Hi all, I posted the mix earlier, but thought you might like to see some pictures of the records I brought back from West Africa. They’re roughly arranged by country of origin.

Senegal:

All are Bawobab LPs - the bottom right is Une Nuit Au Jandeer, top right is the one with ‘Kelen Ati Len’ - too bad no covers.

Nigeria:

Sonny, Bongos Ikwue, Docteur Nico, Bottom left is Christy Essien, The Apostles, bottom right is compilation of various tracks w/ a Funkees track & Ofege.

Guinea:

Bunch of Bembeya Jazz, bottom left has mostly more Bembeya Jazz tracks, but some others, too, 22 Band is cool.

Benin:

Top left is compilation of Black Santiagos & Poly-Rhytmo tracks, with ‘Hwe Toe Hun’ by Poly-Rhytmo, top right is Poly-Rhytmo w/ Ne Te Faches Pas, bottom left is killer 80s compilation of Albarika 45s, almost everything on this disc is killer, bottom left is Honore Avolonto & Black Santiagos, no cover again.

Others:

Top left is the Burkinabe Amadou Balake, from Ghana, highlife with the City Boys,top right is a Rail band LP from Mail (no cover again), bottom left is JM Tim & Foty from Cameroon w/ ‘Douala by Night’ (no cover), bottom middle is Mamo Lagbema, I think from Togo, bottom right Maurice Sempore, from Burkina (one jerk track, but really noisy).

45:

Top left is Ekambi Brilliant (Nigeria?), middle is Poly-Rhytmo ‘Minsato…’, top left is a great track by Pierre Sandwidi on CVD from Burkina, bottom left is Ohunyo by the Black Dragons (Porto Novo, Benin), bottom middle, ‘Nyo’ by Balla et ses Balladins (Guinea), bottom right is Temeteba Jazz du Mali, ‘Yayoroba’.

45s:

Top left is Matata, top middle is Fela, Shakara, top right is a great Poly-Rhytmo jerk track, bottom left is Poly-Rhytmo again, Mi Kpon.., bottom middle Camayenne Sextet from Guinea, bottom right is another Poly-Rhytmo track.

DJ Mordecai 5 year deep strutter dropped off this killer uptempo BBOY workout. Mordecai comes from Richmond, VA (was originally born in Columbus, OH) and represents the Double Standard Crew.

You can catch his weekly radio show at University of Richmond’s station. Where he co-hosts “In The Groove” with DJ Barnacles, and ”Richmond Soul Stew” with friend Chew La Rock. He got a couple minutes to talk to me about his mix:

D: What inspired you to make this mix?

DJ Mordecai: I love uptempo funk breaks, so I wanted to put out a mix showing what I can do. B-boys & b-girls at jams I went to inspired me as well as other DJ’s. I especially want to thank B-Boy Mercury, Chew La Rock and my man Oxygen…their input was helpful.

DJ Mordecai: All records (a few are reissues), though I’ve switched to serato since this… I still dig, but I like the advantages of digital DJ’ing.

DJ Mordecai: Years. Some came early on when I started digging and some came later.

DJ Mordecai: A bunch of them are from funny sources… John Travolta, Chicago, ZZ Top… I like when that happens. :P

D: Anything else you’d like the Strut to know?

DJ Mordecai: Just thanks to Raj and EVERYONE on there I’ve met, interacted with, or haven’t. I’m trying to DJ for b-boys more in the future, so hit me up if you can help in that arena…oh, you might also enjoy my weekly radio show (called) “Richmond Soul Stew” … I put it on our site as podcasts… http://doublestandardcrew.com.  There are b-boy breaks and such in most episodes.

Look out for more from Mordecai soon. You can find him @

http://doublestandardcrew.com
http://www.twitter.com/djmordecai
http://www.facebook.com/djmordecai
http://www.myspace.com/djmordecai

Artwork by Brad Bacon

Jimey is a very humble beatmaker from Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

When asked about his hometown he said, “I have to say cologne is dope. Cologne still got some nice record spots and labels like melting pot, upmyalley, kompakt…”He also admits, “I didn’t expect the mix to be acceptable for the strut:)”

When asked about the Genre of this mix he said, “I’m def not too much into classifying genres, but you could add a hipster term like mad hop, or glitch, or wonky to get some attention.”

He also agreed to share with us this EXCLUSIVE TRACK: Jimey - Moonshoes

Tracklist
linkwood family - miles away
mujaba - fuelta <—-label: four roses run by soulstrut member inverse cinematics;)
osunlade - the day we met for coffee
madvillain - great day today
mweslee - sta fixe, pa!
last order - summertime
ras g & afrikan space program - yesterday
diaclectic - wakeupcall
o Boogie - paper chaser (mweslee rmx)
rustie - patrick ewing
débruit - congo whoomp
super smoky soul - compromise
black pocket - night time
cro-magnon - time flies feat. steve spacek
i.n.t. - spread love
red astaire - to my mf clubheadz
organized konfusion - who stole my last piece of chicken

myspace.com/souljim

Jaymack just dropped our first RAP/Hip Hop set on the station. You can find him and his production work @ http://www.myspace.com/jaymackproductions

TRACKLIST
radio - recognize da real
radio - gangsta p-funk
beanie sigel - beans to the rhyme ft young chris
tragedy khadafi - alluminati ft. iman t.h.u.g.
above the law - black superman
e.l. me and the street products - e.l. me and the street products
acd - in the city
scarface - another head put to rest
big bear - no hope
dysfunkshunal familee - shit iz on point
red fox - dem a fight
az - your world don’t stop (original version)
saafir - hype shit
big pun & cormega - rhyme for rhyme
klondike kat - classical hip hop
dvx - run this world
born jamericans - send my love
e.b.w.d. - dice game
e.b.w.d. - somethin for the trey
atcq - it’s all good ft. busta rhymes
flexx - warning
yall so stupid - introduce me
dj mink - hey! hey! can you relate(mix 2)
gts and gregory d - juice it
the almighty rso crew - we’ll remember you
The Masterdon committee - get off my tip
q - the voice of q
aaron hall - curiosity ft redman
yvette michele - i’m not feeling you
alfonzo hunter - just the way
sa-deuce - don’ waste my time (mecca don flava remix)
vybe - take it to the front
charlotte - queen of hearts (masters at work remix)
mona lisa - just wanna please you (stevie j. remix)
naja ree - turn it up
mokenstef - he’s mine ft. grand puba (big ham remix)

That CRAZY set you’ve been hearing comes courtesy of Waxing DEEP run by DANNO. Dollar Bin and Jinx74 put this mix together on KZSU (Stanford school radio) back in 2004. They did an excellent job, and we really want to bring more sets with this kind of Format to the station.

TRACKLIST