This is Side B of Tittsworth’s classic KRUNK001 mix. Slowing it down from the club and house bangers on the flip, this side features a quick-moving mix of 80s/90s hip-hop hits with some quality but less well-known tunes slipped in. This will definitely bring you back! Think Notorious B.I.G.,House of Pain, Positive K ( I got a man!), Tribe, Wu, etc.

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Before Tittsworth was touring the world, headlining huge parties, playing international music festivals, or running one of the best dance clubs in the nation, he was a fixture of the Washington, DC and Baltimore rave and club scenes. One of the top local drum ‘n’ bass DJs, he played nearly every local venue, including small bars, warehouses, and internationally acclaimed weeklies like Buzz at Nation. Influenced by club and hip-hop, he eventually branched out, hosting his KRUNK dance party at the now-closed Singapore Bistro in DC and making Baltimore Club tracks. Titts was instrumental in Baltimore Club’s resurgence, first releasing vinyls on his own featuring, and eventually teaming up with DJ Ayres to form T&A Records, still going strong in 2012. Today he co-owns U Street Music Hall and continues to tour the world as a DJ while releasing a steady stream of dance-floor slaying dance tracks.

Titts has given us permission to re-release his 2004 mix-tape, KRUNK001, which he used to school unknowing DC and Baltimore clubbers in Baltimore Club, House, Miami Bass, Ghettotech, and Classic Hip-Hop. Pre-Serato, Side A provides a trip through his crates of club, house, and other “booty music.” The mix feature classic tracks ranging from well known bootybass pioneers like 2 Live Crew and DJ Assault to the house legend Cajmere to Baltimore Club classics by scene legends like DJ Technics and the Doo Dew Kidz. Enjoy this slice of DC/Bmore scene history and keep your eyes out for Side B, Titts’s take on classic hip-hop.

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TRACKLISTING:

01. Quirk – Tribodelic (Mumbojumbo rmx) – Transient
02. The Alien Thing – Some Dark Funker – Human Trax
03. Mark Tyler & Dynamic Intervention – World of Misadventure – Hangman
04. DJ Mishka’s Mad Gay Mafia – Injector Part 2 (Remodelled) – Efadrine
05. Max & Amino – Elvis (Big Hair mix) – Alien Trax
06. Nick Sentience & Tim Healey – Make Your Body – Nukleuz Purple
07. Nick Sentience & Tom Harding – Intoxicate – Nukleuz Purple
08. D.A.V.E. the Drummer – Hydraulix 9
09. Henrik B – Hardwired – Illgorhythm
10. DJ Mishka’s Mad Gay Mafia – The Film Makers (Akai S6000 Cell Score mix) – Efadrine
11. Chris C – Mysterons – Nile
12. S.H.L.A.G. – Panik! – Hazchem
13. The Captain & Max-Alien Thing – Purple Overdose – Tinrib
14. Eufex – Adrenalin Junkies – Neuro

ROLECAST 008: Tim Resistor – Psybernetics by Role Models Podcast

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TRACKLISTING:

1. Junior Boys – You’ll Improve Me (Caribou Remix)
2. M.A.N.D.Y. Vs. Booka Shade – Donut (Bearweasel’s Lazy Dub)
3. Bumpin’ Ugly – Work Me
–> Josh Wink – Don’t Laugh
4. Azari & III – Hungry For The Power (Jamie Jones Ridge Street Remix)
5. Bingo Players – Tom’s Diner
6. Jesse Rose – Forget My Name feat. Hot Chip – Original Mix
–> Stereo Express – Shadoorack
7. Ramires – Sexy Witch
8. Avrosse – Say Goodnight To The Bad guy
9. Aka Aka, Umami, Thalstroem – What Matters (Hanne & Lore Remix)
10. Roska – Gone To A Better Place (D-Malice Deep Vision’s Mix)
11. Maya Jane Coles – Parallel Worlds
12. Jon Convex – Convexations
13. Maetrik – The Entity
–> DJ Ayres – Panty Crickets
14. Donovans – Rise & Fall (SCNTST Remix)
15. Ruckspin Feat. J Sparrow – Shikra

ROLECAST 007: mr. west – Bondage by Role Models Podcast

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ROLECAST006: Flex Kapazi – Voices In My Dreams by Role Models Podcast

This is the only DnB recording I ever recorded off my miniDisc player.  It’s from 2005. I love DnB the most.

Big sincere shout outs to DJ Simetra and Roundtable Records, Lonnie Fisher, Kipkino, and C-Sik (aka Shawn Caesar, whose secretly a DnB devotee & on mixcloud!)   RIP Bernie and J-Me.

Happy 2012 – it’s here.

Dan Amitai of Freeform DJs in DC put together a mix for us of a lot of music that has influenced him.  This is mix is out of control… in a good way.  I can say two things about Dan as a DJ which I believe 100%:

1. No one in the area sounds like him
2. Dan went from student to master DJ basically overnight.

Dan has influenced me and a lot of others in DC both in style and ethos. Listen to the master and enjoy the mix.

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TRACKLISTING:

1. Billy Joe Royal – Hush
2. Bob Dylan – Most Likely You Go Your Way (Mark ronson remix)
3. Tim Dog and KRS-One – I Get Wrecked
4. Digital Underground – Doowutchyalike (Playhowyalike mix)
5. Dixie Cups – Iko Iko
6. Dizzy Man’s Band – Tickatoo
7. Billy Squire – Big Beat
8. The 45 King – The 900 Number (Ced Gee Remix 3)
9. Think Tank – Hack 1
10. Incredible Bongo Band – Apache
11. Lafayette Afro-Rock Band – Congo
12. Sam and Dave – Hold On (DJ Nature remix)
13. Presidents of the United States of America – Body
14. The Cars – Just What I Needed
15. Trent Reznor speech from Las Vegas show
16. The Spinners – The Rubberband Man
17. The Scene – The Beat
18. Iggy Pop – Lust for Life
19. Cheap Trick – I Want You To Want Me
20. Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl
21. Golden Earring – Radar Love
22. The Supremes – Can’t Hurry Love
23. Polly Cutter – This Is It
24. MC Shan and Marley Marl – The Bridge
25. Outkast – Mrs. Jackson
26. Focus – Hocus Pocus
27. Sly and the Family Stone – Sing a Simple Song
28. Black Sabbath – War Pigs
29. Queen – We Will Rock You (Rick Rubin mix)
30. Thruston Harris – Little Bitty Pretty One
31. Janelle Monáe – Tightrope
32. Outkast – So Fresh and So Clean
33. Beastie Boys – The New Style
34. Skream – Memories of Third Base
35. Led Zeppelin – When The Levee Breaks
36. Funkadelic – Good Old Music
37. Death Cab for Cutie – We Laugh Indoors
38. David Bowie – We Prick You
39. Foo Fighters – Everlong

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I need to give special thanks to O.G. Baltimore DJ Chris Bulla of Modern Music fame who shared a handful of these songs online a ways back.

INFLUENCES: New York (Joey Beltram, Frankie Bones) Philly (Josh Wink), Baltimore (Chris Bulla)

mr. west – Back to Basics by Role Models Podcast

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TRACKLISTING:

1. Johnny Moy – Squirt [Remix]
2. Lemon 8 – Model 8 (Lemon 8 Remix) [Basic Energy]
3. Harri vs. Visnadi – Vespa [Bomba]
4. XPando – Pigs and Penguins [Rebirth]
5. Positive Science – Supersperm [Ascension]
6. Josh Wink – Higher State of Consciousness (Tweekin Acid Funk Mix) [Strictly Rhythm]
7. Joey Beltram – Energy Flash [Transmat]
8. Planetary Assault Systems – Booster [Peacefrog]
9. Love Inc. – R.E.S.P.E.C.T. [Force Inc.]
10. Pandemonium – Slammin’ [Blackhand]
11. Frankie Bones – Untitled (25 O’Clock Box Banger) [Ghetto Technics]
12. Second Phase – Mentasm [R & S]
13. Egyptian Empire – The Horn Track (Foghorn Remix) [Ffrfeedom]

Get it here: Expansion Broadcast DNB Mix #377.

Tracklisting and mix details are available there.

ROLECAST002: Flex Kapazi – 4 Old Friendz by Role Models Podcast

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TRACKLISTING:

Phantogram – All Dried Up
Matthias Zimmerman – Karl <— INFLUENCER
Grand National – Drink To Moving On
Acos Coolkas – Stellar Way
The Quest – Dey Wanna (D. Fine Remix)
BD1982 – Utukku (Ikonika & Optimum Remix)
Chad Valley – Up and Down (Panteros 666 Remix)
Sole Fusion – Bass Tone (Chocolate Puma Remix)
Quenum – Boomerang
Cooly G – Oi Dirty
Breach – Man Up
Schwarz – Lose Your Fvcking Mindz (Vjuan Allure’s Elite Lobotomy Mix)
Panteros 666 – St. Louis

INFLUENCES:

the new Sound Pellegrino EP – for real, it’s amazing.
Vjuan Allure’s Schwarz remix – EP drops in 2 weeks! http://schwarz420.com
Friends with benefits/friends without benefits
Breaking Bad
My cat