Rhythm Mechanics

I’m back in action for another groovy set this week, this one does not disappoint. With some pre-show prep and some clever mixer/looping usage I kept the energy up through this deep house mix. The track selection here was some of my better work, expect this show, or parts of it anyways, to transform into a promo mix in the next week or so. In other news, I’ll be playing an extra internet radio show this month. Karl Almaria has invited me to come play on the Sunday Brunchlox on myhouse-yourhouse.net! I’ll be playing alongside Karl and DJ Remedy from noon to 4 on Sunday the 21st of March. Get excited for the show, and jealous that you won’t be there in person to enjoy the food Enjoy this mix for now, I’ll catch you later!

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1. Johnny Dangerous – Beat That Bitch (Mr. V’s Sole Channel Remix) – [King Street Sounds]
2. Polder – Zero Zero – [Intacto]
3. Hardrive – Deep Inside (Mr. V’s Sole Channel Remix) – [Strictly Rhythm]
4. D-T3CH – Sleepy Time (Combined Evening’s Dub Mix) – [Shak Digital]
5. Eddie Leader, Pagal, Sythcast – The Bass (Agnes Knees Down Remix) -[Hudd Traxx]
6. JT Donaldson & Fred Everything feat. Mr. White – Read My Mind (JT and Fred’s San Fran Dub) – [Large Music]
7. Underground Culture Tourist – Walk Tall (Jason Hodges Unreleased Mix) – [Hudd Traxx]
8. Lisa Shaw – Like I Want To (Fred Everything Vocal) – [Salted]
9. RaShaan Houston – Build That Bridge – [CDR]
10. Weekend Players – I’ll Be There (Gabriel & Dresden Remix) – [FFRR]
11. Soul Rebels – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – [Defected]
12. Johnny Fiasco – Reflex (Marcus Aurelius’ Rub for the Ladies Remix) – [Klassik Fiasco]
13. Tommy Largo – Gangsta Shit -[Guesthouse]
14. Karl Almaria – Dig This – [Hudd Traxx]
15. Anhanguera – Make It Hot (Sonny Fodera Remix) – [Maracuja Recordings]
16. DJ Sneak – Gettin Crazy In The Ghetto – [Guesthouse]
17. The Sexicanz – Bring Some Weed To The DJ Booth (Hector Moralez Ghetto Mix) – [Robsoul]
18. Matthew Dear – Dog Days (Sneak’s 420 Dog Mix) – [Spectral Sounds]
19. D-T3CH – Stay In Your Heart – [Prime Direct Digital]

So last week you may remember we had the Chicago Jack Summit going on… we raised $1000 and we’re going to pick up a set of CDJ-1000’s for the studio. Big thanks to everyone who donated during the show, or just to WNUR’s Phoneathon in general. A large part of the reason we got to our goal was a result of the support of Frankie J (The Sound Republic), proprietor of Spatula City and Flapjack Records. Since he has been such a team player in the house community by supporting WNUR and just generally putting out AWESOME music on his labels, I decided it would be right to return the favor. Thus we arrive at this set, which was comprised entirely of tracks off of Spatula City and Flapjack. Use this set as a guide to the new sound of Chicago House… because now you know who’s pushing it.

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Tracklisting:

1. Wattie Green – Sea Lion Woman – [Flapjack]
2. Sonny Fodera – Winter Nights – [Spatula City]
3. Wattie Green – Straighten Up – [Spatula City]
4. D-T3CH – When It Was Good – [Spatula City]
5. Wattie Green – Natural Mystic – [Flapjack]
6. Biboulakis – Fresh Start – [Spatula City]
7. Wattie Green – Mid Tenn Strut – [Flapjack]
8. Frankie J – Shuck N Jive (Forgotten Dub) – [Spatula City]
9. Wattie Green – Bob Speaks – [Flapjack]
10. The Sound Republic – Funkyard Junk – [Spatula City]
11. The Sound Republic – Bumpin’ Enjoyment (Jason Hodges Readin’ Minds Remix) – [Spatula City]
12. Bryan Jones – I Know You Feel (Frankie J Remix) – [Flapjack]
13. The Candy Dealers – Stepping Out (Frankie J Remix) – [Flapjack]
14. D-T3CH – Outta Ya Wheelchairs (Bobby & Klein Remix) – [Flapjack]
15. Troydon – Shake That Groove Thang – [Spatula City]
16. Sun City Hustlers – Get It On – [Flapjack]
17. D-T3CH – Meerkat Music – [Spatula City]
18. Emil Lanne – The Leg Up – [Flapjack]
19. Scrubfish & Laurence – Creepin’ Hoodlums – [Flapjack]

The 2010 Chicago Jack Summit Players

Whew! What a night. We made our goal of $1000 and had a hell of a time in the process. Big ups to everyone who came out, and more importantly, to everyone who DONATED. Your support makes a huge difference at the station as far as maintaining equipment, how we pay our bills, and keeping us on the air. Big ups to The Sound Republic/Spatula City Records for a big donation to push us over our goal. If you missed the Jack Summit, don’t worry, you can still get the uninterrupted mix by calling in before Thursday at 4pm, giving $10 to the station and requesting that as a premium. For now here’s the mix with our assclownery over it. If you listen carefully you can hear Frankie J say some naughty things.

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The 2010 Chicago Jack Summit Lineup. Impressive

Tonight is the big night, where DJ Sangre and I host 11 of the best Chicago DJ’s in one room for a night of house music, pizza, and supporting WNUR. We do this every year to benefit WNUR’s phoneathon, which helps keep awesome radio programming like ours FREE for you the listener. We only do this ONCE a year (not like those PBS clowns). Every little bit helps, and as an incentive, a meager $10 donation to the station will get you the ENTIRE, uninterrupted, straight-out-of-the-mixer recording of the show. Nowhere else in the world are you going to be able to get great music from this lineup all in one continuous mix. In addition to that we’ll have great promos ranging from mixtapes, signed albums, t-shirts, glasses, spatulas (yeah…) and more!

So please support WNUR Streetbeat as we are one of the largest stations playing underrepresented music over the FM airwaves, the greatness must continue and it will with your support!!!

Sorry for getting this up late. In short, if you know who D-T3CH is (hint: he headlined at Smartbar this past weekend), this post does not need a lot of explanation, and you should know what’s in store… If you do not know who D-T3CH is:

1. That’s OK, it happens.
2. Get yourself a copy of this mix below.
3. Rock out to some of the smoothest, jazziest, funkiest sets I’ve ever heard on WNUR. Period.

This one’s for the househeads out there… Seriously folks, the man came from freakin Melbourne Austrailia on his world tour and stopped by the station thanks to a hookup from our man Karl Almaria, who spun the last third of this 3-hour session. There’s quite a bit of unreleased/secret/mega-exclusive tracks on this mix, so no tracklisting (per D-T3CH’s humble request) but the quality of the mix and the interview more than make up for it.

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Greetings all! This was a really fun set to do. Over the weekend I did some digging in the WNUR archives for dope beats to toss in the mix, and I think I succeeded there with some old Natural Rhythm tracks and some smooth cuts from Guidance Records. I also procured some awesome deep house tracks from the usual sources, so mixing the old and the new in this set quite a bit. I’m at the point now where I really need to get better at knowing my entire library. I’m at around 1,000 tracks in active rotation, which to some DJ’s out there is nothing, but to me it’s more than I’ve ever had, so the back end of the set was on the fly, picking out stuff I’ve had for a long time but haven’t played recently and going to town. It made for an all-over the place set, but one thing’s for sure, it ain’t boring!!! I’ll have more info on this weekend’s shows in a later blog post this week, but for now, enjoy the set!

PS Don’t try and call to win tickets… show is NOT live. I’ve had day-time DJ’s yell at me for that…

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Tracklisting:

1. rinocerose – Le Mobilier – [V2]
2. Natural Rhythm – Latin Ave – [UTC]
3. Boo Williams – The Solution – [Guidance]
4. Colette – Think You Want It (Pezzner Remix) – [OM]
5. Projekt:PM – When the Voices Come – [Guidance]
6. Alland Byallo – My City – [Missive Music]
7. James Johnston – You’re Still The Same – [Kolour Digital]
8. Milton Jackson – Breathe (Pezzner Remix) – [Neurotraxx Deluxe]
9. Milton Jackson – Ghosts in My Machine – [Freerange]
10. Mr. Patron vs. Barely Regal – Give It Up – [Guess Who]
11. Jason Hodges & Eddie Leader – This is Bizznezz (Hector Morales Remix) – [Hudd Traxx]
12. Ross Couch – Feelings Can’t Explain (JP Phillippe Remix) -[Body Rhythm]
13. Mark Grant – Spirit of the Black Ghost – [Guidance]
14. Lisa Shaw – Born To Fly (Joey Youngman’s Fetish Remix) – [Naked Music]
15. Damon Trueitt – Run It By Me (Joey Youngman’s Fetish Remix) – [I Records]
16. Bobby & Klein – I Want Sax – [Guesthouse]
17. Bryan Jones – Chicago Jack (TSR Remix) – [Control]
18. Sun City Hustlers – Get It On – [Flapjack]
19. Bryan Jones – I Know You Feel (Frankie J Remix) – [Flapjack]

Greetings all, hope everyone out in the Chi is having a frigid-ass time… I went out and grabbed a ton of new-to-me music for this show and carefully picked out the tracks and set a good pace for the show. Show starts out with a bunch of jackin’ tunes, then progresses through to some deeper stuff at the end to round out the night. The end result was a set that was not only smooth, but upbeat and jazzy, probably my best since October of last year! I liked it so much, I uploaded it in 192kbps format and actually filled out all of the mp3 tag info, share with a friend!

Also, Feb 5th I will be droppin some tunes with Mixwell House on their show “Boom’s Day Operation” on MyHouse-YourHouse Radio, get excited for that!

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Tracklisting:

1. Bryan Jones – Let It Go (Fabio Bacchini Remix) – [Ringside Recordings]
2. Gene Farris – Regga Dancin’ – [Camouflage]
3. Fabio Bacchini – Skyscrapers (Digital Villains Remix) – [Prime Direct Digital]
4. Brown & Steve Littlemen – Changin (Vernon & Dacosta Remix) – [Aroma]
5. Alland Byallo – Uptown Recognition – [Odds & Ends]
6. Nu Jaxx – Back in the Day – [Shak Digital]
7. Bryan Jones feat. Filter Freq – Feel The Sound (Paul Johnson Remix) – [Control]
8. Emil Lanne – The Leg Up – [Flapjack]
9. Wattie Green – Natural Mystic – [Flapjack]
10. Troydon – Shake That Groove Thang – [Spatula City]
11. D-T3CH – Outta Ya Wheelchairs (Bobby & Klein Remix) – [Maracuja]
12. Shur-I-Kan – Feel The Horns (Shur-I-Kan’s Dub Mix) -[Freerange]
13. Brown Billy – House Music is Not Dead (Johnny Fiasco Flexx Mix) – [Smooth Agent]
14. D-T3CH – Unseen Things (Sonny Fodera Remix) – [Prime Direct Digital]
15. Colette – Feeling Hypnotized (Gene Farris Remix) – [OM Records]
16. Gene Farris – Take Me Back (John Hawley B-side Dub) – [Farris Wheel]
17. Dexter – My Fedinition of House – [Beat Code]
18. Ludwig Coenen – Les Crepes (Alland Byallo Remix) – [Flumo Recordings]
19. Alland Byallo – My City – [Missive Music]
20. Axus – Suite Disappointment -[Rebirth]

Our (myself and DJ Sangre’s) good friends Jeff Bloom and Andrew Emil (PO!NTF!VE, FourPlay, Broadway & Wilson) called us up over the weekend and said they had Belgian DJ’s Ricardo (Gourmand, Herbal Essence, Belgium), David Foyh (Beaubar, Jacksteppers, Belgium) and Jensen (Decadance, What’s Cookin, Belgium) in town and wanted us to host them. Needless to say we couldn’t refuse, and the gang showed up and we all had a freakin’ blast in the studio that night! These guys threw down some awesome tunes that they picked up from Gramophone that day, and gave a preview of their show at Uptown Lounge. Big ups to all 5 of them for making this night happen! Rock On!!!

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Tracklisting:

1. Tim Nobody – Pizza Pie []
2. Public Access – Pay The Money []
3. Johnick – Jammin []
4. Lego – Angels []
5. Kenny Lloyd – Will Ye Go For That []
6. Sepin – Take U Back []
7. Bayat – Afu Ra []
8. No Assembly Firm – Chicago Methods []
9. Vernon & Dacosta – Red Carpet []
10. Sueno Soul – What You Want (Vernon & Dacosta) []
11. Cymande – Brothers on the Slide (Greenskeepers) []
12. Santone – Be Right There []
13. Hardrive 2000 – Work This Like This []
14. No Assembly Firm – Acid Attack []
15. JT Donaldson – Dirty Kicks [Gallery]
16. Wattie Green – Mid Tenn Strut [Flapjack]
17. Wattie Green – Is you is [Spatula City]
18. Bill Withers – Who Is He (Henrik Schwarz) [CDR]
19. Aardvarck – Kutparra [Rush Hour]
20. BT – Remember (Mood II Swing) [Kinetic]
21. Zero DB – The Snare [Fluid]
22. Smith & Hack – To Our Disco Friends []
23. Psyback – Combneishon [Pro-zak]
24. Gene Farris – Come on Home (Dub) [Soma]
25. Larry 11 – Coke (Unreleased Mix) [Tribe]
26. Ojay’s – I Luv Musik [White]
27. Pepe Bradock – Attom Funk [KIF]
28. Kelly G – Put Your Hands Together In My Face [Silk Ent.]
29. Darren Klemente – Who Luv To Get Down []
30. Purveyors of Fine Funk – I See You Come Alive [Nepenta]
31. Jordan Fields – White Label []
32. Max – A Light Meal [Phonocide]
33. C.M. Toni – Hustle Ain’t Over [Partners Inc]
34. DJ Rhythm – Disco Frenzy [Moody]
35. Crunch Kidz – A Revival Vibe [Kongcrete]
36. Romanthony – Let me show U love (Sahs & ECB edit) []
37. Fracky Freakin – Salsa fresca! [COA]
38. Amir Alexander – Necessary sancuary (3AM mix) [Bearatone]
39. Izit? – Would it [Made to play]
40. Avondale Music Society – Skid [Synapsis]
41. Ian Pooley – SBM [Definitive]
42. Ricardo & Kenyon – Uptown Swing [CDR]
43. DJ Pierre – Time Warp Mind Regulator [Groove On]

What’s up out there… I tried to keep this set a little more upbeat, but still pretty smooth. Track selection was pretty good, but for some reason I could not get the hang of the decks tonight… oh well! Hope some of you had a chance to catch Switch, Santiago, and Sexual Chocolate out at Smartbar that Saturday night, heard it was a kick ass show. PS: Streetbeat is going back there March 31st, more details and a flier to come!

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Tracklisting

1. Bryan Jones – Gotta Keep On
2. Darren Klementi – Who Luv to Get Down
3. Oxia – Sun Step
4. Layo & Bushwacka – Now Is The Time (Emerson Todd Remix)
5. Greenskeepers – Keep It Down (Members Only Mix)
6. Lawnchair Generals – When I Think
7. Florian Kruse and Ciro V – Mountain Cock
8. Ben Watt – Lone Cat
9. Kinky Movement – Seven Jazz
10. Olivier Desmet – Just Like Heaven (Joshua Heath Remix)
11. Brown & Steve Littlemen – Changin’ (Vernon & Dacosta Remix)
12. Soul Rebels – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
13. Ladybug Mecca – Dogg Starr (Jason Hodges Re-Rub)
14. Inland Knights – Ghetto Shit
15. The Littlemen – Holding On (Nacho Marco Remix)
16. Loko – In Love
17. Justin Martin & Claude VonStroke – Beat That Bird (Donk Boyz Remix)
18. Gene Farris – Keep it Comin’
19. T. Mixwell feat. Rainbow – Fuzzy Footwork

Ah… first post of the new year… this was really techy and deep with a bunch of tracks I hadn’t played before, including a new one from Mixwell House which will be out soon on their label.  Not much else to say on this set except that it’s a bit longer than usual. Enjoy!

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Tracklisting

1. Soul Migrantz – Calling Chicago (Sidekick Vision Remix)
2. Johnny Dangerous – Beat that Bitch (Whiplash Unlreleased Beat Down Mix)
3. Milton Jackson & Shur-I-Kan – Goa
4. Sygaire – The Time is Now (Shur-I-Kan Perspective)
5. Atnarko – Bump & Grind
6. Anton Pieete – I Do Not Want
7. Mixwell House – Commander Commando
8. Federico Molinari – Party Faktor
9. Emerson Todd – Touche
10. Tim Green & Emerson Todd – Exercise
11. Burnski – Sleep
12. Sebastien Leger – The Rhythm (Format B Remix)
13. Voodeux – Deadend Motel
14. Lauhaus – Latenights
15. Sebastien Leger – Jungle
16. Lauhaus – Downunder
17. Martin Landsky – Who’s Laughing Now?
18. Voodeux – The Curse (Mike Shannon Remix)
19. Claude VonStroke – Storm on Lake St. Clair (VonStroke Re-vamp)
20. Shur-I-Kan vs. Milton Jackson – Strange Zensation
21. Avondale Music Society – You Suck
22. Seafoam – Downtime