Essential Mix – Mark Ronson (07-01-2007) (192)

Tracklist after the jump.

Mark Ronson – Intro
Mark Ronson feat. Dirt McGirt & Tiggers – Toxic
Three 6 Mafia – Stay Fly
Coldplay – God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
Mark Ronson feat. The Daptone Horns – God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
Billy Bragg – A New England (Version Blend)
The Jam – Pretty Green
Mark Ronson feat. Santo Gold – Pretty Green
Chaka Khan – Acid Drop/I Feel For You
Bag Raiders – Christina 3-6 Drop
K.W. Griff – Respect
Aaron Lacrate feat. Spank Rock & Amanda Blank – Blow
T.I. – What You Know (Low B Remix)
The Pack – Vans (DJ Eli Remix)
Justin Timberlake feat. T.I – My Love (2nd Nature Remix)
Busta Rhymes feat. Rick James – In The Ghetto (DJ Eleven Remix)
Beck – Nausea
Notorious B.I.G. – Nasty Boy (Version Blend)
Lil’ Wayne – Show Me What You Got (Remix)
Lily Allen – Stop There (Freestyle)
Dangerdoom feat. Talib Kweli – Old School Rules
Ghostface Killah feat. Amy Winehouse – You Know I’m No Good
The Roots – Thought At Work (Original)
Nas – Hip Hop Is Dead
The Charlatans – The Only One I Know
Mark Ronson feat. Robbie Williams – The Only One I Know
Mark Ronson feat. Ghostface & Nate Dogg – Ooh Wee (Version Blend)
Mark Ronson feat. Alex Greenwald – Just
Dizzee Rascal – Fix Up Look Sharp
Thom Yorke – Black Swan
The Game feat. 50 Cent – Hate It Or Love It (Version Blend)
Jackson 5 – I Want You Back (Version Blend)
The Strokes – Someday
Rhymefest – Devil’s Pie
Regina Spektor – Fidelity
The Smiths – How Soon Is Now? (Version Blend)
The Smiths – Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before
Mark Ronson feat. Daniel Merriweather – Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before
Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
The Go! Team – Ladyflash
CSS – Let’s Make Love and Listen To Death From Above (Spank Rock Remix)
Petey Pablo – Fire
The Futureheads – Skip To The End
Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc (DJ Eli Remix)
The Rapture – Whoo! Alright-Yeah… Uh Huh
Peter, Bjorn & John – Young Folks
The Specials – Gangsters
Lily Allen – Knock Em Out
Sons & Daughters – Dance Me In (JD Twitch & The Truffle Club’s Optimo Mix)
Robbie Williams – Lovelight (Soulwax Ravelight Voc)
Cassie – Me & U (DJ Eli Remix)
Domino – Everyone Else Is Boring
Boney M – Sunny
Mark Ronson feat. Ghostface & Nate Dogg – Ooh Wee
Stone Roses – Fool’s Gold

Continuing with the bikes/Warren Fu theme… “The Bike Song” is also off Ronson’s Record Collection and directed by Warren Fu.

Video is directed by Warren Fu. “Bang Bang Bang” is off Mark Ronson’s latest release Record Collection.

Jump for joy because it’s the end of week and you’ve earned the right cut loose. This week see’s a me indulging a bit on my love of emotional shoegazing psychedelic tribal synth pop house music. yes, as you may have gathered, that isn’t really genre… Anyway, this week’s faves and download links are after the jump.

Gypsy & The Cat – Jona Vark

“Her name is Jona. Jona Vark…”

Ah, some more indie synth pop goodness! After listening to this track I can definitely feel a bit of Empire Of The Sun (the guitar riff = a little bit of ‘We Are The People’), M83, anything from a John Hughes movie, but a lot more Fleetwood Mac. Yes, I like Fleetwood Mac. Not just like, probably love. There I said it… There are definitely elements of ‘Little Lies’ and ‘Dreams’ in this track, especially in the chorus.

While most of the major blogs, Mark Ronson on his East Village radio show and even the late DJ AM were all over the local duo from the middle of last year, they’ve only now started to get a little more radio airplay and more importantly, gotten themselves ingrained into me! Head over to their MySpace and give the rest of their stuff a listen. Hanging out big time for this LP release…

Caribou – Odessa

Now this is an interesting bit of music, quirky and haunting at the same time. It’s fairly heavily layered, so you’re ears will have fun deciphering all the sounds here.  I swear when I first heard the vocals in this track I thought that perhaps Erlend Øye of Kings of Convenience and the Whitest Boy Alive fame had contributed. So if you like that kind of minimal-esque type of chill-house you’ll probably like this latest offering from Caribou.

Breakbot – Baby I’m Yours (Featuring IRFANE)

Unadulterated disco pop funk fun! When you hear this track you can’t help but bounce and boogey. If you’re a fan of the works of Shazam, Cassian, The Twelves etc., I think you’ll did this track.

The Jezabels – Hurt Me

“C’mon evil hurt me, hurt me, hurt me…”

Wow. What a track. Powerful and achingly beautiful at the same time. The track sucks you in with Hayley’s haunting vocals/lyrics, complemented by the frenetic drumming and strumming from band members Sam and Nik respectively, intertwined with Heather’s graceful piano work. Don’t forget to add a bit of reverb and swooping strings for effect during the bridge and chorus.

Throw all of this together and you get a rolling wall of big sound that builds and builds till it smacks you right in the face and just like that, disappears as quickly as it arrives. I’m not surprised to see that the Arcade Fire are listed as an influence to the Jezabels on their MySpace page.

Might as well add the music video here since it was just released last month:

Unfortunately there appears to be no Victorian shows lined up in the near future but if you are in Queensland or NSW you can catch them this month at the Playground Weekend festival February 21st or at the Enmore Theatre on the 24th supporting Placebo.

Yeasayer – Ambling Alp

A nice pysch-alt-electro-pop ditty here from NY group Yeasayer. Like any good song (or at least the ones that I like anyway…), it’s instantly catchy and just downright fun. The little synth solo breakdown at the end is just freakin’ awesome!

Douster – King Of Africa

Yes, this track has been floating around the interwebz for a while now, and yes, Douster is no n00b to the scene. These “weekly” posts however are purely an avenue for me to write about the songs that I like at a moment in time and why they got me hooked that first time.

So pretentious rant aside (hehe!), this track features some great sampling from the Lion King’s opening, the powerful ‘Circle of Life’. What you’re left in store for is five minutes of catchy, fun afro-funk-house. I could see this being a nifty opener to a set or bridge/tone shift for all you wheels of steel traders… Speaking of which, Douster is playing at the Espy on February 20th for us local kids wanting to catch him in the act.

So that’s it! Another week done and only one more away till Classixx are in town… Did I mention that I CAN’T FUCKIN’ WAIT TO SEE CLASSIXX?!?!

Have a good weekend folks and we’ll see ya next week where I guess I could try and make it a lovers themed tunage… Or a happy new year to all the chinky readers out there haha! Peace out!