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Live at the Future Primitive Soundsession, Vol. 2
: :Like its predecessor, this installment in the Live at the Future Primitive Soundsession series features two DJs on five turntables in a live performance at a San Francisco club. Z-Trip and Radar might not be quite as well-known as Cut Chemist (Ozomatli, Jurassic 5) or Shortkut (Invisibl Skratch Piklz), but that doesn't make them any less impressive on the turntables. In fact, their set--built around a lot of classic rock (Aerosmith's 'Sweet Emotion,' Rush's 'Tom Sawyer') and hip-hop (Black Sheep's 'This or That,' LL Cool J's 'Rock the Bells,' and many ...
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Global Underground: San Francisco
:Album Description:Welsh trance DJ's 1999 offering. 26 tracks on 2 CDs, including 6 previously unreleased tracks, Medway- 'Ressurection EP', 'Sneaky Alien-'Bluestream',Narcotik -'Blue', Jark Prong-'Movin' Thru Your System', Lumin atus-'Hope' & Tilt-'I Dream'. Slimline double jewel case housed in a slipcase. 16 page booklet. 's Best of 1999:With pure, transcendental dance-floor ecstasy, Sasha's patient mixes and cosmic samples on this double-CD set establish him as one of the best DJs on the planet. Finding the twists and turns among the endlessly inventive rhythms and mind-blowing sample transitions here is an essential journey ...
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Since I Left You
: :The Avalanches are a much-feted six-man crew of sample addicts from Australia whose debut album, Since I Left You, is a bargain-bin vinyl throwback to the Daisy Age. This album is constructed like a mix tape and calculated to tweak the dance floor. Snatches of familiar rhythms bubble up throughout, giving the record a comfortable lived-in feel but also betraying the fact that the group hasn't dug very far through the crates to source their raw material. There's little doubt that this kind of sample reconstruction has become standard fare for ...
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Lyricist Lounge, Vol. 1
: :New York City's Lyricist Lounge parties are to hip-hop what the Apollo Theater was to soul: the place where young, hungry talent goes to be discovered. This double-disc set features some of the best and hungriest young rappers of 1998, along with some old-timers and ringers--KRS-One, sure, but Rage Against the Machine's Zack De La Rocha?--coming along to egg on the kids and preserve their cred. The hit is Mos Def's 'Body Rock,' with Q-Tip doing his best Urkel act; elsewhere, there's a lot of Wu worship. But the acts that ...
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Peanut Butter Wolf presents Chrome Children (CD with DVD)
:Album Description:Adult Swim and Stones Throw Records collaborate on an album with all-new tracks from Madvillain, J Dilla, Madlib, Quasimoto and more, with a DVD containing a live performance headlined by MF DOOM.
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Modern Mantra
:Album Description:Adult Swim and Stones Throw Records collaborate on an album with all-new tracks from Madvillain, J Dilla, Madlib, Quasimoto and more, with a DVD containing a live performance headlined by MF DOOM.
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Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series Mastermix
:Album Description:Adult Swim and Stones Throw Records collaborate on an album with all-new tracks from Madvillain, J Dilla, Madlib, Quasimoto and more, with a DVD containing a live performance headlined by MF DOOM.
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Xen Cuts
: :Released as a tribute to the fact that Coldcut's legendary Ninja Tune imprint had been releasing records for a decade, this collection showcases the label's rich array of artists. Though assembled in the same spirit as the seminal Ninja Cuts series, comprising a mixture of back catalog and material exclusive to the compilation, a crafty alteration of the title acts as a nod to the 10 years since Bogus Order's 'Zen Brakes' first fought its way onto a turntable. From the Steinski intro, the track listing of the first of two ...
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Ahead Of The Curve
: :Collected tracks not commonly available featuring Lateef The Truth Speaker, an integral part of the Solesides collective, closely associated with Blackalicious & DJ Shadow, Latryx, Lifesavas, Poets of Rhythm, perhaps best know for his chart-topping singles with Fatboy Slim 'That Old Pair of Jeans' and 'Wonderful Night'. This collection features original production and remixes by DJ Z-Trip, arguably the first 'mash-up' DJ, who has collaborated with Murs, Lyrics Born, Busdriver, Supernatural, others, and who was featured in the 2001 documentary 'Scratch'. Guests on this CD include DJ Shadow, Chali 2na ...
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Anti-Theft Device
: :Mix Master Mike is a world-champion turntable battler, and it shows on his debut recording. The first half is full of furious high-energy scratching, complete with cartoon imagery and bratty jokes; it's an old-school hip-hop party that takes place in the Beastie Boys' 'hood. It's entirely appropriate that Mike, one of San Francisco's famed Invisibl Skratch Piklz, contributes to three tracks on the Beasties' Hello Nasty and replaces DJ Hurricane in their live show; they share a manic energy. But the second half of Anti-Theft Device offers some smoother, contemplative tracks--it's ...
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