New mix of disco edits

Been a while since I've posted something on here, but I wanted to link to my most recent mix for Honeypotcast. This is under my new disco alter-ego, chris e. pants, and it features a lot of custom re-edits of some of my fave disco tunes.

Chris e. pants Disco Mix for Honeypotcast by Chrissy Murderbot on Mixcloud

DOWNLOAD LINK:
http://www.murderbot.com/mixtapeblog/chris_e_pants_mix.mp3

ORIGINAL ARTICLE ON HONEYPOTCAST:
http://honeypotcast.blogspot.com/2012/10/hny-161-chris-e-top-secret-disco.html

Latin Freestyle

I cannot believe how long it took me to get around to this one. I guess the timing is a little weird now (in light of a recent bit of Twitter drama wherein some clueless kids apparently hated on Diplo because "only Latinos and gay people are allowed to play Freestyle"). Kids these days...

Anyway, Freestyle was a genre of dance music that evolved out of the Latino communities in New York and Miami in the 1980s. But first, some backstory:
Part of the reason why disco did so well in New York was that it appealed to African-Americans, Italian-Americans, and Latinos. This meant that during the heyday of disco, a radio station could lock down all three of these huge demographics—something that you'd be hard-pressed to do today. After the "death" of disco, stations had to pick which of these audiences they wanted to retain. A lot of New York stations kept the Italians by switching to rock, and the rest hung on to the African-Americans by gradually shifting to hip-hop / R&B / "urban" music. This left New York's sizable Latino community without many options for radio stations, or for pop music that spoke to them.
Freestyle really emerged as a response to this conundrum--championed by Latino DJs like Jellybean Benitez and Tony Torres, Freestyle first popped up around 1983 as a mixture of pop melodies and hip-hop-electro production (think Afrika Bambaataa meets Celine Dion). 
The music found a second home in Miami, and these two cities produced the overwhelming majority of Freestyle records from the birth of the genre until it fizzled out in the mid-1990s. The New York stuff tends to be a little darker—male and female singers singing about heartbreak with a lot of minor chords in the background—whereas the Miami stuff is a little more on the cheerful side, and features mostly female vocalists singing about falling in love and what not.
Freestyle eventually went way beyond its Latino audience, and became one of the dominant sounds of Top 40 radio in the 1980s. I've focused more on the huge radio mega-hits in this mix (because they're more fun), but I've tried to balance it out with a chunk of underground club tunes as well. Hope you enjoy it!

My Year Of Mixtapes: Latin Freestyle on Mixcloud

DOWNLOAD LINK: Chrissy Murderbot Freestyle Mixtape.

8-Hour House Party Mix

As some of you may know, I recently shot a music video for "The Vibe Is So Right", a song I made with MC ZULU that's coming out in the Spring on Planet Mu. We had a shoot that involved people dancing to the song (which happens to be 130 beats per minute), and we needed all the dancing to be in sync with  the song, but I didn't wanna force everybody to listen to the song itself over and over again through the whole 8-hour shoot. The solution? An 8-hour mixtape at 130bpm, duhhh.


Obviously I didn't do this live in one take--this one I pieced together in a DAW. I don't want all that hassle to go to waste, so I'm posting the entire 8-hour mix for everybody to download. Feel free to use it as the soundtrack for your next house party, or as the background for all your other 8-hour activities: the work day, sleeping, getting a new driver's license, taking the Megabus home for Christmas, etc.

Chrissy Murderbot 8-Hour House Party Mix (695MB)
Tracklist after the jump...

Ghetto House Classics (Abstractor Podcast exclusive)

Ghetto House (or Booty House) is basically just a fast, dirty style of house music that came out of Chicago in the 1990s, and paved the way for juke and footwork. I grew up in Kansas City, and we heard this stuff at all the raves back in the day–it was a major staple of growing up as a party kid in the Midwest. Here's a mix I did for a really awesome blog called Abstractor of all my fave Ghetto House tunes.
Original article: http://abstractor.net/abstractor-podcast-3-chrissy-murderbot

Ghetto House Classics (Abstractor Podcast Exclusive) on Mixcloud
DOWNLOAD LINK: Abstractor Exlclusive Mix: Chrissy Murderbot's Ghetto House Classics Mix.