The one and only J-Zone will be bringing the funk literally to The Bowery Electric in remembrance of Don Cornelius. For free. Full details via Facebook.
Benzi & Mike Posner are back with a special xmas gift for yall with "The Holiday Super Spectacular!" Mike is reporting from his parents home in Southfield, Michigan while his mom makes cookies, and Benzi has put togehter a crazy mix of new and classic Christmas jams just for yall. Also on board is Brooklyn's DJ Ayres who contributes a super dope guestmix of his all-time favorite Holiday Rap Jams! So grab some eggnog and download this super special edition of The Mike Posner Show with DJ Benzi now!
Kasso will be rockin' live art on South Broad Street in Trenton tonight while DJ Tangency spins Soul & Funk music. Facebook Event to keep abreast to this one; word from Will is that this one normally goes down on Thursdays, but they are switching it up for this week only. Word is Will has a solo show going down in March, so a lot of these shows will be gearing up for that. Dope LOCAL talent going down in Trenton. Be there.
I loved last year's Summertime mixtape - and apparently, so did mad people, as it hit half a million downloads! This year's is just as dope - all of the cross-genre shit, with a lot of original jams and the Hip-Hop uses thrown in, as well as some SICK blends (that Stevie Wonder / Run DMC jawn is a personal fav). If you don't drop this at least twice during the holiday weekend, you're on crillz.
Daví "That Thump (New Music In Yo Ear)": Not that I’m gonna compare Daví to Prince, but the lo-fi fuzzy bass, snare cracks and those random keys had me feeling like I was dancing in Paisley Park or some shit. The influences are definitely some 80s Funk style, from actual lyrical content to the whole vibe. Like neph is going to have to make a video shot entirely on VHS to make this one perfect. Daví’s a choreographer that’s worked with loads of people (Kerry Washington, Craig Robinson and Cubic Zirconia, among others), and is using that work to help mold the music he’s making. I respect the idea of mixing genres, and when homey says he wants to pull from George Clinton, M.I.A. and DâM-FunK, you can tell someone’s being forreal. Some funk that you might need to save for Friday night, while you’re in the midst of a serious trip – or about ready to put the head in.
Pickin' up where they left off last year, DJ Soul mixes up some of the nicest samples from 2010's biggest Hip-Hop instrumentals. Proper education piece here. I love mixes like this - always up for the source material.
Dilla's homey DJ House Shoes cooked up this mixtape of samples Jay Dee used in his production. No better time but the present to dissect the tools Dilla used to create his instrumentals, which are truly some of the finest, ever. Not to say I don't think other producers cook up crack, but Dilla shit does something to me. Other world shit.
