In 2012 the crew at Moovmnt.com will be supplying you with a monthly selection of gems. Since the number 12 is also known as the number for perfection, we have chosen a birthstone for each month. So if you’re in for diamonds by the dozen or rubies in the rough you’re in the right place.

January’s birthstone is the Garnet. It’s name comes from the 14th century Middle English word, gernet, meaning ‘dark red’. Enjoy our first mix of the year and spread the word if you dig this.

TRACKLIST
01 Robert Glasper Experiment – Intro
02 Robert Glasper Experiment – Ah Yeah Ft. Musiq Soulchild & Chrisette Michele
03 Teedra Moses – So Special Ft. 1-O.A.K.
04 Nodzilla – A Place Called Forever Ft. Black Spade, Coultrain & Phillipe
05 Hawthorne Head Hunters – Collage
06 Sasac – Crystal Flags
07 Darkhouse Fam – Like No Other Ft. B. Bravo
08 Pardon The Stranger – Snow is Gone
09 Jonny Sass – Undone (prod. by Mez)
10 The Internet - Love Song – 1
11 Damon Aaron – Better (Eric Lau Mix)
12 Renee Neufville & Chris ‘Daddy’ Dave – Everything
13 Christoph El Truento – Armadillo Meat Funk
14 Union – Light Odyssey
15 Monkey Sequence 19 – Pretend Ft. Mar (Julien Dyne Remix)
16 Julien Dyne – So Far Ft. Mara TK
17 Domu – Morose (Demo)
18 SBTRKT – Atomic Peace
19 Rogiérs – Home (Opolopo Remix)

No matter how many times I see or hear Montreal resident Guilty (aka: Rilly Guilty) spin, he has never once put on a song I didn’t fully enjoy. Sick track record (pun intended). The man not only feeds you with tunes you’d love, but with tunes you never thought you would have loved. He goes where others wouldn’t dare, kidnapping his audience for a little joy ride.

When he first gave me a physical copy of Golden Sounds Volume 3, I had that house mix bumping in my car for months until it was memorized. Having just found out Volume 4 was released, I immediately told my imaginary secretary to cancel all my imaginary appointments. This mix of soulful house with touches of techno is (as expected) driving me just as wild as the last one, and I will be driving wildly to these tunes so watch out!

We’ll be sharing a lot more from him in the near future, but for now why don’t you start out with this amazing mix from a couple months ago. Beats heads you will not be disappointed!

Tracklist:
1. KUTMAH – EAST L.A ONE FOR GONJASUFI (UNRELEASED)
2. ROYCE THE 5”9 + BUSTA RHYMES – DINNER TIME
3. FUGEES – REMIX BY JON WAYNE (UNRELEASED)
4. CUPP CAVE – JUNIPER (UNRELEASED)
5. AADVARK – DUNK
6. LAPTI – THEREMIN JOINT (UNRELEASED)
7. SAM BAKER SHIT – WHERE AM I (UNRELEASED)
8. SAMIYAM FEAT. JON WAYNE – JWSB BOOTLEG (UNRELEASED)
9. MAINFRAME FEAT. BLU – THAT SHIT (UNRELEASED)
10. DIBIASE – SHEETS RUFF CUT (UNRELEASED)
11. ZACKEY FORCE FUNK – DRINK ON THE FLOOR (PROD: PIOTRUS PAN, UNRELEASED)
12. RAS G – KINGS RIDDIM (UNRELEASED)
13. MANSON GIRLS
14. PACE ONE – I’M THAT GOOD (UNRELEASED)
15. ALEX B FEAT. COUNT BASS D – DRIP SPLATTER ALPHA PUP
16. JON WAYNE – TAKING OVER EMPIRES’ (PROD: DIBIA$E)
17. DEM HUNGA – JLLYBLLY (UNRELEASED)
18. RAS G – RAS/GLK (UNRELEASED)
19. FLYING LOTUS – SLOW IT DOWN (UNRELEASED)
20. MONO/PONY – GLOW (UNRELEASED)
22. JON WAYNE BEAT (UNRELEASED)
23. KANKICK – DIG THE TRADITION 99
24-30. MADLIB
31. DANNY DRIVE THRU – VERTUA RAP
32. MOBB DEEP – SHOOK VUNZ DUNNY

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STONES THROW PODCAST 70: J ROCC MIXES STONES THROW 2012

J.Rocc got his hands on a bunch of reference CDs of upcoming Stones Throw releases: The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 2, Quakers, Myron & E, Jonwayne, Jonti, Steve Arrington and some other cats … full track list coming soon … maybe.

Following last year’s album Some Cold Rock Stuf and the recent Stay Fresh EP, J Rocc has been busy touring with Blackstar and the Madlib Medicine Show as official DJ on both shows, unofficially as the glue that holds the whole damn thing together. He’s recently put together a special set of his own “Mystery Tracks” culled from the two or three “Mystery Disc” sets included with Some Cold Rock Stuf. We’ll have the Mystery Tracks up next.

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Pan Africanism represents the aggregation of the historical, cultural, spiritual, artistic, scientific, and philosophical legacies of Africans from past to present; while setting aside cultural differences, asserting the principality of these shared experiences to foster solidarity and resistance to exploitation.

From Marcus Garvey to Nelson Mandela
From Martin to Malcolm
From Lumumba to Kwame Nkrumah
International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement
Robert Sobukwe, Huey Newton, Kwame Turre, Gil Scott Heron, Last Poets, Bob Marley, Count Ossie, Nina Simone, Archie Shepp, Abbey Lincoln, Duke Ellington, Max Roach…

The Streets’ record label, Locked On (pretty much my favorite UKG label of all-time) sent this to me along with the vinyl 3LP of “Original Pirate Material” back in 2002 because I was writing album reviews for Vice Magazine back in the day. Let’s just say it still ranks as pretty much the best promo package i’ve ever gotten in the mail. It’s pretty crazy that the promo CD has managed to survived in my mess for 10 years now!

It’s my first time ripping it to digital and probably a good move because it’s starting to skip a little. The mix is pretty awesome and weird in certain places, you get classic UKG stuff like DJ Faz, More Fire Crew but you also get tons of US hip-hop like Redman, Busta and Trick Daddy. Considering this was made in 2002 it’s really representative of how big the Grime movement with people like Wiley and Skepta was going to be. I hope you enjoy this little piece of UKG history.

One for the bass boys!

The Streets – Promo Mix 2002

I read about this classic mixtape through Kutmah who named it as one of his favorite mixes of all-time. So I decided to dig it out and found a copy floating out there. The mixtape is from the late 90′s and was distributed through Fat Beats. It featured Babu of the World Famous Beat Junkies and Kankick, legendary but under appreciated producer from the West Coast.

This is serious stuff right here. I don’t mean to sound too nostalgic but it’s always awesome to go back to mixes that are pre-2005, you know there’s no Serato involved. Just pure DJ skills without any training wheels.

Comprehension – Side A (Dj Babu)

Comprehension – Side B (KanKick)

Tracklist:

Side A
A1 DJ Babu* – Intro
A2 DJ Babu* – Jigsaw Mix
A3 DJ Babu* – Manipulated Farm Breaks
A4 DJ Babu* – DJ Shortkut vs. Babu (Rapsheet Battle Nov. 1994)
A5 DJ Babu* – Mostly The DJ’s
A6 DJ Babu* – Untitled Piece #1
A7 DJ Babu* – Ode To The Suckers
A8 DJ Babu* – Untitled Piece #2
A9 DJ Babu* – Turntablism
A10 DJ Babu* – Outro

Side B
B1 Warped Mind – Us Origin Ill
B2 Warped Mind – Twenty-Nine
B3 Kan Kick – Rug Enlists
B4 Warped Mind – Prism Followers
B5 Kan Kick – Outer Nerd
B6 Warped Mind – Oboe Festives
B7 Ego (18) & Abstract Wine O – I-m-One
B8 Warped Mind – Warped Warmth
B9 Kan Kick – Soule (I Owe)
B10 Warped Mind – LAX
B11 Race 11 – Good Combination
B12 Wine O* – The Indicator
B13 Warped Mind – Fare Ting
B14 Warped Mind – Mind Professionill
B15 Warped Mind – Ex
B16 Warped Mind – Sell
B17 Warped Mind – Def, Dumb N Ignorant
B18 Warped Mind – Strange Jars

Looking back on the myriad of ways that the genre now known quite loosely as ‘bass music’ has mutated, one of the key figures in its evolution would have to be Bristol’s Rob Ellis, better known simply as Pinch. His fascination with what the outer limits of the dub sound can achieve, has made him a distinct figure within the fluid group of like-minded dubstep musicians that defined the so-called Bristol sound.

“I am a supporter of the sound of vinyl and the cultural associations I make with this format so it was important to me – even if I do ultimately end up abandoning my beloved format one day – to stick by my guns and record the mix like this. I also made the whole mix start and finish in the same spot – meaning that the entire DJ mix can work as a loop if you put it on repeat. I really like the idea of certain kinds of music existing in its own infinite context and setting up the mix to loop like that was playing entirely into that idea.” – Pinch

The mix itself combines all of Pinch’s loves, a blend of both melodic mood-pieces, driving dub-techno and the odd mid-range bass wobble masterfully planted to maximum effect. This is all peppered through in post-production with little vocal samples, mostly supplied by Bristol MC Jakes, that fully form the mix, like the grain in wood, supplying body, making it more than just a sum of its constituent parts.

Bug out to FABRICLIVE 61: Pinch from Fabric London on Vimeo.

Tracklist
01 Distal – Venom (Part 2) [Tectonic]
02 F – Slow Down [7even]
03 EQD – Equalized #005B [Equalized]
04 Henry & Louis feat. Prince Green – Love Like (Pinch Remix) [2 Kings]
05 Pinch & Shackleton – Rooms Within A Room [Honest Jon’s]
06 Deleted Scenes – Natural Law [Deleted Scenes]
07 Pinch & Quest – In Dreams [Tectonic]
08 Boddika & Joy Orbison – Swims [Swamp81]
09 DJ G – Uncertain [Tectonic]
10 Roly Porter – Hessra [Subtext]
11 Photek & Pinch – Acid Reign (Pinch’s Dubplate Version) [Photek Productions]
12 Pinch & Loefah – Broken [Tectonic]
13 Emika – Double Edge (Pinch Remix) [Ninja Tune]
14 Roska – 480 BC [Tectonic]
15 Addison Groove – This Is It VIP [Tectonic]
16 Goth Trad – Mach [Tectonic]
17 Distance – Blue Meanie [Chestplate]
18 Jakes – Get Serious [H.E.N.C.H.]
19 Jakes – A Case Of The Bleeps [H.E.N.C.H.]
20 OM Unit – Pressure [Tectonic]
21 Illum Sphere – Promise A Secret [Tectonic]
22 Distal – Venom (Part 1) [Tectonic]

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DJ Premier has entered the new year in style as he blessed his listeners with a 2012 mix, featuring an audio goodness with old school hip-hop tunes. Premo serves a fine set of two hours of records that lists 29 records from the likes of Run DMC, MC Lyte, Biz Markie, LL Cool J and much more. Enjoy!

Matt “Jam” Lamont was one of the two members of Tuff Jam, pretty much the founding fathers of UK Garage. This recording is from 1993 and Tuff Jam productions started surfacing in 1994-95. So when they say that UKG started out from DJ’s playing US Garage dubs at faster speeds to give it that typical bumpy feel this is a perfect example right here!

This mix has survived all these years and after its transfer from a TDK cassette, we can all enjoy it! There’s no tracklist but you’ll recognise some stuff in there, some Kings of Tomorrow, early Todd Edwards, etc..

Mark de Clive-Lowe “Renegades” Album In Stores Now via Tru Thoughts!!

I’ve been listening to this mix as a reading/Sunday morning clean-up companion for months now. Effectively living up to his name, the homie John-John dug up some massive nugs and fashioned this mix for us the way a master goldsmith would assemble his finest engagement ring: with a keen eye for quality material and the steady hand of a seasoned veteran. As I’d previously mentioned in the Crema Púrpura article, there are a couple of major players in Latin America’s musical heritage that, due to their own machinations, leave many countries’ local scenes up to their own devices. Beautiful Argentina has produced numerous top-notch bands that were unable to break out on an international scale. This compilation is a homage to the forgotten but never lost, and the love that is left in their wake.

So happy the boys from Africa Hitech decided to share this with the people. They just got done with their North American SUREFIRE Sound tour that saw them kill the US and Canada along with guests like Sepalcure, Distal and the homeboy Dibia$e. I had the pleasure to play with Africa Hitech on their Montreal date along with the Boomclap Soundsystem bwoys so this recorded set is a great reminder of how awesome it was to have Spacek & Mark Pritchard in town.

Tracklist
1 – Nya Asem Hwe – City boys Band
2 – Where i belong – Scratcha DVA
3 – Bluku Bluku – D Double E
4 – 8 Barnaza – DOK
5 – Highs and lows – Wiley
6 – Notice now – Trim (Pedro 123 remix)
7 – Haunted – Coki
8 – Ice Rink Riddim – Riko
9 – Dollar sign – Stush
10 – Its late – Silkie
11- Claptrap – Joe
12 – New Epoch – Gothtrad
13 – Crumbled Luna – Jon Wayne
14 – Silo Pass – Bok Bok
15 – Trance Girl – Joker
16 – Revolution (Not Smiling songs) – Coki
17 – Elephant dub – Mark Pritchard
18 – Shaka the Warrior – House of deb players
19 – Lighter VIP – Champion

Myself and Guilty had the pleasure of playing with David aka Pearson Sound / Ramadanman last spring in Montreal and it was great to witness a guy that’s as interesting behind the decks and he is behind the production board. And lord knows he’s one of the dopest producers of these past few years to come out of the new wave of electronic music, whatever sub-sub-genre people are calling it this week. This time he tackles the timeless series called “Essential Mix” on BBC Radio 1. 47 tracks ranging from house, techno, dubstep, garage. Strictly that real shit though!

Pearson Sound / Ramadanman – BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix

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Tracklist
01. Helios – Vargtimme [Type]
02. Burial – Nyc [Hyperdub]
03. Mr. Fingers – Waterfall [Alleviated]
04. Zomby – Tarantula [Hyperdub]
05. Cos-Ber-Zam – Ne Noya (Daphni Edit) [Jiaolong]
06. Keith Worthy – Deep For Dayz [Sistrum]
07. Levon Vincent – Revs / Cost [Novel Sound]
08. Unique 3 – Weight For The Bass (3 Ton Mix) [10]
09. Bok Bok and Tom Trago – Pathfinder [Sound Pelligrino]
10. Auntie Flo – Oh My Days (Pearson Sound Re-Edit)
11. Armando – Untitled [High Fashion]
12. Maurice Donovan – Babeh [SSSS]
13. Objekt – Cactus
14. Marley Marl – Beyond [West End]
15. Pearson Sound – Working With [Night Slugs]
16. Floating Points – Arp3 [Eglo]
17. Take The Plunge (Beat Mix) [When In Doubt]
18. Lou2 – Freaky (Zanzibar Mix) [Strictly Rhythm]
19. Boddika – Up and Dance]
20. Vessel – Nylon Sunset (Peverelist Remix) [Left Blank]
21. Rod Lee – Get Fresh Groove (Pearson Sound Re-Edit)
22. DJ Gukwa – Terminator
23. Kingdom – Stalker Ha [Night Slugs]
24. Ramadanman – Grab Somebody VIP
25. Ordinary People – Baby You Make My Heart Sing [Social Circles]
26. Joy O – Ellipsis
27. Logos – King Mob
28. Pearson Sound – Footloose
29. Pinch and Shackleton – Rooms Within A Room [Honest Jon's]
30. Helix – Stacks Riddim [All Caps]
31. DJ Rod Lee – Unknown
32. James Blake – Vogue
33. Oneohtrix Point Never – Sleep Dealer [Mexican Summer]
34. ASBO – Asbo 1 [White]
35. Random Trio – Troy [Tectonic]
36. Mala – Hunter [DMZ]
37. D1 – Subzero [Hessle Audio]
38. Distance – Saints and Sinners [Boka]
39. Loefah – Rufage [DMZ]
40. Skream – Midnight Request Line (Mala Remix) [Tempa]
41. Benga – One On One [Big Apple]
42. Shackleton – New Dawn [Hotflush]
43. Kode9 – Stung [Soul Jazz]
44. Joker and Rustie – Play Doe [Kapsize]
45. James Blake – Curbside [R&S]
46. Josh Sixty – Break A Mirrored Leg
47. Dntel – Anywhere Anyone (Pearson Sound Beatless Reduction) [Sub Pop]

“That’s jazz music you’re listening to 
Now, I’ve got 15 cents between me and starvation 
And I’ll probably have to walk it all the way uptown 
Cause I’m living on that music again 
You see, I love jazz music… 
That’s pretty music, boy 
Pretty, but it ain’t really pretty 
It ain’t like girls in the magazines 
It’s beautiful 
It’s terribly beautiful”

Charles Mingus from “Scenes In The City”

To put this short and sweet, this was probably the best “Live” / “New-kind of Dj-ing” set i’ve seen so far. Flying Lotus, the new wonderkid on the block rocked it for a little over an hour with a bass heavy, electronic, abstract hip-hop set. It was like seeing J-Dilla on crack! I mean come on!!!… some Aphex Twin, Jay Dee, Burial, Busta Rhymes and lots of his productions. Go buy his new Los Angeles LP out on Warp now!

Flying Lotus – Live in Montreal @ Mutek (2008)

Really loving this mix by two of my Montreal homies, Guilty & Fiend. It’s a promo mix for their monthly night at a lovely spot in town called Royal Phoenix. Both dudes definitely share a love for all things 80′s boogie, disco and soul. (who doesn’t!)

The concept of the mixtape is actually really cool. Lots of forgotten 80′s poppy disco jams, a good tape doesn’t always need to have the rarest tracks on it. This one does the work with stuff like Gwen McRae, Chemise, Toto (!), S.O.S Band and so on. The tracklist is revealed by your hosts right on the rape. The whole thing kinda takes you back in the area of clubs handing out promo tapes for their upcoming nights…

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The “DOUBLE TROUBLE” mixtape is a collaboration between DJ Vadim & Mister Critical. Critical won “The Electric Mixtape Competition” on Mixcloud a while ago, with a mix containing only tracks from Vadim’s latest project “The Electric”.

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TRACKLIST
01. Intro – 1m36s d’extase (Presque Gratis)
02. Kenlo Craqnuques – Jeudi – 01:50
03. Tout’Nou – Heyes – 04:15
04. Qwerty Musique – Moonglass – 06:25
05. Alaclair Ensemble – Colibris – 07:50
06. VLooper – EncoreWat – 11:40
07. Kaytradamus – New Seizures – 13:30
08. Musoni – #Team la patrie! – 15:00
09. The Incubator – Re:Us – 17:30
10. High-Klassified – Snap – 20:10
11. Toast Dawg - Wait a Minute – 22:45
12. Sikh Knowledge – ? – 24:30
13. Shash’U – ? – 27:00
14. Smilé – Retro – 28:50
15. Jam – Fermez pas vos yeux – 31:30
16. Bueller – Aquarelle R&B – 33:45
17. Noo-Bap – Mellow – 35:00
18. Dr. Mad – Après Shampooing – 37:55
19. ChrisRT – Vibbin’ – 40:30
20. Vnce – Chocolat Kush – 42:00
21. Mark the Magnanimous – Aba – 43:50
22. Sevee – Makeitfunkynow – 46:15
23. Phil Sparkz – Bad – 49:10
24. Outro – Staff Roll 51:20

Enter Episode III: Exodus to Earth, the final act in the Sa-Ra Creative Partners podcast trilogy.

Exhibiting the various styles employed by the trio of Om’Mas Keith, Shafiq Husayn and Taz Arnold, the music found in this third installment ranges from soothing soul to funkdadelic jams then back again. Expanding their sonic empire, each member of Sa-Ra Creative Partners will also be heard exploring creative ventures through guest appearances and production assistance on other artists’ projects, along with their own solo endeavors. Enjoy.

“Go Head”
“My Sunshine” (Blu featuring Nia Andrews)
“Shorties On The Block”
“Go Ronnie” (Tiron)
“Nice” (Outasight)
“Do U Wanna Ride” (Jay-Z featuring John Legend)
“Contribution” (Jurassic 5)
“Love Stomp”
“Sun Drums and Soul Sa-Ra On The Move (Remix)” (Four Tet)
“On the One Sa-Ra (Remix)” (RH Factor featuring Renee Neufville of Zhane)
“Slow Burn” (Caktuz featuring Shafiq and Georgia Anne Muldrow)
“Leniency Mercy Track 6″
“Mind Made Up” (Raw Breed featuring Shafiq)
“Gamma”
“Southside Blood Cuz’N”
“All In The Kitchen”
“Uh Oh”
“The Girl Is A Player”
“Mr. Mayor” (Lady Bug Mecca of Digable Planets)
“Trouble Girl”
“Misdemeanor”
“Bass In It” (Daedelus featuring Taz)
“Wind It Up Freak Mix” (Mark Pritchard featuring Om’Mas)
“Get Over It” (Sarah Lahey featuring Om’Mas)
“Get Your Laces Tight” (Cornelia featuring Om’Mas and Dimitri Ustinov)
“Nasty U”
“Sugar Lady” (featuring Rozzi Daime)
“Downtown”
“Leniency Mercy Track 1″
“I Found You” (Nicole Wray)
“The End” (Kid Cudi featuring GLC and Nicole Wray)
“Broke My Leg/What R U Gonna Do” (McKenzie Eddy)
“Maxine” (John Legend)
“Seagulls”
“Breathe” (Jill Scott featuring Om’Mas)
“Boat Cruise” (Thundercat)
“Love Still Hurts” (featuring Thundercat)
“Seasons” (Thundercat)
“The Night” (The Foundation featuring Rozzi Daime)
“Spring Winter Summer Fall” (Blu featuring Jimetta Rose)
“Egypt”
“Is It Love” (Thundercat featuring Om’Mas)
“Fantastic Vampere” (featuring Erykah Badu and Herbie Hancock)
“Master Teacher Master Mix”

Poirier’s signature skill of effortlessly linking disparate genres has led to worldwide collaborations with MCs and DJs from global hip hop, soca, grime, dancehall, booty bass, and much more. Electro sensations Crookers, dancehall veteran Burro Banton, the ever-eclectic dj/rupture, London’s tough gyal Warrior Queen, and Trinidadian soca master Mr Slaughter have all connected with Poirier, as well as longtime collaborators Face-T and MC Zulu

Atropolis – El Tambor Del Mundo (Poirier Edit)
Jupiter vs Kassav – Kass Limon
Poirier, Stromae, Boogat – Alors On Que Viva
Boogat – El Hueso
Thebe – Nomathemba
Swag – Te Puedo Liberar
Miss Doctor – Appietus fest 4×4 (Malibu Rockers Remix)
Spoek Mathambo – Gwababa (Don-t Be Scared) feat. Avuyile Tosa & Yolanda Fyrus Xashi (Poirier Edit)
Amadou et Mariam – Sabali (Uproot Andy Remix)
Batida – Puxa
MaSuper Star – Matechara
Joyce Muniz & Shanti Roots – Cumbia Lolita
Emvee – Glitch (Bonjay’s Feisty Rub)
Dubbel Dutch – Deep Underground
Switch – I Still Love You feat. Andrea Martin
Serocee – Oh Na Na Oh (Zed Bias Basement Dub)
Miike Snow – Black & Blue (Tiga Remix) (Poirier “Enemies feat. Face-T” Refix)
Poirier – Gyal Secret Pictures feat. MC Zulu (Baobinga Remix)

Check out the brilliant “We Stand Together” EP here

Huge!

Every year I gotta put this back on. My homie Dj Slyde from Montreal put together one of the best Halloween themed mixes ever. It goes far beyond the usual stuff you hear on those, you know, “Thriller” by MJ and so on… I seriously dare you to walk in a cemetary at night with this in your Ipod… DOOO IIIT!

Featuring: Johann Sebastian Bach, John Carpenter and the Children Of The Corn, Nosferatu, Psycho, Quartermass, Salem, The Serpent and the Rainbow, The Shining, Snowman, The Thing, Vampire Circus, The Howling, Nightmare On Elm Street, Suspira,The Fog, Halloween, Clockwork Orange, Mike Oldfield and the Exorcist.

Dj Slyde – Beware (Halloween Mix)

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Considering how much we love it, we don’t have nearly enough reggae on MIMS. Enter mister Andy Williams and boom, problem solved. Andy is truly one of my musical inspirations in this great city of Montreal. His deep knowledge yet very humble and generous approach to music is always very inspiring to me.

Andy came by my studio this week with a bag full of absolute treasures. Long lost forgotten reggae gems, all on vinyl with his little “radio-type” stickers to identify which tracks he wanted to play from each record. This is mix is gold!

Andy Williams – Bloodline from the Ya’ad

Tracklist:
01. Tyrone Evans “Dread Light” (Wackies)
02. Jazzreel “Sun Will Shine” (Wackies)
03. The Heptones “Do Good to Everyone” (Trojan)
04. Mighty Diamonds “I Need a roof” (Shanachie)
05. Dennis Brown “Conqueror” (Air Jamaica)
06. Aswad “African Children” (CBS)
07. Ethiopian “Hard Times” (Studio One)
08. Johnny Osbourne “Sing Along” (Jammy’s)
09. Horace Andy “I’ve Got to get away” (Clock Tower)
10. Noel Ellis “To Hail Salassie” (West King)
11. Carlton & The Shoes “Love me forever” (Studio One)
12. Byron Lee “Nice Time” (Transworld)
13. Owen Gray “Time after time” (Third World)
14. Baba Brooks “Teenage Ska” (?)
15. Sly & Robie “Top Ranking Dub” (Imperial)
16. Lloyd Robinson “Cuss Cuss” (Studio One)
17. URoy “The Great Psalms” (Virgin)
18. Big Youth “Jim Squashey” (Trojan)

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Do I really need to tell you why you need to download this? Pretty much anytime Floating Points hits the decks, you know you’re going to learn a thing or two. If you checked out the 5 hour mix with Mr. Scruff I posted this summer then you know this…

This mix was recorded with Caribou at Rinse FM in London before their night at Plastic People in London, without a doubt my favorite little club in the galaxy.

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When I come across an all vinyl mix, the likelihood of me listening to it goes up by 100%. The fact that this one comes from UK underground guru T Williams made it a no brainer. And this one is reFRESHing. Navigating through classic house, broken-beat future jazz, and UK garage and grime, T Williams maintains a pace and precision that should be studied. He shows you don’t have to jam 50 digitally spun tracks into an hour long mix for it to be a banger, a very valuable lesson in this fast-paced age of music. 100% recommended.

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Tracklist:
Zap Mama – Bandy Bandy (Bobby E Remix)
Kerri Chandler – I’ll Send It (I Promise) Bear Paw Mix
Chez Perez Project – Singularity
Smokin Beats – Dreams (Vocal Club)
Somore ft Damon Trueitt – I Refuse (What You Want) RIP Deep Dub Mix
Classic Cliche ft Mpho Skeef (Wahoo Mix)
T.Williams ft Terri Walker – Heartbeat (Paul Woolford Rewurq)
Kenny Dope – Krash
T.Williams – Break Broke
Solid Groove – Flookin (Solid Groove Remix)
T.Williams – Hard Cash
Jazztronik – Samurai
Sinden – Spaces (Dub)
Justin Martin & Sammy D – Legend of Papachongo (Beats)
Bugz In The Attic – Once Twice
Urban Myths – Makin’ Me feel (Dj South Central Remix)
Zed Bias – Standard Hoodlum Issue (Z Bias Mix 1)
Wookie – Far East
El-B Ft Rumpus – Bubble
Groove Chronicles – Millennium Funk
SRC – Gold Coinz
Dread D – Invasion
Joker – Gully Brook Lane
Baby D – Casanova (Down to earth Remix)
M-Beat – Just A Little
Adam F – Circles
Dj Zinc – 6 Million Remix (Mix 2)
Gang Related/Mask ft Bigger Star – Ready or Not

From Andy Williams (J.A.S.S Co-Founder): “I’m very proud to be joining forces with Lew Braden (a.k.a “Sweet Daddy Luv“) on this project J.A.S.S.The work and effort that has gone into these mixes,beats,and story-telling is something I’ve been waiting for since the folding of Operation Jazz. I’m sure this edition of Ex-Pat J.A.S.S. will find a special place in your hearts”

“In the 50′s and 60′s American jazz musicians expatriated to Europe to find something that they couldn’t in their homeland. European audiences appreciated jazz (both artistically and financially) on a level not often seen in the U.S. at that time. When American soldiers brought jazz over during the two World Wars it struck a chord with many European youths that still resonates to this day. Add to this the fact that the specter of racism wasn’t as prevalent in Europe as it was in the U.S., where African-American jazz musicians were still dealing with Jim Crow laws, racists standards in the mainstream media and unjust (often brutal) treatment at the hands of the law.

This mix focuses on the 1960′s exodus of free jazz musicians that were struggling to get their new thing understood (or even heard) in America, but found an open-minded and accepting audience in Europe where these musicians could hone their skills and perfect their new approaches to jazz music.”

This mix is a focus on artists from the 60′s and 70′s that were utilizing electronic instruments and electronic sounds as a major part of their composition and performance. Don’t be fooled, just because machines were incorporated into the music doesn’t mean these tracks aren’t top drawer jazz; only talented musicians taking it to the next level… and it doesn’t hurt that it’s a little funky either.

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It has been a decade since Will Holland aka Quantic released his first album on Tru Thoughts. Twelve albums later and Quantic has a vast discography; funky, soulful vibes with the Quantic Soul Orchestra, Flowering Inferno’s reggae infused dub, cumbia with The Combo Barbaro, and more. The Best Of Quantic album highlights the stunning range of his work, bringing together some of the biggest tracks from across his many projects.

To celebrate the release and a decade of music from Quantic, the world famous J.Rocc (one of the finest DJs on the planet), created the Best Of Quantic Mix that perfectly incorporates electronic, jazz, dub, hip-hop, cumbia and the many more styles to come from Quantic over the span of ten years.

Tracklist:
Quantic – “Snakes In The Grass”
Quantic – “Cumbia Clash”
Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno – “Dog With A Rope”
The Quantic Soul Orchestra – “Hands Of My Love feat. Alice Russell”
Quantic y Conjunto – “Cumbia de Dilla”
Quantic & His Combo Bárbaro – “The Dreaming Mind (Part 1)”
Quantic – “Infinite Regression”
Quantic – “Perception”
The Quantic Soul Orchestra – “Left & Right” f. Alice Russell
Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno – “Cuidad Del Swing”
Quantic & His Combo Bárbaro – “New Morning (Slow Version)’
Quantic And Nickodemus Feat. Tempo & The Candela All-Stars – “Mi Swing Es Tropical”
The Quantic Soul Orchestra – “Tropidelico (Occidental)”
Quantic And His Combo Barbaro – “Enyere Kumbara”
Quantic And His Combo Barbaro – “Undelivered Letter”
Quantic – “Transatlantic”
The Quantic Soul Orchestra – “Super 8″
Quantic – “Use What You Got” f. Sonny Akpan
Quantic – Sabor” f. Tempo
The Quantic Soul Orchestra – “Get A Move On”
Quantic – “Not So Blue”
Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno – “Cumbia Sobre El Mar”

Check it out. A few upfront JG productions on here!

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]]> http://www.musicismysanctuary.com/jacques-green-mix-on-mary-anne-hobbs-xfm-show/feed/ 0 http://www.musicismysanctuary.com/jazz-amnesty-sound-system-10/ http://www.musicismysanctuary.com/jazz-amnesty-sound-system-10/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:10:46 +0000 Lexis (MIMS Founder) http://www.musicismysanctuary.com/?p=14664 The Jazz Amnesty Sound System want to get you up out of your seat with J.a.s.s. #10. A few toe tappin’ gems get your blood circulating at the start the session that soon segue into a plethora of good times for you and your dancing shoes. This collection of dancefloor jazz is for the movers and the groovers.

J.a.s.s. #10 by Jazz Amnesty Sound System on Mixcloud

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These mix series aren’t always my thing. Too many of them come from producers who have no business doing the dj thing. Just predictable stuff you know. Well, this isn’t one of those times. Karizma has been one of my favorite house producers for years but behind the decks the guy is also an absolute beast! Don’t miss this instalment of the FACT series.

One of the world’s premiere house producers for well over a decade now, Karizma has released on countless labels – amongst them R2, Defected and Objektivity – and has a serious arsenal of classics under his belt, from soulful vocal house anthems to heavyweight instrumentals; skewed hip-hop to spiraling drum psychedelia. Equally revered by house veterans and up-and-coming iconoclasts, Karizma is quite simply that guy. And after years of asking, we’ve finally managed to get him to contribute to our mix series.

Karizma -Fact Mix #286

Tracklist:
Common – Come Close (K2′s Klos-Ah edit)
Gil Scott-Heron – The Bottle
Osunlade – Envision
Karizma – Again
Exist – Lookin at Blue (Original and Astro dub)
Altered Natives – Earthlings
Dagui Rodann & Timothee Milton – Eternal Love (Claude Monnet Journey into the Dub)
Cajmere feat. Dajae – Brighter Days (Kaytronik’s Lost Dub)
Karizma – To tha Ryvuum
Muthafunkas – Oh I Miss U (Atjazz Lovesoul remix)
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway – Where is Da Dub & Where is the Love (K2′s Summah mix)
Karizma – I Kan Dub It

]]> http://www.musicismysanctuary.com/karizma-fact-mix-286/feed/ 2 http://www.musicismysanctuary.com/guest-mix-fatoosan-tabarnak/ http://www.musicismysanctuary.com/guest-mix-fatoosan-tabarnak/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:05:30 +0000 Lexis (MIMS Founder) http://www.musicismysanctuary.com/?p=14582 Absolutely great mix from Fatoosan who I met this summer with Lefto when they were both on vacation in Quebec. They both took the the time to discover the sights, smells and sounds Montreal had to offer (check out Lefto’s road movie here). Whenever we had time to talk about music, they both always wanted me to hook them up with some music from here! So of course I told them about all the great hip-hop and beats stuff we have over here… She’d been telling me that she would do a Canada only mix and here it is!

Fatoosan: “I went to Canada and remember mostly the whales, the nice people and the good vibes

I was completely amazed by the bilingual skills of the people living in Montreal and discover there a great crew (thanks to Lexis | MusicIsMySanctuary.com), the Alaclair Ensemble, who can rap switching so easily between French and English! I was interested to discover the aboriginal rapper Samian, the Atach Tatuq crew who has a female mc and that some bands I’ve known for a long time were actually Canadian!

This mix is made of new school, crunky and golden age hip hop. It doesn’t cover everything of course, sorry if your favorite Canadian rapper is not here “

Enjoy!

Tabarnak! by Fatoosan on Mixcloud

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DjRUM – Xfm mix 10/09/2011 by Mary Anne Hobbs on Mixcloud

via XLR8R: UK producer Altered Natives (a.k.a. Danny Yorke) certainly isn’t a shy man. From his candid interviews to his rough-and-tumble house productions, Yorke operates without paying much attention to particular music scenes or worrying about ruffling feathers. In the next few weeks he’ll be releasing a new album, Tenement Yard Vol. 2, a full-length which, much like its predecessor, features track after track of hard-edged, bass-heavy, no-frills house. Altered Natives’ music is mercilessly effective, an aspect that readily apaprent on this exclusive mix he’s assembled for the XLR8R podcast series. Operating as a sort of showcase for Yorke’s Eye4Eye imprint, the podcast features several tracks from relative newcomers while also placing Altered Natives firmly in the spotlight, as more than half of the mix consists of his own tunes—not that we’re complaining. It’s a safe bet that anyone who likes their dance music dark and dirty won’t be either.

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01 El Sudor “DFMA” (Eye4Eye)
02 Altered Natives “Love Switch Off” (Eye4Eye)
03 Grayz “Dubit” (Eye4Eye)
04 Altered Natives “Wanted You” (Eye4Eye)
05 El Sudor “Hermit” (Eye4Eye)
06 Altered Natives “Burnout” (Eye4Eye)
07 Ceramic “The Message” (Eye4Eye)
08 Altered Natives “Heart Shaped” (Eye4Eye)
09 At One “Squallar” (Eye4Eye)
10 Altered Natives “Shake That (feat. ESP)” (Eye4Eye)
11 Altered Natives “Friends and Lovers” (Eye4Eye)
12 Altered Natives “Restaurant Killing” (Eye4Eye)
13 Altered Natives “Wasteman of Love” (Eye4Eye)
14 Grayz and Maliciouz “Mashment” (Eye4Eye)
15 Altered Natives “Indigo Dream” (Eye4Eye)
16 DD Black “Charge (Altered Natives Remix)” (Eye4Eye)
17 Altered Natives “Stoned Love” (WIP)
18 Altered Natives “Illogical Progression” (WIP)
19 Altered Natives “Slugz” (WIP)
20 Altered Natives “Two Graves” (WIP)
21 Altered Natives “Phantom Skank”
22 Misery Peat “Gnat” (Eye4Eye)
23 Altered Natives “Protohype” (WIP)
24 Misery Peat “206″ (Eye4Eye)
25 Grayz “Screwloose” (Eye4Eye)

69ers is a collection of trippy songs that all have one thing in common, their release year. I tried to explore every aspect of 1969 with a worldwide perspective. At that time, a lot of psychedelic bands were coming out of Argentina, France, Korea and pretty much everywhere. In Germany, the birth of a very important movement called krautrock was also taking place. Protopunk bands were slowly making surface in the UK while funk and soul was getting more and more attention in the US. The Woodstock festival took place in 1969, bringing together many musical legends. It is also where J.D. Smart, the drummer who played with Mountain made one of the most popular live recorded drum break while performing Long Red. “You out there? Louder!”

I tried to concentrate my selection on freak sounding tunes containing heavy breaks. As a matter of fact, the first break that I ever sampled was from one of my dad’s 45 which was Honky Tonk Woman by the Rolling Stones, also from 1969. I intentionally left out well-known songs from my selection, although you will probably be familiar with some bands that are part of the mix. This project was put together in several months of break diggin’ and obscure sound sorting. I mainly focused the musical direction on progressive and popsike rock, while avoiding known funk breaks such as Soul Pride by James Brown.

Some of my favourite soul records (Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick, Marva Whitney, etc.) are from ‘69, but The Breakadelic Lullabies was an exercise for me that consisted in forgetting what I already knew about that magnificent year. Even though the Meters, the Mohawks and the Family Stone were at their peak, this was not meant to be a funk oriented project, although there is something funky to it. I also excluded Jazz from my final picks, but kept the sound experience filled with soulful, bluesy and jazzy vibes. Hope you enjoy the trip!

Check out Part 1 of the 69ers Mix

69ers : Breakadelic Lullabies Part 2

2-01 Brainbox – Dark rose
2-02 Valhalla – Hard times
2-03 Georges Garvarentz – Le temps des loups
2-04 Serge Gainsbourg – La horse
2-05 Quintessence – Body
2-06 Bonnie Dobson – Winter’s going
2-07 The End – Dreamworld
2-08 Bobby Hutcherson – Creators
2-09 L’Ours (interlude)
2-10 Ekseption – Dharma for one
2-11 Manfred Mann – A ‘B’ Side
2-12 Los Gatos – Escuchame, Alumbrame
2-13 Delia Derbyshire’s Lullaby
2-14 Nora Dean – Angie la la
2-15 Melchior Alias – Itinéraire 9
2-16 L’Infonie – J’ai perdu 15 cents dans le nez froid d’un ange bronzé
2-17 Brian Wilson’s Lullaby
2-18 King Crimson – I talk to the wind
2-19 Québecois (interlude)
2-20 Dionysos – L’âge d’or
2-21 Claude Lombard’s Lullaby