Saturday Morning

Bobby Pierce - New York

Marcos Valle - Samba '68

Alice Clark - Alice Clark

I'm going to keep my big mouth shut, and just post this playlist. Its Saturday morning, and I'm keeping it real mellow....


The whole playlist is here...

GOING WAY WAY BACK...

The tape digitizing project has begun!!! I got crates upon crates of shit, from official underground mixtapes to adhoc freestyle sessions to every college radio show I ever did on WESU 88.1.

I'm also gonna post some of my favorite DJ mixtapes of all time, so if you got a dusty box in the closet send me your old Stretch & Bob tapes...




Back by popular demand, here's my second official mixtape, circa '98, on some ol' high school shit. If you want to take a trip down memory lane when underground hip-hop was king, rap music was raw, production soulful, & Stretch & Bob reigned supreme--look no further. One of my earliest so the cuts are crude as fuck but song selection solid as a mothafucka.

The Bear Never Sleeps Side A

The Bear Never Sleeps Side B

Smooth Sailin

And I even got my mama sayin'..

So Earth, Wind and Fire played at the White House today, and I sat here and organized a couple thousand records, gathering tons of stuff I won't need immediate access to in the age of Serato. So, among all the old promo records headin to storage, I came across this Roscoe 12" I remember feeling in '03 . Roscoe is Kurupt's younger brother from Philly, and the track is built off the same 'Brazilian Rhyme' loop as Tribe's Mr Muhammed. Def Jef and Soul G's flip gives a smooth West Coast feel to a sample thats been beaten to death over the years. I've posted the track and instrumental at 320, as well as the EWF track. Boogie Banger also has an edit of the EWF track rumoured to have been done by 45 King. Hey diddle diddle...

Smooth Sailin' - Roscoe

Smooth Sailin (Inst) - Roscoe

Brazilian Rhyme - Earth Wind and Fire

Ok, zshare is acting up, all 3 tracks are here for now....

Gary Davis and his Professor - The Pop

makes me want some bisscuits n crumpeeeetz

download @ 320 kbatchps

Allen Toussaint is that dude

Just listening to the highly recommended reissue/comp "What Is Success", and thinking, even if you discount all his legendary production work for others, Mr Toussaint ranks as one of my favorite soul dudes. 'Southern Nights' has been in solid rotation for almost a year, and listening to pretty much anything he's touched, you can tell he really just personifies N'awlins. Here's 2 cuts on the mellow side of things that caught my ear as I walked out the door..


Allen Toussaint - From a Whisper to a Scream


Allen Toussaint - We the People

gangsta

What I'm Listening To Today

Quick post, filled with stolen links and a couple things I've been rocking lately:

Bernard Wright - Haboglabotribin' - Boogie Palace continues to kill it, dropping some knowledge and a nice clean copy of this classic break.

Superstar Quamallah - Love Has Made Us - I don't have any idea who Superstar Quamallah is, but I caught this track on WYDU's big year end list, and the beats been in my head for two weeks. I know underground hip-hop ain't hip, but this track's got me right now....

Chin Chin- Mr Sexy Boy - Album came out on Def Jux recently (yes, really!). Kinda feelin it...

Rene Costy - Scrabble - Prob best known as the break for Dilla's 'Fuck The Police'. Been trying to find a clean copy of this for a minute, this one's aight, but seems to be ripped of Gilles Peterson's radio show. Meh...

Method Man and Raekwon- Wu Ohh - New Wu-Tang that doesn't suck! H/t to We Live This.

Disco, Bitches II: Electric Boogaloo

First off, peace to our 2 new contributors. Drizzlepops will be dropping Miami bass and booty music, straight from the mountain time zone. Just don't request Mobb Deep (hateur!). Dr Gupta, generally known for talking nonsense on CNN and being our future Surgeon general, will be dropping all sorts of exotic ethnic funk and disco gems, in addition to being totally willing to cut your head open and mess around with your brain. Seriously, email him, he's looking for test subjects. Neither of them should feel limited by the genres I've mentioned here; at least I didn't say Sanjay would be posting bollywood jams, right? (btw, please post some bollywood dude, i know you got the heat, dont hold out on us)

Ok, back to the lecture at hand. As promised, I got some tracks with rappin on them, but I'm gonna stick with the disco theme too. I'm also going to follow Dr. Gupta's lead and keep the yappin to a minimum. Let me just say though, disco rap is whats up in 2009.

Johnson and Johnson - Wow
Don't know much about these dudes, but this track has been killing me for a week. Smooth shit, someone do an intro edit please...

Kanye West- Love Lockdown (B. Cause Disco Edit)
Another killer blend from DJ B. Cause. My man sent me a data disc of edits recently, and let just say, this dudes stuff make me want to quit doing edits. Seriously, buy his cds...

Busta Rhymes- Dont Touch Me (U-Terns Disco Mix)
Last up, another disco edit, this one by U-Tern, another DJ who's skills on the decks make me ashamed. As a bonus, his blog and podcast also makes me feel deeply inferior. If you don't know how he gets down, get familiar.

Circle City Band - Magic (1982)

Someone page the Doc?

download @ 192 (unfortunately)