Tribute Mixes

Founding member of EPMD and Def Squad, Erick Sermon aka the Green Eyed Bandit is a legendary Producer & MC from Brentwood, Long Island. In my opinion he’s always been the funkiest producer on the East Coast. Through his records, I became interested in P-Funk, Zapp, Johnny Guitar Watson, to …

I think we can all agree that he was way too young to die. Jimi Hendrix was the king of electric guitar and he played with too many people to list, and even though he passed at the young age of 27, he left a legacy that has inspired so …

Danilo: “Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis form part of the holy trinity of R&B producers that defined my musical tastes during my formative years. The other two being L.A. Reid & Babyface (LaFace) and Teddy Riley. Of course there were plenty of other music makers out there that played (Prince, Quincy Jones, …

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis form part of the holy trinity of R&B producers that defined my musical tastes during my formative years. The other two being L.A. Reid and Babyface (LaFace) and Teddy Riley. Of course there were plenty of other music makers out there that played (Prince, Quincy …

David Axelrod was one of my favourite producer/arranger, especially as I was looking for breaks and samples as a younger beat producer. He was even my PSN user name – daxelrod. One thing you needed to know about Axelrod’s tracks is that even if it sounded like it didn’t have …

“Let’s dance for love and peace” -Colonel Abrams When I found out about the passing of Colonel Abrams I was quite shocked and shaken. Not only did I realize that one of my most treasured musical hero was gone but I was saddened because of all the struggles he had …

I hand-picked 80 minutes of some of my favourite music recorded by The High Priestess of Soul. Nina Simone was a singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist who worked in a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop. Follow Kobal’s Mixcloud …

2016 just saw another Legend pass away. Kashif Saleem, previously known as Michael Jones, was one of the most prolific producers in the 1980’s, producing for acts such as Melba Moore, Evelyn Champagne King, Withney Houston, Howard Johnson and George Benson, just to name a few. On a personal note, …

There was a time in the New York underground House music history where DJ Duke was omnipresent. He founded his label, Power Music, in 1992 which later become a huge structure consisting of about ten sub labels around 1995. His massive body of work is really representative of the evolution …