30
May
2007
Simply Red - Sunrise
Scissor Sisters - I Don’t Feel Like Dancing
Shaggy ft Will.I.Am - Shut Up and Dance
LAX - Forget You
Nelly Furtado ft Timbaland - Promiscuous Girl
Michael Jackson - Rock With You
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough
Prince - 1999
P Diddy ft Keyshia Cole - Last Night
Chris Brown - Poppin
Ciara - Promise (Eric V Remix)
Sean Kingston - Beautiful
Akon - Don’t Matter (Funkymix)
Blaque - 808 (Remix)
PM Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory’s Bliss (Tittsworth Neutron Dance)
Hellogoodbye - Here (In Your Arms)
Justin Timberlake - My Love (Justin Loves Baltimore mix)
Nina Sky - Clothes Off
P Diddy ft Christina Aguilera - Tell Me (Mr. Mig Club Mix)
Depeche Mode - Just Can’t Get Enough (Deep South Mix)
Human League - Fascination (Kaskade Remix)
KoRn - Coming Undone
Coldplay - Talk
LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
Depeche Mode - Suffer Well
OMD - Enola Gay (2007 David Guetta Mix)
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When I hop on the decks, I generally have one of two types of sessions. Sets when I know I’m recording I’ll tend to be more even keeled about my mixes. I focus on the cleanliness of my mixing techniques. I play mostly songs that I’m at least passively familiar with if not intimately with. Sets when I’m just practicing, my technique gets rougher, my range of material gets broader, and I generally just sort of meander wherever I feel like at that moment in time.
Sometimes the output is dreadful. Sometimes it’s pretty cool and I find myself really getting caught up in the moment and just keep spinning, sometimes for hours on end.
This mix is more the latter. I try to always record myself these days, even if I’m “just” practicing. This is what I ended up with last night while trying to burn off a bit of stress.
bakasan 
eighties, new wave, bakasan 
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29
May
2007
UD - Turn It Up
Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
Kriss Kross - Jump
Paperboy - Ditty
PM Dawn - Set Adrift on Memory Bliss
Candyman - Knocking The Boots
Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up
MC Breed - Ain’t No Future In Yo’ Frontin’
New Edition - If It Isn’t Love
hello people, its been a while. a friend of bakasan and i made a little mix himself and wanted me to post it up for him. give it a listen. it consists of some old school joints.
dj retrospekt
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11
May
2007
Dido - White Flag (Rock-It! Fuel Mix)
Jurassic 5 ft Dave Matthews Band - Work It Out
Headnodic ft Procussions - The Drive
All Natural - Writer’s Block
Del Tha FUnkee Homosapien - Thank Youse
DJ Format - Now You
Jurassic 5 - Jurass Finish First
Ugly Duckling - Turn It Up
Young Black Teenagers - Tap The Bottle
112 - Peaches and Cream
Wreckx N Effect - Rump Shaker
JD ft Snoop - We Just Wanna Party Wit You
Musiq - Musiqforthenight
Lumidee ft Tony Sunshine - She’s Like The Wind
Cassie - Long Way 2 Go
Mase - Feels So Good
Down - Leak Like A Cholo
Will Smith - Gettin Jiggy With It
Danity Kane - Touching My Body
Gwen Stefani - Holla Back Girl
Ne-Yo - Because of You (Kanye Remix)
Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder
Nelly Futardo - Say It Right
Beatles vs Missy Elliott - Obla Di Obla Da
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name
Kelly Clarkson vs Blur - Since Song #2 Been Gone (DJ Steve1der)
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I should make it a policy to stop mixing when I’m dead tired. This mix was nearly 4 hours of sheer comedy gold. Feeling bad for cutting my mix short last time, I decided to throw down an hour long mix for ya’ll. Too bad I didn’t find out until the very end that I’d plugged my recording gear into the headphone jack of my laptop and not the microphone input. Strike 1. Correct the wire and determined, I decided to try again. An hour later, guess what, I’d managed to hit the wrong button on my recording software and I have a nice hour long file of dead silence. Strike 2. At this point it’s 1:30 AM and I debate whether to give it another try. Figured what the hell… and the result is this mix… not quite an hour… was exhausted. Sue me. 
So this mix is all about style and defining a signature sound as a DJ. I’m all over the map musically as a bit of an experiment. The mix runs from breakbeats to old school hip hop to mainstream R&B to rock to adult contemporary to funky jazz.
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I’d gotten into a conversation with someone recently about what defined a DJ’s “style”. We went back and forth a bit on what constitutes style and what distinguishes one DJ from another (beside just sheer technical ability which is difficult for the laymen to measure anyhow). It basically boiled down to what they played, the way they mix from song to song, and the overall energy they have behind the decks.
At the very end of the conversation, my friend (lives and DJs in Washington DC) said I had a very “West Coast” sound. Probing what that meant, by his count the crux of the West Coast DJ sound was a set that pulls deep from the crates–nothing is really off limits. The mix goes from track to track very quickly, any given song is only playing for a bit more than a minute, probably not more than two. The technical skills are demonstrated throughout in each individual mix. And there’s a healthy, healthy love for the use of old school hip hop side by side with newer material.
After hearing this, I guess it fits my overall “sound”. As somewhat of a joke though, this mix is me trying to be as West Coast as possible. Whatever that means. 
It’s got its rough patches since I was purposely trying to go all over the place genre wise , but ah well. (Jeremy, tell me if I slipped and got a little too East Coast).
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By request I’m going to start making my posts in a slightly better bitrate than I’d been posting as.
bakasan jiggy, old school, indy, R&B, mashup, bakasan 2 Comments » |
8
May
2007
Hahaha, since I’d been busy and neglected posting mixes for a couple weeks there, I had planned to make it up to you all by posting an extra long, hour long mix.. mid way through as I was about to go into a dance hall / reggae mini-set, my cat (Chip) managed to flip the switch to my powerstrip….and thus, ending the set early. 
Oh well, maybe next time. Enjoy!
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Swizz Beats - It’s Me Snitches
Baby - What Happened To That Boy
2Pac - Pac’s Life
Far*East Movement - Boomshake
NORE vs Punjabi MC - Punjabi Mi Canto (DJ Starski)
Busta Rhymes - I Love My Bitch
Diddy ft Nicole Scherzinger - Come To Me
Bubba Sparxxx vs Paperboy - The Ditty Butt (DJ Spryte)
Paper Boy - Ditty
Diddy - Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down
Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours
Yo Yo ft Ice Cube - Bonnie & Clyde Theme
Next vs Color Me Badd - Color Me Too Close (Kevin Scott)
Souls of Mischief - 93 til Infinity
Biggie vs Amy Winehouse - Biggie Winehouse (DJ Riz)
Too $hort - Keep Bouncing
John Farruggio - Iko Iko Reggae
Beenie Man - King of the Dancehall
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1
May
2007
Bit over due, but work has been brutal. I’m averaging 80-90 hour work weeks right now and probably will be for several more weeks. Going to do the best that I can to keep mixing–both to keep this site fresh with updates and because without SOME kind of diversion, I’d probably go insane.
Got on the decks pretty damn late last night, so I ended up cutting this mix a bit short out of fatigue and due to my home studio being outrageously hot last night. Apologies on a late and relatively rushed mix. Exhaustion can be a bitch.
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2Pac - Old School
Warren G - This DJ
Lighter Shade of Brown - Sunday Afternoon
Pharcyde - Runnin’
Nas - If I ruled the world
Notorious BIG - Hypnotize
50 Cent vs DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince - Candy Shop vs Girls Ain’t Nothing But Trouble
Public Enemy - Give It Up
NWA - Express Yourself
Mack 10 - Nothing But the Cavi’ Hit
Mista Grimm - Indo Smoke
Ice Cube - You Can Do It
LL Cool J - Pink Cookies In A Plastic Bag
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EDIT Podbean seems to be screwing up my file somehow as part of the upload and my file is playing at double speed. Have an open ticket w/ them to fix this.
EDIT 2: Podbean hasn’t gotten back to me.. so screw it, I just uploaded another copy at a higher quality bitrate than I normally post at. Sorry for all the delays and that the mix itself was a bit rushed. Will try to get back on my regular schedule of posts ASAP.
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