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Dancing in the Street @ Renegade Craft Fair

Renegade Craft Fair BannerI’ll be DJing at the Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago  on Sunday (7:30 - 10pm) on the Chicago Independent Radio Project (CHIRP) stage, along with others like Whoa-B (6pm) and Micada (noon).

I attended the fair last year and it was absolutely wicked! Division St. between Damen & Hermitage in Wicker Park close to traffic and fill up with 250 booths and over 300 indie artists selling their hipster, hand-crafted, arts-wares. This year it’s Saturday and Sunday, September 13 + 14, Noon - 10pm each day.

Crowd at Renegade Craft FairThere will also be at least one other music stage (last year there were 2 DJ stages and one band stage) featuring some great bands like Northern State, Califone, Mahjongg, and a bunch more.

So swing on down and stop by the CHIRP stage on Sunday evening between 7:30 and 10 (yes you can drink beer and dance in the street!) to hear some o that bass for your waist.

DJ Flack to Rock the Good Life

DJ Flack Rocks the DecksOur boy DJ Flack has been organizing a set of 2/dub/bass-step slammers for to rock the house at The Good Life in Boston on Wed:

In the past year and a half, there’s been a small explosion of club nights in Boston devoted to bass-centric genres first spawned in the clubs of London: bassline, 2-step, and (most famously) dubstep…

…This Wednesday, Operation Underground kicks off its ‘Home Grown Sessions,’ a series of parties spotlighting DJs and producers from the thriving local scene. The first of these features DJ FLACK (Tony Flackett), who runs the Beat Research weekly at Enormous Room.

Check out the rest of this article by Susanna Bolle at the Boston Phoenix website ->

And/or check out this mix by DJ Flack:

DJ Mix MP3 Download:
DJ Flack; Dub Sickness ->

Tracklist here ->

Ouch! “The System”

This track is so good it hurts:

Music Video: Terry Lynn “The System”

More info @ kingstonlogic.com and phreemusic.com

MP3 Download:
Terry Lynn “The System” ->

This one’s pretty dope too:

Music Video: Terry Lynn “Kingstonlogic”

DJ C “Mas Hits”

MP3 Download
DJ C “Mas Hits” Mini-Mix ->

DJ C Mas Hits Album Cover

Update: The “Mas Hits” album is out now. 16 tracks of massive mashups and ridiculous remixes ->

It’s been just about a year since we re-launched Mashit.com as a blog, online shop, podcast, and all around place for fiends. Over that year Mashit boss DJ C has produced and released a whole slew of bastard-pop-style mashups and remixes, many of which have been available as part of our Free Tunes series.

Now we’ve decided to release those mashups all together as a free download album, along with a few secret bonus tracks. The album, entitled “Mas Hits”, is out now. This is the teaser, in the form of a mini-mix (leaked here by Time Out Chicago), and music video.

DJ C “Mas Hits” Mini-Mix (’80s Cartoon Music Video Version)

Meanwhile, If this post over at Mad Decent is any indication, DJ mini-mixes are hot right now. Check the Bang Gang DJ’s mini-teaser for their upcoming mix album on Modular which features the DJ C and MC Jorge Stylo track “Juce”; forthcoming on Man Recordings.

The Bang Gang Deejays “D is for Disco, E is for Dancing!” Minimegamatronicmix
Download here ->

DJ C “Mas Hits” Mini-Mix Tracklist: Continue reading ‘DJ C “Mas Hits”’ ->

Time Out Chicago on Mashit and DJ C

DJ C in Time Out Chicago Photo by Christopher KontoesTime Out Chicago / Issue 183 : Aug 28–Sep 3, 2008
Fall Preview 2008 | Clubs
Vital man C

With an online label, global mashing mentality and futuristic dancehall album, DJ C’s got the sonic nutrition you need.

At the crossroads of the genre-blending, digital-remix and bouncing-bass–obsessed international DJ scene, DJ C and Mashit.com have a rep for pushing underground dance culture forward, both online and off. Radio One legend John Peel picked Mashit as his label of the month in October 2004 when the then-Boston-based producer was releasing tracks by DJ C and others with a jungle bent. More recently, DJ C, who relocated to the Chicago area from Boston a year ago, has turned the vinyl label into a download site, podcast and blog that serves as an outlet for his (and his friends’) mixes, mash-ups, original tracks—even full albums—that don’t tuck neatly into any genre. He’s a DJ expanding his curatorial role online and a Chicago producer of growing influence.

This fall, he’s issuing a free album of all his mash-ups—playful recombinations of everything from Usher and Kelly Clarkson to Southern club tracks—with the working title Mas Hits, plus an album featuring Venezuelan producers Cardopusher and Pacheko for Mashit. He’s also throwing the Bouncement party, which showcases global ghetto-tech, dubstep, bassline, grime, blog tracks and genre blends at Sonotheque on September 21 as part of the Chicago World Music Festival.

Continue reading at the Time Out Chicago site ->

Joystyxx Radio

Joystyxx Radio Micada and I will be back in the house tonight, Monday, Sept. 8 for our bi-weekly Chicagoland radio series; Joystyxx Radio.

Every other Monday evening from 8 to 10 pm we’re kickin’ it old-school, new-school, and everything in between-school over the airwaves of Loyola University’s WLUW, 88.7 FM in Chicago and on the web at www.wluw.org.

www.joystyxx.com ->

Hurricane Cake

McCain and Bush eat Cake durring Katrina3 years and 3 days ago John McCain and George W. Bush ate cake to celebrate McCain’s 69th birthday. At that very moment hurricane Katrina was bringing devastation to the gulf coast.

Now it’s election season, and almost exactly 3 years later the Republican National Convention was due to McCain and Bush eat Cake durring Katrinabegin today, but another monster hurricane has disrupted the plan. I hope that Gustav is a more benevolent beast then Katrina was, but this new storm does bring a silver lining. It reminds us of Katrina and the way she was handled. Gustav shines a light once again on the Bush administration’s horrible bungling of the disaster. Not only before, during, and immediately after the event, but the continuing botches that have left FEMA-trailer-park McCain and Bush eat Cake durring Katrinarefugee camps spread across the region to this day. And now those camps themselves have been evacuated as Gustav begins to bear down on the coast.

Coincidently my friend, filmmaker Lucia Small, was here in Chicago this weekend for the debut theatrical run of her new documentary “The Axe in the Attic”, a film about Katrina.

Continue reading ‘Hurricane Cake’ ->

Schlachthofbronx: Bavarian Club Music

Schlachthofbronx; “Fatthing (dubstep rmx)” ->

Yes, perhaps Chicago is on top of the world. We may have the next president of the United States; we may have the summer Omympics in 201Schlachthofbronx Logo6; we’ve got juke, Cool Kids, Kid Sister, Flosstradamus, Dude N Nem, and Willy Joy; we’ve got post-rockers like Tortoise, alt-rockers like Wilco, and rappers like Kanye West plus R&B acts like R Kelly; and all this in the home of one of electronic music’s great genres, house music. Fast Company chose Chicago as American city of 2008 because of these things, plus Millennium Parkmicrofinance, and so much more…

But that said, and with a big shout-out to my hometown Boston, MA, I still often say that my favorite city in the world is Berlin. After a number of years of touring there and hanging out with peeps like Aaron Spectre, DJ Donna Summer, and so many more, I’m a convert to Berlin’s laid back creative spirit. It’s affordable enough that artists like Jamie Lidel and Fiest, who had moved there to be able to make their art, sprung from it’s loins to become international stars.

Meanwhile, so many more in Berlin continue to develop their craft day-to-day, unknown to the greater world outside. One such music production trio who I’ve been feeling, and playing in almost every set over the past year is Schlachthofbronx. Though their Myspace says their from Berlin, rumor has it that their actually from Munich, Bavaria.

In the end this post isn’t about a city, but is about the international breed of bassline-influenced, mashup club-hop and dancehall-infused dubstep that Schlachthofbronx is crafting. Wherever they happen to live, I’d like to emphasize the comm0n-ground between us by highlighting a couple of tracks they’ve made:

Download:

Schlachthofbronx; “Poppin” ->

Schlachthofbronx; “Fatthing (dubstep rmx)” ->

You can catch a few more of their tracks at the Hot Biscuits blog including a wicked balkan-style remix of Dizzee Rascal’s “Pussyhole (Oldschool)”.

Max Ulis in the Mix

Max Ulis in the MixDownload:
Max Ulis “max ulis 2008

Max Ulis brings it with some folks who happen to be causing huge basslines. This is a DJ Mix, not a track!

Tracklist: Continue reading ‘Max Ulis in the Mix’ ->

Bassline Therapy in Chi

Bouncement w. Maga Bo AnimationMashit, Braziliance,
and Chicago World Music Festival Present

BOUNCEMENT

with:

  • MAGA BO (Soot Records, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  • DJ C (Mashit)
  • MC ZULU (Mashit)
  • JOE BRYL (Brazilliance)

Sunday, September 21, 9 pm
Sonotheque
1444 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago
Admission: $10

More from Chicago World Music Fest. ->

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Also Coming Up:

THE BUG W. WARRIOR QUEEN
GHISLAIN POIRIER W. MC ZULU
DJ C

@ Subterranean
Wed. 10/01/2008
Doors @ 8:30 PM | SHOW @ 9:00 PM | 17 & OVER
$13.00 Adv. / $15.00 Dos. Buy Tickets ->

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Already Happened:
If you were there you most likely had a blast. If you weren’t, where were you??

Bassline Therapy Flyer

Schedule One Presents:
BASSLINE THERAPY
Friday 8/22/08

Featuring:
DJ C - Mashit - Genre Blends from the Bassment
Nameloc - Dubfix / Prismatiq / Icarus Audio - Dubstep
GC - Shameless / KJ Chicago - Hiphop / Dubstep / DnB
MTM - Hiphop / Old School Breaks

At Cafe Lura
3184 N Milwaukee
Chicago, IL
Music starts at 9pm.. $2 Cover. 21+