it's called 'AFROBEAT'

well, now, what a huge few months it's been.......we've started our weekly: night GET TOGETHER every friday and OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS, have featured the likes of: DJ NUMARK, SCRATCH (ROOTS), JAYCEEOH, TOP BILLIN, TEAM CANADA, SMALLTOWN DJ'S, FORT KNOX FIVE, MAT THE ALIEN, ALI B, DEEKLINE, PUMP, HEDSPIN, AYRES, SKRATCH BASTID, THE FRESHEST, THE LYTICS, EMOTIONZ, AUDIT, AND HUNNICUT AND CO-OP. that's every friday at scratch.

also, I've focused alot on my SOUNDCLOUD page, i've been making tons of new music in preparation for my album, and a 12" to be released this summer....lately i've been letting out 100 free downloads to get the buzz going, here's the latest one:

It's called 'AFROBEAT' by TheGaff

I WISH

I WISH - HOT CLUB 69
I haven't played this one in a few minutes, nor have I put up a new post ha---this was a quirky cover from a euro record, the place was called Hot Club from what I gather, and, speaking of which, we have a new friday night, called "GET TOGETHER" at our new venue called "SCRATCH big....................PAUSE.................and shouts out to my homie Neil for opening---of course the night focuses on international DJ's, so every week, myself and Charly Hustle will be bringing you the goods, we have NEIGHBOUR this week, last week, our big homies SMALLTOWN DJ'S, and next week, TOP BILLIN. I am off to Vancouver on Saturday to play with my skilled brother from another mother EMOTIONZ, at the media club, I haven't played Van in YEARS, due to my son being born 4 years ago, so I'm slowly getting back underway with the touring this year, and having lots of fun with it I might add....

MARY MARY

MARY MARY Edit-Roger Simard

Forgot about this one! always in my search for covers of well known breaks, this one was a canadian break that while pretty fast, was also pretty bangin. I extended the drums, and added some compression and reverb, and gave it an extra bump on all levels for that extra touch to make this song playable in any modern set..........well, most 'modern dj's' would not play this I guess, but if you got that flamboyant punch, and skills on the wheels, I'm sure it'll get played one day!

Devotion

'DEVOTION' FRANK HOOKER AND THE POSITIVE PEOPLE

wow, busy summer----to all Dj's Devoted to their craft and art, this goes out to you, over the summers I see sooo much talent out there that isn't "trendy" at the moment, lots of peeps that have paid their dues, that don't really get the props they deserve, while the new kids on the block play to the masses by playing what's popular: Devotion is an album cut off Frank Hooker and the Positive People's S/T album on Panorama, 'This Feelin' is the banging 12" cut, but hey, we tryin to play the underdog here right? I had to put the flip side on for the image, just cuz someone wrote "good" on my copy, as in, "dang, this is good"

Let's Have Some Fun

LET'S HAVE SOME FUN

I played an all 45's set on 4 tables with my man DR.J last weekend at the 14th annual Connect Music Festival and realized 'let's have some fun' by the Bar-Kays is one of the most perfect boogie/break tracks ever made, perfect for cutting in, and mixing out, definately does not need a re-edit! starts out with not only a fat unique break (sampled to death and popularized by Q-bert for his turntable t.v.) but breaks down twice more throughout, making it easy for any DJ to mix into or out of already----
*****to all peeps in Toon Town we got Myself and Skratch BAstid this saturday at the Overdrive celebrating his 110% cd tour******

If You Want My Love

IF YOU WANT MY LOVE-MELVIN SPARKS
SET IT OUT-DETROIT EMERALDS

so, I just came back from Toronto, where the hip hop culture is certainly poppin off, as well as the record and creative music scene! Big shout out to all the homies some old, some new: Fathom, Kaewonder, Alixander, Bastid, Serious, Dopey, Catalist, Blaz, Bboys: Q-Rock and Heist, as well as Epic and Chaps! and of course all the lovely Ladies!
apologies for not posting for a minute, but summer gets pretty hectic..............this is a classic I wanted to upload, Melvin Sparks featuring Jimmy Scott from Westbound off his '75 album, which to me was so banging, (but didn't sell many copies) that two years later on the Detroit Emeralds album: Feel The Need, it was replayed, and with different lyrics by the Detroit Emeralds, which has a nice little 1 bar break towards the end-----my vote, the Melvin version all the way baby

don't stop till you get enough dub

and it keep on going (don't stop till you get enough dub)

People People! my apologies, summer gets crazy for dj'ing, so it's been a minute, but I'm keepin up----obviously MJ's death was a huge wave of parties, tv shows, tribute sets etc....and so I was busy ripping all of my MJ/jackson5 covers: here is the B-Side Dub version to the awesome Jaro and trinity 'don't stop till you get enough' cover. perhaps, MJ had enough? saskheads: tonight we are keeping all the jazzfest festivities going with The Heavy and The Gaff at Lydias for the 2nd night in a row, and be sure to head to Jax after for Z-trip!