MISSION CARTEL LIVE ON THE RADIO

Megamix live on the radio Fall of Twenty-One-Omega courtesy of DJ CIKEE & KPFA's (Berkeley) annual fundraiser.

Mission Cartel (DJs Quest (BPSH) & 2 Fresh) is joined by SF's DJ B-Cause for an hour & 15 minutes of the future funk, great hip-hop, enjoy it burnouts! And find more of the like at DJ2fresh.com

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Photos (from top to bottom):

DJ 2 Fresh gets biz on a serious stack

DJ Quest: Scratch Innovator

Mixmaster DJ B. Cause

MEGAKUT RADIO #1

Here’s a non-progressive, retroactive, radio-style mix from our friends over at Megakut. What’s impressive is that it captures the vintage sound quality that was signature for the time period. When people, not directly involved in the scene that created it, first experienced this “electro-megamix-style-rap” music back in the late-80’s it was usually via some radio station that you could barely tune in or off a seventh-generation cassette of the same radio show. This is getting closer and closer to how it was. You just turned it up loud and listened to the bass! Sound like a weak excuse for having fucked up records? You may be right, Fletch. If you were born after ’79, it probably can’t help but sound fucked up. Not my problem, you need to obey the Mistress of Boom and just "Let It Go".

MEGAKUT RADIO #1: “PLAY LOUD IN A RESIDENTIAL AREA”

THE UNKNOWN DJ—“808 BEATS (club mix)”—Techno Hop—Produced by Andre Manuel

MCS OF RAP—“THIS IS THE JAM”—Rap Records—Produced by DJ Cox and Cool CP

YOLE BOYS—“SPREAD THOSE CHEEKS”—Megakut—Produced by Fatees

KYNA ANTEE (AKA THE MISTRESS)—“LET IT GO”—Techno Kut—Produced by Unknown DJ and Arabian Prince

DJ BATTERY BRAIN—“808 VOLT MIX”—Techno Hop—Produced by Unknown

DJ SLICE & KOOL ROCK JAY—“SLICE IT UP”—Dunk Yer Funk—Produced by L. Ramsey & M. Brown

JUNKIN' WITH JERRY...

This is a guest post from our cohort out in Chico, CA, Hardcore Jerry (AKA Heathakilla)... the man is simply an excavator extrordinaire! Reap the junk whirlwind! Oh, yeah and this is one in a series of three, so be checkin' for the next two, yo...

i went to oroville today and bought some records. i did better then last time, which was the time i copped the kimmy fresh and the people cassette that white$auce was rolling with at the farewell to the ranch party, and the sound effects record that steel pole bath tub ripped off (or was it a tribute) the cover for a miracle of sound in motion. the best part of oroville though was stopping by a yard sale in the historic looking part near downtown and looking at some of the remarkable things that were for sale. including a amateur's framed "painting"(one or two colors, maybe pen, i was embarrassed to look too close) of a girl in a bustier with her nipples exposed. likely a vehicle to get the "model" undressed. and a a-frame bar sidewalk chalk board sign that still had st. patrick's day drink specials chalked on it. i was told the good stuff is up in the yard, where a teenager was selling off some of his bebee guns, baseball cards, and knives. the topic of conversation in the yard was how good something he was selling, that i couldn't see, would be to beat somebody up with. as i left empty handed i noticed two large ladies in a nearby apartment chatting, observing the yard sale, and keeping watch over there young kids. it looked like they were about ready for refills on their quarts of miller high-life. it was about nine in the morning. oroville is pretty fucking real. i haven't checked many of the records yet but i got: -i'm ready by kano for about 40 cents (and some other promising looking disco)-lyn christopher for a dollar at thrift mart. that place is fucking raw...thrift store slash food that fell off trucks market. i wanted to go to the soul food place across the street but was scared by the proximity and the 99 cent special advertised in the window. -and a hopefully better copy of the willis alan ramsey lp i already have and like-no rap, but a couple of things that look really good even though i haven't listened yet. i'll try to get a couple of mp3's up of some of the highlightsnext week....red bluff(?)

here are a couple of disco mixes i couldn't find anything out about on google. there is quite a bit of surface noise on each of them which just makes me think about how ugly a oroville disco party could get. one is labeled fusion disco. i'm not sure if it is related to the fusion record label in sf because i also found the menergy 12 inch on that label.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/61967792d3f90137/

the other is labeled hollywood disco sound and is mixed by ben and benny.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/61967935c4686ad8/

i think these are kind of cool just to hear what the pre rap dj's were doing. other then that though disco isn't really my thing.

there is some info about these on discogs, but it won't tell you about the sweet grandma who sold them to me in the shop where "we like loitering" and encouraged it by offering cold water to drink and a thomas kinkade puzzle to work on.

EDDIE DEF: KING OF THE MEGAMIX

Years upon years before the term "mash up" was half heartedly jizzed out by some lame ass pop culture parasite, DJ Eddie Def was tucked away in his Mission District home studio delicately layering 50's doo wop over Hashim's relentless 808's. He had a vision. Double Dee & Steinski gave us the outline, but Eddie hit that shit every which way. Just peep this latest installment of his mandatory podcast, K.I.T.T.Y. Radio #2:

I / II

Eddie rockin' the MPC:

PE & BDP MEET TT: COMIN' CORRECT IN 88

Bought this off the ebay machine. Not sure what the origin of it is. The seller was guessing these may be radio tapes pressed on wax and labeled the disc himself after some research. There are 4 tracks but only 2 were rugged enough for Ripped Open. Public Enemy's "Bring The Noise" sounds like the skeleton of an unfinished megamix while BDP's "My Philosophy gets the Latin Rascals splice style edit.

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WHERE IN THE WORLD IS DJ PRINCE ICE?

Here's a nice megamix from 1988 on Megajamm Recordz by the mysterious "DJ Prince Ice". My money's on Prince Ice being fake name so King Tech and his homies (Mark 5 who produced a grip of tracks on Dre Dog's "I Hate You With a Passion" album and Big Ed who has a pretty eclectic resume) wouldn't get sued for pillaging all the tracks necessary to make "Dopemix Vol. 1". What sets this mix apart from other megamixes of the time is the sheer amount of scratching. This ain't no Latin Rascals tape splicing mix here, this is real DJs cutting wax over an unwavering 808 pattern. While it does include many megamix staples "Prince Ice" gets some dirt under his nails dropping snippets of Ice T's "Colors" and G Rap's "Poison". There is a distinct Bay Area sound to this mix that many listeners outside the 415 (I'm talking pre 510) may not catch. File this one next to your Flynamic Force and In-A-Minute Records.

Dopemix Vol. 1

TALES FROM THE OUTHOUSE

The bathroom at my house was being remodeled for the past six weeks. I had no shower and had to shit in a port-o-potty in my drive way. The side of my house that the port-o-potty sat on gets direct sunlight for a majority of the day. Shit was definitely not pleasant! My studio was sealed off with plastic and almost everything else in the house was stashed away or covered up in one form or another. Having my house in such disarray pretty much killed any creative urges I got during the last month and I really slacked off on pretty much everything and just tried to maintain sanity. They finally finished work on it last week. The same day they put my toilet back I retreated to the lab and put a real nice beat together like it was nothing.

In the meantime, Luke Sick and I have been putting the finishing touches on the first Grand Invincible album, "Ask the Dust", Jake Won and I are working on putting together a new podcast-style mix show, and Funeral Shock is working on a new self released 4 song 7" that will come out early next year.

Since I haven't posted in a bit I'll drop this megamix 12" I picked on a weekend dig a few weeks back. Juanito and DJ EFX worship at the altar of "Planet Rock" circa 1989. Props to Uncle Enrique!
Juanito (FX) - Don't Stop The Mix b/w Cold In Effect, Sound EFX Recordings, 1989

Don't Stop The Mix

Cold In Effect

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