Dusty Donuts presents
NEEDLE DROPS
Volume Six

NEEDLE DROPS is back from the summer hiatus!
Four world-class DJs telling a story in their way, just through the selection of seven 45s in the mix, live on Twitch & FB Live.
Get ready for the sixth episode of NEEDLE DROPS on Sunday the 17th of October when the world’s most favorite 45 slinger DJ KOCO a.k.a. Shimokita from Tokyo & Swindon’s cut maestro and coffee connoisseur MATT BAILA meet Dusty Donuts’ MARC HYPE & DJ ROBERT SMITH from Berlin.

The theme of this episode will is :
“Cook a seven-course dinner“
Sunday 17th of October 2021

NEEDLE DROPS Volume Six feat DJ Koco aka Shimokita & Matt Baila

Kenny Dope June 2014 1.5 Weekend House Mix !!!

Me just bugging out with some music for my man Benji B's Radio Show !!! N-Joy
Be sure to check www.kaydeerecords.com for 45's 12's & Box Sets & lots of goodies
Peace
Kenny

Benji B Mix #1 - Kenny Dope

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164 - Mix the Vibe - Joe Claussell - Disc 1 (1999)

Live recording from our Friends and Family special with Mr Thing and MC Kwasi - recorded at Morgans Bar, Old Trafford. May 2025

Dance Now Talk Later with MR THING May 2025

I was invited back to Hospitality On The Beach out in Croatia last week, where I did four sets, on the beach and in Wabi Sabi, once again providing some chilled alternative sounds alongside the line-up of D&B heavyweights.

I've been lucky to play festivals every year at The Garden in Tisno since 2012 (bar the pandemic years, 2020-2022), so this was my 10th time out there (!), and has become very much a home from home for me. 

Keeping with the annual tradition, this one revisits a selection of music I played over my week in Croatia.
70 tracks in the mix over two & a half hours, mixed in one-take; no messin'.

I hope this 180 minutes of hip hop, jazz, reggae, soul, r&b, boogie, bruk, garage, grime & jungle reflects the alternative side of the festival a bit; warming up the ravers in the baking Balkan sunshine.

Love once again to Chris Goss & the Hospital Records team for the invite, and for all their hard work putting this 7-day event together. A labour of love for real. Big up all the performers and the dancers (special shout to the House of Dinosaur crew, and my compadres Dom Servini & Kid Hops).

'Til the next one, hvala! x


TRACKLIST:
Francis Lai - Theme from Love Story
Durand Jones & The Indications - Lover's Holiday
Cleo Sol - Sunshine
Roy Ayers - Revisiting the Sunshine (Jorun Bombay Remix)
Boogie Down Productions - Poisonous Products
Sa-Roc - Talk To Me Nice
J Dilla & N'Dea Davenport - Whatever You Want (Remix)
Last Nubian - Baby
Georgie Sweet - Equal Measure
Kendrick Lamar - Dodger Blue (J Period Loves LA Remix)
The Isley Brothers - Between The Sheets
The Notorious BIG - Big Poppa
Mary J Blige - Love No Limite
Half Pint - Substitute Lover
Erykah Badu & The Alchemist - Next To You
Pointer Sisters - How Long (Betcha Got A Chick On The Side)
Anita Baker - Sweet Love
Linda Williams - Elevate Our Minds
Little Simz ft. Lydia Kitto - Only
Khruangbin x Leon Thomas - Vibes Don't Lie (1981 Tokyo Blend)
Leon Thomas x Freddie Gibbs - Mutt (Remix)
Breakbeat Era - Breakbeat Era (Suckaside Remix)
Doechii x Dynamite MC - Nosebag Bleeds (Suckaside Blend)
Doechii - Boiled Peanuts
J Period ft. Doechii - Catfish (J Period Remix)
Jorja Smith - Blue Lights (Jim Sharp Mix)
DameDame - Promise
Ralph Tresvant - Sensitivity
A Tribe Called Quest x Visioneers - Electric Relaxation (Matman Supa Blend0
Shaggy & Rayvon - Big Up
General Levy - Champagne Body
Buju Banton x Fela Kuti - Champion (Jun Tanaka Edit)
Little Simz ft. Obongjayar - Point & Kill
Soul II Soul - Back To Life
Toto - Georgy Porgy (Jim Sharp Mix)
Johnnie Taylor - What About My Love
Michael Wycoff - Looking Up To You
The Isley Brothers - For The Love Of You
Common ft. Joy Denalane - GO! (Jazzanova Remix)
Elements of Life - Into My Life (You Brought The Sunshine) (Louie Vega Demo Mix)
Quincy Jones & Siedah Garrett - Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me
Alice Smith - Love Endeavor (Maurice Fulton Remix)
Kendrick Lamar - Cartoon & Cereal
Dijon - Talk Down
Teedra Moses - Be Your Girl (Kaytranada Remix)
Doechii - Nissan Altima
Goldlink - Spectrum
Alicia Keys - Feeling u, Feeling Me
Frank Ocean ft. Earl Sweatshirt - Super Rich Kids
Freddie Hubbard - Little Sunflower
Klaus Veen - Poison
Wookie - Scrappy
The Ragga Twins - Shine Eye
Maxi Anderson - Lover to Lover
Twista - Overnight Celebrity
Teedra Moses - No More Tears
Cesco - Flump
MXXWLL - Breakflip
The Prodigy - Warrior's Dance
Fred Again, Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax - Victory Lap
Unknown T - Time Flies
Central Cee - Band4Baile (Turna Edit)
Ini Kamoze & Damian Marley - World A Jamrock
Jigsy King & Tony Curtis - My Sound Ah Murder
Foxy - Madamoiselle
Omar - Nothing Like This (Chimpo Relick)
Erykah Badu - Didn't Cha Know (Marchborn Mix)
Jill Scott - Cross My Mind (Swarvy Mix)
4AM Kru - All I Need In This World Is You
NuYorican Soul - I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun (4Hero Remix)

BobaFatt's Beach Beats | Hospitality on the Beach 2025

Australian DMC champ DJ Dexter of The Avalanches drops a superb mix - hip-hop, breaks, original samples and so on. 
No tracklist, just listen...

DJ Dexter: Triple J Mixup (14.05.2010)

DJ Dexter: Live at Triple J Mixup (August 2000)

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Larry Levan

436 - Larry Levan 'Live At The Paradise Garage' - Disc 1 (2000)

Recorded on April 28, 2018 LIVE from the Fool's Gold shop in Brooklyn, NY

Boiler Room asked me to participate in their Mixtape series by picking a genre of music that I grew up on... So I chose Mid- to Late-90s undergorund/backpack Hip Hop. This was the scene that I really embraced when I was starting to DJ. And the indie mentality of that era was a huge influence on starting Fool's Gold 10 years later. 

Unfortunately half of the video was lost!! But we were able to preserve the audio of the full set. So here it is in full, for your enjoyment... and here is the link for the partial video: 
https://boilerroom.tv/session/mixtape-nyc-atrak

Tracklist: 

Mos Def - Universal Magnetic (instrumental - intro)
Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Definition
The High & Mighty ft. Mike Zoot, Mos Def & El-P - B-Boy Document
Big L - Ebonics
Rasco - Unassisted
Dilated Peoples - Work The Angles
De La Soul ft. Common - The Business
Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard
Reflection Eternal - Fortified Live
Natural Resource - Bum Deal
The High & Mighty - Open Mic Night
Frankenstein - The Rain Is Gone
Street Smartz ft. OC & Pharoahe Monch - Metal Thangz
D.I.T.C. - Day One
Company Flow - Vital Nerve
Company Flow - 8 Steps To Perfection
Defari - Bionic
Gang Starr - The Planet
Show & AG - Spit
Large Professor - The Mad Scientist (Instrumental)
Kazi - A.V.E.R.A.G.E.
Ill Bill - Gangsta Rap
Mos Def - If You Can Huh You Can Hear
Da Bush Babees ft. Mos Def - The Love Song
MF Doom - Gas Drawls
Slum Village - I Don't Know
Erule - Listen Up
Arsonists - Session
Bahamadia - UKNOWHOWWEDU
Lootpack - WhenImondamic
L-Fudge ft. Shabaam Sahdeeq, Talib Kweli & Skam - What If?
Blahzay Blahzay - Danger
J-Live - Braggin Writes
D&D All-Stars - 1,2 Pass It (Remix)
Royal Flush - Worldwide
Crooklyn Dodgers - Crooklyn
East Flatbush Project - Tried By 12
Afu-Ra - Whirlwind Thru Cities
Shadez Of Brooklyn - Change
Non Phixion - Black Helicopters
Big L - The Big Picture
Cru - Pronto
Smut Peddlers - One By One (Instrumental)

Boiler Room

Boiler Room Mixtape: 90s Backpacker Rap Set

Back in the late 90's we were touring in N. America and Japan a lot and mixtapes were a small, cheap piece of merchandise to sell at shows so I put this collection together. Using scraps of turntable jams from Stealth, Solid Steel and various other gigs we'd been recording over the preceding years as well as answerphone messages and other miscellanea, this ramshackle collection resulted.
It's all live, virtually all improvised, there are mistakes, needle skips, sloppy scratches and bad sound quality (sound sources were from cassette or portable DAT generally). There were possibly around 500 copies made but I only had one myself. The audio for this rip was taken from the master DAT though and EQ'd and balanced in places to make it a nicer listen. The cover image of a John Coltrane painting was taken in Tortoise's kitchen in Chicago, one Sunday on a day off when PC and I were there with Bundy K Brown, hence the title.Sunday At Bundy's - DJ Food's Audio Scrapbook (side A.)

Tracklist:
1/ Starter  - (Liquid Rooms - Tokyo Nov '96) 
2/ Words I Manifest - (Liquid Rooms - Tokyo Nov '96)
3/ Here We Go, Are You Ready For Another? - (Stealth - Blue Note Dec '95)
4/ Ge' Down - (Krush & Food - Osaka Nov '96) 
5/ Don't Push Me! - (Koln '95)
6/ Give The D.J A Breakfast - (Liquid Rooms - Tokyo Nov '96)
7/ Electro Inferno - (Liquid Rooms - Tokyo Nov '96)
8/ Squarepusher vs. Strictly Pt.2 - (Solid Steel Dec '95)
9/ Crank This Mother - (Osaka Nov '96) 
10/ Idle Banter (Warwick '95)

DJ Food - Sunday at Bundy's (Side A.)

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Excellent internet tag teaming today from the H.E.A.T boys in Dubai, aka Dan Chadwick (recommended by) and Danny Kwang (for the supplies). If you're out and about end of this month we'll probably see you down at their gig at Bliss Lounge Friday 28th Feb, Sheraton Hotel. Enjoy!

646 - Kenny  Dope  Gonzalez 'Roller Boogie 80's' (2004)

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Home of my own mixes - predominantly jungle/hardcore with the odd bit of D&B, plus eclectic sample-digging, breaks and hip-hop, techno & electronica. 

Pre-2001, all mixes vinyl; Post-2016, all mixes digital (DJay 2); Post-2018, Ableton Live. Why? Why not?
I've got an old skool DJ's mentality, early influences ranging from Sublove, Ratty, Randall & Hype to Coldcut, DJ Juice, MK & Primo.  In the early 00s I turned my back on D&B, retired my turntables in favour of family/work commitments, and got into funk, soul, reggae and so on... a lot of this driven by curiosity around the sample roots of hardcore and jungle.  Forward another decade and an early mid-life crisis saw me messing around with virtual decks on my phone, and later acquiring a vinyl ripper, with one vision in mind: making mixes.
Although I'm partial to the odd DJay or vinyl mix when I get the chance, the progression into Ableton Live was a simple means to an end.  My ideas stretch further than the limitations of my physical collection and real-time mixing, and by sequencing I can pick, choose, chip away and structure mixes at my leisure. Which I do... a lot :)

Wait, there's more ... an absolute stack of classic golden era/old skool hip-hop/turntablism, jungle and d&b, hardcore, techno and house mixes retrieved from my dusty tape & CD archives.  This includes (by my reckoning) the most exhaustive collections of classic Full Cycle and Sublove Galaxy Radio shows, live Ruffneck Ting jungle tapes, loads of studio & compilation mixes, all manner of rave tapes, and so on. 
Use the playlist shortcuts (top of spotlight) to find your way around. 

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DJ Dexter: Live at Triple J Mixup (August 2000)

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