Sorry the Monday Mixtape feature has been lapsed on but here's a tasty treat by Chris Devlin of Devlin And Darko, BBC Soundsystem who has capo tight connections with the likes of MEGA Favourites or what we deem "The Brooklyn Dance Mob": The Pase Rock, Fully Fitted, which is also is an amazing BLOG, Bangers & Cash/Spank Rock, Amanda Blank, Santogold & Armani XXX Exchange that is sure to soothe the post Holiday blahs...
Check out the tracklisting that features an insightful perspective on the origins and inspirations for each of the selections and the free download, found after the jump, thanks to the oh-so-bangin', artsy & skater-type bloggers over at Shilo Presents/We Make It Good and make sure to scroll down for the first installment of this mix madness provided by the luxurious Pretty Titty...
Make it Good Volume 2….is pretty weird.
…not a dj mix in the live sense, but yea I am a DJ and i mixed/edited all these songs and sound bytes together. I started with the basic format for a mix, other peoples music. Not satisfied with that, I put in some original material I have made or collaborated on, and did some edits of older songs in an attempt to re-introduce them. Throughout the mix there are sound pieces, found, recorded, and downloaded to (hopefully) make the mix layered and rich enough for more than one listen. There are a lot of construction sounds and work sounds here…I think it makes sense with the We Make It Good title.
Mixes I listened to before this which influenced this project were: Beyond The Wizard Sleeve – Erol Alken, Megamix 3 – Bladerunners, Live@home 3 – Mike2600king, Grown Mix-Zebo,We Make It good vol.1 – Pretty Titty, and a whole lot of National Public Radio…NPR mix coming someday. (so is that pledge check.)
So make breakfast or go running or go to work, give this thing at least one headphone listen though…thats how i did the “final mix”…in crappy headphones!
Track list..
1)Make it Good radio intro – Devlin samples put together for a simulated “indecisive radio listener”
2) Get out my life woman – Solomon Burke classic break.great lyrics.
3) Mixintro – Devlin The above track chopped up and edited into a new drum pattern, with a little synth bass line and the begining of the A side of the 7” Wonder Woman, the return of Brunhilde ( who happens to be some kind of crazy German trying to install the 4th riech)…of of of.
4)The Boules Experiment – Alan Parsons This little fucked up track is amazing. There is a game in France where you bang these balls together and apparently Eric Wolfson of The APP liked the sound of this. They ended up putting this weird outtake on the Album…
5) I wouldn’t want to be like you – Alan Parsons Project Single off “I Robot” which was a favorite of mine last summer. I think this song is pretty funky and the gentle “fuck you” chorus is nice. Alan Parsons engineered Dark Side of The Moon, The making of that album is out on DVD and for a novice in production like me, it is amazing. I robotaint bad either!
.. There is a sprinkle of Draculas Wedding by Andre 3000 at the guitar break of the above song. The love Below (2003) was so cool. Andre just airing himself out and it was so good. This track was awesome and when alexxx Change heard it for the first time this year he said, “oh he was doin that bloghouse bass back then”
6) Shake it to the Ground(chinco sonido psych cumbia beat)- blackstar&RyeRye
So The guy who did the first installment of this mix jacked this song from me, and the sonny Pitchbull too. After this betrayal, I promised I would sprinkle these songs throughout, with out actually playing them.
…Alan Parsons and David Gilmour dialouge from The Making of Dark Side of the moon
7)Pass the Calabash – Margaret Singana Phil had this to say…“Her surname’s spelt Mcingana by the way, although everyone says Singana. She did the title track for the Shaka Zulu movie (‘we are rising’ or something – stirring shit seeing Zulus kill tons of Brits with that song playing), and back in our bad old racially segregated apartheid days she was the first black person to feature on Radio 5’s top 10 (supposed to be whites only station pre-1994). She’s a legend” ….Thanks Phil!
..I edited the arrangement of the track and added a bunch of sound bytes that are about work. I watched the Dave Chapel where he was on Donahue while I was doing this too.
8) Blind (Devlin Remix) – Hercules and Love affair So is it an edit or a remix?..I don’t know. This is along the same lines as the intro with the reconfiguration of a drum pattern and the addition of a bass line. I like this little sloppy mix and, I thought it fit the idea of building / construction/ making. The lyrics are far out too.
— a piece of audio called click- Ipi ‘N Tombi is layed over the begining as well its on the compalation, Zulu Indestructable beats.
9) Shake it – Fully Fitted This track was is on the upcoming Fully Fitted EP due out really soon. Production Credits go to XXXcHangE, Darko, and myself. It samples Rye Rye’s vocals, It’s pretty cool I think. I sent it over to the Bladerunners, Razor chopped it up, and they did a sick little edit. I put that in here as well… Sorry dudes! time was tight and i couldnt find MY razor!!!
10) Shake it (Bladerunners edit) – Fully Fitted
11) I want your Love (Todd Terje edit) – Chic Groovy ass song. Either you want to play all 6 mins of it or you want to play it with the Moody Man. Zack, Neight100… What time is it?
12) 300,000,000 Synths (Devlin roktapause edit) – Chaz Jankel Went to the record store with some guys that know records recently. I grabbed this 12” and was like wow, great title. Beyondah then told me that it was good too. So i bought it, its awesome. I did this litlte scratch/rocktapause edit and threw in some drums as well.
13) Breakfast – Le Le hola,hola,hola…..
14) Roll The Joint (Joey Negro edit) – Master Dance and Boogie This is what we should be dancing to
15) Pass The Joint – Rick James When I first let Pase and Naeem hear this song they were as hooked as i was. Funky as hell, it sounds like Dave Chapelle on the vocals. Rick James was apparently funny and amazing.
16) Brothers on the Slide (ruffy tuffy mix) – Cymande I am a sucker for this song and always blend it with the next one...
17) 100 million – XXXchange We had been working on a lot of stuff for this Ep and when we all went home Alexxx Change made this..What a jerk.
18) New Day – Fully Fitted also on the forthcoming Fully Fitted EP, featuring Tyler Pope on Guitar.
19) Beautiful Nightmare (Devlin’s brunhilde Edit) – Beyonce Tired of mixing uptempo crazy records in my living room i decided it was time for a return to the psychedelic. the ambient recordings are from a mic i hooked up and sat on my kitchen window. 3 floors up.
20) Plane Ride – Devlin I made most of this track and then listened to the new Animal collective EP. I changed the track a bit , and then used Seal Eyeing and Cobwebs for sample material..I lso used This record from the 70s about Virgos….
..In the end when it sounds like two people having sex, its really two pieces by the Language Removal Services. One is Marcel Duchamp (language removal), and the other is Marilyn Monroe (language removal),
21) A Day in The Life -The Beatles …
22) Buenos Matrimonios Ahi Afuera -El Guincho This guy is awesome. Google and buy.
-Chris Devlin
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