I had been talking about doing a mix about all my favourite tunes themed on Love and everyone was sick of hearing me talk about it and not actually hearing the mix. So last uni holidays I was actually productive and here is the finished product with Love from me to you. So grab a partner, open your finest casked wine and get familiar. Big love to the homies from Well Dressed Vandals for doing me a cover so i can be all legit.
Lots Love from Mike Who..xo
Here are also some seperate tunes for your download because Stolen records fm Loves you..
I am not really sure, but there could still be a warrant out for my arrest in New York State. Maybe it is my paranoia, but I was pretty sure on my way back into Los Angeles from Colombia that I would get stopped by customs and thrown in jail.
It was all the result of a night out in the Lower East Side, Manhattan. As one that easily succumbs to peer pressure, I was convinced by my homie to buy something from the bodega. So naturally I picked a beverage with the most amusing name and the highest alcoholic content. Four Loko enter stage left.
Little did I know that Four Loko was crack in a can. It is a toxic cocktail of alcohol, caffeine, taurine and guarana. The drink has been made illegal in many states including New York, after it has almost killed college students on several occasions. However, there are some Bodegas that still sell it. It is also dirt cheap, though drinking dirt would probably be more enjoyable.
Usually a master of drinking inconspicuously in public, I was busted within seconds of taking my first sip. The police officers insisted that I finish my drink, but gave me a $25 fine for my trouble. Four Loko really tastes like candy flavoured vomit, so during the time it took me to finish it off, I was stopped by two other police patrols. The night after that point was a blur of hyperactive, over confident drunkness, which very nearly got me in more serious trouble.
Anyways, a couple of weeks later I was in Mexico, and hadn’t got around to paying that fine just yet. I get a call from a recorded message, telling me I needed to be in court in Brooklyn the following week or there will be a warrant out for my arrest. Great.
After several unhelpful phone conversations, I am still not sure whether that fine got sorted out. I’m back in Sydney now, but think I would be safer in a country that doesn’t have extradition treaties with the United States. Life of a fugitive.
Another day much like the one before, Totoro finds himself at the bus stop with the other Nine to Fivers. They all wait patiently for the Cat Bus to take them to their respective places of employment. On today’s journey, Totoro found himself additively listening to this J Cole song over and over again.
Music from Lanie Lane, Raphael Saadiq, Frootful, Estelle and more. However, the centre piece of tonights show is our tribute to the late great Miss Amy Winehouse. 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.
Famed producer, Salaam Remi – who worked with Amy Winehouse on Frank, Back To Black and her unfinished comeback album – had this to say about Amy’s personality when recently talking to New York’s Power 105.1 FM.
“Amy had strong opinions on everything. …. She was very opinionated about what she liked. At the end, she was a real person,” he said. “She had a huge heart. We’d be working for hours and she would have everybody in the room snickering. She always had a joke. You could hear a lot of that in her lyrics, she could be sarcastic and she was extremely witty … but more than anything else she was a real person, an individual artist.”
“To put it all in a nutshell, Amy loved to sing, to write … that ability never left her,” he said. “She was very good at channeling her emotions into lyrics, and then being able to sing them. She was in a place to go forward and make it happen. … The way that Amy and I always created was, she would write and we would toss ideas around.”
Rest In Peace Amy!
Playlist:
Cassidy – Drink and My 2 Step (Cousin Cole REMIX)
Aldo Vanucci – Naive ft Amy J
Jay-Z feat. The Dap Kings – 99 Problems (Prince of Ballard Remix)
Dennis Coffey – All Your Goodies Are Gone feat. Mayer Hawthorne
Kanye West & Jay-Z ft Otis Redding – Otis
Lanie Lane – What Do I Do
Ballin’ Jack – Found A Child
Young MC – Bust a Move
Frootful – Fish In The Sea (feat Angeline Morrison)
Cookin’ Soul x Chuuwee – Just Ain´t Gonna Work Out feat. Mayer Hawthorne
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 (Mix out at around 1:00)
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
Common – Ghetto Dreams ft NAS
Major Lazer ft Santigold & Mr Lexx – Hold the Line (yum yum Warning Rmx)
YT & Mr Williamz – Smiley Culture Tribute
Estelle – Come Over
Warren G & Nate Dogg – Regulaterock (Jstar Remix)
Beastie Boys – Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win (feat. Santigold) (Major Lazer Remix)
Frank Ocean – Novacane
Janelle Monáe – Tightrope (Wondamix) (feat. B.o.B & Lupe Fiasco)
J. Cole – Ladies ft. Lee Fields and the Expressions
Clipse ft Lee Fields – Mr. Me Too (Z.A.K. Remix)
Lee Fields – Honey Dove
Raphael Saadiq – Movin’ Down The Line
One Day Crew – Horrorshow, Spit Syndicate and Joyride – break out the banjos and other questionable instruments, and get a little Mumford and Julia Stone on us. It wasn’t exactly hood, but we still had a knee slapping good time as the One Dayers play an all acoustic gig. The night included guest spots from Illy, Jane Tyrell, Milan and more. Here is a little glimpse of the One Day hoedown.
Dam! She was an artist that I played on my show as much as I could get away with. An amazing voice, but also a brilliant song writer. She brought the retro soul movement into the mainstream with original songs that had candor and a sense humor rare in the genre. Even as a wreck on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, she came across as a very lovable, witty hopeless case. As a fan I really wish she made more music. But it is not to be. Such a waste.
And here is the original Icemen track that Mark and Amy sampled for this jam. It features a young James Marshall (a.k.a. Jimi Hendrix). Sadly Jimi was another brilliant artist that died at 27.
Here is a tidbit from old school UK rapper, Funky DL’s mixtape ‘Back to Rap’, where he raps on beats that sample Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back to Black’. Get the mixtape here
I love the line… “I made Jesus Walks I’m never going to hell”. Ah… sorry Kanye. I’m not a religious man, but I am pretty sure it doesn’t work like that. Make a song about Jesus and then you get a green light from the authorities in heaven to engage in whatever debauchery tickles your fancy.
Hella dope! We were fortunate enough to be granted an audience with his Hellaness, Sir DZL a.k.a. Deltron Z a.k.a. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien. Hella stories of the early days of working with Ice Cube and Sir Jinx, performing on Hey Hey It’s Saturday, The Gorillaz and more.
DJ Morgs of the Thundamentals takes us on a journey in search of the brown note with a set of bass heavy hip hop jams.
Plus we try to squeeze in as many of our favourite West Coast hip hop jams as possible. Why not?
Playlist:
Swollen Members Left Field (Feat. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien & Unicorn)
Hieroglyphics – You Never Knew
Eligh and Grouch ft Pigeon John – No More Greener Grass
Murs – Done Deal Ft 3mg
Tha Alkaholiks – All the Way Live (Q-Tip)
Busdriver – Unnecessary Thinking ft Abstract Rude
Quincy Jones – Summer In the City
Pharcyde – Passing Me By
Freestyle Fellowship – Inner City Boundaries
Anotha Level – On Deck
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien – Catch A Bad One 97
Lootpack – Return of the B-Boy
Aceyalone – The Guidelines
Del tha Funkee Homosapien – Double Barrel
Deltron 3030 – Turbulence Remix
The Coup – Me and Jesus The Pimp In a ’79 Granada Last Night
Thundamentals – Holla
MORGS DJ SET – PLAYLIST ON ITS WAY
Thundamentals ft Vida Sunshyne – Check My Fresh
Listen: Swollen Members ft Del & Unicorn – Left Field | Buy Me
Listen: Eligh & Grouch – No More Greener Grass ft Pigeon John | Buy Me
That Kween G is a problem. While I was away eating tacos and trying not to get kidnapped by taxi drivers, she was filling in on my show plotting a coup. This is her interview with Kurtis Blow backstage at Tone Nightclub in Sydney, before his performance. Pssssttt… whatever.
The infamous Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, man of many talents and crews including Hiero, Deltron 3030 and Gorillaz, will be touching down in Australia this week for the first time in way too long. Here is a Del Mix of some of my favourite Del jams to get you in the mood.
Playlist:
Del tha Funkee Homosapien – Lyric Licking
Del tha Funkee Homosapien – Wrong Place
Hieroglyphics – Oakland Blackouts
Del tha Funkee Homosapien – Stress the World
Hieroglyphics – You Never Knew
Del tha Funkee Homosapien – Hoodz come in Dozens
Deltron 3030 – Mastermind
Del tha Funkee Homosapien – AhonetwoAhonetwo
Gorillaz feat Del – Dirty Harry
Hieroglyphics – Powers That Be
Del tha Funkee Homosapien – Mistadobalina
Del tha Funkee Homosapien – Disastrous
Del tha Funkee Homosapien – Young Adrenaline
Del tha Funkee Homosapien – Dr. Bombay
Also here are some tunes off the mix because we are awesome and nice people.
MP3:Del – Wrong Place | iTunes
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Janini Panini
STOLEN RECORDS 