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Excited to see this happening. Legendary Miami Bass label Cut It Up Def is apparently back in business (as “Cut It Up Def v2.0“), and has re-released the seminal “Miami Bass Jams” comp as a digitally remastered CD & 2LP. The tracklist on this thing is seriously amazing. Like, WOWIE WOW guys. Here are a couple of mp3s:
Download: Jock D; Partytime ‘91
Download: Splack Pack; Shake That Ass Bitch
XLR8R magazine asked me to contribute to their annual Best Of poll this year and some of my comments are published in this month’s issue. I thought I’d share them — plus a bunch of the ones that didn’t make the cut — with y’all here:
Best Artist
South Rakkas Crew
I’ve been digin’ these guys dancehall productions for a minute but their “Mix Up” release on Mad Decent is completely untethered.
Best Album
Durrty Goodz; Axiom EP
Durrty is one of the most dynamic and talented rappers in the grime game, and many of the beats on this EP are stellar too.
Best Single/12″
Dude N Nem; Watch My Feet
The emerging juke sound has quite a few bangers bubbling up around Chicago, but this one is a true piece of pop-genius. It’s got the classic half-time/double-time, hip-hop/ghetto-house combination, and really fun party lyrics.
Now here’s an up-and-coming visual artist of whom I am incredibly fond. Her name is Magda Boreysza, she lives/works in Scotland (although she’s originally from Poland), and I just adore her stuff. ADORE!
She’s the one who did the really slick Cuddling Lion of Judah images for the Murderbot digital release (if you haven’t bought it yet, what’s the hold-up?), and a lot of people have been asking me about the art so I figured I’d give her some blog time. In addition to smaller illustrations she does murals and puppetry. She’s currently in the process of tying up the loose edges on her website, magdaboreysza.com. More links and another bit of art after the break:
Just copped these guys today: super-limited Serato Scratch picture disc controllers designed by San Fran-based illustration superstar (and Aesop Rock collaborator) Jeremy Fish. Apparently limited to 500 2×12″ sets (retailing at $50), they were up on Turntable Lab for a super-short while until Rane caught wind of it and made a big stink. Everything is the same as a regular Serato record, except they’re puuurdy.
Now available at the Mashit MP3 Download Shop, DJ C & Zulu come at you with Body Work, a dance-floor killer in Boston-bounce style. This 4-track single contains the original mix, instrumental, a capella, and Murderbot’s Body Juke refix.
When Body Work was released as a 10-inch single on the Community Library imprint, Boomkat exclaimed:
This rough, rugged 10-inch rams the dance with the irrepressible boshment killer Body Work… grinding riddim grunting with gyrating pleasure… sure to cause carnage… splintered dubstep with a dancehall vibe..
Listen
DJ C & Zulu; Body Work:
DJ C & Zulu; Body Work (Murderbot’s Body Juke Refix):
Body Work is the prequel to DJ C & Zulu’s Darling single which will be released here soon with a remix by Ninja Tune’s Ghislain Poirier
As always here at Mashit.com, this release is available as high-quality, 320kb MP3s, properly tagged, including BPM info for you DJs. And if you buy the whole album (4-track single) you get the printable cover-art too.
Preview and Download Body Work now ->
Other Recent Mashit Releases
Murderbot; Ruff in the Bunny Fizness
11 jungle-rave anthems
To kill sound-systems and destroy dance-floors
Peter Hollo from Sydney, Australia’s Utility Fog radio show recently emailed asking if we could “bring Kid Kameleon out of hiding” for a 
Mashit DJ Mix. Soon thereafter Kid K popped his head out and offered up not just one, but a 2-part mix, to be released jointly by Mashit and the awesome London-based culture portal, Spannered.
Here at Mashit we’re serving up the Aim High mix which is ironically full of super-LOW dubstep basslines. Meanwhile over at Spannered they’re presenting the Aim Low mix which we haven’t heard yet but can only assume has a lot of high-end frequencies going on(?).
In addition, Kid K commissioned Caracas, Venezuela’s graphic designer extraordinaire, Inkcore to design art for the 2 mixes. You can check out more of his work here and here.
Without further adu, allow us to give you:
Download: Kid Kameleon; Aim High
Tracklist:
Now go listen to Kid Kameleon; Aim Low at Spannered ->
Blaerg sent in this bangin’ remix of Christina Aguilera’s Ain’t No Other Man. As is often the case here, this track is really a remix rather than a combination-of-tracks mashup. Blaerg does however mash-up Amen and Think breaks, and stirs them in with a chopped-up version the DJ Premier produced Aguilera pop number.
Download:
Christina Aguilera; Ain’t No Other Man (Blaerg Oral Fistfuck Remix)
In October we kicked off the Mashit MP3 download shop with the exclusive MP3 release of DJ C’s Sonic Weapons album, and last month we released Murderbot’s debut album Ruff In The Bunny Fizness.
Next Tuesday (12/18/07) in the Mashit MP3 Download Shop, DJ C & Zulu come at you with Body Work, a dance-floor killer in Boston-bounce style. This 4-track single contains the original mix, instrumental, a capella, and Murderbot’s Body Juke refix.
Continue reading ‘Mashit Release: DJ C & Zulu; “Body Work”’ ->
First off, my apologies to everybody for being out of commission for so damn long on this blog. School / work / music / running a record label / making holiday plans have had quite the effect on my blog volume over the past month, but soon I’ll be back to my old, prolific self!
So…for my first entry of the post-finals season, I figured I’d alert all the Chicago heads to an arts event going down this weekend: the Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Sale! It’s basically a big grouping of fantastic local artists & crafty-types offering goods ranging from super-hip avant-garde art pieces to good ol’ fashioned mittens and such. It’s a great way to get some seriously unique xxx-mas shopping done, and best of all, I’m Playing! Come catch your close personal friend Chrissy Murderbot on the decks from 4-6pm, Saturday.
Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Sale:
December 8/9, noon-8pm
Pulaski Park Fieldhouse, 1419 W Blackhawk (near Division & Ashland)
The very first Mashup of the Week that I posted on this blog was a mix of 50-Cent’s I Get Money with Lexie Lee’s Woman Run It Vocal. It was a weird one. I had to pitch up Lexie’s vocals to get them to work harmonically with the beat. 
You can hear it tactfully mixed in to DJ Kowalski’s Tetrachave mix, and you can also still download it, and the a-capella if you feel like doing your own mix.
More recently, while working on my mix for Samurai.FM, I produced another mashup using Woman Run It, this time on the Fugee-La beat, and I’m much happier with it. Not only is Fugee-La one of my all-time favorite beats, but I didn’t have to tweak Lexie’s vocals all to hell, and you can hear her wicked lyrics much more clearly:
Download: DJ C (Ft. Lexie Lee, Fugees); Lexie La
Watch: The Fugees; Fugee-La
If you need a sweatshirt, a thong, a wall clock, or a lunch box, and at the same time would like to support the Mashit brand, this is just the place to feed two birds with one scone. ->
Boston Bounce
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Fresh dance-floor formulas developed by Boston beat scientists.
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