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 
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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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18
April
2007
Cyndi Lauper vs. Diddy - Last Time
BEP vs. Salt n Peppa - Push My Humps (DJ Briguy)
Missy Elliot vs. salt n Peppa vs. MC Hammer - Can’t Push Gossip Folk
Gwen Stefani vs. MC Hammer - Can’t Crash This
Missy Elliot vs. Outfield - I’m Hot With Your Love
Fergie vs. Madonna - Glamorous Holiday
Ying Yang Twins vs. Kool And The Gang - Kool And The Yang
Nelly Furtado vs. Eurhythmics - Say It Sweet
Belinda Carlisle vs. Nelly Furtado vs. Gwen Stefani - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
Eminem vs. BEP vs. Shania Twain - Superman’s Humps Don’t Impress Me Much
Hello people. DJ Retrospekt bringing you a short little mashup mix of my own. I’m venturing away from the typical cheese I usually post on here to give you this one. Retrofit consists of a bunch of 80’s songs mashed up with recent hits. A little bit of my cheesiness can still be found in some of the goofy mashes such as Kool And The Yang and Superman’s Humps Don’t Impress Me Much. The last track isn’t really 80s (although a sample of Tone Loc’s Wild Thing can be slightly heard), but I thought I’d add it since I thought it was funny. Anyway, hope you like it. I apologize for any slight stutters or skips you may hear…I really need a new laptop =(.
Watch out for when Kool And The Yang pops in though, my hand spazzed out on the gain just as I was mixing it in so it comes in sort of loud. I try to lower it as quickly as I can.
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2
April
2007
Various Artists - Everybody Move (Break)
Justin Timberlake vs Europe - Final Love (Break)
Nelly Furtado vs Pet Shop Boys - Westend P Girls (DJ Krayz)
Ying Yang Twinz - Dangerous
Coolio - 1234 (Sumpin New)
Gwen Stefani vs Madonna - Hollaback Holiday Girl (Untouchable Blendz)
Justin Timberlake - Sexyback
Timbaland - Give It To Me
Timbaland ft Fatman Scoop - Drop (Break)
Journey vs Michael Jackson - Journey W/ Jean (DJ Sizzahandz)
Sisqo vs Michael Jackson - Jump In A Thong With Jean (DJ Frankie P)
Petey Pablo vs Blur - Girls And Boys On Fire (DJ NASA)
Lady Sovereign - Love Me Or Hate Me (Instrumental)
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Since I’ve been asked several times now, if you know me (or even if you don’t), if you’d like to get a high bit rate version of these mixes (i.e. to burn to listen in the car, etc), please leave a comment or contact me and I’ll hook ya up. To save bandwidth and disk space though, I simply can’t leave all my mixes in high bitrate versions on the podbean servers.
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Thoughts
One of the biggest fads lately, particularly on the west coast, has been the usage of mashups in the mix. A mashup is basically taking two unlike tracks and mixing them together–using the vocals of one over the instrumentals of another. The concept isn’t new, in fact it’s been around for pretty much for as long as DJs have been around. The latest iteration of the fad however is very embracing of taking the concept cross genre–dirty south hip hop over an 80s beat, mainstream pop over punk rock, etc etc.
I originally was going to just do a set of only mashups but realized quickly as I started the mix that it would sound like shit. So I added some filler songs here and there to carry the melody and vibe better–as I’m wont to do though, I got a little distracted and ended up on a tangent I wholly did not set out to go on. It started innocently enough w/ blend using Nelly Furtado (produced by and featuring Timbaland) over a Pet Shop Boys beat. Then a Justin Timberlake track (produced by Timbaland). Then it was a Timbaland track featuring Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado. And quickly followed by a Timbaland and Fatman Scoop party break. I had to break the cycle before it spiraled out of control.. And that’s how I ended back to straight mashup after mashup to end it out…
For the programming curious (programming being the song selection a DJ may make through the course of an event or evening), this set would *probably* be best suited in a Hollywood or similar type night club toward the very end of the evening. By this point, most of the very very popular songs (i.e. “the heat”) has been spent, and you just want to keep the crowd dancing and ending their night on a high note and enjoyably dancing away.
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30
March
2007
Here’s a little mashup I did about 2 years ago that I found lying around on my hard drive. I personally think it’s better than either of the original songs.
Britney Spears - Toxic vs. Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For
dj retrospekt
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