Shake That Ass!
Remember the good old days when you heard the Miami Bass sound and other bootie popping songs blaring on the radio? Well, here is a mix of some of those old school songs featuring 2 Live Crew, Quad City Dj’s, and Rob Base.
Remember: Shake that ass, bitch, and lemme see what you’ve got!
Tracks featured:
Sally (That Girl) – Gucci Crew II
Pum Pum Mami Mami – El General
Boom! I Got Your Girlfriend! - Danny D
I Wanna Rock – Luke
Whoomp! (There It Is) – Tag Team
Mentirosa – Mellow Man Ace
Koochie Kuterz – Pla Ya Pancho
Me So Horny – 2 Live Crew
It Takes Two – Rob Base
Twice My Age – Shabba Ranks
Push It – Salt n’ Peppa
Baby Got Back – Sir Mix-A-Lot
Thyou – Zoe
Hoochie Mama – 2 Live Crew
Tootsie Roll – 69 Boys (featuring the Quad City Dj’s)
If you like any of the songs listed above, support the artist by purchasing them.
Tagged: Bootie, Dance, Hip-Hop, Miami Bass, Old School, Rap, Reggae, Spanish
Classic Love Groove
Everyone loves classic love songs, and this mixtape has some of the best of the best. Everything from Aretha Franklin to James Brown to Stevie Wonder, surely you’ll find something you just… love.
Tracks featured:
Do Right Woman – Aretha Franklin
Tell it Like it is – Aaron Neville
Midnight Train To Georgia – Gladys Knight & The Pips
Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
Stand By Me – Ben E. King
Unchained Melody – The Righteous Brothers
Oh What A Night – Dells
Misty Blue – Dorothy Moore
Son of a Preacher Man – Dusty Springfield
Stars Fell on Alabama – Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
If You Don’t Know Me By Now – Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes
Try Me! – James Brown
These Arms of Mine – Otis Redding
Unforgettable – Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole
I Wanna Get Next To You – Rose Royce
Only The Lonely – Roy Orbison
I Believe (When I Fall in Love) - Stevie Wonder
Just My Imagination – The Temptations
At Last – Etta James
If you like any of the songs listed above, support the artist by purchasing them.
A Plus D Gets Stanky
The badass mashup duo known as A Plus D have come out with a new mashup single called Stanky Whip (GS Boyz vs. Devo) and I’ve gotta say… it fucking ROCKS! I’ve featured A Plus D before on my site in a mixtape found here , but today they get their own post.
A Plus D is short for Adrian & the Mysterious D, a guy & girl DJ duo based out of San Francisco, California. They are best known for their awesome mashups and bootlegs and introducing the mashup culture to America.
Here’s more about A Plus D, according to their website:
When they’re not huddled over a hot PowerBook playing with Ableton Live, or digital crate-digging for the latest bastard pop creations, the duo can be found at various parties, mixing an eclectic blend of pop, electro, indie dance rock, hip-hop, and whatever else moves a dance floor. Quite simply, they know how to bring the party. They have played such events as private parties for the Scissor Sisters, gigs alongside Peaches and Princess Superstar, as well as spinning at events featuring artists from Lady Sovereign to Nina Hagen to The Killers. The duo have also played overseas, with gigs in London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Munich, and Copenhagen, and most recently Beijing, Hong Kong, and Australia.
I’m a huge fan of mashups and I have to give my thanks to A Plus D for bringing it! Hopefully one day I’ll be able to see them live if they ever come to South Florida (hear that, A Plus D?!) but for now, at least I’ve got the internet to hear their art, because mashups are fucking ART. As Ali G would say, Respek!
I’ve included the song for you to listen to, as well as the music video made by VJ Brewski. If you’d like to download the track, you can right click here and save it. Looking for more? Visit A Plus D’s official site where you can download ALL their mashups. They are phenomenal!
Stanky Whip by A Plus D (GS Boyz vs. Devo mashup)
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Music video for Stanky Whip
Click here if you can’t see the kickass video!
Tagged: Bastard Pop, Bootie, Bootleg, Mashup, Music Videos, Remix
Mash it up!
Since I did a mashup of my theme, why not do a mashup mixtape as my next mix? I’ve been long overdue anyways, so here we go!
15 tracks of mashup goodness rolled into one fabulous mixtape. DJ Earworm, A Plus D, Lobersterdust, and some other hot mashups I found laying around the internets. Hit play and crank that volume!
If you like any of the songs, leave a comment with a valid email address and I’ll send it over. Don’t feel guilty: all these songs are free to download.
Tagged: Bastard Pop, Bootleg, Electronica, Hip-Hop, Mashup, Pop, Rap, Remix, Retro, Rock
Mellow Monday in May
Here’s a great mixtape of some mellow tunes of blues, jazz, and folk goodness, made on a mellow Monday in May, hence the title. A few artists featured are Amos Lee, Ben Harper, Norah Jones, Ray Lamontagne, and Nick Drake.
Have a great Monday everyone!
If you like any of the songs, please support the artist by purchasing them.
United State of Pop (Viva La Pop)
I love me some mashups, and this mashup by DJ Earworm is a classic. He took the top 25 songs of 2008 according to Billboard and created one song. I’ve included the music video as well as the audio link if you just want to listen to it. Also incuded is the track listing of all songs in this kickass mashup.
United State of Pop by DJ Earworm
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The Downtempo Chill
Hey! Hey! It’s been long time (a whole friggin’ month!) since I made a mixtape for you guys, so here it is. This mix is 11 tracks of downtempo/chillout goodness. Artists include Massive Attack, Zero 7, Moby, Global Communication, Goldfrapp, Thievery Corporation, Air, Björk, Lamb, Hooverphonic, & Portishead. Ch-ch-check it out!
Tracks featured:
Black Milk – Masssive Attack
Inhaler – Hooverphonic
Hyperballad – Björk
Crystalline Green – Goldfrapp
Beautiful Drug – Thievery Corporation
Photograph – Air
Alice – Moby
Glory Box – Portishead
In The Waiting Line – Zero 7
8:07 – Global Communication
Heaven – Lamb
If you like any of the songs listed above, support the artist by purchasing them.
Tagged: Chillout, Downtempo, Electronica, Trip-Hop
Cover Me Crazy!
For my latest and freshest mixtape, I’ve decided to include 23 tracks of awesome covers of equally awesome songs.
Tracks featured:
Free Fallin’ – John Mayer, Original by Tom Petty
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow – Amy Winehouse, Original by The Shirelles
Sweet Child O’ Mine – Taken By Trees, Original by Guns N’ Roses
Crazy – Ray Lamontangue, Original by Gnaryls Barkley
Manic Monday – Bonnie Pink, Original by The Bangles
You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me – She & Him, Original by The Miracles
Nothing Compares 2 U – Stereophonics, Original by Sinead O’Conner
Bitches Ain’t Shit – Ben Folds, Original by Dr. Dre
Bizarre Love Triangle – Frente!, Original by New Order
Dreams – The Corrs, Original by Stevie Nicks
Don’t Dream It’s Over – Sixpence None The Richer, Original by Crowded House
Time After Time – Eva Cassidy, Original by Cyndi Lauper
Drive – Deftones, Original by The Cars
Dancing With Myself - Nouvelle Vague, Original by Billy Idol
Careless Whisper – The Gossip, Original by George Michael
Fortunate Son – Cat Power, Original by CCR (Creedance Clearwater Revival)
Just Like Heaven – Katie Melua, Original by The Cure
King of Pain – Alanis Morissette, Original by The Police
Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World (Medley) – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, Originals by Judy Garland & Louis Armstrong
Billie Jean – Chris Cornell, Original by Michael Jackson
I Want You Back – KT Tunstall, Original by Jackson 5
Wonderwall – Ryan Adams, Original by Oasis
If you like any of the songs listed above, support the artist by purchasing them.
Music + Twitter = Love
As an avid music lover and prolific Twitter user, I love to share music on my timeline. With the popularity of Twitter growing drastically every day, there are more and more sites that are making sharing music on Twitter easier. I’ve compiled a list of some cool sites to check out. If you don’t see one that you know listed, please leave a link in the comments so I can add it to the list!
Music + Twitter = Love
Okay, this social music site has been around for a while, but if you use Last.fm and Twitter, why not integrate them? You can add your latest tweets to your Last.fm sidebar or you can use Twitterfeed and feed your last played songs into your profile. Just visit Twitterfeed, set up the account, and grab the RSS feed from your Last.fm page and select how often and how many songs you want to feed from your recent activity. Very cool tool!
If you want to add Twitter to your Last.fm profile page, you can see an example on my profile here. Just visit LastTweet.com, enter your username, style, and you are done!
Another cool site for Last.fm and Twitter is LastFMTweetLove. Here you can enter your Twitter and Last.fm information and every time you “love” a song on Last.fm, it will tweet it to your profile.
Blip.fm works like Twitter, but instead of just tweeting, you are actually “blipping” a song as well. The cool thing about Blip.fm is that you can not only be your own DJ, but you can set up your Twitter account under Blip.fm’s settings tab and whenever you “blip” a song, it will tweet to your profile. Plus, since this is a social service, you can enter a message that will be included with the link to the song. Very sweet! (If you want to “scrobble” your blips to your Last.fm profile, you can set that up under settings as well.) Follow @Blipfm on Twitter for updates to their site.
The wonderful thing about TinySong.com is that you can enter any song you want to share on Twitter into the search box, which then gives you a list of songs to choose from. Once you’ve found the song you want to share, you select it and it automatically creates a tinyurl of the song link and auto-copies it to your clipboard which you can then tweet and when someone clicks on it, it will play the song on Grooveshark. You don’t need a Grooveshark account to hear the music!
Speaking of Grooveshark, they made a cool site where you can log into your Twitter account and listen to music that people are sharing through Twitter. Their tagline sums it up: “Twisten.fm crawls Twitter for tweets about music. Then you listen to them.” Got it? Good.
tweettj.com is a pretty kickass site that lets you “discover the music people are tweeting about”. It lists recent tweets with links to the Twitter profiles and songs, and also lists the top music artist being tweeted. You can follow @tweettj on Twitter.
Song.ly is another very cool, yet simple site to share music on Twitter. You can add the URL of an mp3 file or type in a song name and search. On their front page it states:
Sounds cool to me! Follow @Song_ly here on Twitter here.
Twiturm.com is sorta kinda like the ones listed above, but it works differently in the sense that you can actually upload songs that you can’t find on other music databases and then tweet them. Follow @Twiturm on Twitter here.
Okay, 8tracks.com isn’t really something you just integrate into Twitter, but if you like making and listening to mixtapes, you can make a mix there and tweet the link to your mix on Twitter. People can leave comments in your 8tracks account about your mix and you can follow other DJ’s. You can follow @8tracks on Twitter as well.
Songza.com is a pretty nifty music site that allows you to search for a song or artist. When it pulls the results, you can click on the song you want and it gives you the option to share. Once you hover over “share”, you will see “Twitter This” on the left and when you click it, it pops up a box to add your information in as well as a message and that’s it! Nice and neat! You can also follow @Songza on Twitter.
I hope you enjoyed this list and remember to leave a comment if there are any other sites out there I should add to this list! Share the music and spread the love!
Tagged: Social Media, Social Sites, Twitter
Fab Female R&B/Neo Soul Artists
For this mixtape from 8tracks, I decided to go with 13 different female rhythm & blues/neo soul artists. The women featured Alicia Keys, Amy Winehouse, Corinne Bailey Rae, Erykah Badu, Kate Nash, Mary J. Blige, Groove Theory, Jill Scott, Joss Stone, Whitney Houston, Duffy, Lauryn Hill, & Rihanna.
Some of the tracks are fresh, some of them are oldies but goodies, but all of them are great. 
Enjoy!
If you like any of the songs, please support the artist by purchasing them.
90′s Rock Extravaganza
It’s time for a new mixtape from 8tracks so I’ve decided the theme for this tape is going to be some kick ass rock songs from the 1990′s. I grew up listening to this stuff and I love all of these tracks.
The 90′s represent a lot of things to me and bring back a lot of memories. Now dive it!
If you like any of the songs, please support the artist by purchasing them.
Tagged: Alternative, Garage, Grunge, Mix, Rock
An Addictive Additive
My bud Andy is a badass musician. He plays the drums, guitar, & god knows what else, PLUS he just got a ukulele. While he isn’t designing stuff, he is playing in his band or making awesome YouTube videos of himself playing music. Here are a few for your viewing pleasure. If you’d like to find Andy, you can follow him on Twitter or check him out at his site AdditiveDesigns.com. Be sure to check out his kick ass typography!
Andy doing an original song called Continuum with his ukulele.
Click here if you can’t see the video!
Andy doing a cover of The Moldy Peaches song Steak for Chicken. So fucking cute I could just eat him up!
Click here if you can’t see the video!
Tagged: Designer, Friendly Links, Musician, YouTube
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