crocodile dundee
May‘s throwback track. This track is straight happy times, it would always be a party up in the headphones when it got radio play. (bonus memory: 00 was also when 92.3 became 100.3) I really miss a lot of that old g-funk from Quik/Suga Free, when repping coasts was so important you had to throw up westside in like every picture that got taken. Pitch In On A Party was on the charts for 14 weeks, and peaked at .. 68!? Boo. There were other great tracks that were on the charts this month, though – next episode, ruff endz no more (!!?), best of me remix. We’re inchin in to summer and a lot more heaters came out during then.
+ Since I’ve put that mini site up with my sticker offer, I’ve probably sent out atleast 200. Ya’ll are awesome! And I’m definitely still sittin on more, so if you don’t have em already, ask and ye shall receive. (send me cool pics of where you put it tooo!)
+ I forgot how but I was reminded of an old old mix i did, I’m thinking some time circa 2004 or 05.. I still enjoy it. It’s kinda different though.. kinda fast like 160/80bpm kinda shit. Old heads might have seen it around a long long time ago. I don’t have a tracklisting either, but it’s a full length mix and it’s the first mix I ever made! (well it’s an updated version of the first mix I made, hence the v2 – but you get the idea) download here: melotic v2
+ I leave you with that, because for two weeks I’ll be in Australia! Be back in June with (I hope) something special for my ★FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARAYAYAY★
i just wanna
you like what you see
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.
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
snap plus clap
Throwback track of the month. Big Pimpin is such a happy song. I remember when this video came out, I was kinda blown away because of the white letterbox instead of black – such a sick idea. (what other videos have white letterbox? should I start another mini compendium?) I also remember being perpetually complexed to what a B L A D was. Only recently (five minutes ago lol) did I figure out what it was. My best guess would have been a ‘blad, but somehow I don’t think that’s correct. Ten years ago Big Pimpin was on the charts for 22 weeks and peaked at 6. Super! Also of note: the past few throwbacks have been very heavy on the Timbaland tip. He kicked so much ass in the late 90s. What happened dude..
+ As I just sent out my last calendar (bigup Dale!), It’s only fair that I share the project with the masses: Promo Only Urban 2000 was the infographic calendar I made last December outlining all the hot tracks that came out in 2000, broken down by month. I had a lot of fun researching and making it, and I’m dedicating all my throwback posts this year to certain tracks I remember. When I’m not talking about music or photography I just might be designing something, and infographics are really interesting – and I don’t mean those halfassed “info graphic” bastardizations (INFAUXGRAPHICS!!) that have been becoming oh so popular around the interbutts lately.
+ Also on the flickr are some shots I took behind the scenes from the Snoop Dogg & Kid Cudi video for That Tree. You know my steez: film only. Snoop is pretty hilarious irl. The video just got premiered on mtv.com and you can peep here, I take some issue with the color correcting they did.. it’s all washy and shit.
+ Next Monday I’m playing some shit on wfmu, a big thanks to Trent for reaching out. Eastcoasters, check it out 8-11 or just peep the stream online.
+ Things been listening to lately:
Onra – Long Distance
New Boyz – Cricketz
Dilla Joints
Return Of The Ankh – this cd is thoroughly listenable. REALEST.
lucy pearl – dance tonight
I’m gonna go on the record and say the original Dance Tonight is timeless – as if it needed to be on record in the first place. That extended intro with the violins and harp action was so heavenly. Now that I think about it though, and factoring in my unusual obsession with music-related memories, I’m at a loss when it comes to associating this song with a certain period of time during my life except maybe being super excited when I found the instrumental to it, as well as the remix. Obvsly good memories of the video though, with Dawn and her sexy self – damn. This song popped up again for me last year while I was doing research for the calendar, and has no doubt survived the ten year test of time. The beat on this is from The Foreign Exchange.
*sidenote: i’d posted this track earlier on my facebook, which has pretty much replaced myspace for prereleasing tracks since myspace banned me from uploading tracks. what a bunch of doofuses.
t-pain – freeze
By popular request. I made this a while ago just for playing out at a house party and then put it up, but people were feeling it. I do kinda like it. Did you read the recent news about Chris Brown reaching out to his fans, basically pleading them to make him popular again through radio requests? Dude. I mean for sure, you got hella hits(Take You Down?? esp. the Gabe Bondoc cover oh my god), but asking your fans to help ya out? Didn’t you qq about Walmart not carrying your CD? C’mon. You shoulda atleast pulled a Heaven I Need a Hug, or somethin like that. Though I suppose beating a woman is considerably more reprehensible than peeing on a girl (wait a sec – am I trying to rationalize golden showers? does the lesser of two evils really apply to such things? why am I even thinking of this /ugh /sigh /a quandary of moral proportions) Either way, I cannot hate on how aurally enjoyable Freeze is. Also, I’ll have to go back on my word (!) on hating T-Pain. T-Pain is aight in my book.
you’ve got that thinggggg, i liiiiiiiiike
This month’s ‘ten years ago’ throwback track, and yes I’m really late on it. I can’t even properly classify this as a throwback, to be honest, because it’s not like I haven’t heard this in a while – lots of Aaliyah stays in rotation. I do remember mornings at school when people would be bumping this from their rides before first period started though. ‘Try Again’ was on the charts for 27 weeks, and peaked at #4. Nice. My criteria for throwback is that I gotta know this song, which ruled out this Tamar Braxton song I found out while researching – I’ve never heard it before. Hell, I didn’t even know she existed. I like it!
+ Super late on this: my live set at Devils Pie last November. Some old, some new. All chillin. Thanks to Phatty and company.
+ Super early on this: I’ll be doing a mini twenty minute set for my buddy Snacks for the five year anniversary of his weekly radio podcast. Hint 1: it won’t be any r&b. Hint 2: it will be all 2 live crew. This got me thinking: five year anniversary, huh. June 14th would be the anniversary of my first wordpress post, the post with the now classic amerie remix (rest in peace Jun Seba), and that was also five years ago. Should I do anything fancy? Goodness, how time flies. (also a ‘we’re fucking old’ for good measure)
+ I am GIVING AWAY SOME STICKERZZZ so gimme an address and I will send you some.
