BLANK CINEMA - HIGH PRESSURE DAYS

Blank Cinema covering Legendary S.F. post punk band - The Units "High Pressure Days"

In case you haven't heard the original. It was made in 1979!

KUTCORNERS x KICKDRUMS REMIX #2

A while back I got asked to do another remix for The Kickdrums for their album "Meet Your Ghost" The album is out now and its worth checking out. This is the song that seemed most ripe for a do over.

Here it is all synthed up and slowed down.

Love Can Drive Your Mind Wild (Kutcorners Remix) by kutcorners

JAYSWING - UP IN THIS BITCH

Classic mix put together by the Don Dadda himself - JaySwing circa 2001.  

Man, records sound good, even on Macbook Pro speakers : ) 

Cover art by Rhek!

Jay Swing

Up In This Bitch!

AUCTION FOR KOOL HERC PAINTING HOSTED BY TONY TOUCH

Tuesday February 1st Tony Touch hosted an auction to raise funds for Kool Herc's medical expenses. It all went down inside Sutra Lounge and DJ Marvel of The Freshest was lucky enough to win the bid with all proceeds going directly to the legend Kool Herc.

Painting Courtesy of Andre Trenier.

For more information on Kool Herc's condition and donation info please click here. 

Peace

NEW MIX! COSMO BAKER & DJ MARVEL 'LIVE' @ HAPPY ENDINGS

Cosmo Baker with a little appearance by DJ Marvel 'live' dj set from HAPPY ENDING FRIDAYS at fortune sound club.

Download HERE

TIM WILSON - THE BOOTY SONG

So, our bud Jayceeoh sent this over from Austin Texas and I can't stop listening. 

LRG PRESENTS - THE DRAKE 'THANK ME LATER' AFTER PARTY!

Don't really need to say much about this!

Incase you need more here is a link to the Facebook Event.

It's almost sold out but the remaining tickets can be found by clicking here.

COOL FRIENDS

All us Freshest Dudes know cool people that make or do some really cool things, Some of them are our close friends. I figure it would be cool to give a little shout out to them on the blog as they are inspirational to us and are a very important part of what we do.

Today I'd like to put you on to my friends "The Opensouls"

I grew up in New Zealand as you may know. I played in various bands and alot of them included my close friend Jeremy Toy (aka Ota). This guys is a mean guitar player,producer,dj and all around music lover. He went on to form the band, with these other cool guys Julian Dyne (drums), Bjorn Peterson (vox), Tyra Hammond (vox), Harlin davey (dj/mpc), Issac Aesilli (horns), Chip Matthews (bass).

They have helped me out on tunes and i've even had the opportunity to play in the band from time to time. They play the meanest of Soul music and have a big collection of 45's that they have released over the years. If you like Daptone/Stax/Motown or any other soul music you'll be able to get with this.

They're playing here in vancouver on the 27th of June at a free outdoor concert in Gastown at 4pm (right across the road from Gassy jack) as part of the Jazz and Blues Festival

Check out their sound here and there.

ON SOME DJ ISH...

DJ PREMIER - MALCOLM MCLAREN MIX (RIP)

Malcolm Mclaren Tribute Mix by Dj Premier Blog Radio on Mixcloud

THE BEATNUTS RE-CAP

DJ MARVEL IN OTTAWA!

I am super excited to play Ottawa's Legendary "Grind" party! DJ Frame has been putting it down on 4 tables with countless guests in the past including - Jayceeoh, Illo, Benzi, Jr. Flo, Magnificent and many more. It's gonna be amazing, if your out east come through and party with us.

LIVING LEGEND LIL JON x RICO UNO!

This one speaks for itself. Butttt.. if you need to know more here is a link to the Facebook event.

Hip Hop Karaoke - Camron' and Juelz Santana at Fortune!

Such a good performance by none other than Camron' and Juelz Santana aka Kallon & Seth (District thirty sssssssix)


Be sure to sign up for the next edition of HHK. More info on the Facebook event.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=217741184157&ref=mf

DJ MARVEL & DJ ILLO IN BIG WHITE!

So much fun this past weekend in Big White. Thanks to Johnny and the rest of the people from S-trips for having us out and Shot out to people for being young and going banannas.

ARITZIA PRESENTS - RICO UNO'S WHIRLY POP!

LADIES Listen up.. your favourite store and favourite DJ together at last.

Download the mix here on the Aritzia Website.

"When Rico Uno's not rocking one party or another around Vancouver, he's making sick mixes for the likes of Livestock, Brooklynradio.net, and...well...Aritzia. Rico Uno is one quarter of Vancouver's notorious DJ crew The Freshest. For this mix, Rico Uno took inspiration from his killer popcorn maker to make a post modern whirlwind of songs. While we're pumped it's the New Year (2010 yeah!), we'll admit we're putting our faith in this hot mix to get us through a cold month!"

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• Taken by Trees - My Boys
• Notch - Verme (Feat. Baby Ranks)
• The Tough Alliance - A New Chance (Tanlines Remix)
• James Pants - Kash (A-Trak & XXXchange Remix)
• Busy Signal - Not Going Down (Ice Breaka Riddim)
• Passion Pit - The Reeling (Sammy Bananas Remix)
• Classixx - I'll Get You (Feat. Jeppe)
• Big Boi - Ringtone
• The Very Best - Wena
• Drop the Lime - Devil's Eyes (Diplo Remix)
• Ke$ha - Tik Tok (Skeet Skeet Remix)
• Yeasayer - Foaming (Memory Tapes Version)
• Phoenix - Love Like A Sunset (Shuttle Remix)
• Restless People - Days of Our Lives (Light In Mix)
• Ace Boon Coon - Fruity Got Me Gone (Feat. Young Dro)
• Grum - Heartbeats (Rico Uno Love Lockdown Edit)
• Miike Snow - Animal (Fake Blood Remix)
• Douster - Journey To Tethys Sea
• Business Class / George Harrison - Here Comes the Sun
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)
• Wetdog - Lower Leg
• Crystal Fighters - I Love London
• Solange - Stillness Is the Move
• Barrington Levy - Murderer
• Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves
• Get Back Guinozzi! - Police and Thieves
• Marvin Gaye - Ain't That Peculiar
• Devo - The Girl U Want (Black Light Odyssey Mix)
• Nicki Minaj - Dopeman
• New Boyz - Cricketz
• Brick and Lace - Love is Wicked
• Tifa - Spell It Out
• Faux Pas - Chasing Waterfalls

NAUGHTY OR NICE

Secret Party with Naughty By Nature popped off this holiday season w/ Myself & Icy Touch. Fun times.

HIP HOP KARAOKE THE RETURN!

The first edition of Hip Hop Karaoke was a SMASH! Seko held it down with the instrumentals and kept the party moving in between performers. I walked in to Flipout doing a perfect rendition of THIS! Other notable mentions were Nice & Smooth, Biggie and Eminem, and Ghostface in full costume!

This time will be the sure shot no doubt. Pre-Register your songs at Hhkvancouver@gmail.com

For more info check the Facebook Jumpoff.

RICO UNO - JINGLE DOGGIE!

Click HERE to Play

Download HERE (right click save as)

SOUTH RAKKAS CREW W/ RICO UNO!!

JUST JUST JUST announced Jan 8th at Fortune Sound Club.

South Rakkas Crew (Mad Decent)

Rico Uno (The Freshest)

Brendan Butter (Alife)

Im excited to see what new sounds will emerge as this line up is sure to push the boundaries of Dancehall one again!