MMM 026 - Goofy Breaks and Remixes

This week is another nostalgia soaked continuously mixed D.J. set. I'm diving into some of the break beat music that I loved to listen to in the 1990s with a few newer songs and goofy novelties thrown in.

First up is Fatboy Slim's remix of 1960s electro funk pioneer Jean Jacques Perrey's classic E.V.A.. Next is Hankerchief Head off Meat Beat Manifesto's 2002 R.U.O.K.. I've been huge fans of these guys since 1989. These days they also live in the Bay Area and I was pretty jazzed to find out that Joanne at my work practices drums with their current drummer, bringing me only two degrees of separation from Jack Dangers. Woot!

Anyway following them is some sampler and turntable madness from Coldcut with More Beats & Pieces (Live In Köln) and Dangerous Drip by Ming+FS, followed by D.J. Aphrodite's drum and bass remix of the Jungle Brothers' song Jungle Brother. I used to love this song and then I got pretty burnt out on it after I heard it played about a million times, downstairs at the DV8 club around 1998, but nine years on I find it entertaining again. Next I roll back to the whistle blowing, Vic's Vapor Rub,  rave days of the early 1990s with two songs from the Moonshine Records 140 BPM Plus series with a self titled song by a group called The Joint and Kaotic Chemistry with a track called Space Cakes. OK, maybe these songs didn't really stand the test of time but I still think they are a lot of fun when used sparingly.

I move things a little closer to the modern age with a short but abrasive song called Inkey$ from Aphex Twin's 1996 Girl Boy EP. Inkey$ degrades into weird noises that I keep going with two songs from 2000, A Night At The Nufonia off Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by Kid Koala and Frontier Psychiatrist from The Avalanches' Since I Left You album. Cruising down the radio dial to the classic rock station, I slid in Z-Trip's remix of Kansas' Dust in the Wind and the Jam on tha Mutha remix of Hotel California by The Eagles.

The only logical place to go from Hotel California is Compton's own Easy-E with 8-Ball, a classic song about excessive alcohol consumption. I end the show with Me And Jesus The Pimp In A '79 Granada Last Night from a 1998 release called Steal This Album by the Oakland, Marxist, rap group The Coup. This song tells the story of the son of a prostitute who confronts the pimp named Jesus who killed his mother years earlier. Enjoy.