Sat. June 21, ‘08
The Skylight Room @ Crosstown Station
1522 McGee, Kansas City, MO
21+, $5, 10pm-1:30am
Archive Page 8 of 25
DJ Mix Download:
DJ Intel Bump Me Loud! ->
Here’s another in our continuing series of summertime ‘08 mixes to bump at your next sublime experience.
I had been noticing DJ Intel’s name on flyers all over Chicago recently, but hadn’t had a chance to hear what he was up to until we rocked a party together a few weeks ago. His set was so dope! This mix is also dope; kind of epic in fact! It’s not about beat-matching and blends per se, but instead about moods and magic:
Tracklist: Continue reading ‘DJ Intel “Bump Me Loud!” Mix’ ->
Max passed us this rmx recently and we’d like to pass it on over to you:
MP3 Download:
Max Ulis; BEEPER FOR Hipsters ->
The Cool Kids; Hit Me On My Beeper Video:
Saturday, June 14, 2008
No Mas Tequila Presents
Kid Kameleon & Ripley
With: DJ C, Chrissy Murderbot, & Zebo
@ SubT, 2011 North, Chicago, IL
$5, 21+, 10pm-3am
Free b4 11
Kid Kameleon
A beat strategist and technology enthusiast who blends, chops, restructures and generally smashes rhythms from across the sonic spectrum. From breakcore and ragga-jungle to dubstep and grime, with stops along the way at B-More, dub, dancehall, hip-hop, DnB, electro and the straight up unclassifiable, he’s a champion of underground sounds and outsider music. The Kid has dropped his fast-paced, eclectic style at parties from California to Estonia, sharing stages with the likes of Kool Herc, U-Roy, DJ Spooky, Asian Dub Foundation, Alec Empire, Squarepusher, The Bug, Vex’d and The Plastician, and many more. A blogger ( kidkameleon.com, riddimmethod.net, and localoaf.org), he also writes a monthly column called Basic Needs for XLR8R magazine covering “Low End Necessities from Ragga to Dubstep and beyond”.
DJ Mix Download: Kid Kameleon; Aim High ->
Tracklist ->
Ripley
Ragamuffin Dubwrecker. “rootical rally-cry uproar, rythmic danger in overdrive.” “lifesaving whirlwind mistress of sonic devastation with hot sauce.”
DJ Mix Download: DJ Ripley; To The Party Members ->
Tracklist ->
Ghostbeard; Not A Latest Dance Craze ->
Summer’s just about here and that means it’s time for a sweet, waist-winding dancehall mix. Montreal’s DJ Ghostbeard (AKA Jeff Waye, the guy who runs Ninja Tune’s North American office) just happened to drop such a mix on me recently and I feel it’s only right to share.
Ghostbeard’s like the only dude in the world who doesn’t have a Myspace page (at least that I can find) but this article sheds a small amount of light on the shadowy character. Anyway, it’s probably best to let the mix speak for itself:
DJ Mix, MP3 Download:
Ghostbeard; Not A Latest Dance Craze ->
Tracklist: Continue reading ‘Ghostbeard “Not a Latest Dance Craze”’ ->
Let me begin by saying that I’m not trying to make Obama look bad here, in fact I hope with every fiber of my body that he becomes our next president, but I want to share with you an observation I made recently.
I was watching the video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up on YouTube (I don’t know, I think I got Rickrolled) and I noticed that the way he was dancing looked familiar, and then I realized; Obama dances like Rick Astley!
Just check out that arm shake in the beginning of this video:
And then in this one. In fact watch them together:
Some of you might have noticed that the Mashit MP3 Shop went down for a minute there. If you recently tried to come buy stuff and saw absolutely nothing, it wasn’t ’cause we closed up. We were just having some tech issues, but we’re back up and running full steam ahead now. Our apologies for any inconvenience.
Now Go shopping–>
New Release
Wicked ragga vocalist Zulu comes together with dance-floor dominator DJ C to activate a next level blend of dancehall, dubstep, club and all around party music.
The album also features Montreal bounce-maestro, and Ninja Tune recording artist Ghislain Poirier’s remix of Darling, along with a slammin’ juke version of Body Work by Chrissy Murderbot of Chicago’s Sleazetone records. In addition, Freestyle Fellowship founder Aceyalone, and dancehall deejay Jah Orah provide guest vocals on the album. And topping the whole package off is the brilliant cover illustration by Bartek Karas.
[The album is] a heavy slap of blazing ragga bashment - Zulu’s Panamanian lyrical flow is very much to the fore, with the eagle-eared amongst us spotting both some new DJ C rhythms and a couple of gems unearthed from the vaults and given a shiny new rub. It’s fast, mean and easy, and a guaranteed fire-starter - throw in remixes from Ghislain Poirier and Chrissy Murderbot and it’s an undeniably solid package. - Fat Planet
Previews
Exhibition Virtues (Hardcore Tonight Remix)
Dear John
Gods & Robots
Soundgun Emergency (DJ C Mix, ft. Aceyalone & Jah Orah)
Recent Releases
DJ Flack; Rock to the Rhythm
(2 track single. $1.49)
fresh beat formulas for the dance-floor
Listen/Buy Now ->
Boston Bounce compilation
(14 track album. $8.99)
fresh beat formulas for the dance-floor
Listen/Buy Now ->
DJ C & Zulu; Darling
(4 track single. $2.99)
They’re back to stun you with the bounce!
Listen/Buy Now ->
Bong-Ra; Panter Fight
(2 track single. $1.49)
2 tracks of raving madness
Listen/Buy Now ->
DJ C & Zulu; Body Work
(4 track single. $2.99)
Dance-floor killer in a Boston-bounce style.
Listen/Buy Now ->
Murderbot; Ruff in the Bunny Fizness
(11 track album. $8.99)
11 jungle-rave anthems.
Listen/Buy Now ->
DJ C; Sonic Weapons
(16 track album. $8.99)
To kill sound-systems and destroy dance-floors.
Listen/Buy Now ->
DJ C; Since You’ve Been In This Club* ->
Wayne pointed out this article by Sasha Frere-Jones on The New Yorker site about Auto Tune. It’s the 
software that makes singers on many of todays pop songs sound inhuman. It’s purpose is to artificially correct the pitch of sung notes, but when tweaks are made to the settings other-worldly effects occur. Think Cher’s Believe, or almost anything by T-Pain and you get the picture.
A couple months ago DJ Flack pointed out to me that he’d been listening to the hip-hop / R&B station in Boston and for an hour straight every track featured the effect. A bit annoying innit? Certainly it’ll sound dated next decade. Yet still, there’s something awesome about breaking technology to create newness.
In order to illustrate the Auto Tune effect Sasha went into a recording studio and sang Kelly Clarkson’s Since You’ve Been Gone. Engineer Tom Beaujour recorded him and then demonstrated various uses of the software on Sasha’s voice.
When Ripley asked if I was going to make a remix of Sasha’s cover song I have to admit it 
hadn’t occurred to me, but then I thought it just might be the perfect accompaniment to the remix of Usher’s Love in This Club that I had been meaning to make.
If you haven’t heard yet, Love in This Club was made using stock loops from Apple’s Garage Band software. I went and found the loops and made this remix out of them. Those Apple Loops are royalty free right? So I can remix Love in This Club all day long and not have to worry about rights infringement? I guess that remains to be seen. I’m sure there’ll be more on that later.
Tom Beaujour is featured on my remix explaining how the “Cher effect” is created and then Sasha sings “Since You’ve Been Gone.” In addition to the Auto Tune that Tom had already applied to Sasha’s voice, I also copied it to a second track and re-pitched the notes to create a harmony, but instead of Auto Tune I used Ableton Live to tweak the notes up and down by hand.
Full disclosure: I didn’t use the Garage Band or Auto Tune software in the making of this track.
MP3 Download
DJ C; Since You’ve Been In This Club* ->
* ft. Sasha Frere-Jones & Tom Beaujour
BTW: Have you noticed how similar Love in This Club is to The Office theme?
BTWx2: Wayne also pointed to this absolutely awesome (slightly frightening) animatronic video version of Love In This Club:
You’re probably thinking “Great, another free club mashup. Big whoop!” But you ain’t heard Big Whoop! yet. Give this a listen:
Big Whoop! (DJ C, Ripley, Kid Kameleon, & Tones); Ooh Wadda Doo Dadda (Big Whoop Mix ft. Timbaland, Magoo. & Sebast) ->
While I was out in the Bay Area last week Ripley mentioned that if she were a producer she’d make a club version of Timbaland and Magoo’s Indian Flute with an accentuation on the “ooh wadda do dadda” part. One night while she, Kid Kameleon, and I were all chillin’ over at Tones‘ place she brought it up again and I was like “lets do this!” There was born the Big Whoop! collective. Everyone gave input on the track while I edited the pieces together in Ableton Live.
I started writing this as a comment on the last post about the death of the turntable, but it got too long. There are lots of great comments on that post already 
too.
A friend just forwarded this article about the vinyl comeback from Boston.com. It’s worth a read. Apparently vinyl and turntable sales are sky rocketing compared to CD sales.
That kind of invalidates the title of my last post; Turntables No More. On the other hand, that post was specifically directed at DJs, whereas the sales boom in question is being driven by non-DJ consumers of indie-rock, pop, etc. releases with pressings of 10,000 and over.
I do think it’s an incredibly interesting phenomenon that vinyl continues to survive. DJ and punk rock (mainly 7-inch pressings) culture held the record pressing plants afloat through the past couple of decades, while CD sales soared. Now, as soon as all but the last few vinyl dance music distributors have closed up shop while DJs, labels and artists go online, there’s this resurgence which seems to be tied to the death of the CD.
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