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Direct - Let It Ride - 27-Mar-08 06:00 PM
The track "Let it Ride" is a masterpiece. It could not be better. Joey Beltram has basically given us an electro track from a techno musician's viewpoint. No Cheese, no filler, no weak beats, only pure force, pure power. I am from New York City and since the 80's I have grown up around an abundance of terrible, horrible, corny-ass freestyle! You know, that wack stuff with the terrible vocals and tinny, weak beats. They play it on the radio all the time here in NYC.

Well, this takes all those preconceived notions of what freestyle "should" be and throws them out.

The samples used are sparing yet perfect, perfect, perfect. One of them has a guy saying "Didn't I show you love, show you love", and it reminds one of an actual freestyle track with words, only this has all the crap and cheesy message removed.

Also sampled is a woman (latin sounding?) saying "I I I Don't, I I I Don't, I Don't Know", perfectly.

Probably my favorite part of this track is the breakdown with air raid sirens. They sound far off, ominous, and dangerous, just like the beats. The snares and high hat on this record are sharp, quick and deadly!! I feel as if they are very thought out. Everything on this record doesn't seem like a happy accident in the studio.. it has the feel of a very thought out project. But what do I know?? Maybe Joey Beltram did this in one hour while smokin mad weed!

Tom Middleton - Excursions 1 - 28-Jan-08 12:27 PM
Holy Jesus this song is AMAZING! Shinkansen is a must have if you are into House, Breaks, Techno, and anything in between. Tom Middleton is my new hero. This track rises above anything typical and ventures into the realm of pure heaven. This is the soundtrack as you lift off the ground and soar over earth, flying like an angel.

What a good way to start off a set! This one builds and builds and just becomes more and more beautiful as it progresses. It is not exactly the most dance oriented track, but that doesn't really matter. Even when played out this could work, as it is just so pretty to listen to.

Technically the beat in this track is of the "breaks" genre, I guess, but this is not a song that wants to have a genre, it just wants to show us what bliss sounds like.

Spooky - Schmoo - 28-Jan-08 12:12 PM
This is perhaps one of the most satisfying house songs from the early 90's.

It's been a favorite of mine from the first time I heard it. The sound quality is clear, the programing precise, and the feeling this song instills is one of pure joy. House music's goal is to take your emotions to the highest heights and this track does just that!

I first heard it in 1993 on an underground radio show. The DJ's set started off with Schmoo and I thought "well, that's perfect".

I went to Tower Records on Broadway (in NYC) and picked up a copy the next week.
At a gig that weekend I played it and everyone went crazy!
That night someone stole it from me, another DJ, most likely, so I had to go to Vinylmania the weekend after to get another copy. This time I bought 2 copies just to be safe!

Quentin Harris - Let's Be Young - 28-Jan-08 11:49 AM
Hearing this played at The Shelter in NYC by Timmy Regisford every weekend for a while in 2005 was a real treat. This was the first place this track was dropped, before it was an official release. Timmy Regisford and Quentin Harris work together on many productions and Timmy testing Quentin's stuff out for him on the dancefloor of The Shelter was (and is still) a common occurrence.

The track's long length was great, the whole club had time to stop what they were doing and get on the floor and dance!

Various - San Francisco Project 2 - Tribute To James Brown / The Scratch - The Bass - 21-Jan-08 12:55 AM
Where can I begin on this mix?? It is the classic of all classic Breaks DJ Mixes!
Nothing about this mix could be better:

The blending is flawless. Dan switches records quickly, yet blends them perfectly. And some of these records are hard to beat match, being old, full of imperfect samples, changing rhythms and tempos. Not one mix is off at all. And to top it off DJ Dan cuts back and forth between tracks in all the right moments, throwing in bits of the next or previous record. This trick, annoying and mastubatory in the hands of some DJ's, fits perfectly when done here.

The track selection is a potpourri of brilliant, intelligent, funky early 90's (and some late 80's) breaks. The best is here. Not a single track on this mix is a clunker.

The mix starts as a real tribute to James Brown, showcasing some amazing modern interpretations of his music as well as one of his actual songs. Then other gems are thrown in, showing us that this music is just as fun and playful and funky as James Brown's music it pays tribute to. Both of Think Tank's excellent tracks are here ("A knife and a fork, a bottle and a cork, that's the way you spell New York!") and the Black Machine tracks introduce some Breaks with massive Jazz influence.

Another huge influence heard here is early hip-hop. The mix is just as much a tribute to the early pioneers of hip-hop who sampled Jamnes Brown as it is an actual tribute to James himself. And the result is a lovely blend of rap samples, scratching, James Brown funk, and about 1000 other things thrown in for good measure.

Listening to this mix is a history lesson. Some of the samples heard include:
-Nirvana
-Peter & The Wolf (The Musical)
-Public Enemy
-Eric B. & Rakim
-Rob Base
-Kool & The Gang
-oh yeah, um James Brown too, about 380 times.

The flawless presentation continues on Side B. About halfway through this side the mood switches to more electro/freestyle oriented breaks and the change is seamless. The energy builds and the scratcing intensifies (scratching both in the records and also performed by Dan himself) and by the end of the tape one may feel like applauding.

This tape was played to pieces by me and all my friends starting back in 93, now I see it as an amazing time capsule of early 90's and late 80's breaks.

Currently (Jan. 2008) this mix can be found for free download at ezeskankin dot com and I recomend you check it out and pass it on!!

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