Jay Dilla Y'all

Having come from a house background, I never realised just what a legend Jaydee was, and the more I've delved into his work you begin to see just how many great records he made during his short life. In keeping with our edit-y bias on the blog this version of "One Eleven" is stretched and filtered for us Deejay's, as the the title One Eleven was (cleverly, maybe) the length of the album version of this song.

J Dilla - One Eleven (Ali's Stretched Edit)

I need help Europe!

Hello,

I will be traveling to Sopron, Hungary in the first part of August. If you know the city well or have friends that live in Sopron...I am looking for a place to DJ one night while I am there. It could be a nightclub or a pub. I mainly want to play some great music while I am there.

If you have any contacts or ideas, please email me or post on this blog.

Thanks!

Geoffrey/Mint DJ
mint.dj@gmail.com

Don't Call Me Shirley

1983 West End Records belter reworked. The original couldn't really be beat in my opinion but that's sometimes the best way to approach an edit / remix. Let nothing be sacred. Until the lawyers phone.

Shirley Lites - Heat You Up Melt You Down (The Revenge Rework)

C'mon Baby C'mon Sugar

Found this little nugget hiding in my itunes the other week, it's a basic re-edit I did way back a few years ago when i first started chopping up songs on Soundforge(!). Cassius sampled this less well known Donna Summer track for "1999". See if you can spot it!

Donna Summer - If It Hurts Just A Little (Ali's Chopped Edit)

Shack Attack

Banbarra released 'Shack Up' in 1975 and it's pretty much never went away. I think everybody knows the chorus to this. I've not beasted it too much, just a longer intro and outro for us disco jockeys.

Banbarra - Shack Up (The Revenge Edit)

One Of These Edits

Some tracks need to be handled with kid gloves and tend to get filed in the 'One Day I Will Edit This' folder. This is one of them. Taken from their 1975 album of the same name, this track seemed to capture the best of what The Eagles were about before they became billionaires. I kept it simple for this dub with a snip of a Malcolm McLaren beat which just seemed to fit. California sunsets and doobies all round!

The Eagles - One Of These Nights (The Revenge Rework)

Bumpin' In Ma Ride

Bobby McFerrin, Dre and Saul Williams provide the content for this Long Beach workout. I always dig this one out as it gets nearer to summer. Flickin' the switches in my Ford Cortina.

The Revenge - Lay It On Me (Big Dogs)

Modeselekting, chopping, pulling your trousers up

Thought I'd post up my re-edit of Modeselektor's "Silikon" track, remixed by Siriusmo. The Siriusmo version was a brilliant slice of broken dancehall-y electronica, except for the complete lack of thought for someone actually trying to play it when DJing. I don't know about you but we like to avoid that pit-of-the-stomach scary vibe you get when a tune is still blasting out and you notice there's about 10 seconds left to mix in another one... PS Check those troo's!!

Modeselektor - Silikon (Siriusmo Remix/Ali's Rework)

Stratusphere

A favourite of mine from the vaults here. The stupidly good drummer of drummers, Billy Cobham laying down maybe one of his best know tracks (Massive Attack sampled it) and in the process showing that we could all get into psychadelic-jazz-funk. Just go easy on the LSD.

Billy Cobham - Stratus

Is This Love?

One from our stable to begin proceedings. Eighties soft-rock legends Survivor get a doing-over by The Revenge in a French-disco-club-banger. Grease up the wind-machine, peel the clingfilm off and waft this stilton over the dancefloor. Mmmmm

Survivor - Is This Love (The Revenge Rework)

What does deep house mixed at 130 bpm sound like?

Howdy everyone,

So you love deep house yet sometimes you what something with a little more movement...a little faster. I was wondering the other day what it would sound like if I really pushed up the bpm (beats per minute) to 130. Last night I had some extra energy (caffeine) and decided to record a quick half hour deep house set mixed at 130 bpm. Most of the mixes are good, some small slippage yet please provide your feedback about the sound and flow of fast, deep house.

Thanks.

Geoffrey / Mint DJ

Mint DJ's new "This Week at Beatport" mix

Howdy everyone!

We are on the cusp of spring and it is time to get outside, enjoy the changing weather and turn up the tunes. Of course I have been enjoying the blue skies and 70 degree weather here in Arizona. This is my new This Week at Beatport mix. All the tracks can be found at Beatport.com.

You will love this mix!

Tracklisting:

Microstar - In My House
Art Lines - Outside Of Days Off
Vincent Casanova, Paul Keeley - Take Me Beyond Paul Keeley Remix
Richard Belsom - Soundscape
StereoK - Talk Talk
Sole Unity - So High (Dub Mix)
Journey Man DJ - Shelley's (Breakdown Dub)
Artifex - The Song Of Fex
Alex Carbo - Scorpio
Dj Fex - Runway
Shonky, Mia - Swoon (Shonky Remix)

Geoffrey / Mint DJ