Category: mixtapes

Sety in the mix at Kontrol SF tonight

Not sure if I’m going to make it down tonite. My excuse is too many tasters among the fine wines of Calistoga.
And just in case you don’t make it, you can listen to Sety AKA Circus Company doing his thing on Resident Advisor. Expect a mix delving into the jazzier end of the techno spectrum. [...]

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Posted by kiterae on March 6, 2010
J Period Dancehall Soundclash Vol 2 Part 2 boyee

Well, one day we’ll be back in the sizzling hot sun of summer – stoop parties, hoards at every ice cream parlor, hanging out in parks with boom boxes blaring a boisterous roughneck soundtrack. Well, here in SF we’re still not quite there yet, but let’s start getting in the mood.
I originally posted part 1 [...]

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Posted by harry covert on February 28, 2010
Rock and roll meets techno and dubstep on Jason Forrest mix

We start in rock fringes with raw fuzzed out guitar chords leading to Nick Cave’s bastard punk croonings. Before we know it, we’re up to our ears in fringe dance, or as the man Forrest puts it:
“it’s like dubstep finally embraced it’s suburban IDM roots and the result is a freedom of sound that only [...]

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Posted by harry covert on February 20, 2010
Strange love in Moscow

Well, it all started with this remix of the MJ track ‘Stranger in Moscow’ which was unfamiliar to me as by the time History came out, I’d largely lost interest. Well, that track didn’t even make it onto this mix in the end. I ended venturing a little further leftfield into more tribal territory. Don’t [...]

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Posted by kiterae on February 12, 2010
Best of the blogs for 2009

Here it is – getting on the 2009 teary nostalgia tip like a bunch of other Poprounders (thug wife, doc and yari, who covered the whole noughties).
Most of these tracks have been hacked off the blogs I monitor. Definitely veering on the side of taught electronic production, and me like all the other bloggers is [...]

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Posted by kiterae on January 23, 2010
Pop Rocks for 2009

I’m over a week into 2010, but here is my best of 2009.  I have seen about 80% of the groups on this play list, and the hope is to see the rest in 2010.  My highlights would be The XX and Yacht.  Notable omissions for ‘09 would be the Silversun Pickups, Muse, the bay [...]

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Posted by DOC on January 12, 2010
Justin Bua interview show

I really don’t spend enough time keeping up with the colorful world of US street culture. When it comes down to it, I’m nowhere near as hip as ex-US president Bill Clinton. According to Justin Bua in this article for Vancouver student radio station CJSF, the erstwhile US pres has a bunch of Bua’s seminal [...]

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Posted by harry covert on January 11, 2010
Ten top albums from the noughties

Happy New Year!
1. Eternity Now (2006) – The Bear Quartet
2. Vespertine (2001) – Björk
3. Dimanche a Bamako (2005) – Amadou & Mariam
4. Silent Shout (2006) – The Knife
5. Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009) – Animal Collective
6. Ny Våg (2002) – The Bear Quartet
7. Funeral (2004) – Arcade Fire
8. Fleet Foxes (2008) – Fleet Foxes
9. Saturday Night [...]

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Posted by yari on January 5, 2010
Long faded shine of summer

So, this mix started some months back under the glow of an Indian summer. Finally it sees the light of day – just in time for what these Americans call The Holidays.
I’ve been digging back into the past with wisps of drum and bass and old skool trance (303 workouts), mixed up with some new [...]

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Posted by kiterae on December 18, 2009
Rakim: return to the golden age

In terms of rappers that have been around the block, there are few that have traveled further than Rakim. From the early days with Eric B, The R established himself as one of the true legends behind the mic.
Blentwell feature a great showcase from Elmattic tracing the history of this boy with the golden tonsils [...]

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Posted by harry covert on November 22, 2009