Best of both worlds (pt. 3)

One of the better rap/R&B collabos, Mase featuring Total, taken from his multiplatinum 1st album Harlem World.

Mase feat Total - What You Want

FPI Project

FPI Project feat Sharon Dee - Rich In Paradise (Going Back To My Roots)

Fortified Live

Talib Kweli live at Nosturi, Helsinki tonight. We still rank this Rawkus 12" from 1997 as Kweli's best effort.

Reflection Eternal - Fortified Live [zshare, 320]

Rave On

Great early 90's rave from Holland's Speedy J.

Speedy J - Pullover (1st Remix)

House music (pt.2)

Big saturday coming up! House music all night long! Below are a couple of classic vocal tracks that will help you make it through these rainy winter days. The first one is an epic promo only edit by the one'n'only FK, released in 1991. Second on the platter is a beautiful vocal gospel track by Kenny Bobien, produced by Masters At Work in 1998.

Frankie Knuckles feat. Lisa Michaelis - Rainfalls (Rainapella)

Kenny Bobien - Rise Above The Storm

Bonus track is by one of my most respects fellow Finns - Klas "Sasse" Lindblad aka Freestyle Man. This one's off his 1999 "Solid Support" EP.

Freestyle Man - Tender Rain

Techno Classics

Two techno classics. Enjoy

Green Velvet - Flash

Model 500 - No Ufo's(remix)

KALI

Two classic Bay Area independent raps from the mid 90's

City Side Crew - Kali

Dereliks - Iz On Some Other

Best of both worlds (Part 1)

Back home from a 90s hiphop night which (so much as I wished) could have ended with this song from 1995.

R.Kelly feat. Notorious BIG - (You To Be) Happy

Merry Christmas

"Decorate the house with lights at night
Snow's on the ground, snow white so bright
In the fireplace is the yule log
Beneath the mistle toe as we drink egg nog"

My pick for this christmas is the greatest rap remix of all time. Large Professor provided the beat plus a tight verse for the Stress remix which only appeared on the b-side of the original 12" single.

Organized Konfusion feat. Large Professor - Stress remix

Up north trip

Fyrre is out to rock tonight therefore I'll put up three songs he probably is not going to play. My up north trip to Joensuu is up next and I'm 99% sure that these tracks will appear on the playlist. Classic tracks that everybody remembers from the mid-90s Helsinki scene. I'm going in and I got my 90s hat on.

Charizma - Methods [Part 1 & 2]
Ahmad - Back In The Day remix
Pharcyde - Ya Mama

First quarter

As much as I wanted to talk finance and quartal economics, time series and degrees of stochastic dominance, this blog stays strictly music. What we have here is probably the best first quarter of any album ever. A shaky hands photo straight outta my crates. As Fat Joe said, LISTENNN! 320 for my Serato bitches.

Reasonable Doubt was released on June 25, 1996 after Jay-Z, Damon Biggs and Damon Dash had agreed about a distribution deal between their newly-founded Roc-A-Fella records and Priority records. The album reached #23 on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold roughly three months after its release (RIAA). The platinum sales for this album in the US were certified first in 2002.

Can't Knock the Hustle, produced by Knobody from Puffy's production team Hitmen and featuring the R&B superstar Mary J.Blige, was the only one of these three that got a single release. Even its' success in the US is questionnable as it only peaked at #73 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the UK Can't Knock the Hustle however made it to U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs at #35 and I remember the song being in heavy rotation on the airwaves during my London visit in the spring 1997.

Politics As Usual featured production from the Camp Lo-legendary beatsmith Ski and features a sample of "Hurry Up This Way Again" by The Stylistics.

Brooklyn's Finest was produced by the Air Force 1 connoisseur slash cousin of Foxy Brown, Rodolfo Franklin bka Super DJ Clark Kent, who sampled "Ecstasy" by The Ohio Players for this urban masterpiece. In the song Jay-Z traded verses with Bedstuy's own Christopher Wallace (R.I.P.) and this is arguably the best of the few collaborations between these two heavyweights.


Download 320kbps Jay-Z feat. Mary J. Blige - Can't Knock the Hustle

Download 320kbps Jay-Z - Politics As Usual

Download 320kbps Jay-Z feat. The Notorious BIG - Brooklyn's Finest

Push the feeling on

Tonight I will be playing at Jani Tolin aka Alfons Helsinki birthday bash with a close ally of the Network, DJ Anonymous, so it's going to be nothing but good times, memories and future. Expect to hear this classic among all other songs:

Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On (Extended mix) [320 kbps]

Before they were rapstars

Some more not-so-usual New York white label action from my crates.


Jay-Z - In My Lifetime
[Roc-a-fella Records, ROC-001, 1994]


Papoose - Alphabetical Slaughter
[Select Records, PRO-77, 1999]


Saigon - Favorite Thingz
[Sure Shot Recordings, SSR-1001, 2003]

Pori Jazz 2007

Pori Jazz and Bar Kino to be exact on the menu tonight. The festival was headlined by The Roots yesterday and today by Steely Dan who imo have seen their best days. To my knowledge no one of my friends went to the festival this year as there nothing interesting. Comment if you disagree. To the rescue! I will be cooking tonight with my right hand man, the young - not yung DJ Mista-S. Expect to hear this as a MSTRKRFT remix or:



Don Pablo's Animals - Venus (Piano mix)

NY state of mind

DJ Eli is back at it for all 90s New York heads. Classic DJ Red Alert mix from 1992. Live mixshow is a great element of deejaying. I loved every minute of my 2 years on Finland national radio and I will post some audio here as soon as I have time. Mad props to Pimpu and J.A.K.

Brooklyn keep on

To make sure that I don't have to ever again answer the question "why aren't you feeling Finnish rap?" (real reason is because I'm a dick, but let's keep that on the dl) I'm giving you a 5pac of mid 90s goodies. This goes out to all you new kids on the block, DJ's Blah, Didier & Anonymous and an extra-mellow borough in the city of Espoo known as Soukka, straight in ya face from the era when sneakers were not in and it was Timbs all seasons. Plus it was straight from Brooklyn better known as Crooklyn. Pre-Rocafella when it was Guesswhyld, Tape Kingz, Stretch with the Dolo & all that.

Big Jaz feat. Jay-Z & Sauce Money - Foundation
Hillfiguz - Up On Prospect (Plaza Mob mix)
Jemini The Gifted One - Can't Stop Rockin' (Goldfinger's remix)
Lace Da Booms - Cut That Weak Shit (NYC mix)
Shadez Of Brooklyn - Change
Bonus track:
Silver Convention - You Turned Me On, But You Can't Turn Me Off

I got 5 on it

Here's a 5pac of classic dancehall from my NY state of mind (12 inch) reggae crates. As inspiration to post this functioned Eli's link to brilliant "18 and Over", a request by DJ Anonymous and the fact that Funkmaster Flex, known as Aston George Taylor Jr. by his mom, produced the Rayvon hiphop mix under the alias DA BIG DAADEE. Check also the less known Sanchez & Lady G counter-version of the legendary Twice My Age which runs a good 6 minutes, the ending half being some smoked-out (?) version madness.

Mad Lion - Real Lover
Mega Banton - Sound Boy Killing
Rayvon - No Guns, No Murder (Hip Hop mix)
Sanchez & Lady G - Half My Age
Shabba Ranks - Roots & Culture

I still love H.E.R.

I just felt this had to be mentioned on my own blog as well: Funkmaster Flex killin' it. Strictly from the Golden Era. Special shoutout to Skem and Sport who brought those Stretch & Bobbito tapes to Finland back then.

Way before T.I., way before Shady, way before Luda, way before Baby -Erick Sermon