around anywhere, so I just slightly edited it for clurb consumption, taking out the 30 second talking interlude from the middle of the track and looping the hook from the end a couple times to extend the originals 2 min running time a bit and make for easy mixing. Nothing too special on my end, but a great mix for Diplo. Peace to philly.
Santogold & Diplo - I'm A Lady RMX (edit)


Next up, here's a 12" I recently picked up in upstate NY, Freak In Me y MC Juice. I don't have time right now to fully research this track, but from what I can tell, its basically some New Jack Swing from the London-based Production House label, released around '92. I don't always get down with all the Euro-Rap, but when it works it works, and this track pretty much has the feel of the whole era down pat.
MC Juice - Freak In Me (Naughty Mix)


Lastly, I have the first Fly By Night exclusive. My homies Illfonics have been making all sorts of power moves over the last couple years, licensing tracks and placing beats on recent releases by the Clipse and LL Cool J. They flipped the masters to a pretty recognizable soul classic here, and basically, this is my shit. Jeddy sent the track my way, and I laid some seasoning on it in the form of Wayne and Jay. NEW SHIT!!!
Hello Illfonics

Till next time batches.....

THE COLD WAR IS BACK!!!

Since our grip on the title of World's Most Dominant superpower (WMD's) is slipping, I thought it suitable to name this mixtape after another reemerging superpower. We got exclusives--Putin trading shots with Palin--plus a former WWF star who is my namesake.


01 Bear's Mixed Bag

02 Club Electronic Dance

03 Club Hip-Hop

04 Club Dance Hall


SECTION 1: BEAR'S MIXED BAG
Erotic City (Dance Mix)—Prince
DaynNight—Kid Cudi (Crookers remix)
Travelling At The Speed Of Thought (Bearsmash Remix)—Ultramagnetic MC's
Brew Barrymore—Diplo
L.E.S. Artistes (Album)—Santogold
Beggin' (Pilooski Edit)—Frankie Valli
I'm Mad (DJ Scratch Jazzy Remix)— EPMD

SECTION 2: CLUB ELECTRO/DANCE
Brazilian Rhyme (Kenny Dope Remix)— Earth Wind & Fire/Beijo
STRONGER (A-TRAK REMIX)—Kanye West
Grooves in the Heart (Electro Mix)—Deelite
Body Baby (Sinden & Count Of Monte Cristal Remix)—Pharoah Monch
Paper Planes (Scottie B Remix)—M.I.A.
Hollaback Girl (Hollatronix Remix By Diplo)—Gwen Stefani
Keep Me Home—Kraak En Smaak
That Type Of Music (DJ Enki Remix)—Zeph & Azeem
NY Lipps—Soulwax
Pro Nails—Kid Sister f/ Kanye West

SECTION 3: CLUB HIP-HOP
Get Buck in Here— DJ Fellie Fel, Akon, Diddy, Ludacris & Lil’ Jon
Fire Fire—M.I.A./Diplo
Touch it—Busta Rhymes
I Want you—Common f/ Will.I.Am
Say it Right—Nelly Furtado
The Way I are—Timbaland f/ Keri Hilson
Say Whut?—B’more Club
Put that pussy on me—Spank Rock
Ride-Zion I

SECTION 4: CLUB DANCEHALL FIRE
Tell me—Kuttit
Tell me again—Kuttit
Verme—Baby Ranks & Notch
Beautiful—Jabaman
Big Up—Shaggy & Rayvon
Nuttin No Go So—Notch
California Soul—Marlena Shaw

Audio Daily Double

I was gonna try and post some clever shit up here for the first post. Instead, here's a couple tracks that I hope each represent Fly By Night and what we're trying to do. I'm going to attempt to regularly post up some of what i'm listening to, what's come back into rotation, basically just music I think everyone should know about. Nothing super rare just yet, just a little bit of heat for the fall. More soon....




Geto Boys- Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta

Headhunters- God Made Me Funky

Eugene Blacknell- Wah Wah Funk

Willy Hutch- Tell Me Why Has Our Love Turned Cold

Slick Rick- I Run This