Category: Other mixes

Go Ghana!

Those that know me well know that I’m rooting for the geopolitical underdogs to win the FIFA World Cup (I can’t shed politics, yo! And how thrilling would it be to see a European nation get their asses whooped by a country from the Global South?).  So what does soccer have to do with music? [...]

Gimme A Night Mix by MissRuckus

Gimme A Night Mix by MissRuckus Recorded: October 3, 2005 1. Quantic – Sound of Everything (feat. Alice Russell) 2. Los Hermanos Latinos – Puerto Rico remix 3. The Daktaris – Eltsuhg Ibal Lasiti 4. Orlando Julius & The Afro Sounders – Alo Mi Alo (Parts 1 & 2) 5. Nico Gomez & His Afro [...]

Flying Lotus and his space opera

New Flying Lotus album, Cosmograma, out on May 3rd in the UK and May 4th in North America on the mighty Warp Records! Collaborators include Thom Yorke, Erykah Badu, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Laura Darlington (who was also featured on the album, Los Angeles), FlyLo’s relative Ravi Coltrane, amongst others. Excited yet? For now, you can download [...]

Get outside

Istolethesoul posted a link to an amazing, eclectic Turkish jazz mix by Onur Engin which got me wondering about the existence of Vietnamese jazz (the muthaland, yo). Did not come across any jazz but came across some good electronic music from a producer in Hanoi. Electronic music is fairly new in Vietnam but seems to [...]

Gimme Mo’ Bass Culture

Thanks to Richie for sharing this with me. Joker is a 20-year-old kid from Bristol making some insane bass-heavy music that makes me want to go see a live show and destroy my eardrums while standing on the subwoofer, with my ear pressed against the speaker. Yes! Who is this kid? Here’s an old article [...]

Miles Cleret African DJ Mix

Upon visiting the Soundway Records website in order to grab the link for my previous entry, I stumbled across this mix by Miles Cleret (he runs Soundway). Check out the selections.. those first 3 tracks are gold! ..And much more goodness within… For those of you in Toronto who like your funk on the tropical [...]

Late night snack

So, the deal was that I would make a mix for Roland Gonzales and he’d make a mix especially for me. The guy is crazy prolific and churned it out in something like 3 days.. and he’s still waiting for mine (soon come, I swear!). Check out this dope mix by Roland here. It’s called [...]