Here are two big mixtapes commemorating the twentieth anniversary of De La Soul’s rock solid career, which kicked off with the release of the seminal classic 3 Feet High and Rising* in 1989.
The first mixtape comes to us from Quebec’s own DJ Manifest. It’s a nice collection of some of De La’s greatest hits. Download it and get to reminiscing already. De La Soul: The Train of Thought (direct download link).
This next mix, courtesy of Mick Boogie and Terry Urban, is actually not just your standard mixtape. Its a bona fide tribute project. Le Da Soul: 20 Years of De La Soul is a compilation of reimagined De La classics, covers, and tribute tracks by a bevy of underground hip hop’s brighter stars. If you didn’t already cop this elsewhere, you should get it here now. Enjoy.
* De La Soul sampled the song “Bra” (first song on the previously posted Cymande mixtape) for 3 feet High and Rising’s “Change in Speak.”
And if you’re feeling that Mick Boogie mixtape, dude is in town tonight for a collab show with Peoples Republic of Clothing at the Baltic Room. Not sure all the details, but it is what it is.
Toast
10 Dec 09 at 10:01 am
Anybody heard that new song on the radio yet by some R&B singer that remixes De La’s “Ring Ring Ring”?? I hope De La got broken off for that.
wordlush
10 Dec 09 at 11:44 am