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As I’m about to expand my mixes-for-purchase catalog (a new Aretha mix and Deep Covers 3!), I’d also like to offer up free mixes from the past, beginning with this trio. I’ll likely add at least 1 or 2 more mixes to this page over the next week.
 Polyrhythmatic (1998). Hip-hop, indie-heavy. Probably my favorite hip-hop mix from that era…I just had great songs to use and I spent the most time on (basic) scratching and other segue tricks.
 Double Flip (1999/2000). This was a “double album” – [...]
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Beginning in 2010, DJ Chris Read, in collaboration with Nick Armitage, began to put together a monthly party/mix series called “Classic Material.” 1 The basic concept was that each month, they’d put together a party and a mix celebrating a year in the life of hip-hop music, finishing in 2000. For 14 months, this was one of the things I looked forward to since Read brought great creativity and song selection to each of these mixes. To top it all off, they created special boxsets, including a custom-designed logo, riffing off of hip-hop labels. 2
This month marks [...]
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Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band: What Can You Bring Me?
From You’re So Beautiful (Warner Brothers, 1971)
Craig G: Take the Bait
From Now, That’s More Like It (Atlantic, 1991)
A Tribe Called Quest: Rock Rock Ya’ll
From The Love Movement (Jive, 1998)
(Dec. 2011: This is another repost/resurrection. First posted in 2007 but original comments were lost. Since I just wrote about this Wright/Watts 103rd song for the Oxford American, it also seemed totally apropos to bring it back. –O.W.)
Original post from ’07: The original song [...]
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Bobbi Humphrey: Blacks and Blues
From Blacks and Blues (Blue Note, 1974)
KMD: Plumskinzz
From 12″ (B-side of “Nitty Gritty”) (Elektra, 1991)1
Eric B. and Rakim: Keep the Beat
From Don’t Sweat the Technique (MCA, 1992)
(This was originally posted four years ago but because of how my commenting system has changed since then, I lost all the original comments about it and that seemed like a shame. As it was, I was listening to “Plumskinz” again – I never can get enough of this song – and I figured, “hell, why [...]
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I’ve been in the midst of digitizing my old hip-hop tapes and the last actual cassette mix-tape I put together was this: Double Flip Vol. 9, originally created in 1999/2000. It was a double tape (hence the name) and packs in 2 hours of music.
You can find more info and the tracklist here.
Enjoy! (And happy holidays from Soul Sides to you and yours).
 
Polyrhythmatic was the 8th installment in my hip-hop mixtape series, originally released in 1998. This took me about five months to put together and all said, I’m still satisfied with most of my song choices here. There’s only a handful of tracks I’d probably swap out but for the most part, a lot of these still hold up for me.
Side A: shape of the rhythm intro
Jurassic 5: Concrete Schoolyard
Shabaam Sadeeq: [...]
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I mourn the way way way too early loss of Heavy D but he gave us all a gift a few weeks back with this performance.
Also, this is the first Heavy D song I ever heard. I was always amazed at his sense of movement and dance skill despite his heft.
…and of course, this song seems apropos. Originally written for Heavy D’s dancer, Trouble T Roy.
 
Whoa, has it been six weeks since our last installment? Since our last check in, I managed to get through all of my alphabetized collection and now have about 500 or so unfiled promos from the early ’00s to go through before this phase of the purge is complete. 1 In the time since, I also put aside about 20 singles for the series and since I had that much music, I whipped together a pithy mini-mix:
Great Rap Purge Part 7 Mini-Mix Rubbabandz: Purple Rain (Messenger, 1995)
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