If you live in the Benelux area, come down to the Funk Mundial party in Gent on Saturday. All of you who missed out on the banging Funk Mundial party in Brussels a momth ago, will have a chance to shake their booty Brasilian style again.
You can find the above mixtape over at Dancing Cheetah blog. I haven’t listened to it yet but it looks like a really interesting mix of cumbia, carimbó, tecnobrega, merengue, funana, coupe decale, reggaetón and some arabian shit.
you can download it here
Michael Jackson’s iconic influence transcends into various music styles, as demonstrated by arguably one of the greatest Hip Hop producers of all time, DJ Premier. This past Friday during DJ Premier’s weekly “Live From HeadQCourterz” show on NY´s Sirius FM, he brought forth a special tribute mix he put together for Michael Jackson. Since his passing there has been an overabundance of “tribute” mixtapes from several DJ’s, but none like this from Premo. Download it from here:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/61934373dba0571d/
Why am I so crap at posting stuff on the blog? Why is that I always have to wait till Big Dan Haaksman writes and complains about my lack of posts do I then actually write a post. Why? why? WHY?!?!?
I think it’s because I’m shy to share with the world my humble opinion. Plus the fact that at the moment, I don’t do much else than radio, gig, studio and the occasional game of ping pong.
Anyways…
I’ve done a couple of mixtapes for the beautiful and talented MPHO. MPHO is a singer from Brixton, previously best know for her work with the likes of Bugz in the Attic and Coldcut. She is now coming out with her debut album “Pop Art” on Parlophone/Wall of Sound. MPHO’s amazing voice and incredible song writing make the album an irrestible pop album. The first single “Box n Locks” is produced by Switch and has a sample from Echo Beach by “Martha and the Muffins”. They also got Armand Van Helden, Herve and Crazy Cousins to remix the track. My favourite is still the original though.
and here’s a link to the mixtapes that we put together for MPHO
Enjoy!
Supreme NY just released a range of shirts dedicated to one of my favourite albums of all times, the 1983 released “Duck Rock” LP by Malcolm McLaren (btw, produced by Trevor Horn). The limited edition T-Shirts feature various motifs from the “Duck Rock” album as well as the “Do You Like Scratching?” EP, both designed by Keith Haring. The motivs are all great, but I wonder why Supreme completely missed out on making a shirt with images from the “Double Dutch” single, one of the main tracks of the “Duck Rock” LP ? Hmm, maybe the song didnt represent enough old school hip hop culture for Supreme? But it was exactly the heterogenity of McLaren´s mixtape-cum-album that made “Duck Rock” so extra special. At least, we can show the video:
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