Khingz: The Phở 99 mixtape

Once 1/2 of Abysinnian Creole, one of Seattle’s most beloved and down duos alongside Gabriel Teodros, The lyrically extraterrestrial Khingz has been traversing up and down the left coast of North America making music and being rad. Lately, the one and only Black Han Solo has been working on a live band+emcee project called Hi-Life Soundsystem , with some representatives from Seattle based Godspeed -  album on the way.

As a prelude to the full course of the upcoming mixtape Khake and Khool Aid, Khingz blesses us with this summer mixtape Pho99, fresh and hot – add  lime,  plum sauce and Sriracha and your good to go, uyệt vời (great)!

 

Take – One of LA’s finest

For the record: I believe the West Coast is and has been killing the rest of the Estados Unidos on the future beat sound. Every morning another new name and subgenre slithers its way out of the laptop, and most of the time, there’s a West Coast address involved. It’s unreal. LA in particular seems to lace its drinking water with something that brings out the stank nasty funk in producers (maybe it’s part of the whole Arizona decontamination process?).

My guy WD4D, acclaimed beatmaker, DJ, and champion of all musics good and just recently put me onto yet another big Cali name: Take, aka Sweatson Klank. Call it a late pass if you will, but delving into this guy’s output is making my week.

Take starts off with the sloppy percussion and neck crunching bass of the LA sound, and throws a distinctly melodic spin on the whole thing. Unlike many West Coast beat producers (including many of my favorites), his music tends to have a little more actual music, without sacrificing the bounce.

Check the mixes below, and if you’re in Seattle, be sure to check Take out on June 22nd as he takes over Lo-Fi with the Stop Biting and Decibel Festival crews. Power up!

Video after the jump.

New WD4D ep – Post Hyphy Romanticrunk

By now you know that Last Night’s Mixtape is a colossal fan of the dude WD4D. Hell, we even asked him to spin at our recent party. We love the dude because he’s a great DJ – but the cherry on top is that he’s a dirty producer as well, and today marks the official release for his all-remix ep, Post Hyphy Romanticrunk, that flips vocals from some of the Northwest’s buzz-burning female artists (Choklate, Canary Sing and Lisa Dank, to be exact) over Dub D’s hella hoard signature sound.

Female artists often get pigeon-holed into certain sounds and musical genres, and it’s refreshing to hear some quality talent riding on top of some sincerely outside-the-box sounds. Big ups to everyone involved, and hopefully this will be a sing of things to come.

Download: WD4D – Post Hyphy Romanticrunk

Tracklist after the jump.

Last Night’s weekend-wrapping afterparty

Oh yes. It went down. Your own LxNxM and the fine gentlemen of Moe Bar Sunday-eve fixture the Red Eye teamed up to present the afterparty for a very full weekend. It was a lineup stacked with crazy talent – the File Jerks kicked things off, LxNxM’s own Tang & Toast picked it up, Gordon Voidwell came straight from the nearly-sold out Showbox to drop some ridiculous disco funk jams, and the almighty WD4D brought his one-man wrecking crew in to finish things off.

Good times, good people and a great bar (thanks Steven/Alicia/Becky and the rest of the Moe Bar crew. Check it (and yes, more coming soon from that dude Wordlush).

Many more after the jump…

Going down tonight at Moe Bar

Yes, yes it is. We’ll see you there.

The Hella Official Double Feature Weekend Afterparty

This Sunday, Last Night’s Mixtape and Red Eye are hosting a party at Moe Bar to celebrate and wrap-up a busy busy weekend. This weekend is the Blue Scholars’ Double Feature weekend, with two shows from our boys in blue, and featuring many of the folks you’ve seen written about right here on LxNxM, including Das Racist, Bambu, Macklemore and your boy DV One, among others.

To send the weekend off with a bang, we’re throwing a party with some of our favorite selectors: the File Jerks, DJ WD4D, and LxNxM’s own Tang and Toast. Plus, some secret surprise guests – with so many folks in town, there’s no telling just who might get on the tables.

We’re also releasing the second installment of the LxNxM mixtape series that night, and we’ll have free physical copies for the first 50 or so people in the door.

The Hella Official Double Feature Weekend Afterparty
Sunday, March 28//10pm to close
Moe Bar//FREE 21+

WD4D – Megamix champion

That dude WD4D, noted area disc jockey, just took top honors at the 2010 installment of the Battle of the Megamixes, a head to head throwdown of fast-paced mixing mastery. Congrats to dude, and to top it all off, he’s got the whole thing on video. Check’er.

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