Friday, November 18, 2011
All Hell lives in the finest of details.
- Miss You (Thin White Duke Mix) – Mirwais
- Guillotine – Yadi
- Dumbin’ (Diplo Remix) – Star Slinger Feat. Reggie B
- Our Own Dream (Blackbird Blackbird Remix) – Keep Shelly In Athens
- Right Back To You – Electric Youth
- Ray Charles – Chiddy Bang
- Dig A Little Deeper (Mayer Hawthorne Remix) – Peter Bjorn and John
- Sky Sailor (Float Away) – Daft Punk, TRS-80 & Ariel Pink
- Nothing is the News – Damien Jurado
- The Edge (Original Mix) – Koan Sound
- Caroline – Alex Clare
This week’s mixtape can speak for itself. The only thing I’d like to point out is, despite what I claimed last week about no longer including dubstep tracks, I broke down and added another track from the genre. You can thank KOAN SOUND for that since they are brilliant at creating truly great original dubstep. If Skrillex is like the high school varsity star quarterback, Koan Sound is the 7-time Champion, All-Star Pro, Hall-of-Fame wide receiver. And just about everyone else is warming the bench.
(Mediafire Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/etfa3eco1y7v070/3M-Hypercritical.zip)
Monday, November 14, 2011
Girl, don’t let the high go to waste…
- Run Right Back – The Black Keys
A selection of the newness from the Key’s new upcoming album, “El Camino.” Gaddamn, I love these guys. I should warn you, this track is a radio rip, so it ends with some CRAP in the recording. Not much I can do about that, the actual album doesn’t drop until December 6th.
- You Ain’t Gotta Wait Till I’m Gone – Busta Rhymes
“If I can’t be part of the greatest, I gotta be the greatest myself.” A cut from Busta Rhymes coming after the passing of legendary Heavy D. It’s been too long since Busta’s been putting out tracks.
- Ready To Go (Round The Way Girl) – Neak
In the category of slow jam/RnB, this one reminded me of some of the last work from The Abstract, Q-Tip. The production is so nice, you’ll listen twice.
- Hurting (Tensnake Remix) – Friendly Fires
I love the Friendly Fires, and I love Tensnake so this one had to get on the playlist.
- Groove Is In The Heart (Gigamesh Remix) – Deee-Lite
Once you make it past the fairly cheesy intro (kinda too disco-y for my tastes), it settles into a pretty solid groove worthy of the original. And I loves me the original. Gigamesh’s productions are almost always on-point.
- Over My Dead Body – Drake
Despite his pedigree and success, I think that, lately, Drake occasionally sounds like he’s trying to be a little too much like Frank Ocean. No disrespect, Drake. That said, this track is really working for me.
- Down On You (Hannes Fischer Remix) – Dems
I am not familiar with Dems or Hannes Fischer but I like what I’m hearing so far. A chill track that almost deserves to be on it’s own mixtape alongside similar tracks. I didn’t want to wait to put this one out, though. You can thank me later.
- You Can Dance (Robotaki Remix) – Chilly Gonzales
This is Robotaki. Robotaki is a 20-year old producer with fantastic taste and a great sense of composition. And for that, he gets on the tape this week. I wish I had sounded like this at 20. He’s got a bright future ahead of him.
- Pyrite (Fool’s Gold) – Frank Ocean
I cannot say enough good things about the man. This is a track that didn’t make it onto “Nostalgia, Ultra.” If you are NOT FAMILIAR with Frank Ocean, you need to get with it, son.
- The Suburbs (Cry Wolf Remix) – Mr. Little Jeans
I struggled with weather or not to add this track to the tape for a few reasons. First, I like that it’s a fairly decently produced dubstep cover of the Arcade Fire’s track. I still have some “like” for dubstep, but I’ve largely decided that it’s seen it’s best days, and it’s on the way out. Hate to say it, kids. Sorry to bust your wub-wub bubble. The stylistic rut that dubstep has run aground on (again, the WUB-WUB crap) isn’t helping matters. Every single producer seems to be trying to out wub-noise the track before it, and it’s become a real strain to listen to. It’s like bad death metal now. It all sounds about the same, and there’s very little musicality left in it. Until dubstep as a whole can turn around and become interesting again, I think this will be the last dubstep track I will include on any mixtape.
(Mediafire download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/5o3hkyicckjeg4w/3M-WastedVapors.zip)
Sunday, November 13, 2011
First of all, my apologies for missing my Friday deadline with the mixtape. I try to keep a tight schedule, but these “things” happen. So about these “things…”
TWO THINGS HAPPENED
One; Friday turned into a longer, busier day than I expected. So before I set out on the rest of my day, I took the tracks I planned to include in this week’s tape, put them on a USB drive, and headed off to take care of bid’ness. As you might know, I freelance on the side. Some work had piled up, and it required my immediate attention. After that, there were a few other things that “fell into the scene”; Take Two. Saturday also turned into another busy day, right up until about 6:00pm, when I started working on the cover art for this tape. I finished up, and went to grab the USB drive…
Two; the USB drive went missing. I’ve been looking for it high and low, and there’s a good chance it’s been lost in a sea of people somewhere downtown. Can’t say where exactly, but oh well, thems are the breaks. I still have the tracks, but they’re on another computer in my office. And I’m not going to stop by there until Monday.
So there we have it. The case of the missing mixtape solved. Expect a Monday release, followed by (assuming the quality of the tracks are good next week) an early release on Thursday for the following mixtape.
And as always, if you have some ideas/suggestions for tracks I should include AND mixtape theme ideas, please send them to “guy-in-charge AT mixtapestudios.com.”
Be well, people!
Hell yeah you are.
- Battling Go-Go Yubari In Downtown L.A. – edIT
- Here We Go Again – Roots Manuva feat. Spikey Tee
- Motivation – Jacques Greene
- Night & Day (Onra Beat) – JayKin ジェイキン
- Thriller – ReneeDion x TallBlackGuy x Michael Jackson
- Next View – Nujabes feat. Uyama Hiroto
- Makeshift Sanctuary – Aether
- 60 Second Assassins (Prod. by G-Force) – DJ Kay Slay feat. Busta Rhymes, Layzie Bone, Twista & Jaz-O
- On My Throne – Miski feat. P Money
- Himym – Yoggyone
- Dancing In The Rain – Blu & Exile
(Mediafire Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/x3bvmu8katot373/3M-BigInBuenosAires.zip)
Thursday, November 3, 2011
So checking out my Google Analytics stats, I came across some interesting data: apparently, Argentinians are digging on the mixtapes.
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Over the last few weeks/months, I’ve gained a following with my brothers and sisters in South America, so this next tape is for you, friends. Thanks for the traffic. Keep spreading the word!
Cheers,
Guy-In-Charge.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Shoulda stuck with Plan B.
- Don’t Move – Phantogram
- Flunk (Hey Hey) – Go Go Bizkitt! feat. Shawn Elliot
- U Can’t Save Me feat. Buff1 & Stephanie McKay – Katalyst
- Sanctuary – MiM0SA
- Coconuts – Jack Dixon
- Some Children – Holy Ghost!
- Under Your Spell – Desire
- Damn Right – Joell Ortiz & Brother Ali
- Plum Rain – Anchorsong
- So Intense (Fare Soldi Enrico Pallazzo Remix) – Gigamesh
- Highgrade (Ruckspin Remix) – Gentleman’s Dub Club
- Encore – Graphix
(Mediafire Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ww3rxxgsns9m847/3M-BadAdvice.zip)
Do the hustle.
- Teens (Original Mix) – Sportloto & Volta Cab
- Sugar & Spice – Hey Champ
- Reel Sweet – MAM
- Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix) – The Whitest Boy Alive
- Nightcall (Breakbot Remix) – Kavinsky
- Last Words (Dmitri from Paris Remix) – Clubfeet
- Don’t Walk Away – Chromeo
- All Night Long (JTM Remix) – Mary Jane Girls
- Move Your Body – Mix Chopin
- I Can Dream About You (Extended 12″ Mix) – Dan Hartman
(Mediafire Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/sp0duhnxakktchh/3M-DiscoStew.zip)
Too late, the ‘razzi found you.
- This is the Remix – Girl Talk
- 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (Paul Simon Cover) – G. Love
- Novacane (Frank Ocean Cover) – Joyride
- Crazy (Seal Cover) – Yeasayer
- Helter Skelter (The Beatles Cover) – Thrice
- Creep (Radiohead Cover) – Ronnie James
- Strangelove (Depeche Mode Cover) – Bat for Lashes
- A Case of You (Joni Mitchell Cover) – James Blake
- One (U2 Cover) – Damien Rice
- Outlaw Blues (Bob Dylan Cover) – The Morning Benders
- My Girls (Animal Collective Cover) – Becca Stevens
- All Together Now (The Beatles Cover) – Andre 3000
(Mediafire Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/nbv648r4ttd0fj3/3M-Run4Cover.zip)
So MTS is workin’ double-time these days. We’re working two jobs, tryin’ to make them endz. Earnin’ that skrill. You know how it is. But we’ve got some great stuff coming. In the works is a special hip-hop collection, and a one-of-a-kind mixtape collaboration with Rock:It:Don’t:Stop:It. Keep ya eyes wide!
Thanks for sticking around. We’ll try to keep it up, on the schedule, and with no delays.
-MTS Guy-in-charge.
Puttin’ in the hours; fighting the good fight.
- Sweet Love Affair (Cyantific Remix) – The Resonators
- Lindisfarne (Azedia Remix) – James Blake
- People Help The People (TIP’s Sunken Hearts Rework) – Birdy
- Calliope (Edit) – Caroline Smith & The Good Night Sleeps
- Only Wanna Give It To You (feat. J. Cole) – Elle Varner
- Bannana Ripple – Junior Boys
- Fall Sky – Silver Wren
- Murderous Joy – Carter Tanton
- Scale It Back (feat. Yukimi Nagano) – DJ Shadow
- Nobody (Original Mix) – Cassian
(Mediafire Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/j1psdu6p1cev9mw/3M-Overtime.zip)
