TM and PUTS hangin out at UCLA Jazz Reggae Fest
Time Machine, “Who Cares?” Music Video Premier
Time Machine’s fourth and final video from the LIFE IS EXPENSIVE album was released today as a MySpace Exclusive Video Premier.
The video is directed by Garrett Guidera. Check it out, and pass it around.
Also on YouTube.
Mekalek’s Mixtape Series, Week 14: Volume 9 – “A Threat To National Security” (1998)
Man, so many memories with this one…I gotta say this is my favorite tape I ever made.
I managed to start developing a small following off of this one, as it was getting passed around Rhode Island like a chicken parm recipe. I was rooming with my boy Dave at the time, who was kind of a maniac, and so this tape ended up having more energy than my previous ones. Special shouts to my dude Manny (Dek-One) and his boy Ariel (A-Train!). Me and Manny DJed a party on a boat (yes, a moving boat), and upon special request from Ariel, I managed to do the Marvin Gaye remix live, while the boat was rocking everydamnwhere, and keep that sh*t on-beat. This was the last tape done on my Gemini Scratchmaster mixer, so I’m still killing the transformer switches, and also the last tape unveiled in my boy Mike’s white Jeep, which was all but ritual up to that point; a “country cruise” as my ex-girl would call it.
I think this tape is such a treat because ‘97-’98 saw so many of the artists i grew up on still going strong (GangStarr, Rakim, Nice & Smooth, EPMD, The Beatnuts, Mobb Deep…) and new favorites were emerging almost out of nowhere (Company Flow, Mos Def, Big Pun…). The best memory from this tape though is when i waited for 3 hours outside Tower Records in Boston to get Guru and Premier’s autograph the day after “Moment of Truth” dropped and i actually gave a copy of this tape to DJ Premier. I was so damn shook, but he was too cool. I always wonder if he listened to it…
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD VOLUME 9 – A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY
Mekalek’s Mixtape Series, Week 13: Volume Zero – Gummy Bears (1998)
This right here is really the first tape i’m pulling out of the vault–one that only friends have heard and really the last of my old style of mixtape. Since we’re going backwards chronologically you’ll see what I mean in the coming weeks, but mostly it means i remixed EVERY track on here. When I first started DJing, I (along with Jaysonic who used to make tapes with me) wanted to create a kind of library of mixtapes, so we started with Vol. 1, Vol. 2, etc… The reason this is called Vol. 0 is because the content is mostly stuff from when i first started DJing, or even before. Around this time in ‘98 I started bringing back the early 90’s music heavy, most likely a backlash from the then reigning “shiny-suit era” (which seems pretty appealing nowadays I gotta say). This is also the first tape I did on my brand new gold Vestax mixer as I said goodbye to Geminis forever. Damn line-switches. This isn’t on some “For My People”, the songs on here are some of the most well known from that era, but I re-did them…Mek style. Enjoy this one… Oh yeah, special eff-you to the chump at Guitar Center who swore up and down that Vestax never made a gold mixer. I said “But I use one every day!” yet he maintained that i was wrong. Guitar Center…pfffff….
