The Brass Tax Sound

Classic dnb all Vinyl Session Recorded 4/10/21 @ 4:20

A little test mix that turned into a 3 hour miusical tour

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Smooth and bouncy house beats from Haute Mess to get ya movin', coming to you live from 2nd Halloween IV in West Oakland!

So, finally, here's a mix of almost entirely my own hip hop mashups and dancey stuff from the past 15 years or so. It rips through 14 or so tracks in less than 45 minutes, so its schizophrenic just like one of my live sets :) Note that I tried to tune down the explicit a notch and ducked some of the bad words, but it's still definitely NSFW 'cause, well, hip hop. So use caution. Hope you enjoy!

Check it out, a hot new set from Ernie Trevino! Played live in Stef's backyard to a handful of adoring fans (and Denim lurking in the background). Get it, Erns!

Fun and funky playful breaks comin' in hot for yr earholes!

A set of bouncy, whompy, fun craziness to get your rump shaking! Recorded live in Cloverdale, CA by Jess and Haute Mess in 2017. Guaranteed to help you beat your record round-trip time on the Kessel Run.

An all breaks throwdown of tracks I've been feeling lately. Hope you enjoy it! (awesome Warhol photo credit to Sean Casey!)

Fun fast bassline banging for people who like fun fast bassline bangers.

Ok- it's been a while since my last studio mix, and this time I'm bringing out something a little different. Straight up breaks- a mix of both new tracks and some of my old favorites twisted together into 60 minutes of driving beats and grinding bass. I like to think of this one as good car trip music, but it would also be well paired with a beer in the park on a sunny day. Holla!

Here's a rollicking good time of a set by our very own Ding Dong. 45 minutes of funky, housey goodness for your next road trip or poolside bash!

Some funky house and breaks tracks collected for the 6:66 Halloween party November 3 in Oakland. If you were there that day you probably heard most of these, but some of them didn't make it into the set so here they all are in a fun studio mix. Track List: Cheeky Peepers (Original Mix) - Slamboree The Race (Original Mix) - Tradelove Funk Up The House - Gyocz & Hanzee Lady Funk (Danny T Remix) - Contiez, Treyy G Spell On You (DJ Dan Mix) - Suicide Kings Check Baby (Original Mix) - WhiteNoize Your Face (Thrillo Riley Remix) - ReepR Milf (Original Mix) - Kuplay Make Ya Freak (Original Mix) - DJ Dan Cause And Effect (Original Club Mix) - UMEK, Groovebox U Know How I Do (Original Mix) - Hanzee, Kid Panel Go Ahead Baby (Kid Digital Remix) - Dialated Eyez Kung Pow feat. MC Loc E - Original Mix - Jaksaw Photo by Ross Barringer

Bump! Another summer is almost past, and so it's time to get this mix out the door. Started wayyyyyy back in October of 2012, this one was originally supposed to be a RipeCast but I couldn't pull it together in time for my slotted date. Or the next one... Or the next one... Seriously, it's been so long in the making/revision process there was even a Harlem Shake breakdown in an early version months before it went viral which obviously had to be struck from the mix :) Ok- so it's the usual bevy of electro, hip-hop, and breaks with a good number of my own edits and mashes. I hope ya find it fun and rockin' and BUMP it far and wide. In the words of Jay-Z, "Thanks for coming out tonight... you could've been anywhere in the world, but you're here with me... I appreciate that!"

Here's one from last year, the rematch of Jess and JoeJoe for the "dirty" crown at 2 Crews 1 Cup. If you followed the first 2C1C, you'll know that we both kind of went over the top digging for and making tracks that were ridiculously dirty. Hell, JoeJoe played the first years' set with no pants on. But Jess totally won the tag team this year. Note that there are very explicit lyrics in this one.

Next up in the sets from the BTx Halloween Renegade of 2012 is a fun, funky, dirty electro & breaks set from our very own Jess! Played and recorded around noon at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland.

Now what have we here? A brick house? Kicking off the Halloween recordings, here is kick-ass DJ and newest Brass Tax resident Haute Mess (aka Kristen Sunde) playing a bouncy, rocking morning set. Crank it up and get down! Recorded live at the infamous Brass Tax 6:66 Halloween party, Joaquin Miller Park, Oakland, approx. 11am 10/28/12

So I've really been digging the midtempo funky breaks lately. Whether you want to call it "Nu-Funk" or "Ghetto Funk" or whatever, it provides a nice background whomp to summertime pool parties, barbeques, and car trips. At around 112BPM, it's less demanding and more laid back than my usual fare; something to play when kicking back some beers in the backyard. I put together Flight Level 380 over the past two months whilst traveling on a seemingly endless number of planes, buses, and trains across a vast tract of Europe. This one tends away from my own mashups/productions, but is in the same style as my typical DJ sets, blasting through 24 tracks in a brief 53 minutes. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do! kool hertz - whatta joint cmc & silenta - lets dance mooque & pimpsoul - do it young mc - bust a move (stickybuds rmx) father funk - oh! the captain - got to change (your evil ways) timothy wisdom & the outlier - rock with me some dj - catch the beat the commitments - mustang sally (bezwan rmx) JPOD the beat chef - crowd control some dj & mr chombee - its summertime the dancefloor outlaws - magic badness stickybuds - crowd murder jiggyjoe - sweet home smoke (jj refix) b-side - m-shot a-skills - express yourself rmx herbgrinder - shake your rumpah featurecast - dreamer father funk - check it out the beatles - the word (the captain rmx) ghostface killa - charlie brown (dj medhi & mapei mix) featurecast - sniper geto boys - damn it feels good to be a gangsta (bobby c sound tv rmx)

This mix was done last year, but I finally got around to posting it. Here we have an hour studio mix of some of my favorite drum and bass tracks, including a few of my own. Not too hard, not too soft, but just right for good time. Crank the bass and enjoy! Please forgive the occasional fidelity changes, as there are a few whitelabels in here that probably never will see a digital release and I had to rip them from my worn down vinyl. I tried to clean them up as best I could. Lovingly chunked, diced, smothered and covered in Ableton and Soundforge, and encoded -V0 VBR in winLAME. biz markie ft elephant man - let me see you bounce (whitelabel rmx) brains - top shota TC - deep (roni size rmx) fatboy slim - rockafeller skank (mulders urban takeover rmx vs. joejoe) jah murda - wicked babylon roni size - railings (2008 re-edit) shy fx & t-power - everyday soundclash - bang bang tribe of issachar - tribal natty (aphrodite rmx) joejoe - my jungle dick top cat - smoke the sensi (marcus visionary mix) kanye west/high contrast - gold digger (jj re-edit) box bottom - bounce and boom barrington levy - under mi sense (dj inspecta rmx) jungle brother - urban takeover mix aphrodite - franks n beans-side (joejoe edit) dj fresh - gold dust unknown - basssssssssss! peter gabriel - in your eyes (joejoe bears rmx)

Get your earholes ready for this one... it's dirrrty. A Jess and JoeJoe tag set / title fight to see who can drop the nastiest tracks. Played live at 2 Crews, 1 Cup in the OddJob Loft, Public Works, SF, CA.