Filthy Speaker Addict - Ideas and Interests of an Impresario

One week to go until July 4th weekend.  Many of you will be celebrating with friends and family in the backyard, while some will be in New Orleans for Essence Festival.  This year’s headliner, Maxwell, will be on hand delivering classic soul joints from his previous three albums as well as brand new songs from [...]

So by now, I’m sure you heard the news…
The world will miss one of it’s greatest entertainers.
Here’s a little something to help you mourn.
LISTEN: Jackson 5 - Never Can Say Goodbye

DOWNLOAD: Michael Jackson & Jackson 5 - The Motown Years (pt 1, pt 2, pt 3)

Also, check out this Best of mix by DJ M.O.S.
DOWNLOAD: [...]

Ok, I lied.  Here’s one more for your benzi… or ipod!
Live at Cornerstone is a 25-min mash up in which songs introduced at the beginning are successively “stacked” upon one another throughout the duration of the mix! Confused? Just take a listen.
LISTEN: The Avalanches - Live at Cornerstone

Spotted at outofcontrolrobots
Tracklist after the jump…
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Here’s my final “samples” mix for the week.  Delivered to the world in 2000 by a six-man Australian crew of electronica producers and musicians, Since I Left You is a delightful trip (and I do mean trip!) into sample paradise.
I’ve read varying accounts as to how many samples were used to create this masterpiece - [...]

I’ve been on a sampling kick this week.
Shouts to my man D-Smooth, who gave this to me last summer along with some other jems.  This was in heavy rotation for me, but I recently dusted it off and fell in love again.
Taken from the liner jacket:
Over 150 originals that made classic Hip-Hop albums and songs… [...]

I’m hip. I’m with it.
Though to uber-onliners 5 months is nothing, I’ve been totally obsessed with Twitter and the access it gives you to the knowledge you desire. I became especially involved after someone suggested that I download a desktop application to run it. The application I chose was Tweetdeck. It provided [...]

Checked my inbox and received the following from Baby Yu.  It is a perfectly produced mix!
Baby Yu is able to seamlessly transition between Big favorites and the originals that the songs were sampled from.  No Biggie you say! But what sets this mix apart from the countless “originals” style is the careful effort Yu demonstrates [...]