DJ Mix: Be strong be free by mattymatt

Tracklist:

Found Him feat. Monique Bingham (Kerri Chandler Bigga Vocal Mix) – Studio Apartment
Call On Me Ft: Sara Divine & Sterling Ensemble – Fanatix
Beautiful Sunrise feat. AK (Quentin Harris Reproduction) – Studio Apartment
Get Up Remixes (USG North Rmx) – Get Up Remixes (USG North Rmx)
Rize (Main Mix) – Glenn Underground & Daisy Villa
Here I Am (Shur-i-kan Vocal Mix) feat Lisa Shaw – Fred Everything
Headphone Silence (Henrik Schwarz Remix/Dixon Edit/Ame Approved)
Above The Clouds (Album Mix) – Scott Wozniak
This Here Is House Muzik / Na Na Na (I Walks With God) – Mike Dunn pres. the MD X-Spress
New York City (Main) – Vega feat. Johnny Dangerous
Love Sweet Sound (Extended 12 Mix) – Groove Armada
The Sound Is Yours (Kerri Chandler Remix) – RiskSoundSystem
I Exist Because Of You (Henrik Schwarz Live Version) – Henrik Schwarz & Amampondo
Need You Now (Sergio Flores Remix) – Soul Central
Drivin’ (Vocal) MAW Remix – Everything But the Girl
Don’t Give it up (Lawnchair Generals remix) – DJ Hal feat. Jay Thomas
I Feel Good Things For You – Daddy’s Favorite

Greg played a dub of this. Sounded incredible.

Greg played with a reel to reel. He was using it for effects. Much like in this video from 1983(!!!!).

I think he played this for 10 minutes, much to my delight.

Eamon played a bunch of disco. I was kind of weirded out that no one sang along with Jackie Moore. Pretty much every time I’ve ever heard this out the DJ turns it down so the whole club sings along. But then again those crowds have 20+ years more time spent on dancefloors but I digress.

mattymatt editor’s note: I wrote this post a year ago, and just am getting around to posting it. The couch and chair are for sale right now on craigslist and ebay since we want to update our living room…

Heather and I moved in together on October 15th 2008. Time really flies.

We took our apartments and put them in boxes, and brought them to Queens. We didn’t break up! and we were (mostly) in good moods throughout. Our movers were stellar. They moved things in and out of our apartment that I didn’t think were possible. It was a great experience (kinda expensive though, but WORTH IT).

Being a girl, Heather is into pretty things. This includes interiors, and our new apartment needed to be pretty. I agree. However, I am a moron when it comes to interior decoration. I could tell you if things match, and I could find you a bunch of patterns and colors that matched and looked OK together, but the end result would probably look like a dentist’s office. Also, I never put things away. When you live with someone who likes things to look pretty, it becomes clear that dirty socks on the floor do not look pretty. Neither do wires. I like to get wires out and leave them everywhere. I also like to start projects that have to do with wires and tools, and then leave everything on the desk. This looks bad. Thats why men have garages and workshops, and women have, well, places that look nice. My homie Rockie mentions this when talking about photographic composition.

Getting to the point here, we wanted to get a pretty couch, chair and TV stand. When we were in France in 2007, we grabbed a catalog from this store called Maisons du Monde (houses of the world, or something like that). In this catalog was an amazing couch that we kept looking at over and over again, like… we have to find that couch somewhere in the US. So we looked and looked and looked. Nothing was even close to the simple and classic look of that “chesterfield” sofa. So I thought, why not just order the couch we really want, because by the time we get anything comparable from another store (Crate and Barrel, pottery barn, ikea, etc), we’re gonna be in for thousands of dollars anyway.

Maisons du Monde doesn’t deliver to the US. They deliver to Spain France, Italy and the UK. So, why not have the stuff we want delivered to an export warehouse in the UK, and then shipped to our house in NYC? I called and requested quotes from a bunch of different overseas moving companies in and around London. I went with the lowest price, which turned out to be £540 if I remember correctly. This is about $1000. So, if we got two chairs, a headboard and the famous couch, the total would turn out to be about $4000 delivered. A lot of people spend more than that on just a couch! That was the answer. I was nervous, ordering $3000 worth of furniture online and having it delivered to a warehouse in an industrial park in Suffolk.

Despite having all of this figured out in October, it still took me a few weeks to get over my discomfort of sending $4000 to strangers in Europe and hoping that furniture would arrive at my house. I paid a deposit to Abels removals (mover companies in England are called removals) on November 6, 2008, and I placed the order with Maisons du Monde (MdM) on November 7th. We were really hoping to get the furniture delivered before the new year. Abels said there was a storage container leaving for the US at the end of November, so as long as MdM delivered a few days before, our stuff would get here by Christmas! At this point we were basically sitting on the floor. We bought these funny flower petal shaped chairs at a flea market. And we had an office chair and an Ikea chair. Thats it. Not something you can really plop down on when you get home from a long day.

The furniture wasn’t delivered by November 28, or December 28th either. It was delivered on January 5th. Which means we missed the last boat of 2008. While studying the delivery slip, it said that some of the cartons were crushed when they arrived at the UK warehouse. With a sinking feeling in my stomach, I emailed Abels and had them unpack everything and examine them for damage. They were very helpful, emailing me photos of angle of every item. There were a few scuffs and scrapes here and there, but otherwise the furniture looked ok, a huge relief. The headboard was extremely dusty, but I figured I could just clean it. It would have taken a lot of damage for me to call them and return something. The next question on my mind: When is the next boat?!?! Heather is like “when is the furniture coming” every day. And we are still watching TV on these weird little petal couches!

We got word the furniture shipped on March 17th. FINALLY. 4 and a half months later.

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1. Inspiration – Peven Everett (Timmy Regisford & Adam Rios remix)
2. In The Club – Lynn Lockamy
3. Sunday – Jaidene Veda (Jimpster Remix)
4. Mirror Muse – Pirahnahead
5. Walking on Lightning (U-Tern Blend) – Kris Menace & The Dream
6. Rainy Things – Telepathy Dub – Tomson & Benedict
7. The Red Room – Dennis Ferrer
8. Look Right Through – Storm Queen
9. What They Say – Maya Jane Coles
10. Crazy Love – Cece Peniston (MAW mix)
11. The Tea – Choklate (Layabouts mix)
12. Until We Drop – Peven Everett
13. Can Love Again – Hosanna Littlebird
14. Our Time Our Chance feat. Ian Whitelaw – Andre Lodemann Remix – Phonique

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Sup my peoples. Here is a mix I made in April. Its got a bunch of recent deep house jams on it. Enjoy…

DJ Mattymatt 4-18-10 (Right click or ctrl click to download)

Tracklist: (most songs are available on Traxsource)
Burnin hot – Peven Everett
Juju – Black Coffee feat Zakes
Complicated feat. Kafele – Ralf Gum
Each & Every Day Pt. 2 (Raw Artistic Soul Vocal Mix) – Jerk House Connection feat. Akram Sedkaoui
Ben Klock – Precious System
Superman – Black Coffee featuring Bucie
Hard boiled babe – Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Return To The Deep – Kevin Yost Peter Funk
Show You Why Zepherin Saint Remix – Peven Everett
I Want – Lawnchair Generals
Make Me Beautiful (Reelsoul Remix) – Sofia Rubina
Dancing In Outer Space (The Revenge Rework 1) – Atmosfear
Dancing in Outer Space (MAW remix) – Atmosfear
I’m Corrupt (Idjut Boys Edit) – Kid Creole & The Coconuts

What a perfect new years eve! That party was massive. I have to say that, technically, this mix sucks, I had no monitor and my serato vinyl was sweating as much as me, so there’s all kinds of glitches and fucked up mixes… and it was the first time i ever used a sample player (air horn). But the party was off the hook. No doubt about that. I wish I could DJ parties like this all the time. I love nothing more than playing 90s hits like they were made this year.
Peace 2009 and RIP Michael Jackson, DJ AM, Roc Raida, and Mister Magic.

Here’s the live recording, broken up into easily digestible pieces:

Part One Download (Windows users right click, save as to download, mac users ctrl click.)
Part One Tracklist:

Nights (Feel Like Getting Down)-Billy Ocean
I wanna be your lover – Prince
Shakara – Fela Kuti
Galaxy – War
Keep The Fire Burning (edit) – Gwen McRae
Clouds – Chaka Khan
You Should Be Dancin’ (Todd Terje Edit) – The Bee Gees
Love Hangover Joey Negro Remix – Diana Ross
The Magnificent Seven – The Clash
Dazz – Brick
Do It (‘Til You’re Satisfied) – B.T. Express
You Sexy Thing – Hot Chocolate
Girl You Need A Change Of Mind – Eddie Kendricks
Buffalo Stance – Neneh Cherry
Kiss – Prince
Need You Tonight – INXS
She Drives Me Crazy – Fine Young Cannibals
Remember the Time – Michael Jackson
You Rock My World – Michael Jackson
Doin’ It – LL Cool J
Heavenly Break – eli escobar
Paid In Full (Seven Minutes Of Music  -  The Coldcut Remix) – Eric B. & Rakim
Gasface (DJ SOUL‘s Edit) – 3rd Bass
Rump Shaker – Wreckx – N – Effect
Poison – Bell Biv DeVoe
I wanna sex you up – Color Me Badd
Hold On, I’m Coming (LP/Single Version) – Sam & Dave
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours – Stevie Wonder

Here’s Part Two (Windows users right click, save as, mac users ctrl click.)
Tracklist:

I Want You Back – The Jackson 5
Billie Jean – Michael Jackson
Into the Groove – Madonna
Don’t You Want me – Human League
Stand Back (Eli Escobar Disco Remix) – Stevie Nicks
Welcome To the Jungle (Todd Terje Re-Edit) – Guns ‘n’ Roses
I Wanna Be Sedated (Remastered Version ) – Ramones
Rock And Roll All Nite – Kiss
D’yer Mak’er – Led Zeppelin
Pour Some Sugar on Me – Def Leppard
Fame – David Bowie
Electric Feel – MGMT
Rock Your Body (LeBaron Edit) – Justin Timberlake
Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) (Intro Outro) – Beyonce
Headsprung  (Neo’s Intro Edit) – LL Cool J
Show Me What You Got – Jay-Z
Get Low (f. Ying Yang Twins) – Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
Be Faithful Dirty (Feat Fatman Scoop and Faith Evans) – Crooklyn Clan
The Choice Is Yours (Revisited) – Black Sheep
Where Brooklyn At? Right Here! – Mister Cee
Jump Around – House Of Pain
Motownphilly [1991] – Boyz II Men
Treat Em Right – chubb rock
Yeah! (feat Lil’ Jon and Ludac – Usher
Right Here (Human Nature Remix) – SWV
People Everyday (Metamorphosis Mix) – Arrested Development
Empire State Of Mind [Jay-Z + Alicia Keys] (Explicit) – Jay-Z
Good Life [Explicit] – Kanye West
Throw Some D’s feat. Polow Da Don (Dirty) – Rich Boy
Make It Rain (Remix) – Fat Joe featuring R. Kelly, T.I., Lil’ Wayne, Baby, Rick Ross
Countdown on the mic!

Here’s Part three (right click or ctrl click here to Download)
Tracklist

Countdown on the mic
new years eve rocketship sound effect – DJ Mattymatt
Auld Lang Syne – Jimi Hendrix
Nightflight To UR Anus (Todd Terje Tynneterje Edit) – Boney M
robot rock – Daft Punk
aNYway – Original Mix – Duck Sauce
100% Pure Love (Club mix) – Crystal Waters
Everybody Everybody – Black Box
Rhythm Is A Dancer – Snap
Bad Romance (Dirty) – Lady Gaga
Dance (Bonus Beats) – Earth People
Mi Gente (Louie Vega Eol Remix) – Hector Lavoe
Love and Happiness (12inch Club Mix) – River Ocean feat India
Hey Hey – DF’s Attention Vocal Mix – Dennis Ferrer
I Called U (The Conversation) (ATFC’s Conversation Killer) – ATFC
French Kiss (Original Underground mix) – Lil Louis & The World
Just Won’t Do – Tim Deluxe
Jesus Creates Sound (Main Mix) Underground Collective EP Vol 1 – Marlon D
Plastic Dreams (Original Long Version) – Jaydee
Gypsy Woman (La da dee da da da) – Crystal Waters
Forever (Polow Da Don Remix) – Chris Brown
Special (Timmy Regisford Remix) – Peven Everett

Part Four Download
Tracklist:

Heavens Saxaphone loop – Marlon D
Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ – Michael Jackson
God Helps Those (Who Help Themselves) – Jasper Street Company
Spank – Jimmy Bo Horne
Street Player – Chicago
I’m Gonna Get You (Original Flavour Mix) – Bizarre Inc.
Show Me Love – Robin S.
Give It Up – The Good Men
Why Dont You (Why Dont You) – Gramophonedzie
Greatful – Dennis Ferrer feat Kenny Bobien
4 my people (Danny Krivit Remix) – Missy Elliott
You Are Not Alone (Danny Krivit Edit) – Michael Jackson

This was on a white label from back in 1999 or something. Maybe that’s just when I got it…

Anyways, Herbert Holler from the freedom party mentioned in his really dope weekly email that he was looking for a good quality version of this song, so I put it up. Maybe y’all enjoy it too….

Jamiroquai – Canned Heat MAW Remix
Jamiroquai -Canned Heat MAW Dub-a-pella (this is nice nice)

canned heat.zip – 47.61MB

I use my flickr as a backup/archive. Most people use it to show off their skills. If my pictures are good, you’ll have to decide that yourself, by wading through hundreds. I made a best-of for my other trips, just haven’t gotten around to doing that yet for Barcelona…

This has some dope jams on it for the summer. I forgot about that Kerri Chandler track two. Vocoder, auto tune! Because he can’t really sing haha but he can make a bad ass house track. Word. He can scratch too I guess. Check out at about 50 minutes in when he talks about the track “inspiration” with Arnold Jarvis.

You can really see the Body and Soul influences here. I went to that party every damn week!

Download August 99 Mixtape Side A
Download August 99 Mixtape Side B

DJ Mattymatt – New York City
081599A Track listing

0. Mongobonix- ‘Mas Pito’ (Subliminal)
1. Sunkids – ‘Rescue Me’ (Yellorange)
2. Kerri Chandler – ‘I Know’ (Large)
3. Isolee – ‘Beau Mot Plage’ (Playhouse)
4. Instant House – ‘Over’ [Joe Claussell] (Jungle Sounds)
5. DJ Falcon – ‘Untitled’ (Roule)
6. Funky Kong – ‘Le Jazz’ (Rue De Louvre)
7. D’Menace – ‘Ya-Yahoo’ (Deep Vision)
8. DJ Spen – ‘Craze At Midnight’ (Chez)
9. Paul Johnson – ‘Do It To Me’ (Osaka)

081599B Track listing

0. The Aztec Mystic – ‘Knights Of The Jaguar’ (Underground Resistance)
1. Soul Grabber & The Stickmen – ‘Hey Bryce’ (NRK)
2. Funky Kong – ‘Tribute’ (Rue De Louvre)
3. DJ Q – ’2-1-13-B1 Shibuya’ (Go Beat)
4. Ari Brikha – ‘Groove La Chord’ (Transmat/Fragile)
5. DJ Spen – ‘Trapped When You Touch Me’ (Black Vinyl)
6. Matthias Heilbronn – ‘Body’ [Soul Flower EP] (Boombastic)
7. DJ Falcon – ‘First’ (Roule)
8. The Buffalo Bunch – ‘Take It To The Street!’ (Crydamoure)
9. Adam Scott, Romatt, DJ Gregory – ‘Hypnose’ (Yellow)

***I just remembered this is all vinyl.. its pre laptop/serato. I had to bring turntables and records and a mixer. I remember my poor luggage cart was about to break in half with all that shit on it. For some reason it never occurred to me to ask someone to help me carry it all…. ???

Enjoy!

Click to listen / download Live at Public June 19 2004

TRACKLIST
1. AtJazz – Wind and Sea
2. Black Science Orchestra – New Jersey Deep
3. Brand New Heavies – Sometimes (MAW Mix)
4. Patti LaBelle – New Day (Louie Vega Remix)
5. Jagged Edge – Walked out of Heaven (Quentin Harris Mix)
6. Goapele – Closer (DJ Spinna Mix)
7. M’Bifo – (Epod mix)
8. Moodymann – Unknown
9. Jazztronic – Samurai
10. Kerri Chandler feat. Arnold Jarvis – Inspiration
11. Club Ice – Manhassett (Larry Heard RMX)
12. EBTG – Future of the Future
13. Natalie Cole – Tell Me (Alan Smithee)
14. Patti LaBelle (Quentin Harris Remix)