Okay, I promise this is the last post I will do on MJ, but I just wanted you all to hear this. My homie Dj Whatever let me know about this one. This mix is called “Michael Jackson – The Soulful Years” done by Jaycee, who happens to be Ludacris’s tour dj as well as a radio host on V-103 Atlanta. It’s not a tribute mix actually, because this mix was done in 2006. I like it for Jaycee’s selection, his skills on the turntables and the whole flow of the tape. Recommended!

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/

Happy new year Man people. As a new year’s gift to you all I present the KL Jay Mixtape “Rotação 33″. KL Jay is the DJ for brazil’s biggest hip hop group Racionais MCs, who come from the favelas in the suburbs of São Paulo and whose songs potray quite harrowing scenes from the periferia and are chock full of ctiticism of the social situation in Brazil (all in Portuguese of course). They are into quite epic structures with songs typically stretching for 7-8 minutes and musically they are influenced by gangster rap but also RZA’s productions for WU-Tang Clan with heavily string laden backgrounds. One of the downsides of their popularity is that virtually every rap group that came out of São Paulo after them wanted to sound like them. And this is where the mixtape comes in as it mixes the old school of Braziilian Rap, De Leve, Costa a Costa, with the new school, Maloka S/A, Livia Cruz E as Camaradas, to show where Brazilian hip hop, rap, whatever is today.

My personal experiance of KL Jay was when I put on party with some friends a few years ago and KL Jay djed for us (racionais MCs had played in town the previous night). His Djing was pure old school funk, with him playing old funk, disco and soul tracks ( to a mainly bohemian white crowd) which must have been what they played in the 70s and 80s bailes in the periferias. he even slowed things down for couples to slow dance and was constantly chatting on the microphone between tracks – unbelievably he included “Grease is the word” by Frankie Valli in the set, and it sounded great!

Download Mix.

Pic and link courtesy of the ever-fantastic Trabalho Sujo.

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Warming up for his first European tour coming November, original Baile Funk Master DJ Amazing Clay has provided #1 in the new Man Recordings platform “Baile Funk Mixtape Series”, which will present mixtapes by various DJs from Rio De Janeiro.

Amazing Clay is probably one of the most legendary funk DJs from Rio. With a career that spans more than 25 years of DJ experience he knows how to get a party going. Recently his work shifted to international recognition, when he contributed to #4 in the Baile Funk Masters series on Man Recordings. Soon after, Clay remixed Munk´s “Live Fast Die Old” feat. Asia Argento, and contributed in the “Bossa Do Morro” compilation with a fierce remix of João Gilberto´s “Bim Bom”. Clay is also part of the “Astigmatic Inspired by Chopin” remix project, which includes remixes of classic Fréderic Chopin songs by heavyweights like Crazy Baldhead, Daniel Wang, Black Joy and Max Skiba amongst others (Clay´s mix is included in the mixtape) – released in November.

Amazing Clay will come to Europe for a few weeks in November, if you´re interested in booking Clay and his MPC for an original set of Rio Baile Funk please contact me at: info@manrecordings.com

Confirmed DJ dates for Clay´s Europe tour are so far:

Nov 13th, Berlin, DE
Nov 14th, Warsaw, PL
Nov 27th, Tübingen, DE
Nov 28th, Vienna, AT

Download the mix from here:
MAN RECORDINGS MIXTAPE SERIES #1 DJ AMAZING CLAY

Tracklist

01= Aquecimento Do Verão (Dj Amazing Clay)
02= Gringo Vai Embora (Dj Amazing Clay feat. Mc Gringo & Ninna)
03= Oi Novinha (Dj Amazing Clay feat. Bonde Zoeira)
04= Chopin In Da Party (Etude in C Minor) (Dj Amazing Clay)
05= Saudade da Ex (Dj Amazing Calay feat Mc Maiquinho)
06= Live fast Die Old (Munk with Asia Argento – Dj Amazing Clay Remix)
07= Upside Down (Sandra D’angelo & Dj Amazing Clay)
08= Super Jones (Extended Mix) (Dj Amazing Clay)
09= Berimbolô (Dj Amazing Clay)
10= Bim Bom (João Gilberto) (Baile funk Remix By Dj Amazing Clay)
11= Electro Sex (Dj Amazing Clay)
12= What The Funk x Mc Maiquinho x Ninna (P Funky / Dj Amazing Clay)
13= Hey Hey (Mc Maiquinho)
14= Fica Atrás Dela (Waguinho Caxangá)
15= Mulher de Cama e Mesa (Mc Betta & Dj Amazing Clay)
16= Soulfood x Mc Dandão (P Funky / Dj Amazing Clay)
17= Descendo e Mexendo o Ombrinho (Os Caçadores)
18= Tô Facinho (Mc Mágico)
19= Pode Me Chamar de Boa (Mc Dandara)
20= Daytripper (Baile Funk Remix Dj Fú & Dj Dinho)

Photo courtesy of Vincent Rosenblatt/ Agencia Olhares

World exclusive – here´s the brandnew mixtape by our upcoming hot ticket KU BO, the new project by Viennese bass king STEREOTYP. The mixtape features classic cuts by KU BO plus unreleased and upcoming tracks. Expect KU BO Vinyl #3 to drop on Man Recordings in autumn, followed by a full album in February.

Download it here:
KU BO MIXTAPE SUMMER 08

TRACKLIST

01. Daniel Haaksman feat. SD Boys Parolar De Veso Ku Bo Remix
02. Rebola feat. Joyce Muniz
03. Turnament Version feat. Yasmine Seydi
04. Turnament feat. Fefe MC
05. Uepa feat. Joyce Muniz
06. Um Korpo feat. Joyce Muniz
07. Kubo Precut (no name yet )
08. Lem Lem
09. Tindao