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Words by DJ Theory —
Welcome back to another stacked edition of Mixtape Mondays. Big vibes from the UK, Germany, NYC, Jamaica, and even a quick ting from yours truly add the pepper this week. Serve yourself below.
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Words by Melo-X—
East Flatbush, Brooklyn native Melo-X is a man of many talents; he’s known as a rapper, DJ, producer and for his bold fashions. Raised by Jamaican parents, he’s also a dancehall aficionado and the co- founder of “dance party and global music utopia” Electric Punanny with Jasmine Solano. Tonight the pair will bring the Electric Punanny vibes to Miami as part of LargeUp’s Miami Winter Music Massive with Johnny Osbourne at Blackbird Ordinary. Look out for Melo’s upcoming EP, GOD: LoFI, out soon.
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Words by Spliffington and Jesse Serwer—
After Sting 2012, Ninjaman linked with Downsound Records and so far dancehall fans have gotten a plethora of new singles from the Don Gorgon, as well as a music video for “Dweet” with Specialist which has the streets buzzing so much they ended up making two.
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Words by DJ Theory —
While much of the LargeUp team is cooling in Miami (check out out Winter Music Massive coming up), I’m wrapping up a week of madness here in Austin for SXSW. Wrangled some nice tapes for this week, with vibes from London, Switzerland and Seattle. Let’s keep it moving…
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Words by Jesse Serwer—
Team Mr. Vegas just hit us off with a double dose of remixes featuring the dancehall star on the hip-hop-meets-bashment banger of the moment, the Doug E. Fresh/Lil Vicious-inspired “Freaks” by French Montana featuring Nicki Minaj. There’s two versions here: a Vegas, Montana and Nicki version and a strictly Vegas thing for the danchehall. Vegas, fresh off an appearance at Miami’s Calle Ocho Festival, is the crossover artist of the moment, with “Party Tun Up” beginning to follow the path of “Bruk It Down” onto hip-hop clubs and radio. Let’s see if he can keep the momentum going with this one…
