the mixtape show

Grime. Here’s some shit some of you are probably familiar with, but just in case, I thought I’d drop a little more knowledge on you uneducated motherfuckers.

Basically, Grime is like UKG, except, well, grimier. I’ve heard people thrashing about whining about how the term “grime” is racist (suggests dirty and criminal elements, or something like that), but I’ve been hearing that same argument on that whole jungle/dnb tip for a long time now, and anyway I don’t take offense to it, but yo, I ain’t from the UK, so what do I know? Point is that I call it grime, and until words like “sublow” or “8bar” or “eskibeat” stop sounding really really fucking weird to me, I’m gonna continue to call it that.
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how do I listen to the show?

Damn, somethin’s got me all chilled out and ish. Whatever though, I’m not complaining. I got back recently from a quick trip to the Yay, and it was all good, except for when I thought it would be a good idea to go to Monterey. That is a terrible city and I will never go there again, but Oakland, Berkeley, and SF, I’m down with that. Peace to all the people I met and broke bread with, peace to Local 2 and the UFW, and stay offa that Gallo wine, no joke.

Anyway, back to that hip-hop music. It’s late and your boy is tired, but just cause I’m all calm and ish doesn’t mean that the selection ain’t hot. I didn’t get to mention the second track in the podcast, but the Trek Life freestyle is hot, you need to check that one.

opening beat - Specifics - Craig’s House bonus beat - myspace.com/specifics
Binary Star - Reality Check - subterraneousrecords.com - amazing wordplay. You’re going to have to rewind this a few times to catch it all, trust me.
Trek Life - Freestyle f/ Mykestro - myspace.com/treklife - this one is hot.
Serengeti - Mad Whimsy - daybyday ent - the rest of this CD is nuts too. I’ma have to interview this dude…
Specifics - Craig’s House - myspace.com/specifics - these dudes gave me like 6 mp3s and all of em were hot. what’s in the water in Canada?
Nite - Life - strictlyclever.com - Has anyone else out there heard her street mixtape? Ish is kinda nice…
Shu f/ Felicia Faye - Feel For You - The Bakery, Ltd.

Thanks as usual to the artists and labels, off hand Azar at daybyday for hooking it up with the Serengeti joint (let’s see about that interview), and Parker at The Bakery Ltdfor coming through at the last minute with the last joint (Feel For You).

Be on the lookout for the next two episodes. They already in planning, and they already hot. Damn!

hot damn. Well, I said I was gonna get you all some audio here on the mixtape show, but I kinda lied. This time I’m gonna drop some video.

Hopefully you all out there are familiar with Madlib and Quasimoto, his helium-voiced counterpart. If you’re not, well, today’s a good day for you, because you about to find out.

First up is a video called “rappcats”, which can be found here. Just click on the video link in the top left corner. The general idea is that it shouts out damn near anybody that came out from the early 80s to the mid 90s, meaning it’s a bunch of artists on there that I wasn’t supposed to listen to back then. The movie is short as hell, but it’ll have you bugging out over some crazy visual memory at least twice, I guarantee. Read the rest of this entry »

All right, I’ve been thinking on this for a few days, and I figure it’s about time that somebody gets up here on the intarweb and lets all you kids know what’s good. Nah, I’m not about to start spilling personal details cause people out there is crazy, but at the very least, I gotta get the word out about some of this music, heard?

Anyway, up to this point, I’ve just been sharing the music that I’ve been mixing down for you, which is pretty much bullshit. I mean, I spend about 90% of my day listening to different stuff, and I haven’t bought a CD since 1998 (and that AMP 1 compilation was great), so the least I can do is hook you all up with some free tunes, right? right. I ain’t got time to put everything in a mix, so if I run across something hot, I’ll try to let you all know.
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