This past summer I was fucking around at home on the tables. I usually
don't spend a lot of time looking for those "bomb" mixes, I have more
luck when i do it live. But this time, oooh, I stumbled upon probably the
dopest mix I have ever heard. Take Black Moon's "Who got the Props" (I
usually use the extended instrumental- gives you more time to milk and
manipulate the mix) with Plastikman's "Lasttrack" (I think its on the
first album, double vinyl). At about the half way point in the Plastikman
track he drops this real whining electronic pitch (if its starts on C,
it be something like c-b flat-g-b flat). When this comes in, I drop the
Black Moon on top and the pattern fits perfectly into the keyboard
changes in "Props", not only rhythmically but melodically as well. The
shit is absolutely uncanny, because you'll think it should have been
made like that.
If you got the two, check it out, you'll be surprised. I also was
mixing some Speedy J into a (I think) Howie B track off of Pussy Foot
that came out in the summer. I don't know the exact tracks, but again,
the effect is incredible. The two songs seem to fit together like a
jigsaw puzzle. I don't know where other DJs are at these days as far as
focus, but I'm really getting into mixing harmonically, looking for songs
that fit together in this way, or sound bytes from other records that
beef up a song's melodic content (not sure these are the "correct"
musical terms, but you know what I'm sayng). Just taking a portion of
that record and matching not the tempo but the pitch, and manually loop
it or cut it in. Shadow, Krush, and others do this all the time on their
tracks. Kinda fresh!
By the way, wanted to give a last call on the DJ project I just
finished. I'll be sending out copies of it (its about 20 pps. w/
interviews, acid jazz list quotes, and a lot of pondering on how the DJ
manipulates information musically) in a week or two. I've also got copies
of my last radio show- bari sax, wax doctering, and some really dope
analog and digital effects- spontaneous radio jamming! Anybody interested
that hasn't contacted me can e-mail me in the next two days and I'll send
ya some goods. Peace out kidz-
Bubblicious