rETURN oF tHE bOOM bLEEP

Here is an unfinished mix of electronica, hyphy, Miami Bass, Texas rap etc. I did one or 2 years ago but I lost all the parts when my computer crashed. All I have left is the mp3 of a rough mix with crazy levels.

I hope you'll enjoy it anyway.





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Redman mix

. Redman best of, mix by SLurg


It's crazy how I always have new ideas for theme-based mixtapes, but unfortunately I never have time to actually put them together (rehearse the mix, record it, find someone for the artwork, manufacture the tapes, harrass stores to carry them, harrass stores to get the money back...).

I had the idea to do a Redman mixtape for years, but I never did it. The good thing is we have the radio show where I did the mix enclosed here (actually it's 3 different mixes nicely edited by Erwin). I didn't rehearse, so the mix are sloppy, the levels are all over the place and sometimes I just play the same record twice just because.

So don't consider this a Redman Mixtape, but just a radio show with an artwork made in 15 minutes by a DJ who can't really use Photoshop.

Find more mixes here : http://evmedia.free.fr/welove/edutainment.php
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KRS One & Marley Marl : Hip-Hop Lives

KRS One & Marley Marl : Hip-Hop Lives

Maseo & Prince Paul @ Jazz Café

Maseo & Prince Paul @ Jazz Café

an ageing b boy wet dream

So basically it's like the One Blood remix, but with good rappers (and Father MC).

Nas ft. Redhead Kingpin, Spinderella, Rob Base, Father MC, Monie Love, Mike D (of the Jungle Brothers), EST (of 3XDope), Positive K, Das EFX, Lords of the Underground, Dres (of Black Sheep), MC Shan, Raheem (Furious Five), Doctor Ice (UTFO), Kangol (UTFO), Kool Moe Dee, Sha Rock (Funky Four +1), Tito (Fearless Four), Grandmaster Caz (Cold Crush Brothers), Lique (Isis of X Clan), Dana Dane, Pebblee Poo & Just Ice : Where Are They Now ?

and even if no one was really expecting it, he did a West Coast remix.

Nas, Breeze, Kam, King Tee, Candyman, Threat, Ice-T, Sir Mix-A-Lot and the Conscious Daughters & DJ Bobcat : Where Are They Now ? (West Coast Remix)

My People

The full 2 hours of our special 1996 is online now on Edutainment's website.

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A couple of short mixes I did years ago around famous samples of
Dennis Coffey, Georges Benson and Les McCann. But beware : it contains french rap...

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Life's a bitch and then you die. And then people are going crazy about your old demos. Just ask Scientifik's sister.

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New songs by Lil Sci from Scienz Of Life Hit Me and by Scienz Of Life Hood Stock produced by Stones Throw intern, Flying Lotus.

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Another old song by Skillz Babiwon.

1996 recap

So it's that time of the year when every blogger publish his top 10 or top 50 of last year. We all know damn well that nobody cares about other peoples' taste, so we won't go there. Plus, I didn't buy ten good albums in 2006.

So here is my top 23 for the year 1996, mixed by Bachir and me. (sendspace link)

This is actually the first hour of our radio show from last week on HDR, but with the exception of Mother Superia, it's exactly what I was playing in 1996 on Radio Pomme.

Enjoy.

Tracklisting :
Lord Finesse : Check The Method
Ak Skills : Check The Flava
Mad Skillz, Q Tip & Large Professor : Extra Abstract Skillz
Large Professor : The Mad Scientist
Al Tariq : Crime Pays
Broadway : Must Stay Paid
Cella Dwellas : Advance To Boardwalk
Killarmy : Wake Up
Xzibit : Paparazzi
Triflicts : Don't MakeMe Try
J Live : Hush The Crowd
Redman : Funkorama
Mother Superia : Most Of All
Natural Resource : Negro League Baseball
Jungle Brothers : How You Want It
East FLatbush Project : Tried By Twelve
Slum Brothers : Stop Frontin
Siah & Yeshua Da PoED : The Vizuals
Busta Rhymes : Whoo Ahh (Jay Dee remix)
Ras Kass : Anything Goes
Chuck D : No
Pharcyde : Drop (Beatminerz remix)
De La Soul : Stake Is High

Hip Hop died this morning

Hip Hop died this morning.

Or at least the guy who wrote It's A Man's A Man's World, Make It Funky, Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved, One For All, The Payback, Funky Drummer, Talkin Loud & Sayin Nothin and I'm Black & I'm Proud.

Help The Coup

From Boots Riley Myspace : http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=27095933

We lost everything in that crash and fire. We were packed to live and do shows on that bus for a month. Most of us had every stitch of clothing we owned on there. We lost clothes, computers, recording equipment, cameras, IDs, phones, keys to cars and homes. We lost cash.We lost all our damn instruments and equipment to perform with. We were and are happy to walk away with our lives.

But now we're home.

Most of the band touring with The Coup has kids, rent that won't quit, bills, and holiday expenses coming. We need money, because like I said the band doesn't have the tools that they make a living with. Not only did we lose cash and material things on the bus, but we also were depending on this tour for money to make it through.

It may take a year for us to see any money from the insurance company.

I have set up a Paypal account so people can make donations for The Coup. The money will be split between Me (Boots Riley), Silk E, Q, Steve Wyreman (guitar), and Riccol. Mr. Lif is setting one up on his site and when I have that info, we'll let you know. There should be a button right below this that allows you to donate even without a paypal account.

If you have an account, ours is thecoupbuscrash@gmail.com.

Thank you in advance to anyone who does this, this is a really crazy situation. I never thought I would would be doing something like this. I also never thought that we would almost die like like that.

We're grateful for anything you can do.

Thank you,

Boots Riley

Imagine Chuck Berry being told that nobody will understand rock n roll, or Billie Holiday with a pen and a pad and somebody sayin you're just too sad

Award of the most useless come back goes out to : Kool Keith and the ultramagnetic mc's !

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grumpy old man

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Killer Mike is giving hope to all the producers who can't play the piano.

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In case you didn't know : Hip-Hop died a long time ago.

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A couple of Good Life related articles from a long time ago. If anyone care, I'll scan some more. Use the comment section to let me know.

Went from turntables to mp3s, From "Beat Street" to commercials on Mickey D's, From gold cables to Jacobs, From plain facials to Botox and face lifts

Hip-Hop Is Dead

They buggin say Nastradamus just wasn't one of my hardess', sold over a mil regardless.

I know a lot of people don't get it,but I love Nas' strategy, which consist of sticking to Incredible Bongo Band samples. I mean, overused samples are the essence of hip-hop, no ? From Made You Look to Hip Hop Is Dead via Thief's Theme and Serious with AZ, all those Michael Viner's samples have been put to good use.

Totally unrelated : Ain't Hard To Tell demo(fixed) and Rise And Fall.

And the music plays on even after we're gone, from Brooklyn to Qadima to Ramallah and on.

Finally Nadav Samin has a myspace, and he has incredible new music on it : The Long Night and HB Reprise. Maybe you know him under his old MC name, Siah.

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Internet sensation NYoil had people talking about his video on YouTube just a week ago, but apparently they don't want to host it now. Oh well, here is the mp3 : Get Lynched produced by Fantom of the Beats.

Puba of the styles like miles and shit, like 60's funky worms with waves and perms...

Like Me, from Hyphy Producer/MC Beeda Weeda's new album. Turfology 101 is out on Hiero Imperium. For those who don't know, a lot of hyphy producers are "backpackers" at heart. Why did you think ex-Cosmic Slop Shop member Rick Rock sampled some random Digable Planets vocals in E-40's Yay Area and now throws in some Tribe Called Quest sample in Too Short's Keep Bouncin ?

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Let's be clear : I never bought anything by any member of D-Block. I don't like any track they've ever been on. But that Take Everything is killing it !

I'm takin ya back come follow me

Much to my surprise, Boot Camp click new album is not a totally worthless waste of plastic. The Last Stand has more good songs than any of their individual albums of the past 10 years. My favourite is
Souljah.

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Sadat X's collaboration with J-Zone from the new album, Black October.

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Thanks to The Game, name dropping is becoming fashionable again. Expect Tim Dog and Chino XL to make their big come back soon. But for now it's The Juggaknots name checking everyboy they've ever met on Namesake and dissing Stretch Armstrong by the way.

I just come back from well deserved vacations, but sorry for you, I didn't bring back a lot a music. Well, Madrid isn't know for its music scene anyway. I mean except this is the most decent hip-hop record I found there : DNI : Decir Funk

At least I heard good DJs and they make good comps, check the Jazz Travels compiled by Casbah 73 on Hitop Records. It Has dope Soul, Psyche, Bossa and, yes, jazz tracks, like Daniel Lencina's Negro en sol menor

Over the last month I've listen to that song a million time. It's on Exile's album, rhymes by Blu.

In recent bad news, I heard that Z-Ro got incarcerated recently. Let's hope that when the Mo City Don comes out, he'll get half the coverage TI has.

Which motherfucker stole my flow

Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip used to be like Sadat X and Diamond : you don't really why they do all these tracks together, but they just sound better than with their own crew. They used to share managers, crew members, producers etc. Now, I don't mean that what they did recently sucks, but stuff like Come On Down, Step It Up , Wild Hot, Ill Vibe or One, Two Shit was so much better.

Now that Busta is all about calling women bitches and pushing kilos, he has found a new friend in Raekwon. And if State Of Grace, Baggage Handlers or Goldmine are any indication, this new friendship might a good thing for us.

Fanboy for life

Fanboy #1 Brother ?uest letter to The Source, august 1992.

I don't know why this particular song leaked, but I think New-York Shit is a total anti-climax after Touch It. I hope Busta Rhymes has more in store for his album.

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I could go on and on about fanboy raps, from Edan to David Banner and Nas a lot of rappers let their inner fanboy out sometimes. Most of the timethe result is awkward, but NgaFish pulled out a good one with Where The Real Heads At ?. Probably 'cause he is closer to a fan than to a professional rapper.

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Please don't tell me that I'm the only one who doesn't like TI's What You Know About That ? I'm getting old now, and sometimes I prefer good old horn samples like in The King's Back. Yet, as much as I don't like the original, I can really get with Low B's altimore remix of What You Know. Well I guess I'm not that old if I like that !

I don't care who's first and who's last

Ok, now call me stupid, but until a few weeks ago I didn't know that E-Swift jacked the beat from the video of the best posse cut ever.

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My internet provider is messing with me right now, I can't upload anything. Anyway here are a couple of free mp3 I listen these days, courtesy of their respective labels :

One of the very few interesting groups to emerge from Beta Bodega, Climber with a very 2000-season-ish track called Reparations.

The centerpiece of Key-Kool & Rhettmatic 1995 Kozmonautz album Reconcentrated about the incarceration of Japanese in America during World War II has since been used many times in universities.

I don't know if from a marketing point of view Tanya Morgan is a good name for a rap group with no female member. But who cares about considerations like this when the music is good ? Paper Thin.