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Producers come and go, but only a rare few can stand the test of time and remain a true constant in hip hop culture. The one true name that every artist goes to when they want that signature boom bap sound is the legendary DJ Premier "sole contributor of every Gangstarr record".

What makes this mix different from others is that this features production he's done for other artists (40+ artists and counting), from the likes of Ludacris, Nas, Jay Z, Jeru The Damaja, Rakim and more. 

This is Strictly for the purists who crave REAL HIP HOP.

DJ Premier Tribute Mix

يا فايتني وانا روحي معاك     ريما خشيش + سيمون شاهين

Merry X-Mas, enjoy quality time with family and friends.

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Merry Christmas Mix

Dream Chimney exclusive 'Mix of the Week' #3 is from Mother Chimney AKA Hatchback

On SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/hatchback
On DreamChimney: dreamchimney.com/tracks/profile/mother

Tracklisting:
1. Pure Land - Hiroshi Sato
2. Singapore Night - Mayo Shono
3. Daybreak - Masataka Matsutoya
4. Bon Voyage Hatoba - Chu Kosaka
5. Whereabouts of the Wind - Buzz
6. Summer Blue - Bread & Butter
7. Jamaican Affair - Yuki Okazaki
8. Shanghai Gaeri - Makoto Kubota & The Sunset Gang
9. Ninja - John Kaizan Neptune & Mu'ryo
10. This Is All I Have For You - Makoto Matsushita
11. So Tonight - Eri Ohno
12. The Look of Love - Norio Maeda Meets Tin Pan Alley
13. What I Do Not Need - Taeko Ohnuki
14. Under The Jamaican Moon - The Milky Way
15. Yamate Hotel - Hiroshi Sato
16. Love Polaroid - Kazuhiko Katoh
17. The Whereabouts of The Cloud - Tatsuro Yamashita
18. Melting Blue - Akira Inoue
19. Plastic Love - Mariya Takeuchi

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Mix of the Week: Hatchback - Japanese Love Boat

Prayer To The Guardian Angel

Dream Chimney exclusive 'Mix of the Week' #12 is from Les Level

On SoundCloud: @les-level

Mix of the Week

Mix of the Week: Les Level - Back To Paradise

Like pop music just as much as House? You'll love the new mix by Berlin based @Tender-Games. Album out in July on @SUOL

Read more on THUMP Germany: http://bit.ly/mixedbytendergames

Tracklist:
01. Tender Games - Lost 
02. Darius - Omeo
03. Chet Faker - 1998
04. Banks - Warm Water
05. Chet Faker - Hot Hands
06. Cherokee - Don't Matter (feat. Darianna Everett)
07. Mayer Hawthorne - Reach Out Richard (Mitzi Remix)
08. Chris Malinchak - Forever
09. Janet Jackson - If (Kaytranada Edition)
10. Amerie - 1 Thing (Cherokee Remix)
11. Isaac Tichauer - Take Over You
12. Moon Boots - Lovestrong
13. Bo Saris - She’s On Fire

MIXED BY Tender Games (aka Marlon Hoffstadt & HRRSN)

Krautpop Dub - Musik fuer Halbstarke Vol.4

Ryan Keeling spends time with one of dance music's most colourful characters.

For more, visit Resident Advisor:
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EX.200 Sven Väth

Production by the TeamSupreme homies https://soundcloud.com/tkdoeswerk x https://soundcloud.com/mr_carmack

https://yoastrum.bandcamp.com/album/alchemy-in-heav3n

Heav3n [Prod. By Tk Kayembe X Mr. Carmack]

Dream Chimney exclusive 'Mix of the Week' #23 is from Matt Moroder

On Soundcloud: @mattmoroder


Mix of the Week: Matt Moroder - Far Ache

more info and playlist here: http://lodownmagazine.com/pulse/monday-mixtape-alexdo

Lodown presents: Alex.Do "Perpetual Processing"

For more: http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/23884/1/hear-manicure-records-hyper-intense-pop-mix

Tracklist:
Penelope Strong – "Penthouse Suite"
Teen Witch – "Lip Gloss (Ode to Ponibbi)"
Flow Castle – "Cherry Lips"
FIJI – "Mwah (S’s Mix)"
Gwen Stefani – "Rish Grrl (Onika+Ponibbi’s Luv Angel Music Bbi Remix)"
???? – "$UGAR"
Henrik The Artist – "Perfect Work Out"
Joseph Marinetti VS. Madonna – "BITCH I’M MS. TELESALES (Ponibbi’s Drag Ha To Hell Blend)"
James Deen – "Zelda (feat. Ponibbi)"


Ponibbi's Dazed Mix

Taken from [BNZ010] DJ Mastercard - Virtual Crime

Out 02/03/15 on Activia Benz

DJ Mastercard - Cryogenics Feat. 4J LTE

Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boyz 21 - BME Click

1. The Man I love w-Milt Jackson & Thelonious Monk - 2. Swing Spring w-Milt Jackson & Thelonious Monk - 3. Bemsha Swing w-Milt Jackson & Thelonious Monk

MILES DAVIS & THE JAZZ GIANTS

Gymnopédie no.1 - Erik Satie

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Oceanvs Orientalis (Live) - White Ocean Sunset - Burning Man 2015

20 years later...

In recent times there has been a lot of looking back to the early 1990s in house music which made me curious about what my dj sets actually sounded like back then. As it's 20 years on I thought it might be fun to put one up as an Optimo podcast, but sadly I had no recordings of that time as I had long given away or lost any tapes i had from then (everything was on cheap C90 cassette tapes in those days). Then, last week a local producer sent me his album to peruse and mentioned that he had a couple of mix tapes of mine, both from 1991.

So, here is a genuine 1991 mix recorded in that year when I was co-resident at Pure in Edinburgh (which ran from 1990 - 2000) when i was known simply as Twitch rather than JD Twitch (the JD was added many years later to stop people billing me as DJ Twitch, which I loathed).

Although I started djing in 1987, I didn't start mixing records together until 1990 and couldn't afford turntables until the end of that year, so initially when i was djing at Pure I was literally learning on the job. Thankfully the euphoria of those times coupled with the fact it was all so new and exciting to so many meant that I got away with it as audiences were a lot more forgiving than they are today. Requests were fairly rare and usually a lot more oblique, often along the lines of "Can you play some "E" music?" Heckling or shouting "come on!', "harder!", "techno!" was non existent. it wasn't a better time, just different, but audiences in general were a bit politer and more patient.

This mix is two sides of two different C90 cassettes stuck together. The first half is from late 1991. It has a lot of that "E" music people were asking for on it. The mixing ranges from pretty good to the odd "ouch" moment but overall is not bad for a beginner. The second half is from earlier in 1991 and the mixing is a lot more, uh, "freeform" and gets through a high number of tracks in a short time. I think this section may have been recorded live at Pure although I can't be sure as despite running for ten years we only ever made a tiny number of live recordings. There are a couple of massively cheesy and seriously dated rave anthems on here and a couple of tracks I have absolutely no recollection of ever having heard in my life, but there is also a lot of music that I still play to this day and indeed have never stopped playing since, and some, such as MK's "Burning", Mike Perras and CLS that are enduring classics. To use the parlance of back in the day, the mix gets a little "mental" towards the end. The tape begins with a live recording of a bit of chat from the Ragga Twins live at Pure in early 1991 and ends with a particularly twisted take on David Lynch's "Lady In The Radiator Song" followed by a blast of Throbbing Gristle. Sometimes I'd drop in things like that at Pure which maybe helps explain why a few regulars ended up with mental health issues! Pure had a reputation for being a techno club and in the early days a temple to all things rave but it was always a lot more than that (as well as those things too of course) as this podcast demonstrates. Despite the sound (and mixing) limitations I think it's an interesting document of what was going on in my world 20 years ago. 


The audio fidelity of this podcast is not high, particularly in the second half. The original cassette tape was probably copied multiple times as it was passed around from person to person. Richard Chisolm who excavated the tapes has done some remastering to improve the sound but old multi generation tapes rarely sound good and it was probably quite lo fi to begin with. It was mixed live using a cheap mixer through a cheap amp. Back then the vast majority of dj mixers were very basic - no eq, no gain and no gizmos whatsoever; just a volume fader, a crossfader and phono / line switches which I used to flick to cut tracks in and out. The mix is 85 minutes long and is a 192kbps mp3 (118mb). 

Thanks to Richard aka Restless Native.
 

Optimo Podcast 11 - Twitch 1991 (recorded in 1991)

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Caribou - Sun (Hannes Fischer 2012 Edit)

Now included on the album 'TEN'

https://cassetteclub.bandcamp.com/album/ten


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Cassette Club - Talk To Me

Dhafer Youssef - Nafha

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North America - Acéphale
Rest of World - Weird World

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How To Dress Well - & It Was U (Elite Gymnastics Remix)

The Warmest Place

I Believed

I haven't done a serious mix in a while and somehow it ended up being a blend of melancholy blues, swing and heaps of tropical courtesy of some of my favourite producers at the moment. 

The last time I did a mix I was still using vinyl so I wanted to experiment with sorting one out entirely digitally. It's not as easy as it should be...mostly just difficult keeping the quality up after having had to rerecord MP3s at altered tempos for the mixes. If any of the artists featured in the mix feel like sending me full wavs or aifs of their tunes then I'd be delighted to slot them back in at higher quality. Here's the tracklist.


Kinka - Totala Dub
Palov & Panama Cardoon – Basmati Rice
Kazamatsuri Kenta – Alasca
Muddy Waters feat Automato – Walk into the Blues (Grant Lazlo Rmx)
Monetrik - Blues Soup (Due for release on Freshly Squeezed on 17th Feb 2013)
Grant Lazlo – Une Histoire de Photo
Palov meets Ang Angelides – Movin Next Door
Los Chicos Altos – Palenque Barcelona
Dynamite MC – Shake (Senor Griff’s sambaragga rmx)
Coco Raizes de Arcoverde  - Galinha zabele (Dos Melo edit)
Manjah – Oriente Patria
Ella & Duke – Caravan (Grant Lazlo rmx)
Sidestepper – San Juan (Dos Melo Edit)
Monetrik – Juge m Bien
Whiskey Barons – Comencemos
Jazzy Jens – Guarapera
Pinduca – Vamos Farrear (Senor Griff rmx)
Minimatic – The Medellin Bopper
Voodoocuts - Lupita 
Nu Mark – Oya Indebure
Unknown – La Guadaloupe moin river (Frankie Francis Edit)
Manu Chao – Clandestino
Roberto Carlos - O Calhambeque (XRS Remix)


Señor Griff's tropical blues mix

March 2013 Mix

Anouar Brahem - The Lover of Beirut

Tracklist : 
1. Guts : Django
2. Dead Horse Beats : I'm Still Waiting
3. Lazlo :Muddy Waters feat. Automato - Walk into the blues
4. Brother Ali : Uncle Sam Goddamn 
5. Animal Nation  : Bacon & Eggs 
6. Gangstagrass : I've Endured
7. OutKast : Idlewild Blue (Don'tchu Worry 'Bout Me)
8. R.L. Burnside : Goin' Down South 
9. Chill Bump : The Eponym
10. Zo aka La chauve-souris : Burnin' Ft Phat Kat & Raashan Ahmad 
11. C2C : Dmc Set
12. S'il Vous Play : in the ghetto 
13. Waahli : Sundance
14. Gil Scott Heron & Jamie XX : I'm new here
15. Gil Scott Heron : Me and the devil
16. Omar : the man
17. Travelling Day : Riders in the Sky 
18. DJ Yoda's : Champion Jack Dupree - Walking the Blues 
19. Jukebox Champions : Celebrate
20. Smokey Joe & The Kid : Gone Feat. Sugaray 
21. John Forte : Give Me Water (feat. Valerie June) 
22. Anthony Hamilton & Elayna Boynton : Oh Lord (The Apple Scruffs Edit)
23. Dj Oil : Your Heart
24. Romanowski & Friends : Ghost Rider (Feat. Todd Simon) 
25. Kid Koala : 4 bit Blues

Hiphop don't stop the Blues

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