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I am about to send off the video mixtape I've been working on for the past 3-4 days for a William & Mary mixtape exchange I joined a little while ago. Above is a peak at the final product. I made the tape by splicing YouTube videos together in iMovie. I could have opted for something more professional (i.e. Final Cut Pro) but I feel the cheesiness of iMovie almost makes it better. The tracklist is as follows. If you'd like a copy shoot me an email or something.
1. DJ Laz - Journey Into Bass
2. Inner City - Good Life
3. Roger Troutman feat. EPMD - Get Up
4. 2 Hyped Brothers & A Dog - Doo Doo Brown
5. Schoolly D - I Don't Like Rock & Roll
6. Dazz Band - Let It All Blow
7. D-Mob feat. LRS - Time To Get Funky
8. Farley Jackmaster Funk - Love Can't Turn Around
9. Shannon - Let The Music Play
10. Fast Eddie feat. Sundance - Git On Up
11. Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock - It Takes Two
12. Dizzee Rascal - Old Skool
13. 504 Boyz - Wobble, Wobble
14. DJ Kizzy Rock - Yeah! Shawty, Yeah
15. Missy Elliot - The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
16. Jodeci - Freek'n You
I don't feel that this would necessarily come as a surprise to anyone, but I am a huge fan of early house music and my appreciation for the genre is constantly growing. The Soul Jazz compilation "Acid: Can You Jack?" which focuses on the experimental side of acid house has been on heavy rotation in addition to a 15-CD Chicago House box set my roommate downloaded, which is really primo stuff. In the past two days, I've probably spent 8 or so hours that could have been better allocated to studying for finals or writing final papers messing around with Propellerhead's ReBirth (an old school emulator for the TB303, TR808, and TR909) making beats that sound like Phuture trax. In short, I'm kind of an acieed freak!
So I got to thinking, "What is the best way to introduce other to the wonders of acieed?" I came across the answer in the form of a mixtape I had downloaded awhile back from Dalston Oxfam Shop, a blog run by a record store in UK where they post a digital copy of a cassette tape mix each week. While admittedly, this tape is NOT acieed house in the purest sense(although "Acieed!" is the title of the mixtape), it is a really good mixtape of post-acid proto-deep house type stuff, and definitely takes a lot of influence from acieed's 303 squirms and simplistic 808 beats. Plus, you get the added bonus of lofi hum from the cassette tape conversion. Give it a listen!
Acieed! Tape, Side A
Acieed! Tape, Side B
Almost universally regarded as the defining mixtape of microhouse, Michael Mayer's Immer compilation is an exploration of the genre from its roots in 1990s Basic Channel dub minimal techno to the glitchy broken house of artists like Montreal's Akufen. If you have the ability to acquire the mix in its entirety, I highly suggest doing so.Audision - Gamma Limit
Frank Martiniq - Adriano (M. Mayer Remix)
I am about to send off the video mixtape I've been working on for the past 3-4 days for a William & Mary mixtape exchange I joined a little while ago. Above is a peak at the final product. I made the tape by splicing YouTube videos together in iMovie. I could have opted for something more professional (i.e. Final Cut Pro) but I feel the cheesiness of iMovie almost makes it better. The tracklist is as follows. If you'd like a copy shoot me an email or something.
