Rest in Peace Dilla Dawg ........damn what Masterpieces  would he produce when he would not die so early

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth's classic LP 'Mecca and the Soul Brother' turned 30 recently, so reminisce for a spell with a mix of OG Samples, Remixes, & Blends.
The way Pete sampled old jazz/funk/soul records and layered them over hard, dusty drums was masterful (how he caught that little part on the fadeout of an Ohio Players record for 'Lots Of Lovin' still amazes me).    
Combine that with C.L.'s sharp yet fluid lyricism (how many MC's could rhyme like THIS back in '92??), and you unquestionably have one of the pillars of early 90's NYC boom bap.

******THE MAIN INGREDIENT 30TH ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE HERE****
https://soundcloud.com/djfilthyrich/pete-rock-cl-smooth-main-ingredient-30th-anniversary-mix

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother 30th Anniversary Mix (DJ Filthy Rich)

On 15th Oct 2023, I played a set at the Workinonit MF DOOM tribute at The Hip Hop Chip Shop, Manchester alongside the almighty OMA, who absolutely smashed along with UK MCs, Batfunk & Pique Roscoe. A huge thanks to all the Workinonit crew, Ozzie & the team at The Hip Hop Chip Shop for such an amazing event & for the honour of being asked to perform a DOOM set too!

It’s actually the first time I’ve played out using my own gear which made things much easier too, on trusty Technics 1210s, Pioneer DJMS-7, Serato & Phase, which is always bulletproof & makes things so much easier!  I forgot to record the set on the day, so decided to put out the unabridged version I planned.  On the day, I played about half of this after OMA. The mix is jam packed with all things DOOM from samples, remixes, covers, production & even an unreleased joint with the ever-elusive Mr Fantastic!

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DJ DS - Workinonit (An MF DOOM Tribute)

This mix is very special to me as it is dedicated to the honor of the late great J Dilla. I made this to showcase the versatility & amazing quality of work from one of the greatest producers of all-time. 
   From emerging from the gritty city of Detroit to showcasing his genius to the entire world before his passing at age 32, Dilla (also known as Jay Dee) always kept his love for all forms of music front and center. It's my honor and duty to continue to push music forward and keep his memory alive with everything I have in me. 
       I will post a tracklist soon but I want you all to just engulf the mix and embrace the rhythms. Music can truly change lives and we all must be creative in every aspect of our lives. Word to Dilla.
   Special thanks and honor to his mother Maureen Yancey, his mentor Q-tip, Questlove, Busta Rhymes, ILLA J, Madlib and the man who taught him : Amp Fiddler. 
        -DJ Rashad Hayes

Tribute to J Dilla

4 Turntable set of all J Dilla Production, Beats and Exclusives! Recorded at Boombox in LA, 2/7/15! Pleasure to rock with my Brother C-Minus! Almighty Ruffnex!! Turn it Up!!

Almighty Ruffnex present Live at BoomBox

CANDY SUPER LOW DEATH IS LIFE 1

The Pharcyde is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of their iconic album Labcabincalifornia by releasing a commemorative mixtape. In a collaborative effort, the #BeamMeUpSpinna mixtape is mixed by NYC’s DJ Spinna and features “Nasty Habits”, an unreleased joint from the vault that features Ralph Tresvant & Bobby Brown.  Imani & Bootie Brown also asked a group of producers to remix and add their own personal spin on a few of the Labcabincalifornia songs that you all know and love.

Dj Mike Relm re-works a mash up of “Drop”, SBBX remixes “Groupie Therapy”, Moka Only drops his version of “Y”, Ta'Raach teams up with Bootie Brown to co-produce “Devil Music, The Devils Kitchen Remix”, and The Pharcyde’s own Bootie Brown remixes “Runnin’.”

DJ SPINNA is a heavily touted presence in the international soulful house music scene. He is known for his vast accomplishments as a producer, is celebrated for his “Soul Slam” events and Stevie Wonder inspired  WONDER-Full Dj performances and subsequent collaborations.

The Pharcyde’s sophomore album “LabcabinCalifornia” was originally released on November 14th, 1995. The group enlisted a young and then unknown James Yancey aka J DILLA to produce beats, like the cult classic “Runnin.”  They also collaborated with director Spike Jonze (“Being John Malkovich” “Adaptation”) on the video for “Drop.” Labcabincalifornia has consistently and continues to reinforce their steadfast refusal to tread familiar artistic grounds.

www.ThePharcyde.com
Twitter/IG/FB: @ThePharcyde


LabcabinCalifornia 20yr Anniversary Mixtape By DJ Spinna

Excerpts From The SP1200 - Vol. 1.5 (2017)
Produced by Dj Rhettmatic for Beat Junkie Sound

1. Intro
2. Dirty Piano Slap
3. Choppin Heads
4. Soul Build
5. Snap N Chop
6. In Search Of
7. Outro

Artwork by Maricel Sison


It's practically 4:08am, Wednesday morning.  It is officially my birthday.  I've been up all night burning the midnight oil to finish this particular project so I can keep the tradition of releasing new or unreleased music for free on my birthday.  I have been doing this for the last few years.  Some of you might know some of the projects I released: My Stevie Wonder mix (Wonderland), the Aloe Blacc/Rhettmatic unreleased album, just to name a few.  One of the other projects I released for free was the Excerpts From The SP1200 Beat Compilation. it's some of my unreleased SP1200 beats that I made between the years of 1994-1998.

Fast forward during towards the last days of April 2017, for whatever reason, I just had the urge to make a beat on the EMU SP1200 Drum Machine Sampler.  It is my first ever Recording Equipment that I ever made beat with.  I purchased the SP1200 for $2500 back in 1991 & made beats for the Kozmonautz album, the first 2 Visionaries album, & a few Underground Indy Hip Hop records during the early & mid 90's. Turning on the machine & hearing old beats, got me inspired to see if I can make beats with it again.  Man…..I forgot how difficult it was use in terms of really sampling and chopping up music & programming.  And here's the real kicker, compare to the MPC 60 & other machines that were out at the time, you only had 10 seconds on the SP1200 to be really creative & make a beat. With only such a real limited time to create a beat, you really had to learn how to be creative & learn how to do techniques.  And man…..I almost had a meltdown because I I totally forgot how to use the SP, shah!  

Once I figure out how to chop, sample, program the machine, it was on & cracking.  To tell you the truth, these beats are probably not my best, but I had so much fun reconnecting with the SP.  It was very therapeutic for me making beats on the SP1200 again with all the crazy madness going on. I only labeled this project "Volume 1.5" just because it's a continuation from the first volume, up to date, but it's also marks the first time I made a few beats on the SP1200 since 1998.  Unfortunately, I only made a few beats because it could be time consuming plus I have my own personal schedules to meet.  This is also a prelude to my first official instrumental album that being released next Friday (May 19th) on Street Corner Music (Shoutouts to my brother Houseshoes).  Anyways, I hope you like my little beats back into time making 16 bit dirty classic Boom Bap Hip Hop, even though I might be pushing it to the red on the system.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for even taking the time to listen to these beats.  And thank you to the homes Pete Rock & Madlib for the SP1200 inspiration.  It's now 4:41am & I am running on fumes.  Hopefully I made sense writing this down because I starting to doze off….hahaha!  Happy birthday to my fellow Tauruses.  Rest In Peace to Uncle Leo & Big Black.

Rhettmatic
Beat Junkies
May 10, 2017
4:43am.

PS. Be on the look out for "Rhett Got Beats" on Street Corner Music, available May 19, 2017 on digital format & limited edition cassette tape.  http://streetcornerscm.com/pre-order-dj-rhettmatic-rhett-got-beats/

EXCERPTS FROM THE SP1200  VOL. 1.5

EXCERPTS FROM THE SP1200 VOL. 1.5 (2017)

It's a New Year and a new logo, and we kick off in suitable style with a mix from Bonobo. One of our former contributors to the acclaimed Solid Steel Mix CD series, Bonobo delivers a mix to ease us into 2012. Music from Seams, Nufrequency and the Ramadanman refix for Jamie Woon sooth any New Year hangovers. Then it's an 808 mix of his track 'We could forever' and we move onto some of his musical highlights from 2011 with tracks from Juk Juk, Fourtet and Falty DL, plus Blawan and Mosca upping the beats and bass. We close with lush sounds from Koreless, Ifan Dafydd and Sepalcure, as we look forward to Bonobo's 'Black Sands Remixed' album released next month.

PART 1 	+    2   -	Bonobo		https://twitter.com/@sibonobo
				
Seams	_	Hung Markets	_	Pictures Music
Nufrequency	_	Fallen Hero (Motor City Drum Ensemble remix)	_	Rebirth
Jamie Woon	_	Night Air (Ramadanman Refix)	_	Candent Songs
DJ Medhi	_	Pocket Piano	_	Ed Banger
Bullion	_	You Drive me to Plastic	_	Young Turks
Bonobo	_	We Could Forever (Bonobo 808 mix)	_	Ninja Tune
Sect	_	Man of Wisdom	_	Culprit
Nickodemus	_	Conmigo (Es E remix)	_	Wonderwheel
Floating Points	_	ARP3	_	Eglo
Dauwd		Ikopol	_	Pictures Music
Teebs	_	Jahara	_	Brainfeeder
Juk Juk	_	Winter Turn Spring	_	Text
FourTet	_	Locked	_	Text
Eliphino	_	L.F. (i know)	_	Somethinksounds
Falty DL	_	The Sale Ends 	_	Ninja tune
Blawan	_	Potchla Vee	_	Hessle Audio
Jack Dixon	_	Coconuts	_	Hot Biscuits
Mosca	_	Bax	_	Numbers
Koreless	_	4D	_	Pictures Music
Ifan Dafydd	_	Miranda	_	Push & Run
Sepalcure	_	Pencil Pimp	_	Hotflush 

Solid Steel Radio Show 6/1/2012 Part 1 + 2 - Bonobo

C2C's 1st album : TETRA // NOW AVAILABLE : http://bit.ly/OfeYLs
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FREE DOWNLOAD ! 
Dj Greem's Mix "Gog Noise" from 1999.
A selection Of Hip Hop Tracks, Remixes, Freestyles of Independant Artists (Tracklisting Below)
EP NOW Available on iTunes : http://bit.ly/KGG9Qu
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TRACKLISTING
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A SIDE
-INTRO
 -LORD FINESE RMX
 -BREEZ EVERFLOWIN/Forsaken
 -4 INSTRUS RMX
 -DILATED PEOPLES/The main event
 -HAPPY RMX/Cypress + Def Squad
 -RHAZEL/All I know
 -FREESTYLE:
 -CAMBIA/24 sur 24
 -DES: gaffe à tes tympans
 -K.FU/ Kiffes ça!
 -Lif.K/ smooth et nes.b
 -SCREWBALL/ You love to hear the story
 -NAS/ It ain't hard to tell triple rmx
 -PETE ROCK/ Mind blowin'
 -ALI VEGAS/ The specialist
 -MOBB DEEP/ Adrenaline
 -HUMAN BEAT OUTRO.

B SIDE
 -FUCK P.D(D)
 -FIRST ROUTINE
 -BIG L R.I.P
 -DAS EFX/ RMX
 -2ND ROUTINE
 -GURU/ RMX
 -EL DA SENSEI/ Frontline
 -20SYL/ Sans thème
 -3rd ROUTINE
 -RASCO SESSION
 -MAD SKILLZ/ RMX
 -EPMD/ Right now
 -EPMD feat. METH.MAN/ Symphony 2000
 -INTERLUDE
 -LARGE INSTRU MELODIC SET:
Gab Gotcha, Biggie, Buddha Monk, Psycho Realm, Mobb Deep, Natural Elements, Rawcotiks, Killarmy, I.N.I, Square One, Gangstarr.

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Album is on its way ! 
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Gog Noise Mix (Dj Greem)

"Loops, Chops, Beats, & Vibes" - Dj Rhettmatic

Produced by Dj Rhettmatic for Beat Junkie Sound
Recorded at The Sound-O-Matic Lab

1. Intro
2. Psychodelic Vibes 
3. Fly Away 
4. Everytime 
5. A Run Thru The Labrynith 
6. It's Easy 
7. Rain Into Light 
8. Change My Way -
9. Dancers' Delight 

As you know, to celebrate my birthday every year, I always try to do my best to make some music & share it as a way to say thank you, but this particular project was a bit of a struggle. Originally I was going to make a sequel to "Excerpts From The SP1200" but unfortunately my SP1200 took a dump when I turned it on. My next resort was to plug up my MPC2000 & unfortunately as well, it's also buggin out; which means I have to get both of my drum machine samplers to get repaired (Forat, here I come). Plus I only started 2 weeks ago, which really didn't give me any time to really marinate because I had such a busy schedule. On top of that, just a few days before my birthday, I get sick & get some crazy rash on my hands. Yet, I wasn't going to let anything stop me for trying to get this done.


Of course I can always rely on my current way of doing production & use the Propellerhead Reason software but I wanted to really challenge myself. So what I did instead is was use Pro Tools as my way of making beats this time. No drum programming, playing keys & basslines; just straight chopping up, looping, layering samples from records, cut & paste style....basically, on some Raw Sh*t!! It was more tedious & time consuming than my other methods of doing beats, but I have to tell you, it was hella fun. I just listened to bunch a records, recorded it, sample, chop, & however the final product came out, mistakes & all, this is what you're listening to right now. No overthinking, just went with the flow. It was pretty liberating.


Anyways, as always, this is my way to celebrate another year on this planet & my humble way to say thank you to everyone that has directly or indirectly, supported, inspired, motivated me in one capacity or another. I am very thankful.

Rhettmatic - Beat Junkies
May 10, 2018 - 4.30am

Loops, Chops, Beats, & Vibes

A 90's Boom Bap mix ~ more at: https://soundcloud.com/liquidbeatradio

Tracklist: 
Large Professor - I Juswannachill
Group Home - Supa Star
O.C. - Point O Viewz
Jeru The Damaja - Perverted Monks In Tha House (Theme)
Ultramagnetic MC's ‎– Raise It Up
Organized Konfusion - Thirteen
Craig Mack - Get Down (Q-Tip Remix Instrumental)
Jigmastas - Beyond Real
Boogie Down Productions - Feel The Vibe, Feel The Beat
Souls Of Mischief - Make Your Mind Up
Gangstarr - The ? Remainz
A Tribe Called Quest - Practice Session
Grand Puba - I Like It (Buckwild Remix Instrumental)
Black Moon - Buck Em Down (Da Beatminerz Remix)
Bahamadia - Total Wreck
Buddha Baboons - Hot Butter
Artifacts - Whayback
Wildstyle - Subway Theme (LBR Edit)
Nas - The World Is Yours (Tip Instrumental)
J-Live - Timeless

BOOM BAP, stoopid

Beginning in the Summer of 2012 with his Low End Theory guest spots, DJ Shadow's "All Basses Covered" set has morphed and evolved to incorporate as many different contemporary genres of urban and electronic music as possible. From hardcore rap to footwork and juke and beyond, Shadow has combed the web to curate seamless and dexterous blends of the most progressive sounds bubbling up from the underground.  'Too hard?' 'Too future?' Or just too raw? As always, DJ Shadow has provoked crucial flashpoints of discussion about the discipline of DJ'ing that have defined our turbulent times.  -DJShadow.com Team

More

All Basses Covered (The Infamous South Beach Set, December 2012)

Download The Mix from this link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?mm61756l4n119br

Peace Everyone…..

Today is February 7th, 2013….which means it is the birthday of one of the greatest Hip Hop Producers of all time, James Yancey aka J Dilla.  Today he would've been 39 years old.  It is incredible that every month of February for the last 8 years that Dilla's life & music is celebrated around the whole world.  It is also bittersweet because he was taken from us in such an early age when it looked like he was really get ready to take the world by storm.  I've been very lucky & blessed to be part of his close circle of friends when he moved to Los Angeles.  Not only was he was a talented individual and one of the nicest & humble guy I ever met, he was also a private person…..you definitely don't want to get on his nerves…LOL!!

I know there's a lot of Dilla Tribute mixes out there, and me personally, I don't think there's anyone that can out top a Dilla mix that was made by my fellow Beat Junkie & the 3rd Member of Jaylib, the Funky President himself, J.Rocc.  The only one who can possible come close would our good friend, Houseshoes.  I already made 2 mixes a few years ago, but I was inspired again to work on another one.  I tried to finish the mix late last night but got real tired….I just finally finished this mix before the day was over.  I definitely was trying not to repeat songs like I did on my previous Dilla mixes but sometimes you can't help going back to his classic catalogue.  Anyways, here's my third installment of my "J Dilla Whatupdoe" mixes, a 30 minute vibe mix.  Unfortunately, we also lost another Musical legend a few days ago….Mr. Donald Byrd, and i actually added the original "Think Twice" song to the mix as well as Dilla's version, in paying homage to the legendary musician.

Rest in Peace to Donald Byrd…..and Rest In Peace & Happy Birthday to one of the greatest….J Dilla.

Rhettmatic
Beat Junkies

PS.  A BIG Thank you to the homie Jeff Jank of Stones Throw.

JDILLA WHATUPDOE MIX VOL. 3

Passage des Fugees sur Radio Nova en 1996, à l'occasion de la sortie de l'album "The Score"

Fugees Novamix 1996

the #BeamMeUpSpinna mixtape is mixed by NYC’s DJ Spinna and features “Nasty Habits”, an unreleased joint from the vault that features Ralph Tresvant & Bobby Brown. Imani & Bootie Brown also asked a group of producers to remix and add their own personal spin on a few of the Labcabincalifornia songs that you all know and love.

Dj Mike Relm re-works a mash up of “Drop”, SBBX remixes “Groupie Therapy”, Moka Only drops his version of “Y” and The Pharcyde’s own Bootie Brown remixes “Runnin’.”

DJ SPINNA is a heavily touted presence in the international soulful house music scene. He is known for his vast accomplishments as a producer, is celebrated for his “Soul Slam” events and Stevie Wonder inspired WONDER-Full Dj performances and subsequent collaborations.

The Pharcyde’s sophomore album “LabcabinCalifornia” was originally released on November 14th, 1995. The group enlisted a young and then unknown James Yancey aka J DILLA to produce beats, like the cult classic “Runnin.” They also collaborated with director Spike Jonze (“Being John Malkovich” “Adaptation”) on the video for “Drop.” Labcabincalifornia has consistently and continues to reinforce their steadfast refusal to tread familiar artistic grounds.

www.ThePharcyde.com
Twitter/IG/FB: @ThePharcyde

JDILLA WHATUPDOE MIX VOL. 3

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