Design

As you may know, I prefer my music mixed. To me, it adds to the experience. It’s like a musical prix fixe, if you will. I’ve done a couple of mixes so far, but decided to get a little more ambitious with this one.

Download all 4 sets as a zip archive.

The idea behind this one was to build four different hour long mixes that would correspond to what I’d want to hear during different stages of an evening.

01 bar: old school beer drinkin’ jams

1. Eric B. & Rakim - Juice (Know The Ledge) [MCA]
2. Ice-T - New Jack Hustler (Nino’s Theme) [Sire]
3. Big Daddy Kane - Set It Off [Cold Chillin']
4. Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock - Joy and Pain [BMG]
5. Salt ‘N’ Pepa - Push It [Polygram]
6. Eric B. & Rakim - Follow The Leader [MCA]
7. Big Daddy Kane - Raw [Warner Bros]
8. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full (The Coldcut Remix) [Fourth & Broadway]
9. PM Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss [Gee Street]
10. EPMD - Strictly Business [Fresh]
11. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Mistadobalina [Elektra]
12. Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours [Mercury]
13. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton [Ruthless/Priority]
14. L.L. Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out [Def Jam]
15. Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It [Def Jam]
16. Gang Starr - Who’s Gonna Take The Weight [Cool Tempo]
17. Nice & Smooth - Sometimes I Rhyme Slow [Rush Associated]
18. Lake Trout - Sounds from Below [SNS]

02 dancefloor: breaks into blissed out house

1. Sia - Breathe Me [Caroline/Astralwerks]
2. Future Sound of London - Papau New Guinea [Jumpin' & Pumpin']
3. DJ WHO - Shitty Samples on Acid [Defective]
4. DJ Big Red - Weed on Friday [Baltimore Breakbeat]
5. DJ WHO - In D’Faze (Street Knowledge Mix) [Shaken Not Stirred]
6. Armand Van Helden featuring Team Facelift - Shake That Ass (Original Mix) [Southern Fried]
7. Major Lazer featuring VYBZ Kartel - Pod de floor [Downtown]
8. Kaskade - Sweet Love [Om]
9. Miguel Mix - Days of Color [Naked Music]
10. Kaskade - Everything (Big Room Mix) [Om]
11. Deep Dish - Say Hello (Extended Mix) [Deep Dish]
12. Armand Van Helden featuring Roland Clark - Flowerz [FFRR]
13. Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again (Bay City Beat Mix) [Art of Mix]
14. Jungle Brothers - I’ll House You [Warner Black]

03 afterhours: dirty, sexy, and deep. time to get down.

1. Kings of Tomorrow - Rain [Defected]
2. Kerry Chandler - Back To The Raw [Deeply Rooted House]
3. Funky Green Dogs - Fired Up! (Album Mix) [Twisted America]
4. Liberty City - Some Lovin’ (Murk Mix) [Murk]
5. Coral Way Chiefs - Release Myself [Murk]
6. Liberty City - If You Really Love Someone (Original Mix) [Murk]
7. The Fog - Been a Long Time (Original Club Mix) [Downtown]
8. Boris Dlugosch - Keep Pushin’ (Murk Monster Mix) [Manifesto]
9. Pete Moss - R U Serious [Worship]
10. Boris Dlugosch - Hold Your Head Up High (Julian Jonah’s Bad Boy Mix) [Realtime]
11. Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar (Armand’s Dark Garage Mix) [Virgin America]
12. The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M.- It’s Gonna Be a Lovely Day (Dub House Mix) [BMG Victor]
13. Hardrive - Deep Inside (Original Mix) [UMM]
14. Funky Green Dogs - Reach for Me (Murk Mix) [Murk]
15. Miguel Migs - Petalpushing [NRK]
16. Steve Winwood - The Finer Things [Island]

04 chill: a melange of eclectic downtempo tracks for comtemplating just about anything.

1. Thievery Corporation - 2001 Spliff Odyssey [ESL]
2. Depeche Mode - Useless (The Kruder & Dorfmeister Session) [Reprise/Mute]
3. Vanessa Daou - Two to Tango [MCA]
4. Massive Attack - Hymn of the Big Wheel [Virgin]
5. Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine [Capitol]
6. Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps [Virgin]
7. The KLF - Wichita Lineman Was a Song I Once Heard [TVT]
8. Lamb - Gabriel [Koch]
9. Depeche Mode - Leave in Silence [Reprise/Mute]
10. Pink Floyd - Mother [Capitol]
11. Dave Matthews Band - Christmas Song [Bama Rags]

Enjoy!

I can’t even explain how spot on this is. The premise is that stop signs have not been invented yet. and that they are “being designed” by a group of marketing people from a major corporation.  Imagine me as that designer.  You can see why I am not a very good account guy.

Brillant.

Absolutely brilliant.