Some Of Them Sounds #11
Alright, I know there are a few of you sexy ass mother fuckers out there who actually pay attention to the dope ass tunes I love to share to you all. I’m currently in the middle of a move and my personal computer’s hard drve failed on me, so here I am using a barrowed comp for a few to bang out a quick post out to you all.
Lets get into this real quick. I have some major love for some of these Texas Club producers out there. Shit is fire. The gentleman that I am presenting to you today goes by the name of Beaches. First track is a remix of Climax that is fuuun. Penetrate your ear drums.
Next tune the Doctor is prescribing is another from Beaches titled Be Ur Girl. He keeps with them “uh” “yep” samples through it. It gets me hyphy.
Gonna give you a tape from the man as well. You deserve it. 22min mix from 3 months ago. Relax.
Alright, what do we have up next? I just stumbled over these guys. They are called 2 Deep and they are out of LA. This track caught my attention because of the breaks they have worked into that are just naasty. Its a remix of TON!C’s Bounce. Give it a listen for yourself.
I’m bringing you some work from an artist that I already posted about before. Myd is from the Club Cheval crew in France. First you’re getting a mix then you get a remix of his. I’m not going to load you up with why I dig his work and why you need to check the rest of the crew, listen and look, find out for yourself! ;)
Last little bit I’m leaving you all with is from a cat I’ve been following for a little bit. His association with Mad Decent is was first made me familiar with him. Here is a few new cuts coming from the man.
Fuck you, I lied. Seriously one last one. I accidentally came across this B-more Club fun shit. Murder Mark, I just found you and I like what you’ve got going! Check this ouuuuut!
That’s seriously all I’ve got for you all today. Hopefuly I can get a few more done here once I get moved into this new pad. Keeping my fingers crossed life will be back to stability in the new 1.5 weeks! Keep on getting wild folks!
Chirpin Volume 1 Mixtape - Dr. Gram
First new mix in over a year. Been sitting on my comp for way too long. Hope you all get down to it!
Some Of Them Sounds #10
Well, that doctor is returning to practice. Life is starting to assemble itself back together some how and I’m adamant to get back to stirring up some trouble. I’m seeing more and more that the events going on in my life aren’t anything close to normal, and that most of the shit that’s happening to me feels like it’s been ripped straight out of a tall tale of some sort. Compare me to Paul Bunyan. Anyway, here’s some tunes coming at you that I’ve dug here lately. If you’ve been a follower of my rants and what I do, you all have Mike Joe out of Brooklyn to thank for me making this post today. If he wouldn’t have sent me a message telling me he missed me keeping up with this blog, it could have been another 3 months before I posted anything on here. (To be honest, the double digits kinda scared me…)
This tune here is a sick ass remix of Justice’s Stress in the styling of Jerseycore/Club. The original tune has such a history with me and crew out here (staring at a plasma ball, in the pitch dark, on some crazy ass shit with this track blasting). Anyway, no need to go into a crazy fucking story. Dude’s name is Nadus, he has some killer Juke on his soundcloud, check it out.
Nadus - Bandit Stress by Nadus
Next on the cuts is a little more of the Jersey Club sound, this time from DJ K Millz. Im diggin this sound and the shit’s bound to make your booty clap. If it doesn’t, there is something wrong with you. Dropping you two tunes from this dude, get wild.
Now on deck is a few tracks and a mix from Brenmar. Dude’s a Chi-town native, and if you hadn’t heard of this him yet, you’ve been sleeping. He has some sick sounds ranging from house to R&B. First of the cuts is a collab with Brenmar, Ghosts on Tape, and from the illustrious Club Cheval crew - Canblaster. Afterwards is an example of Brenmar’s remix work and then a mixtape that the man has recently dropped. Get familiar.
Brenmar + Canblaster + Ghosts On Tape - Phone Tone (produced at RBMA 2011) by BRENMAR
Before Dark - Baby (Brenmar Remix) Happy Valentines! <3 by BRENMAR
Slow Grind, Deep Hustle Vol. 2 R&B Mixtape (click for tracklist) by BRENMAR
Changing the pace up a little now, I’m throwing you a little French House flavoring from Darius. Now, I’m going to be honest. I’m assuming (and we know assuming makes you a jackass) that Darius is one half of the French House duo Cherokee. Either way, the first tune is Darius, second will be from Cherokee which is a remix of a Daft Punk choon that’s pretty smooth, followed by yet another mixtape so you can get a feel for their set. Whoever the fuck the tunes are belonging to, they’re good enough to let them put some love in your ear drums. Enjoy.
Once In A While by Darius (Official)
Daft Punk - Something About Us (Cherokee Remix) by Cherokee (Official)
Cherotape | for Selektors Agency Inc. by Cherokee (Official)
This is a moment I’m going to take to throw in a real quick plug for a label that if you also haven’t heard of, you have had to been six feet under and recently resurrected. The Ninja Tune label has had soooooooo many great artists on it for so long that its ridiculous. They celebrated their 20 years of existence back in 2010 with a massive compilation release (and if you don’t have that you need to snatch it quick) and decided to celebrate International Women’s Day with a set compilation for free download on their soundcloud featuring some amazing female vocals that I can only assume were produced by a woman to follow the theme. 6 tracks for free DL, scoop and make love to this shit!
International Women’s Day 2012 - Free Downloads by Ninja Tune
I’m going to wrap you up with this massive post with a few deliciously smooth tracks from Jacques Greene. This guy can really get the mood right and you need to check out some more of his work if you haven’t heard of him yet. I’m feeling it, and so should you. His stuff has always been soulful and sexy. First tune is a recent upload of his, second is a remix of Motivation in his style of tasty R&B. I’ll drop you one more (snagged the 3 most recent on his soundcloud - if you want more, you may have to do some digging) that is a remix of Radiohead’s Lotus Flower. I know that there is some Radiohead fans out there and I have a feeling that you’ll enjoy this too. And of course, since I’ve given you all mixes to check on prior to this, I have to give you all one from this amazing producer as well. This time a radio mix from Rinse (a station I recommend checking as well). Groove on it, baby.
Arrow ft. Koreless by Jacques Greene
Radiohead - Lotus Flower (official rmx) by Jacques Greene
Rinse, march 24th by Jacques Greene
Alright, I hooked you all up with a good amount of tracks for you enjoy and get into. I encourage you all to keep digging and looking for more stuff to listen to from these artists and stuff similar to them. I’ll do my best to not take such a long time to post up more for you all to get down to. I also should be releasing a new mixtape that will be in the style of some of the stuff you’ve heard on here today. Keep up with the music, send your love to the people you care about and respect, let me know what you think about this post, and most importantly… be yourself, think freely, and program your own life — no one else should be doing it for you.
The Little Green Notebook #1
I really debated posting anything at all about this. I find a good deal of solace in my privacy but I’ve done this as more of a way to clear the air on why I’ve just up and disappeared lately. I’m not really expecting people to look over and read all of this. Even if no one takes the time - its out there, it needed to happen, and I’m over it. I’m titling this under The Little Green Notebook because I use to write down all of my ideas and thoughts into a little green notebook and for that reason I called it my mind. I jokingly said that whenever someone picked that notebook up that they were trying to steal my thoughts until one day that notebook became lost. I suppose my mind is lost now. The entries under this title will for now work as sort of journal entries.
Five years ago it felt like I had everything ahead of me. Everything felt so attainable and I was filled with aspirations to change the world around me by providing insight and inspiration to people I’ve felt had a care. I felt that there was a world of people who craved new experiences and who actively wished to free their minds to the blank, numbing atmosphere that has enveloped us collectively.
Well these five years have gone along and provided me the chance to travel about to new places, meet new amazing people, try new things, and achieve a lot that I had only dreamed about before becoming Dr Gram. Along with these wonderful opportunities that I’ve had there has been a lot of sorrow. While going about and experiencing all that I have I’ve found it increasingly harder to keep up with these great people; I feel like I’ve grown more distant from my family, this same family which for me is small to begin with has begun to fall apart and I’m watching them grow old and decrepit; I’m watching a scene that I use to love and use to be so caring and open become flooded with people who crave the same cookie cuter ideas and who are pompous and smug; I have also had a good amount of friends and family that I’ve lost whether it be they passed or they became wrapped up in drugs and haven’t found a way to get back out of it.
All this has sort of boiled down to the state that I’ve been in lately. I had a stent a couple of months ago where I didn’t leave my apartment at all for a good three months or so. I had little to no motivation to do anything and I more or less stared at a wall contemplating what I was doing, if it was even worth doing, and why I was doing it all anymore. I’ve been having trouble sleeping, whether it has been that I can’t fall asleep for days on end or I sleep too much and have had trouble motivating myself to get out of bed. Lately I’ve had trouble even sleeping in my own bed. I’ve found more comfort in this broken and busted couch in my living room. Maybe that’s because of the days of crashing on couches while living out of my car and being on the road. Since going back in public I’ve found it increasingly difficult to stay focused. I become wildly overstimulated and have trouble figuring out why I went out or what it was I was doing. Instead I have to go back outside, gather myself, and go back in forcing the blinders on to do what I need and get back out. In social gatherings with friends or family I have been having trouble being a part of the conversation or participating at all. Instead my mind, again, begins to wonder off.
I’m not entirely sure what to say or how to interpret any of this, but it has spurred a lot of reflection. In this state of what many people in the medical sense would classify as depression, I try to think back on what people have told me. I have had many people say that I have been inspirational to them and that they believe in me and they have shown that through massive amounts of love, care, and support. When I was told this it freaked me out in a way. I was still within the rat race of feeling like I have something to prove to try and get people to listen to me and how I was living at the time I felt I was no one to look up to. I was struggling to even take care of myself or keep up with any of the work I needed to do. It was over the holidays that I was able to kind of find something refreshing in what I’ve done and what I’ve become.
I went back to my Mom and Dad’s home and had a chance to go through some of my old stuff in my room. I literally haven’t stayed in that room in probably two to three years and when I went through everything I found papers and work of mine from back when I was 15. All I wanted to do was create and try to urge people to think outside the norm; to experience what was out there because that was all that I really wanted to do. I had tons material and lessons on music, art, photography, film, and writing that I remember going through and writing things out of. I found the old notebooks I wrote in and some of my goals and objectives that hid within books and journals. It was wild because upon reflecting on all of that I noticed that I really haven’t changed in those last 8 years. Yeah, I’ve lost a good amount of weight, I’ve done a lot of things that a 15 year old me would have never even fathomed, and I have moved to a lot of different styles between then and now. The dream was never really lost though. Possibly that is why some people found me so inspirational for that fact that I’ve thrown caution to wind and trudged on into a world that I more or less may never be able to survive in.
A saying that I’ve heard recently was “you may never find the light if you’re afraid of the dark”. This has been very true for my current state. I think I may have found that light that I have been so very longing over the last year. I’ve managed to break from this ridiculous struggle of trying to get somewhere that I became trapped in, at sacrifice of a very dark period in my life, and I’m now able to see what it is I’m trying to accomplish. None of this is for me and it really has never been. I’d like for my work to be a beacon to others to find what it is that they truly love. To inspire others from this mind numbing world and long for culture or something that can free their minds.
Its almost time for me to step completely back into the light.
