This mix was recorded back earlier in 2013 to usher in The Koreatown Oddity's first release on Architects + Heroes Records called Exit The Dragon's Mouth. Below are the artists on the Mix along with the reasoning behind KTO's relationships and inspirations behind the tracks:

ColdCrush Brothers
When i was kid my mom was real tight with Grandmaster Caz. My mom often took me with her when they went anywhere i was of age to go. My most impressionable experiences of hip hop at this time. I remember chillin at afrikka islams house (ice-T’s producer at the time) watchin swamp thing.

Joan Armatrading
This shit just sounds ill

Joan Armatrading – Im lucky ( the koreatown oddity evil remix)
Had to give it that raw ktown odd flip

Ice T- Squeeze the trigger
Ice – T was always hangin with Grandmaster Caz so i would be at Ice- T and donald D house alot watching them record and playing sega.

Fatboys- Stick em
I always loved the element of beat boxin . They always had ill tracks dedicate to that skill.

Trenttruce- Hi Trent 
Trenttruce is a contemporary beatboxer who still experiments with styles. I mixed this voicemail off his phone with a live beatbox he was doing. We just thought the vmail was so funny.

Gato Barbieri – to be continued
funky latin rhythms always get me. This instrument build up on this joint had me buggin when i first heard it.

Fabio
I actually got fabio to sign a copy of this romance album he made. He was kinda ebarrassed people knew about it. Me and the homies got faded to this and trip off the interludes.

The koreatown oddity- still waiting (instrumental)
—–This beat i chopped up from some pretty boy R&B. My boy saw the album cover and said “nigga i challenge you to flip that shit”. Dont challenge me mothafucka this might happen.

Outkast- My lap 
——-Andre 3000 transports me to sonic astronaut pimp caddillac land with this, Always good for a drive. I wanna do this shit karoake or some shit.

Space Art
——-Im defintely into records with mad trippy space noises, the sound is colorful and drippy. I always keep this record on deck in a dj set.

Kool Keith- Baby baby
——–He is in my Top 5 greatest MC’s of all time. So many styles, flavor, originality. In highschool we used to run into him all the time round the city and he would talk to us about hip hop and random shit like chicken tacos. Dopest MC.

jerry Butler- Stop steppin on my dreams
———-Got that lovely soul , i can burn some greenery to and just listen and unwind,

The Koreatown Oddity- Scene Dreams
This just me flipping that jerry butler into a smooth butter beat to nod to.

Redd foxx 
One of the funniest Comedians to ever live. People know sanford and son. But his stand up has jokes that would be going over my head when i was younger. Weird jokes. And that voice is fuckin classic old black man voice.

Trenttruce- Alfred (prod. by the koreatown oddity)
This is off of Trenttruces ep i produced for him called ” Lost Arkham City Files”. One of my favorites of this album , they way he spits on this makes the lines in the verse memorable. Thats me doing the hook.

The Stranglers – Men in Black
———Im a fan the stranglers song writing steez and arrangement of sounds. This some shit that alotta peeps be surprised to here me bumpin at the crib. That strange shit. They shoulda had this in the men in black movie.

Queen Latifah- latifahs had it up to here
Well my mom had mad tapes of female MC’s when i was a kid ,and when i came across this even as a kid i knew this shit was dope. The tape cuts off before the hook of this song starts but i loved when she spells latifah and the dj is scratchin it. Man she could spit, punchlines all that shit. This shit always takes me back.Too Dope.

The Koreatown Oddity - Mixtape: A+H Podcast016

Drone Haze is the single from Kemek's upcoming album Obake Radio. Coming November 5, 2013 on Architects + Heroes Records.

Kemek - Drone Haze

Drone Haze remixed by Pixoshiru. 

Elusive, Montreal-based producer Pixoshiru makes video game- and jazz-inspired electronica, or maybe it's the other way around.

Kemek - Drone Haze (Pixoshiru Remix)

After an 5 year hiatus, we’re returned to podcasting. With our shift from record label to art collective we’re using the podcast to experiment with formats, content and what we can do with the medium. It’s our very own audio laboratory, to play with and see what’s possible.

For Podcast #5, the theme is the intersection of technology and art, and more specifically music. We’re in a freeform conversation with Tim Hui and Dahlia Turnbull, two denizens of Silicon Beach who are both doing some very interesting things on the technology and music fronts.

Tim Hui, aka Timbuki, is a music producer and developer who created an online music collaboration tool called Jam Ship, when he’s not busy writting code for the Dollar Shave Club.

Dahlia Turnbull is a singer, MC and has spent the last 4 years working in a variety of startups and working for organizations that foster innovation in the tech community in Southern California. She is the founder of Ninetheory.tv, a recently launched live streaming music collective blending technology and music.

Architects & Heroes Podcast #5

For Podcast #6 we are honored to have Jeff Parker join us in conversation about his work with the seminal band Tortoise, as well as his work with Isotope 217 and Rob Mazurek, his solo work, making the geographic transition from Chicago to Los Angeles, the differences in the musical communities, how technology has impacted his work, jellyfish that never die and the interconnectedness of it all. 

Architects & Heroes Podcast #6

In this episode of Architects & Heroes we sit down with Dev Harlan, a New York City-based artist whose body of work explores the fluidity between physical and digital space. We were onsite at the Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency site, speaking with Dev about his work, his experience and the possibility of Martian land art.

Architects & Heroes Podcast #7

This mix contains tracks and samples spliced together for a whole other turn out!

00:00 - 03:41 214 - Lament
00:26 - 03:38 Fluorescent Grey - Ppink Sun, Venial Gypsies
03:41 - 05:29 Lazer Sword - Batman (Nguzunguzu Remix)
03:56 - 05:02 Global Goon - Minkonia
04:23 - 05:29 Huess - Broke
04:49 - 07:24 Team Doyobi - Per Aspera Ad Astra
05:29 - 06:48 Koen Park - People As Ants
06:22 - 09:20 Aphex Twin - Mould
07:35 - 09:48 Felt3.5 - She Sonnet (HdSc Version)
07:54 - 10:40 Aphex Twin - Ventolin (Carmarrack Mix)
09:20 - 12:00 Wendel Patrick - Mazinger
11:07 - 12:00 Time Wharp - mdat
11:07 - 14:12 Oukast - Elevators
12:00 - 14:12 Kemek - Yoyogi Girl
12:52 - 16:10 Tokimonsta - Park Walks
14:52 - 18:00 Some Mini Moog Track I Found on Soundcloud. Can't Remember The Name?
17:21 - 18:53 Dalglish - Amhain
17:21 - 20:16 Alva Noto - Planet Rock
19:06 - 21:30 Nick Andre & E Da Boss - Left Side of the Brain
19:20 - 21:30 Young Magic - Night in the Ocean (Albert Swarm Remix)
20:52 - 22:12 Young Dro - Take Off (Michna Remix)
21:32 - 23:31 Time Wharp - (M. Constant's Escape from) The Dungeon
23:05 - 24:24 Falty DL - St. Marks (Sepalcure Remix)
23:31 - 25:17 Squarepusher - Splask
23:58 - 25:17 Analogue Monsta - Push On
23:58 - 25:57 Mumkai - All These Gifts
25:17 - 27:16 Dunaewsky69 - Two Two
26:24 - 28:35 Ak Kids & 1000 Names - Pop Girl
26:24 - 28:35 Notorious B.I.G. - Who Shot Ya?
28:35 - 31:00 Four Tet - My Baby Rocks Back and Forth
29:02 - 32:23 His Name is Alive - Lemon Ocean

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