Sade Blends APPRECIATION
cardova
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5 songs in and it's already my favorite mix in a minute. Cool concept & great execution. Go cop it... 
Might be worth it's own remix EP even.
Might be worth it's own remix EP even.
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Haven't heard it yet
Will cop fo' shu'
BDK blend was too obvious ?
would pay for some unmixed 320's even.
Thanks peoples!
It should be available at Turntable Lab, Fat Beats and wherever fine fur is sold.
And props to the homegirl Riisa who did the ill ass cover drawing.
She is no joke.
One of my favorite Biz stories has to do with him meeting Sade backstage in the late 80's / early 90's at some stadium rap concert in Canada I think.
Biz asks Sade if she would possibly consider doing a collabo with him (can you imagine?).
She politely declines.
So Biz then says to Sade: "There's something I ALWAYS wanted to do... can I do it?"
Apparently Sade, probably a bit puzzled, starts to ask what Biz had in mind when all of the sudden, Biz takes his big ass hand and proceeds to "PALM the shit out of Sade's big ass forehead" (his exact words).
After about a half a dozen or so quick shakes with his hand, Biz lets go of Sade's head and says, "thank you Sade. I've always wanted to do that."
i heard a track or two on his myspace
sounds sick!
the one with the Drop It Like Its Hott blend
Eureka!!
It works!!!
paulnice will remain the only strutter whose vinyl I found in a dollar bin all the way up here in alberta, canada.
someone pointed this out to me and i was all 'whoa'
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There's "I Level", whose song "Give Me" is on Soul On The Grill 2.
...and then of course there's "Level 42[/b]" who have a super dope-as-fuck song called "Starchild" which is my motherf##king SHIT!!
yes yes i-level sounds like AR Kane
It's a mix of me blending Sade songs with instrumental beats, which has actually been something of a DJ tradition for many, many years around these parts*.
Most of the instrumentals are contemporary joints ala Clipse, Timbo, E-40, Dre, etc.
I also redid some blends I had done in the late 80's when the Stronger Than Pride and Promise albums were out; like EPMD's "Customer" over "War of the Hearts" and "Sucker MC's" over "Never As Good As The First Time".
Obvious? Most definitely, but the whole idea of this came from me listening to some old 80's tapes I did that a friend recently dug up. I heard one Sade blend I did which I thought still sounded good.
Why not do it over again but expand it to a whole mix?
In that regard it's a link to the local past.
Honestly, I think I'll move way more of these locally in the mid hudson valley than anywhere else.
It's the one specific kind of mix everyone I know around here has always been asking me for.
Not sure if that's good or bad!
*This is actually kind of funny, but there's been a lot of bitter, angry, old locals who swear up and down that "blending"; ie: mixing R&B records with hip hop instrumentals actually originated up here in the Hudson River Valley (Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Beacon, etc.) with DJs like Kid Nice (an early Bam protege), Ernie Vines, Eddie On, etc. and NOT in Harlem with Ron G and Brucie B and them. But that's a whole other post.
I even did a tape with Ron G in the early 90's (Chan - I need you to burn me a copy before you lose it) and I remember when certain people up here pressed him on the issue, he didn't have much to say.
But when a local DJ (who shall remain nameless) spun in the basement w/Tigger on BET a couple years back tried to set the record straight on national tv, Tigg just shot him a look like, "What the FUCK are you talking about?!" before going to commercial.
Ahhh... but I got a cassette here by the late local legend DJ Blade from '82/'83 - my 8th grade year, blending Michael Jackson with Jimmy Spicer, Stacy Lattislaw with Masterdon and Keni Burke with Kid Nice (local rap record).
Somewhere there's a picture of my friend fast asleep on his couch and in the arms of a lifesize, cardboard promotional version of Ms. Adu.
He looks like the happiest man in the world.
Did that ever make it onto vinyl back then ?
In the early nineties Straight No Chaser Once mentioned a white label of "Sade mixed over Hip Hop Beats" in their one-sentence-per-record review section. I've had that on my wants-list ever since, but almost all that's come up in the last 15 years has been Sade Over House Beats.
Yeah they're this new thing called "mash-ups."
I need to cop this asap!
That wasn't me. Though my interest in now piqued as I do recall hearing someone talk about a bootleg Sade single. I wanna say it was some mix with Love Is Stronger Than Pride.