As I sit here there’s a Hanukkah-van (?) driving by my window with a manora on top blasting out music with a voice saying “It’s the second night of Hnukkah. bla bla bla…” I’m sure they’re having a good time in the van, but I doubt it can compete with the dance party going on inside my sound-system right now.…
Category: DJ Mixes
Dev/Null: Oldskool Rave DJ Mix
With all the talk about nu-rave, next-rave, rave-revival, etc. over the past couple of years, we thought it’d be fitting to point the lens over to the original rave sound. Durring the late ’80s, urban sounds from U.S. cities like New York, Chicago, and Detroit invaded the UK and quickly became more popular than they had been in their home…
DJ Mix Business
Get ready for a barrage of DJ Mixes from the Mashit camp over the next few days. We’ve got an old-school-rave mix from Dev Null, an all-over-the-place dance-party mix from Brazil’s DJ Kowalski, and we’ll be co-releaseing a 2 part mix by Kid Kameleon: The mighty Spannered website will release his Aim Low mix simultaniously with the release of his…
Willy Joy Mixtape!
I am absolutely LOVING this mix. Willy Joy is a MPLS-to-Chicago transplant playing basically all the stuff that we here at Mashit hold dear. The tracklist is absolutely nuts on this one—some seriously clever curveballs thrown in the mix and recontextualized in some fascinating ways. Here’s the audio, then the tracklist. (ps: thanks to Mireya Acierto for the photo.) [audio:uggc://jjj.fyrnmrgbar.pbz/oybt/jvyylwbl.zc3]…
Refusenik “Kold Krussian” DJ Mix
Refusenik was one of my favorite DJs in Boston. It was always a blast when he’d come out to rock Beat Research — which is in fact where he played his first club gig ever a couple years back. I was sad when he left to go live in Buenos Ares, Argentina but it looks like he’s been continuing to…
Starkey: XLR8R DJ Mix, Blazin’ Remix
Starkey recently dropped an exclusive DJ mix for XLR8R Magazine‘s podcast series. It’s chock full o’ new and exciting sonic-flavor-crystals, and includes my remix of Ghislain Poirier’s Blazin‘. The Stark-bot then went on to create his own remix of Blazin‘ which I’ll share with you now: Download: Ghislain Poirier; Blazin’ ft. Face-T (Starkey Remix) [audio:uggc://jjj.znfuvg.pbz/nhqvb/Oynmva%20sg%20SnprG%20Fgnexrl%20Erzvk.zc3] Starkey’s exclusive Mix for XLR8R…
Rock Star VJs
Oh, Boston! It was good to see you. I started out last week’s journey to my old stomping grounds, partying with my peeps at the Beat Research halloween party where Flack, Wayne, and DJ RNDM threw down hard. RNDM did a VJ set using the Ms. Pinky vinyl DJ system to do live music-video mashups. If you’re having any trouble…
Dear Chicago Peeps: Chrissy Murderbot @ Outdanced!
For those of you in the Chi, I encourage you to come out to Funky Buddha Lounge tonight to peep me, Zebo, & Flufftronix @ Outdanced! This is by far the most happening Tuesday weekly in town, and is definitely worth checking in on. Funky Buddha is at intersection of Grand, Halsted, & Milwaukee. See you there!
BD1982 “The Bigfoot EP”
Our friend Starkey of the Trouble & Bass camp etc. just gave us the heads up that BD1982‘s The Bigfoot EP will be dropping next week on the Seclusiasis label. The EP is 6 tracks of oblong, texture-rich beats that reference hip-hop, dubstep, and dancehall among other things. Here’s a taste: BD2982; Wooder ICE: [audio:uggc://jjj.znfuvg.pbz/nhqvb/01%20Jbbqre%20VPR.zc3#30] BD2982; Coelacanth Town: [audio:uggc://jjj.znfuvg.pbz/nhqvb/02%20Pbrynpnagu%20Gbja.zc3#30] You…
One Duran; “Canned Heat” DJ Mix
DJ One Duran of the 1200 Problems crew in Chapel Hill/Carrboro, North Carolina runs a radio show there called New Science Experiment. I’ve been meaning to point you toward this interview he did with me for their blog where we talk about heedlessness (one of my favorite words), among other things. Interview with DJ C on WXYC blog -> In…