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We love you Denver aka The Solution Returns Recap…
Well it’s done….The Solution is back and Denver, we love you…We don’t kinda love you, we don’t sorta love you…me & Sounds Supreme fuckin LOVE you….the way you guys PACKED the Funky Buddha’s Roof from 9 on (y’all are some early motherfuckers, also you gotta let me know how you guys like the Median tape), the way girls came up to the DJ booth all excited when we played “Mona Lisa”, Foreign Exchange, the “Gone Til November” remix and other GREAT hip hop shit, all the beautiful women (we’re so spoiled) and cool ass homies that came through, all that ish was dope and don’t even me started about how people went NUTS for Camp Lo “Luchini” late night (who’d have thought Camp Lo would have the hottest club joint in 2007?)…Any spot where Camp Lo gets as much love as B.I.G., Kanye and Mary J is cool in my book…
Anyways, the Solution is just gettin started at the Funky Buddha and Fridays are only gonna get better so keep checkin us out Denver…We’ve got some CRAZY ish planned from here on out, so stay tuned…Anyways, time for to get ready to spin, I have three spots to spin at back to back to back (did someone say triple header?) starting in less than 7 hours, some drinks to recover from & anything less than 4 hours of sleep is rough…IN YA FACE !!! (c) Sounds Supreme….Welcome back to the Solution….
P.S. this Kanye album is AMAZING, too bad more artists don’t have his ambition and passion. Dude sets out to make some monumental ish and more often than not does it, hopefully other artists are out there taking notes.
P.P.S. Man, couldn’t dude from Coldplay come up with something better than “Oweee oweee oh oweee oweeee oh, oweee oweee oh oweee oweeee oh” for the end of the “Homecoming” hook, he already had John Legend’s big boots to fill, the least he could do is finish writing the damn hook…Anyways…
.:DJ Low Key Charts – 8/28/2007:.
1. Kanye West – Graduation
2. Free Speech & Ro Blvd present The Brekfast Club – The Brekfast Club EP Part 1
3. Tanya Morgan “Shawty What’s Your Name”
4. Elucid – Smash N Grab
5. Oh No – Dr No’s Oxperiment
6. Consequence & Kanye West “Don’t Forget Em (Remix)”
7. Big Treal, Supastition & 9th Wonder “In Ya Place”
8. Lupe Fiasco “Dumb It Down”
9. Big Shug, Royce The 5-9, Termanology & Singapore Kane “Play It (Remix)”
10. Peedi Peedi, Cassidy & Swizz Beats “My Hood Is Greezy”
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“Once again, back it’s the incredible…” (c) Chuck D…The Solution returns on 8/31…
Friday, 8/31-> We’ve all been missing the Solution since the Shelter closed, things just haven’t been the same on Fridays…With that said, me and Sounds Supreme are fuckin ecstatic to bring everybody’s favorite hip hop night in Denver back at the Funky Buddha’s sick rooftop deck, do away with the cover (yep, I said it, NO COVER) and take things to the next level. No more texts to avoid/reduce cover, no more techno DJs or washed up rock stars in the room below us causing trouble at the door, no more need for passes to get into special events, just quality music and unique events every Friday, so stay tuned for updates and tell your friends…The Solution is back! IN YA FACE!!!
P.S. Stay tuned for info on the afterhours afterparty to the Solution’s return featuring Sake One, Zeph & Azeem (OM Records), plus an encore set from me & Sounds Supreme.
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It’s favor time aka Radio Bums in this….
Please do me a BIG favor and vote for my fellow Radio Bum, fellow Shag resident and infamous Ben Affleck impersonator, DJ Bedz real quick. Bedz is a finalist in Pepsi’s Superstar DJ contest (kind of a big HUGE deal, he’d join the Pepsi team alongside DJs like Drama, Khaled & Clinton Sparks) and all you have do is head over to the Pepsi Superstar site to vote real quick (there’s also a mixtape of his up there that you can listen to for proof he’s nice). Feel free to tell your friends, repost this or make your myspace pic the image below. Thanks for the help…
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.:DJ Low Key Charts – 8/21/2007:.
1. Ilwil – Beat Thieves 2 Sessions
2. J’Davey & DJ Lindsey – Land of the Lost Episode
3. Cunninlynguists, Witchdoctor & Phonte “Yellow Lines”
4. Talib Kweli – Ear Drum
5. Little Brother “Cool As A Fan”
6. NYG’z & DJ Premier “Ya Dayz R Numbered”
7. Mark Ronson, Lily Allen & Busta Rhymes “Oh My God (Remix)”
8. Miles Davis, Nas & Olu Dara “Freedom Jazz (Dance Mix)”
9. Roc Marciano “Snow”
10. Nappy Roots “Good Day”
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What’s next on the menu (c) Pete Rock & CL Smooth
Damn, I don’t even know where to begin…The last few weeks have been crazy busy with all sorts of changes (lots of good great GREAT stuff, from mixtapes to club ish to other music iddish), here’s an update of what I’ve been up to and what’s next…
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I’ve been building with Ilyas & Donwill (2/3rds of Tanya Morgan aka Ilwil) a lot lately, gettin music together for our new project, Ilwil & DJ Low Key – Beat Thieves 2. In case you missed the original Beat Thieves, it was a SICK project composed of both original joints and mixtape style tracks, check the review from AllHipHop.com here. Il & Don are some supa MC (c) De La ish and all the tracks they’ve sent so far have been RIDICULOUS, so keep an eye out for the free tape, it won’t disappoint…
In case you’ve been wondering, I didn’t forget about MIA while I’ve been workin on all these rappers’ (Che Grand, Median & now Ilwil) mixtapes. An impressive list of up & coming MCs/producers have already said they’re down to record tracks for it and things are just gettin started. Stay tuned for more info and snippets as things come together…
Texts, calls, e-mails, myspace messages, singing telegrams, people coming up to me in person, sloppy drawings in crayon, etc… Everybody keeps asking me what’s up with the Solution. Well, here’s the deal, both me and Sounds Supreme are workin on a permanent setup/venue/night/etc for the Solution after things didn’t go according to plan with the move across the street (recreating the vibe of what we had going on at the Shelter at Vinyl is easier said than done, I blame Tommy Lee). Anyways, we’re both still spinning at Vinyl on Fridays right now and it’s a fun night (2nd floor/doors at 9/21+), but it’s not the quite the same one of a kind experience as what people have come to expect from the Solution (with the special events, giveaways, shows, free texts, etc), so just think of it as DJ Low Key & Sounds Supreme at Vinyl, not the Solution. With that said we’re workin on relaunching the Solution very soon because we love it as much as you do (more even), trust…
Everybody in Denver has been raving about Shag after CRAZY opening weekend. With me spinning on both Thursdays & Saturdays, fellow Radio Bum/Nuggets DJ/CO Mixtape King DJ Bedz spinning Fridays, a beautiful space, dope retro tiki lounge concept & great staff, Shag is about to be CRUSHIN (…yeah (c) Dilla) the downtown scene. 830 15th Street/Downtown Denver/21+/DJs at 9. Every Thursday is ladies night & the fairer sex gets $1 drinks from 7-11. Taking the Saturday at Shag also marks the end of my long running residency at Bar Luxe, one of my all time favorite spots I’ve DJed at. I’ll definitely be missing Bar Luxe, the fantastic staff (like a second family to me) & the cool ass people who come in there, but I’m sure I’ll be hanging out there on some of my off nights. It’s time to move on to the next step, just like the homey DJ Amen recently did (he took a Friday night at Jet downtown), but I’m sure I’ll be seeing everybody around (plus I know you guys are gonna come check me at Shag).
Ro Blvd, Free Speech, Sik, Micah James…these names should be familiar to you by now. If not, download “Build ‘Em Up (Summer Breeze)”, then head over to ourteamisfresh.com to get up to speed, plus there’s new stuff dropping later this month and some other projects I’m workin on with my west coast crew on the way too…
Speaking of the west coast, Blu & Exile’s AMAZING/CLASSIC/BRILLIANT/REFRESHING (I can go on and on with the praise) debut album Below The Heavens just dropped on 8/14 and I HIGHLY recommend you go cop this album, I promise you’ll get way more than your $12 worth. It’s my pick for album of the year (so far) and it’s gotta be one of the best debut albums I’ve heard in the last decade. In case you missed Blu’s performance at the Solution with me & Sounds Supreme back in June, you can check out the whole album on Blu’s myspace page and get the single “Narrow Path” on my Mixing In Action #2 tape from last November to hear what a 2007 classic sounds like…
Last but not least let me shout out my corporate sponsor, Guess But really though, I know some of you guys have seen me at my “day job” (spinning in the Guess store at the Cherry Creek Mall) over the last month plus. You can catch me playing a mix of everything from top 40 to house to random new ish from my charts and flirting with beautiful women there every weekend (don’t be suprised if you an unreleased Tanya Morgan song or a Prince bootleg the next time you get dragged out shopping by your girl). If you’re at the mall, come say what’s up and get dressed up on that “Represent” ish (“when I dress it’s never nothin less than Guess” (c) Nas). I’m sure I’m forgetting something else I’m workin on (oh yeah, there’s something in the works with Red Bull too, more info coming soon), but that should be a preview of what’s to come, stay tuned…
Thursday, 8/16->Bronco’s Cheerleaders Calendar Release Afterparty at Shag w/DJ Low Key
Thursday, 8/16-> Starts at 9, ladies get $1 drinks til 11, Bronco’s Cheerleaders will be there, ’nuff said…
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.:DJ Low Key Charts – 8/14/2007:.
1. Lupe Fiasco “Superstar”
2. Choice37 & Blu “Piece”
3. Kanye West & Lil Wayne “Barry Bonds”
4. 9th Wonder & DJ Cuzzin B – 9th’s Leaky Beat Vault
5. Rhymefest, Little Brother & T3 “Get Plugged”
6. Elucid “Cut You Down”
7. Nas & Cee-Lo “Less Than An Hour”
8. Hezekiah & Jaguar Wright “I See Yaw”
9. Mickey Factz – Flashback Volume 1
10. I-15 & Polow Da Don “Lost In Love”
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You check out the Median tape yet?
Almost 12,000 people have downloaded it from here in a little more than a week…Thousands more have got it from RappersIKnow.com…It was reported on the front page of Okayplayer.com, HipHopSite.com, HipHopGame.com and numerous other major sites and hip hop blogs from around the world…But really though, none of that stuff is important, Median’s Relief In The Making (mixed by DJ Low Key & hosted by 9th Wonder) is all about the music, not the hype…If you’ve been sleeping, download it below…
.: Median’s Relief In The Making (mixed by DJ Low Key & hosted by 9th Wonder) :.
.: Median’s Relief In The Making (mixed by DJ Low Key & hosted by 9th Wonder) (tracked version) :.
