Break The Mold: A Chicago Mixtape
April 8, 2010 by Jefe
’Break The Mold’ is a mixtape by DJ Bizkid, who was asked to compile Chicago tracks from Galapagos4 & extended family into one 80 minute mixtape. The result was ’Break The Mold’, an in-depth look into the past 10 years of innovation in Chicago hip-hop from the G4 perspective.
Featured are classic tracks, joints you may never have heard or forgot about, exclusive never-before-heard cuts from Robust & Hellsent, mixes, mashups and other Chicago related material all sewn together and sliced apart again by the skilled technician from Germany.
This is a tribute to Chicago from G4, as well as a look into our contributions to the music side of Chicago’s current cultural landscape.
60 minute live mix from G4 member & Germany’s own, DJ Bizkid.
Mixed live at Twenty One Soundbar, Paris, France.
February 24th, 2010.
DJ Bizkid - Live G4 Mix / Paris France 2.24.10
added by: Jefe
New Denizen Kane Mixtape! Free download....
December 24, 2009 by El Jefe
Denizen Kane & Mr. Rey are celebrating the success of "Brother Min's Journey To The West" by releasing this free mixtape "Take Me Out" featuring DK classics, rarities & new joints... mixed by Mr. Rey...
G4 ANNOUNCES "BLACK RAIN" JAPANESE TOUR DEC 09
November 18, 2009 by El Jefe
WeNod presents
THE GALAPAGOS4 "BLACK RAIN" TOUR - JAPAN
featuring
QWEL
OFFWHYTE
JACKSON JONES
Fri Dec 11 Nagoya, Japan @ Club Mago
Sat Dec 12 Osaka, Japan @ Sunsui
Sun Dec 13 Tokyo, Japan @ Shibuya Module
Fri Dec 18 Gunma, Japan @ Takasaki Woal
Sat Dec 19 Minami-Kashiwa, Japan @ Water
"BLACK RAIN" TOUR CD
We will be doing a "Black Rain" Tour CD with new material from Qwel, Offwhyte and production by Jackson Jones and KK the Khaosist - available exclusively for this tour!
Denizen Kane - Brother Min's Journey To The West - 10/06/09
September 7, 2009 by Jefe
Available digitally on October 6th, 2009 Brother Min's Journey to the West: Denizen Kane is a hard man to pin down. After beginning his career with semi-revolutionary spoken word outfit I Was Born With Two Tongues, co-founding seminal Chicago hip hop crew Typical Cats, and logging appearances on three seasons of Def Poetry Jam, he moved west, settled down, had some kids, and fell off the map. Rumor had it he could be found serving rum and cokes at a dive bar in Alameda, or repairing ratchet wrenches at the Sears in Fremont. There were some dispatches - Tree City Legends Vols. I & II - two severely underrated solo discs, come to mind, but while his crew-mates Qwel and Qwa were touring incessantly and launching up-tempo electronica assaults on Los Angeles, the third Typical Cat was nowhere to be found. Turns out, he was busy attending to the ghosts in his head, and fine-tuning the symbols of his oeuvre.
Brother Min's Journey to the West, Kane's third solo joint, is told entirely in the voice of Min, the youngest of the four Kane brothers - characters Denizen has developed on record and in print (reportedly a collection of short stories is in the works). The Kanes represent those slain in the struggle, and Min represents the most tragic of the young, gifted, and dead - the suicide. Tree City has ceased to be clown-head slang for Chicago, or a bizarre amalgam of Chi City, Oakland, Seattle, and New York - as it was for the first two Tree City LPs. Here, it is the city within the City, the remnant of decimated tribes, the last survivors, carrying imaginary homelands in their heads. Brother Min is a gripping collection of immigration narratives, rebel chants, and classic odes to crew, crossing the river, and the wild-ass kids on your block.
Buoyed by mrREY's propulsive, jazz-inflected production, Brother Min combines the best of true-school classicism, Kane's oddball eclecticism, and the energy of the 80's sound systems to deliver a platter that is ambitious in scope and easy on the ear canal. After a lengthy absence, Kane might just add another classic to his resume. 1 Intro 2 Holding Up The Wall 3 Ain't No Thing 4 Just Like Water 5 Black Hoodies 6 Sparrow 7 Boms Pt One 8 TTB (Them True B-Boys) 9 New Year's Day 10 The Porch 11 The River 12 Boms Pt Two 13 Let The Dead 14 The War (Bonus Track) 15 Fallin' (Bonus Track)
