We’re excited to say that Jubilee has now readied her next EP! Following on from last year’s JMZ Riddim and Pull Ova, Jealous hits hard with the Miami / Club connection. More soon; get your pre-order in now!
Calling all Japanese Mixpak fans, we have an exclusive collab with Harajuku store, Radd Lounge ! Limited edition cinchpacks and lanyards, only available at Radd Lounge. Head to their store IRL or URL to see more!
Dre Skull & Jubilee will be at Broke City in Brooklyn this Friday! Don’t sleep.
Mixpak FM 078 is a special episode from Hann, a Long Island / Bronx duo made up of 18-year-old Lite feet producers Chris Designs & Lil Live. Lite Feet, as its name might suggest, is both a genre and a style of dance with a strong foothold in New York City culture. Now ubiquitous on the subway, Litefeet dancers have been around since the mid 00s, mostly hailing from Harlem or The Bronx, with the dance bearing some kind of familial resemblance to B-Boying or Popping. In the past year, the NYPD have cracked down on the dance on the subway, which has also had various film pieces & articles on it if you want to experience the look & feel of the dance from afar.
Though the music is integral to the dance, there has been little emphasis on the producers behind the energetic 100 BPM tracks, that often use heavy samples and switch up every 8 bars for the dancers to show off their acrobatics in battle. It looks like this is set to change; Hann have a Fact Mag documentary (trailer below), collaborations with Zora Jones and Cabo Blanco, and a solo EP in the works for 2015.
Their Mixpak FM is exclusively tracks produced or remixed by the duo, a 45-minute 35 track look into the sound – combining Lite Feet with NY party staples, from dancehall to rap to RnB.
You can subscribe to Mixpak FM via iTunes, subscribe with an RSS reader from the Mixpak FM site or download this mix directly.
