- LIPS - Everything To Me (Adventure Club Dubstep Remix)
Mix CD Life: Rap + Mashups (Freedom Fighters)
(Download below. 320 kbps.)
In the middle of making a melodic dubstep mix, I was cutting songs together and got stuck on this one voice sample of, “pump, pump, pump it up!” After you hear the same thing a hundred times it’s like you never want to hear anything ever again. So you know what? Rap sounded like a pretty good idea.
I know what you’re thinking. “Rap? Wtf.” But seriously. I have absurdly high standards for rap, and it has to have some fucking amazing melodies. Starts off emotional; gets hopeful around Jurassic 5’s Freedom; The Roots and Mos def show up for some old fashioned wordplay; MF Doom makes things a little more funky; Cyclops Rock’s mashup brings us back down to Earth; Tech N9ne wants to show us HIS Earth; and Tyga leads us out on something a little more heartfelt.
Love, listen, enjoy. Call it, “Freedom Fighters.”
Download here: http://www.mediafire.com/?v631xy9v0pic6ca
Track list / start times:
Beginning: Notorious B.I.G. x Kanye West - Suicidal Thoughts (White Lotus Runaway Mashup)
(@ 2:17): Talib Kweli - Hostile Gospel Pt. 1 (Deliver Us)
(@ 7:02): Jurassic 5 - Freedom
(@ 10:20): Wu Tang Clan vs. The Beatles - Uh Huh
(@ 13:46): The Roots - Guns Are Drawn
(@ 17:15): Mos Def - Auditorium
(@ 21:17): Kanye West - Get ‘em High (Ratatat Remix)
(@ 26:16): MF Doom ft. Mr. Fantastik - Rapp Snitch Knishes
(@ 29:09): Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See (Datahowler Mashup)
(@ 31:27): UGK, Outkast, & George Michael - International Whisperer’s Anthem (Skratch Bastid’s Sexy Sax Mix)
(@ 37:16): CunninLynguists ft. Rick Warren - Stars Shine Brightest (In the Darkest of Night)
(@ 40:11): Cyclops Rock - Communist Future (Neutral Milk Hotel vs. Tyler the Creator Mashup)
(@ 43:08): OFWGKTA - Orange Juice (by EarlWolf)
(@ 46:04): The Hood Internet - Save Me Concubine (Ghostface Killah x Beirut)
(@ 48:55): Tech N9ne - K.O.D.
(@ 52:33): Warren G (ft. Nate Dogg) - Regulate
(@ 56:15): Tyga ft. Adele - Reminded
- Feed Me - Pink Lady
Also? This. For fans of melodic dubstep.
Dubstep Roundup
The past two weeks have been spent enveloped by chillwave and background sounds. You know, Emancipator, Emika, and basically anything like Teen Daze.
Problem is, it gets kind of boring being mellow for so long. Enter Dubstep immersion.
Don Diablo ft. Dragonette - Animale - (Datsik Dubstep Remix)
We can’t just jump from light to insane, so this remix gives us a nice transition into heavier fare. Gotta love female vocals, right? And such a smooth rhythm at the start. Whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop. Really entertaining/unique build-up around 1:36.
Richard Vission & Static Revenger (ft. Luciana) - I Like That (Adam F Dubstep Remix)
Enter a heavier twist on one of my favorite targets for remix pleasure. Luciana’s voice is raspy, dirty, and perfectly placed above deep bass. Amazingly quotable lyrics help too. Also: hi random drum & bass backbeats.
The Shangri-Las - Remember (Adventure Club Dubstep Remix) (download available)
“As you command, Megatron.” My love of Transformers as a kid is probably the only thing that explains why I love this voice sample so much (at 1:57). Listen through the whole track for a soft, 58 second intro filled with sweet soul, or skip ahead if something so technically awesome bores you, but either way, stay for the typical Adventure Club destruction that comes after.
Mt Eden Dubstep - Sierra Leone (download here)
Wooing, “whoa-oh,” voices flow in circles in the background until :27 when deep, relaxing bass kicks you, only to be toughened up even more around :41. A classic, through and through, but everyone who hasn’t already heard Mt Eden needs a crash course in what dubstep really should be. This.
The “drop” is at 0:51. It’s more along the lines of floating beats. Adventure Club always rocks melodic dubstep. Besides, Brand New being here is amusing. If you enjoy this, check Adventure Club out on Soundcloud at http://soundcloud.com/adventureclubdubstep - many of their songs are available for download.
- Brand New - Daisy (Adventure Club Dubstep Remix)
Piano-based Hip Hop that seems to break the shitty mold of talk-about-how-I-have-lots-of-women. I’m in love. Even if the lyrics are kind of amusing.
- XV (ft. Pusha T) - Awesome
Just in case you aren’t in love with them already.
- The Naked and Famous - Punching in a Dream
Subwoofers are so important here. Even without them, though, there’s some incredibly melodic singing. Here’s to an attempt at falling asleep!
- Mt Eden - Sierra Leone
Music: Electronic, dance, strange.
