My collabo mixtape with the amazing Carrie Wilds has just been released for free download on Mishka Records. 13 tracks with styles on styles on styles, beats curated by yours truly aka Young Gazpacho aka Shiftopolis 5000. Grab the full tape HERE and stream below.
Can’t stop my girl Carrie Wilds. Her self-titled mixtape curated by yours truly drops Tuesday! Peep the first video from the project featuring Carrie’s take on the doo wop classic “Stay” by Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs + a mondo verse from Mr. Muthfuckin eXquire.
New chart action going down. This one is to celebrate the launch of my new single: Rx & Shiftee – Act Out!, out now on the new label Hot Mom USA. Listen to these songs while driving your pick up truck through an Arby’s drive through window. The perfect chart for Mother’s Day come and gone. Check it out right here:
10 of my favorite tracks from July. Whoopee!
JULY TOP 10
1. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Otis
2. Chase & Status – Hitz (Dillon Francis Remix)
3. Lunice – Guardian
4. Zomby – Witch Hunt
5. Estelle – I can Be Your Freak (TC Bootleg)
6. Machinedrum – Come1
7. The Cool Kids – Rush Hour Traffic
8. Baobinga & Guido – Ballin’
9. Rx – Orbit
10. MRK1 – Download The World
Speaking of tunes, here’s a preview of my new remix of Xcuse – Allright (ft. Ayarcana) coming out next month on Deepsession Records.
Xcuse – Allright ft. Ayarcana (Shiftee Remix) – PREVIEW by Shiftee
And you don’t stop! I was a guest on Dubset.com‘s new internet radio show: Mashup Nation Radio. I dropped a new exclusive mix (@ about 21:00) and had a chat (@ about 12:00) with the main man Superstar DJ Ros.
Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-check it out below! Note the pan blend to end the mix.
MASHUP NATION RADIO: EPISODE 2 w/ DJ SHIFTEE
TRACK LIST
1. Jonny Faith – Meteor Shower (Ital Tek Remix)
2. Lunice – The Name Dunnit (ft. Troy Dunnit)
3. Canblaster – Thunderdrome Got Crunk
4. DNAEBeats – I Don’t Care (Rx Remix)
5. Tomb Crew – Oh So Good
6. Raziek & Cerebral Vortex – Killer (His Majesty Andre Remix)
7. Blatta & Inesha – Basso Grasso
8. Bassmonkeys & Bianca Lindgren – Get Busy (Lee Mortimer Remix)
9. Drop The Lime – Hot As Hell (extended Edit)
10. DJ Jonty – Grindin (Kastle’s Edit of an Edit)
11. Noisses – Dark
12. Aaliyah – Are You That Somebody
13. Cassius – I <3 U So
My last name begins with the letter Z, so I’m a big fan of reverse alphabetical order. Here are 25 folks/groups of folks I’m expecting lovely things from in 2011.
Udachi
Tomb Crew
SRC
Spooky
Screendeath
S-X
Rx
Rafik
Om Unit
Mimosa
Malilone
Lunice
Kry Wolf
Kastle
I-Dee
Final
DJ Cable
Dirty Deeds
Digital Boy & Shark
Deathface
Carrie Wilds
Brotherhood of Filth
The Boogaloo Crew
BioViolence
Beat Torrent
Greetings from my European tour (but mainly vacation). I got my fashion on in Milano, partied in Bergamo, walked the streets of Roma, ate cheese in Paris, snowboarded (for the first time) in Switzerland, avoided massive street fireworks in Berlin, and finally have returned to Paris to bring you a series of top 10 lists. The first is simply my favorite 10 tunes from December. Oh right, and, by the way . . . Happy New Year!!!
DECEMBER TOP 10
1. Starkey – Playing With Fire
2. Jamie XX & Gil Scott-Heron – NY Is Killing Me
3. Cassius – Till We Got You And Me
4. Coki – Chief Dub
5. Kano – Get Wild (Redlight Remix)
6. Lunice – Fancy Forty
7. Jacques Greene – (Baby I Don’t Know) What You Want
8. Mosca – Tilt Shift (Burgaboy Remix)
9. Blame, Fuda Guy, & Camilla Marie – Star (Doctor P Remix)
10. Booka Shade – Regenerate
I’ve also been writing a monthly column over at Beezo Blog where my monthly top 10 picks are exclusively Dubstep. Check my picks for December here: Shiftee’s Top 10 Dubstep Tunes – Dec. 2010.
