I was at this gig and man… one of the best sets of rare soul that I’ve heard in recent memory. It’s a real pleasure to post this mix (thanks Aaron!)
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Long-time Good Records NYC employees Delay and Manchee have been working on this one for a while, and I’ve been sworn to secrecy for weeks now. But I just got the go-ahead to share this amazing mix with the rest of the world! Tom and Sean got together over a number of evenings, got blitted, and did what they do best - wade into a universe of space vibes and psychedelic sounds. So turn on the jacuzzi jets, break out the roach clip, and mellow out. It gets deep.
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So you all know longtime friend of Good Records Hoody Allen is one of the hardest tape collectors out there. Long-time fans of the site are no doubt familiar with his Red Alert and Tony Humphries tapes, which he was so gracious to allow us to host. Well now he’s back to bless us with another crazy tape… Mickey Mixin’ Oliver live on Chicago’s WBMX, New Year’s Eve 1983/84. You can imagine how crazy it must have been going down back then! This massive mix takes us back there with Oliver mixing seamlessly through house, disco, electro, and boogie classics. Listen!
*note: Woody Allen watermarks are *not* part of the mix, just a lil somethin’ to remind heads where the tapes are coming from. Peace & Grease, Jonny
About a week ago Phill Most The Soulman, the man behind World Of Beats and ThatRealSchitt, upped a new mix of breaks, psych, funk, and all sorts of other madness (head to the jump to download the mix itself). To a lot of us, it was a welcome return by one of the originators of the “break tape”, one of the first guys to write about digging culture online, one of the inspirations for us to do what we do.
Rather than simply linking to Phill’s site and offering a few choice compliments of the (deep, mindblowing) mix, I thought I’d hit the man up for a quick interview to chop it up on the history of the WOB column and website, his thoughts on the game, past present and future, and the life of a man many consider a legend. Thankfully, he was all too willing to oblige.
Jonny Paycheck: So basically, I want to throw it back to the World Of Beats, which this mix really brought me back to, even though it’s on, kind of, another level than what cats were checking for back then. So WOB stretched from I guess around 93-94 when you had the magazine column to 2001 or so on the WOB site. Is that about right? Can you describe the course of the column/site/blog briefly, and why you decided to end it?
Soulman: Actually the original World Of Beats column that was in Rap Sheet ran from 1994 to 1995, a little more than a year. And the internet version of the WOB started in 1999 and I kept that going for almost three years. The whole idea behind the column was just to show a side of the Hip Hop world that rarely got any coverage in the magazines or tv shows that specialized in Hip Hop, and it’s a very important part of the artform that deserved some attention. I don’t think the editors at Rap Sheet really understood what it was all about or the significance, but to their credit they let me go ahead with it anyway. Actually I first introduced the idea for an article I did on Pete Rock; after that they asked me to do a monthly column on crate digging. It quickly became the most popular regular column in the magazine; I know I got a lot of letters sent directly to my address and from what I understand Rap Sheet got a lot sent to their offices, too. One of the things I wanted to do was to interview not just famous Hip Hop producers, but also deejays, record dealers and also collectors who may not have been household names but knew their stuff when it comes to beats and old records. A lot of times the producers don’t really know as much about records as you might think they do…
Hit the jump to read the rest of the interview
… and also dropped in the last couple of days, world famous NYC disc jock and mixtape master DJ Soul put together this mother of a mix dedicated to the late great (and “great”, here, cannot be overstated - dude was one of the illest) Harlem rapper Lamont “Big L” Coleman. Taken far too soon… Rest In Power.
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Tracklist after the jump.
My homie Matthew Africa just put up this fantastic post on his (fantastic) blog I Wish You Would (bookmark it, guys) complete with a best-of mix celebrating the work of DJ Quik - “America’s Most Complete Artist” - in preparation for his new collabo record with Kurrupt of the Dogg Pound. Let the man tell it:
I made this mix because people sleep on DJ Quik. Maybe they’ve forgotten or maybe they never understood, but people don’t get the breadth or depth of his talent.
Quik’s commercial peak was his platinum 1991 debut, Quik Is the Name.
Here’s the thing, though– Quik never fell off.
Where most veteran artists either make the same record over and over until everyone stops paying attention or lose their identity scrambling to co-opt whatever other people think is hot, Quik’s career has been about devotion to his craft, steady growth and experimentation.
Church. You can download the mix HERE and check the tracklist below the fold.
A wonderful gospel mix by my man Leo, aka DJ El-V, one of Vermont’s finest collectors of gospel and soul LPs. Deep, mellow, uplifting vibe throughout. As I’m listening, man… parts of this mix are HEAVY. Some joints on here I need to track down for myself… heh heh. Enjoy!
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Track list below the fold.
Here’s a deep, dark, dreamy psych mix from a year or so back, put together by Good Records NYC employee, muscle, and all around homie Dr. Delay. Now out of print, uploaded here for your listening pleasure.
track list below the fold.
In preparation for a new afro-disco party (separate from the already-running, already-famous Brooklyn afro-funk party, Voodoo Funk) our boy Frank, pka DJ Soulpusher, formerly of parties like NYC’s classic Vampyros Lesbos and Germany’s Soul Explosion, has put together a new, killer mix full of obscure, rare, unknown, and simply amazing disco bangers.
Peep it out below. Try to name a cut or two! We’re not telling….
Longtime contributor S dot Grizzly aka Young Scrappy aka Bob Bannister aka DJ Jumex (ah, you like that!) comes back to us following the winter’s hibernation with another beautiful mix of slow music from Africa.
Sounds of creation, of birth, of mourning and prayer, all held in place, vibrating, like the air on a humid day. Nimble guitar runs and deep percussive rhythms of the heart and womb. Hypnotic and circular. I love this stuff. Track list below the fold…
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