LA throwback jungle duo Camo UFOs’ take on Munchi & Mr Lexx “Shottas” is free at RCRD LBL! Catch Munchi with Flashing Lights next Thursday in DC and buy his debut EP on T&A Records.

Munchi – Shottas f. Mr. Lexx (Camo UFOs Remix) by T&ARecords

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Do you like rappin? Every Thursday, Fool’s Gold blog hand picks a bunch of jams for rap listeners. This week I made a guest mix for said column, with tons of new (and newish) raps. Kanye, Big K.R.I.T., Nicki Minaj, Fat Joe, Yelawolf, M.E.D., Vado, Cam’ron and many others get in on the action. Best listened to in your car with the woofers pumped up.

Rappin Ass Thursdays Mix by DJ Ayres
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Brand new on T&A records, it’s TNT (Tifa, Natalie Storm and Timberlee, produced by Fancy)! I’ve been working really hard on T&A, and I’m super proud of this one. It began with Matt Goias sending me the weird pop dancehall project he was working on with Fancy and Max Glazer (Federation Sound). I liked it and asked to remix it, and ended up signing the whole EP to T&A. Big remixes from Bassanovva (Grahmzilla & Jubliee) and Dre Skull (Mixpak records).

Artwork by Rhek (Sharks and Hammers)

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Buy it on:

iTunes
Beatport
Turntable Lab
Juno
Amazon
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photo by Kenny Rodriguez

DJ Ayres – November 20, 2010 by T&ARecords
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I’ve got a remix on this album, along with J.Boogie, Apt One, Bird Peterson, The Are, B.Cause and more.

FREE! OR DONATE MONEY, UP TO YOU:
http://nicknack.bandcamp.com/album/dearly-departed-remixed

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These aren’t in key or anything.  I’m probably going to hell for this.

Devo x Willow Smith – Whip It Back And Forth (DJ Ayres has no shame edit) right click “save target as”

I’ve been ripping selected records from my collection and uploading the MP3s every Monday on the Flashing Lights blog. Tons of great tracks over there, go grab em!

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I grew up listening to a lot of obnoxious music (rap, punk, and rave tapes, mostly). But on Sunday nights I always listened to the Hearts of Space show on public radio. When I was younger, I listened in bed, on my headphones, but once I was driving age, I would listen in the car, driving the hour and a half back to Natchez after debaucherous weekends in Jackson, the closest “city” where anything was going on. The host would play an hour of what he called “experimental electronic compositions of a contemplative nature” but it was really just highbrow chillout music. I can’t really say why, but for my White Light mix I was pulled back to that place. Maybe it’s from listening to Untrue so many times.

With a few exceptions, this is all music from the last couple of years, and most of it has plenty of bass. I mixed more by feeling rather than by tempo, on the breakdowns, so each song sort of melts into the next, which was definitely the style on Hearts of Space. I did a lot of digging around to find all this music, so I’m leaving out the artist names, in the hopes that if you hear something you like, you’ll do the same. But I do want to plug the last song, “Madre No Llores,” which is by Munchi, coming out on T&A in the Fall.

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Sometimes people ask me, “DJ Ayres, what do you do if you’re playing at an epic loft party and you need to take a shit?”  “Why that’s simple,” I answer, “the 8 minute Frankie Knuckles ‘Paradise Ballroom’ mix of Voodoo Ray.”

A Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Ray (Paradise Ballroom mix)
bonus: A Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Ray (extended mix)
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Tracklist:
Gangstarr – Above The Clouds
Common & Talib Kweli – G.O.O.D. Music
B.O.B. & Asher Roth – Fuck The Money
Ghostface, Method Man & Raekwon – Our Dreams (Ant Acid Rmx)
Fat Joe & Young Jeezy – Ha Ha (Slow Down)
Maino – Bring It Back DJ
Crookers ft. Rye Rye – Hip-Hop Changed
DJ Ayres ft. GLC – Got Me Gone (Bird Peterson rmx)
Nero – Innocence
Big K.R.I.T. – Send Me An Angel
DJ Khaled, Young Jeezy & Rick Ross – Put Your Hands Up
Donnis – Gone
Young Buck – No Excuses
Janelle Monae & Big Boi – Tightrope
Memphis Bleek – Still Ill
Nas & Damian Marley – As We Enter
Pase Rock – Nights (DJ Spider remix)
Senor Stereo – Unintentional