I had to try and think of a way to approach this theme. What do I listen to on Sunday afternoons? My Spotify playlist, generally, which consists of music anywhere from classic rock to full-on psytrance. I don't always listen to EDM, in fact I listen rather infrequently. But I didn't want to throw together a mix of random ska/punk/rap/techno, so I decided to make a mix that would be good for a Sunday afternoon. Picked out some of the hip hop tunes I've been listening to lately and made a mix. The first 15 minutes are jazzy instrumental hip-hop but the rest has vocals. Enjoy!

Esbe - Float [Cult Classic]
Kondor - Calm Evening [self-release]
DJ Okawari - Animal Forest [Libyus]
DJ Okawari - Encounter [Libyus]
Blazo - Natural Green [Blazo]
Kero One - Keep It Alive (Blazo remix) [self-release]
Thomas Prime - Believe In Us ft. Awon [Cult Classic]
Re:plus - Sol (feat Cise Starr) [Goontrax]
Nas - The Message [Columbia]
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones pt II [All City]
Black Star (Mos Def & Talib Kweli) - Respiration ft. Common [Rawkus]
Large Professor - I Juswanna Chill [Paul Sea]
Jurassic 5 - The Influence [Interscope]
Funky DL - Don't Even Try It [Hyde Out]
Hus - Love Spaceship (Seasons End Remix) [Digi Crate]
Re:plus - Imagine ft. The 49ers [Goontrax]

Photo credit: Janette Beckman, LL Cool J with Cut Creator, E-Love, and B-Rock, 1986, Courtesy of the Photographer

Ziptnf - Street Soul (54:52) 133.2MB ~320kbps

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Last edited by ziptnf on Sep-05-2016 at 03:21

All right, two completely different mixes. This is looking good.

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Originally posted by ziptnf But I didn't want to throw together a mix of random ska/punk/rap/techno

Oi!

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I meant all those genres together! (As my typical Sunday afternoon playlist appears) Nobody wants to hear Led Zeppelin and Xerox & Illumination in the same mix

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Are you sure about that? Depending on how you do it... I've considered playing Miles Davis and Oliver Lieb in the same mix, before

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Mystery, I liked your mix overall, except the opening track does make it a bit difficult to actually listen to when hungover Like some other people said, I found the mixing rather abrupt, which was mostly just shocking because you're normally smoother. The flow/programming was good, though. Not exactly my favourite genre, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Jack, this is probably my favourite mix of yours in some time - since Rapid Transit 3, most likely. Perfect mellow melodic techno, in my book. No real comments to make, other than this was absolutely great.

Nick, this is definitely one of my favourite mixes of yours ever. There was one or two vocals I didn't particularly like, but the majority were good, and I really liked what you did with the flow/programming. One question, which is what's your source for the Funky DL track? It sounds differently than my recording, more hollow or echo-y or something. Great stuff, though - I do love jazzy hip-hop, which we don't get enough of around here. Shame Ted Promo stopped putting them out / left this place. Anyways, really enjoyable stuff.

Setting the bar high, you three

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Quarantine Classics Brunello di Montalcino (In Transit) Edition [Progressive Classics] (August 2020)
Quarantine Classics - Puligny-Montrachet Edition [Progressive Classics] (April 2020)
What Is Progressive Anyways? [Progressive House Classics] (November 2019)

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Originally posted by Lews Jack, this is probably my favourite mix of yours in some time - since Rapid Transit 3, most likely.

In all fairness to myself, that was only three months ago.

But thank you.

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> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
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> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

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Originally posted by Lews Nick, this is definitely one of my favourite mixes of yours ever. There was one or two vocals I didn't particularly like, but the majority were good, and I really liked what you did with the flow/programming. One question, which is what's your source for the Funky DL track? It sounds differently than my recording, more hollow or echo-y or something. Great stuff, though - I do love jazzy hip-hop, which we don't get enough of around here. Shame Ted Promo stopped putting them out / left this place. Anyways, really enjoyable stuff.

Thanks, Joseph! (Do you prefer Joe?) One of the things I also liked most about this mix is the flow. I was afraid the instrumentals at the beginning would detract from the hip-hop and it would feel disjointed but I actually think it set the stage instead, framing the hip-hop and the overall vibe of the mix as a sorta jazzy chilled-out atmosphere. I was also worried that the Nas/Mobb Deep/Black Star tracks (being slightly more "gangsta" than the ones with Japanese-inspired jazzhop beats) wouldn't fit but I feel like they actually did.

The Funky DL track is directly from Hyde Out Production's First Collection and it sounds the same as similar copies on Spotify/YouTube and such, so I'm not sure quite what version you have.

Thanks for the listen! Good luck on yours, I look forward to it!

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery OrgaNik pres. Headphone Hangover 01. Banco De Gaia - All Sleeping [Disco Gecko] 02. Alastair Pursloe - When You Find What You Have Been Looking For [Astrolabe Recordings] 03. Bryan Milton feat. Jama - Like A River (Jani R Ambient Dub) [Silk Music] 04. Digitonal - We Three [Just Music] 05. Remundo - Plume [Karmabreeze] 06. Mirco De Govia - Sleeping Beauty [euphonic] 07. York feat. R.I.B. - Traveller [Planet Love Records 2.0] 08. Soulfinder - Poetic Dreams (Royal Sapien Remix) [Toes In The Sand Digital] 09. Manu Riga & Alex Vidal - When Worlds Collide (Manu's Balearic Dreams) [Bonzai Progressive] 10. Digital Witchcraft - Fingerpaint [Proton Music] 11. Greenage - Utopia (Viktor K Remix) [Massive Harmony] 12. Platunoff - Artificial Life (Monojoke Remix) [Morphosis Limited] 13. Alfoa - Fluid Flow [Welcome Music] 14. Tee-Ex - Your Perfect Beach [Pineapple Digital] 15. Santerna feat. Tatyana Klokova - Remember Last Autumn [System Recordings] 16. Husky Rescue - Grey Pastures, Still Waters [Catskills]

Great mix here. My fav so far.

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Originally posted by Lews except the opening track does make it a bit difficult to actually listen to when hungover

I really don't know why those random noises are there at the beginning of the song. They don't fit at all.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J 01. Satoshi Fumi - Through The Clouds [Unknown Season] 02. Lawrence - Manhattan [Smallville] 03. Washerman - Still Life [Drumpoet Community] 04. Reno Wurzbacher - The Love You Got (Sven Weisemann Closeness Mix) [Colombage] 05. Sebo K - Aquamarine (Mr Fingers Acid Dub) [Tsuba] 06. Redshape - White [Delsin] 07. Rob Belleville - From Bay To Bay [Matrix] 08. OOFT! - Dub 4 Daze [Foto] 09. OOFT! - Galaxy High [Foto] 10. Simian Mobile Disco & Bicep - Sacrifice [Delicacies] 11. Chymera - Strange Things Are Afoot (Conforce Remix) [Connaisseur] 12. John Daly - Solar Sailing (Deep Mix) [One Track] 13. Micronism - The Quiet Mind [Delsin] 14. Universal Solution - Lost Code [Anjunadeep] 15. Slam - Ghosts Of Detroit [Soma] 16. Sandwell District - Speed And Sound (Z:arts Lab Version) [Sandwell District]

It's kinda funny - I'm really into this kind of sound, yet I've never really listened to it. That's why I've never heard any of these tracks so I don't even know which ones are supposed to be older.

It all blends very nicely together. So much so, in fact, that I kind of zoned out somewhere around the halfway point. Though considering the theme of the mix, I don't consider that a bad thing at all.

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I would like to sign up for this challenge.
It seems like we're just making a hip hop mix no problem.

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