Talk about a labour of love mate.
It goes like this.
A few years ago in New Zealand whilst digging in the South Island (the city of Nelson) I came across a few boxes of library records. 
For friends not  familiar with “ library records “   these are records made for commercial and non commercial use in the 60s,70s, and 80s . During those times professional musicians would often earn their bread and butter 
going into recording studios and composing music long and short  for use in commercials on radio, TV and in theatre , etc. In modern day use this is often an often a rich source of samples or tracks for producer / DJ types.
Labels like KPM, Bruton and DeWolfe (non of which I’ve used  here) are
So often considered the " diggers choice " and regularly command high prices in the realm of Discog / Ebay digging (especially if a well known Hip Hop track sampled from it )
But it doesn’t stop there. 
Some smaller library labels will do sound FX records, passages of solo instrumentation and use this beautiful simplistic wording on the rear of the cover to describe each piece rather than having song names. (the mixtape cover I knocked up is some of that wording from the actual records  I used ) 
 So what I recovered in Nelson wasn’t necessarily a box of records I could remortgage the house with  BUT it fit into my general digging for music patterns and record sniffs. This is not about rare records. 
After I’d combed through samples for various projects I thought for a year on or off about how I could present these “ brief moments of funk flavoured or related  goodness “
This week I woke up on Monday morning and said f*ck it lets try or at least start it. After 2 hair pulling days and being mentally vacant from my wife and kids for extended periods of time I decided I need to make this happen in a week or I’m gonna over think it too much. 
I started by pulling out everything that moves me and  just playing it over and over finding a batch or an order about how it might  all work. 
95% of these tracks are only 45 - 60 seconds long so I ended up editing ,extending, remixing, juggling and dropping things all over the place.  
On the plus side if you are in the mix thinking “ this is shit, why did Hairy put this in  ?  Remember not long to go !
Initially a foundation  mix was laid down first to get some sense or feel for the music, I recorded some separate takes of juggles and cuts which where over dubbed and  then in classic DH mixtape fashion I sprinkled it with sauce and nuts
I called on a few dear friends  to throw shout outs in there. 
What can I tell you ? Its very cheesy , very brief, very wonky and I hope parts of it will make you laugh. 
This isn’t supposed to be some cleaned up, polished mixtape of high technical calibre. I mean to me its about digging  around for cheap records and find that gold within. 
Its funky, fuzzy, its rocky, its spacey, its disco, its spiritual its crackly with latin its jazz in there and over all. Theres a lot of technology available today to time stretch and beat match  but I keep it as honest as possible.  
I want to extend thanks to all the musicians that played on these joints ( non of which are credited on any sleeve )   and for those brief moments of nice movement or feel.
The mixtape is sponsored by Turborect, Morgans Bra’s and Car’s , Zoomo Detergent  ( Big up  Christchurch’s very own Wuckud MC for his valuable contributions ) 
Extensions of recognition love and general good vibrations must go out to Grant Smithies and right at the end of the tape  you hear his voice on National Radio in NZ dropping a nice words. These records came from your basement boss.  Cheers bro !  Big shout out to my brother Jan Kincl for conservatively glazing over the mix and helping me to present it in tasteful way. 
Anyway, love it, hate it, share it don’t share it. Whatever you do be happy and if you’ve been putting off something for years  then. Get onto it. 
It might take a while but it feels good. 

BIG UP 
Hairy

DOIN IT IN THE LIBRARY MIXTAPE (2021)

Break track made with ex Yugoslavian samples on the MPC60ii

yugo collage  - Dirty Hairy 2009

Wooooah  on shuffling through some old mini discs , i stumbled across this track which is from 2005 !  and Features a collaboration with a real nice emcee from Colorado 
' The Clurk ' aka (Cale Farnham) .

I dont wanna talk too much about the mix( yeah its quiet ) other  than say , the usual ' all sounds from vinyl ' rules applies , but on this track  I wasnt using monitor speakers  just headphones  so this track was recorded straight from the MPC- direct into a mini disc recorder . And then probably mini disc into laptop  into sonic stage or wave burner  and then  off to Colorado in the form of an email.

I enjoyed this beat , and felt like i would throw it up again  just for nostalgia .

Transcontinental  (Featuring the clurk) Prod.Dirty Hairy 2005 !

Myspace era, MPC 60, recorded on a mini disc.  2005

Gadget - Gimmie A Break Freestyle - Prod Dirty Hairy 2005

Znam (General Woo) Remix Instrumental 2012

The track was recorded in 2006 on the MPC 60II

We thought we lost the track but then we found it over 10 years later so that's good.
lyrics
You can't cash no mic check.
credits
released May 10, 2020
Raps - Shut Eyes
Beat - Dirty Hairy
Tag - Lunar

you can buy it on bandcamp for 2 euros and with your 2 euros I promise to go an buy a 2 euro record and make a beat with it.


https://dirtyhairy.bandcamp.com/track/pockets

Anteek Recipes( Shuteyes & Dirty Hairy )- Pockets

Definition makes up one half of the crew 25 metro from Buffalo who are a dope outfit making real nice music.
There was a demo version of this song kicking around that we made in 2009.
Here is the revisited  remaster 2021 version.

You can by it from Bandcamp , listen on spotify etc

' Heidi Flice'  Feat: Definition

I made this track as a remix for Artifacts just to have some thing different in my own DJ sets.  One of my favourite groups .  A year later Croatian rapper Kandzija heard the beat in my studio and used it on his album Koktel od Rakija . Track is called Nije Lako.

ARTIFACTS - Art of Facts ( Dirty Hairy 2010 REMIX )

A little slice of uptempo hip hop for the breaking community yo.  Released through  Bulgarian label Soul Dynamite in December 2019
400 45s pressed  you can find em on Bandcamp, HHV, Juno, Discogs etc.

https://youtu.be/fnx3WxSwUUA

Combat (feat. Nat Lover)

Fuck all that stuff before.

A jazzy hip hop instrumental  mix using 3 turntables , and an mpc 60 . 
Instrumentals recorded live with overdubs added later.

Mr Dirty Hairy

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