Mondays is always the terriblest day of the week. Unless you read Okayplayer, cause round here it's Mixtape Mondays. That goes double-sided for today, which arrived with a frosty covering of snow (here in NYC) and 3 feet of dope mixes, including new and exclusive jawns from the No(W)FUTUR crew in Paris, DJ Lexis of the Music Is My Sanctuary slash 24 Hours Of Vinyl crew (in Montreal), DJ Rahdu of the Bama Love Soul crew (in--you guessed it--'Bama) an all-Pharrell mix from DJ Mars and an all-Sampha mix from the Last Skeptik. Working from home with hot cocoa and stacks of good music, what else could you really ask for from a monday? Unless you're a resident of Denver or a Broncos fan from anywhere, in which case I guess you could ask for a lot more than you got last night. In that case, you should just listen to The Roots' entire catalog on shuffle (but not the superbowl shuffle). Everybody else, click through for the best mixtapes monday has to offer:
NO(w) FUTUR x OKAYPLAYER - No(w)FUTUR #0006 BACK TO THE FUTUR
Mr. Mass + DJ SimSima never disappoint with their selection and this 'Back To The Futur' edition of their No(w)FUTUR series is no exception. From Blu to Bishop Nehru, this is Le Shit We Do Like. Stay tuned for some more big things coming str8 outta Paris from Mass & the NF crew, and for now enjoy this wild Delorean ride. Okayplayer Presents!
GHOSTFACE KILLAH : THE SURE SHOT (PART 2) (THE BROWN TAPE VERSION)
LIVIN PROOF : RUNS HOUSE
DENMARK VESSEY : CULT CLASSIC
GUILTY SIMPSON & SMALL PROFESSOR : GET THAT PAY (SCOOBY MIX)
DJ Mars is a mixtape mondays regular and with this all-Pharrell mix he brings a guaranteed winner combining the best of timeless and timely jams from the recent Grammy kid and buffalo (hat) soldier. Whether you're a fan of N.E.R.D.-era Skateboard P or a fan of Blurred Lines-era hatzilla (or just a fan of Kelis) this mix is for you (and you and you).
23 Maroon 5-She Will Be Loved Pharrell Williams Remix
24 Babyface-There She Goes
25 Pharrell-Our Father
26 NERD-Bobby James pt 2
27 NERD-Lap Dance ft Lee Harvey
28 Kelis-Keep it Down
29 NERD-Break Out
30 Rolling Stones-Sympathy For The Devil Neptunes Remix
31 NERD-The Wa She Dances
32 NERD-U Know What remix ft Santigold
33 NERD-Party People ft TI
34 Kenna-Say Goodbye To Love
35 Sleep Brown-Margarita ft Big Boi and Pharrell
36 NERD-Hot N Fun
37 Pharrell-Happy
The Last Skeptik - Sampha Mixtape
For a young artist (one to watch, in fact) Sampha has accumulated quite a catalog of sublime jams between his cameo/collabos with SBTRKT, his 15 seconds of Drake and the recent release of his throwback Sundanza project. London DJ Last Skeptik shrewdly recognized it was about time to assemble all those far-flung bits of goodness in one place, a concentrated dose of Samph-osity he calls 'Sampha Mixtape'. Here you go:
New goodness from our kindred Bamas over at Bama Love Soul, covering everything from the new J-Live to the old George Duke. Stream below via BLS:
dukehugh – the world is a ghetto
j-live – money matters
joomanji – intoxicated feat joseph marks
jill scott – daydreamin’ (jerry folk remix)
rahsaan patterson – any other love
n’dambi – angel baby
joy jones – tell me how (shecky’s big drums retouch)
the stuyvesants – mistakes
the nope – the greatest
damu the fudgemunk – all green
budamunk x takumi kaneko x minismooth – yumeka makotoka (remix)
quadron – (un)average fruit (ahmed sirour remix)
question – cliche
george duke – brazilian love affair (cazal organism remix)
columbia nights – firmament (lil dave remix)
byron the aquarius – the return 2
thatmanmonkz – right on
jose james – desire (moodyman remix)
anu-sun -where did we go wrong feat auigi
ta-ku – color her sunshine
stephanie nicole – soulutionary one
abimaro and the free – mark (smith and mudd dub)
ibibio sound machine – the tortoise
mighty sceptres – siren call
nodzilla – one sweet donut
remy shand – where are we going
lauren desberg – mister magic
makaya – busta’s joint
deep jazz – naima
cid rim – fade
xolisa – until then
DJ Lexis - Music Is My Sanctuary Show #65
The Montreal posse (in the persons of DJ Lexis and Rahel Tesfai) comes through with this soulful, just-experimental-enough mix of leftfieldy hip-hop n stuff, the latest installment of their Music Is My Sancuary show. Does not come with a tracklisting Correction: now comes with a tracklisting (scroll down) but kicks off with an ill spacey beat and vocal sample Prodigy scorning/shouting out rappers who be "talking all that crazy space shit you can't even understand" from Mobb Deep's classic album (always wanted to sample that one myself). We then proceed to stacks of german and french language hiphop you haven't heard yet and with drops form the likes of Robert Glasper, you know this one has the stamp on it. Stream below via Mixcloud:
01. SupaSaiyan – Farout
02. Bolts – Shuga
03. Question – Osanha
04. Pro Era – Sol Luna
05. Chefket – Cok Güzel (feat. Amewu)
06. Soundsci – That’s Life (Instrumental)
07. Paper Tiger – Irresistible
08. Amp Fiddler – Take It
09. Rednose Distrikt – Mo’S
10. Shaw Coop – Planché
11. Bishop Nehru – Welcome (Feat. Que Hampton)
11. Fulgeance – Whut It Iz feat Fresh Daily (VECTRemix)
12. Richard Pryor – How Do You Get To Detroit?
13. 94 East – If You See Me
14. Gilberto Gil – Todamenina (Tahira Edit)
15. Moodymann – Come 2 Me
16. Orazio Fantini – Coltrane
17. SoulPhiction – When Radio was boss
18. CTEPEO ’57 – Sputnik I
19. Titeknots – Down The Drain
20. Dego & Kaidi – Acting Up On Shit That Dont Count
21. Seven Davis Jr – All Kinds
22. Jordan Rakei – Add the Bassline (Penthouse Penthouse rmx)
