Pipomixes

Jazzy Jeff is the illest, but every time I try to find new video footage of him I always see the same set. Here, you can see Jeff doing something different than the norm (at least compared to most of the video footage on the web), mixing THE BREAKS!

Labels: dj jazzy jeff , videos , Videos of Live Sets/Concerts

Man, DJ Spinna's ability to seamlessly blend breaks is pretty extraordinary. Part 2 after the jump. Watch and enjoy.

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Not a whole lot of new ground broken here on the break front. But this mix doesn't an excellent job of blending breaks with their sampling hip hop counterpart. I'd highly recommend this mix, but I'm afraid of jinxing another deejay after the last "highly recommended" fiasco. Description below.

This mix is all about education. What you have in this mix are some of my favorite hip-hop records (well, Alicia Keys isn't really hip-hop, but whatever, Kanye did his thing on that track) paired back-to-back with their original samples. Uncovering original samples and mixing them with their hip-hop counterparts is something I've been obsessed with for a while. This is what I originally intended to do on my radio show on WNYU, but I ended up just playing strictly original jazz, funk, and soul tracks that have been sampled over the years. Some of these joints you'll probably recognize, and some you may not. But, at the end of the day, hopefully, it will open your eyes on how some of the illest producers in the game can re-create and flip great, and sometimes mediocre tracks, into some amazing and timeless hip-hop. Enjoy.

Tracklist:

1. Leon Haywood - I Wanna Do Something Freaky to You
2. Dr. Dre - Ain't Nuthin But a G Thang (Feat. Snoop)
3. David McCallum & David Axelrod - The Edge
4. Dr. Dre - The Next Episode
5. Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle
6. Biz Markie - Nobody Beats the Biz
7. Gang Starr - Soliloquy of Chaos
8. Ahmad Jamal - Misdemeanor
9. Gang Starr - Just to Get a Rep
10. Jean Jacques Perrey - E.V.A.
11. Ohio Players - Ecstasy
12. Jay-Z - Brooklyn's Finest (Feat. The Notorious B.I.G.)
13. Gary Wright - Heartbeat
14. Jay-Z - Early This Morning
15. Tom Scott - Never My Love
16. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - It's On You
17. The Love Unlimited Orchestra - Midnight Groove
18. O.C. - Half Good, Half Sinner
19. Dave Grusin - Modaji
20. Royal Flush - Rotten Apple
21. The Notorious B.I.G. - Sky's The Limit (Feat. 112)
22. Bobby Caldwell - My Flame
23. Earl Klugh - Time for Love
24. Raekwon - Ice Cream
25. The Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
26. The Charmels - As Lons as I've Got You
27. OutKast - So Fresh, So Clean
28. Joe Simon - Before The Night is Over
29. The Main Ingredient - Let Me Prove My Love to You
30. Alicia Keys - You Don't Know My Name
31. Jay Electronica - Exhibit C
32. Billy Stewart - Cross My Heart
33. Smokey Robinson - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
34. Kanye West - Devil in a New Dress (G.O.O.D. Friday Version sans Rick Ross verse)
35. The Cecil Holmes Soulful Sounds - I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby
36. Nas - No Idea's Original
37. Strong Arm Steady - Chitlins & Pepsi (Feat. Planet Asia)
38. L.V. Johnson - I Don't Really Care
39. Raekwon - Heaven & Hell
40. Syl Johnson - Could I Be Falling in Love?

Labels: Break Mixes , DJ Act Like You Know , mixes

True story. After 2pac died and Dre and Snoop left Deathrow Records, Deathrow was notorious for pushing back release dates for the talent still "stranded" on the Row. One of those artists was Nate Dogg. I remember going to my local Tower Records at least half a dozen times to buy Nate Dogg's G Funk Classics Vol.1 only to be told that the release had been pushed back again. I tell that story to show how hardcore of a Nate Dogg fan I was at one point in time. I've also yet to hear a Nate Dogg mix from a deejay who gives me the impression that he was anywhere close to as hardcore of a Nate Dogg fan as I was. Hell, I knew girls in high school that could put together a better Nate Dogg tracklist than most of the Nate Dogg mixes I heard over the weekend. Most of these mixes sound like they were made by deejays who only know Nate's catalog from his classic appearances on Dr. Dre's 2001. I'm not dissin' (well, I guess I am), but most of these deejays are sleeping on a lot of Nate Dogg gems. I still say that Steve1der's Nate Dogg mix is the best I've heard (2nd only to the mix in my head that I've yet to do lol). However, I can't post that mix for a fourth time. So here's another Nate Dogg mix that will do for now. Actually, the mix is put together quite nicely and deserving of a post because Nate Dogg's music deserves shine. Enjoy

Labels: Best of... Mixes , j.period , mixes

A piece of history straight from the soundcloud account of Cut Chemist. Description below.

KDAY Friday Night Live feat. LL Cool J, Bobby Jimmy and Rappinstein@Skateland USA, Compton 1985

Labels: mixes , Radio Mixes