Mekalek’s Mixtape Series, Week 5: My Killer Tape Pt. II (2001)
The second installment in this series saw kind of a different approach than the others. I had a gang of a cappellas this time around and decided to take it back to my older tapes when i would remix my way through a tape. This was during the time when I was full-time into a group called Funkbunker Fleet, which was a 3 DJ and 3 MC crew, so all the exclusive verses are by the FBF emcees.
Planning this tape was crazy because of how much remixing i was doing, and so I had pages and pages in a notebook figuring out how to transition from one track to the next. I was still recording on Platinum Ice, which was nothing more than an inexpensive digital 8-track recorder, so if i wanted non-stop music, I had to know ahead of time what was going to happen and keep the improv to a minimum.
I remember killing the D-Tension/Encore song on the radio to the point i had to retire it, and also the feeling i got hearing the “Fall In Love” Remix. Chills. Peep the remix i did with 8-year-old Jinsu over Time Machine’s “Reststop Sweetheart” instrumental. Wahhhhwwww….







