Turntables No More

What is the future of the DJ turntable? Most of my colleagues and I use tools like Serato Scratch Live when we DJ, allowing us to bring huge libraries of music to the party without hauling heavy crates of vinyl. We’re still using turntables ’cause they’re what we learned on, so we’re comfortable with them, but it seems to me…

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DJ Ripley “To The Party Members” DJ Mix

DJ Ripley; To The Party Members -> [audio:https://archive.mashit.com/audio/To%20The%20Party%20Members.mp3] Next month DJ Ripley and Kid Kameleon will be on a tour which will bring them through Chicago to rock with us at the No Mas Tequila party. Ripley recently put together this mix of dance-floor mashers called To The Party Members which we present here in order to wet your appetite…

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Lazer-Bass

Megasoid; Tank Thong Remix Tape [audio:https://archive.mashit.com/audio/TANK%20THONG%20MIXTAPE.mp3] I was reading the New Yorker this week and came across an article by Sasha Frere-Jones in which he coined the term “lazer bass” to describe the music of Montreal-based party crew Megasoid. Ghislain Poirier used to call the genre “big asshole bass” or “big ass bass.” accurate descriptions but less likely to fly…

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DJ C & Zulu; “Gods & Robots Mixtape”

DJ C & Zulu; Gods & Robots Mixtape -> [audio:https://archive.mashit.com/audio/Gods%20and%20Robots%20Mixtape.mp3] Last February, when we posted a bunch of Zulu’s a-capellas here and challenged folks to  “download – remix – upload” we had no idea we’d get back so many dope tracks, but we did and many of them are featured in this 31-track, 1-hour continuous DJ C mix of Zulu‘s…

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DJ C “On The Night Bass” Mix

[audio:https://archive.mashit.com/audio/On%20The%20Night%20Bass.mp3] DJ C; On The Night Bass I made this for last month’s Samurai.fm mix and now I’d like to share it with y’all here. Check the tracklist below for lots-a juicy links to more info about the artists, tracks, and labels. Also note the tracks Dear John and Exhibition Virtues (Hardcore Tonight Remix) which is featured on the DJ…

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DJ C Live in Milwaukee DJ Mix

Photo by Jeekoos Last month I DJed the Sublow Bounce party in Milwaukee. It was a blast and the kind folks who put it together also recorded my set. I’m not sure weather I should be happy about that or not ’cause it features drunken mixing and Serato glitching when folks were jumping up and down on the wood floors…

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DJ Mix: Hanuman vs. El Kano; “Soundcrash”

Our friends El Kano from London’s Adverse Camber crew and Hanuman of Bristol’s Monkey Steak have faced off in the ultimate sound-crash and below you can hear the outcome: 50 minutes of global wreckage for your sound-system. once you’ve consumed this mix make sure to check out some of the other wicked mixes by these two: El Kano – >…

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This Is My Jam

My friends over at The Echo Nest have done it again. This time they’ve got a wacky new web 2.0 music app called “This Is My Jam.” It’s still in beta, actually I think it may still be in alpha but they’ve given me the go ahead to share it with y’all. Here’s how it works: Use the search box…

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DJ Mix: Squincy Jones; “Nintendub”

This is crunkstep if I ever heard it. Houston, TX based Squincy Jones is on that screwed-dubstep-nintendo shit that you’ve heard in your dreams but you didn’t consciously realize existed yet. In his words: I worked on this bad jackson for about 2-3 weeks. I had a couple beta versions I worked on and slowly kept adding to it. I’m…

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RIP Tim Haslett

Back in the mid ’90s I used to go to parties where the Beyond the QE2 crew would be throwing down, and they’d always play an inspiring mix of IDM, techno, jungle, house, rave, etc, in addition to a new sound out of Baltimore that they called Baltimore breaks. I loved this Baltimore sound and couldn’t understand why it was…

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