Tag Archives: mixtape

luv182

Midsummer Pressure Drop

jah luv spins a set inspired by that point in the summer when your busyness, stress and responsibilities drift away and you find your self relaxed and care-free. the midsummer pressure drop. this dubs for you.
image : Lee Scalen
Tracklist:
  1. Babylon Dub – King Tubby – Clocktower Records (1978/2011)
  2. International Treaty – Joe Gibbs and The Professionals – Joe Gibbs Records (1979/1995)
  3. Clock Face Dub – Linval Thompson – Motion Records (2002)
  4. Dub Bible – Scientist – Roots Tradition / Blood & Fire (1976/1996)
  5. How Could You Version – Freddie and Sound Dimension – Studio One / Soul Jazz (2007)
  6. Frenchman Code – Sly & Robbie – Groove Attack (2012)
  7. Run Away – The Icebreakers with The Diamonds – Virgin / Caroline Records (1978/2000)
  8. Drummer Boy Dub – Mad Professor & Lee Perry – Ariwa Sounds (1996)
  9. Back Weh – Prince Far-I and The Arabs – Daddy Kool / Pressure Sounds (1980/1996)
  10. In Cold Blood Version – Dub Specialist & Jackie Mittoo – Studio One / Soul Jazz (1970/2004)
  11. The Son Of Darth Vader – Prince Jammy and the Roots Radics Band – Trojan (1982)
  12. Whirl Delight – Dr. Alimantado – Keyman Records (1985)
  13. Atmospheric Dub – Mad Professor – Ariwa Sounds (1984)
  14. Chapter 2 – Augustus Pablo – Message / Shanachie (1978/1981)
  15. Leaving Babylon Dub – King Tubby & Soul Syndicate – Freedom Sounds / Blood & Fire (1976/1996)

luv181

The Hairiest Mixtape

you’re back in the woods with your cousin and a buddy drinkin’ beer out the back of his truck. when along comes buddy’s older brother. he strolls up, grabs a beer and jams a mixtape into the car stereo. the rest of the night is spent in a gradual stupor listening to amazing obscure early seventies rock; bands whose names you haven’t heard since.
photo : the hairiest members of King Harvest from the cover of Dancing In The Moonlight
Tracklist:
  1. The River – Octopus – Penny Farthing / Guerssen (1971/2011)
  2. Crying Shame – Frijid Pink – Parrot Records (1970)
  3. Bustin My Brains – Wayne Gabriel with Zooch on drums – no label (????)
  4. Cosmic Slop – Funkadelic – Westbound Records (1973)
  5. I Can Tell – King Harvest – Perception Records (1972)
  6. Everything’s Blue – Fat Matress – Polydor (1969)
  7. Peace By Peace – Crabby Appleton – Elektra (1970)
  8. Madness – Elephant’s Memory – Apple (1972)
  9. Enjoy Yourself – Dragonfly – Megaphone Records (1969)
  10. Teenage Head – Flamin Groovies – Kama Sutra / Buddah Records (1971/1978)
  11. Awake – Jackal – Periwinkle / Radioactive (1973/2004)
  12. Believer – Blue Cheer – Philips (1971)
  13. Lie and Hide – Kaleidoscope – Epic (1970)
  14. Mr. Go Away – Boffalongo – United Artists Records (1969)

luv180

Red Green Fire

weirdy drum ‘n bass beat explosions, constantly falling apart and reconstituting into new mutations at 170 beats per minute, create a super structure where odd sounds and stray jazzmen reside.
image : Mae 10-28-10
Tracklist:
  1. Almost Edible – Subtropic – Fused And Bruised (1998)
  2. Mustard Greens – Macc & dgoHn – Subtle Audio Recordings (2009)
  3. Windscale 2 – Squarepusher – Rephlex (1996)
  4. Half Of Half VIP – Resigned – Kultbox (1998)
  5. Go-Kart – Bowling Green – Law & Auder Records (1997)
  6. We Are Detatched – Paddington Breaks – iLL (1998)
  7. Children At Play – Max Tundra – Warp (1998)
  8. Drum Track 3 (Heatsink) – ASC ft. Intex Systems – Offshore Recordings (2005)
  9. Expand : Contract – Senses – Inperspective Records (2004)
  10. Granular Timor Time – We™ – Home Entertainment (2000)
  11. Yeah Babe I Wanna Be Yr Fat Magnet – Vert – Sonig (1999)
  12. The Phonic Socks – μ-Ziq – Planet Mu / Hut Recordings / Virgin (1997)
  13. Paradise Unearned – Mr. 76ix – Skam (2005)
  14. Eternally (μ-Ziq mix) – Point Blank – Planet Mu / Virgin (1997)
  15. Born With E.S.P. – Super E.S.P. – Hefty Records (1997)
  16. Phizzz – Drum Island – Apollo / R&S Records (1997)
  17. Grossenhösen (Happi Voodoo Remix by We™) – Tipsy – Asphodel (1997)
  18. The Taut And The Tame (Remix by Luke Vibert) – Tortoise – Thrill Jockey (1996)
  19. Dangergirl (Pieter K Remix) – Tinfed – Counter Intelligence (2006)
  20. Tell Them Not Me (Prymer 99 Rework) – Prymer – Gutbucket (1999)
  21. Central Line – Duke Of Harringay – Spymania (1995)

luv040

AMPMFM2 Radio’s Summer Fun Mix 2006!

this is a radio special Sloppy Joe did during his brief stint at WNDE back in 2006 (seems he had a different definition of “hits” then the station did). a fun mix of music designed to compliment the heat with groovin’ and good times. we hope you all have a great summer.
image : sweet daddy luv
Tracklist:
  1. WNDE All Hit Music station ID – Concrete Concepts – Concrete Concepts (????)
  2. Come Go With Me – Del-Vikings – Mercury (1957)
  3. Multiply – Jamie Lidell – Warp (2005)
  4. Where I’m From – Digable Planets – Blue Note (1993/2005)
  5. WNDE All Hit Music station ID – Concrete Concepts – Concrete Concepts (????)
  6. L’enculé Le Plus Cool De La Planète – Cuizinier – Disque Primeur (2005) > (searching for buy link)
  7. Yes We Can Can – The Pointer Sisters – Blue Thumb Records (1973)
  8. WNDE All Hit Music station ID – Concrete Concepts – Concrete Concepts (????)
  9. Hell Yes – Beck – Interscope (2005)
  10. Feel Good Inc. – Gorillaz – Parlophone (2005)
  11. Sittin’ On The Dock of the Bay – The Voltage – Fat City Recordings (2005) > (searching for buy link)
  12. Flop We – DJ/Rupture ft. Junior Cat – Tigerbeat6 (2004)
  13. WNDE All Hit Music station ID – Concrete Concepts – Concrete Concepts (????)
  14. Lysine – Max Tundra ft. Becky Jacobs – Domino (2002)
  15. What It Look Like – Spank Rock – Big Dada (2006)
  16. Time Has Come Today – The Chambers Brothers – Columbia / Knight Records (1966/1990)
  17. Kick Yo Booty – Crazy Girl – Tummy Touch (2005)
  18. WNDE All Hit Music station ID – Concrete Concepts – Concrete Concepts (????)
  19. Turn Into Something – Animal Collective – Fat Cat (2005)
  20. Freedom of ’76 – Ween – Grand Royal (1994)
  21. WNDE All Hit Music station ID – Concrete Concepts – Concrete Concepts (????)

luv166

Between The Covers

in celebration of the return of THUMP luv would like to take you on a journey into abstract house. it’s a story three turntables deep and conveniently found between two covers.
image : Lizzie Scott
Tracklist:
  1. Throw – LCD Soundsystem – Planet E (2010)
  2. Jus’ Stoopid – Idjut Boys and Laj – U-Star Records (1996)
  3. No Name – Idjut Boys and Laj – U-Star Records (1996)
  4. Hardcourage – Falty DL – Ninja Tune (2012)
  5. Hi-Tech Funk – UR – Underground Resistance (2011)
  6. Yes No Egg – Emperor Machine – DC Recordings (2005)
  7. YosepH – Like Vibert – Warp (2003)
  8. Pursuit – Paul Woolford – Halo Cyan (2012)
  9. untitled – Chez Damier – KMS (1993)
  10. My Friends Will Always Say – Falty DL – Planet Mu (2010)
  11. Dub #1 – Faze Action – Nuphonic (1996)
  12. Fly Juice – DVA – Hyperdub (2012)
  13. Help Myself – Chez Damier – KMS (1992)
  14. Sing (Extended Mix) – Four Tet – Domino (2010)
  15. Angel Of Mercy – Metro – Nu Groove / Rush Hour (1988/2012)
  16. Let Yrself Be – Jimmy Edgar – Hotflush Recordings (2012)
  17. Inside Out (Wild Pitch Beats) – Phuture – Strictly Rhythm (1993)
  18. Dream Baby Dream (Four Tet remix) – Neneh Cherry & The Thing – Smalltown Supersound (2012)

luv179

Rock Conscious

in the 1950’s the newly invented teenagers combined rhythm & blues, country, doo-wop and pop music to become fully rock conscious.
image : sweet daddy luv
Tracklist:
  1. Let’s Go – Bonnie Blue Bell with Chic Adams Band – Bakersfield Records / Fantastic Voyage (1956/ 2013)
  2. Speedo – The Cadillacs – Josie Records / ABC Records (1955/1973)
  3. Zoomy – The Bobbettes – Atlantic / Official (1958/1989)
  4. Maggie Doesn’t Work Here Anymore – The Platters – Federal / Guest Star Records (1955)
  5. Little Red Riding Hood – The Big Bopper – Mercury / Pickwick (1959/1973)
  6. Hush Your Mouth – Bo Diddley – Chess / Rumble Records (1958/2012)
  7. Ubangi Stomp – Jerry Lee Lewis – Sun Record Company / Rumble Records (1958/2011)
  8. Roc-A-Chicka – Warner Mack – Decca / Fantastic Voyage (1957/2011)
  9. Pickin’ On The Wrong Chicken – The Five Stars – Hunt / Stag-O-Lee (1958/2013)
  10. The Bug – Jerry Dallman and The Knightcaps – Punch Records / MCA (1958/1988)
  11. Love Potion Number Nine – The Clovers – United Artists / Capitol (1959/1981)
  12. Shimmy, Shimmy Ko-Ko- Bop – Little Anthony & The Imperials – End / Azzurra Music (1959/1983)
  13. Midnight Stroll – The Re-Vels – Norgolde / Stag-O-Lee (1959/2013)
  14. Feelin’ Good – Little Junior’s Blue Flames – Sun Record Company / BBE (1953/2007)
  15. That’s All Right – Carl Perkins – Columbia / Rumble Records (1958/2011)
  16. Thirty Days – Chuck Berry – Chess (1955)
  17. Ain’t Got No Home – Buddy Holly – MCA (1956/1979)
  18. You’re My Baby – Roy Orbison And Teen Kings – Sun Record Company / Fantastic Voyage (1956/2013)
  19. Sugar Doll – Johnny Jay – Mercury / Stag-O-Lee (1957/2012)
  20. Juicy Fruit – Rudy Greene – Ember Records / BBE (1957/2007)
  21. Charlie Brown – The Coasters – ATCO Records / Precision Records (1958/1976)
  22. A Sunday Kind Of Love – The Del-Vikings – Mercury (1957)
  23. I Promise To Remember – The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon – Gee / Rumble Records (1956/2011)

luv177

Capital City Jazz Dance

about to take over Capital City with a bag full of boogie down jazz records.
Jazz Amnesty baby.
image : ‘Capital City’ by Shane Watt.
Tracklist:
  1. Like A Thief In The Night – Michael Longo – Groove Merchant (1974)
  2. Do It To It – Jimmy Owens – A&M Records (1976)
  3. Spank-A-Lee – Herbie Hancock – Columbia (1974)
  4. Seeds Of Life – Harlem River Drive – Roulette Records (1971)
  5. Saoco – Gonzalez – EMI / Soul Jazz (1974/2003)
  6. Murph The Surf (Dance Rock) – Phillip Lambro – Motown (1975)
  7. Cross Talk – Francis Coppieters – KPM Recorded Music Library / Strut (1975/2013)
  8. See-Line Woman – Nina Simone – Verve (1964/2002)
  9. Makoohmba – Nuspirit Helsinki – Guidance Recordings (2000)
  10. Third World Revolution – Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson – Arista (1978)

luv178

2 Lives Left

pixelated ‘lectro funk that was trapped inside your Commodore 64 but still had 2 lives left.
image : Quinton Macrina
Tracklist:
  1. intro and excerpt from Loon to Water-Turkey – Roger Tory Peterson & Dr. Arthur A. Allen from The Cornell Laboratory Of Ornithology – Houghton Mifflin Company / The Peterson Field Guide Series (1962)
  2. K9 Law – Spacepimp – Clear (1995)
  3. Whoo Haa (La Funk Mob Remix) – Busta Rhymes – white label (????)
  4. Sex (Groundsaliva Remix) – Slugabed – Ninja Tune (2012)
  5. Hide In From The Day – Super Collider – Loaded (1999)
  6. Torque – Arcadion – DC Recordings (2009)
  7. Slow (Chemical Brothers Remix) – Kylie Minogue – white label (2004)
  8. Analog Worms Attack (Oizark Remix) – Mr. Oizo – F Communications (1999)
  9. Easy Easy – TNGHT – Warp (2012)
  10. Wash Your Hands – JJ Doom – Lex Records (2012)
  11. Something Fresh To Swing To (Instrumental) – Levi 167 – B-Boy Records / DC Recordings (1987/1997)
  12. Cryptic Motion – Squarepusher – Ed Banger Records (2010)
  13. Polkadot Blues – Hudson Mohawk – Warp (2009)
  14. Rewind! (Vocal) – Cylob – Rephlex (1998)
  15. Rough Treat – Loser – Cheap (2000)
  16. Gravitron – Otto Von Schirach – Monkeytown Records (2012)
  17. Bamboo Of The South, Wood Of The North – Randy Barracuda – Losonofono (2012)
  18. Red Yellow & Blue (White Williams Mix) – Born Ruffians – Warp (2008)
  19. excerpt from White-Crowned Sparrow to Chestnut-Collared Longspur – Roger Tory Peterson & Dr. Arthur A. Allen from The Cornell Laboratory Of Ornithology – Houghton Mifflin Company / The Peterson Field Guide Series (1962)

luv176

Becoming Invisible

that fine balance between laid back and lo down, anxiety-ridden and hi tension, need and want, overpowering intensity and strung out bliss. that feeling one gets when they are becoming invisible.
image : Nara Dreamland in Japan
Tracklist:
  1. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space – Spiritualized – Dedicated (1997)
  2. Wig – Gray – Plush Safe Records (2010)
  3. She’s My Witch – Kip Tyler – Stag-O-Lee (1958/2012)
  4. Pillar Of Salt – Gray – Plush Safe Records (2010)
  5. In Mirrors – Colin Stetson – Constellation (2013)
  6. Molly – Elmer Bernstein and his Orchestra – Decca / DOXY (1956/2011)
  7. excerpt from Kluster 2 (electric music) – Kluster – Schwann / Bureau B (1970/2012)
  8. Lover Man – Charlie Parker – Society (1946/1966)
  9. Twilight Mushrooms – Slum – Warp (1999)
  10. Floating In Ecstasy – Actress – Werk Discs / Ninja Tune (2013)
  11. Bastard Spirit – Shackleton – Woe To The Septic Heart! (2010)
  12. Trikco – Speedy J & Chris Liebing – Novamute (2004)
  13. Metal Machine Music : The Amine β Ring A-1 – Lou Reed – RCA (1975)
  14. Untitled – King Midas Sound – Hyperdub (2010)
  15. Music For Babies – Howie B. – Polydor (1996)
  16. Akaka Falls – Arthur Lyman – HiFi Records / Sparton (1958)
  17. Nem Um Talvez – Miles Davis – Columbia (1972)
  18. Hologrammic Dub – DJ Spooky – Asphodel (1996)
  19. She Found Now – My Bloody Valentine – MBV Records (2013)
  20. Extended Voices – Toshi Ichyanagi – Odyssey (1967)
  21. Mood For A Summer Sundown – Experimental Audio Research – Sympathy For The Record Industry (1996)
  22. Sway – Seefeel – Warp (2010)
  23. Smile – Ural Thomas – Mississippi Records / Change (2011)

luv175

Lyrical Technics

people come up to me and say
“yo, do you like hip hop?”
i always say
“yeah, i like hip hop.”
image : The Electric Company with luv
Tracklist:
  1. Real Hip-Hop (Pete Rock Remix) – Das EFX – East West Records / Atlantic (1995)
  2. Incarcerated Scarfaces – Chef Raekwon – Loud Records (1995)
  3. Invasion – Jeru The Damaja – Payday / FFFR (1996)
  4. Luchini AKA (This Is It) – Camp Lo – Profile (1996)
  5. Never Never Land – UMC’s – Wild Pitch Records / JCOR Entertainment (1992/2001)
  6. Bad To The Bone (Street Remix) – Kool G Rap & D.J. Polo – Cold Chillin’ / Warner Bros. (1990)
  7. Beats To The Rhyme – Run-D.M.C. – Profile / London (1988)
  8. MTL reppin’ for the 514 – Beastie Boys – Parlophone / Capitol (2004)
  9. My Rhyme Ain’t Done – L.L. Cool J – Def Jam Recordings (1987)
  10. Walk Into The Sun (Bill K Mix) – Organized Konfusion – Hollywood BASIC (1992)
  11. Pen And Paper – Stetsasonic – Tommy Boy (1988/2001)
  12. Know How – Young M.C. – Delicious Vinyl (1989)
  13. Rappcats – Quasimoto -Stones Throw (2005)
  14. Mathematics – Mos Def – Rawkus (1999)
  15. Paper Thin – Bahamadia – Chrysalis / Soul Jazz (1996/2009)
  16. Signature Slogans – Del the Funky Homosapian – Hiero Imperium (2000)
  17. Re-Invented – The Pharcyde – Chapter One (1999)
  18. The Corner – Common ft. The Last Poets – Geffen (2005)