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2010-04-26T23:36:00.000-07:00

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the whip test djs

pathway edits

2010-04-10T15:05:00.000-07:00

this is going to be the last one of these for a while probably.
it's a good one though. first half = lots of beats, synthesizers and string arrangements; second is nostalgic springtime vibes. jumped the gun a little bit on all the flying lotus joints, but they were too good not to play. if you enjoy this, please consider buying something by an artist whose work has made you happy recently. thank you.

((tracklist))

the beatles, we can work it out (instrumental)
blockhead, res dog (lost beats)
washed out, cd-r beat #7
teebs & jackhigh, rains
knxwledge, give (klouds)
jneiro jarel, android love #2
flying lotus, intro/cosmic drama
lapti, motherland
flying lotus, lost where i belong (remix)
flying lotus, drips/auntie's harp
alice coltrane & carlos santana, bliss: the eternal now
hayzee, tea leaf (bonus beat)
teebs, blessed assurance
flying lotus, do the astral plane
flying lotus, galaxy in janaki
dimlite, can't get used to those
dimlite, xy (forthcoming)
dj krush, song 1 (thank you)
daedelus, denoument (meanwhile)
koen holtkamp, half light (field rituals)
tom waits, you can never hold back spring
cat power, breathless

(fin)

medicine music (edits)

2010-02-27T12:24:00.001-08:00

here's a re-edit of a mix i put togethr for meditation or other contemplative modes.

track list :

the slip, landing (angels come on time)
mountains, paper windmill (self-titled)
greg davis & sebastien roux, daybreak; tidal pool (pacquet surprise)
lotus plaza, the floodlight collective (self-titled)
john mclaughlin & carlos santana, naima (love devotion surrender)
build an ark, more love; sweet thing (love pt. 1)
akron/family, lightning bolt of compassion (meek warrior)

beats & folks (wagon mix)

2010-02-19T23:35:00.000-08:00

here's another batch. this one is kind of "experimental" ... lots of quick beat edits, with some noisier, entropy driven tracks mixed in there for effect. some mellower songs on the outro.

tracklist:

planet earth rock n roll orchestra, loser (takes 1&2)
casino vs. japan, single variation of two
toro y moi, blessa
teebs, what u need (exile remix)
ras g & the afrikan space program, shinelight
madlib, follow me instrumental
el-p, tuned mass damper
oddisee, miami
mr. chop, shut em down
vibracathedral orchestra, smoke song
dimlite, infinitum remix
samiyam, illum sphere remix
j-rocc w/dilla and michael jackson, make me feel (mca version)
madlib, telegram
declaime & georgia anne muldrow, pad kontrol
es, ennen oli huonommin
electric wire hustle, again
four tet, circling
bonny billy & the picket line, lay and love
cat power, you may know him
high places, the channon
desolation wilderness, you hold a power over me

(that's it, pls enjoy)

sad songs on the radio, valentines edition

2010-02-13T21:18:00.000-08:00

more sad songs on the radio. here's a special edition for valentine's day. gets a little loud at points, but that's love for you. featuring in order of appearance:

Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose
DM Stith
New Order
High Places
Irmin Schmidt & the Inner Space
Sonic Youth
Broken Social Scene
Sleepy Sun
Graham Nash
Basia Bulat
St. Vincent
Brendan Canning
Jimi Hendrix
Dimlite
Jay Dee
John Lennon

thank you jay dee (again)

2010-02-06T13:08:00.000-08:00

i put this one together last year around this time. feb 7th is dilla's birthday so it seems like a good time to repost the original mix, with a few edits. this is just one perspective on his work. i focused more on the spiritual vibes & instrumental beat tape stuff because that's what i like. check out j-rocc's excellent series of mixes for some other looks at it.

please turn it up, thank u.

raindance beats

2010-01-23T17:05:00.000-08:00

table of contents:
sonic youth, razorblade
eliot lipp, beamrider
oh no, testin it out
donald jenkins & the delighters (via mayer hawthorne)
strong arm steady & Madlib, best of times
oddisee, carry on and 60901 instrumentals
dimlite, Roo (a dedication)
computer jay, im around
daedelus, a bloodworth
flying lotus, meeting the prez
shlomo, ghosts pt.2
mike slott, when giants meet
TokiMonstr, wrld is ours
Michael Gordon, the weather pt.3
Dimlite, feedback children
prefuse 73, sexual fantasy scale
paul white, flying across tokyo
four tet, manic street preachers remix
four tet, explosions in the sky remix
TokiMonstr, waiting for the break of dawn
Quantic, the dreaming mind pt.2
build an ark, sweet thing
(fin)

i try to keep these things short, but they have a way of stretching out. enjoy!

indo-european edits

2010-01-04T11:34:00.001-08:00

first whip test of 2010! actually its sort of a left over mixtape from 09, but i still found it somewhat relevant so here goes another batch, featuring: a short snippet from Joshua Abrams and Town & Country, Mike Slott ambient piece from his last one, Desolation Wilderness, Sir oj from the UK, Nosaj Thing remixing a possibly not-that-great song by Charlotte Gainsbourg (but i have kind of a crush on her so i included it), couple of beats from this dude Hayzee, also from Britain, one from the new Paul White ep, the Heliocentrics, one from the Whitfield brothers, a great band who probably have a working time machine at their disposal, one from the new James Pants, one from Koushik, another Oh No beat from Ethiopium, a sweet track from the Now Again records comp "Forge Your Own Chains," a few beats from Madlib, J. Rawls, and Prefuse 73, some dub-raga from the Suns of Arqa, Cat Power with another most beautiful song i've ever heard, Jim O'Rourke, Voice of the Seven Woods, and Graham Nash on the outro. enjoy!

sagittarius beats pt.2 (space heaters)

2009-12-16T11:16:00.000-08:00

it's the climate change edition of the whip test. this one's pretty thoroughly woven; part two of a mix i did for an archer friend of mine. featuring: Malvina Reynolds, Town & Country, Caural with one from the Misel Quitno remixes, a handful of beats from the new Paul White ep, Lone, and Mike Slott, a vintage synth piece from Nite Jewel, couple from Flying Lotus, one dilla beat, Hudson Mohawke and Dabrye ATL remixes, Shlomo, Madlib, couple tracks from Bilal (Radiohead cover), two beats from TokiMonstr and DOOM, a Baden Powell guitar piece, Cat Power, Felix, and Roberto Carlos Lange with a nice warm drone piece closes things out. hope u enjoy.

depression era beats

2009-11-21T20:48:00.000-08:00

Disclaimer: not actually depressing.... well, most of it anyway.
ok here goes another batch, with: planet earth rock n roll orchestra, popol vuh (the instrumental, german version of the allman brothers), Mike Slott, Oh No with one from the overstanding beat tape, pete rock interpretations by Mr. Chop, one from the new Hudson Mohawke, a Ras G beat, some semi-unreleased Flying Lotus, couple of Dilla beats, Declaime over another from Flying Lotus, the Heliocentrics with the disembodied voice of Nico, a sweet Brazilian track from an old prefuse 73 mix, Josh Abrams (Town & Country), Sleepy Sun with a slow jam from their new record, Hala Strana (crumbling gypsy hymns), some guitar player, more Mr. Chop, Felix, Bob Dylan, Sly Stone cover from Medeski, Martin & Wood, one from the Department of Eagles, and Dimlite with a remix of Ritornell's Golden Solitude.

theoretically, you could dance to some of this. enjoy!

day of the dead beats

2009-10-30T22:08:00.000-07:00

happy halloween everybody. this one came together pretty quickly, anchored by some (kinda spooky) pop gems i've been finding lately and featuring, in order of appearance: the Beatles, Nancy Elizabeth, Broadcast, Phantogram, HBO (harrison blakoldman), Washed Out, Oh No with a couple from the Now Again beats, Little Dragon from the machine dreams ep, Bilal, Kid Koala (bell orchestre remix), Julian Casablancas (warning: contains guitar), Beck and record club project covering the Velvet Underground, Yo la Tengo with a slow burner from their new one, Koushik instrmntl, Bibio remix, Dilla bonus beats resurrection, one from the Q-Tip re:issue, anothr beatles hit, gypsy majik from a Hawk and a Hacksaw, Sir Richard Bishop live from ancient persia, and Bahamas on the outro jam.

peace & enjoy the sounds.

balance beamers no.1009

2009-10-10T14:55:00.000-07:00

this one goes out to all the libras out dere, featuring: marc ribot n spiritual unity, electric wire hustle (representin new zealand), couple tracks from the new beat dimensions comp, one from the new f*ck buttons record, three from Teebs, two from koushik (beep number 23 & bonus beats from the out my window instrumentals), oldie but goodie from bilal, dabrye remix instrumental, shafiq hussein, a hawk & a hacksaw, MFDOOM, madlib, raekwon & ghostface, jimi hendrix, crystal antlers, cryptacize, volcano choir, sebastien roux, and the mighty broadcast (all circles vanish.)

pretty beat heavy, but i'm feelin it. enjoy!

vitamin beats

2009-09-06T13:10:00.000-07:00

new beat test. in the mix: rahsaan roland kirk, green lantern beastie boys rmx, dilla, beans (anti-pop), one from the new ras g ep, GB, some fresh beats from Teebs (LA ish), Madlib & Jill Scott, Badu co.fee remix, j.rawls, automator, st.vincent solo piano, brendan canning (broken social scene), jimi hendrix, genetic STS9 rmx, geology, more GB, more dilla (force of nature beat), my first mashup in about ten years, curtis blow, an heirloom donut, and john lennon.

please turn it up, thanks!

untitled (beat test no.11)

2009-08-24T20:30:00.000-07:00

medicine music

2009-08-19T12:15:00.000-07:00

here's a long ambient mix for meditation, walking in the clouds, watching paint dry, etc. with sounds from mountains, greg davis & sebastien roux, lotus plaza, a lesson from john coltrane, flying lotus infinitum (daedelus remix snippet), and alice coltrane with shiva loka from the journey in sat-chit-ananda record. slow shifting texture patterns. medicine music.

in the pines

2009-08-17T23:00:00.000-07:00

here goes another batch, featuring a couple songs from smog and dm stith, a handful of beats from TOKiMONSta, samiyam, dilla, flying lotus, Teebs & ras g, one from golden solitude = new joint from austrian duo Ritornell, intro from the new j.rawls (science from john coltrane), flying lotus infinitum megamix with Daedelus and Life Force Trio, one from Reminder (Josh Abrams), Paul McCartney, prefuse 73 end of seasons remix, new wilco, old bibio, and one more from the new flying lotus ep. in the pines....... enjoy.

disco edits

2009-07-31T11:46:00.000-07:00

here we go, another collection of beats n sounds for y'all with.... nosaj thing, GB on the cosmic beach boys mix, radiohead, dam funk, blackmonk, flying lotus' king midas sound remix, three beats from jneiro jarel (incl. one repeat from last time, sorry thats how it went down!), cut chemist brazil suite, roberto lange, bibio, dark night of the soul, st. vincent, dilla..... and al green.

it sounded like a good idea at the time anyway. enjoy!

beats n folks.....

2009-07-23T22:55:00.000-07:00

here's something i recorded today, featurin beats n songs by::
dept of eagles, koushik, mf doom, waajeed & bling47 group, flying lotus, muhsinah, medeski martin & wood, the slapped eyeballers, helado negro (roberto lange), thief, jackie-o motherfucker, cat power, a surprise musical guest from new jersey, and....

bonus beats! with j. rawls, dr who dat (jneiro jarel), shafiq hussein (sa-ra), jahbitat, nobody, mia doi todd, dilla, and madlib.

kind of sprawled out a little on this one, enjoy please. thanks.

earth beats // air beats

2009-07-11T16:04:00.000-07:00

new beat test featurin, in order of appearance::
flying lotus, unreleased beat
dimlite remixing build an ark
jaytram only a season
one from the new koushik beat tape
a new floating points track
mux mool off his last ep
j.rawls and middle child
wu tang clan, chamber music joint
st.vincent from her first album
one from bibio, ambivalence avenue
country shoegaze joint from lotus plaza
daedelus and carlos nino from the new
build an ark remix ep//

renaissance beats

2009-06-22T13:47:00.000-07:00

another batch... this one covers a lot of ground, gets kind of loud/dissonant but hums along well i think. built around a bunch of unreleased flying lotus tracks i've been wanting to hear together, and featurin:
ernesto gonzalez, aquarius
dimlite, count yr sunrises
red (turntable beats)
JAYTRAM
flying lotus x burial
on!air!library!
durlin lurt, jim henson bangr
prefuse 73, one world extinguisher
q-tip on the dilla re-work
& samon kawamura astral travelling (pharoah sanders) choppr.
enjoy.....
renaissance beets by thewhiptest

theme from paris

2009-06-07T12:53:00.000-07:00

i made this a couple weeks ago n forgot about it, fortunately it doesn't sound dated yet. starting off with the title track from james pants and a flurry of beats from hudson mohawke, nosaj thing, dilla, madlib, and pete rock... what else... a song from beirut, a sweet gaslamp killer selection, one from the amazing house shoes mix the king james version, koushik, and a beat from the new dilla release jay stay paid. it's kind of a tear jerker. enjoy!

more beats

2009-05-18T21:37:00.000-07:00

another batch, featuring:
some british band, mike slott, dimlite, either a sa-ra or bling47 beat (one or the other) via Low End Theory, beat tape selection from madlib, two from ras g and the afrikan space program, and a few more from animal collective, caural, and little dragon.... sweet dilla beat from the illa j album on the outro. enjoy!

wild mercury beats

2009-05-09T20:58:00.000-07:00

forward ever, backward... sometimes.
here's a new flock of beats featuring samiyam,
dilla, mike slott, samon kawamura, carlos nino,
and j rawls. jose gonzalez and do make say think
with Ak/Family on the end-piece.
shout out to bob dylan.

summer jams

2009-04-19T21:59:00.000-07:00

inspired by a warm wknd in sf, this is a mix of summer jams n pop gems from the past few years, bookended by two dilla beats. bump this one in your jeep. songs include:

jaheim's ghetto classic "125th" (kind of tongue-in-cheek, but not really... i love this one, it reminds me of riding around uptown in the summer), daedelus, school of seven bells, TI, flying lotus, aloe blacc (oh no on the beat, sam cooke cover), STS9 better day//trinocular (Richard Devine remix), dimlite, and j.rawls with the brown skin lady instrumental.

classic material :)
enjoy!

summer jams

sad songs on the radio

2009-04-07T14:52:00.000-07:00

its the slow jam edition of the whip test, with songs from build an ark, sade, cocorosie & daddy kev, samiyam, mathew dear, on!air!library!, bardo pond, skygreen leopards, calexico, and vetiver...... enjoy.

08

2009-03-25T11:20:00.000-07:00

beet test number eight, now with playlists!
featuring, in order of appearance:
miguel atwood ferguson's orchestral
arrangement of j dilla's "antiquity" beat
dimlite's back to the universe, the slapped eyeballers remix
waajeed reworking marvin gaye's inner city blues
king midas sound, one ting (dabrye remix)
declaime, whole wide world... flying lotus production
onra, i wanna go back from chinoiseries
intro>>la llama from the new Savath y Savalas record
leb laze bonus beats from the leyode album
aloe blacc, and tape on the outro......
springtime sounds.

beet test 08 by thewhiptest

folk test 01

2009-03-20T12:00:00.000-07:00

folk test! an experiment in long form, featurin a dusty track off the new calexico, something from mia doi todd's last record Gea, a reminder bonus beat, phosphorescent on the epic temper tantrum, tape (from sweden), bill frisell, tenniscoats, and bob dylan (in that order).

folk test 01 by thewhiptest

no.7

2009-03-16T13:13:00.000-07:00

beet test number seven.... saint patrick's edition. well, bagpipes anyway. this one gets kind of LOUD, don't be scared just ride it out.

beet test 06

2009-03-10T00:30:00.000-07:00

here's one for the headphones.... enjoy :)

beet test 06 by thewhiptest

beet test no.5

2009-03-05T23:59:00.000-08:00

the fifth installment.... this one starts off with dimlite and the slapped eyeballers with a hyper danish beat driven pop joint followed by two from hudson mohawke, a snippet of the new prefuse 73 record (it's amazing) and kind of a dark electric 80s block (rest in peace to charlie cooper.) some lite rock at the end too from mia doi todd n nobody (aka elvin estella.)

peace n enjoy the sounds.
beat test 05 by thewhiptest

the long lost

2009-03-01T13:26:00.000-08:00

here are a few songs from the long lost, new project by daedelus and laura darlington, both from los angeles... i had this one on repeat last night. pure novelty.

beet test 04. space flight

2009-02-22T13:10:00.000-08:00

beet test! i like how this one came together... it kind of unintentionally traces the evolution of stylized sound fx, bouncing back n forth between rootsier tracks, older breaks, and some soundtrack stuff. shouts out to sixto rodriguez, the gold sparkle trio, hudson mohawke & mike slott. theres a nice samon kawamura beat in there too. enjoy...

mountains. choral

2009-02-16T12:48:00.000-08:00

this is a mix of the new one from mountains, one of my favs out of brooklyn. mountains does folksy electroacoustic drones, weaving together synthetic and handmade sounds with field recordings in waves of luminous, shifting patterns. they really tie the room together. choral is their third proper recording, both their previous releases & really anything off the apestaartje label is worth scooping up.

beet test 03: sunday in the rain.

2009-02-15T15:12:00.000-08:00

heres some rainy sunday beats, featuring my man epstein y su conjunto in the mix, plus dj krush w/zap mama, badu, jay electronica, and a nice sonic youth outtake at the end..... recorded live, sunday in the rain..... peace!

thank you jay dee

2009-02-06T21:47:00.000-08:00

James Dewitt Yancey (February 7, 1974 – February 10, 2006)

it's dilla month this month. or perhaps black history embodied and expressed in sound-month. dilla's music is above and beyond. the work of a genius who, like mozart, was born at the perfect juncture of time and space to express his gifts; detroit, michigan, the rising wave of underground hip-hop. plenty of records to listen to.

this one jumps around a lot, from early slum village-era beats, to delicious vinyl joints, beat tape selections, some donuts, some stuff from the shining, electric circus, and some interview pieces. it's maximalist, and sort of skewed towards the esoteric/instrumental/spiritual side of things, but all n all i think its a good picture of the scope of dilla's work. please turn it up.

ॐ अह हम

Harmonic 313

2009-02-04T10:49:00.001-08:00

harmonic 313.... this makes me want to get out my tron suit and go racing around detroit at night....

beet test no.2

2009-02-01T23:15:00.000-08:00

//more home made beats by flying lotus, dr. who dat, samon kawamura, kev brown, and an electric circus dilla beat at the end.... oh and my mans mahavishnu john mchlaughlin w/saphire bullets of pure love from the birds of fire joint back in..... seventy-something. 73? something like that....

पास

mellow aftrnoon musik

2009-01-31T21:13:00.000-08:00

thirty minutes of an afternoon in mid-winter, san francisco//

DIMLITE

2009-01-28T13:17:00.000-08:00

For the past four or five years Dimlite has been making some really great experimental beats-oriented music..... i don't know much about him except that hes from Switzerland and he just completed work on an album with Scott Herren (Prefuse 73, with whom he shares some obvious aesthetic sensibilities).... he also has a new record coming out this spring which sounds amazing.....

Here is a short mix of beats from Dimlite.... an intro from his Misel Quitno side project, couple of tracks each from his last two records, and some cool interludes which i like..... dude obviously had access to some records growing up.

You can also grab a mix of outtakes from his last album here.... kind of a wild 10 minute mashup of stuff with an awesome end-piece anyone who makes art should probably hear.....

peace!

madlib. dil cosby suite

2009-01-22T20:48:00.000-08:00

madlib's tribute to j dilla comes out on CD next month....

taking jay dee's late beat tapes, and probably his record collection, as a jumping off point, madlib's created a kind of endlessly morphing soul-sound collage. i find it really visual in a way. rhythmically, these two volumes of the beat conducter series represent a kind of roots form of the heartbeat pulse-swing behind all of dilla's music.

check the string sample of the roots' "act too/love of my life" joint from things fall apart. probably nabbed from carlos nino and miguel atwood ferguson's orchestral translations of dillas work, also set to drop next month.

here is a mix of a few of my fav beats on the record.... and a flying lotus beat thrown on the end, enjoy!

dil cosby suite - Madlib

cat power. dark end of the street

2009-01-13T12:42:00.000-08:00

cat power kills me sometimes.....
this is chan marshall singing an aretha franklin
song backed by some old school nashville session
musicians. bam.

beats n gems

2009-01-04T12:58:00.000-08:00

the following is a rough mix of some of my favs from 08......
shouts out to flying lotus, hudson mohawke, durlin lurt, gang gang dance & madlib//

moondog

2009-01-02T03:02:00.000-08:00

moondog!
from the ny times:
From the late 1940s to the early ’70s Moondog was as recognizable in the New York City landscape as the Empire State Building, and nearly as striking. A tall blind man with long hair and beard, wearing a handmade Viking helmet and primitive cloak, he regularly stationed himself at Sixth Avenue and 54th Street, which cops and cabbies knew as Moondog’s Corner. Dispensing his poetry, politics, sheet music and recordings (some on boutique labels, some on majors), he was sought out over the years by beats, hippies and foreign tourists, but also by the media and celebrities, from Walter Winchell and “Today” to Marlon Brando, Muhammad Ali and Martin Scorsese.

here are some cool avant garde jazz compositions by moondog....

xmas guitar musik

2008-12-22T23:33:00.000-08:00

.
brad barr is a guitarist & songwriter from montreal, plays with a band called the slip. here are three songs from his solo joint the fall apartment and some xmas songs from american primitive virtuoso john fahey.

xmas guitar

cover songs

2008-12-22T23:22:00.000-08:00

cover songs r cool.... here are three::
feist & constantines x the bee gees
bardo bond vs. the beatles
and madlib w/the message over a jay dee beat.

cover songs

SAMIYAM

2008-12-17T20:53:00.000-08:00

samiyam is the drunken master of beats..... i dont know how hes able to make shit this good, dude has prob been listenin to beat tapes since before he could talk......

blackmonk

2008-11-29T12:57:00.000-08:00

this is blackmonk, from la. dude has schooled me a bunch of times on the shuffle, like "what the fuck is this?" his beats sound timeless in a way, although there is a minimalist, disco-vibe to them as well.

check the vocal sample from "in the morn... "

हम

blackmonk