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….
