Money Beets for 2010

Damn, December 31. Another year down. 2009 was the year La MoDa Mixtapes really took off, but also the year half of La MoDa relocated to Rochester, NY (sniffle, pour some of my Colt 45 onto my carpet). 2009 saw the inauguration of the first black president, and then 10 months of thinly-veiled racism, know-nothingism, and general bad behavior by the forces of evil (yup, I said it). 2009 gave us Balloon Boy, John & Kate +8, Tiger Woods the D-Bag, and Sarah Palin the bestselling author (that was difficult to type). 2009 was also a tough year economically, especially for my people in New York, who saw Wall Street rewarded for screwing us all while Main Street (or Flatbush Ave., or Washington Street, or wherever you live) was struggling to make rent on unemployment and looking for jobs that still haven't called back. As much garbage as 2009 gave us, it also took from us: MJ, DJ AM, Roc Raida, Ted Kennedy, Les Paul, Walter Cronkite, Swayze, the list goes on.

All in all, I say "f*ck 2009, bring on 2010!" I'm about to be a dad, La MoDa mixtapes is getting its geographically-challenged groove back, and 2010 is looking to be a much better year. So with that in mind, here's a little party mix to kick 2009 in the ass and lay a big sloppy kiss on 2010. I figured since Mo switched it up with his (bangin') fancy dancey mix for the last installment, I'd lower my BPM and give y'all something that goes well with party dresses and champagne flutes. It starts out classy but definitely gets sweaty by the time the ball drops...

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mantisounds - money beet$

1. jay z - walk away (alex goose instrumental)

2. sade - soldier of love

3. speech debelle - better days revox ft. wiley

4. lauren hill ft. method man - say

5. wale - letter ft. john mayer

6. fort knox 5 - blowing up the spot (instrumental)

7. debilorithmicos - i'm out ft. cise star and akin

8. common ft. lily allen - drivin' me wild

9. the roots - duck down

10. jay z - roc boys (alex goose remix)

11. the revenge - curtis

12. freddie cruger - bap yo head ft. rapadon

13. emiliana torrini - me and armini (simone lombardi mix)

14. marvin gaye - what's goin on (beatnick & k-salaam remix)

15. rox - my baby left me

16. alicia keys - karma (karmastition remix)

17. people under the stairs - hit the top

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Bring on 2010!

Not so Unhappy

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this time around i go for some fancy dancey type stuff in this mix. i started a new job and i have been in a good mood lately. snows starting to fall in the roch. its freezing here. i finally decided that i am going to throw my hat into the dj game come the new year. yup, hit up the clubz in the roch and bring the La MoDa flavor to the masses. wish me luck. i hope yalls enjoy this mix cause i certainly had a blast spinning it out... peace!

...so my serato is acting a fool and it wont let me save my histories, which long story short means no tracklist again... this problem will be fixed soon i hope!

Dubwreckah

It's my turn on the mixtape, and since I'm in the middle of unpacking a new apartment, I'm going to offer up a mix I threw together about a month ago. It's sort of a change of pace for me: dubstep. This mix spans different flavors of dubstep, from more reggae influenced tunes to bass heavy remixes of songs you'll recognize (the Bassnectar rerub of Groove Armada's "Superstylin" is ill, and I'm enjoying all the remixes of "Heads Will Roll"), to half speed rave anthems (the Ed Solo track). And since this IS a Mantisounds mix, you know I had to switch it up and drop a few breaks tracks at the end for good measure (the Collie Budz bootleg is fire, definitely listen through the end). I also broke out my miniKaoss pad and played with some filters throughout the mix. Dubstep is a genre that lends itself to effects and filters, and I think this mix came out pretty well with that layer of Kaoss effects.

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Mantisounds - dubwreckah by Mantisounds

1. Basement Jaxx - Raindrops (Doorly's Dubstep Remix)
2. Ed Solo - Age of Dub
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (LA Boxers Dub Remix)
4. Claude Von Stroke - Who's Afraid of Detroit (JSaxton's Scared Remix)
5. Bassnectar - Art of Revolution x Superstylin
6. the Prodigy - Breathe (Numbernin6 Remix)
7. Bassbin Twins - Whistle Choon
8. Malente & Dex ft. New Kidz - Lions (Bassnectar & Ill Gates Remix)
9. True Tiger - Bare Face What
10. Bar9 - Murda Sound
11. Michael Franti & Spearhead - The Future (FreQ Nasty's Otto Gives Thanks Mix)
12. Chase & Status - Eastern Jam (Lulu Rouge Edit)
13. Jinx in Dub - 10 Tonne Riddim (Phaeleh Remix)
14. Rusko - Sound Guy is My Target
15. Kouncilhouse - Rock Beat
16. Shane the Cutter - Blood Runs
17. DJ Deekline & Ed Solo - Come Booty Collie Breaks

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Time for a Digestif!

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wow, so much turkey. food. everywhere. i gained 2o pounds in a week just using my mouth! write in to lamodamixtapes@gmail.com and i will tell you the amazing secrets doctors and the government dont want you to know! thats right, 20 pounds in one week!

heres my version of a workout: tracks + mixer + alcohol = new mix for the week + peace of mind... let this mix take you out of it, bring you back to last night when you swore you'd never eat that much again and your significant other congratulated you for not knocking out (insert annoying relative of choice here) even tho they kept baiting you. this mix right here, its smooth, buttery, full of phat beats and groovy aromas. love it! give thanks for great music perfectly curated...

Digestif ala Mosart

NOTE: THERE IS 40 SECONDS OF SILENCE AT THE START OF THE TRACK FOR MY FALLEN TURKEY SOLDIERS. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR AUDIO, THE MIX OR YOUR LIFE.

no track list for this one. if this bugs you to the point where you wanna email me about it -DONT!

Where Them Dimes At?

It's time for another installment of "Polar Opposites," where Mo drops a smooth, buttery downtempo set and I follow it up with jackin' gut-thumping electro madness! I'm in the process of packing for a move at the end of the month, so I've been listening to music that keeps your brain humming and filling boxes with junk. I've been feeling a lot of fidgety house and vocal/booty breaks lately, and wanted to put together a really high energy breaks/bass mix with some of my favorites. I tried to keep it big-room and bass-heavy, with more of a hip hop feel (lots of samples and bootlegs with vocals), and I'm really pleased with how the mix turned out. I included a few current Stanton Warriors stompers, some Krafty Kuts re-rubs, a few 2 Bit Thug remixes, and a few facemelters from Hostage.

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Mantisounds - where them dimes at? by Mantisounds

1. Rico Tubbs - Gangsters (2 Bit Thugs Rerub - Dirty)
2. Vato Gonzalez - Badman Riddim
3. Hostage - I Get High
4. DJ Fast Eddie - Yo Yo Get Funky (Tim Healey & Deekline Remix)
5. Decibel vs Busta Rhymes - Dangerous (Krafty Kuts Re-rub)
6. Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin Beats (2 Bit Thugs Remix)
7. Hostage - Badman Sound
8. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations (Stanton Warriors Remix)
9. Mightyfools - We Want (DJ Icey Recon Remix 2)
10. Bass Kleph - Bump Uglies (DJ Icey Remix)
11. Farace & J2K - Booty Aint a Thang
12. Hoxton Whores - Friday Saturday Love (Breaks Mix Vocal)
13. Rye Rye ft. M.I.A. - Bang (Stanton Warriors Remix)
14. Major Lazer - Hold the Line (Golden Gloves Wobble n Shake Remix)
15. Ctrl Z vs The Freestylers - Ruffneck '09 ft. Navigator (RackNRuin Remix)
16. Krafty Kuts v Draxx & Seavers - Rude Boys (Krafty Kuts Re-rub)
17. DJ Motion - Beatz 4 Me
18. Stanton Warriors ft. Gus Gus - Blue (Vocal Version)

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its my turn to do my thang

i think folks who know me would agree that i am the most easy going and yet the most freaked out, anxiety prone dude they might know. Because of that and some other shit on the periph, i have been facing some serious “mixers block” and it has taken me a good while to create something that I am proud of. And here it is. Of course, i just reheard it myself and i hate it, but hopefully you wont feel the same way. But let me know aight. Cause i do it for you.

So what do we have here? we’ve got a real cheesy intro from a terrible short film called “ghost rider” , followed by one of my favorite hall and oatmeal jams - also one of method man’s favoritos… then its on to the pregnant pauses, brief stops and experimentation with noise, i straight up switch directions a few times, and I throw everything into this one, including my kitchen sink which is clogged right now cause i am in too funky of a mood to do anything about it. Just kidding. i think….

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TRACKLIST

GHOST RIDER INTRO – mosart212

METHOD OD MODERN LOVE – hall and oates

STREETWISE – funkdust

MY HANDS ARE THE QUICKEST – greyboy

COLD SPIN – kid loco

COCO LOVES THE WAY YOU DO IT (mosart212 blend) – the warheads/ black eyed peas

BETTINA - bola seta

RANA – fat jon

TRACK 7 NIHON/NOIR – the warheads

TWO LETTER ALIBI – chewey benson

PELICAN – ocote soul sounds and Adrian Quesada

NIGHT FIDELITY (mosart212) – regina spektor/ pearlcoder

PARTY (mosart212 interfearance from space edit)– sporto kantes

LAUREL MARTY SCRAPINGS (mosart212 put the breaks on edit) – dirty elegance

JDILLABEAT 11 – j dilla

FOR THE CITY (instr.) – statik selektah

STRIP CLUB – jaylib

SAMBA TRANQUILLE – thievery corporation

MISTER MAGIC – grover Washington jr.

GHOST RIDER INTERLUDE – mosart212

HOOK AND SLING – eddie bo

THE PLUG (mosart212 xtra sauce and sounds fast edit) – bonobo

DIRTY BUCK NUCLEUS (mosart212 blend) – newcleus / dirty elegance / dj spanish fly

GHOST RIDER OUTRO – mosart212

Back from the Dead!

We're BACK! What a summer! The Mighty Mosart moved to Rochester, NY, so Boston's loss is upstate NY's gain. Mrs. Mantis got pregnant with twins, so my whole world has been turned upside down and inside out, in a good way. Summer seemed like one long rainstorm between spring and autumn, now the leaves are falling, and the wind is picking up, and the La MoDa collective is recommitting to hunker down and get back to slangin' them beats!

While we haven't been posting much on the blog (or, for that matter, in our podcast feedburner), both Mo and I have been busy all summer making mixes, cooking up reedits, and dipping our toes in the world of original production, and we'll be sharing the fruits of those labors in the coming weeks and months. We'll probably do a quick round of housekeeping soon, and get some of our better mixes onto the blog and into the podcast feeders, so fear not, fans and followers. This long hiatus will not be for naught!

I'm going to start things off with my favorite breakbeat mix of the summer. Tracklist and direct link to the mp3 is below, flash player embedded for your immediate listening pleasure, and instructions for signing up for the podcast are located at the top right of this page. Hit us up with feedback if you feel inclined!

Mantisounds - keep marching by Mantisounds

1. NAPT - Heart of Stone

2. ILS - Hate is an Illness (NAPT Remix)

3. Drumattic Twins - Crazy Love (Peo De Pitte Remix)

4. Bird Peterson - Bird Goes Off

5. Tittsworth - WTF ft. Kid Sister & Pase Rock (Deekline & Tim Healy Remix)

6. Splitloop - Party People (Adsorb Remix)

7. BreakZhead - Going On (Jurassik Remix)

8. Future Funk Squad - Blow ft. Mojo

9. Brothers Bud - The Sting

10. Chemical Brothers - (Saturate (Stanton Warriors Remix)

11. BSD - Get Hype on This

12. Ed Solo & Skool of Thought - When I Was a Yout (Krafty Kuts Remix)

13. The Arsonist - Gimme My (Slim Blue Mix)

14. Si Begg - The Bleeps

15. LCD Soundsystem - Disco Infiltrator (Stanton Warriors Remix)

16. Kid Digital - It's True

17. A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray (Stanton Warriors Remix)

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