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Fix

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July 11, 2008 06:50 PM PDT

"Real DJ's use Real Needles!" (Save the WAX)...This CD is hittin very hard from all angles. I have played this mix in my truck for a few years now, and it has always delivered. Fix starts off with some tribal and upbeat trax and flows with a remix from Jill Scott and goes even higher with the jam "Sunshine" from Blaze.

The best part of this "Fix" however, is the last 4 cuts: "Thousand finger Man" by Candido '79, I feel Love by Donna Summer '80, Moscow Disco by Telex '78 and to all of you "old schoolers"
Can you name the Last track on the CD?

It goes back over 20 years so you might have to phone a friend...

Enjoy the Fix!

djs

Soulmate

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July 06, 2008 10:11 PM PDT

This CD is being dedicated to King Britt. I heard him spin at Atlanta's MJQ around the time I bought these tunes and recorded this mix. He played one of the best DJ set's I have ever heard. He was like an artist slowly painting his picture, and by the time he brought the dance floor to the Apex, I was almost in tears! (Off the chain...)

If you ever get a chance to hear him play, please check him out. Along with other greats: DJ Spinna (Hip-Hop set) Jazzy Jeff (Hip-Hop set) and Derrick May (Techno and House) These guys bring it!

"Soulmate" is inspired by all of these dudes!

djs

Departue

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July 04, 2008 06:47 AM PDT

This CD is laced with tracks from one of my all time favorite artist, Larry Heard. The tempo is a little slower and grooves a bit more jazzy than most of my mixes but with songs by Atjazz and Seasons, this set has easily become one of my favorites.

Recorded: 5/16/03

Enjoy the mix!

djs

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Deep and Soulful groves with a touch of Old School...

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I was 13 years old when I first saw it. 2 turntables and that "beautiful" mixer. It just seemed like the whole world to me at the time: 1980, in Detroit Mich. A factory driven town that produced a style all its own. Especially when it came to music. In the "D" we did it like no other! "Progressive" was the music of choice, it consisted of any type of music that was dance floor friendly, from Was Not Was' "Wheel me Out" to Roy Ayers "Runnin Away" to The Skatt Bros. "Walk the Night" to D-Train's "You're The One for Me." Throughout the early 80's being a DJ gained you more "props" than being the Quaterback on the local high school football team. This was still before the term "House Music" was being used. The "D" was the place to be with its backyard parties and local social clubs: Ciabattino, Gables, Bratts, Hardware, Snobbs, Twinz and Comrades to name a few. To hear this music on a regular basis you had to know or have access to a "Hot DJ" who could make you a tape. The radio had nothing to do with this movement, which to me was part of the appeal. Out of this era birthed legendary DJ's: The late, Ken Collier, Charles Hicks, Delano Smith, Kevin Dysard, Ray Berry, Alen Easter, and Ron Scott who was one of my mentors. I was a kid in a candy store playing records with these guys and co-founding Comrades with my boy Marv. I put down the turntables for a while in college, a move that I will always regret. I didn't get back into it 'till 2000. A visit to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival and checking out Theo Parrish (He "crushed it!") spurred my interest again. These playlists are mostly from that 2000-2004 time period... Please enjoy as I share one of my true loves: "M-U-S-I-C deep inside of me, Music!" (D-Train)

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