EPISODE 51 – J DILLA TRIBUTE PART 2

What’s good. As promised, hemophilia here’s the second half of the official Shaman Work J Dilla Tribute Mix – check the archives for the first half. This episode also features a exclusive commentary from DJ 2-Tone Jones, patient the man behind the mix – you won’t even get this joint on the CD version.

I’ll leave y’all with the tracklist this time, and some extra notes (including official artwork downloads!) after the jump.

20. Busta Rhymes – Enjoy Da Ride
[Jay Dee - African Rhythms]
21. Pharcyde – Runnin’
22. Pharcyde – Runnin’ (Jay Dee remix)
23. Phat Kat – Dedication to the Suckers
24. Bilal – Reminisce feat. Mos Def and Common
25. JayLib – The Mission
26. Jay Dee – LightWorks
27. MED – Push feat J. Dilla
28. Slum Village – Do You
[Lawless Element - The Shining (inst)]
29. Erykah Badu – Didn’t Cha Know
30. Pharcyde – Splattitorium
31. Jay Dee – Move feat Frank-n-Dank
32. J Dilla – Oblighetto
33. Frank-n-Dank – Love (A Thing of the Past)
[Slum Village - Outro]
34. DJ 2-Tone Jones Speaks (Courtesy of DJ 2-Tone Jones and Shaman Work)
[MED - So Real (inst)]

Official Cover Art
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EPISODE 42 – SUMMER MIXTAPE

This episode, migraine as you probably noticed, is the Summer Mixtape – yet another concept episode. Basically the concept here is a typical summer day – I won’t get all nostalgic about summers spent during my middle school years – you know, ice cream, running through sprinklers, and coke binges, you get the idea. One day, one mixtape. Here we go.

NOTICE – MAKE SURE TO NOMINATE THE MIXTAPE SHOW! CLICK HERE TO GET US (ALL) AN AWARD (in the “podsafe music” category)

4:35 AM: Eulorhythmics – Good Life (Intro). Yeah, I probably coulda put this one at the end, but damn, it’s such a dope intro that I had to switch it up. This is the joint you wake up to, before the sun wakes up. This is off their EP, which, incidentally, is probably up there with the best shit I’ve heard this month. Highly recommended, and there should be an interview with one of the members of Eulo fairly soon – watch out for that. allnatural.com.

6:30 AM: Steve Spacek – The Hills. Dawn’s broke like a minute ago, but nobody’s really awake yet – this is the joint you ride your bike around the block to, because you feel like it, and anyway you don’t have a driver’s license yet. I was about to play “Dollar”, but a) you’ve all probably already heard that and b) I don’t know, I couldn’t help thinking about Reaganomics every time I listened to it. More science from Sound In Color. Hope you guys aren’t mad that I played singing on the rap show. If you are, fuck off.

Shoutout to Fresh, by the way. I see you.

High Noon: Exile f/ Jontel – Summertime in LA. I’ll fully admit that this one is a little odd. Still, though, it’s sort of oddly catchy, and definitely on some weird next level yet familiar shit. Every time I listen to this I think of Costco. I have no idea why, because I don’t really like Costco that much. But I like this song. This one definitely goes at noon, though. Haven’t heard much about Jontel, but we all know Exile here, right? Right. soundincolor.com.

2:30 PM: Lawless Element f/ J Dilla – Love. Yeah. It’s early afternoon, you’re thirteen, somebody just stole your Pokemon cards, and you’re about to ride on the motherfuckers. That’s what the fuck I’m talking about. Have you ever bought a Wal-Mart CD with the edits, and realized that the edits make the song a bit better? That’s the case with this one – the bleep edits actually make Dilla’s (who, as one would expect, totally outshines everyone in this song) part a lot more interesting. I never got to listen to this whole album, but the parts I did hear were pretty good – easily recommendable if you like this track. babygrande.com.

6:30 PM: DJ DMD f/ Screwed Up Click (Chopped by DJ Ryno). And this one rounds out the show – late afternoon, just maxin in the Rite-Aid parking lot with your cheap-ass ride. I came really, really close to saving this one for a slowed & chopped episode, but I don’t know if I’ll ever get around to doing that – if anyone wants to get at me with some of that shit, definitely holler at me about that. This one is pretty much a classic in my opinion, though. RIP Screw and Pat.

Oh, and the outro beat is courtesy alf-alpha. Believe that.

Well, there it goes. You can call my approach cheesy, but you can’t front on the quality of the joints themselves.

Nominate the Mixtape Show

Oh, as an aside – make sure to listen to the end of the show, since there are some instructions on nominating the Mixtape Show for a Podcast Award. I’m not trying to go for the prizes or personal fame here, but really it’s all about spreading the word and making sure that any artists featured on here get as much exposure and positive momentum from being on here as possible, yaoming? Plus the bigger this show gets, the more you get to be like “oh yeah I listened to that shit back in the day”, etc.

So, here’s the basic instructions:

1. Click here to go to the Podcast Awards Nomination Section

2. Scroll down to the “Podsafe Music” category, on the left and the third from the bottom.

3. Fill in the fields – the show is obviously “The Mixtape Show” and the URL is “http://www.mixtapeshow.net”.

Nominations close July 15th, so make that shit happen now. Voting should start after that, so I’ll keep yall posted if the show gets in there.

And that’s pretty much it – I do this for yall, so any support you all can give me is much appreciated and will help me keep doing my thing here.

Holler.

Oh yeah, and fuck an independence day.

ayyo, medic what it do? you arrready know what it is, it’s your favorite hip-hop mixtape podcast on the internets, the mixtape show.

So yeah, this week’s theme is keeping it real, or if you prefer, keeping it fucking hood. Right now I’m in Berkeley, and I’ve been scrambling trying to handle this damn podcast shit.

Anyway, it’s episode 10, and believe it or not, even though I am out of the studio, have no CDJs or turntables, and have to record this on a $4 mic I stole from a kindergartener (sorry Bobby), I think it might be one of my favorites thus far. Check the tracklist…

First up is 26, yeah, as in the number, with California Kings. I think I first heard these dudes through myspace, and it sounds like he (they?) got their ish fairly tight. LuckyIam.PSC also comes through on this track, and makes a pretty strong track a damn good one. Don’t ask me what that “hey mom, punch me in the eye” thing is about, either. Random side note: I was listening to some other bootleg-ass “hip-hop” podcast, and some nerdy guy introduced LuckyIam as “Lucky Aim PSC”. I was a little saddened. Check them out on www.myspace.com/26hrs

Next is Lawless Element, featuring Jay Dilla, with Love. This one came via some people down with Lawless Element hitting me up on the mixtape site, and also sending me emails. So forreal, all artists out there, if you want to shoot me some material for possible inclusion in a show, get at me…I respond to every email, eventually. No site for them either…

I’ve got another couple tracks from these Lawless cats as well, and one of them is pretty fucking brilliant. Be on the lookout for more Lawless and maybe an interview. Did I mention that Jay Dilla is on this track? If you haven’t arready clicked the download link, you need to right now.

Third on the list is Faculty with Wickedest Sound. Check them out at thafaculty.com. Peace to Damon for hooking us up with this track. Dude’s been on board with me since before I even had a home (or a name) for this show, and it’s been constant support ever since. Faculty has been linking up with several big-name producers recently, and, well, who wants an interview? I’ve got another track featuring Faculty along with Wildchild and Oh No on production. Remind me to drop that one in a future show…

Last cut is, again, Specifics with Under the Hood. If anyone’s wondering why I keep bumping the Specifics, well, it’s because they sent me six mp3s and all were quality. Check them out on their page, myspace.com/specifics.

Sorry for the short podcast this week. Like I said, though, I’m trying to keep it hood, so for all y’all in the hood without broadband, this one won’t take so goddamn long to download.

Also speaking of keeping it hood, if you listen to the very end of this show, that’s not a joke. There I am, just chillin on the corner with my laptop, mic and headphones, recording the outro of the show cause I liked the street ambiance. I’m almost done, when the fucking 5-0 rolls up, flashes his brights, turns on the blue and reds, and starts to get out of the car. This is where the show ends, kids.

Doing the show on the street was funny though. Aside from the occasional old couple walking down the road, nobody else even seemed to notice. Gotta love Berkeley.

I’ll be back down in LA soon, grinding as usual.

PS: Sorry there are no links yet. I’m back in the party now and I’m feeling like a nerd doing this. Will fix tomorrow or so. Peace.