Apparently Paulskee of Mighty 4 liked Skeme’s Park Jam mix so much that Skeme decided to do a Mighty 4 TV mix in a similar vein.
So if you liked the last one, check it out here. It’s packed full of old-school goodness.
To help promote tomorrow’s Mighty 4 Detroit event, Jus Jones released this promo mix featuring the sounds of Motown. Click here to download.
The download is free but you have to register to access it. Sorry privacy lovers.
With the weather starting to warm up, b-boys and b-girls all over are getting the itch to dance in their favorite outdoor spots again. A park, street corner, or even just a driveway just has a different vibe than being cooped up between four walls.
Skeme Richards put out this mix on the Super B-Beat Show in an effort to show b-boys and b-girls what they might have heard at some of the original NYC park jams. It’s easy to imagine these beats pumping out of the speakers on a hot day while b-boys and b-girls scrape their knuckles on the bare pavement at some dusty NYC park. Click here to download.
There’s something about dancing to a drummer that can’t be replicated by dancing to a track with sequenced drums. Why do you think Get On The Good Foot hypes you up after hearing it for the 400th time?
On the flip side, the sound of a good DJ/turntablist at work is unparalleled in its ability to get people on their feet.
You may remember DJ Lokee as the guy who was nice enough to send us his July 4th Block Party Mix last year. He even went so far as to provide us with a tracklist, prompting a few hours worth of Mountain Dew-fueled Googling by me.
True story: one of my professors in college was the producer for I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, widely regarded as the Keenan Ivory Wayans’s most glorious triumph in film. The hall next to his office was the proud home of the poster that you see above.
Now that you have the background to something almost completely unrelated, go download DJ Mane One’s free b-boy track, titled YOUSUCKA. It’s got a bit of that early ’90s funk to it, with a nice horn that should bring you back to a simpler time when people could only do four airflares and any more than three elbow spins was enough to make any normal b-boy cry with joy. Download the track here.
What better way to start off the new year than with some new music? Well, new to me anyway. According to the site, these mixes date as far back as 2004.
SWOTTEAM consists of DJ Knowledge and Mistasweet from the Netherlands, and that’s about all I learned from their website. But I’m not complaining, because the focus of the site is their music, and isn’t that what we’re really there for?
Head on over and click the “Downloads” tab, then click the graphic of the vinyl record next to the mix names to download. There’s a place at the bottom right to leave a comment, so make sure to let them know if you enjoy the music.
LINK: SWOTTEAM
Let’s keep this one simple: here are some free hard-hitting breaks for all you broke b-boys and b-girls out there. If you don’t know Lean Rock’s stuff, you should.
My initial growth as a b-boy happened to coincide with the growth of the popular music sharing software called Napster. I’d spend hours sitting on my 56k connection trying to fill up my four-gigabyte hard drive with songs that would take me an hour or so to download.
That meant every song counted. Even if they weren’t all “good,” I’d force myself to like them or at least familiarize myself with them. And, as a beginner, I quickly realized two search phrases would redeem my hours of downloading frustration: “breakdance” and “battle of the year.”
I ended up with a motley collection of songs–some good, some, uh, confusing. But of the Battle of the Year soundtrack picks, the Def Cut ones would stay burned into my brain for months at a time. Nevermind the fact that doing this weird thing they called “dancing on beat” seemed impossible at this point, especially to such fast music–this stuff made me want to run out in front of a screaming crowd and maybe do an airflare or two (remember, this was the early 2000s [the year, not the move]).
You guys should feel very very special right about now. This is an MTAS exclusive, meaning that within six hours, this link will probably be posted all around the Internet on b-boy blogs and forums, but you’ll know who brought it to you first.
Remember the first Soul Movement by DJ D.L.? Awesome, right? Well, expect more of the same in the second part. Here’s what the man himself says:
“I made Soul Movement I & II to show my support for the B-Boy culture and my appreciation for the dance so, big ups to all the B-Boys & B-Girls worldwide and big ups to More Than A Stance for the support. You guys are definitely perpetuating the culture.”
I haven’t wanted to listen to much else lately, and D.L. graciously lets a few of the songs play out “so that the bboys can rock to the song and enjoy the music,” so it’s a perfect mix for sessioning or just chilling.
D.L. has been a big support to More Than A Stance from the beginning, so remember to show him some love here. Hit the jump for the tracklist.
Okay, gotta be honest, but I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who feels this way: I’m not one of those b-boys who listens to breaks all day, every day. In fact, I get tired of hearing the same breaks at every jam.
Luckily for people like me, AlphaTrion just dropped a brand new mixtape with some craziness, ranging from b-boy classics to hipster-hop to that grimy ’90s ish.
As he puts it,
It is a b-boy mix but I tried to make it something fun to just listen to as well. It’s in two halves, all hip-hop. I tried to go with tracks that weren’t necessarily standards at b-boy jams and most tended to have a bit of an edge to ‘em, hence the title of the mix “T.W.A. (Trackz with Attitude). First half is mostly east coast hip-hop (with some Chicago thrown in) and second half is mostly west coast (with some British coast thrown in).
Grab it at his blog here.
Oh, and if you haven’t read Alpha’s review of Focus’s new DVD, check it out here. It’s a masterpiece.
DJ D.L.’s been one of my personal favorite all-around DJs for some time, and this mixtape only strengthens my belief that he’s one of the most slept-on DJs in the country.
I actually went to him first to ask permission to blog about this, and he — and the mixtape — deliver solidly, as usual.
More info and tracklist after the jump.
We first introduced you to DJ DV ONE with the Massive Monkee Day mix. That mix is still one of my favorites, and if you dug that super solid mix of hard loud funk, you’ll really like his Rock Steady Crew 30th Anniversary mix.
Found on his website, the mix is 75 minutes long. And since it was for the Rock Steady Crew Anniversary, you know its top quality.
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Uhhhhnngg. I was trying to think of a good title for this post, like Free Download: DJ Mordecai – Survival Mode plus other awesome mixes like a two-hour Michael Jackson Tribute and like 20 other funk mixes that are all awesome. But I think I’ve settled on just posting up the noise that I made after spending a whole afternoon on the Double Standard Crew website browsing through their selection of mixes.
Obviously, I’m a little biased, since Alpha’s a contributor here, but trust me when I say I’m a legitimate fan of of this mixtape. But “Hip-Hop Mix”? C’mon, man, you can do better than that.
This, along with random DJ Woodo tapes and the DJ Fingaz Freestyle Session 6 tape, was in constant rotation back when I was a fledgling b-boy in high school. It’s a real throwback to the days when I saved up to buy Battle of the Year and Lords of the Floor on VHS — or any clothing item with a b-boy logo on it.
And while that was probably too recent to be a real throwback, the tracklist really is a throwback with all the required ’90s heaters and few lesser-known tracks — Binary Star, anyone? Dope for b-boying, yes, but also good just for chilling, especially since I suspect I’m not the only one who’s been craving some golden era tunes lately.
Click here to download it for free.
Photo credit to Eye of the Cypher
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