Citinite x Luckyme Mix du Funk
We’re obsessed with London-based label Citinite, both for their roster of futuristic electronic funkyshit (Sweat.X, Gosub, Rozzi Daime) and the warpspeed space of their cover art, all crafted by label owner Manuel Sepulveda, who we interviewed in FADER #63. Clearly we have a mindmeld going on with them, because their next party with LuckyMe features our latest coverstar Dam-Funk, along with Rustie, Jimmy Edgar and Gosub. Manuel made this dope mix to portend what Citinite may have in its future and to get us ramped up for the show we can’t go to (sorry dudes we’ll be in New York), but if you’re in London, prepare to be rocked by deep crevices of synth bass and people who can possibly dance better than anyone. Further evidence we are sharing the same spiritual plane: he included Lil Kenny in the first five minutes, our biggest obsession right after Sweat.X’s Spoek Mathambo. Wild! Jump the jump for tracklist and flyer.
Download: Citinite x Luckyme Funk Mix
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posted on Oct 8, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Citinite, Dam-Funk, electronic/dance, Gosub, hip hop, Jimmy Edgar, Lil Kenny, Rustie, Sweat-X
Stream: Douster f. Spoek Mathambo, “Punani”
- story Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
- photo Guy Martin (F63 outtake)
When we spoke to French producer Douster in FADER #63, he told us he was influenced by dinosaurs and medieval times like in Braveheart, and that he had to imagine a movie-like tale when he made music. We’re thinking this “Punani” track was set sometime in ancient Egypt, and we can totally see charismatic Sweat.X’s Spoek Mathambo wearing some sort of loincloth and pharaoh helmet instructing his Salome harem to jiggle their booties in the pyramid foyer—he makes the word punani sound kind of hallowed, even. Douster also told us he generally takes the reggaeton drum pattern and freaks it out, which you can hear in this track’s otherworldliness.
Stream: Douster f. Spoek Mathambo, “Punani”(Via Spoek’s blog)
Rustie, “FACT Mixtape 79″ MP3
The Glasgow-based producer/DJ Rustie just won our hearts with his latest mixtape for FACT Magazine: he put like everyone we love (Sweat.X, Hudson Mohawke, The-Dream etc) on it. He even included our longtime favorite “Georgia Peach”—the Atlantan “downtown” rapper Rasheeda! Like dude, people in America don’t even check for Rasheeda! How focused is your game! He also mixed some of his own sickass productions—like kicking back in the “strobe” room with a pack of gum and a bubble bath—with Ace Hood and Lil Scrappy. What do Southern rappers sound like in Glaswegian? How can we be down? Cop the mixtape over at FACT mag and check the bazonkos track list after the jump.
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posted on Sep 2, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Ace Hood, Cool Kids, Hudson Mohawke, Lil Scrappy, Rasheeda, Rustie, Sweat-X, The-Dream
Mr. V, “Put Your Drink Down (Big Space RMX)” MP3
Mr. V made this song “Put Your Drink Down” on Louie Vega’s label in 2006, which YouTube identifies as a “smash hit,” though we were apparently neither smashing nor hitting when it was doing those things (no sexual). But Johannesberg’s Big Space, real life bro of Spoek Mathambo and blogging/slang-slanging tour de force, decided to remix it in 2009 and leak it to promote what he calls “Operation Sweating Bullets.” True to his moniker, this is a wee nug of anti-gravitational house, however why in god’s name would anyone want to put their drink down? You can dance and hold things at the same time, people, it is totally possible and can on occasion look kind of cute.
Download: Mr. V, “Put Your Drink Down (Big Space RMX)” (via Big Old Dirty Space Bag)
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posted on Jul 10, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Big Space, electronic/dance, Mr. V, Spoek Mathambo, Sweat-X
