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Mashit Release: “Boston Bounce” Compilation

Published by Mr. Mashit on March 18, 2008 in DJ Mixes, Free Tunes, Mashit Info and Mashit Releases. 1 Comment, Read It, Leave One

Once upon a time a crew of Boston rhythm scientists spent months locked away in the labs developing fresh beat formulas especially for the dance-floor. The outcome of their experiments is a new fusion of sounds influenced by dubstep, Baltimore club, German techno, reggae and more.

Recently, [DJ C and DJ Flack] were among the artists featured on the (((Re:Sounnd))) compilation, coinciding with a gallery exhibition that studied the links between outlaw soundsystems and the creation of indigenous electronic music scenes from Jamaica to detroit to the UK. That comp was the debut of ‘Boston Bounce’ — think Baltimore club with a triplet swing beat thrown in — created… as Boston’s own local contribution to that pantheon.
- The Fader

You may have heard some of DJ C’s Boston bounce tracks, like his remix of M.I.A.’s U.R.A.Q.T. on her Galang ‘05 single (XL Recordings), or his productions with Zulu for the Death$ucker and Community Library labels. But here for the first time is a compilation that brings together 14 bouncy bangers from various Boston beat maestros that are sure to feed your need for that next level.

The album is exclusively available in the Mashit MP3 download shop, in high quality 320kb MP3 format, and it’s properly tagged including BPM info for those DJs among you. Buying the full album saves a few bucks — get all 14 tracks for only $8.99, plus get the fabulous cover-art by Caracas, Venezuela-based Inkcore.

Buy Boston Bounce ->

Preview Selected Tracks

DJ C & DJ A; Mega Bounce Robo Orgy

DuoTone; Boston Swing

DJ C; Boston You’re My Bounce

DuoTone; Dread Bounce

Local Fields; Rain Day

Listen to more and buy ->

Boston Bounce DJ Mix

Some of the tracks on this compilation are featured in the following mix:

DJ C; Boston (MP3 Download)

Tracklist

DJ C; Boston You’re My Bounce
DuoTone; Boston Swing
DJ C; Ondtu Riddim
DJ Flack; B-Town Swing
Wayne&Wax; Boston Twerk
DJ C; Nuttin Attal
DJ Flack; Surendra Dub
DuoTone; Dread Bounce
M.I.A.; URAQT (DJ C Mix)
Local Fields; Rain Day

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Fan Mail

Published by Mr. Mashit on March 18, 2008 in Miscellaneous. 6 Comments, Read Them, Leave One

The following message just dropped into our inbox.

mashit.com

This site used to be awesome and deserve the title of mashit.com Now all you have is crap RnB beats and dodgy dance shit. What happened to all the Aaronspectre, Bongra, DJC (his decent mixes like breakment), shitmat, dj sockmonster, dj skunk, enduser???
At this rate you should think of changin your name, get rid of the first few letters or something.

sorry to sound like an asshole, but your site used to be awesome. I’ve given up on it now and its not just me, everyone i know who’d listen to our style music has said how shit this site has become and that they never come on it anymore.

just thought you would like some feedback
Han-

Thanks for the feedback, Han. I’m sorry that you and your friends don’t appreciate the direction that Mashit has gone in. Our tastes are eclectic and therefore we’re not interested in being locked in to any one kind of music. We enjoy the style of music you’re talking about and often post about it on this blog, but we would get board real quick if that’s all we posted about.

In addition to all our “crap RnB beats and dodgy dance shit” we’ve posted the following DJ mixes you might like:

You may also appreciate these titles we’ve recently released in our MP3 download shop:

We’ll go out on a limb and post some goofy stuff here sometimes because we like to have fun and not take ourselves to seriously, but we also have a deep passion for music of all kinds and are interested in exposing our readers to new sounds which may fall outside their comfort zone.

Bottom line: We’re not trying to appease a particular audience. We’re just doing what we enjoy and apparently some of our 2,500 monthly returning visitors like it too.

Thanks again for the feedback.

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Tipsy: Bass For Your Waist, 3/27/08

Published by Mr. Mashit on March 17, 2008 in DJ Mixes, Events, Free Tunes and Podcast. 4 Comments, Read Them, Leave One

Empire Liquors, Chicago, Thursday, March 27, 2008

DJ C | Whoa-B | Jeekoos

dubstep, bassline, grime, UK garage, global ghetto-tech, blog trax, and genre blends

Tipsy Flyer

DJ Mixes

DJ C; Mashit Mix for Samurai.fm pt. 2 ->

Tracklist ->

Jeekoos; Destroyer.net 07/07/07 ->

Whoa-B; Welcome To Grimerock ->

Empire Liquors
1566. N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL
No Cover, 21 +, 10pm to 2am

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Speaking of Cumbia

Published by DJ C on March 14, 2008 in Events, Free Tunes, Genres and Podcast. 1 Comment, Read It, Leave One

The sounds of Central/South American cumbia have become a bit of an interweb phenom over the past year. This is no doubt due in large part to the extensive coverage on /rupture’s Mud Up blog. There’s now a steady stream of underground, electronic-dance-music influenced (less folk/traditional instrumentation) cumbia tracks bubbling up, and the Buenos Aires, Argentina-based crew Zizek Urban Beats Club is now in the states on tour to promote their particular brand of the sound.

As it says on their flyers:

Argentina’s leading producers of digital cumbia, glitch folk, electro reggaeton, mashups and more.

These guys seem like good-eggs and what’s more, my friend DJ Refusenik who moved to Buenos Aires from Boston last year will be on tour with the Club. They’re performing in Austin at SXSW tonight at the Iheartcomix vs. Mad Decent party featuring folks like Diplo, Simian Mobile Disco, Switch, Santogold, Amanda Blank, Flosstradamus, Blaqstar, Tommy Sunshine, Drop the Lime, Rye Rye, Har Mar Superstar, Roxy Cottontail, Nick Catchdubs, Klever, Scottie B, Fluokids, Dave Nada, Bird Peterson, and the list goes on and on. It actually sounds a little ridiculous.

Unfortunately I won’t be making it down to TX for that crazyness, though I’m psyched to be heading up for a gig in Mulwaukee tonight — Sublow Bounce ->. The other good news is that the Zizek Club will be here in Chicago next Friday at Sonotheque, and I’m really looking forward to seeing what kind of heat they bring. Here are a couple of tracks by artists on the tour.

MP3 Downloads

Frikstailers; Foonkie Boogie

Axel K Soundsystem; Cumbieton Rutero

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Cumbia De Obama

Published by DJ C on March 13, 2008 in Politics and Video. 0 Comments, Please Leave One

/rupture scooped this one. Our old friend and comrade in Toneburst, Rafi B and his band Fosforo drops what I assume is the first cumbia campaign song for Obama.

MP3 download and lyrics ->

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The Cool Kids (ba)Rock

Published by DJ C on March 12, 2008 in Music, Politics and Video. 0 Comments, Please Leave One

I like the Cool Kids and I like Barack Obama so I really like this picture (from Gorilla Vs. Bear).

Cool Kids with Barak Obama

Watch Cool Kids Black Mags video:

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Track of the Week: “Somebody’s a Flirt”

Published by DJ C on March 12, 2008 in Free Tunes, Mashups / Remixes and Podcast. 2 Comments, Read Them, Leave One

I wanted to have some new music for the FlosstraPROMus party; something at least slightly Valentine’s Day themed since the party fell on Feb. 14 (pictures here and here). What better combination than some adrenaline infused bassline-house with local Chi-Town hero R. Kelly’s vocals on top, I though to myself. Perhaps the lyrics to I’m a Flirt don’t capture the best V-Day sentiment but here’s the fruit of that thought none the less.

Mashit Exclusive MP3 Download

DJ C ft. A1 Bassline, R. Kelly, T.I. & T-Pain; Somebody’s a Flirt

What you missed if you weren’t at FlosstraPROMus:

And while we’re giving out new tracks, check out this club banger by
DJ Donna Summer.

MP3 Download

DJ Donna Summer; Chicken Noodle Rave

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Track of the Week: Ghislain Poirier “Madder Dan Dat” Remix

Published by Mr. Mashit on March 3, 2008 in Free Tunes and Mashups / Remixes. 3 Comments, Read Them, Leave One

Ghislain Poirier’s new remix compilation, Bounce Le Remix vol. 3 just came out and it looks like another slammin’ one. In honor of the release, and the fact that he’ll be here in Chicago to rock with us this Saturday we present the following Track of the Week.

If you’re looking for some crazy soca that’ll mix with 150 BPM stuff like speed-step and juke, look no further:

Download

Michael Montano; Madder Dan Dat (Ghislain Poirier Remix)

Get that track and the rest of the Bounce Le Remix vol. 3 album at Ghislain’s Shop ->

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Watch MashitTube, Buy MashitMerch

Published by Mr. Mashit on March 3, 2008 in Art, Mashit Info and Video. 0 Comments, Please Leave One

MashitTube
In our ongoing quest to expand our media empire we’ve updated our Video page to include channels like Baltimore, Classic Jungle, Creative Commons, Dubstep, Juke, Mashup, Psychedelic, and more. You can now waste hours channel-surfing MashitTube rather than those other, less interesting media outlets.

In further celebration of Jungle’s 15th birthday, Here’s the Classic Jungle channel. Check out the 2 part documentary on early jungle called A London Something.

MashitMerch
We’d also like to point you to the MashitMerch shop. If you need a sweatshirt, a thong, a wall clock, or a lunch box, and at the same time would like to help support Mashit’s brand of super-sonic sound, extreme genre-blends, downloadable dubplates, and bounce-mixology, you’ve found just the place to feed two birds with one scone ->

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Ghislain Poirier, DJ C, Murderbot, Zebo @ SubT, Chicago

Published by Mr. Mashit on March 3, 2008 in Events, Free Tunes, Mashups / Remixes and Podcast. 1 Comment, Read It, Leave One

Ghislain Poirier (Ninja Tune, Montreal)
Saturday, March 8 @ Subterranean

With DJ C, Chrissy Murderbot, and resident DJ Zebo

Here’s what the press are saying:

Canadian beatmaker Ghislain Poirier offers music to suit many tastes, but whatever he touches ends up with overflowing bass and plenty of bounce in the rhythm. Hailing from the musical incubator known as Montreal, he first popped up on Chicago’s Chocolate Industries and grabbed attention with remixes for Diverse and Lady Sovereign, but these days it’s his original compositions that are getting the remix treatment from the likes of Modeselektor and We Are Wolves. On “No Ground Under,” his recent release on the venerated Ninja Tune imprint, Poirier configures stomping drums and swarming bass into hip-hop, reggae, baile funk, dubstep and occasionally less classifiable arrangements while collaborating with an international array of MCs. He brings this same borderless range of influences to his DJ sets, which are likely to include just about anything with too much low end and a propensity for inducing ass-shaking. Subterranean’s sound system is in for a workout.
- Newcity Chicago

On March 8th, Montreal’s Ghislain Poirier guests with ragga riddims and deconstructed hip-hop of the Ninja Tune variety.
- Time Out Chicago

…with his 2007 No Ground Under LP (released on the Ninja Tune label), he moved solidly into the pocket with the sound he’s been brewing up these past couple of years — ruff’n'tumble riddims from the Caribbean, South America, Africa, and the Middle East threaded on deep, block-rattling basslines with a fair amount of digital dirt thrown in for good measure.
- Gapers Block

…you are guaranteed to get down on the dancefloor with the Montreal-based producer’s blend of ragga, hip-hop and grime beats.
- Going.com Editor’s Pick

It all goes down at:

Subterranean | 2011 W. North Ave, Chicago | $5, 21 Plus | 10pm to 3am

Presented by | Mashit.com | Coldgrums.com | No Mas Tequila | Ninja Tune

More info and RSVP at Going ->