Midnight Rockers Express

OUT OF THE BLUE

2011-03-28T00:01:00.000-04:00

FEATURED ON MRE22

AND YOU'RE SURE YOU'RE NEAR THE END

2011-01-01T00:05:00.001-05:00

IF I NEVER LEAVE I'LL RUIN YESTERDAY

2010-11-30T00:01:00.002-05:00

ON MY WAY HOME I LOOK AT STARS AND TRIP OUT

2010-11-29T00:01:00.000-05:00

THIS IS THE ONE FOR THE MONEY

2010-11-20T00:01:00.003-05:00

THAT'S HOW I CHOOSE TO REMAIN

2010-11-17T00:05:00.001-05:00

DO YOU THINK ABOUT ME

2010-11-15T00:05:00.001-05:00

BACK IN VOGUE

2010-11-14T00:05:00.000-05:00

KIM ANN FOXMAN "CREATURE" [mr.intl records] from KIM ANN FOXMAN on Vimeo.

THE SPOILS OF THE ROYALS

2010-11-08T00:05:00.000-05:00

BABY I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT

2010-11-03T00:05:00.003-04:00

WE'VE GOT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER

2010-11-03T00:05:00.002-04:00

ALL AROUND THIS TOWN

2010-11-02T00:05:00.000-04:00

EVERY TIME I HEAR THE MUSIC

2010-10-27T00:05:00.000-04:00

JUST ABOVE CLOUD NINE

2010-10-18T00:05:00.001-04:00

TRAVELING THROUGH THIS WORLD ALONE

2010-10-15T00:05:00.004-04:00

MY YOU DID LOOK DAPPER

2010-10-15T00:05:00.003-04:00

YOU EVER FEEL LIKE DANCING? NO, I MEAN LIKE REALLY FUCKING DANCING, LIKE WE DID IN '96 IN NEW YORK CITY

2010-10-14T00:05:00.002-04:00

YOU ALL LOOK LIKE BEAUTIFUL STARS TONIGHT

2010-10-07T00:01:00.002-04:00

FUNKY FRAME OF MIND

2010-10-06T00:01:00.000-04:00

WRITING MY NAME IN GRAFFITI ON THE WALL

2010-10-01T00:01:00.000-04:00

ROCK N ROLL CAN NEVER DIE

2010-09-29T00:01:00.002-04:00

CUZ I'M SMOOTH TOO

2010-09-29T00:01:00.000-04:00

SOUL 2 SEOUL

2010-09-27T00:01:00.001-04:00

DANCE INTO TOMORROW BECAUSE TODAY IS FADING FAST

2010-09-24T00:05:00.000-04:00

HEADS FOR THE HILLS PICK UP STEEL ON YOUR WAY

2010-09-10T00:01:00.005-04:00

BEFORE THE DAWN

2010-09-02T00:01:00.001-04:00

HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FAITH

2010-08-25T00:02:00.000-04:00

FINDING IT HARD TO BREATHE

2010-08-20T00:02:00.005-04:00

WE MADE IT - FREEDOM DAY

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I'M BUSY TRYING TO DO FOR ME

2010-08-17T00:01:00.001-04:00

I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE LED ZEPPELIN TO YOU

2010-08-09T00:01:00.000-04:00

SEARCH ALL NIGHT FOR YOU

2010-08-04T00:05:00.000-04:00

CAN WE TRY AGAIN

2010-08-02T00:01:00.000-04:00

Twin Shadow 'Slow' (NSFW) from Twin Shadow on Vimeo.

LET'S SEE SOME SKANKING

2010-07-18T00:05:00.000-04:00

ALL ALONE AND SO DIVINE

2010-07-14T00:05:00.002-04:00

Yu(c)k - Automatic from Yuck on Vimeo.

JUST BE WHO YOU ARE

2010-07-13T00:05:00.001-04:00

LET'S GO SWIMMING

2010-07-10T00:05:00.000-04:00

I FOUND THE SOUND - DOWNLOAD / VIDEO LINKS

2010-06-26T00:30:00.004-04:00

DOWNLOAD / STREAM AUDIO

SOUNDCLOUD/MRE19

WATCH VIDEOS

SUICIDE "GHOST RIDER"

MIA "BORN FREE"

LEMONADE "LIFTED"

BLOOD ORANGE "SUTPHIN BOULEVARD"

HOLY FUCK! "LATIN AMERICA"

CARIBOU "ODESSA"

THE DRUMS "IT WILL ALL END IN TEARS" LIVE

SOMEONE LIKE YOU

2010-06-26T00:15:00.002-04:00

Lemonade "Lifted" from Focus Creeps on Vimeo.

HOLY ROLLERS

2010-06-26T00:10:00.000-04:00

Holy Fuck: Latin America from Yoonha Park on Vimeo.

SO TRUE

2010-06-26T00:07:00.000-04:00

STANDS UP FOR EVERYTHING THAT SHE CHOSE

2010-06-26T00:05:00.000-04:00

YOU CAN ALWAYS TURN AROUND

2010-06-24T00:05:00.001-04:00

IT'S GOTTA SWING NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO

2010-06-20T00:05:00.002-04:00

ALABAMA

2010-06-04T00:01:00.000-04:00

NOBODY FIGHTING CAUSE NOBODY KNOWS WHAT TO SAVE

2010-05-27T00:01:00.001-04:00

IF YOU LISTEN CAREFULLY NOW YOU WILL HEAR

2010-05-22T00:01:00.001-04:00

WE ARE THE ONES

2010-05-21T00:01:00.002-04:00

ARE THE STARS OUT TONIGHT

2010-05-19T00:01:00.001-04:00

PLAY THIS ONLY AT NIGHT

2010-05-15T00:05:00.003-04:00

FOR LA RAZA

2010-05-14T00:05:00.001-04:00

I JUST WANT TO BE SEEN

2010-05-13T00:05:00.000-04:00

BUBU MUSIC IS ROCKING YOU

2010-05-12T00:05:00.000-04:00

MY RISING VOICE

2010-05-11T00:05:00.001-04:00

Daedelus - Stampede Me from Chris Shen on Vimeo.

GOT SOMETHING TO TELL YA

2010-05-10T00:05:00.002-04:00

TURN IT UP LOUDER

2010-05-08T00:05:00.001-04:00

DAMN

2010-05-06T00:05:00.003-04:00

NOW WHO IS GOING TO TAKE THE WEIGHT

2010-04-22T00:05:00.005-04:00

GIFTED UNLIMITED RHYMES UNIVERSAL

2010-04-22T00:01:00.005-04:00

I WILL HOLD ON HOPE

2010-04-07T00:05:00.000-04:00

Download: Mumford & Sons "The Cave" (Live At The BBC)
featured in the mix on MRE16/SEPTEMBER09.

THE FIRST SCENES I REMEMBER

2010-03-27T00:05:00.003-04:00

Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar (Teaser) from What Matters Most on Vimeo.

I CAN'T TURN BACK

2010-03-25T00:01:00.004-04:00

WHY I'M GETTING HIGH

2010-03-23T00:01:00.002-04:00

DazedDigital/Inside The Cosmic Crib Of Flying Lotus

I WONDER WHERE I AM

2010-03-22T00:01:00.000-04:00

DANCE TO THE DRUMMER'S BEAT

2010-03-17T00:01:00.012-04:00

ART STAR

2010-03-16T00:01:00.003-04:00

WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF A NATION

2010-03-15T00:15:00.000-04:00

BROKEN SOUL MUSIC

2010-03-15T00:05:00.005-04:00

Madlib took it back to the future about six or seven years ago as he smashed out the UK's own "broken beat" genre and foreshadowed dubstep with Theme For A Broken Soul. Fact Mag recently made his one and only Rels related project their surprise top pick when running down his essential albums. With everybody hyped on the stripped-down soul happening somewhere between the new Four Tet, Joy Orbison and the XX, it looks like DJ Rels might need to come back to the future again.
DJ Rels Theme For A Broken Soul
Fact Magazine, The Essential Madlib
Stones Throw Download, DJ Rels Mix

YOU COULD HAVE ANYTHING

2010-03-10T00:05:00.004-05:00

2010-03-09T00:05:00.001-05:00

GURU IS GONNA MAKE IT

2010-03-01T15:35:00.007-05:00

Just caught the news on the net about Guru.
Putting a prayer and praise into the universe on behalf of the MRE crew for one of our great voices and icons.

All of Gang Starr's work and the Jazzmatazz records had a big impact on me but i've posted two lesser known tracks that hit me on a personal level

"The Planet" - Guru's story of making the move from Boston to NYC was my anthem, his story mirrored mine down to saying goodbye to the folks and getting on an Amtrak train with only a bag and enough money to go for broke, heading to the Big Apple. Then finally arriving in Brooklyn on the way to trying to create and make a living in hip-hop.

(Check the poetry at work here. The scene where he leaves Boston, gives his pops a pound, his father gives him a hug - but then the finish - "and then he turned around". This is blue collar rhyming - direct and to the point but there are those key scenes where Guru illustrates very profound moments with just a few words . There is no fronting here about an easy life and no fancy word play - the soul is in the details and the honesty.)

This record was a soundtrack to my day to day life. When he talked about working in the mailroom - well, I thought as I made copies and stuffed CDs and vinyl into jiffy packs at the temp job, if Guru got through this shit then I can too. Whether finding a way to maintain when things were bleak, staying up listening to a young Funk Flex in the mix , escaping life for a minute with help from some smoke or actually managing to pull off a date night in NYC while flat broke - I could relate to the words in this record. "I'm gonna make it God damn it".

I'm pretty sure I played this track from Hard To Earn really loud every morning before I got on the train at Clinton-Washington and again when I got to the job early before everyone else.

"Feel The Music" reminds me of partying at Giant Step at their downtown spots, when I had 'made it' (at least in twenty-two year old terms), having that first real job and a steady place to live and finally getting a grip on a city which had damn near ground me down the year before.

16 years ago that Gang Starr record helped me get from one day to the next, for that I'm always grateful and that's why I'll be saying a prayer for Guru's recovery tonight.

Peace,
LEE
MRE / US&THEM

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Sepalcure - Every Day of my Life from sougwen on Vimeo.

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THE CHEROKEE CHIEF ROCKA

2009-12-09T00:05:00.005-05:00

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Shabazz Palaces - "Belhaven Meridian" [OFFICIAL] from Kahlil Joseph on Vimeo.

2009-12-02T00:01:00.006-05:00

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KEEP ON MOVIN'

2009-08-25T00:01:00.007-04:00

YELLOW IS THE COLOR OF SUNRAYS
From SPIN magazine, August 1989
"Yo, John, how much do you love Soul II Soul?"
It was Fab 5 Freddy, the host of "Yo MTV Raps," calling in a state. He'd just hired a car, rounded up four top black writers, and driven around Manhattan's Lower East Side with the new Soul II Soul tape booming on the car's monstrous system. "You wouldn't believe it. That shit is incredible. We were rocking."

It was the same all over town. Two weeks after the release of "Keep On Movin'", Soul II Soul's first American single, the song's sexy, Afro-Caribbean meltdown of hip-hop and house music seemed to be everywhere, like Public Enemy's "Bring The Noise" two years before.

Dropping subsonic bass, liquid and passionate, it rocked like a cradle on a slow "Bo Diddley" beat. If Milli Vanilli was hype, this was cool. Floating a slinky melody amid hanging piano notes and disco strings, the jam was in no hurry to get anywhere.

B-Boys loved it; house people moved to it. Bonz Malone wouldn't shut up about it. Teddy Riley, the producer of the moment, souped it up on the remix. It was one of those English cross-cultural hybrids that really work.

On a good car system, it did damage.
- written by John Leland

JACKSON 5 / 1971

2009-06-26T00:10:00.000-04:00

REMEMBER THE TIME

2009-06-26T00:01:00.002-04:00

ROCK THE BOAT

2009-06-24T00:10:00.003-04:00

Live blogging from South London - Trevor Nelson with an Aaliyah tribute set and ending with "Rock The Boat".

THERE IT IS

2009-06-24T00:05:00.002-04:00

Trevor Nelson is rocking on Radio 2 tonight with the biggest highlight so far being a fan request for Shalamar's "There It Is".

MRETV88_CRAZY COUSINZ FEAT. KYLA

2009-06-24T00:01:00.002-04:00

During our MRE set a Cargo last Saturday night DJ GetLive mixed this out of Carl Craig's version of "Angola" by Cesaria Evora. When the two rhythms locked into one and Cesaria's vocal gave way to Kyla's - well, you got a lesson in the diaspora and a dancefloor killer at the same time.

- posted by LEE
US&THEM / MRE

REASON TO BELIEVE

2009-06-23T00:01:00.002-04:00

Best if you give it some volume on the headphones for the full spiritual experience that is the Boss and The E Street Band. "Reason To Believe" is featured on MRE13 Out Here On This HIghway on BROOKLYN RADIO, download and stream options.