Year of the Edit - Platurn

Each week in 2011, the "Year of the Edit," Dollar Bin Jams and Young Robots Records will be debuting one exclusive edit for your enjoyment!

This week's entry comes from East Bay honcho DJ Platurn. Plat is always strong on the edits and mixtapes and I was really happy that he was down to contribute a tune to our little project here. I'd say more but I think his work on this tune speaks for itself.

He's generously allowed DBJ to offer "Love To The World" as a free DL, and in exchange for his generosity, I'd like to encourage everybody to purchase some tunes from the edit EP that features this particular tune. It's called "Blends + Edits for the Lab" and it's available only on Turntable Lab. For this reason we will not be re-upping this particular tune when the Mediafire links expire. I know we tend to encourage our readers to buy vinyl, and keep that world alive, but we want to encourage all our readers to buy independent digital music too so that people like us can put enough food on the table to spend quality time making tunes! Sites like Turntable Lab, Juno and Beatport are very artist friendly and we encourage you all to peruse those and put some skrilla in the pockets of some independent artists.

L.T.D. | Love To The World (Platurn Edit) by platurn

Platurn - Love to the World
Mediafire | Uncompressed WAV
Mediafire | 320 kbps

DJ Platurn - Blends and Edits For The Lab Digi-EP
Purchase at Turntable Lab.

For previous "Year of the Edit" entries, look HERE.

2010 Highlights

Our favorites from 2010. I re-uploaded the whole mix series to ge.tt. You can download all of them at the link below...

Shawn Ryan & Ed Blammo - 2010 Highlights 

ge.tt • 72 Minutes

01. Caribou - Odessa
02. The Bird & The Bee - I Can't Go For That
03. Tensnake - Need Your Lovin
04. Hot Toddy - Down To Love
05. Native Underground - Push 4 Love (Main Mix)
06. Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix)
07. Breakbot - Baby I'm Yours
08. Jori Hulkkonen - I Am Dead (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)
09. Storm Queen - Look Right Through
10. Holy Ghost! - I Know I Hear (Ed Blammo DJ Edit)
11. Eli Escobar - Love Thing Part 3 (Only You)
12. Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place
(Young Edits Sophisticated Melody Version)
13. Yeasayer - O.N.E. (Peter Dragontail Mix)
14. Flight Facilities - Crave You (Version 2)
15. The Swiss - Bubble Bath
16. The Juan Maclean - Feel So Good
17. Voltage - All Night
18. The xx - Crystalised (Edu Imbernon Remix)
19. Sekta - Peterpan (Julio Bashmore Remix)
20. Sister Crayon - Souls Of Gold
21. Husky Rescue - They Are Coming (Warrior One Remix)
22. The-Dream - Yamaha

30,000 Feet High

Wut up Dollar Bin Jammers? I have been quite busy of late and I haven't been able to post much but I shall return in the spring...Bling!...I have been traveling every weekend to a different city spinning for The 3rd Rail jam Tour's after parties. I have 5 more gigs with them all over the west coast and I am having a blast. Huge thanks to my favorite sponsor Slacker Radio for believing in me and check the station if u haven't already =Here! I have been flying quite a bit and I hate planes so I made this mix to help myself not be so scarrrrrred when taking off in one of those cheaply made air gliders. Btw peep the video of the after party at the Wobbly Barn in Killington, Vermont =Here! Enjoy the mix "30,000 Feet High" in 30 minutes. Peace Kidz

30,000 Feet High (Never Check Your Vinyl @ The Gate) by Vincent Smaldone

Year of the Edit - DJ Apt One - Steel It Steelers

Each week in 2011, the "Year of the Edit," Dollar Bin Jams and Young Robots Records will be debuting one exclusive edit for your enjoyment!

OK, so for a while now I've had this week circled as the "week I finally release a mixtape and associated edits that I've been sitting on forever and ever." But with the Steelers winning last night's AFC Championship game, I had to turn to the secret stash of Pittsburgh-centric gems for this joint I edited up last week -

Steel It Steelers (Edit) by DJ Apt One

HERE WE GO STEELERS!

And in case you didn't know, the Philadelphyinz "Pittsburgh Club Anthem" is now on soundcloud and back in full effect!

Philadelphyinz - Pittsburgh Club Anthem by DJ Apt One

For previous "Year of the Edit" entries, look HERE.

Steppin Out Track of the Month

Steppin Out turns one next week! We'll be jamming the finest in new wave, synth pop & freestyle, along with new visuals by Ordo Solido. Plus we have special guests to help us celebrate: Start Making Sense, a live 7 piece Talking Heads cover band! Oh hell yes!

And I can't forget the music! I actually don't have any Talking Heads for you today. Instead, here are a couple of dance mixes of a New Wave track done by François Kevorkian:

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - My Bag (Dancing Mix)
Mediafire | YSI | 320 kbps

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - My Bag (Dancing Remix Dub)
Mediafire | YSI | 320 kbps


Check the Steppin Out Facebook event here. Click to enlarge...

Good To Go

Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to present my first mix of UK Funky, Garage & other bass delights, recorded in December for DJ Ruxbin's Mixtape Exchange...

DJ Shawn Ryan - Good To Go by XXXXmas@medusa

DJ Shawn Ryan - Good To Go | Mediafire | 62 minutes

01. Husky Rescue - They Are Coming (Warrior One Remix)
02. Mosca - Square One (Julio Bashmore Longhorn Remix)
03. Brenmar - You Make Me Say
04. Dubbel Dutch - Throwback
05. Actraiser - Step Up
06. Omar & Zed Bias - Dancing (Instrumental)
07. De La Soul - All Good (MJ Cole Instrumental)
08. Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar (Snitchfork's Armand Splice)
09. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money
(DJ Dee Kline & ED2 Remix / SR Edit)
10. Cubic Zirconia - Josephine (GreenMoney's Trancestep Remix)
11. Azzido Da Bass - Doom's Night (Switch Remix)
12. Geeneus - Congo
13. Schlachthofbronx - Good To Go
14. Redlight - Feels So Good (Wine Up Yr Body)
15. Squarepusher - My Red Hot Car
16. The xx - Crystalised (Dark Sky Remix)
17. Pangaea - Why
18. Ramadanman - Offal

Year of the Edit - The Bladerunners and Skinny Friedman

Each week in 2011, the "Year of the Edit," Dollar Bin Jams and Young Robots Records will be debuting one exclusive edit for your enjoyment!

This week's installment of "Year of the Edit" comes courtesy of a fine food chain of producers. A-Trak made the OG, Boston's Bladerunners made a dub edit, and YR/DBJ mainstay Skinny Friedman re-edited it to bring it up to housey heights. Now that's what I'm talmbout!

If you aren't familiar with The Bladerunners, I suggest you get learned, because those boys make some of the best edits in the biz and they're some of the best party rockin DJs on the East Coast.

A-Trak - Ray Ban Vision (Bladerunners Dub)
Mediafire | YSI | 320 kbps

A-Trak - Ray Ban Vision (Skinny's Dance Edit of Bladerunners Dub)
Mediafire | YSI | 320 kbps

For previous "Year of the Edit" entries, look HERE.

Work Drugs

Philadelphia's Work Drugs starting the new year off right with Dog Daze...

Dog Daze by Work Drugs

Year of the Edit - Soap & Singing (Willy Berner Edit)

This week, Philadelphia's Willy Berner takes us into the rarified air of Reggae Disco with this joint he's calling Soap and Singing. A nice early night groover!

Soap & Singing by Willy Berner

Willie Berner - Soap & Singing | Mediafire | 320 kbps

Stay tuned for upcoming edits by DJ Apt One, Youth / Young Edits, The Bladerunners, DJ Platurn, Matty Cee, Skinny Friedman, Cosmo Baker and more!

Related - Dollar Bin Jams and Young Robots Present Year of the Edit

Crawling And Hungry

Here's an 11 minute deep techno odyssey I rescued from a dollar bin last weekend. According to Discogs, dude is from Dallas. Kinda surprising - this has Germany written all over it.

Convextion - Crawling And Hungry | Mediafire | YSI | 320 kbps

Let 'Em In

I know this track has been all over the interweb for years, but this file comes straight for Joakim himself. So do yourself a favor & replace that shitty bootleg vinyl rip.

Let Em In (Jimi Bazzouka Edit) by Joakim

Year of the Edit - Love Hangover (DJ Apt One Edit)

Happy New Year all you DBJ-ers out there!

On behalf of all of us, I'm very pleased to announce a new feature on the site - Dollar Bin Jams and Young Robots "Year of the Edit." If all goes well, we will be debuting one new edit every week in 2011, from DBJ contributors and from our vast network of friends and cronies. Young Robots is a record label I co-run with Relative Q of RCMP, Skinny Friedman and our new ace Shawn Ryan, all of whom you know well. I encourage you to stay tuned to some of the things we've got going on over there as well!

I'd like to start it off by offering up a tune I've teased here on the site before, my edit of the classic downtown tune "Love Hangover." I set out to make this intending to just have an "all uptempo" version which kept more of the feeling of the building introduction than some of the other edits of this that have been made before. I'm pretty happy with the results and hopefully you like it too.

Love Hangover (DJ Apt One Edit) by DJ Apt One

X-Mas Tunes That Won't Krampus Your Style

I find that Christmas music generally is the worst shit ever. Talk about flogging a dead horse! This year I got to thinking that I need to get my Irving Berlin on and become a Christmas-music-making-Jew just to make the music more tolerable (I've admitted to myself that Christmas is probably here to stay so I guess I should just deal).

But hey check it out - here are some good ones: Two dudes who will dress up as Santa and have sex with your Mom!

Anyways - Happy Holidays children, and watch out for the Krampus!

Clarence Carter - Back Door Santa
Mediafire | YSI | 192 kbps

Mack Rice - Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin
Mediafire | YSI | 192 kbps

Abominable Snowjams

Not ur usual type of Christmas ish, feel me?

Abominable Snowjams (A Christmas Unwrapped) by Vincent Smaldone

You're Too Late

Here's a funky disco cut straight outta San Frandisco...

Fantasy "You're Too Late" (Sergio & Eddy Bauer Dark & Stormy Edit) by sergioaudio

Fantasy - You're Too Late (Sergio & Eddy Bauer Dark & Stormy Edit) | Divshare | YSI | 320 kbps

Joy Revision Edits

Today my Joy Revision edits are out on Gazeebo Disco. There's a driving disco anthem with some iconic vocals & a super funky new wave cut, plus a nice slow burner to balance it out. Pick them up exclusively at Juno Download.

Joy Revision by Shawn Ryan

Matty C - Action (DJ Apt One Remix)

Check the newfangled Soundcloud picture player!

New 11-Inch release today from Vancouver's Matty C, and I lent a super-italo remix to the project, complete with Euro vocals and off the wall synth solos! DBJ readers may know Matty C as one of the curators of the White Light mix series.

Grab it!!

iTunes | Beatport | TurntableLab | Gigacrate

Links from Amazon and Juno as they go live. Distro snafus are the worst!

PPU and Uku

And yet again People's Potential Unlimited has reached back into time and released a pair of supremely mysterious top secret jams. Fans of DâM-FunK style boogie and lo-fi soul should take a moment & check out these cuts from the vaults of Uku Kuut. Plus PPU hooked us up with an exclusive download! Here's a little insight into Uku...

Uku Kuut was born in the Soviet Union, raised in Sweden and Santa Monica California. When PPU finally caught up with him we were happy to find him still recording and producing music in Tallinn, Estonia. "I Don't Have To Cry Anymore" was Uku's first single released privately on his own label Polar Star Records in 1985. The song features Marju Kuut on vocals and Uku on Syntovox 222 Vocoder and the Oberheim DX. "Vision of Estonia" is an instrumental homage to Uku's home for the last 20 years. This will be the first time it's been available on vinyl.

Grab the 45 over at Earcave.

Uku Kuut - I Don't Have To Cry | Mediafire | YSI | 128 kbps

I Love Music

For a while now, I've been wanting to do a series of posts on disco era covers - those songs that were so big or so loved that everyone wanted a piece. Perhaps fitting for the inaugural post, here's the O'Jays' masterpiece "I Love Music." If I've missed any great covers feel free to let me know in the comments, or even better, send em to the blog and I'll add them to the post.

Edit: Zoinks! Just noticed the rip of Montana below is full of glitches. I'll reupload soon.

The O'Jays - I Love Music | Divshare | YSI

Kellee Patterson - I Love Music | Divshare | YSI

Montana - I Love Music | Divshare | YSI

Philadelphyinz - Moombahton de Acero Vol. 2

"Bells and Whistles = summer 2011 anthem status."

-Dave Nada

This summer, Skinny Friedman and DJ Apt One made their first entry into the moombahton canon to rave reviews. Tracks from Moombahton De Acero got support from DJs across the country (and the world!). And now, Philadelphyinz is back with round 2!

Moombahton De Acero 2: MAS MOOMBAHTON MAS ACERO touches all the bases of the growing genre, from Skinny's takes on poppy house and rap hits to Apt One's forays into deeper territory. There's something here for everyone and it's entirely free!

Download it ----> HERE

Trying to Make it Happen

I-Level - No. 4 | Mediafire | YSI | 320 kbps

The Biz

2 very different versions of an excellent cut...

The Biz - Falling (Crash Beat Remix Pt. 1)
Mediafire | YSI | 320 kbps

The Biz - Falling (Dub Mix)
Mediafire | YSI | 320 kbps

*Let me know if there are any problems with the files. My internet connection is being shady

This Must Be The Place

Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Young Edits Sophisticated Melody Version) by Young Edits // Youth

Download available here!

Vintage Rune Lindbæk Mix!

Norwegian disco guru Rune Lindbæk recently unearthed a mix he did for a friend in 1997. It's a good listen & an interesting document of where disco was in the late 90's. Many thanks to Smalltown Supersound for posting it! Be sure to click the link for Rune's description.

Rune Lindbæk DJ mix from Oslo (1997) by smalltownsupersound

Cosmo Baker

If you read Dollar Bin Jams and you don't know who Cosmo Baker is, you should probably punch your own self in the nuts, and then take a little time to learn up about the man.

Philly born and bred, Cosmo is a crucial link in a long chain of talented DJs in Philly - he was raised up by the generation before him and helped raise the generation after, even though he moved to Brooklyn. Pretty much every DJ and club-goer in Philly, NYC and worldwide has a huge respect for Cos and I feel very fortunate to be in music game at the same time and place as the dude. He's also always down for a 4AM pretzel on Washington Ave, so I can't be mad.

OK enough with the puff-piece. I'm mentioning Cosmo because he just redesigned his always-excellent site, and now there are more reasons than ever to go there and soak up the insane record knowledge that always spills off the page. If you're down with DBJ you should most definitely be over there getting learned!

VISIT - the new cosmobaker.com

And check Cosmo's newest installment of the Love Break series -

Love Break Three - The Heart's Final Chapter by cosmobaker