Dope hip-hop/dancehall/experimental vinyl mix for download

[cha-chE]

check it out y'all. a new vinyl only mix from the tactic boys (myself and ben fuller in case you didn't know). covers the bridges of almost all forms of hip-hop production. at least that was the goal. i think a lot of you will enjoy it. check out the link and enjoy the sounds.

http://phocas.net/download/phocas_on_decks_05aug_tactic_phocasmix.mp3

Tracklisting is as follows:

Cepia – L2 – Ghostly International
Dabrye – The Lish – Ghostly International
Alias – Shoes Cars – Anticon
Shadow Huntaz – Figure Of Speech Inst. – Skam
Ludacris – Southern Hospitality – Def Jam
Ghislian Poirier – Don’t Smile, It’s Postmodern – Chocolate Industries
Slicker – Knock Me Down Girl Inst. – Hefty
Diamond Ice – Iceberg – Metatronix/Beta Bodega
Jay Z – The Bounce Inst. – Roc-A-Fella
Kardinal Offishal – Hurricane (Like Its Hot) – Unknown
Yin Yang Twins – Wait (The Whisper Song) Inst. – TVT
Liberty – Being Nobody (Richard X Rmx Inst.) – Astralwerks
DJ/Rupture – Little More Oil feat. Sister Nancy – Tigerbeat6
M.I.A. – Pull Up The People – XL
1 Thing Over ft. Amerie & Dabrye (Tactic Edit)
Chok Rock – Buzz – Warp
Outkast – She Lives In My Lap – Arista
RJD2 – Takeoff Inst. – Bustown Pride
Platinum Pied Pipers – Now Or Never – Ubiquity

[cha-chE]

would definitely love some feedback from y'all. good or bad...i'm game.

[cha-chE]

i'll have a handfull of these to pass out tonight at the war room. if you see a dude in a KC hat wearing a mush records shirt, ask me for one. this mix is only going to be online for a couple more days. can a brother get some feedback!

[cha-chE]

was hoping for a little bit better response here. it's not your typical mix by any means. for some validity about the parties involved, check the story...

http://phocas.net/issue/2005/august/ondecks.html

Tactic is the DJ partnership between Ben Fuller and Brent Lippincott aka DJ Candlewax. The two came together creatively in late 2002 while both were living in Lawrence, Kansas. Ben was finishing up his journalism degree at KU and Brent had recently returned to the area after completing his degree in music industry management to run the local hip-hop label Datura Records. The two first met as guests on the immensely popular ‘Breakfast For Beatlovers’ on KJHK 90.7 FM, KU’s student run radio station. It was not until Ben invited Brent play at one of his events in Lawrence that the two realized they had more in common musically than they had previously thought.

Between the two of them, they have explored every aspect of the music industry. Whether it is DJing, event promotion (Ben is responsible for the legendary Good Times 2000 rave in KC among other things) or running a successful independent hip-hop label, (Datura Records is home to two of the areas most successful hip-hop artists, Approach and The Deep Thinkers, who both have released critically acclaimed albums worldwide) Ben and Brent live and breath music to the fullest.

Tactic has never stuck to one genre and never plans to. From the beginning, the ethos was to “play the hot shit” and that meant discarding any boundaries previously held by the two or any DJ for that matter. This philosophy has allowed them to play all over the US, alongside a broad range artists from hip-hop pioneers Prefuse 73 and Beans, to techno legends Cari Lekebusch and Dietrich Schoenemann, IDM producer Cex and even The Faint side project, Broken Spindles.

This mix was done exclusively for Phocas.net so get it while it is available. Download it Right Here!

In the words of Tactic:

First, we want to give a big shout out to the Heavy Lounge crew for bringing together like-minded, talented individuals to work together and push some sounds that people in the area may not be familiar with. All the previously released mixes we’ve done were all usually 125 BPM+, whether it was 2-step, broken beats, electro, tech-house or minimal techno. For this mix we decided to slow things down a little and explore some sounds not typically heard at the average electronic music event. This mix starts a little abstract then gets into the meat of it. Everything is game. Hip-hop, IDM, dirty south rap, electro, dancehall, its all in there. We hope you enjoy it. Here is the track list:

Cepia – L2 – Ghostly International
Dabrye – The Lish – Ghostly International
Alias – Shoes Cars – Anticon
Shadow Huntaz – Figure Of Speech Inst. – Skam
Ludacris – Southern Hospitality – Def Jam
Ghislian Poirier – Don’t Smile, It’s Postmodern – Chocolate Industries
Slicker – Knock Me Down Girl Inst. – Hefty
Diamond Ice – Iceberg – Metatronix/Beta Bodega
Jay Z – The Bounce Inst. – Roc-A-Fella
Kardinal Offishal – Hurricane (Like Its Hot) – Unknown
Yin Yang Twins – Wait (The Whisper Song) Inst. – TVT
Liberty – Being Nobody (Richard X Rmx Inst.) – Astralwerks
DJ/Rupture – Little More Oil feat. Sister Nancy – Tigerbeat6
M.I.A. – Pull Up The People – XL
1 Thing Over ft. Amerie & Dabrye (Tactic Edit)
Chok Rock – Buzz – Warp
Outkast – She Lives In My Lap – Arista
RJD2 – Takeoff Inst. – Bustown Pride
Platinum Pied Pipers – Now Or Never – Ubiquity

[burnt]

The requested URL /download/phocas_on_decks_05aug_tactic_phocasmix.mp3 was not found on this server.


Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

dude, if you can, fix that link...the set list looks fun as hell, lots of stuff I'm interested in and/or own

[cha-chE]

yeah...that shit was only up for the month of august. i didn't follow up because i didn't think there were people on this board who were into that kind of DOPE shit. anyways, i've got another link for you for the same mix. hope it works and throw some feedback my way if you get the chance.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=030EMUWW

peace.

[burnt]

nope, no worky. its asking me for a login/password, in order to upload tracks.

yeh, not a big fan of the dirty south, but I'm interested in hearing some of the other tracks...plus, if that's a 60 minute set with 18 tracks, then you're probably actually mixing tracks instead of doing a lot of turntablism. always interested in hearing straight up hip hop mixes, just to check out someone else's style and techniques. I've been mixing a lot of hip hop lately. not a whoooole lot of just straight up hip hop DJs in my social circles, and its definitely a little more complicated mixing hip hop...the tracks aren't always structured to ensure seamless blends like breaks, D&B, house, etc are.

[cha-chE]

i just clicked on it and it worked. it goes to the main page and it takes about 45 seconds for it to get to the actual mix. there's a "countdown" right next to the big megaupload logo. just sit patienty and it'll get there.

and you're right...no turntablism. just going for clean mixes and a nice build. styles jump around too which is always a plus to me.

[cha-chE]

burnt-

you checked this yet? still curious if you managed to download it ok. anybody else taken the time to lean a little to the left while still rocking it with the party on the right? just a taste of what i can do y'all. it's not perfect but worked hard on the track selection. check it out and let a guy know what you think. fuck it...if it's something you dig and you're looking for something a little different at your next party, i'm trying to get a gig in this wonderful part of the country. let a fella know!!!

[burnt]

dude.

I got to the download page, waited 45 seconds, and clicked on the download link.

then it said "Loading File..." or something - I figured I'd take your advice and wait again. I made homefries for my kid, then we watched Simpsons, then it was shower time - I stepped outside and snuck a cigarette while he was in the shower.

after that, I read him the last two chapters of "A Series of Unfortunate Events, Vol. 8", petted his head for a minute, and put him to sleep...

walked by the PC. oh yea, I was dl'ing a mix, wasn't I.

no status change on the link...it still said "Loading File..." or whatever.

my Download Manager wasn't fired up, so I don't know what the hell happened. I tried it again a few times, it still just always asses out when its trying to write to my disk/desktop.

****
like I say, dirty south annoys me, but you got some sick cuts in that playlist (Alias, RJD2, etc), so I'm still curious, but it just ain't working out for me.

maybe its operator error...

[Starlah]

same here, URL not found...

[cha-chE]

sorry guys but the shit works perfect for me. i've got no clue why it's not working for y'all. this megaupload site doesn't seem to fit with everyone's browser so i'll work on something else. in the meantime, check this you send it link.

http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0K4U3JKG41V5Y1T67BWIJTA54D

[burnt]

dl'ing right now.

at this point, you're gonna kick me if I just post "that was dope!" or some other bullshit, huh...
;)

[burnt]

nice intro!...clean transition into and out of Alias...real complex and tripped-out.
the Ludacris track dropped, and I didn't notice it until I heard him talking
all that shit.

"...bitches givin' Dirty South head..." - hehehehe....

anyway.
early on, I was thinking, "this is like one of those Traffic Jam mixes or whatever that
you hear on some crappy urban hip hop FM radio station at 5:00, interrupted by lots of
McDonald's commercials"...only...I'm still kind of digging it. you could probably school a lot of
those toys that work for Westwood One or Clear Channel.

a lot of hip hop DJs (myself included, sometimes) have a bad habit of digging or something
during a really minimal hip hop instrumental. I never really heard you do that.
not even during the Whisper inst,which had the potential to get real old/boring, real quickly.
quick transitions, without seeming too deliberate or abrupt.

its also my opinion that a hip hop DJ isn't a *real* hip hop DJ, until they prove that they can mix
a track with vocals, smoothly, into another track with vocals. none of that vocal-inst-vocal-inst
easy street crap...naw, naw, count your drops (because MC's aren't real fuckin easy on the kids
who struggled with math, they don't always drop exactly on the 16 or whatever, they start spittin
rhymes when they feel like it...on the 16, or the 8, or hell, the 13 and 3/4 on an off-beat...)

anyway, you pulled that off toward the end of the mix, a couple of times. so that's commendable.

honestly, a lot of these tracks aren't my cup of tea. sorry, have to say that. I was kind of hinting
to that in all the "I can't download" conversations we were having.

quick glance at my own personal, readily-available tracks just to my right...

Cage
RJD2 w/ Blueprint
Copyrite
Necro
Immortal Technique
Ill Bill
Non Phixion
Swollen Members
El-P
DJ Vadim

that's more my cup of tea.

now, we could probably argue a lot about hip hop, as far as individual track selection goes.
but I don't wanna. I think you did real well, with the tools you selected.

I think this mix is pretty damn cool. its like, you walked into a trendy clubfull of yuppies,
played all their favorite cuts, and walked away thinking, "surprise motherfuckers!
I just introduced you to intelligent glitch!!" =)

keep it up. not enough DJs just straight mix a whole lot of hip hop tracks anymore.
which is funny, when you realize that's kind of where our roots are...

[cha-chE]

no doubt man...thanks for the elaborate feedback. the hip-hop selections you mention are quite good and i've got a lot of those artists on wax as well, but i've come to terms with exactly what you mention towards the bottom...about the yuppies and such. as dope as stuff like el-p, ill bill, and cage are...playing their shit out doesn't make shit happen for me as a dj. finding the more commercial stuff that i personal do like (which for whatever reason is heavy on the dirty south right now) has quickly opened up more doors for me. it's something that's incredibly hard to balance since i do get the occassional "play some nelly" and i have to control myself from yakking everywhere.

again...thanks for the detailed feedback. i hope some more people will check out this mix and drop some criticism. i'll be waiting patiently.

peace

[cha-chE]

just a friendly bump here for good measure. hit up http://www.megaupload.com/?d=030EMUWW for a glimpse of this mix.

i'll also have a ton to pass out this weekend at Decibel Fest. look out for it!

[burnt]

well, as long as you're still checking in here, click on my sig file, and lemme know what you think. 2 different hip hop tracks. my good friend and homeboy produced the loops and fine-tuned everything, I just spit the rhymes out...

[angry_bob]

It's a dope mix, it's been up on my station for a couple weeks now and I hope you make another soon.

That is all.







:cool:

[cha-chE]

Originally posted by burnt
well, as long as you're still checking in here, click on my sig file, and lemme know what you think. 2 different hip hop tracks. my good friend and homeboy produced the loops and fine-tuned everything, I just spit the rhymes out...

i'll peep your shit and get back to you. angry_bob...glad your digging it. i'm already working on some new ideas. mixes take awhile with me...i really try out different things on the programming tip. i'll get it done though and hopefully soon.