Mike Jones wishes everyone a happy birthday

New Mike Jones album came out. The big track for me is Mike Jones' generous birthday wish, a guaranteed jam for many a b-day party everywhere. Enjoy. (As for the rest of the album, got its hits and misses, but most definitely check out Drop and Gimme 50.)

Mike Jones - Happy Birthday

If the Cranberries died and reincarnated as a Reggae artist...

Anybody else hear that?

The Monday Mixdown #4 - Fidget & Bass

The last two weeks have been a little crazy. Wrote 4 exams and then flew out to Manhattan to visit some family, relax and do some shopping. Now that I'm settled in at my summer job, I can get back to the bloggins'.

Here is the 4th installment of The Monday Mixdown (except this is Friday). Kyle and I have decided to record live mixes now cause it takes a lot of time to arrange and edit proper ones. Oh well, it's good practice for us and the mixes have that live (radio?) feel to them.

This week is a selection of some of my favorite bassline, fidget and electro house. Some of it is old, some is quite new....but it's all good and bassy. And if you don't like heavy metal, don't worry...just let the first track build. The mix was made using a pair of Technics SL-1200 MKII turntables, a Korg KM-402 mixer and M-Audio Torq. I tried using some of Torq's built-in effects and the Kaoss Pad on my mixer. I hope it sounds decent.

My next mix is gonna be something really special......
(hint: Brazil vs. Jamaica)

And this mix is dedicated to Francois cause I know he's been waiting for it, haha!

Tracklist:
Slayer - Raining Blood (FnDannyBoy Remix)
Mikix the Cat - Zulu King
Fake Blood - Mars (R!M!E Remix)
Busy P - To Protect and Entertain (Crookers Remix)
Messinian - Throw it Away (Designer Drugs Remix)
Nadastrom - Pussy
Mark Ronson feat. Amy Winehouse - Valerie (The Count and Sinden Remix)
Don Rimini - Rave On (DJ Barletta Edit)
Primary 1 - Hold Me Down (Foamo Remix)
Gathania - Blame it on You (Sidechains Remix)
Stuffa feat. Mapei - Pretty Girls (Sinden Remix)
Rico Tubbs - Hip Rave Anthem
Bird Peterson - Shooked

DL The Monday Mixdown #4

New Dancehall-Electro-Bashment from Toddla T

Discodust just posted a new remix from Sheffield's Toddla T. They focused on the original artist and track, but I'm more interested in that Baaaaaaaashment! Boh!

Anyways, DL the track and show Toddla some myspace love.
I also included a couple older tracks from T.

Shake Aletti - The Way He Does (Toddla T Remix)

BONUS

Little Boots - Meddle (Toddla T Remix)
Ghislain Poirier feat. MC Zulu - Go Ballistic (Toddla T & Duckbeats Remix)

Weekly MVP x 2: Kriss Kross - Jump and Kriss Kross - Warm it Up

Two videos for this week, as I neglected to post one last Monday while out of town.

All I really need to say about this post is that someone really needs to revamp the backwards clothing style. Fo' reeeeeeeeeals.

The classic.


I love this track too...even have a copy on vinyl.

So very tired...

...that I can't even bother looking for a picture to accompany this post.

It has been quite the week (or 2).

My first turntables were a pair of Geminis which served me well but I needed to upgrade to the 'standard', so to speak. So, I bought a pair of second hand Technics sl-1200 MKIIs. I got a really good deal on them but they had a few problems. So me, being new to these turntables, had no idea what to look for when buying second hand 1200s. When I brought them home I found out that the height adjustment ring on one of them was totally stuck and looked to have been turned past its limit. One of the pitch faders was really dirty and didn't slide well, while both were exhibiting the dreaded 'double zero' and uncalibrated pitches (according to the strobe). Also, one of the start/stop buttons felt like someone had spilt their lunch in and around the area so it was extremely sticky.

After days of research I finally had to bite the bullet and take each turntable apart and do a full cleaning and inspection. I desoldered and took apart each pitch fader, cleaning and lubing each thoroughly. I Took apart the button and tone arm assemblies and cleaned each out. Finally, reassembled everything and found that the height adjustment ring became functional again and all of the buttons/pitch faders were nice and snappy.

I am currently in the midst of calibrating the pitch faders which seems to be a very tedious job but it all seems worth it.

Oh, I'm also in the process of looking for a place downtown. The store is getting busier now that it's warming up outside.

Here are some songs that have made my week:

UNKLE - Restless (Fake Blood Remix)
Djedjotronic - Dirty & Hard
Wale /f Lady Gaga - Chillin' - (give it a chance, trust me)
Mikix The Cat - Zulu King

New Don Rimini!

While riding the subway in Manhattan a couple days ago I noticed someone reading an article about Don Rimini in a magazine. I was about to strike up a conversation about him, but the train stopped and the girl left. Great news though, the reigning king of heavy electro-house has released a new single!

This new track is part of Scion's latest sampler CD that's been complied by the folks over at Discobelle. Chyeah, the Swedish blog got a record deal. Grab the rest of the CD over there as it's periodically released. Make sure to find Top Billin's contribution.

What to say about Karaté? You get the Don's trademark blend of heavy-synths, thumping bass drums, snappy snares and as always, it doesn't follow the typical house structure (i.e. progressively building for 60-90 seconds before dropping the beat).

DL here: Don Rimini - Karaté

Dan Deacon got a stanky leg

If there was a big brother camera in my house, you'd probably find me doing the stanky legg when no one's looking. And you know I love me some Dan Deacon. That makes this brilliant for me. Thank you Hood Internet. I can only hope that Deacon'll put out a video for this mash up. I'd love to see his leg get stanky over some brain banging green screen psychedelics.

GS Boyz vs Dan Deacon

And for the stanky legg, if you don't know... now you know:

Daft Punk is from Space!

Haha! You see what I did with there....
Just wanted to get your attention, I'm not implying Daft Punk has stolen anything. However, the influence of Space on Daft Punk and other electro/house artists in the last while is unquestionable.

I've been into Space for a while now, ever since I discovered them at The Red Room (one of the best blogs around). Enjoy the ambient, but danceable electronic/synth/pop/disco/spacey goodness.

I love cranking Magic Fly while driving from Toronto to Niagara at 2 a.m. - as I do almost every Saturday/Sunday.

Space - Magic Fly


Space - Running in the City


Space - Ballad for Space Lovers (Live)
Look how big that crowd is....these guys are legit.

For everyone who's schoolin' it...

It's been a little slow here at The Boombox Incident. Some of us are in the middle of writing essays and exams. Here's some random music and videos to help everyone else out there sweatin' the books right now.

Real Life - Send Me an Angel '89 - FYI: my favorite song of all time

Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street

Tesla Boy - Spirit of the Night - great new band from Russia

Super Cat - Ghetto Red Hot

Bobby Hughes Experience - Theme from Skidoo - so much soul

Bonde do Role - Geremia

Van Halen - Hot for Teacher - always wanted to open a set with this song

Toadally Krossed Out - Toads Theme - Mad Decent discovery from Wales

Big Pig - I Can't Break Away - from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Rick James - Ghetto Life - for the O.G.z

CLASSIC!


This is my favorite song right now.

Weekly MVP: Herbie Hancock - Rockit

This week's music video playback is probably the most influential song in DJ history. It is the first song featuring turntables and scratching. Grandmaster DST (DXT??) on the wheels gave many future DJ heroes like Qbert, Mixmaster Mike, Roc Raida and others their first taste of that ffff ffff fresh, fff fffrr fffrrr ffr fressssssssssh!

Not to mention that this video has some weird shizz, along the same lines as Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer.

The Monday Mixdown #3 - Bodymore, Murderland

This week's Monday Mixdown features some of the best Baltimore and Philly Club tracks out there. It's a short mix - only 13 and a half minutes - but consists of 12 songs. That's some fast-paced mixing! Anyways, hope everyone enjoys it - don't ask me for the unreleased tracks in the mix though. I bought them legitimately of course...from where? I'll never tell. Haha! It's not that hard to figure out if you really want them.

Whether it's shakin' off or the Wu-Tang that you prefer, this mix will get you moving.

FYI: this mix was made using production software. I think from now on I'm gonna mix and record these live cause it takes a lot less time.

Chyeeeeeeeeah.

Tracklist:

Blaqstarr - I Can Feel It in the Air
DJ Sega - Ironside
DJ P.O.L. Style - Get Yo Handz Up
DJ K-Spin - What Track
KW Griff - The Take Ova
Rod Lee - Shake Off
Say Wut - Say Ayy
Johnny Blaze - Peanut Butter Jelly Time
DJ Tameil - Tek 9
DJ B-Stee - Robot Club Rock
Chavy Boys - George's Groove
Rod Lee - Dance My Pain Away

Download the mix.

AC Slater 'Banger' EP

AC Slater seems to be giving 2009 the old college try, but unlike some others, he's succeeds in giving us hit after hit. Rock It Out was a very solid EP. Banger, while I didn't love it as much as the previous, is still a great record featuring solid bass lines and great remixes. The Tittsworth's remix is well, give it a listen will ya?

Listen & Buy at Beatport

AC Slater - Banger (Drop The Lime Remix)

Back by popular demand....

Wait till you see my....

Dem Apple Bottom Jeans.....

Chyeah....

Big Beats and Happy Feets: Bounce

Another new feature here at The Boombox Incident. One of my favorite ways of procrastinating is searching for relatively unknown styles of dance on Youtube. Now I get to put this wasting of time to use.

Instead of pretending like I know the history of these dances, I'll just post the video and let you do the research. Take that!

Just kidding, I'll post whatever I can.

This first post is a style from New Orleans called Bounce. The dance shares its name with a style of hip hop that's been around for years now. Bounce has influenced tons of people from Master P to Lil Jon. There's a definite trend amongst the dancers in the video - those quick-shaking shoulders and hop/kicking combinations.

Gotta love those cheap strobe effects!

Video: N.A.S.A - Gifted

Video for N.A.S.A - Gifted

Uh OH... Fad Alert!

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Top Billin's Drunk As F#$%

I posted about this release last week. But the good people at Discobelle have posted Top Billin's remix of Titts' new single (which is the best version). The track is fair bloggins now, so it deserves a second mention.

Tittsworth feat. The Federation - Drunk as F#$% (Top Billin' Remix)

DL here........support here.