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3 Great DJ Mixes to Get Your Neurons Firing

3 Great DJ Mixes to Get Your Neurons Firing

Get your mind right, or at least get your neurons firing at a higher frequency with these 3 high quality, high impact DJ mixes.

Vic Crezée for NTS.

Slick Vic delivers with an eclectic mix of hip-hop, classic electronica and deep cuts from the crates.

Broadcast from NTS 2 (11-09-2017) @nts_live www.nts.live/shows/vic-crezee

Iglooghost for i-D

The UK dance scene 'chouchou du jour' is called Iglooghost and his mix for iD Magazine is a high-energy affair that doesn't skimp on the elbows-out tunes, heavy breaks and high-pitched hysterics.

Totally obsessed, we asked @Iglooghost to make us an exclusive mix. Full of his own tunes, as well as some from the likes of Kai Whiston, Howie Lee, Sega Bodega and Joseph Marinetti, it'll have you typing/walking/doing whatever it is you're doing rn faster and more efficiently than ever before. "This mix is made up of a lot of music I think sounds cool in my ears and brain," he told i-D. "I made it in my new enormous gold mansion. I also chat to my assistant - Gü - at some point within the mix. Hope u like it friends." Tracklist: Iglooghost - Fu Wah Iglooghost - First Vōid Canblaster, Sinjin Hawke, Zora Jones - Speedlight Sega Bodega - Nivea Rory - Hate Me Zotti - Memory Howie Lee - Bankers Sven K - Dirty Glasses Sam Gellaitry - Pyrotechnic Dilip - Iris Calum Bowen - Uzi Battle Joseph Marinetti - 17K Iglooghost - Void Church Tsuruda - Ideas Part 7 Holly - What is the next level? My Sword - Advanced DZZ - The Fairy’s Wish Kai Whiston - Den Orquesta De Las Nubes - Tiempo De Espera Carlos Nino - Mezame Iglooghost - Beige Home​

DJ Stef - Hip-Hop '94

It does what it says on the tin: a head-nod journey from the first cut to the last, originally mixed on tape and digitized after DJ Stef passed away recently.

So like 15 years ago (~2002/3ish) I made a posting soulstrut.com, which at the time was the hip hop record nerd capital of the internet, asking if anyone needed any audio work done. I was graduating from Expression in Emeryville with an audio degree and needed some things for my portfolio/resume. Bay Area legend DJ Stef responded, who I knew from some of the Soulstrut club nights in SF. She mailed me a mixtape she had recorded (back then they were actual tapes) that she was trying to digitize (it was a much bigger pain in the ass back then). I was very stoked, both to hear what she had put together and to do something helpful with my newly-honed audio skills. I was getting ready to encode it and somehow, in the chaos of my household as a barely-functional 20-year-old with a newborn (now 14-year-old) living with my inlaws, lost it. Couldn't find it anywhere. I was mortified. I searched all over the house. For some reason, I never leveled with her about it. I think it was like a Schrodinger's Cat situation where if I didn't admit that I had lost it that it wasn't really lost. I kept my eyes peeled for years. It was a source of deep shame. Every time I moved, I expected it to turn up somewhere but it never would. Recently (2017), I actually found the tape. It was in a random padded envelope that I didn't remember at all inside a box of my kids' old schoolwork. Inside were the cassette, liner notes with full tracklisting and a handwritten note: "Thanks Mike! - Stef". I assembled all the pieces needed and was planning to record the tape when I had some free time and send it off to her. This week, Stef passed away suddenly. I never got to send it to her. I digitized it today and passed the cassette to Matt Sonzala who is leaving for the Bay tomorrow for Stef's wake. I was hesitant about putting this up on my account, since I don't want to take any credit for it, but after talking with Matt I believe this might help some folks who are missing her and hurting right now. This is a record of Stephanie Ornelas in her element, immersed in what she loved, creating something to share with people she loved. It's coming a little later than she maybe intended, but I'm entertaining the possibility that it's right on time for somebody.

Props to Okayplayer for unearthing the last one.

Photography up top by Ken Hermann.

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