ON THE GRIND
Intelligentsia coffee wants to make Stones Throw coffee blends, but only if there’s enough positive response from you, the loving public.
Please nuke their mailbox.
(P.S: Follow us after the jump for a download link & tracklist of the 2009 Stones Throw Promo Mix by James Pants.)
ABOUT THE COFFE
Quote Stones Throw: “A few months ago an email came to us asking, “hey, do you guys like coffee?”
In what seemed like moments after the obvious reply, “yes,” a box arrived containing several bags of Intelligentsia’s finest, freshly roasted & Burr-ground.* They were labeled Stones Throw Blend, Quasimoto Blend, Madlib Blend and Peanut Butter Wolf Blend.
Madlib got a bag of espresso, and not long afterwards finished 15 new beat tapes. Coincidence? You be the judge. Needless to say a friendship was formed.
Intelligentsia is like the Stones Throw of coffee roasters. They do their homework, deal directly with their farmers (bettering hundreds of lives in the process of getting those Arabica beans to their Chicago and East L.A. Roasting facilities), and churn out seasonal blends and single-estate offerings like we hock 7s and CDs. They even have a single-estate espresso. That’s the coffee equivalent of compiling Bruce Haack’s vocoder work onto one CD. (We’re doing that next.)
At Stones Throw’s show in Chicago on April 30, and a few other locations on the tour, we’ll have a few bags of Intelligentsia’s custom-made Stones Throw House Blend. Want some? Check out the merch table. Buy something. Ask about the coffee. We’ll see what’s up.
*That’s the way they grind it, yo.
THE JAMES PANTS MIX:
Tracklist:
1. Gary Wilson – Shauna Made Me Cry
2. Peanut Butter Wolf & Charizma – Keep on Rockin’ It
3. Captain Funkaho – My 2600
4. Oh No – Wawa
5. Madvillain – Eye (Koushik Remix)
6. MF Doom – My Favorite Ladies (Madlib Remix)
7. Mayer Hawthorne – Maybe So, Maybe No
8. J Dilla – Signs
9. The Roe-O-Tation – Special Category
10. James Pants – Aqua Sun
11. The Free Design – Umbrellas (Peanut Butter Wolf)
12. Franklin Thompson – My Money’s Kinda Funny
13. Dam-Funk – Black
14. Peanut Butter Wolf – T Shirts
15. Baron Zen – The Bridge Is Over
16. Madlib – Lifetime
17. Madlib – Part Six feat. Kazi
18. Koushik – Macabula
19. Quasimto – Don’t Blink
20. Dudley Perkins – Separate Ways
21. James Pants – Crystal Lite
22. C. Henry Woods – The Stranger
23. Ellis & Cephas – Heaven
24. Dam-Funk – Could I Be Losing Another Lover?
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