She was a troubled girl, but there has always been something I have admired about her rugged charm, brash sense of humour and honesty, which comes out with such feeling in her music. We got a lot of good feedback from this mix, so here it is in all it’s separate glory. It includes some Amy Winehouse classics, some remixes, plus some of the tracks she sampled and covered. Rest in peace Amy.
Playlist:
Amy Winehouse – Me & Mr Jones
The Specials – Hey, Little Rich Girl
Amy Winehouse – Hey Little Rich Girl
Amy Winehouse ft Pharoahe Monch – Rehab (Remix)
The Zutons – Valerie
Mark Ronson Feat. Amy Winehouse – Valerie ft Rukus Precha, Alex Blood and Malik (Baby J Remix )
Andy & Joey – You’re Wondering Now
Amy Winehouse – You’re Wondering Now
Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
The Shirelles – Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
Amy Winehouse – Know You Now
Funky DL ft Amy Winehouse – Handed To You Free
Amy Winehouse – Fuck Me Pumps
Ghosface Killah & Amy Winehouse – You Know I’m No Good
Nas Made You Look (acapella)
Amy Winehouse – In My Bed
Amy Winehouse – He Can Only Hold Her
The Icemen – My Girls She’s a Fox
Billie Holiday – There Is No Greater Love
Amy Winehouse – (There Is) No Greater Love
EXTRAS: Listen: Amy Winehouse – Like Smoke ft Nas
Listen: Amy Winehouse – You’re Wondering Now | Buy Me
I don’t want to ruin it, if you haven’t already, you need to totally listen to this for Equal punking me. Elliot Heller a.k.a. DJ Equal is an upstanding gentlemen and a fine DJ from New York City, whenever I talked to him he seems to be flying to Iceland, Dominica or the South Pole to play in a club over there. I have been bugging him for a DJ set, and this is what he sent me. Niceness!
Playlist:
Jay-Z and Kanye West – Ni**as in Paris
Uncle Murder – Warning
Drake – Headlines
Lil Wayne – Gucci Gucci
Gucci Mane feat. Busta Rhymes – Murder
Raekwon feat. The Game – Rock n Roll
DJ Kayslay feat Busta Rhymes – 60 Second Assassins
Monica feat Rick Ross – Anything
Meek Mill – Middle of the Summer
Red Cafe feat Ryan Leslie, Rick Ross – Fly Together
This Sunday at Ching-a-lings is totally going to be like this. Naiki San, myself and a random cat floating through Shinjuku in a flying saucer shooting lasers out of our eyes. As a little teaser, I thought I would post one of my favourite Naiki mixes from the show. This is a G-Funk vs P-Funk selection from back in 2008. Sorry about my over excited yelling on the mic.
It’s been a while in between drinks for me and a terradome set on the show. We have been crazy busy with all the awsome guests we have had in so that is my excuse. Here is a mix i did a while back now on the show, It has a bunch of different tunes, Some Dancehall, Hip hop, Digital Cumbia vibes and some future beat biz. Shantan put it up on the Stolen Records soundcloud, and added a bunch of drops from some of those mentioned awsome guests. Here it is plus some freeloads from the mix. Enjoy. More mixes from me here. Mike Who
After 5 years on FBi Radio, Ankia moves to New York leaving behind her Friday Night show Discotek. This is a mix she did on her very last show. Tonight A-Boogie is having a party to celebrate her birthday and going away. DJ line up includes Josie Stylez, Leon Smith, Wendy Samantha, ANK1A, Lord Ichiban and Hau playing a Nick Skitz tribute set. If you are in Sydney head to Ching-a-lings. Details right hurrrr!
Playlist:
James Blake – Postpone
James Blake – CMYK
Ifan Dafydd – No Good
Ludacris – Whats Your Fantasy
Jay-Z Big Pimpin
Aaliyah – Are You That Somebody
Missy Elliot – Beep Me 911
Kingdom & Girl Unit – Ride It Everytime
Ghost Town DJs – My Boo
Silkie – Boogie Boy
KP & Envyi – Shorty Swing My Way
Koreless – Up Down Up Down
James Blake – Ill Stay
James Blake – Give A Man A Rod
Jay-Z – Anything ft Usher and Pharell
Kingdom – Frogs
Roska – Squark
Cybotron – Clear
Ramadanman – Work Them
Ramadanman – Glut
Addison Groove – Footcrab
Girl Unit – Showstoppa
Girl Unit – Wut
Weeknd – What You Need
Aaliyah – One In A Million
SBTRKT – Wildfire ft Lil Dragon
Lil Wayne – We Back Soon
Aaliyah – Heartbroken
Hudson Mohawke – Twistclip Loop
Snoop Doggy Dog – Lodi Dodi
Addison Groove – Work It
Addison Groove – Sexual
Got a taste for something a little heavier? London producer/DJ Joker has been out here, drinking chai tea, hitting the gym with A-Trak and playing table tennis with Benga. Besides that he also been doing a bit of DJing on the musical traveling circus Parklife. Here is a mix to get you hyped for the remanding cities on the tour – Brisbane, Adelaide and Sydney.
Listen: Joker – The Vision (Let Me Breath) ft Jesse Ware | Buy Me
Listen: Die & Interface – Bright Lights ft William Cartwright (Rockers Remix) | Buy Me
My Friday just got 300 percent better stumbling across this Christmas mix by Lowbee on soundcloud. There will be haters as yes this mix is hella soft and has heaps of shit cheesy songs. But and i say But listen it’s Killer…It’s a journey through an “endless sea of gentle grooves” as LowBee puts it and anyone willing to make a tape like this is funny and awsome. For anyone that doesn’t know Lowbee, aka Lowbeezy the other half of the now infamous Hollertronix crew with Diplo and all round Dope Philly Party DJ get familiar with some of his other more serious and club vibes here..Lowbee
P.s Shantan don’t hate me for posting this.
Here are Two of my Favourite jams off the mix Freeloads..woooo.
I really need to get a copy of the first freestyles Just and Lupi did on the radio back when we did a late night show. They were two really hungry, talented high school kids that we got in to spit, while their parents wait to pick them up afterwards. Though that first tape, ‘The Future Is Bright’ is still hella dope, they have come a long way. Here is their latest, still rapping about graff, food and broads. Big love.
I meant to put these up a while ago. These are drunken photos by Emma mostly of Sonny, Anya and I striking a few poses at FBi’s Winter Prom in July. It was a cracking good party, taking it’s inspiration from all those American TV proms rather than your own daggy formals. Though I was actually king at my formal, it was a chance to do it all again and correct everything that was awkward and horrible at your high school formal. It was amazingly decorated, everybody looked so good and indie cover band – Fan Fixion – weren’t terrible either. In my dreams, this is everything I imagined the Stolen Records Gala Ball to be.
BTW: Emma and Anya are dressed by Dear Pluto, Shantan is mostly wearing stuff from Harajuku Thrift shops, while Sonny is dressed strictly via Five Finger Discount.
I was at Parklife last year in Brisbane for work and as the other Lacoste wearing brown person in Queensland I kept getting mistaken for Mehdi at various pre-festival parties. As ridiculous as it was I was thinking if I could pull off a French accent, I could really clean up here. Later I did a brief interview with Mehdi, and ended up bumping into him a couple of times over following week or so. Though my encounters were brief, he really did come across as that good natured, good humoured person that you hear about from so many of the people that knew him well.
Last week when I heard the tragic news, I started going through the Mehdi stuff I had and collecting a few other bits. I ended up putting together this mix for the show, playing some of his older hip hop production, newer hip hoppy stuff, remixes and some of the original tracks he sampled. I am sure there are some better tributes other there like this one from Feadz and this hip hop mix by Abcdr du Son, but even so this is our hommage.
Tracklist
Kourtrajmé & DJ Mehdi – My Time My Days
Jacksons – Great To Be Here
MC Solaar – Wonderbra
Ideal J – Ideal J (Featuring Hasheem & Zaharya)
Leon Haywood – I Wanna Do Something Freaky To You
DJ Mehdi – Lucky Girl feat. Fafi
Ghostface Killah – Charlie Brown (Dj Mehdi Remix Feat Mapei)
Notorious B.I.G. – Nasty Boy (Kourtrajmé & DJ Mehdi ‘Le Cirque’ Remix)
Uffie – Pop the Glock (Dj Mehdi Edit)
Prince – Controversy
Dj Mehdi – I Am Somebody (feat. Chromeo)
Uffie – Wordy Rappinghood
Tom Tom Club – Wordy Rappinghood
Dj Mehdi – Breakaway
Shalamar – Full Of Fire
Nas – You Owe Me (Kourtrajmé & DJ Mehdi ‘Have Fun’ Remix)
Dj Mehdi – Anything Is Possible (Feat. Vinia Mojica)
Idéal J – Le Ghetto Français
Idéal J – Le Combat Continue
113 – Jack-potes
Karlito – Estelle
Stevie Wonder – Girl Blue
Santogold – Lights Out (Dj Medhi Remix)
Mapei – Public Enemy
For a better insight into his character a number of the people that have been touched more personally by Mehdi have written some very heartfelt tributes. Chromeo’s Dave 1 writes here about his memories of Mehdi. A-trak speaks here about the loss of a brother. And more locally, our friends, Levins speaks of his experiences with Mehdi at yolevins.com and Nina Las Vegas writes about Mehdi on the Mix Up blog.