DELTRON 3030 RECOMMENDED: DJ Jazzy Jeff + Mick Boogie – “Summertime: The Mixtape”
“49 songs… expertly mixed, cut and transitioned by two of America’s most popular DJ’s. The songs cover any and everything ‘summer’ related. From songs about summer to songs that just feel like the sunshine season, this multi-genre mix will be sure to make your already great summer even better!”
DJ Jazzy Jeff is here to reclaim his summer jam throne. The once proud right hand man to the Prince of Summertime, has still got that golden gift of starting parties. This time with a time capsule of sun soaked vibes from days past – when your summers felt like they’d never end. This came out a month ago but I was sleeping on it hard core. Maybe because in Venice it hardly feels like the summer has started. There’s only been one seven day stretch of consistent temperature over 72 degrees! (with a summer high of 81) 72 degrees….which also happens to be the high for the month of August. Not that I’m complaining because NYC has sounded like a miserable place all summer…but Al Gore seems like a real lying dick right now. Perhaps this summer mix tape will kick start the summer. Not for my sake but for all the teens looking for the rising temperatures to give them an excuse to lose their minds. You can’t effectively execute a wildin’ spree in balmy weather. At 72 degrees it’s just assault.
At the very least it will make for an awesome mix tape companion piece to my current summer jam, 500 Days of Weezy
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TRACKLIST:
- 1. Summertime Intro
- 2. Kool & The Gang: Summer Madness (Live Version)
- 3. Kool & The Gang: Summer Madness
- 4. Quincy Jones: Summer In The City
- 5. Ahmad: Back In The Day
- 6. Ice Cube: It Was A Good Day
- 7. Roy Ayers f/ Mary J Blige: Everybody Loves The Sunshine
- 8. Pharcyde: Passin’ Me By (Ffej Remix)
- 9. Jay-Z f/ Babyface: Sunshine
- 10. Ramsey Lewis: Sun Goddess
- 11. A Tribe Called Quest: Find A Way (Ffej String Edit)
- 12: Bush Babies f/ Mos Def: The Love Song
- 13. Jodeci: Get On Up
- 14. The Commodores: High On Sunshine
- 15. J Dilla f/ Dwele : Think Twice
- 16. Erick Sermon f/ Marvin Gaye: Music (Mick’s Marvapella Edit)
- 17. Bernard Wright: Who Do You Love
- 18. LL Cool J: Loungin’
- 19. A Tribe Called Quest: Hot Sex
- 20. Main Source: Live At The BBQ
- 21. Nuyorican Soul: Nautilus
- 22. Pharcyde & Sublime: Summertime
- 23. Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff: Summertime Remix
- 24. Michael Jackson: I Can’t Help It
- 25. De La Soul: Breakdawn
- 26. Musiq: Just Friends
- 27. Carl Thomas: Summer Rain
- 28. Faze-O: Riding High
- 29. Dionne Warwick: Walk On By
- 30. Skee-Lo: I Wish
- 31. Black Moon: Who Got The Props
- 32. Frankie Beverly and Maze: Before I Let Go
- 33. Nu Shooz: I Can’t Wait
- 34. Montell Jordan: This Is How We Do It
- 35: The Roots f/ George Benson: Breezin’
- 36: Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff: Time To Chill
- 37. Biggie: Can’t You See
- 38. James Brown: The Payback
- 39. En Vogue: My Lovin’
- 40. Bobby McFerrin: Sunshine Of My Life
- 41. Fifth Dimension: Let The Sun Shine In
- 42. Mos Def: Sunshine
- 43. Nine: Whatcha Want
- 44. Otis Redding: Sittin’ On The Dock
- 45. 2Pac: I Get Around (Mick’s String Edit)
- 46. Zapp: Computer Love (Terry’s Mirage On The Water Mix)
- 47. Seals And Croft: Summer Breeze
- 48. Jay-Z: Dear Summer
- 49. Weldon Irvine: Morning Sunrise
DELTRON 3030 RECOMMENDED: Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be
I probably shouldn’t admit to this but I spend a lot of my weekend days in Venice at a magical place called On The Waterfront Cafe. It’s a Swiss/German beer garden with delicious beer, the best giant pretzel you’ll ever taste, and it offers up some insanely awesome people watching. If that didn’t sell then you then check out their site that looks it was crafted in 1996. Looks good right? Just in case the site wasn’t dated enough their major selling point is it is the very same beergarden “As seen on TV’s Pacific Blue!” This blatant disregard for modernization is another part of it’s charms. You’ll feel like you’ve time-traveled back to 1996 when you hang out there and you commingle with the burnt out lifelong Dogtown residents. Adding to that feeling is the spotty cell coverage there. For some reason the garden patio, besides being a hotbed for blackouts, is a black hole for cell signals. Good luck twittering, facebooking, and foursquaring. Texting and call coverage are spotty at best. You really are back in 1996. Your iPhone is more or less transformed into a Motorola Startec. I mention this because at the garden, after many a dinger, people have arguments that require the use of Wiki, Google, and IMDB. Since everyone is getting banged up, those apps act as the sober friend who rolls their eyes and is forced to squash stupid drunken disagreements centered on questions like: What was the name of the teacher in “Stand And Deliver” (Jaime Escalante. Sadly I already knew this), Is Ellen Page a Lesbian (I say yes), Who sang “I’ve Seen Better Days ” (Citizen King), and Can dogs look up? (No, according to Big AL) .
So obviously no one is solving serious world problems at the garden, but people still need answers. One argument I missed out on recently was that “There are no good girl bands.” Apparently one of my friends told a girl that there were never any good girl bands nor will there ever be. Ladies and Gentleman, we have a guest speaker for How Not to Woo Girls 101: Intro to Blatant Sexism. Without the power of the Internet he did seem to have a point. People on the pro girl side were weakly throwing out names like the Go Gos, The Bangles, and now, thanks to that ridiculous movie that just so happened to spawn this conversation, The Runaways. Name checking two 80’s group and one 70’s exploitative flash in the pan is not the way to win an argument. If I was there I would have defended the female population by throwing out two present day all girl band that can stand head to head with any dudes: LA’s Warpaint and The Dum Dum Girls. I saw Warpaint open for Yeasayer at The Museum of Natural History and they more than held their own. They downright rocked. Part of me wished I could have seen them when my future wife, Shannyn Sossamon, was behind the drum kit but it was probably for the best. I already have an unhealthy thing for girl drummers so seeing her pounding on a high hat would have been way too much for me to handle. Plus, let’s be honest does anyone think she could have kept up on “Krimson” like their current drummer? I can answer that sans my iPhone: No.
I expect big things from Warpaint in 2010. (more…)
NOTES FROM VIVACE – Out to See: The Shakers
I’m plugging my friend’s band. A friend of mine joined a new band called The Shakers. The band only has a handful of gigs under its belt – though they did travel as far as Philadelphia to play one gig. I missed every one of their earlier gigs. One of their gigs (or perhaps it was two) was off in Venice so an easy excuse on my part was that it was just too far away. On a recent night; however, they played at the Bordello, which is much closer to home. So off I headed to see my friend play in her new band.
Out in TRAffIK – Artwalk Culver City Part I – THE EXPERIENCE: Artwalk-ing in High Heels
Despite not living that far from the Westside, I rarely make it to that part of town (Culver City, Westwood,Venice), only because it always seems to take me forever and a day to get to my destination, I avoid the 10 West like the plague (I think the 10 West might be the only free parking in Santa Monica–I should try leaving my car on it one day, walking to my destination, and then seeing if it’s still in the same spot upon my return). The surface streets near the 405 fwy entrance around Santa Monica Blvd. are not much better. This area does have many great gallery spaces, restaurants, boutiques, not to mention the Nuart Theatre so it is worth the journey, and generally if you take Olympic Blvd. down you can avoid a lot of the traffic.
With that said, I braved the drive to make it to Artwalk Culver City last Saturday. You see if we ever put up events on TRAffIK, it’s usually because we’re (either Brandy/”BB” or I, or both) going (next week look for us at the Wine Tastings and screening of Corked and The Graffitti Art Event at the Downtown Independent–we’ll put up details soon).
About 3pm, I gathered a bunch of the girls (among them Lady Di and Maureen Shampine) and hit the road to the Washington Blvd. La Cienega intersection where this was all taking place. Somehow, Notes From Vivace had already made it there and called me as I was still looking for parking. He was antsy to make it to the beach, but was willing to wait around for us and walk through a few of the galleries. We found him quickly at Indie Collective and laughed as we crossed the street towards him at the display we must’ve made comparing it to the Sex and the City intro–briefly arguing about who was more like Charlotte– Lady Di or I? I say neither and both, but we did agree Maureen would have to be Samantha) We ended up checking out about 3/4 of them (in actuality, I think we really only missed about 3 or 4 of the 41 total galleries exhibiting that day). Our favorite piece was located at the LeBasse Projects Gallery, where it was decided I should commission UK artist Joe Black to create a piece in my likeness like his Lost and Found button collage (read Maureen’s much better write-up on Artwalk and this piece here), I insisted that it was more of a Michelle Marini piece. Speak of the devil who do we run into right as we’re exiting the gallery? Michelle and our friend Jason who had spotted us upon arrival, but had lost track of us. So I had to go back inside and show her the piece, and she agreed. Lady Di’s friend Jamie (who is also an artist) caught up with us and he also spent most of the afternoon with us.
I believe this was the fourth annual Artwalk Culver City, but I feel that it was still missing a lot of the community vibe that it should have had. It was nice to see some parents and grandparents bringing out their kids/grandkids to experience the art, since there aren’t many kid-friendly art shows these days. We had a great time enjoying the art (but we have a great time anywhere we go for the most part), but I couldn’t help but feel like each of the galleries was having it’s own private party as opposed to one big party.
We left shortly after our feet started to hurt and headed towards our girl’s night at Amanda Jones’ house. I would tell you about it, but what happens at girl’s nights stay at girl’s nights.