I AM OF ONE COLOR

It has been recently brought to my attention, as if i already did not know. I haven't been posting a lot recently, mostly because i have found myself not having anything to post about. Well fellow dj friend Contra explained to me no one cares. He gave me a few ideas of what i could post, since i have been ripping my vinyl collection to mptrees (not WAV sorry not enough room, nor money. so save it ryan) i'll be uploading atleast one track per week. Why just one track? because im greedy AHAHAHAHA ALL MINE COOKIE YUM, and lazy.
Anywho without further adue Lester Abrams AKA a lot of other bands but mostly i really appreciate this track. L.A Carnival, which used to be the les smith soul band, lester changed the name to LA carnival. The group was not a very big hit during the time, as for the group it slowly faded away.
which reminds me, off topic last night as i was laying i am of one color. My boy decided to ask me if i have any lighter shade of brown or fuschinckens which i dont. so i need to remember to get that, and what other way to do so than to post it here.

so now that i went of on a rant about something that has nothing to do with LA carnival or the track color

here it is for you


















La Carnival- Color edit

also heres a nice little interview by stones throw on boob tube you snoob lube yoube

Totally better than another one.

So on the new Money Studies release by Scottie B and The Chavy Boys of London there's a tune called Zoe Jawn -- using Gorilla Zoe's "Hood Nigga" Acapella over a stripped down flipped bmore-formatted track(sans Think/Gaz breaks).
Not the biggest fan of the tune; actually deleted if from my PC knowing that I would never play it out --- which usually never happens as I have a couple thousand tracks on my computer that are all patiently waiting for their moment to shine.  That said however, what I would(and you should) play continuously 5 nights a week is this:

Contra - Smalltown Hood

I had another version I had sent out a while ago -- but this newer version has a club-friendly kick ---- that is unintentionally well-eq'ed for what I wanted to do(non-obtrusivemovementish). Also there is a 3 minute outro on this 320kbps tune, in case you want to jump ahead and drop ur own acapella.

Speaking of amazingness, here's an edit from Todd Terje. Highly recommend finding more/all of his stuff!

Blehorkestar Bakija Bakic - Fizheuer Zieheuer (T2 Edit):

On some balkan awesomerifficish!

Double - Woman Of The World (Long Instrumental Version):

This is on some slow and spacey disco vibe -- something Matt Cash[DFA] would play @ PS14.

Stayed home . . . for a second.

Its weirdly difficult to stay home at night in Miami. Even on weekdays. Tonight I 'almost' stayed in -- meaning I didn't leave my house until bout 2:30am. I couldn't imagine how it would be living in a city where things close up at that time.  

 

Anyways, at some point before I went out to go see my friends band, The JeanMarie at Churchill's I made a little edit-turned-blend thing. Horribly enough, it was triggered by an Axe deodorant commercial I had seen recently. Some music nerd/genius they hired plugged The Seeds' "Can't Seem To Make You Mine" as the soundscape to a prototypical 'sex sells' ad.



It's a great fucking song, so if you haven't heard the song on its own --- familiarize urself w/ this black/white footage of the band in action playing this first single.



Those familiar w/ my friends 'Sandwich Boy Naeem' or 'All Hail Me Wes' will recognize the tracks first 8 bars(and then some) as the sample fodder for Spank Rock's "Put That Pussy On Me" remix Diplo did a while back. I was never the biggest fan of the remix (always thought the OG by XXXchange killed), but for the sake of an accomplished project, here's the tune I put together.  

Contra - Seeds into Spank

*Note to DJs, this is a transition track. Starts @ 120bpm, then after the space break speeds to an eventual 130ish. The bonus is that its properly tagged/cued/looped for Serato.

Vinyl Rip (Part 1 of 1)

All my shit is in storage -- but when I was proactive at the old crib, before living here(scroll down) I recorded a couple tracks off vinyl. This track is Jimmy James Thomas' funky "I Can't Dance". It's on a bunch of compilations; and has been reissued a couple times -- but here you get it lazy point-n-click style.



There's an edit of this song floating around as well -- if you've got it -- hook it up.

still bloggin

man, a good 24 hours later -- and i'm still bloggin. so impressed. usually i give up pretty quick on these kinds of 'projects'.


especially now that i'm doing edits etc. I'll come up w/ the idea; which is amazing. i'll maybe even put it into ableton; realizing that this is turning into a legitimate 'project'. then, if i'm lucky, i'll start setting up some markers.

and then, maybe after 10-20-30 minutes of marking up, slicing, redrawing this one audio file, i'll get so tired/bored that i've got to stop. and you know that whole notion of "picking up where you left off"? m'eh. overrated.

anyways, somehow i get some things done, sometimes. By "done" of course, i mean that I just stopped at an agreeable spot. So here are some "would've been something, but i'd rather move forward with not finishing other things" song-things.


First is a killer cover of the Temptations song "Cloud Nine" by Mongo Santamaria that I tempo'ed, extended, effect-ed, and otherwise worked with:


*Edit: Also, here's the OG Temptations song --- but the INSTRUMENTAL(well, its got some vocals on it)!

Second is my first mash/blend/edit thang from forever ago (like way before u got her leaked advance song). Franki Chan posted it up a while ago; a couple days later he posted an edit up that Franki & Jake did. I still believe that their edit beat out mine in downloads just cuz of franki's photo.

So here's my attempt at a 2nd wind. Thought process for this one was: Diplo(docus) = dinosaur. Maya = zany.