Forgotten Treasure: Aaliyah “If Your Girl Only Knew” (The New Remix) (1996)
We here at MIMS would love to send out a warm thought to Aaliyah who would have celebrated her 34th birthday today. She left much too soon (at age 22) and we can only imagine all amazing music she could have put out… There have been a ton of remixes, …
Forgotten Treasure: The X-Ecutioners “The Turntablist Anthem” (1997)
That super familiar line, “Hey DJ won’t you play that song” has a source, and the other night I had a moment while watching a classic music video that took me back to an X-Ecutioners track. In my high school days, I remember adoring this track; played it on repeat …
Future Classic: Ta-ku “25 Nights for Nujabes”
Ta-ku is truly one of the most talented and prolific new producers out there but not only that, the guy is mad generous too. Last year the Australian producer started a project that was pretty ambitious: a 50 day tribute to the late J Dilla, one production per day, an …
Future Classic: DJ Day “Mama Shelter”
The good homie, DJ Day, has a new album dropping soon, and to say I’m ecstatic is an understatement. On top of being a world class producer that garners praise from the likes of Gilles Peterson, Jeremy Sole and Lefto, Day, hands down, is one of the best DJ’s on …
Future Classic: C.R.S.T. VS Chesus “Monster Munch EP”
Must admit that I got excited a little bit when I saw the names C.R.S.T and Local Talk in the same paragraph. After all, Local Talk has grown very rapidly grown into one of our favorite labels here at MIMS. Mad Mats‘ young label might only be 20 releases old …
Future Classic: Detroit Swindle “Creep”
When it comes to house music I really obey my 5% – 95% rule meaning that you really have to dig through 95 “meh” tracks to find 5 tracks that are just magic. House can be such a disposable genre of music: tracks that sound like they took 5 minutes …
Forgotten Treasure: Neptunes & Vanessa Marquez “Good Girl” (2003)
I could probably do a few forgotten treasures selections of my favorite overlooked productions from the Neptunes but I’ll stick to this one for now, although I need to do one on Mase’s “Lookin At Me”, their first hit single that started the great years that followed. “Good Girl” with …
Future Classic: Meridian Brothers “Guaracha U.F.O”
I didn’t do a top tracks list this year (I think we’ve all had enough lists anyway) but if I had the time this track would have been way up there. A track which has very fitting title as it comes at you like an piece of space psych funk …
Forgotten Treasure: Kazi & Madlib “A.V.E.R.A.G.E” (2000)
I was DJing on New Years at The Goods event in Montreal which is always one of my favorite crowds to play for and my good friend Scott C was playing this one track that caught my attention about 5 seconds into it because it was one of those tracks …