Mixmaster Massey

The Return Of Moonpup Pictures, Video and DJ Set Downloads

After 15 long years, the legendary and beloved DJ Moonpup made his long awaited return to Los Angeles. LA welcomed home one of its lost sons of the crossfader in a special 5+ hour set of stellar music spun with creativity and irreverence, the likes of which LA rarely sees!

Here are a few shots from the night. FREE DOWNLOAD links of all 5 hours of Moonpup's set as well as the live sets from Mixmaster Massey and J Funk are at the end of this post. 

Thank you to Felix for some of these pictures of the night. Check out all the pics HERE. 

Few DJ's can call themselves truly oldskool and Moonpup is one of them. In the early nineties Moonpup was part of a sprouting scene of LA warehouse parties and underground clubs, where the first Techno and House music was heard. He was an original resident of Sketchpad, an "after, after party" that started at 10am Sunday morning and featured LA wax legends DJ's Taylor and Eli Star. 

In 1992 Moonpup traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area where he made his mark on many undergrounds including the first 3 day rave called the Woopy Ball, (also his first Bay Area party). Nearly 6,000 people attended over the three days and two nights. Moonpup's sets were easily the most memorable of the event. For more on the Woopy Ball click here.

After leaving an indelible mark on the San Francisco in the 4 years he was there, Moonpup disappeared to Europe where he spent nearly a decade playing Breaks and Big Beat in danceclubs and then, most recently he has been living in New York. 

The following are mediafire links that will take you to the free downloads of every set from the night including all 5 hours of Moonpup's set. Click on the sets to go to the download. 

Moonpup Returns to LA 8.27.11 - DJ Moonpup Live pt.1 (the first 2+ hours)

Moonpup Returns to LA 8.27.11 - DJ Moonpup Live pt.2

Moonpup Returns to LA 8.27.11 - DJ Moonpup Live pt.3

Moonpup Returns to LA 8.27.11 - DJ Moonpup Live pt.4

This first two parts are his uptempo portions of his set and the second two parts Moonpup takes things slower and dare I say even trippier with some ambient qualities. 

In support for this night was long time LA breaks DJ J-Funk & Creator of the Woopy Ball (and of this party), Mixmaster Noah Massey. Also in support was Lucas Dodson of Distant Beat. Below is the last half hour of Mixmaster Massey's set. 

Moonpup Returns to LA 8.27.11 - Mixmaster Massey Live

Astronaut Disco @ Z-Loft for DTLA Art Walk - The Live DJ Set Downloads

Lovers of "Space Bass and Heavenly Soundscapes", this is for you...

Once a month I set up The Astronaut Disco Soundsystem for the Downtown LA Artwalk at the Z-Loft Boutique. I try to record as many as these nights as I can and as I do I will continue to put up the sets here for you to download and enjoy. 

Just follow the links to each download's respective Mediafire page and follow the instructions there to grab the mixes. All the mixes are FREE to Download! Many hours of spacey music dive into!

 

Mixmaster Massey

Live on The Astronaut Disco Soundsystem

8.11.11

Astronaut Disco Soundsystem - Live Set by Mixmaster Massey at Art Walk 8.11.11 by Mixmaster Massey on Mixcloud

Download Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?m2b1mf80yj81fy3

 

DJ Sku

Live on The Astronaut Disco Soundsystem

8.11.11

Download Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?q5rmx6g88rfhtpd

 

Ab Loon

Live on The Astronaut Disco Soundsystem

6.9.11

Download Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?nws242p75k12ur1

 

Seven57

Live on The Astronaut Disco Soundsystem

6.9.11

Download Links:

Pt. 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?hr7w8acm1ih0kc2

Pt. 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?8ku8mbz66xizt78

 

Plan 9

Live on The Astronaut Disco Soundsystem

5.12.11

Download Link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?bo9haepjqa2ya5v

Live At Jazz Tonic 2.16.11 - FREE Downloadable MP3s of every set of the night!

The wonderful vibes of Jazz Tonic cannot be beat. The music is simply the best as well and we have for you almost all the music from the night for you to download or just stream from here on the site. There are DJ sets from Mixmaster Massey, Lotuspetal, A.C. The Program Director and a live set from the Handroids featuring AJ on Bass and mic and our host for the night, MC Prefyx! It was also Prefyx's birthday! 

Not only are there links to mediafire pages where you can download the music but there are also streaming versions of each set using Mixcloud players. Please enjoy often, make these a part of your playlist and maybe even use them as a soundtrack for your next dinner party or road trip. Some seriously good music is here and the good vibes just seep through this audio. The mixes below appear chronologically. 

This comes from the first hour, the opening set selected and spun by Mixmaster Massey. A nice blend of mellow Jazzy "Fender Rhodes" tracks from the 60's to today mixed with Smooth and Jazzy Hip Hop. Throughout the set you hear the spot-on toasting of Jazz Tonic's host MC Prefyx plus a little feedback occasionally but that's how you know it's all live! The perfect start. Click on the following link to go to the download.

Mixmaster Massey and Host MC Prefyx Live at Jazz Tonic 2.16.11 FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD

Just click on the play icon on the below the player to stream the set right from here. Be a little patient it can sometimes take a moment before the music will start. 

Mixmaster Massey And Host Mc Prefyx Live At Jazz Tonic 2.16.11 by Mixmaster Massey on Mixcloud

At the end of Mixmaster Massey's set he snuck in a quick selection of Samba joints. A short mix of under 17 minutes there some fantastic tracks worth hearing here! Click on the following link to go to the download.

A Mini Samba Selection by Mixmaster Massey Live at Jazz Tonic on 2.16.11 FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD

Just click on the play icon on the below the player to stream the set right from here. Be a little patient it can sometimes take a moment before the music will start. 

Mixmaster Massey - Live At Jazz Tonic 2.16.11 - "A Mini Samba Selection" by Mixmaster Massey on Mixcloud

Next up was Jazz Tonic resident DJ Lotuspetal with a set of Hip Hop to House vibes, all with a touch of Jazz. Click on the following link to go to the download.

DJ Lotuspetal Live At Jazz Tonic on 2.16.11 FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD

Just click on the play icon on the below the player to stream the set right from here. Be a little patient it can sometimes take a moment before the music will start. 

Dj Lotuspetal Live At Jazz Tonic On 2.16.11 by Mixmaster Massey on Mixcloud

The night went up a few notches once the Handroids took over with MC Prefyx and AJ on the vocals. This live set was off the hook and we are thrilled to share it with you! About the middle of the set was interrupted for a little surprise birthday action for Jazz Tonic's host MC Prefyx. The Lady Tigra sang Happy Birthday to him and all the guests were given cupcakes! Click on the following link to go to the download.

MC Prefyx, AJ and The Handroids Live at Jazz Tonic on 2.16.11 FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD

Just click on the play icon on the below the player to stream the set right from here. Be a little patient it can sometimes take a moment before the music will start. 

Mc Prefyx And Aj With The Handroids Live At Jazz Tonic On 2.16.11 by Mixmaster Massey on Mixcloud

Jazz Tonic started to closed the night with a surprise drop in set of Jazzy Hip Hop by A.C. The Program Director. Some excellent stuff here! In fact his set was way too short! We will be having this mixologist back to Jazz Tonic in the coming months for sure. 

A.C. The Program Director Live at Jazz Tonic on 2.16.11 FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD

Just click on the play icon on the below the player to stream the set right from here. Be a little patient it can sometimes take a moment before the music will start. 

A.C. The Program Director Live At Jazz Tonic 2.16.11 by Mixmaster Massey on Mixcloud

A 20 Minute Mini-Mix from The Handroids Live at The Blu Monkey Free MP3 Download

Around my birthday there were three different bashes out at nightclubs this year including a super-fun time had at the Blu Monkey where The Handroids held up the night for Ezentric and myself at our B-day bash. I actually forgot that I had this awesome mix! Only 20 minutes was recorded from the Handroids live set before the batteries went out on the recorder but it is a fantastic 20 minutes of classic Hip Hop skillfully cut a scratched to pieces! 

Click on the following link to download the mix. 

The Handroids Live at The Blu Monkey on 12.3.10 Free MP3 Download

Robosex - The Samples

 

I have a ziped folder full of some pretty amazing vocal and sound effect samples that I originally put together for a mixtape that has yet to be created. I thought it was about time I shared. These are amazing!!!

Here is the back story. All the 320 kbps mp3's came from an early 80's Sci-fi themed porno movie called Robosex. I bought the VHS tape over 15 years ago at a closing sale at a video shop. It turned out to be a 1981 Sci-fi themed softcore porno film. The thing is freaking amazing with special effects, amazing sound design and a fairly complex story line for a skin flick.

I was so smitten with the robot voices talking sex talk and the other zany sci-fi sound effects that I ripped the entire audio from the movie. I include the entire thing intact in the zipped folder for you to listen through the whole thing if you want but I also cut out the best bits into individual MP3's including the songs from the movie. There are 48 different MP3's to go through! Most are short, a few seconds long.

These are all free to download and use as you see fit. All I ask is that you share the results!

I've tried to look it up on the web and have found nothing about the movie Robosex. It's an enigma!

Please enjoy!

Here is the link to the Zipped folder:

Robosex - The Samples - Free Download 

Softcore + Mixmaster Massey = Butter Mixtape - Free MP3 Download

 

DJ Softcore and I came together for this 56 minute of mixed fun. All new dance tracks and a couple classics woven together by a couple tastemakers. 

Softcore took on the first half creating the perfect blend of moody and dancey, moving from Dubsteppy indiepop to mid-tempo feel good. The second portion was handled by myself and picks up where Softcore leaves off and takes the dance vibe up a notch and then I play with the energy, taking it up and down like a seesaw. Both parts are meant to be listened to sequentially and enjoyed repeatedly! 

To download both mixes just click on the following links which takes you to the Mediafire download page. Both are totally free.  

Softcore + Mixmaster Massey = Butter Pt.1 - Softcore MP3 Download

Softcore + Mixmaster Massey = Butter Pt.2 - Mixmaster Massey MP3 Download

You can also listen to the mixes by streaming them. Just press the play icon in the following mixcloud player. The player will also highlight which song is playing so you don't have to guess! 

Softcore Plus Mixmaster Massey Equals Butter Part 1 by Mixmaster Massey on Mixcloud

Part 1 - Softcore

1.Rusko                                                 Dial My Number

2. Chromeo                                           Night By Night (Skream Remix)

3. Local Natives                                     Eyes Wide (Fool's Gold Remix)

4. jj                                                      My Way

5. Pretty Lights                                      Fly Away Another Day

6. HEALTH                                            Die Slow (Tobacco Remix)

7. Maximum Balloon/Karen O                 Communion

8. The xx                                              VCR (Matthew Dear Remix)

9. Crystal Castles                                   Empathy

10. CEO                                                Everything Is Gonna Be Alright

11. Hot Chip Feat. Bonnie Prince Billy     I Feel Better

For more about DJ Softcore check out http://djsoftcore.blogspot.com/

Softcore Plus Mixmaster Massey Equals Butter Part 2 by Mixmaster Massey on Mixcloud

Part 2 – Mixmaster Massey

1. Was A Bee Feat. Mario Bondi              This Is What You Are

2. Bagelboy                                           London Melts at 33 degrees (Blended with “It’s A Fine Day” Accapella by Opus III)

3. Madonna                                           Music (Kulskool Rework)

4. DeeJay Punk-Roc                               All You Ladies

5. Flashmen                                          As The Night Rolls On (NightWaves Remix)

6. Lisa Shaw                                          She Takes The Time

7. The Juan Maclean                              Give Me Every Little Thing

8. ZZT                                                  The Worm (Erol Alkan Extended Rework) (Blended with "The House Of God" by DHS)

9. Friendly                                            One Fine Day

10. Nephews Of Phela                            Mulah 2

11. Grupo Batuque                                 E Ruim (Zero dB remix)

12. Pepe le Moko                                   Smells Like Funk Music [Mr. President & Mr. Day vs. Nirvana vs. Beatsteaks vs. The Chemical Brothers vs. Stardust]

Kemek The Pocket Calculator - Live At 80's Night At The Redwood Bar 7/21/2007

This live recording comes from a night to remember. During my 80’s Night residency at the pirate themed The Redwood Bar in Downtown LA I would occasionally have guests down. On this night my good friend Kemek was down from San Francisco and dropped a crazy 80’s set done with Ableton software and a peripheral mixing device. (Kemek goes by “The Pocket Calculator” when he plays 80’s music) He has three tracks going at the same time almost throughout the entire thing with looping beats and all kinds of frenetic mixing and tempo changes. It was a super fun night and the recording still totally holds up today and is a blast to listen to.  You might notice that there are 50 tracks in one form or another in 63 minutes! Crazy! The occasional volume drops are from getting on the mic, which was not picked up by the recorder.

Here's the track listing:

Artist Song

1. Tones On Tail Go!

2. Eric B And Rakim Let The Rhythm Hit ‘Em                       

3. Cocteau Twins Lorelei

4. Billy Squire The Big Beat

5. Super Cat Ghetto Red Hot

6. Warrant Cherry Pie

7. AC/DC Back In Black

8. Operation Ivy Sound System

9. Sir-Mix-A-Lot Posse On Broadway

10. John Cougar Jack And Diane

11. Eric B And Rakim I Know You Got Soul

12. Eddie Grant Electric Avenue

13. Bon Jovi You Give Love A Bad Name

14. Talking Heads Once In A Life

15. Michael Jackson Billie Jean

16. Kraftwerk Tour De France

17. The Buggles Video Killed The Radio Star?

18. Stevie Nicks Stand Back

19. Roxy Music More than This

20. Queen And David Bowie Under pressure

21. Kraftwerk Music Non-Stop

22. Europe The Final Countdown

23. Phuture Acid Trax

24. ZZ Top Legs

25. Beastie Boys Brass monkey

26. Pete Shelley Homosapian

27. When In Rome The Promise

28. Kraftwerk It’s More Fun To Compute

29. Ray Parker Jr. Ghostbusters

30. Chicago If You Leave me Now

31. Front 242 Headhunter

32. Baltimora Tarzan Boy

33. Sir Mix-A-Lot Buttermilk Biscuits

34. Kid Creole And The Coconuts Annie I’m Not Your Daddy

35. Limahl The Never Ending Story

36. Margueritas Margherita (Edit)

37. Book Of Love Boy

38. Kate Bush Running Up That Hill

39. Egyptian Lover Egypt Egypt

40. Information Society What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy)

41. Dead Or Alive You Spin Me Round

42. Cory Hart  I Wear My Sunglasses At Night

43. Eddie Murphy Party All The Time

44. Gucci Crew Sally, That Girl

45. Africa Bambaataa Planet Rock

46. Book Of Love I Touch Roses

47. Rob Base And DJ EZ Rock  It Takes 2

48. Howard Jones Things Can Only Get Better

49. RUN DMC Peter Piper

50. Eurythmics Talking To An Angel (Playing With My Heart)         

 

To listen to the mix just click on the PLAY Icon below.

 

 

Live At 80s Night At The Redwood Bar July 21, 2007 by Kemek on Mixcloud

You can also download the mix and put it on your ipod, burn a CD to share or whatever. 

The following is a MediaFire link which takes you to the MediaFire page where you can follow simple directions to download the mix. Just click on the following link to go to the download. Please enjoy repeatedly.

Kemek - Live At 80's Night At The Redwood Bar MP3 Download

Mark Farina & Derrick Carter Live at "Stompy", San Francisco, Febraury 16th, 1997

 

It was this night among a few others that I truly knew that house music was good again. I really lost the love for new house music around 1994. The majority of new house music coming out at the time was pretty lame. Not to say there weren't some gems released but on the whole I wasn't being grabbed as I was in previous years. I was however totally immersed in the Acid Jazz/Downtempo scene about the same time and still love and play those tracks today but that is another story.

This is some of the finest I've heard or danced to these two characters and I've danced to their sets many a time from SF to LA to the UK. To my knowledge I think I'm the only person that has these recordings. A good friend of mine from back then was also there on the night and hooked up a DAT. The following week he gave me copies and now they are yours! 

The night these were recorded actually started in the day, around 4pm if I remember correctly. In those days the really big, fun Stompys were on the Sunday's of three day weekends, starting early and going late. Party was at the Oasis, an old SF nightclub with a giant swimming pool in the middle of the dance floor. Pool was covered for the party of course. 

Farina went first and, well took us to another dimension culminating in this insane blend with "Poison Arrow" by ABC and some tribal track. Then, in part two Derrick takes over from the last song Mark dropped down and takes the party to all kinds of fenzied dancing when at one point he starts scratching and beat juggling some insane Disco Edit Bangers! Deep Chicago/San Francisco/only the way Stompy can do kinda day and night! Never to be forgotten! Please enjoy!

The following are MediaFire links which take you to the MediaFire page where you can follow simple directions to download the mixes. Just click on the following links to go to the downloads. 

Mark Farina - Live at Stompy at The Oasis, San Francisco February 16, 1997 pt1 MP3 Download

Derrick Carter - Live at Stompy at The Oasis, San Francisco February 16, 1997 pt2 MP3 Download