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 hone his immense party-rokin’ skillz. This eclectic mix of booty-moving beats is proof. It includes some of the cumbia tracks which are apparently all the rage down there these days, mixed with club, grime, dancehall, hiphop, mashup, ’80s-dance, baile, juke, dubstep, bhangra, and of course a bunch of less-classifiable stuff like that Santogold/Switch stuff, and the Julee Cruise/Elvis mashup at the end. In other words, get this mix now!
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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:
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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 visualizing what I mean, you’re in luck. Robotkid was in the house documenting the festivities (Flickr pics), and now RNDM’s entire set is immortalized:
RNDM and Robotkid also happen to work at Harmonix, the company that designed the popular Guitar Hero video game, and is about to unleash its latest creation, Rock Band. Robotkid was kind enough to invite me over to Harmonix headquarters so I could get a sneak-preview of the game before it’s released on Txgving day. And man, was it fun! I’m really not much of a gamer, and have never played Guitar Hero but I’ve heard a lot of hype so I was excited to see what this is all about.
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!
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:
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BD2982; Coelacanth Town:
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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.
In the meantime he made this tasty new mix-up especially for the Mashit massive. It’s quite an up-to-the-moment mix of bass-quakers that’ll make you get crunk:
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Turf Talk; Sic Wid It Is The Crew
Lethal Bizzle; Babylon’s Burning the Ghetto (Spank Rock Mix)
Buju Banton; Teaser
Kardinal Offishall & Akon; Graveyard Shift
DJ C; Come Back Version
Ward 21; Lucy
Ghislain Poirier ft. Face T; No More Blood (Megasoid Rmx)
Modeselektor; The Dark Side of the Sun
San Quinn; Do Ya Thizzle
E Da Boss w/ Lateef & Gift of Gab; Go Left (Exile Rmx)
K’Naan; Soobax
Ninjaman; Hollow Point Bad Boy
Deadbeat; Gimme a Little Dub
DJ C and Zulu; Body Work (Murderbot’s Britneywork Refix)
Samim/Pitbull; Heater (Claude Vonstroke Rmx)
South Rakkas Crew (ft. T.O.K.); Carry Feelings
U-Tern; Back to Trinidad
Seiji & MC Dolores; Todo Mundo
DJ Sega; Looka Here
Psycho Tropic; Hypnosis
Elevator Man; Frame of Mind
TTC; Telephone (Ghislain Poirier Rmx)
Neil Landstrumm; Rockers
Jr. Gong w/ Bounty Killer and Eek-A-Mouse; Khaki Suit
Here’s another mix! It’s mainly ’80s Italo- & Montreal disco, hi-NRG, & synth pop, with a lot of super-duper-exclusive re-edits that you’ll never ever hear anywhere else (unless you come see me play out). No grand overarching theme like the New Beat mix; just a lot of tracks I like strung together.
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For those of you who haven’t been following this part of Lisbon’s music scene, Kuduro is a musical style that was born in Angola in the early ’90s. The Lisbon branch of Kuduro — Lisboeta — has become a high-energy form of electronic-dance-music that’s now breaking into the mainstream. The popular kuduro band Buraka Som Sistema is in the Portuguese pop charts and has videos on MTV there.
Dublin, Ireland’s Pasta Masta sent me this DJ Mix which skillfully glides through hip-hop, soul, dancehall, dubstep, boston-bounce, funk, rock, and a bunch of other genres.
Please allow me to share with you:
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I was recently invited to spin-up a set over at Northwestern University’s radio station; WNUR 89.3 FM. My man Jeekoos runs the Part Time Suckers (PTS) radio show there and diligently records the guest DJ sets. He’s got what seems like hundreds of them archived on his website.
Their show tends to be dubstep-centric — PTS member, Searchl1te rocked a set with Zulu at the Bass Goes Boom party last week, opening for Hatcha and Benga — but those who know me know that I have trouble sticking within genres, so my set is all over the place. I did however, stick within a 135 – 155 BPM range and the outcome is a blend of kuduro, blouse, bashment, dubstep, 2-step, boston-bounce, bmore-club, mashup, grime, acid, juke, ’80s, and more:
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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 hone his immense party-rokin’ skillz. This eclectic mix of booty-moving beats is proof. It includes some of the cumbia tracks which are apparently all the rage down there these days, mixed with club, grime, dancehall, hiphop, mashup, ’80s-dance, baile, juke, dubstep, bhangra, and of course a bunch of less-classifiable stuff like that Santogold/Switch stuff, and the Julee Cruise/Elvis mashup at the end. In other words, get this mix now!
Starkey recently dropped an 
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!
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