The title track from Socalled's slept-on "Sleepover"... a remix by the mighty Sinjin Hawke... feat DJ Assault... 

Sleepover [Sinjin Hawke Remix feat D.J. Assault]

http://www.artv.ca/videos/video/la-chanson-de-socalled

Dans Ma Peau (Chanson pour "Les Voix Humaines" sur ARTV)

Feat. the Mighty Sparrow, Roxanne Shante and Boban Markovich. Remix produced by the SUPER KRUTA https://www.facebook.com/kharkovklez?fref=ts

Work With What You Got Ukrainian REMIX

From a workshop done in Aubervilliers about 5 years ago: don't know the names of the 1) dope rapper kid, 2) amazing Malian woman singer and her guitarist husband 3) people in the accordion workshop and 4) people in the choral workshop. 

Les Guerres S'enchaînent

I don't usually put up "finished" music here, just weird stuff I don't put anywhere else... but I have a new record and this is the first single. It's not #bbhm, it's #bfm, and it's Tween Appropriate tm. https://socalledmtl.bandcamp.com/track/boyfriend-material

Boyfriend Material

"Peoplewatching" is coming out next week on @dtcrecords... my favourite part of making "records" is collaborating and trying to bring styles, sounds and talents together. Sometimes it's done with old friends, sometimes with people I've "cold-called" or just met or just always wanted to work with... sometimes it's a complete surprise and it rocks my world... Such was the case when I went to S.P. Brazil for Kleztival and met percussionist João Parahyba... the first smash of a hi-hat from him made my head turn... WTF IS THAT!!! Wow. Turns out he's a legend who played in something I'd never heard of but have since become addicted to, Trio Mocoto. He took me to his son's studio and recorded over 3 songs on a mostly finished record... conga, bongo, shakers, jeke-jeke, guiro, agogo... I didn't have to, or want to, edit his tracks at all. Sometimes there's so many layers on a track it's hard to hear everything dope that's happening, so here's his performance by itself for a song called "Dreamin'", which also features Freddie Bunz, Mista Sinista, C-Rayz Walz and jazz LEGEND Oliver Jones. Mixed by Renaud Letang. You can hear the finished track here or eventually buy the damn thing on CD or vinyl when it comes out next week........ 
@peeplewatching, instagram
http://exclaim.ca/Music/article/socalled-peoplewatching_album_stream

Percussion Parts for Dreamin' (Socalled's Peoplewatching)

August 4th marks the 100th BIRTHDAY of Irving Fields, Lounge Godfather. He still plays -- now it's 3 days a week at the Park Lane on Central Park South. About 5 years ago he gave me his collection of 78's which I will release in honour of his centenary along with a book of his music -- if you're interested, please check back with me closer to the big date. HAPPY BIRTHDAY IRVING!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxkuYeERt1c

Irving Fields Cocktail Party

From the last performance of the one-man show written and performed by #theodorebikel Sholem Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears, Montreal production. I had the honour and great pleasure to be Theo's accompanist with the formidable accordionist Merima Ključo. 

Di Milner's Trern

From the NOW AVAILABLE reissue CD of Irving Fields' 78's collection. He gave me his 78s one day, they were taking up too much room in his apartment... I've digitized and mastered 19 of them in honour of HIS 100th BIRTHDAY which is on August 4.... you will soon (like, tomorrow) be able to order this from socalledmusic.com or write me on Facebook. It's kick-ass. 

The Beat Of The Tumba Drum (Suena La Tumba - Guaracha)Campos Trio With Pepito Alvelo

This is an alternate mix (not mastered!) of the CBC Radio1 As It Happens themesong by Moe Koffman... AKA Curried Soul 2.0, mixed by the one and only Renaud Letang. From the Socalled record "Peeplewatching". 

Curried Soul 2.0 Mix - GAIN 02 - 01

Bollyhop banger produced for a forthcoming documentary about cricket, the game, in Montreal.  

https://vimeo.com/149803688

Jean Talon Depanneur

Unedited posse cut over a ruff beat... We did this like what 5 years ago? I rented a studio and got a fat sack... invited some rapper folk in Montreal and we all hung out and wrote and laid stuff down. This track features Narcy, Cadence Weapon, Joker and Loes. One take of bass by Patrice Agbokou. This kind of thing could get all edited up and mixed and turned into a real song but this is OK too in our world of mixtapes and, like, endless stuff. Violin is Sophie Trudeau from Godspeed, playing my theme song to a silent movie version of the Golem. 

Golem Rough Mix 1

A remix done with Tyler Fitzmaurice 
of MIK MIK from accordion virtuoso Sergiu Popa's record "Tous en accord"... 

https://sergiupopa.bandcamp.com/releases

Feat Traian and Vassil Markov... the star of this track is the percussionist... didn't touch his track at all. 

Sergiu Popa's Mik Mik

Been dumping weird old raw beats lately, just backing up the programs with a live take of the sampler. This is a crazy tempo!! 

Beat Drum Bace.WAV

#padlife just a raw #mpc1000 "performance"

Couch Surfing (Raw happy beat)

Rough unmixed raw raw raw track that could be turned into a proper song but will it!!! Who knows. Life is short. Anyway, got a studio in Montreal and invited a bunch of vocalist pals over to hang out and get lifted and just jam -- I had my sampler and just laid down the beats live... Feat @thenarcicyst, @Kali and @Joker. 

Dumped

I always post like weird unfinished things here... but like, um, I think people only listen to things on here so they just think I suck. Well, here's a "finished" beat, this is what it sounds like when I really produce something to the end... it's the instrumental of the first song from https://socalledmtl.bandcamp.com/album/peoplewatching which nobody will actually buy ever.  Mixed by Renaud Letang, the finished real version on the record features dancehall legend Josey Wales, Montreal up-n-comer Joker and Narcy... get the vinyl of the record, dammit!!! BUY SOME SHIT YOU CHEAP-ASS BUMS!!! http://socalled.store-08.com/music/sc050003-socalled-peoplewatching-12-vinyl/ pic by Ziggy Black

Everyone Else Must Fail (Instrumental)

The w/ vox version features Yves Lambert, Katie Moore, me and Josey Wales. Sergio Popa on accordion, Joao Parabya percussion, Fred Wesley, trombone, Michael Felber, bass, Allen Watsky, guitar. This version doesn't have those distracting, hilarious, apropos vocal performances to get in the way of that rather funky groove. Enjoy, but check out the with vox version, why not! https://socalledmtl.bandcamp.com/track/bootycaller-ft-josey-wales-and-yves-lambert

BOOTYCALLER Instrumental

From the Socalled soundtrack to a new Garry Beitel documentary debuting this week: https://vimeo.com/149803688

Cricket In The City FINAL Mix

From the finale of Isaac Babel's Tales from Odessa, a Socalled musical... inbox me for details lol no seriously a whole Yiddish gangster musical with puppets and klezmer and guns and kaddishes.....

Dvoira's Khasene Reprise

A forgotten experiment, feat. Giovanni "Subtitle" Marks, keeping it crev with a mourner's kaddish recorded in my montreal apartment in the early 2000's sometime. 

Mourner's Kaddish

On the 10th anniversary of the release of
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/socalled-seder-hip-hop-haggadah/id126027158
That's 10 years, 10 plagues... enjoy world! Slightly edited so I could sneak it on Soundcloud. 

10 plagues feat. Bless and Killah Priest (2006)

I make all these beats! I dump them down live, straight out of the sampler/sequencer. Here's a raw one. TAKE IT, USE IT, leave it or lose it. Let me know. Make a good song out of it, why not? 

Beat Seasonal.WAV

Snowsong

THIS IS THE BEAT. This is the Bulgar, the Freilachs. Played right. CAREFUL! THIS IS SOME FUNKY JEWISH STUFF! THIS IS THE BEAT RIGHT HERE! 
At the spur of the moment, I pressed record on the memo thingy on my phone and placed it basically directly beneath the snare at the drums of Elaine Hoffman Watts during her and her daughter Susan's set of their family Philly Klezmer repertoire. An all-star all lady (except one) band. SUSAN PLAYS THE TRUMPET and SINGS LIKE AN ANGEL. Please, show me a better press roll anywhere on the planet.

Susan and Elaine Hoffman Watts Klezmer Yiddish New York Set December 2016

MOISHE OYSHER song, originally arranged by ABRAHAM ELLSTEIN, remix Made c. 2006, Featuring David Krakauer (recorded in a hotel room)... 

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