MP3 A Quartet of Thursday Mixes
posted by on December 6 at 12:04 PM
1) Prefuse 73 plays tonight at Neumos. I wasn’t that excited about the show until I heard this mix of his from September. This marks that difficult balance between heady and accessible - good stuff.
Prefuse 73 Live at Club Air - mp3
2) Hollywood Holt is in town for tomorrow’s Sing Sing. The Chicago rapper is part of a new wave of interest in Chicago rappers (it goes beyond just Common and Kanye). He’s got a mixtape available that I’ve listened to just enough to recommend it - the interspersed interview audio definitely shares Holt’s sense of humor.
Hollywood Holt Mixtape - mp3zip
3) Detroit promoters Paxahau have posted a mix from one of their residents Rich Korach. It was “made to take your brain on a journey through the abyss of deep techno/house.” Uh, sure. Either way, it’s a great mellow mix of tracks, more suited for a day in the office than a night at the club. (Thanks Eric!)
Rich Korach - Deep Mix - mp3
4) Mr. Romo and fellow KPSU radio show DJ 31avas compiled a half hour mix for XM Radio representative of the non-indie rock stuff you’ll hear on KPSU. It’s already getting radio play, but they’ve released the recording for Internet audiences as well. It’s a dense (40 tracks in 28 minutes) mix of glitchy, electro-y, robot music, with lots of hip hop early, drifiting into techno as the mix moves on. It’s a fun listen.
Mr. Romo - Mr Romo represents non indie rock KPSU - mp3
rich k is rad!
I'm not so sure that Prefuse 73 will be exaclty "accessible" to those who aren't familiar with his catalog. For me, it was more, "How the hell can this guy even think about recreating this stuff live rather than just feeding this shit verbatim through a laptop?!!" than, "Wow...great music!" Perhaps that's a bit of a biased opinion but it helps to realize what his music is and then be able to comprehend what exactly he's doing with the template....not sure what his live show is now but it was three different heads and he'd work the laptop and then drum live...a good show but needs some context in order to be relevant (IMHO)...
the mr. romo joint was enjoyable - thank you. hollywood holt started out strong, but fell apart by track 5. bonus points for using 'the final countdown' for 15 seconds in the background of the first interview.
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