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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)