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Bad news: Buck 65's management got in touch with us and there's been a family emergency, so he's cancelled our "secret" show and also his performance on Parliament Hill tomorrow. Our best wishes to Buck's family. The rest of the Disorganized lineup is performing tonight (Thursday) as planned, and see you in a few hours.

Tonight's Disorganized Mystery Guest Is This Dude:



Yup, Buck 65 aka Stinkin' Rich aka Johnny Rockwell aka DJ Critical aka Jesus Murphy aka Haslam aka Uncle Climax will be in the house tonight. No idea whether he's doing a deejay thing or a Buck 65 thing, he just heard about the party and said he wanted to play so we said "okay".

Come early to avoid line and find out. . .

Update: Boy we do a shit job of keeping a secret. Somehow this ended up on the cover of the Xpress (scroll down)?

I'll be away from the computer for a few days so here are things worth checking:

Cosmo Baker's "Love Break" mix is ridiculous. Focused on all fronts: original samples, classic vocal performances, and a few of those joints that are just TUNES (e.g. Milton Wright "Keep It Up"). So refreshing in an era when everyone wants to put southern acapellas over Bloc Party loops or whatever -> scroll to the bottom of this page

Also: Just A Little Lovin finally came out. In short: sample's replayed, doesn't stand up to the heavyweight Sarah Vaughan bootleg version (a top 5 all-time tune for me), but you have to buy it anyway 'cause he never saw enough money from the bootlegs. Here's "Outlines" (not Irfane?) w/ the original and e-z mix edits (both play in realaudio)

And finally: this dude has raised the summer mixtape game so high.

A good post to O'Reilly Radar about some of the effects of the Long Tail concept on our shit. KJs galore:

-> Amazing factoid from Goldberg: they're closing one rock radio station per week. Audiences for rock couldn't get what they wanted from rock radio, now getting it from other places.

-> People discovering stuff online is driving offline physical sales of CDs, which reenters radio and MTV and driving plays. Too late, though. Y! has a thesis: music will disappear from terrestrial radio within ten years. Don't know implications for preferences, but will change way artists get invested in and marketed.

-> Major record labels and movie studios have controlled distribution. When you take away that distribution, they have to be good at either marketing or investing. Right now they're good at neither. All these things will change at the same time.

-> Allaire: Studio as bank is strong analogy. Even cable and satellite networks are financiers. As spectrum widened, # people who could finance and bring products to market has grown. On internet scale, # people able to viably finance and distribute gets larger. Doesn't go away.

Paul Wall is updating the new LP from those dudes' so Clash-y project. Can't hate on this myself: bonus points for trying something fresh. Found via Catchdubs.

Melvin Van Peebles - filmmaker, author, playwright, and ... believe it or not, newest Stones Throw recording artist. Last night in Los Angeles, Melvin Van Peebles publicly announced his next project - a double album with Madlib to be released on Stones Throw. The first half of the album will be his own "Brer Soul Meets Quasimoto" and the second half will be the Madlib Invazion remix. This is being planned a 2 disc set released together in one package.

It's hard to judge in advance how the quality of a Madlib piece will shape up (I really haterated that DJ Rels album) but this might be good. Now that the traditional "rules" of beat digging are fading into the background a little bit it's proper to see these kinds of collabos going down. Now when is RZA going to do something with the real Syl Johnson?

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Lots of KJs in a blast from Esquire magazine's monthly wisdom sharing pieces.

A few of my favourites from. . .

the Rev. Al Green:

Everything is handed to society now. Before, you had to dig for it. I like that—digging for it.

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

The greatest thing that ever happened to me, to Al Green, the little boy from Arkansas, was that amidst all the doubts and speculation, I found peace.

and Lou Reed:

Latrell Sprewell's got that burning thing. You have to think about choking the coach. Well, you know, you're a grown man, guy's standing there screaming at ya . . . Every guy makes mistakes. I'll speak for myself: I could be in that position. It would take me one second, where I could be in a situation like that.

Father of rap? No. Not for a second. If you do a monotone long enough, you suddenly have a name for it-it's suddenly "rap." I never thought of it that way myself.

I always hear music in my head.

Not bad, looks very De Beers.

I've to share something: I can't imagine playing this song out. What will people do to it, eat popcorn and discuss their love/hate opinions of Kanye? Looking forward to seeing some other dude drop it, I'm interested to see if I'll be proven wrong.

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Haven't heard it yet but Rory deserves love for two reasons:
1. Despite seriously (as cancer) questionable forays into Kelly Clarkson territory, he's a good dude who knows what's good
2. He kept it short and sweet, which is all too rare

Right here. . . DJ Marlboro and Da Vinchi rubs are the ones. . .

Radioclit comes with the new Roll Deep chopped'n'screwed.

Even more boss hogg is the way someone tucked a reference to Memphis Rap into wikipedia. If this is true, Memphis deserves so much more shine:

Memphis rap dates back to the early 1980s. Crunk artists such as Lil Jon have stated in interviews that their influence for crunk came from Memphis. Before Texas' Mike Jones and Paul Wall of Swishahouse Records made chopped and screwed popular, Memphis was "choppin' & screwin'" music back in the early 1980s when DJs would mix together and slow down vinyl albums and blend in their own basslines over a popular song or phrase such as the famous words "Say hello to my little friend" off the movie Scarface. This concept and Memphis rap were pioneered by early Memphis DJs such as Ray the Jay, Spanish Fly, DJ BK, DJ Paul, and many others.

Biggest broken beat tune in a bit is due July 15: Phil Asher "Nambi It Ain't". You can have the main mix, for me it will always be about the instrumental (MP3) that Benji played every week.

The new Missy joint (plays in high-speed WMV) turns Lose Control from a convenient uptempo hip hop tune into a peak peak summer banger. It didn't click at the time, but I think Rory was onto something when he said that people wile out way more when can play the video in their heads.

The Sway Dasafo "Flo Fashion" (plays in high-speed .mov) is in another video GDP tier, but kinda nice too. The genuine realness and lack of taking itself too seriously reminds me of mid-90s Kardi and Sauks videoFACT joints. Sway raises the game with the Union Jack to Ghanaian flag blue-screen thing though. Canadians, I want to see that Somali or Ethiopian flag wave soon! That's what's really real. . .

Kanye "Late Registration"
Consequence "A Tribe Called Quence"

was hot hot heat. Apologies for the line upstairs, hopefully word got to everyone that the C-tower had to be careful about capacity until 12:30. Big up: dude in the Batman t-shirt for being as geeked as me over tunes, Magnificent for being so chopped and screwed I didn't understand a word you said all night, and that girl Alanna Stuart for KILLING the newly dubbed Bionic Karen O Ras riddim.

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I've been slack about updating the event info at left, but trust that Disorganised is on tonight as always. Things get rolling at 9:30-ish, Todd ADSR from LA is the guest, and Alanna and I are collab-ing on a little dancehall thing at 2am. BONJAY!

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