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Shoutouts to DJ Smutlee for putting out a dancehall mixtape that’s actually worthy of blogging. It’s a been a minute.
The London club DJ, mixtape maker, & blend specialist does what he does best on this 61-minute mix, which features a bunch of new jams, a couple tried a true classics and smattering of original mashups. Smutlee has made quite a name for himself in the moombahton scene lately, but it’s good to see that he’s still as keen on the dancehall as ever. Hope y’all enjoy this one as much as I do. It’s on steady bump. Hit the jump for the massive tracklist.
This one goes out to all our good people in Seattle: the team here at Last Night’s Mixtape is excited to announce the first installment of Soundsystem, our new night at Moe Bar.
This Friday the 13th (auspicious, no?), we’re turning Moe Bar into a family affair. And by “family affair” I – naturally – mean “LNM massive,” with Tang and Toast on the decks, Praxis and Wordlush hosting and toasting, and Krieg kissing babies (elect the man already, eh?).
We’re looking forward to having a regular showcase of the very best of the music you get here on Last Night’s Mixtape, (along with a healthy dose of the stuff we love too much to let out into the wilds of the internet), as well as a platform to put on some of the homies from around the country and the world whose music and skills are giving today’s music its tick.
And because we love ya, the night is free – you just show up looking proper, ready to move yourself right, and we’ll provide the bass and inspiration. Not a bad deal.
Details below – as always feel free to hit us up with questions, comments, free music via Twitter (@lstnghtsmxtp) or via “electronic mail” – lastnightsmixtape(at)gmail(dot)com. WORD.
Last Night’s Mixtape presents: Soundsystem
Friday May 13th – 9 pm
Moe Bar – 1425 10th Ave, Seattle, USA
No cover
Our very own Wordlush recently contributed a dancehall top ten list for LargeUp, one of my favorite (should be your favorite too) Caribbean culture and music blogs out there. It’s a great list, and I suggest that you check it out. I even got my two cents in there, as the homie consulted with me on some of his choices. But, don’t get it twisted, this list is all Wordlush’s doing. And, in fact, he’s been trying to get me to post my own top ten dancehall/reggae list here on LxNxM for several days now. So, I know that this is a few days into to 2011 already, but after much deliberation, here’s my top ten for 2010 (in no particular order). For a truly exhaustive run-down of dancehall music and culture in 2010, you should go over to Kiss my Teeth/Imagelala. Our homegirl Erin Hansen absolutely killed the year-end round up.
Vybz Kartel ft. Russian – “Straight Jeans and Fitted”
Any song that makes t-shirts and jeans sound fashionable is a good one in my book. It also makes me feel a lot better about the way I dress. What can I say? I’m lazy.
No, this has nothing to do with Justin Timberlake. So chill out, man.
Christopher Birch (left), best known for his work with reggae megastar Shaggy and often regarded as one of the best producers in the dancehall game, just released this monster of a riddim. It’s synthy and hypnotic – a simple yet deadly combination. Although Busy and Vybz have already had their way with this tune, I have a feeling that more heavyweights are going to want to take their turn before the year’s end. Peep the sampler below. If you like what you hear, hit the jump for some downloadable treats.
Here’s an early Halloween treat for you, courtesy of New York’s Subatomic Sound and Kingston, Jamaica’s People’s Records.
The Vampires & Informers mini-album is the first in a series that teams up dancehall’s biggest deejays with electronic and experimental producers from around the globe. Originally a top selling limited edition 7″ vinyl recorded with Sly & Robbie back at Kingston’s Black Scorpio studios, “Vampires & Informers” has been resurrected and refixed for your bloodsucking entertainment by producers Subatomic Sound System, Dubblestandart, Stereotyp, Ming (of Ming&FS), & Kush Arora.
Halloween novelty value aside, this is good stuff. Stream and/or download the excellent sampler mix below. If you like what you hear, you should purchase it here.
Elephant Man – Vampires & Informers (Emch’s Subatomic Soundboy Burial Mini-Mix) FREE DOWNLOAD by SubatomicSound
Brooklyn Selector Iron Lyon put together this hour-long mix of classic and contemporary dancehall jams about a month ago, but it seems to just now be making it’s rounds on the internets. I found it over at artist/director/designer Va$htie’s blog while Googling around for a recently-dropped mixtape to satiate my dancehall craving, which has been pretty strong as of late.
You see, a couple of weeks ago, just before a DJ set, I dropped and broke a portable hard drive that contained damn near my entire reggae collection. I was still able to play a short set from the few songs I had on my laptop’s hard drive, but it was not the set I had planned for that night. After taking it to a couple of data recovery places, it became apparent that my reggae (and all the other beautiful music I had amassed over the years onto that drive) was unrecoverable and gone forever. Hence, I’ve been missing my music. A lot.
Thankfully, Iron Lyon and I have similar taste in dancehall. It’s a small consolation, but it makes me feel a little better to at least hear someone else mix this music.
Download Inna Dancehall Stylee here. Tracklist after the jump.
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Craig Parks, a.k.a. Leftside, a.k.a. Dr. Evil is coming through Seatown on his Left Coast Tour with The Federation Sound‘s own Max Glazer this Thursday night. The split personality Jamaican deejay and his Brooklyn-based selector, best known as Rihanna’s DJ, will be blessing the crowd at Aura with some of the nastiest dancehall riddims that Seattle has ever witnessed. I’ll be honest with y’all – I don’t usually fuck with Pioneer Square. But that doesn’t mean that I’m gonna sleep on this show. Bona fide dancehall artistes are, after all, a rare commodity in this part of the country. Plus, remember Wicked and Wild Thursdays at the now defunct War Room? Yup, this show is brought to you by the same dudes that used to bring the dancehall heat to Capitol Hill every week. Apparently, the homies Soul One and dem officially moved Wicked and Wild to Aura months ago, and it still goes down every Thursday. Shit, now that I know that Seattle’s only real dancehall night is still crackin and it’s in Pioneer Square, I might not be able to say “I don’t usually fuck with Pioneer Square” much longer.
Peep some Leftside and Max Glazer tunes, visuals and links after the jump.
Skratch Bastid and The Rub’s Cosmo Baker were rehearsing for their Let’s Build performance the other day, and somewhere along the way Cosmo decided to start fuckin with the beat to the new Dipset joint, “Speakin’ in Tongues.” Skratch Bastid threw Cutty’s classic acapella over it and “instantly smoke filled the room and an airhorn sounded from the distance.” The rest is mashup history.
Stream and/or download this magical musical mishmash below, but be mindful of where you are when you hit play. You definitely don’t want to play this song too loud in the office, unless, of course, your boss is cool with ganja smoke and airhorns at the workplace.
(On a somewhat related sidenote, have you peeped the free hip hop hisotry mixtapes that they’ve been droppin’ over at The Rub? If you haven’t, you really got get up on that. For real.)
Word on the streets (and by streets I really mean blogs) is that Jahdan Blakkamoore is putting the finishing touches on his upcoming album, Babylon Nightmare. No release date has been announced yet, but while we anxiously await the return of our favorite genrebending, Guyanese-Brooklynite singjay we have the Global Warning! podcast/mixtape to hold us down.
This mix was put together by Digital Ancient for Lustre Kings, the record label behind Turbulence, Lutan Fyah, and now Jahdan, as a little preview of what’s to come on the LP. After only a couple of rotations, I’m ready to for some full-length tracks – especially the Eek-A-Mouse sampling, “Down in the Ghetto.”
Peep the tracklist and a little BTS video after the jump. Happy Solstice, suckas!
(via Large Up)
