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Champaign-Urbana, IL - Musician, producer, composer, audio designer, and DJ Larry E. Gates II  has played hundreds of stages across the nation and has shared those stages with the likes of Chuck Berry, G. Love & Special Sauce, 30 Seconds To Mars, Local H, Superdrag, Trombone Shorty, Brother Ali, The Nappy Roots, Blueprint, DJ Rare Groove, Illogic, and many others.

 

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Feel Good Fridays: The Horrors

To kick your weekend off, here's British band The Horrors with their cover of Beyonce's "Best Thing I Never Had".  Dig it.  

 

Feel Good Fridays: Lupe Fiasco

Lupe came to our lil college town again this week.  I didn't go this time.  Decided to stay home and watch football.  Here's a DJ Forge remix of his first single, "Kick Push" to get your weekend started.  Go.

 

Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push (DJ Forge remix)

Feel Good Fridays: Sev Seveer

Sev Seveer is a Chicago native who spent some time in Champaign-Urbana.  Helluva dude and an outstanding beat maker.  He recently posted some of his "lost beats" - here's a honey of a groove he calls "Vinyl Nebula".  Dig it.

 

Feel Good Fridays: Lazy Summer Mixtape

My friend Martin Kouba (a.k.a. Marty Mars) posted his end-of-summer mix this week.  Appropriately titled "Lazy Summer Mixtape".  It features a ton of vibey tunes including one of my own - remixed by San Francisco's own DJ Spinnerty.  Dig it. 

 

 

 

DJ Earworm - L'eau de Rose (Air Vs. Louis Armstrong) 
Walter Sobcek - She's Gone (Hall & Oats cover) 
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Drippy Eye 
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Mill Theme (Robotaki Remix) 
Fingathing - You Fly Me 
Morten Vareno - Dead and Street (Trentemoller Remix) 
Curb Service - Brooklyn (Spinnerty Remix) 
7he Myriads - Megapolice

Way Gone Wednesdays: Moka Only

Today I give you a very special treat.  A free instrumental LP download from Canadian hip-hop producer Moka Only.  Some of you may remember him from Len.  Highly recommended if you like Madlib, J Dilla, etc.  Dig it - it's way gone.