The 110% Tour kicked off to a flying start with 2 shows in southern Ontario - Kingston & Toronto. I hadn’t played Kingston in years and it was nice to go back there and find a club full of rowdy individuals who wanted to get busy on a Friday night. A lot of East Coasters in the house. Unfortunately, I’m still getting back into the swing of blogging these tours and I snapped nigh a picture.

Luckily, the next night I had my homie John on hand to shoot my “Welcome to Toronto” 110% Tour kick-off @ Revival. Kaewonder set it off by playing some breaks/80s/90s rap (good dude), and I tested out some new material from my mix on a GREAT crowd who showed lots of love in the form of 2 encores. A warm greeting. Pause? John’s pictures set the scene well; check them out on Flickr below.

I’m playing Fredericton with Team Canada DJs this weekend, then solo, and in between chilling with my homies out there, hopefully on a river in a tube & brew while the FredRocks 09 Festival kicks off. Bound to be interesting, I’ll check back in with you soon!

Oh! And I decided that I’m going to release my CD online on Monday, June 22nd. So check back then for the hot newness in 3 DAYS. It’s going to be hot in the streets, trust.

Until then,
-Bastid

For my latest mixtape, “110%”, I decided to remix Wale’s first major label single “Chillin” f/ Lady Gaga. For the remix, I wanted to go with something more organic to make it different than the 808- & synth-heavy original. To keep it DC, I sampled a break from go-go band Trouble Funk’s “Let’s Get Small”, which Boogie Down Productions used on their classic “Criminal Minded”. From there, I layered 2 other breaks that BDP used in that song (Isaac Hayes’ “Breakthrough” and Syl Johnson’s “Different Strokes”) and added some more samples and loops to accompany certain lines that Wale raps. The result is an uptempo, mega-mix style remix, suitable for the clubs, the jeeps, the streets, bar mitzvahs, weddings and ipods. 110%!

Download here (**Link Fixed AGAIN**), and check out how I work it into the upcoming mix, available June 12th. I’ve also synced the video up to my remix so you can have that visual experience, nawmeen? Peep.

Yes! Brand new website! Have a look around. Check me out. It’s finally here! Just in time for the “110%” tour and mix (dates here). Make sure you check out some of the recent posts to to listen to some of the remixes I’ve been preparing for the mix, as well as the tour promo video featuring the “Intro” music. I’m really excited to drop this one.

There will be a lot going on here in the coming months, so make sure you come around regularly. Better yet, join the mailing list and add the RSS feed so the team and I can keep you updated whenever we post something new. We’ve stepped our technology game up around here and we want you to reap the benefits. And seeing that it’s a new website, send us an e-mail if you see any glitches or problems. We’ll get it sorted.

See you on tour!

It’s almost here! I’m busy hammering out my new “110%” mix for the start of tour, available here on June 12th. I’m really excited for the tour, and especially the first show in my new city, Toronto, on June 13th @ Revival. It’s going to be of epic proportions, trust that!.

To hype you up on the new tour, a good friend of mine Charles Jannasch at Device Moving Images has composed a trailer featuring some of my previous live show footage. We’ve got some great clips to come. This is only the start of some excellent material Charles has produced, as I’ll be releasing 3 new live videos over the next month. Check back later this week to see what’s in store. Classic material! Here’s the trailer:

It is my pleasure to announce my upcoming tour and CD, “110%”!! Check the dates above and see if I’m coming to your city.

Basically, the whole concept of this thing is on some doing it real big, all out, push it to the limit, swinging headphones, M.O.P. megamix, hard working shit. I’ll be blogging about it here, I’ll be putting video on youtube, all so you can see for yourself how I put it down on one of these tours! Shouts out to Fourcolorzack for the design work.

I’m working on the mix CD now and it will feature the remixes that I have been posting here and on various other social networking sites, as well as that quick mix, cohesive style you’ve vome to expect from me. Excited to bring you another one! It will be dropping June 12th to kick off the tour, as June 5th is technically my Montreal ‘Farewell’ show. You ain’t heard? I’m moving to Toronto. See you around!