Caps – Morning Rush Mix (Mediafire)

“Took me a minute – months – to get it up on the site, but now it’s yours.

The inspiration for this weird tape was the Restless People song featured at the end, because the first time I heard it I damn near wept. No joke, no hyperbole; “Victimless Crime” will get me teary if I let it. It just hits me like that – but hell, I’m soft – and so I wanted to build a tape around it. It clocks in at 180 beats per minute, so I needed everything else to be real fast, too. Also, it’s an end song, not a beginning song, so I marked it on my mix map as a final destination and set about looking for a way there.

“Feeling So Real” had been a half-serious, half-jokin anthem for me, Nash and P when we were in seventh grade – we used to listen to it at Nash’s house on weekend mornings. We always listened to a lot of Moby and a lot of Prince at his spot when we were in junior high, and watch a lot of skate videos. Lil’ Nash was a cool dude. Anyways, Moby was a good starting spot. And because “We Own” is the best song of the past decade, I was good for the first two. Me and Jonesy always loved the Cuizi song, too, and it was fast and frenetic enough to run with the cheetahs I was rounding up, and voila – that was song three. So far, so good.

But I needed more, so I went on a quest and started drinking a lot of coffee every sunny Saturday morning and listening to drum’n'bass for hours. HOURS. At first, Finny was real stoked cause she’s an old d’n'b head and used to go to raves and do awesome drum’n'bass dances that I cannot replicate. However, she quickly grew disgusted after realizing that I preferred my drum’n'bass with sparkly melodies and cooing lady vocalists. She likes hers hard as fuck and real dark and industrial, whereas I want to feel like I’m flying into a Hyrule sunrise on the mane of a magical 50-foot-long cat. (You know how I do.) So I learned all about the differences between “liquid” and “jump-up” and “techstep” and related esoterica, then snatched up what I liked like a tombraider and continued on.

It got even worse for ol’ Finny when I discovered happy hardcore. I forced her to listen to it for hours and spent a lot of time on Trackitdown.net, digging through happy hardcore charts and learning about labels with names like “Alienated Hardcore.” I genuinely like the shit, and not just because of the pictures of aliens wearing headphones. To me, it sounds like being a five-year-old: hyperdramatic, hyperkinetic, sugar-soaked. Like Barbies singing over walls of synths constructed by Transformers. After immersing myself in a 2000 gallon tank of happy hardcore for a couple weeks, I handselected a bunch of jams and ended up deploying a couple snippets for structural support in the bridge I was building to my destination.

The final step was the jungle. Now ol’ Jones had crates of jungle from his high school days, because while I was in Buffalo buying doubles of Sadat X, he was listening to some real crazy white label jungle shit, all gunshot noises and dancehall dudes over 170 BPM breaks. He had played me some of it when we were first mixing records, and perhaps long-time C&J listeners will remember that a jungle chunk ended up on Moving in Stereo, after “Go DJ” but before Billy Idol. I loved the shit, but it was all so damn mysterious to me, and searching for jungle records over the internet in 2009 was kinda like stumbling upon a lost Incan city deep in the rainforest: Many years ago, a vast civilization thrived here, an advanced society with an elaborate sonic hierarchy… But again, I found what jewels I could – including the “Dude” remix by Feyder, who I was fascinated to learn is a young dude from Russia, where apparently there’s a thriving jungle scene – and kept it moving.

Once I reached my destination, I added the Screeching Weasel song for sentimental reasons. I have a long history with it because it was included on a mixtape given to me freshman year of high school by a punk rock sophomore named Sara from South Buffalo. She thought my shit needed toughening up – at the time, I was listening to hip-hop, Sonic Youth, Mercury Rev, and a Buffalo indie band named Tugboat Annie – and she made me a couple of mixtapes. I wish I had a picture of them because nothing in the world could look more like “PUNK ROCK HIGH SCHOOL 1995″. They were black cassettes from the 80s, beat up, overdubbed a billion times, kinda grimey, and Sara had affixed gold star stickers to them, ripped off the old labels, and written “PUNKTANNICA VOL 1″ on them in red marker. Most of the shit was beyond me – lots of riot grrl crunchers that I respected but wasn’t rushing to rewind – but the Screeching Weasel stuck with me real hard.

I called the tape Morning Rush because it’s meant to be listened to on hot summer mornings”.

Moby – Feeling So Real (Westbam rmx)
KES – We Own
Cuizinier – Qu’Est-Ce Qu’On Mange Ce Soir?
Dougal & Eruption – I’m Gonna Get You
DJ Food – Scratch Yer Head (Squarepusher rmx)
Tom Petty – Don’t Come Around Here No More (Tiedye edit)
Stabilize – Airwaves
Crystal Clear and Netsky – King of the Stars
Shinichi Osawa – Star Guitar (Brookes Brothers rmx)
Conquering Lion – Code Red (Serial Killaz rmx)
Beenie Man – Dude (Feyder rmx)
SL2 – On a Ragga Tip (Modified Motion rmx)
Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Love Missile F1-11 (12″ Extended Version)
Restless People – Victimless Crime
Screeching Weasel – Every Night

Pandemonium Jones (from Caps & Jones) with a mix for Rock The Dub of some of his favorite tracks from 2008.

Pandemonium Jones – Splendid Moments 2008 Mix (zShare)

TRACKLIST:

01. Soy Un Caballo – Robin
02. SALEM – Streets Of Philadelphia
03. Terence Trent D’arby – Say You Will
04. Fleet Foxes – Blue Ridge Mountains
05. Black Mountain – Wucan
06. Portishead – Magic Doors
07. No Age – Eraser
08. Atlas Sound – On Guard
09. Animal Collective – Cobwebs
10. Hot Chip – We’re Looking For A Lot Of Love
11. Nico – I’ll Keep It With Mine (Pocketknife’s Odd Beauty Remix)
12. Cut Copy – Strangers In The Wind
13. Hercules & Love Affair – Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)
14. Amadou & Miriam – Sabali
15. Bon Iver – Lump Sum
16. Benoit Pioulard – Idyll
17. Wolf Parade – Language City
18. Deerhunter – Nothing Ever Happened
19. M83 – Graveyard Girl
20. Beach House – Gila
21. Fennesz – Grey Scale
22. Grouper – Heavy Water/I’d Rather Be Sleeping
23. Mount Eerie With Julie Doiron – Voice In Headphones

Our newfound homies over at the Krudmart empire in Buffalo have started putting out some serious mixes lately. We posted that excellent “dadrock” BBQ mix from Caps & Jones a while back and now our favorite Alaskian, Curtis Vodka, comes correct with an 80′s flavoured discogrooving mix.

Curtis Vodka’s Get Down Tonight Mixtape: The Last Days of Summer (zShare)

BONUS: Last months mix courtesy of ½ of Nacho Lovers, Scott Seewhale. Can’t believe we slept on this gem…

My Friend Scott’s Playing What $ Love mix (Divshare)

Tracklists after the jump.

Curtis Vodka tracklist:

1. intro
2. jungle brothers – bragging & boasting (instrumental)
3. big daddy kane – get into it
4. eric b. & rakim – paid in full (7 minutes of madness the coldcut remix)
5. de la soul – ring ring ring (ha ha hey)
6. indeep – the record keeps spinning
7. nu shooz – i can’t wait
8. orlando johnson & trance – chocolate city
9. joyce sims – lifetime love
10. man parrish – boogie down bronx
11. kenny dope – petey wheatstraw returns
12. sagat – funk dat (inst-raw-mental)
13. saturn v – come into my life
14. logic – the warning (2 copy mix)
15. bass hitt – u.k. one day (that over night thang mix)
16. club ultimate – carnival 93 (the mardi gras mix)
17. dj pierre – pump it up
18. korin ladke – a dozen rosies
19. jimpster – dangly panther
20. joyful noise – song for s. part 2
21. rhythm warfare – two notches
22. mateo & matos – rainbow

Scott Seewhale tracklist:

The Trojan Horse – What $ Love
Sound Stream – Motion
Riva Starr – Maria Dub
Marlon D – Revelation
Armando – Don’t Stop
Jackson Fourgeaud – Pumpking Jack Flash
KiNk and Mieka Du Franx – Throwdown (dub)
Morten Sorenson – Visage
Kerri Chandler – The Invaders (The Panic)
Congorock – Runark (Jokers of the Scene Rmx)*exclusive
Los Hermanos – Queztal

Our old friends Caps & Jones (that “Lyssnar” mix is still our jam) have been busy with roadtrips (Jones), political commentary (Caps) but still found the time to put together this summer mix of “dadrock/heatrock” for Buffalo store Krudmart. Maybe not the usual music stylings posted here on Discobelle but cool nonetheless.

Caps & Jones – Backyard BBQ Mix for Krudmart (zShare)

TRACKLIST:

rush – spirit of radio
the fixx – one thing leads to another
cyndi lauper – she-bop
flock of seagulls – space age love song
head east – never been any reason
thin lizzy – jailbreak
kansas – carry on my wayward son
black sabbath – behind the wall of sleep
joe walsh – life’s been good to me so far
blue oyster cult – godzilla
weezer – the world has turned
sonic youth – teenage riot
dinosaur jr – freak scene
blondie – hangin on the telephone
the clash – remote control
tom petty – yer so bad
the cyrkle – red rubber ball
joe walsh – in the city