laundromat united

It's official...

2005-10-06T21:58:00.000-07:00

laundromat united dot blogspot is extinct....

Long live Laundromat-United.com...

Got a new 35minute mix up there. Go download and have fun.

Thanks for comin' round.

Gone for a minute

2005-09-23T10:11:00.000-07:00

Blah blah blah, busy/falling off/apathetic, blah blah blah...blah LAUNDROMAT UNITED HALLOWEEN MIX/JUMPOFF IN YOUR MOTH EATEN ATTIC SOME TIME SOON blah blah blah so real, so scary. (ghoulish laughter + wind + event horizon)

Paul Z-Yea
Dred Bass-World Of Music (apollo 13 remix)

The X-New Dawn (remix)

Nina Simone sample, the boom, etc.

regional regional regional

2005-08-30T19:45:00.000-07:00

Zion i-The Bay (Remix Chopped&Screwed)

The c&s'ed version of the remix of Zion i's "The Bay" that was getting some good burn. This has undoubtedly been posted somewhere already, but i got bad allergies, so i dont care. I was surprised when I got the call from the spot that this came in. I was even more surprised when it didnt suck. I guess promo white label copies are dropping around the bay sans actual sleeves.

What the fuck the bay gonna talk about if it ever did blow up?

Devin the Dude is performing in San Francisco? Damn.

i'm the man your father never was

2005-08-19T19:18:00.000-07:00

Outsidaz-The Rah Rah & Macosa

I know i posted this shit here or my old mp3 blog, but the girl said she was at fat beats in NYC, and whenever i hear 'fat beats' i think of 'the rah rah,' cause once when i was at the old los feliz spot, j-rocc flipped doubles of it something crazy and that shit blew my mind for months. Basically every time i went there, either j or rhettmatic was doing something crazy but the rah rah doubles was the shit that stuck with me.

I like eminem's verse on macosa, but just cause its like his 'any man' verse, which is funny as fuck. But actually the only good part is the mental image is of him tagging up subway trains whilst hanggliding. And him name checking dr. octagon dates that shit nicely...

teh randoms

What the hell is good with the sneaker world? This Diamond Dunk shit is so foolish. two niketalk threads that have over 100 pages? no thanks. im coo with my 55 dollar undftdXproKeds shits.

HoustonSoReal gots that flyer for that Chingo Bling jump in the Big City...Shit, that flyer is that THAT. You know?

Leftside Gangbang with the Oxy and old man catchdubs. Everyone in the world is old but me.

Shameless self-promo: my gay ass music MySpace page and Lambo's far less homo page. Oh, and add my friend khingz cause he fucts with mybeats. Plus: The dopest red-headed chilean MC i ever worked with and who was too fuckin talented to yell once he got back from Chile so he didnt have to rap over my beats and shit...Ladies and gentleman, that is fuckin Pat Parra and he will fuck everyone up..'bike riding' is the future...and yes there is also his ridiculously talented brother (filmmaker and all that) Relatedly: dudes who love shoes and hold guns while showing off their legs are really man-likers...no disrespecto.

step

2005-08-12T11:31:00.000-07:00

TWDY-Player's Holiday

Dude, you think I dont know that posting this song up is like posting the macarena or something? Stairway to Heaven? Shit, do you think I care? There's a girl in my picture and Im flying high, so step the fuck back and have a party for me.

Cedric IM Brooks-Lamb's Bread Collie

Fine, just mellow out to this.

The Next New Bay?

2005-08-05T07:29:00.000-07:00

BUMP and YMR - Mi Barrio

YMR- The Bay

BUMP (Bay Unity Music Project) and YMR (Youth Movement Records) are two Bay (duh) Youth (duh x 2) music programs where high school cats get to work in a studio environment with ill equipment and get advice from some people who have been in the game for a minute (Zion i appears on the BUMP album, for example). Both have put out full length albums that are pretty ridiculous. (as in good)

Of course with any youth endeavor there are bound to be some hiccups, but a lot of these people come with straight fire. Here are two tracks from a mixtape recently released featuring BUMP, YMR and other organizations with similar goals (R.E.A.L. H.A.R.D. and Youth Speaks), true2life

What Im feeling about the projects is that the artists get to create the sound that they know. The people involved in organizing know enough about the "bay sound" to help them get there. Plus, they arent rapping about staying in school or some cheesy shit. While the messages are generally positive, they are spitting what they see, what they want to see, and what needs to get done to get there.

Mi Barrio is reggaeton but with the dude Panama just KILLING it. Seriously one of the hypest performers...He, Rico and Big Dan who are also on the track just have an infectious swagger on stage and can get any audience amped. I pretty much hate reggaeton, but when they perform this track, it really knocks.

The Bay is an homage to this spot. You know what it is.

I just wanted to throw these tracks up before I get my hands on the full length YMR album which has one of the most ridiculous songs ever.
Stay Tuned for that shit cause the track im thinking of is pretty bananas.

By the way, endless respect to the people who work with the youth, amazing things gwaaaaan. I feel really fortunate to have been introduced to a lot of the artists and I know many of em will make a dent somehow. To have been asked to do cuts on the BUMP album was a huge honor and I hope to be working with them even more.

(By the way, excuse my writing. If i told you why my brains are liquified, I would have to kill you)

Sprinkle Me Baby.

2005-07-28T22:04:00.000-07:00

40 Water is back!!!! Check his verse on the first joint. 2 New jams from Southern Smoke 20. Fizzle and Lil' Jon is soundin like a nice combo! HYPHY...

E-40 feat. Lil' Scrappy and Bohagon-Pussy N****z

Trillville feat. E-40 & Lil' Jon-I'm Pimpin

*capski notes: real saucy, real flossy

non sequiter

2005-07-26T15:49:00.000-07:00

Cyndi Lauper-Good Enough

I have the dance remix and instrumental of this nonsense on 12". Itll make you squirt oil out your trousers. For now, roll with this version on your pink ass bike.

and I re-upped the clapper's cavern jawn cause if you didnt get it, it is basically crucial and one of the most intense pieces of music that lambo dude ever blessed me with. right here

Diddy Kong Bop.

2005-07-17T13:23:00.000-07:00

The only way a mufugga could make a comeback. I present to you...Clapper's Cavern! Now I know you all used to play Donkey Kong Country. Well this joint right here was my ishtar, the music during the underwater levels. Enjoy. Hate it or love it the Diddy Kong's on top!

Clapper's Cavern

maybe even raven simone?

2005-07-13T19:33:00.000-07:00

Huh?

Frank Stick-Shake Ya Face Up

Did they leave the files from 'Get On My Hype' on the comp when they recorded this? A pretty nondescript Bay track with the one exceptional moment of Frank Stick (of Dopegame) mentioning Raven Simone in the same line as Pamela Anderson and Amerie...is she the equivalent of the Olsen's for the hood?

I dont think most people would buy this...except for the fact that is the b-side to Super Hyphy. (yea, that shit came out on 12" with the works) Thank you rah music.

punchout

2005-07-10T17:56:00.000-07:00

Much respect to Nat at ASF for keeping the jungle isht up there and to Dozer for posting all that which stretches the limits of listenability. It is nice to read sites that talk about this stuff. From 6th-through around 10th grade (approx 96-99), most of what i listened to was jungle/drum and bass or somehow related to it (occasional lapses into hardcore shall not be mentioned further). Because I was fricken young, it is not as if i could go out and check out the raves or chill at the record store talking about all this (nearest spot was half an hour away). So while my most of my counterparts were just discovering their tastes, I was pretty much entrenched in my little jungle world.

At the time, nobody could touch the whole N2O/Turnstyle crew. (now basically repped by Digital Bombing) To me, those guys were the Kings. RAW (B-Boy 3000) especially, with N8 Shimizu running the whole show. They were dropping mixes left and right (Jungle Warriors, yes...they still ride shotgun in the ride) and talking shit, which i thought was cool as hell. Plus, N8 was a BMXer at some point and also brought some style to Giant Robot Magazine for a minute.

So for me, the ultimate thing would be to hit up the dojo itself, n2o headquarters in downtown LA. Freeburning Drum and Bass was the spot and I was so ready for it after dealing with the annoying as hell trance and fat white dudes/strung out dirty hoes of the other record spots that carried jungle. So for my 8th grade graduation (yes) my parents drove me down to the spot.

Now Im cool with the idea of the 'cool hidden retail spot' ala the rivington club, NDG, and SNAFU...but this shit WAS SERIOUS. For a little 8th grade dude, i was over my head for real. you had to ring the buzzer and actually talk a grumpy ass sounding dude and they had to know who you were. (luckily i had been in contact with n8) But damn, talk about alienating your customers and shit. My parents were next level suspicious. So they open the big gate on the side of the building and i walk all the way back and see the famed halfpipe. The place was pretty sick otherwise. All kinds of white labels/test pressings and a little studio in the back. Anyway, I bought my shit and bounced, heading for fat beats.

I guess my parents are pretty damn chill. (Did i mention that my stepdad smokes the green more than anyone i know?)

Yeah, i was all about this stuff at a younger age. So here are three tracks that I would play mess with a lot, each with differing levels of illness.

Respect to west coast jungle already.

B-Boy 3000 (LA)-Mathematical Chemistry (Remix)

Curious? (LA)-I Don't Know (B-Boy 3000 Refix)

UFO! (SF)-Enemy Infiltration...get through the overblown sci fi-ness and wait for the bass to melt your privates.

A giant fuck you to my arch nemesis too. Trying to claim like he knows what the fuck he is talking about. no respect.

Yep

2005-07-06T21:47:00.000-07:00

Laundromat United-Summer Mix (39:15)

Attaching some kind of time on this is ultra retarded, as that would indicate that this is on some regular tip. Obviously, that is not how college students on summer vacation roll.

Regardless. I was working on my mixtape, got sick of the Protools trickery and threw down a little mix. Cleaned it up a bit and here it is.

Some bay area shitz too. Oh, and disregard the two bleek additions...they were sittin right there. And if i can get yousendit to work, there might be some funny addition to this.

PEACETICLES

by the way, this has nothing to do with summer.

late breaking: i got yousendit to work, so here is the whole mix, but screwed courtesy of iTunes (dont know how) completely random. screwed Super Hyphy!

here. (57 minutes)

explanation: i bounced the file to disk in protools with a higher bitrate and then converted the resulting AIFF in iTunes...which is where the magic happened.

No Paper Here

2005-07-05T00:22:00.000-07:00

fuck your independence..man that picture is played...

There, a Tiger Uppercut.

I don't really care if other people posted this shit already. I was Djing and this Oakland kid comes up and asked me to play this, so I did (i had it on a comp) and him and his friends went frickin insane. Shit was hotness. They hate you, but love this song.

Jody Breeze w/ Slim Thugg-Stackin Paper

Oh, and because people were asking about the beat that I used w/ the Kanye acapella, I figured I'd drop off some other David Holme's compositions/selections from that boring ass shit known as Ocean's 12.

David Holmes-165 Million + Interest

Ornella Vanoni-L'Appuntamento

John Schroeder-Explosive Corrosive Joseph

I used it cause as Catchdubs said, Diamonds is "so sequel right now"...and I had the promotional O12 vinyl on my desk.

Apologies for the punk ass mood. I aint gettin any and I'm workin 40 hour weeks. And some cat tried to step to me claiming all kinds of shit.

Whatever, new half-assed LU crew mix tomorrow.

Jesus, just go here (if you dont already) and get your mind blown.

I need her. Anchors are the new lunchbox.

Give the game back

2005-06-27T19:47:00.000-07:00

Kanye West - Diamonds from Sierra Leone (Capski Redo)

before the acapella gets tooooo played...(too late)

King O Frod

2005-06-27T09:38:00.000-07:00

Polaris - Hey Sandy

Obviously, since I been gushing about it everywhere, I think Pete and Pete is the shit. So here is the themesong. (in honor of the prodigal redheaded half of this godforsaken blog)

Oh, then here is some Jungle...

Danny Breaks - Hypnotique

and go check out the new Lemon Red steez. All nice like....(by the way, I know this shit has been lacking, but getting dropped off of blogrolls HURTS! Playin.)

Gawddamn

2005-06-24T08:08:00.000-07:00

Look Ma, Im movin to north Berkeley!

Jesus H...Im working 40 hour weeks at the moment and trying to get my move on. (Storage units are a trip) and the wireless at the new apartment was hating on my uploading, so that is why isht has been sorry around here for more than a minute.

So these two were downloaded from here, which I learned about through here cause I really aint up on all this. I uploaded the tracks to my own webspace so that i aint just jackin (although I basically am). These two are the same Tati tracks ("Mirante", i guess?) One is the instr, the other is the one you heard on the mixtape of the century or whatevs.

Obviously I have no idea what I am talking about, if you got the knowledge. Drop it.

Basically, I cant listen to a lot of UK Garage that chops up violins and stuff after listening to this cause it blows em away.

Tati-Mirante:
Instr

Vocals

Relatedly, Rio Governor Rejects Walled Off Slums

Plus,

Concerto Riddm w/ Bruiser and Krucial...some radio rip i found on a P2P...They play "Concerto Riddm" all the time on 1xtra, but I have not been able to find it. Can anyone help me out?

Oh, and to the people who have e-mailed me: sorry for the lame/nonexistent responses, I am tryin to get focused on my email game and we can build real soon. Thanks for comin by.

Let Your Brain Grow

2005-06-13T09:53:00.000-07:00

DJ Quik ft B-Real : Fandango

Mike said this song would get pretty big. I guess. It's on the radio in LA nonstop. The beat is stompy as hell and just seems really bay to me. Regal march.

Go To The Beach

2005-06-08T16:51:00.000-07:00

Fernanda Porto-Sambassim
Landslide-Drum + Bossa

Just go and Brazil out. "Drum and Bossa" was THAT jam for awhile. Metropolis on KCRW played it all the damn time. When i finally tracked down the vinyl, i played it equally out. Before that though, I had it only on a cassette recording of the show. Cassettes can be such a pain in the ass.

By the way, if you are lame like me and havent been able to get Damien Marley's "Jamrock," the very very very good people at B-Side got it in on 12" (you will probably have to call them). Which is basically essential when you are stuck in situations with shitty tables and 45s are a dicey proposition.

mad wet

2005-06-05T09:51:00.000-07:00

The Dramatics' "In The Rain" has got to have one of the most perfect intros ever. Storm noises, then that dusted ass echochamber.

Most recently used by DJ Scratch for B. Siegel's "Purple Rain" (where the hook was borrowed too), the track has been used by not a small amount of producers. Rza lifted the guitar picks for GZA, etc.

My first introduction to the song, however, (and how many times has this been true?) was through sticky icky jungle. In the seventh grade I wondered where the hell the loop from the beginning of Easy Vol. 6 was from. Back then I concluded that it must be some obscure dub track. Who else has that kind of perfect echo? Yeah, obviously I learned that it belonged to the dramatics, but it always just stuck to me, whenever i heard it, as more of a dub track than anything else. For that reason, my favorite usage of it has been that Easy Vol. 6 track, which i already posted on some mp3 blog somewhere. But what the hell, it is summer. Here are the two tracks, The Dramatics, "In The Rain" and Droppin Science, "Easy Vol. 6."
For all you smokers, sippers; enjoy. dubbed out bliss.

The Dramatics-In The Rain
Droppin Science-Easy Vol. 6 (fixed)

get better

2005-05-31T23:36:00.000-07:00

In hoping for her speedy recovery (breast cancer), here is a Kylie Minogue track with Towa Tei.
Typical Towa Tei sounding, but that is why I like it. Whose concerts would my brother and his gang force me to watch if she stopped?

Towa Tei and Kylie Minogue-German Bold Italic

Apologies to everyone wanting the roughness, I obviously aint in that mode right now, hence the lack of posts. Once I am back in Berkeley (and at B-Side), expect the raucousness as the new digs destroy brain cells.

Stuck in a hotel.

2005-05-28T22:35:00.000-07:00

while lambo is flying around, getting his industry rep up and i melt in hell, go check out Supposed To Bubble. Good shit. We'll be back with some mixes and yelling.

Summer. Whut?

2005-05-25T00:05:00.000-07:00

Students For Hip-Hop Mix 2005

Well, here it is. That which ruled my life for a time (apologies, academics). 65 minute mix done in the name of Cal Students For Hip-Hop, complete with an appearance by the People's Champ of Laundromat United: Lambo...(im the angry troll side of the team, according to LU-girl, Roza.)

Expect a lot of mixes over the summer, a bunch in the works.

problem

2005-05-23T19:42:00.000-07:00

fish+bass

Mr. Scruff- Ug & Fish

Two Mr. Scruff tracks that show dude's versatility. Comedy. Basslines. Drums. Good.

Plus, he is a dope DJ.

totally not hip-hop

2005-05-15T23:53:00.000-07:00

Sugarcubes-Leash Called Love & Lucky Night

Lotta people running around UC Berkeley straight crazed right now. Kids need to chill. (taking their desktop pc's + monitors to the library). I always equated the Sugarcubes with the sounds of insanity, probably cause it was what was being listened to around me when i watched shit like Pete and Pete and Rocko.
Stick Around For Joy i think is my favorite of their albums.
Just music to go crazy to. Weird icelandic b-52s.

Laundromat United is out of the teens, yo.

And go buy this on tuesday.

got some conversation

2005-05-13T12:42:00.000-07:00

DJ DSL- Beats Fur Die Party & Let Me Talk To You (w/ Kool Keith)

DJ DSL is Italian, doesnt like the spotlight, and has a sense of humor. One of those "throw every sample at the beat and see what sticks" kind of dudes, DSL will flip things more to make you laugh than go 'oh shit that was complex'. Case in point: 4:35 into Beats Fur Die Party is just retarded but funny.