SHIT I’M DIGGING THIS WEEK

aka avant garde musical water cooler discussion.

1. Young Money – Bedrock

Pocket Piano – Mehdi – Chibuku at The Warehouse Project 09 from Emily Goddard on Vimeo.

So I’ve been listening to a steady stream of the BBC Radio 1 Essential Mixes from 2009 as of late. The concept, getting some of the world’s top DJs at the top of their game to drop amazing mixes of theirs and the hottest tracks in the world at any given time isn’t groundbreaking, but the results always leave you, the listener completely gobsmacked. France’s Ed Banger Records representative DJ Mehdi is one of my top five favorite DJs in the world. He combines a true hip hop and soul sensibility with a love of only the finest house and filtered disco, and makes selections and creates tracks based on that paradigm. Ever wondered what the horns from Wreckx n Effect’s “Rumpshaker” sound like if dropped over deep house? Well, you get that here early, and it gets hotter from there. There’s an ending salvo to Mehdi’s set in particular that is absolutely scintillating. Laidback Luke and Diplo’s GIANT dancefloor filler “Hey!” into the Smoke and Mirrors edit of Major Lazer’s “Pon de Floor with Brodinski’s edit of Mehdi’s own “Pocket Piano,” and A-Trak and Laidback Luke’s “Shake it Down.” This closing peak time run of Mehdi’s? Masterful.