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I sort my music mainly by BPM first then everything else later, mostly for the sake of mixing, and I’ve noticed that whenever I’m djing, I’m usually not in the 110 bpm hood – I’ll stick to 88-97 and 120s. Most stuff in the 100-110 hood that I have is new jack; I don’t think I have much other 110ish stuff, and I’m wondering if it’s just me? I tried to fix that with this quick mix. Mostly, it was just a reason to put that Ryan Leslie track in a mix. I’m obsessin over it.

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zo! – nights over egypt
kelis – living proof
bobby brown – that’s the way love is
keith sweat – i want her
dj spinna – back 2 u
hawthorne headhunters – manifest station
tweet – make ur move
ryan leslie – you’re not my girl
mariah carey – say somethin’
kidz in the hall – love hangover

This month’s throwback track of the week (throwback track of the week of the month?) is Nas – You Owe Me, with my favorite kind of Timbaland – mid to late 90s Timbaland. Pure gold, most of the tracks he was producing. Ten years ago, this song reached its chart peak at 13 and was hanging around on the charts for 24 weeks. Good job!

+ Themixtapeclub has a new offering for February, and i’m really feelin the chairperson‘s tape. Back in January I had my own tape up, it’s a love thing, which was a selection of old funky slowjams. Though now that January is done, you can no longer listen to it on site – not to worry as I’ve done the uploading and mirroring for you! For your enjoyment (and quite apropos for sunday’s fond festivities, if hearts and roses are your kinda thing):
it’s a love thing | mediafire
untracked, individual file version

Earth Wind & Fire – Love’s Holiday
Leon Ware – Turn Out The Light
Angel Bofill – Baby, I Need Your Love
Alfie Silas – Can’t We Do It All Again
Peabo Bryson – Lovers After All
Bobby Williams – You Need Love Like I Do
Alton McClain & Destiny – Why Did You Let Me Love You
Carl Carlton – This Feeling’s Rated X-Tra
Dynasty – Take Another Look At Love
The Gap Band – Yearning For Your Love

+ The announcement of a Daria: The Complete Animated Series box set has brought much joy in the past few days. I remember vegetating on the couch certain weekends watching daria marathons as a kid. And as i’ve been watching a bunch of youtube clips of Daria episodes lately, I’m being reminded of how great the writing was/is. Not to mention all the background audio they’d use in that show, REAL good selection. So much so that people have taken time to document the songs used in each episode. However I heard a rumor that the dvd won’t have all the music because of liscensing issues – but that’s like the best part!?!!? I surely hope the songs stay in tact.

calque part two
hahah, i was looking at the post for the original calque and i had to double take, because i swear to god i made that much more recently. though i might be getting it mixed up with the other house mix i did, which, coincidentally, was done around the same time of the year as well! maybe october and november just mean i’m in a housish mood. well, this one is all good vibin house with some deep house as well. it’s not a sequel per se, but moreso the illegitimate child of calque and in the air. but i do believe i will be doing sequels for other old mixes as well.. mainly because i already like all the names of the mixes ive made!

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ian pooley – menino brincadeira
7 samurai – brothers
oreja – vasilando (rasmus faber club mix)
azymuth – before i forget (kenny dope mix)
jazztronik – don’t hold your tears (central living remix)
art of tones – praise (llorca remix)
blue six – all i need (jimpster remix)
lisa shaw – let it ride (jimpster remix)
julien jabre – swimming places
mo horizons – brazil
dennis ferrer f. k brooks sr – change the world
jazztronik – future talk
afro medusa – pasilda (knee deep club mix)
ian pooley – coração tambor

when i look at you
i grew up with a very healthy bossa-nova influence. on any given weekend, my dad might have been so inclined to bump some stan getz, astrud gilberto, sergio mendes, and/or mongo santamaria. my fondest memories would be cleaning the house with this playing loudly from the living room, all of us singing in unison. well atleast mom and dad were singin it, i was just thinkin it. my dad has a lot of it on cd, and when we went to the philippines he brought some vinyl back, which was way cool. however i’ve also found my fair share of brazilian vinyl just from salvation army digging (thriftstore archaeologist™) to add to my collection. it also makes me feel like a real life grown up when i listen to it. like i should be listening to this music while having cachaça and talking about politics, south american of course.

i hope this mix brings out the sun, because l.a.(LAKESHOW!) has been absolutely dreary lately. actually right now though the afternoon sun is making great shadows, let’s just hope that the june gloom is on its way out. also: bonus ciara remix at the end.

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vania borges – ai no corrida
truby trio – carajillo
no comply – 4th floor fiesta
sunny (unknown artist)
sergio mendes – salt sea
astrud gilberto – non-stop to brazil
cal thader – los jibaros
sergio mendes – going out of my mind
bobby hughes combination – olympic girls
sergio mendes – like a lover
de presente (unknown artist)
ciara – promise (siik brasil remix)

veleidoso
aptly titled because i’m venting about socal weather lately. it doesn’t know what to make of itself. one day its 90, the next its cloudy and drizzling, then cold, then hot, then cloudy, blah blah ad infinitum. i haven’t washed my car in months, and i don’t even know if i should still! (i’m just being lazy, really) but not just the weather being indecisive, i’ve been just super picky with music lately. when i start making mixes i’ll pick songs and add them to a playlist to review later on; i think i’d made atleast six different playlists for this upcoming mix. in fact a few of them i’d gotten pretty far in before i just gave up and got sick of it. i don’t know what’s up, just being difficult with myself. anyway, enjoy this cloudy-then-sunny mix.

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the dining rooms – m dupont
jollymusic – jollyo
bliss note – deep in ill-usion (dj krush remix)
shimano momoe f. kick the can crew – roots
dj vadim – variations in u.s.s.r. (dj krush remix)
groove theory – it’s alright
common f. erykah badu – the light (remix)
dj jazzy jeff f. raheem devaughn – my soul ain’t for sale
fatlip – what’s up fat lip (breakbot remix instrumental)
a tribe called quest – bonita applebum (why mix)
ralph myerz f. christine sandtorv – my darling

in the air
i found my old sony walkman from when i was a kid. it kinda blew me away that it was still in good condition and with a working tape deck, so i proceeded to ransack my parents house for old tapes, in hopes of finding some of my old radio mixtapes i’d created. everyone did that, right? i would record so much and so frequently that i would grab a song and sleep on it then the next day record the same exact song, without even realizing it. (double your pleasure, double your fun) i would record all the mixes off of power106 or 92.3 the beat, i would record the commercials as well (I GOT A FRUITOPIA CAP!) and get all crazy with the editing too. alas, i didn’t find any of those tapes, probably long gone in some salvation army bin or recorded over. le sigh. (i used to have some talkboy tapes where me and my brother pretended to be news anchors, also gone with the wind) however i did find like a slowjam tape, a mariah tape, the ini kamoze single on tape, and blackstar. decent finds, but could have been way better.

this tape throwback has put me into a 90s mood, a 90s house mood – especially when power started playing all their deep house. i used to hate it, but now those tracks are creeping up out of my subconscious and i really want/wanted to hear them again. a bit of creative googling brought me to richard humpty vission’s website – one of the djs at power who’d been there for a long time when i was a kid – and someone on his forum has uploaded a massive collection of recorded power mixes from the 90s. i started digging through them and found some really hot shit that made me go oh shit. since its on the richard humpty vission site it’s mostly focused on house but some of the early 90s stuff you’ll get the hip hop mixes in it too. either way a great find, if you are from l.a. and wanna relive those days.

here’s a house mix. lots of vocal and latin-influenced grooves, of which i’m all about.

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rasmus faber – ever after
ernest saint laurent – clumsy lobster
cleopatra – yes this party’s going right (taku’s reinterpretation)
ian pooley – heaven
orienta rhythm – don’t take your love (original club mix)
dj neo – tell me
studio apartment – i’m in love (alternate mix)
cubismo grafico – jamaica song (yukihiro fukutomi remix)
n.e.r.d. – you know what
don-e – don’t she
stephanie cooke – everything (orienta rhythm king street edit)