Rusty DJ 2.0

I had the opportunity to guest DJ a friend's web radio show the other day. A somewhat flubby mix made in a dark room, but I was happy to fill two hours with a wide variety of mood music. Also, good excuse to drop a track I made last Sunday.

If you have a few hours to spare, come take a messy little journey with me here.

Casa Bey to Forte

We are in a new stage of hip-hop where we can have a new single from an artist like Mos Def and at the same time have the original sample be revealed (see above)...and it takes nothing away from the magic of the music.

This has been done before (ghostface rhyming over "LALALA means I love you" comes to mind immediately) and 9th Wonder teaches a class on hip-hop with a section in his syllabus called "Santa Clause ain't real" where he shows his students the line between the original sample material and what their favorite artists actually create in their music. Some students end up disappointed when they find out that certain songs aren't made from scratch by an artist. Outkast's "So Fresh, So Clean" was given as an example, as was Alicia Key's You Don't Know My Name.

Actually, better DJs have been playing the sampled and and the source material from the earliest days of hip-hop and it only enhances both compositions. Right now, listening to Banda Black Rio's "Casa Forte" only makes me want to hear Mos Def's "Casa Bey" even more. They are both strong cuts in their own right.


side note:

This has got to be the best fan vid ever! Ghostface as Racer X! Daytona 5000. JediDan has hit all the marks with this Speed Racer mash-up video. too dope.

Something to fuck with, after all?

Wu-Tang covers reimagined Blue Note stylee by Logan Walters. Nice.

Addendum: New El Michels Affair record is good stuff too.

Magnetic

The new Mos Def track/video seems to:

a) kind of deliver on the promise of artist as Doom fan.

b) continue the trend of typography in hip hop video.




Anyway, it's fantastic and equals two hot songs in a row by me.

DJ Hero

Full Story

I thought it would be wack at first, but if the platter spins AND you have to catch and scratch the sample?! that could be dope.

I'm imagining a DJ Premier scratch chorus.
"Devil's Pie" anyone? ("I'm tryn'a eat...c..c..c..come one, come all...if you wanna...cut the pie")

EDIT: The more I think about it, the controller should be an MPC or SP1200 sampler. Then you could build songs and have more to do in a song than just wait for the scratches. There could also be an advanced level where you chop samples to create beats!

Digital DeLa

As both a collector and a runner, I found this too interesting to pass up. Dave seems a little bored with the commerce side of the project in this video. But De La Soul are continuing to find interesting ways to make albums. Ya gotta respect their hustle.

For more, check Maceo at DeLaSoul's Dugout.

ummm... and then there's this:
Master Killa for PETA?