Booty House: Part 1

A recent post on the Holler Board has got me thinking about all the old bootleg house records I have. Now I am not talking about some Booty Love terrible cover of Lucy Pearl (side note: how could they butcher this so badly?? Mood II Swing had already made the definitive house version!). I am talking about some grimey, boompety boomp house. The sound championed by Derrick Carter, Honey Dijon and the like.
I will do a couple of posts on this as it was my preferred brand of house for a while.
Enjoy!

Ol Yello
I Am Music (No Assembly Required Mix)
Mona Lisa (Reverend Bloo Mix)

Grime Time

So, I have a love/hate relationship with grime. It varies wildly between groundbreaking artists (your Dizzee's, Kano's, Sway's etc) and what can only be described as kids from my local estate shouting about their 'ends'. However in the middle of these two sides there is a wealth of good tracks. I recently picked up this compilation put out by Channel U and thought I would share some of the highlights with you. Enjoy!

The Frontlinerz-Down

Tinie Tempah-Hood Economics

NDubz VS Naa-NDubs VS Naa

Roll Deep-Celebrate

Wong-Not A Hater

Don't Forget To Get Funky

VS

Finally got this to a pretty much finished state last night...
Hwen Rascale - Don't Forget to Get Funky
a mash up/blend/bootleg (whatever you want to call it) of Patrice Rushen's Forget Me Nots with C & C Music Factory's Do You Want To Get funky.

Enjoy!

It's So Easy.....Liking House?

Maybe it's the recent trend of good weather....(it's about time!)...maybe it's that this is a great tune...(it is)...but the combination of both has me really feeling house music at the moment.

I used this track in my latest mix (see my last post ), if only all house music was this good!

DJ Spen & The Muthafunkaz Feat. Ann Nesby-It's So Easy

Promo Mix

Here is a promo mix that I put together for a bar/club. As the picture shows they also have people eating there so they were adamant that there be no hip-hop or thug music on there and definitely none of that scratchy business! (The sacrifices us working DJ's make are many)...Anyway, I thought it turned out OK in the end...nothing fancy just a mix in 3 parts to demonstrate some of the different styles that I could play for them. So here it is for you all to enjoy, no tricks just simple mixing to let the tunes speak for themselves:

Promo Mix-Part 1
Lucy Pearl-Don't Mess With My Man
Hall & Oates Vs Pharell-I Can't Go Frontin' For That (Hwen's Special Blend)
Nu Shooz-I Can't Wait
Timex Social Club-Rumors

Promo Mix-Part 2
Endgames-Ecstacy
Roy Ayres-Hot (Rascale's Extended Mix)
Kelis-80's Joint
Tweet-Boogie Tonight (Mr K Re-Edit)
De La Soul-Keepin The Faith (Straight Pass Mix)

Promo Mix-Part 3
Gladys Knight-Bourgie Bourgie
Unlimited Touch-I Hear Music In The Streets (Rascale's Mixable Re-Edit)
DJ Gregory-Don't Know Malendro
DJ Spen Feat. Ann Nesby-It's So Easy
The Braxtons-The Boss (Kenlou Mix)

I Hear An Edit In The Streets...

I was working on a new mix this weekend and really wanted to include Unlimited Touch-'I Hear Music In The Streets'. Unfortunately the intro/outro was driving me mad and just not working with the mix. So I set myself down and made this quick re-edit: 8bar intro before the vocals kick in and a 16 bar outro with a fade out.
Unlimited Touch-I Hear Music In The Streets (Rascale's Mixable Re-Edit)

I will be posting the finished mix soon!

To Be In Love Part 3

And finally in all it's 12 minute glory...we have the original 12'' full length mix. A more perfect slice of vocal house you will not find. Enjoy!
MAW-To Be In Love (12'' Full Mix)