Everyone’s favorite Party Ambassador Andrew W.K. has collaborated with LA promoter, illustrator and DJ extraordinaire Franki Chan on a mixtape for his Check Yo Ponytail! series. The 70-minute Party Tips mix was recorded at Diplo and Switch’s Major Lazer studios by Franki Chan and Greg from Acid Girls, and is a powerhouse set of party […]

Blaqstarr drops his Blaqstarr The Mixtape today, featuring the talents of Lil Wayne, M.I.A., Rye Rye, Diplo, Talib Kweli, Switch, Mos Def and more. The Baltimore singer/rapper/DJ/producer displays the Renaissance man talent that makes him one of M.I.A.’s top producers — download  here from blaqstarrmusic, all you gotta do is give him your email. Fair […]

Known for engineering and producing for dudes like the M.I.A., Chemical Brothers, Diplo, The Freestylers, Roll Deep, Wiley, Lady Sovereign and most notably Deekline — he of Deekline & Wizard fame — the man known simply as Wizard has unleashed a minimix of most megamix robustness. Featuring a mindboggling 205 tracks in 10 minutes, Wizard’s […]

As a new year’s present to the world, on January 1st M.I.A. released a free Wikileaks-inspired mixtape titled the Vicki Leekx Mixtape. Featuring new productions from her trusty stable of producers (Diplo, Switch, Rusko, Blaqstarr et al), the 19-track 36-minute mix is a call of support of Mr. Julian Assange. This is the just-released video […]

Last year’s Free Gucci mixtape from Diplo gets the remix treatment from Mad Decent labelmate Sinden. All y’alls gotta do is head HERE, enter your email addy, and they’ll deliver the grime-rinsed Gucci flows to your inbox. Tinchy Stryder, Wiley, Hudson Hawk, Nicki Minaj, Swizz Beatz…  mouth fulla gold! Thx Skeezy!

The latest Mad Decent purveyors of techno Depressed Buttons just released their new Mixmeat Mixtape, featuring tracks by artists as far ranging as Siriusmo, Underworld, Drop the Lime and even Bob Dylan. Which makes sense, given the band’s disparate techno sounds. Three-fifths of seminal indie synth band The Faint, Clark Baechle, Todd Fink, and Jacob […]

Much beloved Echo Park trio Mansions On The Moon released their Paradise Falls mixtape and boy does it live up to the hype. Having already collaborated with N*E*R*D, Willy Joy, Xaphoon Jones (Chiddy Bang, who are playing our party next Tuesday) and Diplo and DJ Benzi — who mixed the set — their heavily harmonized […]

After catching Pretty Lights’ set at this year’s Coachella it was pretty clear Derek Vincent Smith is more than a cut above the average dancefloor filling producer. Although lacing his sound with plenty of Triton-generated bass pulses and brash electro textures, Pretty Lights strangely reminds me more of vintage DJ Shadow than contemporaries like Deadmaus […]