| The Avalanches Awaken and Go To Sleep | April 26, 2012 |
Minor programming update: I, Jeff Maximilian Rollie De La Paz Weiss, may be scarce over the next month. Without scooping myself, I’m heading into the backwoods to report a story of paramount national importance. Like Cappadonna and Ghostface, I might pop in your cereal. Thankfully, the crew will be holding it down in my partial […]
| Peaking Lights – Lucifer Mixtape | March 27, 2012 |
I’m supposed to interview Peaking Lights at some point in the coming weeks and now my line of questioning is already handled. Their new Lucifer mix has no tracklist — stitched amidst the new wave, disco-soul, and sundry tropically-tinted jams are new songs snared from their sophomore album that’s dropping in June on Mexican Summer. […]
| Son Raw: SirReal – Subsessions Mix | January 31, 2012 |
SirReal – SUB SESSIONS 01/27/2012 by Sirrealnesss on Mixcloud Son Raw bruked out to this one. Upon sending me this, Charlottetown DJ SirReal said he didn’t know if “I was into mixes.” That’s actually a valid line of inquiry – there’s only so many hours in the day and when DJs make up half your […]
| Freddie Gibbs – A Cold Day in Hell | October 31, 2011 |
The new Freddie Gibbs mixtape, just in time to soundtrack smacking Trick-or-Treaters with sacks of flour. On first listen, this is more trap-oriented than past tapes. So it goes when Jeezy appears twice, 2Chainz once, and Alley Boy on a song called “Rob Me a Nigga.” Best heard while dressed as O-Dog. Download: ZIP: Freddie […]
| Four Tet: Beats in Space Mix | August 27, 2011 |
Four Tet remixing Tinariwen, premiering B-sides, new artists from his Text imprint, and an array of subterranean dance music tracks that you probably haven’t heard unless you’ve memorized Resident Adviser. Twice. Downloading seems like the only sensible decision. Via Beats in Space (h/t Frank N’ Beats) Download: MP3: Four Tet-Beats in Space Mix Pt. 1 […]
| Zilla Rocca’s “Nights and Weekends Mix” | July 17, 2011 |
“Saturday Nite” feels less timely at 11:00 a.m., Sunday morning, but the beauty of Zilla Rocca’s Nights and Weekends mix is that you can blast it until we have to stop wearing white (does not apply to Cam’ron, whose ability to breach the furthest parameters of the color spectrum remains on Technicolor Dreamcoat level ). […]
| Aquarium Drunkard Presents: DJ Soft Touch, A Mixtape | July 11, 2011 |
Forgive the potential redundancy. For those of you who have yet to download this mixtape, don’t thank me. Salute DJ Soft Touch and Justin “Aquarium Drunkard” Gage, who have contracted to bring you and I an hour of back-breaking, belly-jiggling, BBQ-smoked, paisley scarved funk. Both esoteric summertime soul and the likes of James Brown, H. […]
| Lovers Melt II: Mixed by Flying Lotus | July 4, 2011 |
Following up Volume 1. In the words of the other famous Ellison: “Lovers Melt 2 will hopefully be part of your summer sound. Some of my favorite songs ever.. Some you know, some you might not..” – Flying Lotus Download: ZIP: Flying Lotus – “Lovers Melt 2”
Sach O’s influences are peerless. Convincing anyone to actually purchase a legit mix CD is in 2011 is no easy task. I don’t care if you’ve got DJ Muhammad-Imad-Bruce-Lee mixing nothing but unreleased Burial and Jeff Mangum dubs (he’s killing it on the white labels!), getting people to part with their guap when Fact Magazine, […]
Jack White wouldn’t endorse this compilation. He’s a proud Luddite — wary of technology, illegal piracy, and all the ills they engender. Print is better than blogs. CD’s are better than MP3’s. And vinyl trumps all. As someone similarly inclined to such anachronisms, I offer him a salute and an apology. I suspect that White […]
