I’ll be heading out for a little tour on the East Coast later this week which will eventually wind up at my old haunt, Beat Research at the Enormous Room in Cambridge, MA. Can’t wait to get back on the decks there with fellow riddim methodists DJ Flack and Wayne&Wax! For the past few years DJ Flack has been teaching…
Category: Music
DJ C “B-Low” Mix
Download: DJ C; B-Low DJ Mix -> [audio:https://archive.mashit.com/audio/B-Low.mp3] More vibes comin’ atcha! This one’s a dubstep-centric mix I cooked up featuring BIG tunes by a bunch of friends, in addition to a few folks who’s paths I hope to cross one of these days. Check the links below for more info about the artists involved, including our pals from way…
Zizek Summer Tour: Digital-Cumbia Decends on North America
MP3 Download: Villa Diamante; Chancha Via Circuitovs Lil Mama -> [audio:https://archive.mashit.com/audio/Chancha%20Via%20Circuitovs%20Lil%20Mama.mp3] A few months ago I wandered over to Sonotheque to check out Zizek’s first-ever Chicago performance. The rag-tag crew of Argentina-based sonic alchemists threw down beats the likes of which that sound-system had never before been asked to reproduce. The swaggering shuffle of electronic cumbia with huge bass forced…
Since You’ve Been In This Club Again
MP3 Download: DJ C; Since You’ve Been In This Club (Dub Mix) -> [audio:https://archive.mashit.com/audio/Since_Youve_Been_In_This_Club_Dub_Mix.mp3] DJ C; Since You’ve Been In This Club (Kelly Clarkson Vocal Mix) -> [audio:https://archive.mashit.com/audio/Since_Youve_Been_In_This_Club_Kelly_Clarkson_Vocal_Mix.mp3] After I posted Since You’ve Been In This Club — my remix of Usher’s Love In This Club and Sasha Frere-Jones singing Kelly Clarkson’s Since You’ve Been Gone — I got a…
DJ Intel “Bump Me Loud!” Mix
DJ Mix Download: DJ Intel Bump Me Loud! -> [audio:https://archive.mashit.com/audio/Bump_Me_Loud.mp3] Here’s another in our continuing series of summertime ’08 mixes to bump at your next sublime experience. I had been noticing DJ Intel‘s name on flyers all over Chicago recently, but hadn’t had a chance to hear what he was up to until we rocked a party together a few…
Max Ulis “BEEPER FOR Hipsters”
Max passed us this rmx recently and we’d like to pass it on over to you: MP3 Download: Max Ulis; BEEPER FOR Hipsters -> [audio:https://archive.mashit.com/audio/BEEPER%20FOR%20HIpsters.mp3] The Cool Kids; Hit Me On My Beeper Video: [youtube _l23kDuNvnU]
Ghostbeard “Not a Latest Dance Craze”
Ghostbeard; Not A Latest Dance Craze -> [audio:https://archive.mashit.com/audio/Not%20A%20Latest%20Dance%20Craze.mp3] Summer’s just about here and that means it’s time for a sweet, waist-winding dancehall mix. Montreal’s DJ Ghostbeard (AKA Jeff Waye, the guy who runs Ninja Tune’s North American office) just happened to drop such a mix on me recently and I feel it’s only right to share. Ghostbeard’s like the only…
Rickrollin’ With Obama
Let me begin by saying that I’m not trying to make Obama look bad here, in fact I hope with every fiber of my body that he becomes our next president, but I want to share with you an observation I made recently. I was watching the video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up on YouTube (I don’t…
Mashit MP3 Shop
Update: As of April 2012 the Mashit Download Shop is no longer online. We got hacked and the crappy software we were using to run the shop was irreversibly damaged. Some of our recent releases are available through iTunes, Amazon MP3 etc. See below: DJ C; Umami (16 track album: Amazon MP3, iTunes) Deliciously varied and delectably danceable Listen/Download at Amazon MP3 -> DJ…
Since You’ve Been In This Club
DJ C; Since You’ve Been In This Club* -> [audio:https://archive.mashit.com/audio/Since_Youve_Been_In_This_Club.mp3] Wayne pointed out this article by Sasha Frere-Jones on The New Yorker site about Auto Tune. It’s the software that makes singers on many of todays pop songs sound inhuman. It’s purpose is to artificially correct the pitch of sung notes, but when tweaks are made to the settings other-worldly…