Kendra Morris: “If You Didn’t Go” [The Dita N REMIX]

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Chris

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Out of everything I’ve posted in the past couple of days, this is far and away my favorite: DJ Mekalek & Jesse Calico’s remix of the fantastic Kendra Morris original, “If You Didn’t Go.”

Banger for sure — especially for all the heartbreak kids out there. And the remix comes with an interesting tale in tow. Essentially, Mek heard the song and related to it, as I’m sure most people could, then reached out to his man Jesse Calico about a remix he had started to conceptualize. Calico wrote a little something to what Mekalek had crafted out of the original, and, without sharing any details, Jesse coincidentally spit a narrative to closely resemble that of Mek’s yet-to-be-told story. (I know this because I’m friends with Mek and traded my sob story for the Dita N tearjerker one night last year.)

Knowing the above enhances the remix with feelings of familiarity and comfort in the otherwise gloomy song, at least in my opinion. Needless to say again, I’m really digging the track. As did Kendra.

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Ghost & Adrian: “Rise of the Ghostface Killah” [VIDEO]

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Chris

This is the track Mek did cuts on. (Original posting here.) Expect to hear a little more from Mr. Mekalek this week, including a special guest appearance on Thursday night. Creek that.

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GFK & Adrian Younge: “The Rise of the Ghostface Killah” (cuts by DJ Mekalek)

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Chris

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Unless you’re one of those ass hats who has never visited TECB before, you should know that Wu-Tang has started to use cuts in their songs. More importantly, the man behind all of the platter scratching has been RI’s own DJ Mekalek.

This upcoming Ghostface album you see pictured above is really exciting to hear about. Mek was telling a few of us about the project over the weekend – it’s a concept album, entirely produced by Adrian Younge, that tells the life and death story of the man (assumingly he’ll be Tony Stark until his passing) who resurrects as The Ghostface Killah. And then goes on to tell the story of him catching bodies and wreaking havoc on those who sent him to a lifetime of pushing daisies.

Check the lead single here, which I’d guess is before or at the half-way point of the project:

April 16 is the date for the album in its entirity, folks. It’s called Twelve Reasons to Die. CD, vinyl, and cassette will be available. Creek that. And get the free download to ”The Rise of the Ghostface Killah” via Soul Temple Music’s BandCamp.

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Time Machine — “Feel The Beat” [VIDEO]

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Chris

This reminds me of the time I went to Joshua Tree and ate boomers with Eric Roberts.

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Time Machine — Vicious Experiments

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Chris

This is yet another release we neglected. But I’m at a point in TECB where I’m so incredibly fucking lazy with what I do that my way of supporting in the present is to point you in the direction of how much we’ve supported Time Machine — and their DJ x producer Mekalek – in the past.

Here’s a little sampling of the tape: “Inna Zone,” one of two (the other being “Tomorrow’s Oldies”) DJ Mek-produced tracks to make the tape. This one features fellow RI native Juan Deuce:

You can get Vicious Experiments here for free in its entirety. And, afterwards, come back and let us know what you think.

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