Throwback Fridays - Brown Paper Bag

Before DJ Khaled's Brown Paper Bag, there was Roni Size and Reprazent with Brown Paper Bag.

Throwback Jungle and Forward

Lets go way back into time with this one. Break out the glowsticks, PLUR, ROAR and all that. Remember Local 13 and their fruit parties, Evoloution, April Foolz, Skyline and the like. Have that fuzzy warm feeling? No idea what I'm talking about, it's all love.

First up tonight DJ Rap Reid Speed Annalyze is headlining 33Twenty with Swarm and Michael Myers. Its going to be ravealicious and I highly recommend you go to this. You should probably leave the glowsticks at home unless your bringing strings with them ;) Seriously though, Annalyze is a highly accomplished DJ and you should know about Swarm and Michael Myers.

As a bonus, I dug through my old collection and found a CD full of Myster Mason mixes from 99 - 01. Mason gave me this CD after dancing to A Side at the bar that is now Shouk like 5-6 years ago. Here is just a little treat. I'll keep peppering you with the mixes if you like them. Sorry no tracklisting.

• Myster Mason - Evil Minded Side A
  

Forward Info

Step into the Wormhole (c what I did there?), Ravelinks (still active), Substitution (not updated since 06)

Tonite: Planet of the Drums: Platinum Reunion

Incredible. Planet of the Drums is back for a special Platinum reunion. Dieselboy's Platinum night at Fluid (613 S. 4th) every Thursday was one of the premiere places to hear new drum n bass and jungle in the US. Every week a prominent producer or DJ would take the decks to a packed house. Resident DJ's Sine and Icon held down warmup duties while Dieselboy was away touring the world. Relive just a little bit of the magic tonite with AK1200, Dara, Dieselboy and J Messinian along with Kaos, Sine, Sharpness and Illy.

So I dug in the crates and found some old school and new school sets from Dieselboy and Dara.

Here is a cassette rip of Killa Sound from 1995. Houstonbeats has the tracklist

• Dara - Killa Sound (Side A)
  
• Dara - Killa Sound (Side B)

I briefly mentioned Sutpen's Jungle yesterday but it was the biggest jungle/dnb full party there was in the city, the East Coast and possibly all of the US. For years it was in a DIY warehouse called the Fake House in West Philly. In 2000, Substitution moved it to the Electric Factory. I used to have the flyer and might still somewhere. The lineup was incredible. Anyways here is a live set from Dieselboy

• Dieselboy - Live at Sutpen's Jungle 2000

Last but not least is a newer set from Dslboy in January of 2007

• Dieselboy - Live at Pirate Station 01/20/2007
  

DJ Lion - Ragga / Hip Hop Jungle Mixtape

With all of this neu rave floating around, I've been missing old rave music. One of my favorite genres was jungle / drum n bass, particularly jump up, ragga and hip hop remixes. A friend of mine had a mixtape (actual cassette tape) from DJ Lion that blew my mind. It easily was our favorite mix, sadly it was so good we believe a friend homesteaded it and it was forever lost. Thankfully to the power of the Internets and MySpace I tracked down DJ Lion and he was able to digitize the mix. So I offer it up to you. Its 90 minutes long, with Side A and the first 45 minutes dedicated to all ragga and the second 45 minutes on Side B dedicated to all hip hop remixes. Sorry no tracklisting. I believe this is from mid to late 90's.

• DJ Lion - Ragga / Hip Hop mixtape
  

DJ Lion on MySpace

What it Do is for the Children

I'm going to go ahead and say that its all about Saturday this weekend. Blaqstarr is one of the hottest producers I've heard in awhile. Couple reference points, remember Jiggle It? Blaqstarr. New MIA album? 1 Timbaland track and like 6 Blaqstarr tracks. XR2? Blaqstarr. Not sure who produced this new MIA track but its banging and I can't wait for the new album. Oh yeah, some dude name Diplodocus is going to be there too.

Friday

• Hail Social is playing tonite at the (First Unitarian) Church with Chomelodeon
• My new favorite band along with Flamin Hotz new favorite band, just sayin'
• Listen to their album on the Philebrity player
• Starts at 7:30PM at 22nd and Chesnut Street
• Download Heaven and Start Stop
• Check their MySpace and buy their albums
  
• Critical Mas Bike ride, meet at city Hall at 6pm
• I'm not sure if this helps, please don't debate its merits, some people like to ride bikes, actually I don't care, what do you think?
  
• Westwax, JJC and Kenny Raw spin records at Marvelous 6 - 10PM (208 s 40th)
• The Straight Dope featuring Dan the Swede - Dev79 and crew get down at Khyber Upstairs (56 S. 2nd)
• Muhahaha with Juan Dolla and Benny Brows at Sals (12th and Walnut)
  
• Therapy Sessions at Fluid - Drum n bass smashdown (613 South 4th Street)
• Tighten Up - Illvibe at Bubble House, free all nite (34th and Sansom)
  
• Hands and Knees - You already know. 2 Left, (15 W. Girard)
• House music at Siam Lotus - good Thai food and house music all nite long (931 Spring Garden St.)
  

Saturday

• Mad Decent vs. Unruly - Diplo, Blaqstarr, Scottie B and Deluxxx aka Dirty South Joe at Marathon Grill, Commerce Square. RSVP now for reduced admission
• Illvibe at the Arts Garage afterhours (1520 Parrish)
  
• Clap trap - All nite party at Inciting HQ (940 N. Delaware)
  

Sunday

• House music Sundaes at Bubble House 3pm - 9pm (34th and Sansom)
  
• Art Buggy Derby - Washington Square Park

Art Cuebik - Old Skool Jungle Mix

Art Cuebik hooked me up with Alchemy 101 a mix that he did "late last year, but finally put up for the internet. basically a 94-95 old school mix with lots of ragga influence. "

Peep the tracklist:
Gachet - Touch my Toes (AWOL VIP)
Pure - Anything Test (Zinc VIP)
Trinity - Gangsta
Brainkillers - Screwface
Badman - War for '94 (Tango VIP)
DJ SS - Limb by Limb
MTS - Baad Boy Sound
DJ SS - Rollidge
Kenny Ken & DRS - Everyman (AWOL VIP)
Prizna & Demolition Man - Fire (AWOL VIP)
Mickey Finn & Aphrodite - AWOL
Splash - Babylon
Pascal - P-Funk (AWOL VIP)
Urban Shakedown - Some Justice '95 (??? mix)
DJ Nut Nut - Special Dedication (??? mix)
House Crew - Superhero
Ash & Vern - Squeeze
Aphrodite - Booyaa!
Dead Dred - Dread Bass (Origin Unknown mix)
DJ Zinc- Feel
P.O.T.- Trick of Technology
DJ Hype - Rinse Out
Dillinja - Angels Fella

Art Cuebik - Alchemy 101

Holla at Art on MySpace, Check out Let Me Ride at Fluid on First Fridays

611 Records is Moving

611 Records is moving from their current location at 611 South 4th Street. Nigel shouldn't have a problem finding a new place now that he is a realtor. To help with the move, everything in the store is marked down by 50% so start digging. The new location will be announced on 6/11/07.

UPDATE: Use code 58af9a on 611records.com when checking out for 50% off as well.
Bonus: Dieselboy - Live set at Bassrush 3 in 1996

Background story: Bassrush parties happened in the Baltimore area and were put on by Ultraworld who also threw parties at the DC armory and now every year outside at Ft. Armistead park with Starscape. Lonnie, the founder, now runs Sonar in Baltimore. Bonus trivia: One of his early parties was held at the Martian Martini bar in the Fells Point section of Baltimore.