Down Time Jul 26

Finally I’ve gotten around to posting another mix. This summer has been the busiest I’ve had in a long time between work, freelance, down time, and wanting to be outside enjoying the weather (and not in front of a computer). But I somehow found a few minutes to squeeze in a mix. And I remembered the tracklisting this time…

1. A Tribe Called Quest – Check The Rhyme (Instrumental)
2. Souls Of Mischief – 93 Til Infinity [Remix] (Instrumental)
3. Mos Def – Habitat (Instrumental)
4. DJ Jazzy Jeff – We Live In Philly (Instrumental)
5. Gang Starr – Step In The Arena
6. Little Brother – Ain’t Nobody Like Me (Instrumental)
7. Ghostface Killah – After the Smoke Is Clear
8. Pharcyde – Drop (Instrumental)
9. Jaylib – Pillz (Instrumental)
10. Grand Puba – I Like It
11. Shin-Ski of Martiangang – Funky DL / Not The 1 4 Me (Shin-Ski Remix)
12. Common – Dooinit (Instrumental)
13. Pete Rock – No Tears (Instrumental)
14. Common – Dooinit (Instrumental)
15. Mobb Deep – Give Up The Goods (Just Step)
16. Mobb Deep – The Learning (Instrumental)
17. Big L – 8 Iz Enuff (Instrumental)
18. Slum Village – Get Dis Money (Instrumental)
19. Beatnuts – Ya Don’t Stop
20. Common – Communism (Instrumental)

Enjoy.

Chill Mode Mix: Necro Edition May 26

I know we’re hot off the heals of a Chill Mode Mix already, but I feel this needs to be posted. I’ve listened to it a bunch over the past few days, and no longer want to keep it to myself.

So, one of the ideas I had for this CMM series was producer editions. In other words, having the whole mix of all tracks from one producer. In this case, it’s Necro. His lyrics can be a lot to stomach. He invented death-rap, if that says anything. But if you’re like me, you listen to Necro because he’s an amazing producer. One of my favorites in fact. So you should definitely give this if you value great production. It’s all instrumentals (only one song with lyrics), and fits the CMM series well.

I will soon be having a weekly live broadcast where I mix some tunes, and possibly record to post here. I’ve been playing around with it the last few days, and have gotten a good response. So I will announce what day of the week that is going to be shortly, but feel free to tell me what days work for you.

Enjoy. No tracklisting for this one.

Chill Mode Mix Vol. 5 May 17

This is the latest installment of the Chill Mode Mix series, which, from most of the comments I’ve heard about this site, seems to be the favorite. I have to say, that it’s fun making them too, and upon listening to this one more, I got a few ideas for how to mix up the series.

There are a couple not-so-smooth transitions. I really need to be more patient with some of these mixes, but sometimes I just get a little too pumped to bring in the next track. Anyways, here’s the tracklisting…

1. Madlib – Episode XI
2. K-DEF – Hey Funkbox
3. Atmosphere – Apple (Instrumental)
4. Mobb Deep – G.O.D. Pt. 3 (Instrumental)
5. Necro Ft. Ill Bill – Our Life (Instrumental)
6. J-Zone – Kizzy’s Revenge (Instrumental)
7. Quasimoto – Low Class Conspiracy (Instrumental)
8. Asheru & Blue Black – Smiley (Instrumental)
9. Group Home – Up Against Tha Wall (Instrumental)
10. A Tribe Called Quest – God Lives Through
11. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien – Phony Phranchise (Domino Remix Instrumental)
12. Hieroglyphics – The Who (Del Mix Instrumental)
13. Kardinal Offishall – Ol’ Time Kilin (Instrumental)
14. Method Man & Redman – Let’s Do It (Instrumental)
15. Mos Def – Body Rock (Instrumental)
16. Nas – One Love (Instrumental)
17. Pep Love – The Grind (Instrumental)
18. Royce Da 5 9 – Boom (Instrumental)
19. RZA & GZA – Third World (Instrumental)
20. Wu-Tang Clan – Can It All Be So Simple (Instrumental)

Enjoy.

Aftershave Apr 5

I was fresh off of recording a mix, which I’ll post later this week, and I had iTunes on random. The track Funky 4 U from Deadbeats (the first track of this mix) comes on, and I immediately thought that I’d like to make a real smooth mix, hence the title. Just simple mixing in and out of [mostly] instrumentals. So that’s what I did.

I think only a couple of songs have words to them, so it’s mostly an instrumental mix….. along the lines of the Chill Mode series. I was also going to introduce track lists, but I accidentally closed out djay before grabbing the track names, so I said screw it. But look for those soon.

Enjoy the mix.

Eighty Six Mar 29

Getting back on track for mixes, I was going through some music and had an idea of making a mix of all songs at 86 BPM. So that is the direction I took, and just ran with it. There will be many different possibilities for these kind of mixes, so they should be fun to do in the future as well.

Enjoy the mix for Music Monday.

Chill Mode Mix Vol. 4 Mar 19

The fourth installment of the Chill Mode Mix series, which seems to be the ones that people like the most. It’s good background music while working. I’m thinking of doing some custom artwork for these, but not sure quite yet. I have a new project in the works, so I’m not sure how much time I’ll have, but we’ll see.

I’ve also added search up in the top right. Should come in handy when I add playlists, and when this site gets more populated.

Anywho… enjoy.

New Mix And Testing iTunes Podcasts Feb 21

I’ve decided that I’m moving off of SoundCloud. While I really love the service, the current plan that I’m on only allows for 12 hours of music, and I don’t really want to pay for the next plan up. I think I’ll go through 12 hours pretty quickly (or even 36 hours, the next plan up), especially if I bring in another dj. And I’d rather not limit the time frame per mix. Sometimes you’re just feeling the music and don’t want to stop mixing, and I want to be able to share that. So I’m switching to Rackspace Cloud Files, which is much more cost effective. So the audio player will also change.

I’m also trying out having these mixes available through iTunes as a podcast. I figure there are tons of people who already use iTunes, so I’m trying to make it easier to distribute these mixes to interested people. So I will link up the podcast once it’s live and working.

Anywho, this mix is the same format as the other Chill Mode mixes….. this is actually the first one I did, that I originally said that I wasn’t going to link up. But the more I listen to it, the more I figure it’s not that bad.

Chill Mode Mix Vol. 3 Feb 18

Here is Vol. 3, which I hope will be the last one that I have to do with a mouse and keyboard. While it’s still fun mixing, let me just say, that it sucks using a mouse/keyboard to mix. And it doesn’t help without the ability to pre-queue the songs. Oh well.

This is mostly hip-hop instrumentals again. Couple rough transitions at the beginning, but smooths out eventually. Enjoy.

Chill Mode Mix Vol. 2 Feb 17

These are a few hip hop instrumentals mixed together with Djay. Some of the transitions are rough because I couldn’t queue up the next track coming in. I had to adjust it all on the fly. I plan on getting the Vestax Spin any day so these mixes will be much better.

If you want to know the name of a track, just ask. I’m going to integrate playlists in the near future.

Update: I’ve had a few reports of the SoundCloud player not working. If you are having issues with it, let me know and I’ll provide a different link for download.