Free mixtape! As promised earlier today I had to turn over everything in my bedroom but I managed to find the master copy of my mixtape, phew, I had a feeling it had been chucked out. This is a 20 minute segment that I recorded for the third installment of DJ Sirvere’s underground hip hop mixtape series ‘Sirvere Punishment’ which was released in April 2004. Phil was on the first Hook Up tour at the time I recorded my segment so he lent me his digital 4-track, I learnt how to use it and progressively recorded my mix over the course of three days. The 4-track recorded to zip disk and I had no idea how to convert that to CD so I had to get P-Money to help me with that before I couriered my finished mix to Phil’s accomodation in the Palmerston North leg of the tour.

I tried to fit as much as I could into the 20 minutes so I mixed between the joints fairly quickly, also the zip disks could only hold 30 minutes of recording time, I used heaps of it up at the start with my turntablist shit so I had to lay off the tricky shit towards the end of the mix LOL. I basically tried to make a mixtape that sounded like the late nineties turntablist DJs that inspired me like Vinroc, Melo D, J-Rocc and Babu. Enough ranting from me anyway here’s the intro to the mixtape and if you wanna hear the rest hit the download link below it. Enjoy

DOWNLOAD: DJ Mouli ‘Sirvere Punishment 3′ mixtape [zShare]

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Bit late for the bandwagon on this one (Kanye posted this last week) but fuck it - Weng Weng is the man…

DJ Vinroc was one of my favourite DJs in the late nineties and the turn of the century so I was stoked yesterday when I found that TSS did a post about Vinroc’s classic mixtape from ‘97 ‘Recon-Struction’. For those that don’t know Vinroc was the ITF world champion two years in a row in ‘97 and ‘98, he’s a member of the 5th Platoon that included Roli Rho, DJ Daddy Dog (check for his Tribe Vibes mixtape) and one of my favourite mixtape DJs of recent time Neil Armstrong, he also later formed Triple Threat with Apollo and Shortkut (both originally ISP members) who had a well deserved reputation for tearing up parties. He was also one of the first DJs that I could remember from the east coast that could scratch on par with his west coast counterparts who were running shit at the time, thus he was the only DJ featured on Q-Bert’s ‘Wave Twisters’ album that wasn’t an ISP member.

Back to the mixtape anyway, Recon-Struction was made when the turntablist culture, which was big at the time, influenced how mixtapes were made, it was all about a DJs skill at selecting, mixing, blending, juggling and scratching (none of that yelling over a rusty MP3 shit that passes for a mixtape these days). Head over to TSS to peep Vinroc’s interview where he discusses making Recon-Struction and provides a download link

It was DJs and mixtapes like Vinroc that influenced the DJ that I later became. You’ve probably all heard the mixtape me and Truent recently made for Dave by now… well I’m gonna be extra generous and dig in my vaults to bring you my favourite mixtape production, I did a 20 minute segment on DJ Sirvere’s ‘Sirvere Punishment 3′ from a few years ago that I was really proud of that I wanna share with ya. I’ve just gotta find where I put the CD, LOL, I’ve got a master copy of it stashed away somewhere haha, stay tuned…

Well that’s what I was asking myself a couple hours ago after downloading this new Rick Ross and Jay track. A google search later and I came across this interview with them on Allhiphop. Ho-ly, I dont know what the rest of their material is like but between this track with Hov and this other one with Weezy, Jeezy, and Trick that came out yesterday - I’m sold. Both of these are the sheeeeeit, this sorta production is right up my alley. And is that this sample again on Luxury Tax ? Mean.

Rick Ross feat Jay Z - Maybach Music

Rick Ross feat Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, Trick Daddy - Luxury Tax

NR Propers

Okay this vid is actually about DJ Khalil, but in it he plays a new track he’s working with Nas on for Nigger. This beat is kicking my ass right now. It sounds a lot like two of Khalil’s other recent beats Bishop Lamont’s On Top Now and 50’s I’ll Still Kill… I dunno how to describe the sound but its pretty distinct. The video is interesting also for Khalil’s thoughts on sampling and how he uses Reason in his beatmaking. Nas doesn’t come as hard on the track as I was hoping on the snippet, so I hope the final version’s iller. Check it out…

EDIT: Ok apparently it’s not gonna be on Nigger, probably because Nas is a dumb cunt and would rather have some Jermaine Dupri beats. Shot bro.

Funnily enough Smitty was just asking whether someone had done a ‘Just Blaze’ in the Estelle thread. Turns out, Just Blaze has recently done a Just Blaze for this 08 version of The Light by Common.

I aint hating on Just whatsoever though, because pretty much every sample he has supposedly ‘jacked’ off someone else, he has killed 10 times better(yes the P.S.A beat fucks up that Blackmoon song). Anyways I rather like this Common track, but it basically ended up serving as a reminder of how much I like that sample in this Lupe Fiasco song. This song is pretty much the sole reason I started checking for Lupe, and is the only reason I continue to check for him as I dont like 90% of his stuff (smh @ The Cool). Who you’s reckon flipped the sample better ?

Common - The Light 08

Lupe Fiasco - Steady Mobbin

I have to admit I slept on this joint at first, I first peeped it on Concrete Loop in early January (which was at the height of my summer school stress ha), it wasn’t until Dave put me on to it last week that I realised how dope this song is. The beat is too ill and Kanye kills it, but I’ll leave that up to Dave to break down for y’all. Peep the video below, big ups to TSS…

Ha, I havent stopped listening to this song since discussing it with Slick prior to his when collabs go bad post. For those that didnt previously have it, here is the worst Jay Z verse of all time for your listening pleasure.

‘Bounce, bounce’

Juvenile feat Jay Z - Ha (remix)

Yo, I brilliantly just embeded my new video “Moonlight” below. Its hosted on this new site I’ma put you on to… Youtube (also check google.com for all searching needs). Shouts to Jonathan Gerard on the direction buzz.

Also, if you want to watch it on another site just for shits and giggles, check my new blog Slick Talk (we be pluggin’!). Don’t get it twisted though, its still Shot Then till the casket drops.