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Archive for July, 2008

Obamattack!

Published by DJ C on July 31, 2008 in Politics and Video. 1 Comment

This McCain attack ad equating Obama with Britney Spears and Paris Hiltion is hilarious!

John McCain and Barak Obama First of all, I don’t know about Paris, but Britney was a Bush supporter. Is the ad trying to say Obama is a stupid blond bimbo like the one who voted for Bush before? Wow!

Second, the ad is practically an endorsement of Obama. I mean they’re saying he’s the most popular guy in the world and then questioning whether he’s ready to lead. It’s quite obvious from the images in the ad that he’s already leading.

The one infuriating part of the ad is the claim that Obama will increase our dependence on foreign oil. That’s a classic Republican attack machine lie.

Right now we could increase the fuel efficiency of our cars to 43 miles a gallon, and if we increased the fuel efficiency of our cars to 43 miles a gallon then we would have to import zero oil from the middle east. That is something that we could do right now.

- Barak Obama (Barak TV | Environment ->)

McCain attack ad; “Celeb”:

Post-Tour Recap

Published by DJ C on July 29, 2008 in Events. 1 Comment

Some of you may have noticed I’ve been using Twitter to micro-blog during my mini-tour, but in case you missed that, here’s a recap of my tour in the form of a tweet log.

with added commentary

09:38 AM July 18
DJ C tour kicks off tonight @ the Enormous Room in Cambridge @ Pan Am w. Baltimoroder (Heartthrob)

11:31 AM July 18
On the bus having a chat with a woman who migrated from Jamaica in ’68 about mili’s “my boy lollypop.”

06:46 PM July 18
Ah! Central square in the summer! Its good to be back.

Now with outdoor sidewalk seating at restaurants and bars! Talk with pan-handlers while sucking down some muscles in white wine garlic broth.

03:46 AM July 19
Enormous room is my fave club/lounge/bar in the world. Good peoples! Big up to baltimoroder for hosting and rockin’ the house.

04:54 PM July 19
Watching outdoor roller derby in providence.

Providence Vs. New Hampshire in NH’s first battle. Providence won. The main downtown plaza has an outdoor roller rink!

08:37 PM July 19
Most diverse crowd ever! Providence, RI.

infants to elderly, every color, gay and straight, poor and rich; literally, this was one of the largest cross sections of society I’ve every seen mingling together at the same event. This all while listening to bands/DJs and sipping on micro-brew beers.

10:05 AM July 20
The Water’s on Fire! Party in the tunnel at Indie Arts Fest in Providence went off last night. Good sweaty fun!

I had a great time-slot at the fest, spinning in the tunnel just as the last Indie Arts Fest. band came off the main stage at one end of the tunnel, and the WaterFire fest. was kicking into high gear at the other. This made for a full tunnel of folks ready to get down, and that we did.

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R.I.P. K-Swift

Published by DJ C on July 23, 2008 in Free Tunes, Genres, Mashups / Remixes and Podcast. 2 Comments

K-Swift R.I.P. I’m getting ready to head out to Baltimore tomorrow for a visit with my man Gregzinho (of Beat Diaspora fame) before my gig in Silver Spring, MD on Friday night. I normally couldn’t be around B’more without ruminating on that city’s club music which has been such an influence.

Now I won’t be able to be there without thinking of B’more’s club queen, DJ K-Swift. She died Monday after a swimming pool accident and the Baltimore club scene is reeling. She’s been a mainstay in the the scene since the early days, and for the past 10 years had been spreading the B’more gospel as a high profile radio personality on Baltimore’s Q92 station.

As a female DJ, K-Swift was rare in the male-dominated scene she loved. She took club music’s raw and raunchy attitude by the horns and worked it. In honor of her life, I’ve made this little remix using an acapella from one her Club Queen albums. Club on, queen!

MP3 Download:
DJ C; This My Juce (ft. K-Swift) ->

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K Swift CD Promo Video:
The Jump Off Vol. 10 – Baltimore Club

DJ C Summer Mini-Tour ’08

Published by Mr. Mashit on July 22, 2008 in DJ Mixes, Events, Free Tunes, Mashups / Remixes and Music. 4 Comments

BASS FOR YOUR WAIST!!!!

Beat producer & party scientist DJ C spreads his fiercely eclectic gospel of bass-heavy, bounced-up dancefloor-blends across the land.

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Immediate Heat Wave

Published by DJ C on July 15, 2008 in DJ Mixes, Events, Free Tunes and Genres. 2 Comments

The Heat Wave crew in London just sent over this new mix of “Half an hour of jump-up Caribbean rave music.”

the UK sounds of garage, bassline, funky and jungle filtered through the tasty carnival vibes of bashment and soca.

It’s a companion to their new Immediate Sounds club night which will feature heavy doses of said tunes.

Listen:
Gabriel Heatwave and Ben Dubstar; Immediate Sounds Vol 1

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Download @ The Heat Wave site ->

Tracklist:

Beenie Man & So Solid Crew – Yagga Yo
Ms Dynamite & Menta – Ramp
El-B – Shorty (Steppas Remix)
Glamour Murphy – What The Woman Want (Acapella)
QQ – Screechie
Stacy – Let Meh Know
Kyla & Paleface – Do You Mind (Crazy Cousins Remix)
Geeneus & Zinc – I Try (Instrumental)
Vybz Kartel – Stop Gwaan Stush (Acapella)
Top Cat & Double 99 – Ripgroove
Durrty Goodz – Pum Pum Stealer
Tubby – Turbo Shandy
Destra & Dizzee Rascal – Flex (Tim Turbo Refix)
Plastic Gangsters – Rock To The Rhythm
Shabba Ranks – Love Punaany Bad (Baby G Remix)
Elephant Man – Nobody Nobody
Notch – Nuttin’ Nuh Go So (RCola Remix)
Soundclash feat Red Fox & Screechie Dan – Pum Pum Shorts

Beat Research Lab

Published by DJ C on July 14, 2008 in Events, Free Tunes, Mashups / Remixes, Podcast and Reviews. 2 Comments

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 a companion course to the weekly party, also called Beat Research. This year he worked with his advanced Beat Research students to put together a compilation of some of their best work and the outcome is a free CD and download album entitled The Petri Disc Vol. 1.

One of my favorite tracks on the comp is DJ Fraze One’s “Dub” remix of Rick Ross’ Everyday I’m Hustlin’:

MP3 Download:
DJ Fraze One; Hustlin (Dub Mix) ->

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Many more where that came from: The Petri Disc Vol. 1 site ->

DJ C “B-Low” Mix

Published by DJ C on July 9, 2008 in DJ Mixes, Free Tunes, Genres and Podcast. 17 Comments

Download: DJ C; B-Low DJ Mix ->

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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 down south (Caracas Venezuela), Cardopusher and Pacheko who’ve put together a slammin’ little album that we’ve released here at Mashit. Check it out in the Shop ->

Tracklist:

Stenchman; “On The Road Again”
Schlachthofbronx; “Bronx Dub:
Max Ulis; “kILL aNOTHA sOUND”
abZ; “Cylinder”
Elemental; “Space Expander”
Juju; “Punks”
Fat Freddy’s Drop; “Cay’s Crays (Digital Mystikz Version)”
Si Begg; “Pete Fucking Tong”
MRK1; “Never Warned”
Sosolimited; “Um Nah”
Exillon; “Moon Shiner Remix”
Burial; “Archangel (Boy 8-Bit‘s Simple Re-Mix)”
N-Type / The Others; “Way of the Dub (Caspa Rmx)”
abZ; “Bumpy (Wascal Mix)”
RSD; “Kingfisher”
DJ C ft. Chrissy; “Strut Dub”
Schlachthofbronx; “Fatthing (Dubstep Rmx)”
The Colonel; “Big Trouble (Original Mix)”
Starkey; “Stripped Gutted (DJ C Mix)”
Timeblind; “Skater 6″
Squincy Jones “Shawty Swing (Nintendub Edit)”
DJ C (Ft. Ghislain Poirier, Face T, & T.I.); “Blazin’ Hurts”
Ghislain Poirier (feat. Face-T); “Blazin’ (DJ C Remix)”
Stenchman; “The Number One”
Sully; “Living”
DJ C; “Since You’ve Been In This Club (Dub Mix)”
Starkey; “Dementia”
Schlachthofbronx; “System Red Remix (ft. Mr. Vegas and Babylon System)”
Villa Diamante; “Daleduro vs Lady Tigra”
Timeblind; “CopyCopy”
DJ Donna Summer: “Rock Rock Rock (Aaron Spectre Remix)”
Pacheko; “Bi Polar Bear”
Cotti; “Mi Nua Friend Oddessy (Remix)”
Cardopusher; “PAO! Total Xplosion of the Heart (Cardopusher rmx)”
Buju Banton; “Murderer”
Pacheko; “Green Bull”
Point B; “Gymede (Original Mix)
Ebola; “Teledildonics”
Cardopusher; “Homeless”
DJ C; “Dehydrogenated”
Math Head; “Last”

Zizek Summer Tour: Digital-Cumbia Decends on North America

Published by DJ C on July 8, 2008 in Events, Genres and Reviews. 3 Comments

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Villa Diamante; Chancha Via Circuitovs Lil Mama ->

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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 all of the few people in the place to sway and eventually dance their faces off. By the end of the show, members of the crew had formed an impromptu acoustic cumbia jam with traditional drums, percussion, melodica, and vocals. It was a crying shame that there weren’t more people in the house to experience and partake in one of the best dance parties of the year.

All hope is not lost. Zizek returns to North Amercia this week on a 16 stop summer tour, including another Sonotheque party, and you’re You strongly advised to catch them.

Villa Diamante will be on the tour. Give a listen to this mix he did for the XLR8R Podcast:

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Tracklist and download ->

In their own words:

Zizek is dedicated to the creation of endless tropical nights of dancing utilizing the emerging sounds of Cumbia, Hip Hop, Dancehall, ReggaetÃ³n, Bastard Pop, Mashups and more. The goal however is to give these styles, ideas and rhythms an Argentine touch, with the aim of putting Buenos Aires on the map of the global music scene.

The star of Zizek has been Cumbia, a Latin American sound born from the fusion of old and new worlds in Colombia. Zizek is adapting cumbia’s distinctive rhythm to make it relevant to a new generation of Latin Americans and itÂ´s artists have created a few genres of their own, like cumbia beat, cumbiastep, and cumbia hop. Zizek’s producers are bringing out contrasting takes on a genre that already has a massive following and it is exploding faster than it ever would have up until now.

Following up their much hyped SXSW appearance, the revolving Zizek crew will be in the USA, Canada and Mexico again this July for a coast to coast summer blowout tour. DJ Villa Diamante and Bersa Discos Oro11 together with ZZK Records newest artists Fauna and Chancha VÃa CircuÃto will be bringing the new sound of Argentina to North America this time around.

The tour will feature DJ Sets and Performances by:

Villa Diamante
B.A.’s “it DJ” and Zizek Resident, specializes in mashing up Argentine & Latin American flavor with Northern Hemisphere Hip Hop, Grime, Electro, & Pop.

Fauna
Fauna’s “Tropitronica” sound blends Latin elements with electronic beats and the duo includes live hip-hop/ragga vocals to round out their upbeat, sonically innovative productions.

Chancha VÃa CircuÃto
Chancha is one of the hottest names in the new cumbia scene. His productions have caught the eye of international beat hunters and his tracks have been featured heavily on mixtapes by Diplo, Maga Bo and more.

Oro11
Co -owner of S.F.’s Bersa Discos, Oro11 lived in Buenos Aires for 3 years where he developed a taste for intensifying and modernizing cumbia villera through harder dancehall and Baltimore club beats.

Tour Dates: