EVENT: DONDI WHITE / 10TH ANNIV. REUNION NYC

Big event in New York next week with a serious line-up of legends getting together in honor of Dondi.

The Dondi White 10th Anniversary Reunion
May 7th 2009
6PM - 10PM
Hostos Community College
450 Grand Concourse

Go to FRANK151 for the flyer, more video and listing.

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MRE X GETLIVE! X LDN

On SATURDAY JUNE 20th at CARGO
the MIDNIGHT ROCKERS EXPRESS makes its UK debut
featuring DJ GETLIVE! representing the NYC sound system in London
playing a headlining set alongside
SEIJI from the legendary BUGZ IN THE ATTIC crew
as part of GILLES PETERSON'S BROWNSWOOD RECORDINGS
SUMMER BUBBLERS SERIES
http://brownswoodrecordings.com/
http://www.cargo-london.com/

DJ GETLIVE AND RICHTHABARBER

BUY: DAM-FUNK

Stones Throw art department on smash as usual. Giving you little choice but to cop the vinyl. (Only $5.49!)
Dam-Funk Let's Take Off

Related
Video: Dam-Funk's Funkmosphere Lab
Audio: Dam-Funks's Stones Throw-Stussy Connection Mixtape

DOWNLOAD: LEE FIELDS "LADIES"

Truth & Soul and Stones Throw getting ready for summer with this one.
Lee Fields & The Expressions "Ladies"

EVENT: LTJ BUKEM / FABRIC

MRE field trip to Fabric tonight for LTJ Bukem and MC Conrad. If you rock with the sounds of drum n bass check our New Year's Special where we dropped High Contrast, Roni Size, Dillinja and more on Brooklyn Radio.

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Never get enough Marvin on the Express. Light years ahead. It's been a fantastic trip.

MRE TOP 5

01. MikIX The Cat aka Momma's Boy
Movin' Around EP / Momma's Soul Food Mix
via Disco Dust
02. Doves - "Kingdom Of Rust" (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
Heavenly Records / via RCRD LBL
03. Wooden Shjips - "Motorbike"
Holy Mountain / via Rough Trade Records East
04. Outasight - "Exclusive"
Featured on Live At HomeBase Mix #5
via DJ GetLive! and Alice Wonderland at HomeBaseNYC
05. Arthur Russell - "Wax The Van" (Yam Who Mix)
12" Single on Electric Minds / via DJ Greg Poole


- LEE

EVENT: HELIO SEQUENCE / MAY 28 / NYC

Helio Sequence killed us last year with Keep Your Eyes Ahead. We featured "The Captive Mind" in one of our sessions for Brooklyn Radio but almost every cut on the album could have been a single. Fleet Foxes was the big story for the label Sub Pop but the Helio guys deserved a better push and more exposure. Catch them next month in BK.

Music Hall Of Williamsburg May 28 09

MRETV63_COOL OUT CLASSICS

IMAGES: WILLIAM CLAXTON

Jazz Life / Photography by William Claxton
(25th Anniv. Special Edition)

LONGWAVE ON THE ROAD

MRE favorites Longwave recap a long winter on the road with this clip. "Sirens" and "No Direction" both from their latest album Secrets Are Sinister were featured in our sessions for Brooklyn Radio. Tommy Rockers and I tore it up with a core group of fans at the Bowery show last December. The band brought the lights, the sound and the vibes like it was a night at the Garden. Dues paid off as their friends Bloc Party had them open to thousands at Terminal 5. Keep on rocking Longwave.

Bonus "No Direction" Winter 08 / 09


- LEE MONEY

BLACKSOUL REGGAE REMIX

BlackSoulRemix
I-Plant Band

IMAGES: SHAWN MORTENSEN

Photography by Shawn Mortensen

The things we leave behind.

The Final Draft / posted by Drew Tewksbury
RIP My Friend / posted by Bill McMullen
Ride On Shawn Ride On / posted by Rockers NYC (video interview)
World Travels / online portfolio

PROMO: MOS DEF

Mos Def - Words - The Ecstatic - available 6/9/09


Mos Def - Flowers - The Ecstatic avail 6/9/09

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A record skip, a blown verse and De La rides the energy through it all over the beast of a groove that is "Say No Go".

- LEE / MRE

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Fab 5 Freddy & The Electric boogie dancers
Uploaded by FUNKACISE

If Andy Warhol can get a GIANT sized book about his life and work then Fab 5 Freddy should get a book where the cover is a real size photo of him from 1982 and you'd need two people to carry it out of St. Marks Bookshop.

max roach $ fab 5 freddy .1983
Uploaded by ludosan13

- LEE

STONE LOVE 1989

Stone Love sound system with Rory on the set inside the ballroom. Fly styles and easy sounds. Catch Stone Love whenever they come to town. Rory will put you under the Stone Love hypnotic spell just like this. I saw him at SOB's in the mid 90's and it was the same vibe. Hours of magnificent music and echo chamber presentation.

- LEE

DOWNLOAD: MRE14

MRE14 features DJ Getlive! inside the mix and US&THEM's Lee Sanford on the selection - producing a 90 minute flight through some of the most vital and exciting new music being released today and the essential club classics that are the foundation. Electro, acid, deep, tech, dub, disco, rave - this is a rockers ladies and gentlemen.

DOWNLOAD FROM SENDSPACE: MRE14 MP3

01. Animal Collective - "Girls" (Hatchmatik) - Discobelle / Domino
02. Robert Dietz - "Shunshowers" - Cecille
03. Farley Jackmaster Funk - "This Acid Life" - House
04. Focus + Phil Asher - "Having Your Fun" - Versatile
05. Marshall Jefferson - "Mushrooms" - Curb Crawlers
06. V.V. Brown + Style Of Eye - "Leave" - Disco Dust / Island
07. Dubbel Dutch - "9MM" - Curb Crawlers
08. Runaway - "Use Me" - Wurst Edits
09. The Chemical Brothers - "Don't Stop The Rock" - Astralwerks
10. La Roux / Skream / Foamo - "In For The Kill" - Kitsune
11. Loco Dice - "Pimp Jackson" (Dubbel Dutch) - Desolat
12. Hot Chip - "Hold On" (D.I.M.) - EMI
13. Combined - "Sweet Disco Sound" - Gourmand
14. Terry Hunter / Terisa Griffin - "Wonderful"
(Kenny Dope Drums) - Soul Heaven
15. Kerri Chandler - "Bar A Thym" (Tom Middleton) - NRK
16. Capriccio - "Everybody Get Up" - PIAS
17. A Tribe Called Quest - "Go Ahead In The Rain" - Jive
18. Jack Penate - "Tonight's Today" - XL

mix and production by DJ GETLIVE! for the MRE
a+r LEE SANFORD
an US&THEM construction
april 15 2009

(photo of DJ GetLive! at HomeBase NYC)

THIS WEEK: MRE14

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Stevie Nicks and her band cold crushing it live. DJ Eli has a re-work of this classic available for DJ's and the Beat-A-Pella is right for a mix.

KINGS OF ROCK

"I rock the party with the words I speak / And Run says the rhymes that are unique / And Jay cuts the records every day of the week / And we are the crew that can never be beat"
- DMC, from "King Of Rock"

Jam Master Jay - gone but never forgotten
"Together Forever" (Live At Hollis Park)
"How'd You Do It Dee"
"Slow And Low" (written for the Beastie Boys)
Run-DMC on Reading Rainbow
Run and JMJ in the studio

Respect, gratitude and congratulations to the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame members Run, DMC and Jam Master Jay.

- LEE / MRE

LESSONS IN JAMMING

Detroit's The Scene making Soul Train look like American Bandstand.

EVENT: HOMEBASE / NEW MUSIC NIGHT

Hot off a big run in March at SXSW with their mixtape of all new jams the HomeBase fam is airing out even more new music at the Wednesday party at Bob Bar in the LES. Expect DJ GetLive to mix up stand-out tracks from cover star V.V. Brown and "future classics" from Theophilus London, Blu, Kid Cudi, Homeboy Sandman, J Davey and more. Also with P.Casso and Finale celebrating the release of their new projects. Alice Wonderland is your host for the evening.

Wed April 08 09 10PM
Bob Bar at 235 Eldridge (btwn Houston + Stanton) LES, NYC

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Washington DC, 1986, radio station DJ100 is broadcasting a set of "five strong songs in a row", the antenna on the boom box is angled just right to make sure the signal stays locked in, the pause button is off and a 60 minute Maxell is now recording Starpoint, Whistle, Five Star and The Jets. And then Alexander O'Neal's "What's Missing" comes on and time stops.

That's what the songs written and produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis do at their best. A Flyte Time record can stop the clocks and when it's over you feel like you're waking from a dream. The extended version of "Saturday Love" by Alexander O'Neal and Cherelle is eight minutes and forty-five seconds of the earth's rotation on pause.

They are one of the great songwriting duos of all-time. There is Gamble and Huff, Elton John and Bernie Taupin, The Glimmer Twins, Lennon/McCartney and if you know what time it is - there is Jam and Lewis.

- LEE / MRE

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Burning Spear classics "Foggy Road" and "Slavery Days". Posts created from the Reggae Sunsplash II documentary directed by Stefan Paul. Essential albums are Burning Spear's Man In The Hills and Marcus Garvey but below are two albums that had a great affect on me.



- LEE / MRE