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Our third mix by the Beatnik Crew comes from our co-editor Sven. Don’t be fooled by the snoozy beginnings: this one is all-electronic and mostly uptempo. Tailored for your weekend.
And, as always: if you like any of the songs, please support the artists.
Tracklist
Lapalux – There Are Monsters in This Bed
Samiyam – Bedtime
Hudson Mohawke – No One Could Ever
tUnE-yArDs – Bizness
SBTRKT – Right Thing to Do ft. Jessie Ware
Mt. Wolf – Underground
Flying Lotus – Do the Astral Plane
Krystal Klear – Tried for Your Love
Chords & Timbuktu – Get Fizzy
Our daily recommendations are at the centre of what we do here at Beatnik. It’s our way of helping you discover new music whether old or new music.
Co-editor Ali Raymond drops the first ‘Beatnik Recommends mix’, a collection of those daily offerings.
“From instrumental to dub, hip hop to minimal electronic to electro-pop the mix shows the breath of music we champion. I hope you enjoy.” — Ali Raymond
DOWNLOAD the mix here.
Remember if you like any of the music featured please support the artists.
Tracklist
Shag – Cerulean
Drake – Underground Kings
Jono McCleery – Home
Rhythem & Sound feat. Cornel Campbell – King Of My Empire
Koreless – Lost In Tokyo
Jacques Green – Another Girl
Toro Y Moi – You Hid
Youth Lagoon – Daydream
College eat. Electric Youth – A Real Hero
From ambient electronic and glitch hop to electro funk and drum n Bass, another member of the California SENZU COLLECTIVE, rising producer RUPERT, drops this chilled instrumental mix of loops and digits — exclusively of course for Beatnik.
DOWNLOAD the mix here.
Rupert is William Macreynolds. Originally from San Francisco after playing in a few math rock bands and doing his fair share of djing he moved to Santa Barbara and hooked up with the Senzu Collective last august. He sights influences from Amon Tobin to Mf Doom to Zack Hill and is currently working on his debut tape due out sometime this or next month.
For more music from Rupert check his Soundcloud.
Tracklist
Rupert – Oh, Oh (LYTESHO REMIX)
Knxwledge – Pain
Lytesho & Rupert – Midnight BLue
Lytesho -Desert Arcade –
D33j – Drowning Pools
teebs – why like this
9th Wonder – Visionary
BMB space Kid – Change to your soul
Co.fee – Radio Play Rico Suave
PRefuse 73 – Choking You
Venetian Snares – Szamar Madar
Amon tobin – Surge (16 bit Remix)
J Dilla – Geek Down
Alecks & Kynes – Santi Santi
Tabacco – Hawker Boat
juj – Floater
Rupert – Nurse
Rupert – Only Thing To Do
Jewbei starts the first of our in house mixes dropping every friday.
A collection of Japanese rare grooves and funk from the late 70s and early 80s, oh how we love Jewbei.
DOWNLOAD the mix here.
Jewbei also happens to be a super cool producer too. For more of his music check his soundcloud.
Tracklist
Tatsuro Yamashita – Dancer
Minako Yoshida – Asa Ha Kun Ni
Kimiko Kasai – Love Celebration
Kiyoshi Sugimoto – Yeh! Boogie
Yasuko Agawa – LA Night
Masayoshi Takanaka – Disco B
Hiroshi Sato – Say Goodbye
Toshiki Kadomatsu – Step Into The Light
Tatsuro Yamashita – Love Talkin’
Masayoshi Takanaka – Chill Me Out
Hitomi Tohyama – Love Is The Competition
Chocolate Lips – Milk & Honey
Rapper and producer Asaviour, aka Savvy, is the next to offer this exclusive mix as part of our guest producer series.
A mixture of feel good hip hop, reggae, retro-pop and electronic selections, the infectious tracklist provides a unique insight into the talented musician’s musical inspirations.
Now on his third mixtape —Play To Win Vol 3. Adapt or Die, the northern inhabitant and adopted mayor of Huddlesfield has two award winning albums under his belt as well as the Play To Win series and of course that Savoir Faire EP.
DOWNLOAD mix here.
For more music and gravy flavours check Asaviour’s website.
Tracklist
Flora Purim – Dindi
Gil Scott-Heron- The Revolution…
Drake – ComeBack Season
Boss – Deeper
Althea & DonnaAlthea & Donna – Up Town Top Rankin’
A Tribe Called Quest – Award Tour
Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre – Ain’t Nothing But A G Thang
Roisin Murphy – Overpowered
N.E.R.D – She wants to Move
The Clash – Rock The Casbah
MGMT – Electric Feel
Bell Biv Devoe – Poison
The Pharcyde – On The DL
Jay Dee – Shake It Down
Volton Craggie (VC) – By His Deeds
Benga – 26 Basslines
Roots manuva – Witness (1 Hope)
De La Soul – Stakes Is High
Michael Jackson – Rock With You
Alan Hawkshaw – Chicken Man (Grange Hill Theme Tune)
Roni Size – Brown Paper Bag
Minnie Riperton – I Just Got To Be Free
Clipse – Grindin
Jay Electronica – Exhibit A (transformations)
Neneh Cherry – Buddy X
Daft Punk – Something About Us
Jay Z & Kanye West – Ni**as In Paris
Willy Wonka – Pure Imagination
Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire – Lou Ferigno’s Mad
OutKast – Stank Love
Talking Heads – Once in a lifetime
Willy Mason – Oxygen
One of our favourite electronic producers from last year, Alecks Auclair drops an exclusive mix just for us! (Download for free from player.)
Inspired by sounds of his youth, the mix is chilled electronica. With a retro touch and jumping between old and new its also includes some of Auclair’s home boys from his LA collective Senzu, including Kylorand, Eclectic, r1906, Andrew Aker. Pow.
Tracklist
Auqatic Ambience – Donkey Kong Country Soundtrack
Thank.yu – Alecks
Die 4 Me – RL Grime
Granted – Alecks
Telephone – Andrew Aker
Higher – Eclectic
Mbria Spirit – Juj
Hi.Lyfe – Aztlan & Kylorand
Vahilia – Ambassadeurs
Punish – Knxwledge
Lions On The Beach – Cloudboat
Crying in Your Face – AFX
Jibjab – R1906
North Star Guide – Alecks
Are You That Somebody (instrumental) – Aaliyah
Glad Your Here – Lapalux
Hanging on – Active Child
The Real Her ft. Andre 3000 & Lil Wayne – Drake
Fjord – Alecks
Old friend and talented producer, The Last Skeptik blesses Beatnik with this exclusive mix and download.
Blending all the best bits of hip hop, funk and soul we tend to represent his selection choice couldn’t be more supreme. Add to that the mix is taken all exclusively from vinyl, not a Serato in sight, it makes the goodness extra special.
With his dedication to old and new, we have come to love Skeptik over the years for the music he represents. And now with two pending albums dropping in 2012 we’re expecting big things from him this year. We’ve also been told there’s a super special announcement concerning those projects too, but mums the word for now.
Tracklist:
Spencer Davies Trio – I’m A Man
Kashmere Stage Band – Super Strut (Kay Dee mix)
David Joseph – Let’s Live It Up
Heatwave – The Groove Line
Vicki Anderson – Answer To Mother Popcorn
Quantic – Something That’s Real
Blue Mink – Stay with Me
The Free Design / Madlib – Where Did You go
El Michels Affair – CREAM
Visioneers – The World Is Yours
J Rawls – A Tribute to The Beatnuts
Erykah Badu – Honey
Madlib – Dream Scene 4
Dudley Perkins – Flowers
Little Brother – Dream Merchant
Dennis Bovell – Jazterpiece
Blooblo – Loose Baby Love
Rap nerds rejoice as Black Thought and Questlove from The Roots hit Hot97′s Juan Epstein podcast. Over an hour of music talk awaits right here.
D Styles and TOKiMONSTA (whom we’ve interviewed) have teamed up for a new Low End Theory podcast. Experiencing one of these nights in Los Angeles wouldn’t go amiss.
D Styles & TOKiMONSTA: Low End Theory Podcast
Stones Throw’s Mayer Hawthorne, due to release his second album How Do You Do on Universal this autumn, drops the fourth of his Mayer Radio episodes. Listen via iTunes.
Spice: Sweet Norma Jones
London Fog: Easy Mover
Unique Blend: Yes I’m In Love
Joe Bataan: Young, Gifted & Brown
Sun Ann Jones: I’ll Give You My Love
James Brown: Stoned To The Bone
Hall & Oates: Grounds For Separation
Bobby Taylor: I’ve Been Blessed
Mark Eric: Move With The Dawn
The Doobie Bros: Open Your Eyes
Todd Rundgren: Marlene
Stones Throw have a new podcast out. The label’s 65th episode was made by Mayer Hawthorne, a vocalist/dj/producer signed to the label.
The third instalment of Hawthorne Radio is a retro pick-and-mix, nicely joined by old advertisements.
Track list
Barbara McNair “Steal Away Tonight”
Barbara Randolph “You Got Me Hurtin’ All Over”
The Earles Inc “Let’s Try It Again”
The Vibrations “Wind Up Toy”
Tammi Terrell “This Old Heart Of Mine”
The Manhattans “I Call It Love”
The Ethics “Look At Me Now”
Brothers Of Soul “Try It Babe”
Little Carl Carlton “Drop By My Place”
Cheryl Williams “Everybody’s Happy But Me”
Barbara Mason “Half A Love”
Our favourite New York City radio hosts, Hot97’s Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg, have just unleashed a new episode of their informal, slightly chauvinistic podcast Juan Epstein (a Puerto-Rican and a Jew).
This time around, the duo are in the company of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo (N*E*R*D).
Entertaining listening as always. Download the episode here.
Stones Throw keep bringing us the goods, with Mr. 12 Man Rambo bringing us Bay Area hip-hop and rap on the latest episode of their podcast.
Get it over at iTunes and bump it!
Last Request
Phonte and DJ Brainchild have been entertaining the internet with their podcast Gordon Gartrell Radio since 2008.
Born entertainer Phonte chews the fat over instrumentals and DJ Brainchild spins anything from disco to funk to hip-hop and electronica.
Episode 17 of GGR is just out! Listen here: Gordon Gartrell Radio. UK listeners should be glad to hear that TY opens this show with his single Emotions!
