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Zulu A Capellas: Download - Remix - Upload

Alright folks. If you’ve been working on remixes of the Zulu a capellas and you want to send them in to us for possible inclusion on the upcoming DJ C & Zulu mixtape, Gods and Robots, You’ve got till the end of this week.

Here’s the original post:

Zulu is one bad-ass vocalist. That’s why producers and DJs are always asking for his vocal tracksZulu w. Air Horn. Well, y’all are in for a treat. Zulu has generously offered up not one or two, but an entire album worth of a capellas for free download.

Here’s what we want you to do. Download - Remix - Upload: Take the vocals, produce your own track with them, then upload your finished product using MediaFire or a similar file-hosting service, and contact us with a download link so we can listen to it. A team from the Mashit camp — including Zulu himself — will compile our favorite tracks to be released as a Mashit ablum.

Please have your tracks submitted to us by February 15th.

The Vocals — Listen/Download:

  1. Ransom The Senator
  2. Ambassadors
  3. Spread The Word
  4. Animal Attraction
  5. Spanish Fly
  6. Body Work
  7. Fire Starter
  8. Turn On The Red Light
  9. Sacrament (Blaze Up)
  10. Truthfully…
  11. Call The Specialist
  12. VibesLoveMusic

New Heat from Starkey

Pop It Off Boyz; Crank Dat Batman (Starkey Adam West Mix)

Track of the Week: “Jesus Walks” Rmx.

Kenye WestYou may have heard this one in a couple of my mixes; I’ve been spinning it for quite a while now. It’s stayed in my crate through thick and thin while numerous others have been tossed aside. You may have already found it too; it’s been available for free for at least a couple of years over at Soulchampion.com.

The rhythm harkens back to my favorite period of the U.K. garage era. Before dubstep took hold with it’s minimal beats and stark sounds, there was an up-tempo swing in the popular 2-step garage tracks that I loved. Thankfully that bouncy vibe is coming back. You can hear it in recent dubstep tracks like Benga & Coki’s (seemingly soca influenced) Night. Not to mention the 4/4 Bassline stuff which digs back even further, recalling 2-step’s predecessor, speed garage.

Benga & Coki; Night Video

This week’s track is by Unknown Souljah, and as the name suggests, I had no idea who this was when I originally got it. But then I recently ran into G Notorious who runs Soulchampion.com — and who I’ve known for years — and I asked about Unknown Souljah. “That’s me!” he said, and I was like “Damn, man! I’ve been playing your track at almost every gig and didn’t even know it was yours.” It’s a 2-step garage remix of Kanye West’s Jesus Walks and it’s sick. If you’ve been sleeping get it here:

Download
Unknown Souljah; Jesus Walks (ft. Kanye West)

I <3 LoDubs

I’m really really really feeling this label lately. They’re a dubstep label run out of the Anthem Records shop in Portland, and their stuff is just SICK (not to mention their sleeve design–BEAUTIFUL!)

Seriously–they’re effing GORGEOUS sleeves–hand-printed label logo on a jacket cut from the kind of brown kraft paper that we all know and love from the bags they give you at the record shop (or the comic book shop, liquor store, porn palace…but I know them from the record store).

Anyway, LoDubs has released tunes from perennial Mashit favorite Starkey, South3rn, 6Blocc (aka L.A. jungle producer R.A.W.), and Bombaman (including a super-hot Bombaman remix of Solvent), and have an INTENSE list of slated releases for the near future: Mashit fave Pacheko, DZ (including a DZ Morcheeba remix), South3rn’s absolutely MASSIVE and super-sought-after “Fully Loaded” b/w “Muslim Dub”, a Nadja remix by Vex’d, and a 2CD mix by 6Blocc. Check out their site (just a myspace page at the moment, http://www.myspace.com/lodubsrecords), and have a free mixset of LoDubs tunes (old stuff and super-duper-tippy-top-secret unreleased dub plate business) courtesy of Jon @ Anthem:


Download: LoDubs Mixtape (mixed by Monkeytek)

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Tipsy: Bass For Your Waist

Tipsy Party

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Bass For Your Waist

Dubstep, Bassline, Grime,
UK Garage, Blog House, Fidget,
Bmore, Genre-blends

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Thursday, Feb. 7, ‘08 | 21 + | Free
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Don’t Take It Remix

I’m really loving a lot of acid house revival stuff coming out of Chicago right now (as well as France, Belgium, England…)
Of particular interest is a new 12″ featuring a Johnny Fiasco Remix of the never-before-released 1988 acid classic “Don’t Take It” by the late, great Armando Gallop. It’s out on a label called (get this) Let’s Pet Puppies. Peep!


Download: Armando; Don’t Take It (Johnny Fiasco Mix)

SSION News: New CD, 12″, & Tour Dates!

Ok, here’s a big post–I’ll try to start at the beginning. I’ve started a new label (a sister label to Dead Homies), called Sleazetone Records, specializing in all the kinds of music that you’d assume a label called “Sleazetone Records” would trade in. The first releases are a CD & 12″ by a group called Ssion–they’re a Kansas City-based art collective fronted by Cody Critcheloe (graphic designer for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Scream Club, & others). They’ve toured with YYYs, the Faint, Black Dice, & Liars, and they sound kind of like the Pet Shop Boys meet the Dead Kennedys meet Hakan Lidbo.

I’m really not the first person to write about these guys (they’ve been getting a lot of blog buzz lately–see Better Propaganda, Big Stereo, Fluxblog, Gorilla vs. Bear, Imageyenation, Missing Toof, Music For Robots, Palms Out Sounds, Paper Thin Walls, Pitchfork, Pop Tarts Suck Toasted, RCRD LBL, Slutty Fringe, Stereogum, Pitch Weekly, GBH.tv, Pensatos, XLR8R, and forthcoming reviews in Ghetto Blaster, Vice, & Urb), so I’ll skip the press talk–suffice it to say that I feel REALLY strongly about these guys (otherwise why would I have signed them?)–like, I think this new CD is literally one of the best things I’ve heard in years and I’m thrilled to be involved with it.

Anyway, here’s the news, with a few free mp3s for good measure:

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Two New Mashups: Starkey vs. Missy/Ginuwine

Hi all, sorry it’s taken me so long to get around to writing on here…things have been super-busy. I’ll be on more often in the near future–promise!

Anyway, today we have two new mashup’s of Starkey’s “Corner Store” feat. Xploder (get the original here). This first one is Corner Store + Ginuwine’s “Pony”:


Download: Starkey vs. Ginuwine; Pony Store (M’Bot Blend)

I played it for Starkey, and he’s like “hey, I’ve got a Corner Store blend myself…” So now I present Corner Store + Missy Elliott’s “Lick Shots”:


Download: Starkey vs. Missy Elliott; Corner Store/Lick Shot (Starkey Blend)

DJ C Mid-Winter Mini-Tour

FlosstraPROMusI’ll be heading out on the road next week for a little tour of the North East before returning to Chicago for a couple fun parties here. I’m gonna give each gig its own post below, but here’s the quick rundown: