Mayer Hawthorne vs PillowTalk - The Makings of A Lover 'Edit' (Feat. The Festivals)

I love Mayer Hawthorne, and this mashup is pitch perfect. Sorry I have been away for a bit, but I will be posting a bunch more this summer as my day job winds down.

Mayer Hawthorne vs PillowTalk - The Makings of A Lover 'Edit' (Feat. The Festivals) by PillowTalk Music

Huh Huh huhhh Kurtis Blow

Kurtis Blow, what can I say that haven't been said about dude. He was one of the Original M.C.'s out of New York to really break out big and become a huge star when hip hop was just breaking. He is way over-sampled, to the point that I never want to hear a "These are the breaks" sample again, ever. He broke big way back in 1979 with Christmas Rappin'. Copycat did a little re-edit of Rappin' Blow, which I posted a link too below, as Im sure the soundcloud will die any minute now. I also included "Party Time", which for me is the best Kurtis Blow song ever. As it featured home-town heroes Trouble Funk on the beat.

Kurtis Blow - Rappin' Blow Pt 2 (COPYCAT'S Slight Re-edit) by COPYCAT

Kurtis Blow - Rappin' Blow Pt 2 (COPYCAT'S Slight Re-edit).mp3

Kurtis Blow - Party Time

AXE - Ghetto Funk Download

Sorry for the delay here at FW HQ, my wife had a baby boy last week and I have just been handling family duties and working on some re-edits and new tunes. Frank and I got up this last weekend and played a great outdoor gig here in DC, it was the closing of the Forward Fest and it was such a wonderful day. The picture is of my daughter dance battling a nice couple, while we drop some Sleeve and Stevie Wonder tunes.

I also wanted to mention we got an EP in the works from Rory Hoy coming out in a little bit, the Kool Hertz EP should be out any day now and The Breakbeat Junkie vs DJP EP on Baffin should be out in 2-3 weeks. These are all super hot EP's, and we are looking forward to putting these out.

Axe has been dropping some ghetto funk heat recently and I thought I would share. Dude kicks it from the land of OZ, and while he isn't doing anything super ground breaking, he does just drop solid bombs that seem to work in a lot of situations. I can drop these in a top 40's ish type set or straight up for the underground.

Axe - Keep It Flowing - 4A or 5A - 110.mp3

Axe - Ya'll Want This - 9A - 118.mp3

Hush Puppies

From the second release on Funk Weapons, Hush Puppies really helped us define where we wanted our sound to go. We put the record out in 2002, and distributed it with Downtown 161 whom never paid us by the way. Anyway, we were really trying to push the break beats a bit more and move away from the 4/4 of our earlier releases. I think we even pitched this to a couple of labels only to hear they would rather us do another Sol En La Noche. I have no idea of how well it sold since the distro wouldn't even return our calls, but I do see the vinyl out every once in a while.

All Good Funk Alliance "Hush Puppies"

All Good Funk Alliance "Hush Beats"

AIM - Concentrate

My hommie Dj Soup was in town recently and we swapped a bunch of music, I ran across an awesome AIM track in this thick pile of music and it made me long for some more AIM. I dug out the record, but figured instead of ripping some music I would see if it was available on MP3. To my pleasure, Amazon had all of his releases and even some for free, so I suggest getting on there and grabbing those. Anyway, Concentrate was a huge song for my crew when it came out. I think we all played this record to death and I sort of forgot about it. Well, I'm glad to say I have it and it's in my crate now for those special occasions when song like this needs to be played. Now it's time to dust off those old Backini songs, which would mix well with this.

Hope your having a wonderful holiday, I know I am enjoying the day off.

AIM - Concentrate

AIM - Intro 3

Duck Sauce - Barbara Streisand (Pimpsoul & DJP Remix)

Duck Sauce which is the brain-child of A-Trak and Armand Van Helden, really blew up last year with the song "Anyway". This year they did it again with this Barbara Streisand track, which I have been hearing everywhere. Anyway, my hommies Pimpsoul and P decided to remix the track into some nu-funk and I think they really churned out an interesting take on the song. See the link below as they are now offering it as a free download. Also, if you dig this remix I suggest finding DjP's remix of "Anyway" called "Juicyway", which came out on a stellar 7" from Bureau45 last year.

If you don't know who Pimpsoul or DjP are I highly suggest looking both these cats up, they produce and remix some really funky stuff.

Duck Sauce - Barbara Streisand (Pimpsoul & DJP Remix) by Pimpsoul

DjP "Juicyway" Link to DjP's Soundcloud