Global Bass Music
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.
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
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Watch: The Fugees; Fugee-La
As I sit here there’s a Hanukkah-van (?) driving by my window with a manora on top 
blasting out music with a voice saying “It’s the second night of Hnukkah. bla bla bla…” I’m sure they’re having a good time in the van, but I doubt it can compete with the dance party going on inside my sound-system right now. I’m listening to the Tetrachave mix by Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s DJ Kowalsky, and my speakers are having a blast. I’m sure your’s will too.
Download: DJ Kowalsky; Tetrachave
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With all the talk about nu-rave, next-rave, rave-revival, etc. over the past couple of years, we thought it’d be fitting to point the lens over to the 
original rave sound. Durring the late ’80s, urban sounds from U.S. cities like New York, Chicago, and Detroit invaded the UK and quickly became more popular than they had been in their home towns. Rave parties filled up with thousands of dance-hungry youth listening to acid-house, techno, and hip-hop. Before long british producers began to meld those genres into the new sound known as hardcore, breakbeat-hardcore, or simply rave.
Dev/Null is a devoted collector of vinyl documenting the early ’90s UK-rave sounds that went on to become jungle/drum ‘n bass, and eventually morphed into speed-garrage, 2-step, grime, dubstep, etc. Last year he dropped an oldskool-rave set at a Beat Research party and this mix is the result.
Looking at the tracklist for the mix, one can see many of the artists and labels whent on to become well known jungle/drum ‘n bass producers in the mid to late ’90s. Also note that some of the ealy recordings on the XL label are here. XL Recordings has remained nimble in a changing music industry and has worked it’s way to the top. In recent years they’ve released hit albums by M.I.A., White Stripes, Dizzee Rascal, Devendra Bernhardt, Thom Yorke, and rhumor has it that the new Radiohead album will be released through them too.
Enough talk! Here’s the mix:
Download: Dev/Null; Beat Research Mix
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Update: Check out Dev/Null’s Virb profile for more early rave and hardcore mixes.
Get ready for a barrage of DJ Mixes from the Mashit camp over the next few days. We’ve got an old-school-rave mix from Dev Null, an all-over-the-place dance-party mix from Brazil’s DJ Kowalski, and we’ll be co-releaseing a 2 part mix by Kid Kameleon: The mighty Spannered website will release his Aim Low mix simultaniously with the release of his Aim High mix over here at Mashit.com.
To start things off I’d like to point y’all to the internet radio site Samurai.FM where there’s a brand new Mashit Presents DJ C mix online. We’ll podcast that one here soon, but in the meantime you can stream it over there. You’ll want to check out Samurai’s deep archive of EDM i-radio shows while you’re there. It’s quite a resource.
This week I’d like to point your attention to not just one, but twenty-one holiday themed 
mashups. DJ BC’s Santastic compilation is back for the 3rd year in a row, this time in 3-D. There are tracks by Go Home Productions, DJ Flack, dj BC, yours truly, and many more.
You can download all the tracks at the Santastic III in 3-D site, and as an added bonus there’s an “About the Project” page which functions as the virtual liner-notes, with blurbs by the artists about their tracks.
Previews:
DJ C; Jungle Bells (Bumba Clause Mix feat. Murderbot)
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Mojochronic; Yuletide Zeppelin
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DJ Flack; Hanukkah in Dub
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Elvis and ATOM; Santa’s Pre-Boarding Announcement
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DJ BC; You Shook Me All Noel
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We toast you and yours, wishing you a Happy Hannukah, a Cool Yule and/or a Kickin’ Kwanzaa, whichever your prefer. And may 2008 totally rule, for all of us!
- dj BC
Mashit presents: BOUNCEMENT
DJ C, CHRISSY MURDERBOT, SEARCHL1TE, & your host MC, ZULU get you sorted with the freshest rave, ghettotech, grime, club, juke, speed-disco, dubstep, booty bass, dancehall, mashup, electro-sleaze party trax, & psychedelic video projections. Full-on dance-party maddness!
Come in costume and/or with party favors and receive $1 off admission.
Thursday, November 29, 2007 9pm to 2am
at SONOTHEQUE, 1444 W. Chicago Avenue, Chicago
$5, or $4 with costume/party favors
The past couple of years have been a volatile time in the DJ world. 
The technology is changing rapidly and many DJs who had once been hardcore vinyl-only-heads have made the switch to using digital DJ tools like Serato Scratch Live. Of course some DJs have been spinning with digital tools like CDJs etc. for years, and some combine everything at their disposal, using all available technologies equally. We’re curious; what’s your preference?
Loading ...Update: Ripley has written a related article over at Wiretap.org:
Spun Around
Digital innovations have turned the vinyl-centric deejay world around. But is life in a “Serato” world really better?
Hopefully you’ve had a chance to check out Refusenik’s Kold Krussian DJ mix that we posted a couple weeks back. If so, you may have noticed that there are some original Refusinik rubs in the mix. One of our faves is this mashup of the Argentine cumbia band Los Palmeras‘ song Bombon Asesino with Missy Elliott’s Get Your Freak On.
Missy’s sentiments are particularly poignant in light of the recent ban on “freak-dancing” in Argile, TX:
Freaked Out:
Teens’ Dance Moves
Split a Texas TownSchool Leaders in Argyle
Banned Hip-Hop Grinding;
Parents Back ‘Good Kids’
Download: Refusenik; Get Your Bomb On V2.0
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