596 The Remix According to Herbaliser

Some great downtempo and chill hip hop from these vibe masters.  The Herbaliser Band is also noteworthy and have some great releases that build an eight piece full band out of the original duo.  Checking their discogs page, I'm not the only one that misspells their name as "Herbalizer" form time to time.

00:00  Coldcut - Atomic Moog 2000 (Post-Nuclear Afterlife Lounge mix)

07:35  Meat Beat Manifesto - Prime Audio Soup

14:16  DJ Food - Mella (Drive Faster mix)

19:05  DJ Vadim - Conquest of the Irrational (Vads Dad Diversion)

25:27  Push Button Objects - 360

28:44  East Flatbush Project - Tried By 12

32:44  Little Axe - Storm is Rising (For a few dollars more)

36:41  2 Player - Sometimes 

41:42  Nils Petter Molvaer - Platonic Years (DJ Fjord mix)

46:55  Seeed - Top of the City

50:58  The William Caslon Experience - More Close than Opran

57:02  Hugo Kant feat Ghettosocks - In The Woods

61:18  Paine feat DJ Fonx - Bene (Herbaliser vs Flying Fish remix)

64:57  Lamb - B Line

69:22  The Easy Access Orchestra - Las Chicas 

73:30  The Invisible Pair of Hands - Sloppy's Not Sloppy and More

77:29  Coco and the Bean - Versus the 90's

81:54  Jaffa - Elevator

86:46  Hippaly - A Dreamer's Dream (J.L.'s song)

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593 The Remix According to Cut Chemist

I miss the height of turntablism in the late 90's early 2000's.  For a while it felt like this genre could take over.  His DJ mixes "Rare Equations", "Live at the Future Primitive" with Shortkut, "Brainfreeze" and "Product Placement" with DJ Shadow were a permanent fixture in my car stereo.  He has mad skills, and thats the best way to put it.  Cut Chemist's contributions to Jurassic 5 and Ozomatli are top notch too.  He also released a compilation of rare/unreleased gems from Vox Populi! and Pacific 231; that one really surprised me.  I'm thrilled to see he is still very productive and tackling genres that go far beyond hip hop.

00:00  Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics (The Cut Chemist 2 1/2 Minute Workout)

02:08  DJ Shadow - The Number Song (Cut Chemist Party Mix)

07:14  Major Force - The Re-Return of the Original Artform (Cut Chemist mix)

11:19  Roots Manuva - Join The Dots (remix)

15:00  Ugly Duckling - Eye on the Gold Chain (remix)

18:14  Beastie Boys - An Open Letter to NYC (remix)

22:05  Jurassic 5 - Jayou (remix)

25:19  Edan feat Percee P - Torture Chamber (Cut Chemist Mix)

29:10  Percee P - Throwback Rap Attack (Cut Chemist Lucas Flipped a One Sided Tape He Found In 1987 Into Stereo Remix)

31:50  Ozomatli - Cut Chemist Suite (remix)

35:29  Liquid Liquid - Cavern (Cut Chemist Rocks a Rave in A Missile Silo remix)

40:34  Blondie + Fab 5 Freddy - Yuletide Throwdown (remix)

45:12  Jem - They (remix)

48:20  Breakstra - How Do They Really Feel (Atkins edit)

52:14  Gary Bartz - Soulsea (remix)

54:34  L A Carnival - Blind Man (remix)

58:06  Terumasa Hino - Beyond the Mirage (remix)

62:02  Quantic and His Combo Barbaro - Un Canto a Mi Tierra (remix)

65:58  Tito Puente - Machito Forever (remix)

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603 The Remix According to Techno Animal

JKB and Kevin Martin aka The Bug making very dirty raw beats with a wall of noise.  Wonderful stuff.  I felt this should be a separate entry from yesterday's massive JKB overview. I believe the only thing missing from this mix is the JSBX dub remix of Bacon which I just couldn't track down.

00:00  DJ Vadim - The Breaks

04:18  Einsturzende Neubauten - Die Explosion Im Festpielhaus

09:18  2nd Gen feat Dalek - And/or

14:20  Magnet - Miles to Go (Invisible Man)

21:57  Dalek - Classical Homicide

27:04  The Rootsman - Tribal Dervish 

32:06  Stina Nordenstam - People Are Strange

40:00  The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Bacon

44:13  The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Not Yet (Splatter mix)

49:04  The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Money Rock 'n' Roll (Sub Species mix)

53:42  The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Not Yet (Sci-Fi mix)

59:45  The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Over and Over

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553 El-P

  El-Producto, aka Jaime Stuart Meline has been an unrelenting force in rap music for three decades.  I remember getting "Funcrusher Plus" when it came out and being instantly hooked, especially the DJ Premiere remix of "8 Steps to Perfection."  El-P's production work is no joke either, Cannibal Ox made me take notice of that.  Throughout the years my favorite of his works were his guest appearances, many of which are included here along with some productions and remixes.  His career was all leading up to Run The Jewels, which is a like a late career megaton bomb.  Amazing and shows he still has a lot of gas left in the tank.

00:00  Company Flow - Patriotism

05:07  Del tha Funkee Homosapien feat El-P - Offspring

09:25  Hangar 18 feat El-P, Camu Tao, Rob Sonic, Cryptic One & Murs - One Night At The Bar

14:49  ICE - Trapped in 3 Dimensions (El-Producto mix)

17:52  Aesop Rock feat Camu Tao & El-P - Rickety Rackety

22:20  Cannibal Ox feat El-P - Ridiculoid

27:02  DJ Vadim feat El-P & DJ Prometheus - Viagra

29:52  DJ Krush feat Company Flow - Vision of Art

33:59  Roots Manuva - Juggle Tings Proper (Madness, Michrochips & Hi-Tek War mix)

38:33  Push Button Objects feat Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Mr. Lif & DJ Craze - 360 (El-P remix)

42:13  +++ feat El- P - Big Youth

45:14  Techno Animal feat El-P Vastaire Kramer - We Can Build You

49:27  Handsome Boy Modeling School - Megaton B-Boy 2000

54:17  Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs feat El-P - Glib Tongued

57:56  The Mars Volta - Goliath (El-P remix)

61:38  El-P feat The Blue Series Continuum - Get Your Hand Off my Shoulder, Pig

68:10  El-P DBA The Lyrical Punisher & J-Treds - Freestyle (Interlude)

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547 Ubu Smallbones

This came from my desire to include Coil and Blue next to each other somehow.  Plus, the Lou Reed meditations album is just wonderful and I've been wanting to use part of this somewhere.  The Moby track is just me adding the bassline from the original to the "Aquamix" remix - I love both versions however felt the remix was missing that groove.

00:00  Derniere Volonte - Ouverture

01:29  Flanger - Full on Scientist

06:52  Hive - Moves Within Time (3rd Movement)

10:11  The Prunes - Vinyl Anal

13:33  Coil - Ubu Noir

15:39  Blue - Smallbones

20:52  Clark - Frau Wav

24:58  DJ Food - Cookin

29:53  Eight Miles High - Art Gallery

31:38  Gold Water - Fractured Break

36:41  Hive - Sci-Clone

40:17  Terminal Sound System - Sunshine

45:25  Squarepusher - The Tide

49:37  The Prunes - Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door (Spaghetti Western mix)

50:50  Skinny Puppy - Choralone

53:38  Innerzone Orchestra - Eruption

58:39  Moby - Mobility (moozler re-edit)

63:08  Skinny Puppy - Guilty

66:20  Lou Reed - Wind Coda

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536 Nothing is Happening

The first 100 or so mixes I posted here all had a few tracks omitted, mostly due to length concerns as I try to keep everything around 75 minutes (call me nostalgic, I got stuck in this mindset when I was burning everything on CD-R's back in the day).  Fortunately, I dumped all those extra tracks into a folder and am just now revisiting them.  

00:00  The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Avian Lung

05:23  Digable Planets feat Lester Bowie and Wah Wah Watson - Flying High in the Brooklyn Sky

11:37  Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy - To Whom it May Not Concern

14:21  Gang Starr - DJ Premier in Deep Concentration

17:15  The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Shadows

21:03  Iconaclass - The Art of EMCEE

25:27  L A N D feat David Sylvian - Nothing is Happening Everywhere

31:03  Skitz & MC D & 2Ice - Champion Sound

35:17  Soul Sugar - Get Up and Get It Version

38:15  Ponga - Pick Up The Pieces of Saturn

42:57  Geto Boys - Still

46:52  The Soundcarriers - Calling Me Reprise

47:59  Jac Berrocal - Lidice

52:32  Dalek - Desolate Peasants

56:30  The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Erotic Love Queen

62:43  Clouddead - And All You Can Do Is Laugh (side A)

68:01  Lalo Schifrin - First Night Out

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531 somehow magic happened

I have a system for sorting songs for my mixes and I usually have an overflow or leftover pile in a folder.  After my recent mixes, these were the songs in that folder.  I put them in WinAmp (yes its still my preferred audio player) and sorted on filename, I really liked the results.  No shuffling, no swapping things around.  This lined up perfectly in my opinion.  So here is that magic, a fun and diverse mix that works very well in my opinion.

00:00  Mark Van Hoen - He Run Far

05:25  Genesis - Watcher of the Skies

12:39  A Place To Bury Strangers - Frustrated Operator (Slowdive remix)

16:46  Scala - Remember How To Breathe

20:30  Pye Corner Audio - Saturation Point (Sonic Boom remix)

25:28  Trial of the Bow - From the Mountains of Tangier

32:19  SoiSong - T-Hu Ri Toh

39:45  Ralph Myerz & Digable Planets - Rebirth of Slick (Rebirth of Dub)

44:31  Mark Van Hoen - The Warmth Inside You

48:53  Pekka Airaksinen - Sukirti

52:09  Nurse With Wound - Bum Brush Effect (Long Version)

61:21  Lou Reed - This Magic Moment

64:38  Leonard Cohen - One of Us Cannot Be Wrong

68:57  MF Doom - Vomitspit

71:45  June of 44 - Generate

75:51  Edward Ka-Spel - A Rainy Day in July

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521 Top Ramen all around me

I always have a folder where I toss rap and hip hop tracks that I like, and eventually pull them into a mix.   This one had been sitting for about the last two years before I noticed I had over 100 tracks thrown together.  There are some really fun tracks in here, and a good ride start to finish.

00:00  Cypress Hill - Roll it up, Light it up, Smoke it up

03:21  Sage Francis (Non-Prophets) - I Keep Calling

08:08  Scienz of Life - Powers of Nine Ether

12:40  The Cenobites feat Bobbito - Kick A Dope Verse

16:37  DJ Shadow - Building Steam with a Grain of Salt

23:10  Nujabes feat Cise Starr & Akin - Feather

25:52  A Clan Called Wu - Cash Award

28:34  A Tribe Called Quest & Leaders of the New School - 7 MC's mix

33:55  EL-P DBA The Lyrical Punisher & J-Treds - Freesyle (interlude)

38:35  The Earthlings - Top Ramen Crashes the Bill

40:09  Notorious B.I.G. - Everyday Struggle (Original demo mix)

45:18  RJD2 - Poorboy Lover Megamix (track 12)

46:58  Bahamadia - 3 Tha Hard Way

51:04  Busta Rhymes - Turn it up, fire it up (remix)

54:45  Big Pun - The Dream Shatterer

58:15  Alias - Jovial Costume

63:19  Nas - Made You Look

66:42  MF Doom feat De La Soul - Rock Co.Kane Flow

69:47  Dilated Peoples - Worst Comes to Worst

72:56  Canibus feat Free & Pras - Patriots

75:58  Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge feat William Hart - Enemies All Around Me

78:03  Mobb Deep - Eye For an Eye (Your Beef is Mine)

82:46  Madvillain - All Caps

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520 Ashamed to Inauguration by way of Hemlock

Its 4/20 man!   This mix has little to do with that unofficial holiday, but I suppose it would be a good soundtrack for chillin in the afternoon as one does.

00:00  Alias feat DoseOne - Opus Ashamed 

04:55  Tortoise - C.T.A.

10:00  Sybarite - Sun With Teeth

13:40  Mark Van Hoen - Since Tomorrow Will Come

18:53  The Telescopes - Italian Air

24:00  Bruce Springsteen - State Trooper (Trentemoller Mix)

28:33  Echo Park - Innocent X

33:03  Richard Thomas - Echo-Locator2

36:31  Andy Votel - Hemlockd

40:02  Bedouin Ascent - Composition C for Neutral Space

42:33  Pram - Strategies for Success Boxes

48:01  Mark Franklin - Release to the System (Original Mix)

56:31  DJ Food - Aerosolilique Pts 1-3

61:44  Creature - Stuffed Hostage (The Ambient Western Orb Mix)

68:59  Slam - Inauguration

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503 Flying Acid Dragons

Had some fun last December with a trip to the mountains with some very good and longtime friends.  This mix summed up that weekend, and many of these were in rotation on the drives or our late nights.

00:00  Sirens of Lesbos - Tired Introlude

02:39  People Under The Stairs feat Camel MC - Acid Raindrops

07:02  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Slow Jam 1

09:49  The Residents & Renaldo and The Loaf - Opening

13:34  Pelding feat K-Dub - Politician (Prunes remix)

17:24  Tomahawk - Narcosis

19:52  Zechs Marquise - Black Ark Dub

24:48  Killer Mike feat Damian Jr Gong Marley - Run

29:12  Black Market - Audrey's Dub

34:29  DJ Spooky - Track 4 (Ex Nihlo)

38:45  The Future Sound of London - We Flew Together

41:25  Lalo Schifrin - Main Title (Enter The Dragon)

43:37  Madlib - Dirtknock

45:48  Pascal Comelade - Ritmos Del Fedayin

47:19  Count Dubula - Black Lung

50:38  The Woodleigh Research Facility - Medieval Dub

58:10  Ralph Myerz & Digable Planets - Pacifics (Ralphz Highly Recommends Rework)

63:48  Thelonious Monk - Mood Indigo

66:57  Dangerdoom - Old School Rules

69:29  Jac Berrocal - Palmyre

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488 Zack de la Rocha's other appearances

I recall a bit of shock when I put on Lyricist's Lounge and heard Zack doing a collaboration with KRS-One, and it was quite good.  Based on that, I started to seek out all his other guest vocal performances and came up with this list, I think it has most of them.  I didn't include One Day As A Lion as that was on a recent mix, and Farside where he plays guitar because I just didn't like it and it didn't fit in anywhere on this mix.  He also played guitar in Hard Stance, so included that as it fit the vibe towards the end of this mix.

00:00  Zack de la Rocha, KRS-One & The Last Emperor - C.I.A. (Criminals In Action)

04:33  Deltron 3030 - Melding of the Minds

08:32  DJ Shadow - March of Death

12:29  Roni Size - Centre of the Storm

20:06  Saul Williams - Act III Scene 2 (Shakespeare)

24:23  Chuck D, The Roots, and Zack de la Rocha - Burned Hollywood Burned

28:24  Zack de la Rocha - Digging for Windows

31:50  Run The Jewels - A Report To The Shareholders : Kill Your Masters

38:01  Run The Jewels - Close Your Eyes (and count to f*ck)

41:55  Run The Jewels - JU$T

45:20  Blackalicious - Release (part 1)

46:47  Unbound Allstars - Mumia 911 Bloody Murder (West Coast Remix)

51:01  Chuck D & Zack de la Rocha - Zapata's Blood

58:09  DJ Shadow - Artifact (vocal version)

61:01  Zack de la Rocha - We Want It All

64:47  Hard Stance - Is This The End/Torn Apart

68:18  Inside Out - No Spiritual Surrender

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481 Roots Manuva Guest Spots

Roots Manuva aka Rodney Smith is a name I'd heard and seen everywhere but took a while before diving into his catalog.  I think it was the Pharoahe Monch track that first drew my attention, and then I was excited to hear his dub album "Dub come save me."  Of course, the collab track with Jurassic 5 really stood out, and a guest spot with Massive Attack doesn't hurt one's street cred.  Yeah, pretty much every artist on this mix is quite an honor to work with, so Roots Manuva is certainly doing something right.

00:00  Leftfield - Dusted

04:31  Jurassic 5 - Join The Dots

08:13  Beth Orton - Daybreaker (remix)

12:45  Amon Tobin - Saboteur (Version)

17:01  Massive Attack - Dead Editors

21:38  DJ Shadow - GDMFSOB (UNKLE Uncensored)

28:01  Lee Scratch Perry - International Broadcaster

33:50  Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says (Skitz Version)

37:25  23 Skidoo - Where You At

42:46  The Herbaliser - Lord, Lord

46:50  The Herbaliser - Starlight

51:50  Nightmares on Wax - 70's 80's (upbringing mix)

56:40  Antipop Consortium - NY to Tokyo

59:50  The Cinematic Orchestra - All Things To All Men

69:54  Dust - Where You Wanna Be

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470 MC Dälek Appearances

Will Brooks aka MC Dälek first caught my attention on the 2nd Gen track and/or remixed by Techno Animal.  His lyrics and flow were mind blowing.  I quickly dove in and found the Classical Homicide and Megaton tracks with Techno Animal, and shortly after they released "Brotherhood of the Bomb" with the track Hell.  That solidified it and I quickly bough all the vinyl and CDs I could find from Dälek.  I was not disappointed.  Nary a dull track in his discography, including solo project IconAclass. 

00:00  The Young Gods and Dälek - Abandoned Language Intro

06:00  DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid & Dave Lombardo - Assisted Suicide

09:00  Dälek - Classical Homicide (Techno Animal Remix)

14:02  Sofa Surfers feat Dälek & Devi - Elusive Scripts

18:50  2nd Gen feat Dälek - and_or (Techno Animal vocal mix)

23:52  Deadverse Massive feat Dälek & Gym Brown - Walls of Insurrection

26:05  The Bug - Fractured

30:41  Techno Animal feat Dälek - Hell

36:06  Oddateee feat Dälek - Solo Timeless Level

40:21  Psycho-Path feat Dälek - Weapon Of Opportunity

44:59  The View Electrical feat Dälek - Fell From Grace

50:03  Uniform feat Dälek - A Swollen Vendetta

53:48  Goth-Trad feat Dälek - Skin No Longer Scars

59:09  Aucan - Storm Rmx

63:16  AKD & Deepstar feat Dälek - Language Universal

67:55  Stearica feat Dälek - Occhio (edit)

72:16  The Young Gods and Dälek - Abandoned Language Outro

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480 Hip Hop Mash-Ups pt2

00:00  Wugazi - Sleep Rules Everything Around Me (13 Chambers)

03:15  Tor - Star of Wonder/None Shall Pass (Aesop Rock vs Sufjan Stevens) (Illinoize)

07:46  Amerigo Gazaway - Trouble in the Water (Fela Soul - Fela Kuti vs De La Soul)

12:16  I Sheik - Shadowboxin (Wu-Tang Meets Portishead)

15:28  Max Tannone - Optimistic Moment (Jaydiohead)

20:12  Max Tannone - Definition of Blitzkreig (Black Star vs The Ramones) (Mic Check 1234!)

23:42  The Kleptones - Chess Game at the Gates of Hell (Yoshimi Battles The Hip Hop Robots)

27:50  Girl Talk - Jump on Stage (All Day)

34:12  Evolution Control Committee - Rebel Without a Pause (Whipped Cream Mix) 

35:51  A Clan Called Wu - Shame on Ya Lyrics (Enter The Marauders)

36:50  Team Teamwork - Fumbling Over Words (Edan vs Zelda)(The Ocarina of Rhyme)

39:11  Cookin Soul - Land of the Dead (feat 2Pac and 50 Cent) (Night of the Living Dead pt II)

42:07  Cookin Soul - Gremlins (feat Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg & Busta Rhymes) (Night of the Living Dead pt 1)

45:16  Funky DL - It Ain't Hard To Tell (Jazzmatic)

48:49  DJ BC - Method Gras (Wu Orleans)

51:45  DJ Cappel & Smitty - Hypnotize / Little Green Apples (Blue Eyes Meets Bed-Stuy)

54:22  The Pharcyde vs A Tribe Called Quest w/ Sublime - Doin Time' (Bizarre Tribe: A Quest to the Pharcyde)

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480 Hip Hop Mash-Ups pt1

Novelty music for sure, however some of these really work well.  In my opinion that's a rarity as there seems to be a flood of average mash-ups out there.  Sometimes there is alchemy and these two mixes really showcase the tracks that keep me coming back looking for more mash-ups.  A couple are loosely in this genre like the Kid 666 track, that is Kid606 remixing Missy Elliot, and its included here for the awesome inclusion of A-Ha's "Take On Me" at the end.  Girl talk is more like a massive mash-up mixtape, with some really great spots.  That Cut Chemist remix is not really a mashup, but its got such a strong use of Bauhaus that I had to include it.

00:00  Amerigo Gazaway - B.I.G. Poppa's Got A Brand New Bag (The Notorious J.B.'s: The B.I.G. Payback)

03:48  The Wudos Band - Ayno Tellin (Wu Tang Clan vs Budos Band Mix Tape)

07:16  Max Tannone - Make It N.Y. (Ghostfunk)

10:31  The Pharcyde vs A Tribe Called Quest - Runnin' (Bizarre Tribe: A Quest to the Pharcyde)

15:01  Amerigo Gazaway - Stakes is High (Fela Soul - Fela Kuti vs De La Soul)

20:10  Max Tannone - Mourning Unknown (Dub Kweli)

23:26  Mos Dub - History Town (Mos Dub)

26:37  Prince Fatty - I Know  You Got Cumbia (Eric B. and Rakim vs Lito Barrientos Y Su Orquesta)

31:35  DJ BC - Boxing Fats (Wu Orleans)

33:50  PB Presents - Publicity Biscuit (Wu Tang Clan & Portishead Mix Elixr)

35:58  Wugazi - Sweet Release (13 Chambers)

39:01  Max Tannone - Police Get Busy (Black Thought vs Dead Kennedys) (Mic Check 1234!)

42:38  Kid 666 - Take The Piss On (Freakbitchlickfly)

45:44  Girl Talk - No Pause (Feed The Animals)

48:56  Funky DL - Nas Is Like (Jazzmatic)

52:32  Cookin Soul - Halloween pt II (feat 2Pac & Notorious B.I.G.) (Night of the Living Dead Pt II)

54:54  Cut Chemist feat Chali 2na & Roots Manuva - Join The Dots (Bow House mix)

58:42  The Kleptones - Are You A Visionary? (Yoshimi Battles The Hip-Hop Robots)

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486 One-Off Collaborations C

This third mix is some jazz, hip hop, reggae, industrial, and electronica.

Mix 3:

00:00  Motorpsycho & Jaza Jazzist - Bombay Brassiere

05:49  Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezei - Royal Roost

11:25  Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah feat MF Doom - Ray Gun

14:30  The Skatalites meet King Tubby - Herb Man Dub

17:38  Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell - Alam Dub

24:10  DJ Spooky & Twilight Circus Dub Sound System - Gamma Burst

28:04  Acid Horse (Ministry & Cabaret Voltaire) - No Name No Slogan (Hypo Luxa/Hermes Pan)

33:52  PTP (Ministry & Skinny Puppy) - Show Me Your Spine

38:37  Two Sandwiches Short of a Lunchbox (Andrea Parker & David Morley) - Too Good To Be Strange

45:46  Slag Boom Van Loon (Speedy J & µ-Ziq) - Poppy Seed

50:42  The Fires of Ork (Biosphere & Pete Namlook) - The Fires of Ork I

58:24  Brian Eno & David Byrne - Come With Us

60:58  Solex & M.A.E. - Birthday Superboy

64:06  Mike & Rich (µ-Ziq & Aphex Twin) - Reg

69:36  Kid Koala & Emilana Torrini - Adrift

74:37  The Uncluded (Kimya Dawson & Aesop Rock) - Jambi Cafe

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483 Supergroups and side projects B

Part two, same theme, different genres.

00:00  Pigface - Suck (EVERY industrial band you've ever heard)

03:37  Ataxia - The Sides (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fugazi)

10:09  Tear Garden - Tasteless (Skinny Puppy, Legendary Pink Dots, Anthony Valcic)

14:55  The Glove - Mr. Alphabet Says (The Cure, Siouxsie and The Banshees)

18:40  Mad Season - Long Gone Day (Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Screaming Tress, Walkabouts)

23:25  Monsters of Folk - Map of the World (My Morning Jacket, Bright Eyes, M Ward, Centro-matic)

27:16  Astrobrite - More (Star/Loveliescrushing/Mahogany/Majesty Crush/Dark Red/Paik/Xebec/Coaltar of the Deepers)

32:03  Mimir - Untitled #2 (Legendary Pink Dots, Christoph Heemann, Jim O'Rourke, Andreas Martin)

39:20  Oysterhead - Little Faces (Primus, Police, Phish)

44:07  Black Star - Respiration (Dr Luke's remix) (Mos Def & Talib Kweli)

47:56  Electronic - Get The Message (New Order, The Smiths)

52:59  Travelling Wilburys - Last Night (Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty)

56:41  The Highwaymen - Big River (Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson)

59:18  Million Dollar Quartet - Walk That Lonesome Valley (Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash)

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483 Supergroups and side projects A

My criteria for this mix was to focus on groups/bands that put out at a minimum one full album under this title; so no one off projects that only recorded a track for a tribute album for example.  The group must be made up of members from at least two significant other bands.

I know there are so many more that are worth looking into, so please share more ideas with me.

00:00  Fantomas - Experiment in Terror (Faith No More, Slayer, Melvins)

02:40  Palms - Shortwave Radio (Deftones/Isis)

09:32  Shrine Builder - Solar Benediction (Om/Saint Vitus/Neurosis/Melvins)

18:06  Down - Lifer (Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar, Eyehategod, Kingdom of Sorrow)

22:42  Handsome - Closer (Quicksand, Jets to Brazil, Cro-Mags, Helmet)

25:36  Nailbomb - Blind and Lost (Fudge Tunnel, Sepultura/Soulfly)

27:28  Superjoint Ritual - It Takes no Guts (Pantera, Hank Williams III, Jimmy Bower, Kevin Bond, Warbeast)

29:31  Tomahawk - God Hates A Coward (Faith No More, Jesus Lizard, Helmet, Melvins, Mr Bungle)

32:09  Killer be Killed - Face Down (Sepultura/Soulfly, Mastodon, Mars Volta, Converge, Torche, Dillinger Escape Plan)

36:44  Prophets of Rage - Unf*ck the World (Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Rage Against The Machine)

40:25  Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies - Rocket Man (NOFX, Lagwagon, No Use For A Name, Rich Kids on LSD, Swingin Utters)

43:53  SPASM - All That Is Good (Dead Voices On Air, Lab Report, Pigface, Evil Mothers)

50:16  Download - Base Metal (remix) (Skinny Puppy, Dead Voices on Air, Anthony Valcic, Phil Western)

54:37  Run The Jewels - Legend Has It (El P & Killer Mike)

58:02  Revco - Attack Ships on Fire (Ministry, Front 242, Luc Van Acker)

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Others that I decided not to include:

Boygenius - Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker

Eyes adrift - Nirvana, Meat Puppets, Sublime

The Sleeping Moustache - NWW, irr app ext, Stilluppsteypa, Coelacanth, RK Faulhaber

Temple of the Dog - Pearl Jam, Soundgarden

454 Latest Ideas mix 2

More electronic on this one, though continuing the topic from the last mix.  Revisited a few old hip hop albums for the first couple tracks.  Went with Pacifics from Digable as its a great track that I don't play as often as their "hits."  Then this excellent remix of The Stone Roses, featuring Jhonn Balance sample from Windowpane - I was so happy to hear this, even back in the 90s when it was released.  Never thought that Coil and Stone Roses would end up in the same sentence, let alone having Grooverider be the catalyst for that.  Yes, I've been on a Sade kick lately, and there are several wonderful remixes that take this up a notch from yacht rock.  When you think you've had enough of this cover song by MBM, I dig up another good and rare remix.  

I should really include more from Laika in my mixes as I used to love their stuff so much.  This EP/single is top notch.  Then Vuelvetoloca, which I only got for this APTBS remix as it sounds more like the remixer than the original artist.  I know I've included this Wetherall track a few times before, that's ok since its so dang good.  I don't listen to the Sugarcubes much at all, so revisited It's It and remembered how much I enjoyed these Justin Robertson remixes.  

Any casual visitor of my mixes knows what's coming next, some dubby grooves.  Sly and Robbie make an appearance with an Eurythmics remix.  Then a recording of Talk Back from the movie Pretty in Pink.  They're a band that plays in the club, however not on the original soundtrack - I had to wait for the John Hughes box set to come up to get a proper recording of this track.  Common Rider makes another appearance simply because I didn't want to include them twice on the previous mix.  The Drastics I think I picked up based on the cool cover artwork.  The Specials doing an excellent Prince Buster cover (Madness wasn't the only two tone ska band that nailed covering his music).  Toots and the Maytals, saw some random rom-com with my wife and this was the opening track, which surprised me.  Shinehead covering Sting, with adapted lyrics.  And then ending with Laika, for the aforementioned reasons.

00:00  Grandmaster Flash - Scorpio (Coldcut Remix)

06:57  Digable Planets - Pacifics

11:24  The Stone Roses - Fools Gold (Grooverider remix)

17:23  Sade - King of Sorrow (Fun Lovin' Criminals Remix)

21:51  Funky 4 + 1 - That's The Joint (Rae & Christian Remix)

27:43  Meat Beat Manifesto - Asbestos Lead Asbestos (Pedigree Dogs Don't Like The Smell of Your Children)

32:51  Laika - Almost Sleeping (edit)

36:32  Vuelvetoloca - Chepical (A Place To Bury Strangers remix)

39:20  Andrew Weatherall - Feathers

45:16  The Sugarcubes - Birthday (Justin Robertson 12" mix)

52:43  Sly and Robbie - Here Comes The Rain Again

56:45  Talk Back - Rudy

60:48  Common Rider - Conscious Burning

63:35  The Drastics - Unwritten Chapters

67:02  Specials - Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)

70:32  Toots and the Maytals - (Take Me Home) Country Roads (John Denver)

73:44  Shinehead - Jamacian in New York (Sting)

78:09  Laika - Spider Happy Hour

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423 Rhyme and Reason

Time for some more hip hop, I always have a folder collecting my favorite rap tracks. Starting with RJD2 with members of Cannibal Ox and Living Legends with Aesop Rock; great collab track here. A classic because you can never have enough of tha God Rakim. Then Cypress non-album track from the Juice soundtrack. DJ Spooky with Organized Konfusion, remixed for the Subliminally Minded EP. A solid Tribe remix, then a strong collab from Ghostface and BADBADNOTGOOD. Taking it back to a memory from warped tour 96 or so when I saw the Alkaholiks, spewing their OE 40's all over the crowd. Mos Def and Talib Kweli really were one of the best pairings in my opinion, next to Method Man and Redman. Phife Dawg is someone I feel needs more props for his guest appearances, he always came in prime form. Of course, MF Doom, mad respect and sad I had neglected to include him in previous rap mixes, he's one of the best. Next is the Sofa Surfers from their Encounters album (well worth checking out). Hitting hard with Run The Jewels, I love this track and its window rattling bass. Segues perfectly into Roots Manuva on a banger here as well. Vast Aire's second appearance, followed by Dalek's second as well, both with other groups so doesn't break that mixtape rule. And ending it all with a rare novelty track, because I am a big fan of the Zelda series of games and this track really does a great job touching on several versions in that history up to and including Breath of the Wild.


00:00 RJD2 feat Blueprint, Vast Aire, Aesop Rock & Murs - Final Frontier (Remix)
04:06 Eric B & Rakim - Don't Sweat The Technique
08:13 Cypress Hill - Shoot 'em Up
11:45 DJ Spooky feat Prince Poetry and Pharoah Monch - Rekonstruction (Rhyme and Reason mix)
15:23 A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation (Properly Relaxed Mix)
20:25 Ghostface Killer with BADBADNOTGOOD feat Elzhi - Gunshowers
23:28 The Alkaholiks feat King Tee - DAAAM!
28:06 Black Star - Definition (What We Really Said Version)
31:26 Phife Dawg and Fu-Schnickens - La Schmoove
36:18 MF Doom - Kon Queso
40:18 Sofa Surfers feat Dalek and Dev1 - Elusive Scripts
44:48 Run The Jewels - Legend Has It
48:13 Roots Manuva - Swords n the dirt
52:49 Cannibal Ox feat Alaska and Cryptic - Atom
58:20 Dalek - From Mole Hills
63:15 Amerigo Gazaway - Hero of Time


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