Help Is On The Way

The Whatnauts coming straight out of Baltimore, with Tee Scott on the mix. The vocals are dope, but the instrumental holds it's own. Just hit play & let it ride. Also, if any jammers are in Philadelphia this weekend, I'm playing records with Apt One, Ed Blammo & DJ Bruce in west Philly on Sunday afternoon. Get the lowdown here.

The Whatnauts - Help Is On The Way (Instrumental)

Mediafire • YSI • 1981

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Soul On Your Side

Start the weekend with a little soul on your side. You won't regret it.

The Rhythm Makers - Soul On Your Side

Mediafire • YSI • 1976

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J.A. Guys

Matpat put My Jamaican Guy's iconic steel drums to work on this one. You can grab a copy of the original dub here if you missed it.




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Jack It All Night Long

Here's another Detroit find for the jammers...

Bad Boy Bill - Jack It All Night Long (Dub It All Night)

Mediafire • YSI • 1987

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Bad Times

 

DJ Bruce & NYC's STRONG crew serving up an groove centric edit of Captain Rapp's Jam & Lewis produced Bad Times.

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Our Day Will Come

Uplifting disco with big vocals, horns and loads of percussion - should be a good way to peak out a dance floor. The SyntheTigers have a knack for editing songs that have not been edited / sampled / remixed to death, and for that I commend them.

Also, be sure to check out the SyntheTigers Up Down EP if you haven't already. It includes remixes from Tim Zawada (Tugboat Edits) and Superprince.



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Humpty Dump

Here's 4 minutes of funk, courtesy of The Reflex & Razor N Tape!


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Hold On Me

I picked up a solid grip of wax when I was in Detroit for Heavy Vibes, including one for the jammers...

Kenny Glasgow - Hold On Me (Miami Heat Dub)

Mediafire • YSI  1995

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Saturday Night

Tim Zawada's back at it with another tough groove!



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Legitmix

I wanted to hip DBJ family to a site called Legitmix.  This is a site that lets you sell edits and bootlegs through a pretty simple and equitable model.  The buyer purchases the bootleg but, incorporated in that purchase price, is a purchase of the original source material through iTunes.  The buyer gets the edit and the OGs.  This way, the legal obstacles that made bootlegs necessary kind of disappear and the original artists don't get cut out of the transaction.  Pretty slick.  At the risk of sounding like a shill, I think this is a really useful tool to get some older artists money that they deserve by closing a loop in the ass-backwards world of the sample-based music business.

Lots of DBJ favorites like Kon, DJ Platurn, J Boogie and more are already working with Legitmix, and as far as I know it is growing pretty steadily.

Legitmix reached out to me to give them my catalog, and a lot of my older material is up there, as well as some stuff nobody has heard, like this edit of the Shuggie Otis / Brothers Johnson classic "Strawberry Letter 23."