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Mind to Mind is a new release series created by Fade to Mind focused on new and unprecedented collaborations between producers, vocalists, artists, and designers.

MIND TO MIND: MIKEQ & DJ SLIINK, the first in Fade to Mind’s new collaboration-based release series, brings together two of New Jersey’s living legends, Ballroom innovator MikeQ and Club god DJ Sliink. The two producers first connected in 2011, leading to Sliink’s remix of MikeQ’s The Ha Dub Rewerk’d. This new collaborative release picks up from where MikeQ’s last Fade to Mind EP left off, blending elements of ballroom and jersey into two vicious tracks equally at home on the runway or at a rave. The Bitch spins Miss Jay’s classic vocals into an acid frenzy, while Werk’d It is propelled by dramatic chops and frenzied stabs that screams feminine destruction on the dancefloor.

In MikeQ’s own words, “Both tracks have Jersey Club And Ballroom Elements, and come from deep within both scenes.” Trading versions back and forth, MikeQ and Sliink found a shared language, adding their own touches to connect both styles into a release that looks to the future of both genres and celebrates the creative explosion of club production coming out of New Jersey today.

MikeQ & DJ Sliink - Werk'd It

THE HOUSE OF GROOVE

Slowed version of "LEONIE", for moodier times

⏩ Original: soundcloud.com/seismomusic/leonie
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🔴 Music video: youtu.be/861PPCKOF8A

🟢 Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/20iyKRN0SsCuFAETLjElCG

⚪ Download: seismomusic.bandcamp.com/track/leonie-slowed

Download

LEONIE (Slowed)

production tutorials, sample packs & sick shi: www.nitestore.xyz

Unknown Artist - Feel The Beat [Download]

A Re-Edit of the Relentlessly Cunty mash up. 

"The Ha Dance" produced by Masters At Work (Louie Vega and Kenny Dope). Cutting Records.

"Walk 4 Me" produced by Robbie Tronco. Vocals by Thomas Biscardi. Henry Street Records.

Basically, “The Ha Dance” is to ballroom what “Sing Sing” is to Baltimore club, "Planet Rock" to Freestyle, or “Pulse X” is to UK grime: a song that’s been hacked to pieces and turned inside out by thousands of versions and bootleg remixes. Ballroom is most in love with the song’s metallic, demanding, industrial-sounding crash, often used every fourth beat to punctuate dancers dramatically dipping to the floor. Second in importance is the “Ha” itself, a sample from the movie Trading Places that M.A.W. morphed into a sound byte so saucy and dismissive it should come with a flick of the wrist. There is now a “Ha” for nearly every occasion and popular culture reference: A "Ha" sampling Rihanna and Britney, Scooby Doo and Super Mario Brothers… even a “Resident Evil Ha”. It's also been sampled by RuPaul, Dawn Richard, MikeQ, Kingdom, LSDXOXO, B.Ames, Vjuan Allure, Kelela, Mr.V, Shygirl just a name a few. "The Ha Dance" remains an important part of ballroom culture til this day wit bits being sampled for so many others records.

The song was produced by NYC Puerto Rican powerhouse duo Kenny Dope and Louie Vega mainly known as Masters At Work. Released on the label Cutting Records in 1993 whose glory to the music industry came from 1980's Freestyle records. However, by the the 1990's they branched out into R&B, Hip Hop, and House. Masters At Work also revisited this classic as "The Ha Drop" in 2022.

Masters At Work x Robbie Tronco - The Ha Dance x Walk 4 Me (Giorgio Alxndr R.C. Re-Edit)

Out now on Fade to Mind: http://www.beatport.com/release/let-it-all-out-ep/836715


MikeQ - The Ha Dub Rewerk'd [128kbps Preview]

Mixtape de MikeQ para la exposición "Elements of Vogue. Un case de estudio de performance radical" en CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, 17 noviembre 2017 — 6 mayo de 2018.

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Mixtape by MikeQ for the exhibition "Elements of Vogue. A Case Study in Radical Performance" at CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, on view from 17 November 2017 to 6 May 2018.

http://ca2m.org/es/

TRACKLIST
DJ Delish - Purrin Puss
Commentator Buddah - Reclaiming My Time
Davomakesbeats Ft. TT the Artist & Sir Joq - Kitty Klap (MikeQ Remix)
Todd Terry - Bango (MikeQ Remix)
Byrell The Great - Blvck Grrl
quest?onmarc - Walk The Catwalk Ft. MikeQ
Jay R Neutron - Midnight Music Remix
Angel X - Elevator Lift
RuPaul - Feel Like A Woman Ft Vjuan Allure
Leikeli47 - Attitude 
Ash B. - Fleek
DJ Diz - DNA (Ballroom Remix)
Missy Elliott - She's A Bitch (MikeQ Remix)
DJ Delish - Lick Shots Remix
Sugur Shane - Make Them Tat
Capital Kaos - Take Ya Time
Byrell The Great - #Jonovia 
Taylor Swift - LWYMMD (MikeQ Remix)
Wongo Ft. Divoli S'vere  - Handle it
Leonce - Advent
Sinjin Hawke - Lost (MikeQ Remix V6)
Leggoh Ft. Khalifa - Tic Toc

Mixtape for Elements of Vogue. A Case Study in Radical Performance

MikeQ - Mixtape for Elements of Vogue at CA2M

- the second release in our series, curated alongside @classicaltrax

- download: bit.ly/2Ebu2KB

-sounds from:

@strick
@iamquestionmarc
@jamesbangura
@jg_jour
@plvybxy
@mojogoro
@bl-nco
@yumeka-ah
@thisislenfant
@bamaoyende
@lighghtofficial
@pastichecph
@armasounds

Pineal Sounds & Classical Trax Presents : Slam Jam Vol. 2

quest?onmarc - Hard Lazer Jam

04. 3 CC Shot

"Part 2 of a story. When that boy transitions into a FQ and pumps himself with 3 CC's of estrogen"

‘Chopped Cheese’ mixtape is a chronicles of club hymns inspired directly by ghetto house, ballroom culture, and rap references. Clashing sounds likes Drowning Pool and Busta Rhymes, Byrell The Great creates a soundscape like no other.

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Spotify: tinylink.net/LLwpX
Instagram: ByrellTheGreat
Twitter: ByrellTheGreat

3 CC Shot

Runway Diva Remixxxed

Runway Diva (Vjuan's Elite Re-Run)

Pop... Dip... Spin... Pose... Jack... Groove... Repeat... 

More Ballroom Mixtapes:
soundcloud.com/seven_angels/sets/ballroom-mixtapes

Cover Art by Daan Timmer:
https://www.instagram.com/daantimmer/