MATTHEW AFRICA + E-40 = BEASTIN’

DJ Matthew Africa puts together a “best of E-40″ mix. [Insert some crazy Yay slang phrase here]

TWO NEW MIXTAPES + REVAMPED MIX PAGE

These were a long time coming but I finally got around to making some new mixes. Even though it’s hard to make the time, I get so much pleasure out of putting these together and I personally, I feel like I hit a strong groove with how these two came together.1

Aretha Redux is an overhaul of my previous Aretha mix that improves on that version with new songs and new segues, covering a lot of her lesser-known hits plus a few choice covers. Learn more.

Deep Covers 3 is the [...]

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FREE MIXES

Head Warmers (1997). This was actually the sixth in a series of ’90s/indie hip-hop-driven mixtapes and it’s become the one I have gotten the most props for; DJ Shadow even has it as one of the mixtapes shown in the liner notes for Private Press.

 

 

Polyrhythmatic (1998). Another indie hip-hop heavy mix and personally, my favorite mix from this era, both in terms of the song selection and the segues I played with.

 

 

Double Flip (1999/2000). This was a [...]

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ROCK WITH IT: SOUL BOULDERS 2

My dudes Josh B. Cause and Matthew Africa have put out their long awaited sequel to one of my favorite mixes of the last few years, Soul Boulders. Slow, funky soul cookers = unfadeable.

Here’s the sampler:

To order, go here.

BACK FROM THE DEAD: INCOGNITOS MIXTAPE (ON TAPE!)

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Back in 1999, I created the first version of my Incognitos mixtape (back when mixtapes were actually on cassette). As with the newer digital version, the idea here was to focus on “gems that slipped through the cracks” – songs that, for whatever reason (poor airplay, limited distribution, sample clearance, etc., never really saw much light.

I had sent a box of tapes to a national distributor, based in the Bay Area, and years later, they sent me back all the unsold stock, which was around 150+ copies. They languished in my [...]

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MICK BOOGIE AND JAZZY JEFF: SUMMERTIME 2

They’re back.

CHRIS READ, RETURNING TO THE CLASSICS

If you’re not listening to Chris Read’s incredible “Classic Material” series of year-oriented hip-hop mixes, you must hate hip-hop.

2010 REVIEW (FROM THE BINS)


There are other songs that could have made this list but I really went with those songs that, at the end of the year, I still enjoyed as much as when I first heard ‘em. Interesting trends I noticed in my listening taste as a result of putting this playlist together: gospel was obviously big for me this year, reggae was not, and despite a wealth of Latin, only a few songs really stayed with me. As always, soul was huge but not so much funk. Jazz was totally shut out. We’ll have to see what 2011 [...]

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