R.I.P. K-Swift

K-Swift R.I.P.I’m getting ready to head out to Baltimore tomorrow for a visit with my man Gregzinho (of Beat Diaspora fame) before my gig in Silver Spring, MD on Friday night. I normally couldn’t be around B’more without ruminating on that city’s club music which has been such an influence.

Now I won’t be able to be there without thinking of B’more’s club queen, DJ K-Swift. She died Monday after a swimming pool accident and the Baltimore club scene is reeling. She’s been a mainstay in the the scene since the early days, and for the past 10 years had been spreading the B’more gospel as a high profile radio personality on Baltimore’s Q92 station.

As a female DJ, K-Swift was rare in the male-dominated scene she loved. She took club music’s raw and raunchy attitude by the horns and worked it. In honor of her life, I’ve made this little remix using an acapella from one her Club Queen albums. Club on, queen!

MP3 Download:
DJ C; This My Juce (ft. K-Swift) ->

K Swift CD Promo Video:
The Jump Off Vol. 10 - Baltimore Club

DJ C Summer Mini-Tour ‘08

BASS FOR YOUR WAIST!!!!

DJ C Summer Mini-Tour ‘08

Beat producer & party scientist DJ C spreads his fiercely eclectic gospel of bass-heavy, bounced-up dancefloor-blends across the land. Join the mayhem!

DJ C and Baltimoroder Pan Am at Enormous Room Flyer

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Selected DJ Mixes:

DJ C; B-Low ->

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DJ C; On The Night Bass ->

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DJ C; Mashit Mix for Samurai.fm pt. 2 ->

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DJ C & Zulu; Gods & Robots Mixtape ->

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Selected Mashups:

DJ C; Since You’ve Been In This Club (Dub Mix) ->

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DJ C ft. A1 Bassline, R. Kelly, T.I. & T-Pain; Somebody’s a Flirt ->

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DJ C (Ft. Chris Isaak, The Supremes, Switch, & Stereotyp); Set Me Free From This Wicked Game ->

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Big Whoop! (DJ C, Ripley, Kid Kameleon, & Tones);
Ooh Wadda Doo Dadda (Big Whoop Mix ft. Timbaland, Magoo. & Sebast) ->

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DJ C (Ft. Ghislain Poirier, Face T, & T.I.); Blazin’ Hurts ->

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DJ C; Jump Up and Bounce (ft. Ms. Thing) ->

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Immediate Heat Wave

Immediate Sounds LogoThe Heat Wave crew in London just sent over this new mix of “Half an hour of jump-up Caribbean rave music.”

the UK sounds of garage, bassline, funky and jungle filtered through the tasty carnival vibes of bashment and soca.

It’s a companion to their new Immediate Sounds club night which will feature heavy doses of said tunes.

Listen:
Gabriel Heatwave and Ben Dubstar; Immediate Sounds Vol 1

Download @ The Heat Wave site ->

Tracklist:

  • Beenie Man & So Solid Crew - Yagga Yo
  • Ms Dynamite & Menta - Ramp
  • El-B - Shorty (Steppas Remix)
  • Glamour Murphy - What The Woman Want (Acapella)
  • QQ - Screechie
  • Stacy - Let Meh Know
  • Kyla & Paleface - Do You Mind (Crazy Cousins Remix)
  • Geeneus & Zinc - I Try (Instrumental)
  • Vybz Kartel - Stop Gwaan Stush (Acapella)
  • Top Cat & Double 99 - Ripgroove
  • Durrty Goodz - Pum Pum Stealer
  • Tubby - Turbo Shandy
  • Destra & Dizzee Rascal - Flex (Tim Turbo Refix)
  • Plastic Gangsters - Rock To The Rhythm
  • Shabba Ranks - Love Punaany Bad (Baby G Remix)
  • Elephant Man - Nobody Nobody
  • Notch - Nuttin’ Nuh Go So (RCola Remix)
  • Soundclash feat Red Fox & Screechie Dan - Pum Pum Shorts

Beat Research Lab

Beat Research Lab CD CoverI’ll be heading out for a little tour on the East Coast later this week which will eventually wind up at my old haunt, Beat Research at the Enormous Room in Cambridge, MA. Can’t wait to get back on the decks there with fellow riddim methodists DJ Flack and Wayne&Wax!

For the past few years DJ Flack has been teaching a companion course to the weekly party, also called Beat Research. This year he worked with his advanced Beat Research students to put together a compilation of some of their best work and the outcome is a free CD and download album entitled The Petri Disc Vol. 1.

One of my favorite tracks on the comp is DJ Fraze One’s “Dub” remix of Rick Ross’ Everyday I’m Hustlin’:

MP3 Download:
DJ Fraze One; Hustlin (Dub Mix) ->

Many more where that came from: The Petri Disc Vol. 1 site ->

DJ C “B-Low” Mix

Download: DJ C; B-Low DJ Mix ->

DJ C B-Low DJ Mix CoverMore summer vibes comin’ atcha! This one’s a dubstep-centric mix I cooked up featuring big tunes by a bunch of friends (big up y’all!) as well as a few folks who’s paths I hope to cross one of these days.

Check below for more info about the artists involved, including our pals from way down south (Caracas Venezuela), Cardopusher and Pacheko who’ve put together a slammin’ little album that we’ll be releasing here at Mashit in the coming months. Stay tuned…

Tracklist:

  1. Stenchman; “On The Road Again”
  2. Schlachthofbronx; “Bronx Dub:
  3. Max Ulis; “kILL aNOTHA sOUND”
  4. abZ; “Cylinder”
  5. Elemental; “Space Expander”
  6. Juju; “Punks”
  7. Fat Freddy’s Drop; “Cay’s Crays (Digital Mystikz Version)”
  8. Si Begg; “Pete Fucking Tong”
  9. MRK1; “Never Warned”
  10. Sosolimited; “Um Nah”
  11. Exillon; “Moon Shiner Remix”
  12. Burial; “Archangel (Boy 8-Bit’s Simple Re-Mix)”
  13. N-Type / The Others; “Way of the Dub (Caspa Rmx)”
  14. abZ; “Bumpy (Wascal Mix)”
  15. RSD; “Kingfisher”
  16. DJ C ft. Chrissy; “Strut Dub”
  17. Schlachthofbronx; “Fatthing (Dubstep Rmx)”
  18. The Colonel; “Big Trouble (Original Mix)”
  19. Starkey; “Stripped Gutted (DJ C Mix)”
  20. Timeblind; “Skater 6″
  21. Squincy Jones “Shawty Swing (Nintendub Edit)”
  22. DJ C (Ft. Ghislain Poirier, Face T, & T.I.); “Blazin’ Hurts”
  23. Ghislain Poirier (feat. Face-T); “Blazin’ (DJ C Remix)”
  24. Stenchman; “The Number One”
  25. Sully; “Living”
  26. DJ C; “Since You’ve Been In This Club (Dub Mix)”
  27. Starkey; “Dementia”
  28. Schlachthofbronx; “System Red Remix (ft. Mr. Vegas and Babylon System)”
  29. Villa Diamante; “Daleduro vs Lady Tigra”
  30. Timeblind; “Cassette Deck”
  31. DJ Donna Summer: “Rock Rock Rock (Aaron Spectre Remix)”
  32. Pacheko; “Bi Polar Bear”
  33. Cotti; “Mi Nua Friend Oddessy (Remix)”
  34. Cardopusher; “PAO! Total Xplosion of the Heart (Cardopusher rmx)”
  35. Buju Banton; “Murderer”
  36. Pacheko; “Green Bull”
  37. Point B; “Gymede (Original Mix)
  38. Ebola; “Teledildonics”
  39. Cardopusher; “Homeless”
  40. DJ C; “Dehydrogenated”
  41. Math Head; “Last”

Zizek Summer Tour: Digital-Cumbia Decends on North America

MP3 Download:
Villa Diamante; Chancha Via Circuitovs Lil Mama ->

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A few months ago I wandered over to Sonotheque to check out Zizek’s first-ever Chicago performance. The rag-tag crew of Argentina-based sonic alchemists threw down beats the likes of which that sound-system had never before been asked to reproduce. The swaggering shuffle of Zizek go accoustic at Sonothequeelectronic cumbia with huge bass forced all of the few people in the place to sway and eventually dance their faces off. By the end of the show, members of the crew had formed an impromptu acoustic cumbia jam with traditional drums, percussion, melodica, and vocals. It was a crying shame that there weren’t more people in the house to experience and partake in one of the best dance parties of the year.

All hope is not lost. Zizek returns to North Amercia this week on a 16 stop summer tour, including another Sonotheque party, and you’re You strongly advised to catch them.

Villa Diamante will be on the tour. Give a listen to this mix he did for the XLR8R Podcast:

Tracklist and download ->

In their own words:

Zizek is dedicated to the creation of endless tropical nights of dancing utilizing the emerging sounds of Cumbia, Hip Hop, Dancehall, Reggaetón, Bastard Pop, Mashups and more. The goal however is to give these styles, ideas and rhythms an Argentine touch, with the aim of putting Buenos Aires on the map of the global music scene.

The star of Zizek has been Cumbia, a Latin American sound born from the fusion of old and new worlds in Colombia. Zizek is adapting cumbia’s distinctive rhythm to make it relevant to a new generation of Latin Americans and it´s artists have created a few genres of their own, like cumbia beat, cumbiastep, and cumbia hop. Zizek´s producers are bringing out contrasting takes on a genre that already has a massive following and it is exploding faster than it ever would have up until now.

Following up their much hyped SXSW appearance, the revolving Zizek crew will be in the USA, Canada and Mexico again this July for a coast to coast summer blowout tour. DJ Villa Diamante and Bersa Discos Oro11 together with ZZK Records newest artists Fauna and Chancha Vía Circuíto will be bringing the new sound of Argentina to North America this time around.

The tour will feature DJ Sets and Performances by:

Villa Diamante
B.A.´s “it DJ” and Zizek Resident, specializes in mashing up Argentine & Latin American flavor with Northern Hemisphere Hip Hop, Grime, Electro, & Pop.

Fauna
Fauna´s “Tropitronica” sound blends Latin elements with electronic beats and the duo includes live hip-hop/ragga vocals to round out their upbeat, sonically innovative productions.

Chancha Vía Circuíto
Chancha is one of the hottest names in the new cumbia scene. His productions have caught the eye of international beat hunters and his tracks have been featured heavily on mixtapes by Diplo, Maga Bo and more.

Oro11
Co -owner of S.F.´s Bersa Discos, Oro11 lived in Buenos Aires for 3 years where he developed a taste for intensifying and modernizing cumbia villera through harder dancehall and Baltimore club beats.

Tour Dates:

  • 07.10.08 (LAMC) @ SOBs - New York City, New York w/ Toy Selectah
  • 07.11.08 @ Club Lambi - Montreal, Canada
  • 07.12.08 (Ritmo y Color Festival) @ Brigantine Room - Toronto, Ontario
  • 07.14.08 @ TBA
  • 07.15.08 @ TBA - Detroit, Michigan
  • 07.16.08 @ Sonotheque - Chicago, IL
  • 07.17.08 @ TBA - Cleveland, Ohio
  • 07.18.08 @ TBA
  • 07.19.08 @ SOBs - New York City, New York
  • 07.22.08 @ Nectar – Seattle, Washington
  • 07.23.08 @ Berbati’s Pan – Portland, Oregon
  • 07.24.08 @ Mezzanine -San Francisco, CA w/ Bersa Discos & Drop the Lime
  • 07.25.08 @ TBA - Los Angeles, CA
  • 07.26.08 @ Getty Museum - Los Angeles, California
  • 07.31.08 @ Pasaguero - Mexico City, Mexico w/ Las Kumbia Queers
  • 08.02.08 @ Syntheticrocks - Mexico City, Mexico

Joystyxx Radio is Back

Joystyxx Radio Chrissy Murderbot, Micada and I will be in the house tonight, Monday, July 7 for our bi-weekly Chicagoland radio series; Joystyxx Radio. Tonight is a Micada birthday special (It’s on Wed.) Happy B-day, Micada!

Every other Monday evening from 8 to 10 pm we’re kickin’ it old-school, new-school, and everything in between-school over the airwaves of Loyola University’s WLUW, 88.7 FM in Chicago and on the web at www.wluw.org.

It’s always a party in the studios, so be sure to tune in and join the fun music, commentary, and antics.

www.joystyxx.com ->

Since You’ve Been In This Club Again

MP3 Download:
DJ C; Since You’ve Been In This Club (Dub Mix) ->

DJ C; Since You’ve Been In This Club (Kelly Clarkson Vocal Mix) ->

Usher Makes Love in the ClubAfter I posted Since You’ve Been In This Club — my remix of Usher’s Love In This Club and Sasha Frere-Jones singing Kelly Clarkson’s Since You’ve Been Gone — I got a comment from Refusenik asking if I could post the instrumental, or perhaps a version with Kelly Clarkson’s original vocals on it. So I messed around with Clarkson’s vocals and came up with an interesting, but by all accounts annoying (the vocals are way pitched-up) mix, in addition to a dub/instrumental version. Give ‘em both a listen above.

DJ C, Tactic, FSTZ in Kansas City, Sat.

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Sat. June 21, ‘08
The Skylight Room @ Crosstown Station
1522 McGee, Kansas City, MO
21+, $5, 10pm-1:30am

DJ Intel “Bump Me Loud!” Mix

DJ Mix Download:
DJ Intel Bump Me Loud! ->

DJ Intel

Here’s another in our continuing series of summertime ‘08 mixes to bump at your next sublime experience.

I had been noticing DJ Intel’s name on flyers all over Chicago recently, but hadn’t had a chance to hear what he was up to until we rocked a party together a few weeks ago. His set was so dope! This mix is also dope; kind of epic in fact! It’s not about beat-matching and blends per se, but instead about moods and magic:

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