(this is an image that belongs to the graph writer FUNK1)(he's dope!)
...so MANTISOUNDS dropped the illest, sleaziest, funkiest, disco mix the other week... folks are still emailing us and faceboobing about it and causing a stir over how dope it is. and boy is it dope. it inspired me to try and get on his wavelength. so without further delay, here is my debut as PHATMOBERT the funk fatty. I hope you like the track selection, its a mix of all different styles of funk, from that r&b laced ish, to that hardcore horns and claps, mixed in with that crossed-over soul inflected groove.
"The freak with the top hat is leaving with the basketball. Cover the freak....Tell the men, it's time to shoot the moon!"
I've been promising a disco mix for a while, and this weekend I finally got it together and finished it up. This is 14 tracks of smoked out, dubby disco edits that put a smile on my face. Nice and slow, lots of spaced out effects, slow motion funk for Sgt. Stedenko and the freak in the top hat (mostly for the freak). I used a bunch of edits from Deep& Disco and Munga, who are all killing the disco reedit scene right now. Check their Soundclouds for serious midtempo disco damage.
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(Ralph Bakshi's "Heavy Traffic" promo, 1973)
mantisounds - shoot the moon
1. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (Cole Medina Remix) 2. Minnie Riperton - Inside my Love (Darren Daz Dalton's Inside my Filter Rework) 3. Ed Wizard & Disco Double Dee - This Joint 4. Kazino - Binary (Munga Rework) 5. Loleatta Holloway - Seconds (Deep&Disco's Once is Never Enough Rework) 6. Sister Sledge - Pretty Baby (Eyan's Deep Space Dub) 7. Sister Sledge - Lost in Music (The Revenge Rework) 8. Mona Raye - Do Me (And Munga Done Did It Rework) 9. Sharon Brown - Specialize in Love (Munga vs. Deep&Disco Edit) 10. Jamiroquai - Alright (Dan & Kris Re-Edit) 11. BeatFanatic - Something Better 12. Richard T Bear - Sunshine Hotel (Musica Hermosas Bounce Edit) 13. Stevie Wonder - Do I Do (U-Tern Edit) 14. Alpha Blondy - Jah Glory (Rhythm Plate's Disco Riddim Plate)
hey kids! we're back with more sonic goodness. here we have a tale of morals and ethics - two things (can morals and ethics be properly described as "things"?) i have been thinking about a lot lately. this mix uses samples from an old instructional film on "making good choices" , the film focuses on a young man who gets in with the "wrong" crowd and here we go are you ready? 1. the store security guard who sees him is friends with his family and he has to "decide" what to do - turn him in OR turn a blind eye (cue sappy music) 2. the police come to the boys house looking for him and his mother has to decide (in a really disorienting internal dialogue scene, that seems to take forever! i mean seriously if i was the cop and after the three minutes she makes me wait on the porch and then says "oh he's not here" i wouldnt believe her! i wouldnt!)- does she turn him in or does she lie to the police?! (cue sappy music) 3. the cop who is interrogating the youngstah wants him to turn in his friends - does the young man do it or not?! this goes on forever, everyone involved has to make a "tough choice" and then at the end the film poses the most serious of questions - WHAT WOULD YOU DO?! its like you're jeesus and what you decide finally matters to someone. so anyways i took all the audio out of the film and then i cut (cut is such a weird verb, i mean it never sounds right to me, i always feel likes its missing a letter or something, like it should be "cutted" as in "i cutted and pasted")and pasted it to make a much shorter morality tale, i then took this tale and cutted and pasted it over a really sweet mix that i feel captures the complexity and ingenuity of the original film production. i hope you fools like it!
Good news boppers, it's new mix time from deep inside La MoDa Central! Both Mo and I have been hard at work, with some new goodies in the pipeline to get your toes tapping as the summer says goodbye and the leaves start changing. First up is a new breakbeat mix from me (Mantisounds). I endeavored to create a mix that was a "breaks-through-musical-history" concept, if you will. Starts with some flapper-style swing elements, passes through the early days of pop music (Mr. Sandman), and then storms headlong into the disco era. There's a nod to classic breaks (the Mexican remix), the remix of the year (IMO) from Peo and the Drumattic Twins, and then I finish up with breaks from the future (Slyde and the Stanton Warriors remix). All given the big room tweaked out thump that I can't get enough of.
I played most of these tracks in my set when I joined Atomik in Portland in August, and they went down really well, so I thought I'd do it again and post it up for all to enjoy.
Keep it locked, more treats from both me and Mo coming soon....
Yes.... on this edition of la moda mixtapes i try my hand at a rap mixtape. this one finds me at the junction of violence and consciousness, objectification and praise. i love hip hop, but i dont always like what i hear or what i see. and yet... there are those instances in which i want to hear the nihilism, i want it in my life. tough days at work are made that much more easier by a little NWA on the way home. this mix is about my inner struggle with a form of art that doesnt always love me back. parts old school, experimental, on the fly, and autobiographical, i hope you enjoy this trip with my inner spirits... the good and the bad.... the sacred and the profane... puts some diamonds and rubies on the cover yo, it'll sell a million copies....
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