Mick Boogie and Terry Urban bring you this new mixtape, featuring a shitload of hip-hop artists reinterpreting classic De La Soul tracks. That’s the key to this mixtape – these are not covers, these are re-thinkings of classic songs. The tracklist:

1. Intro: Senor Kaos, Von Pea and Homeboy Sandman (produced by Dave West)
2. Me Myself and I: Kardinal Offishall (produced by Diabolic)
3. Pease Porridge: Phife Dawg (produced by Dj Rasta Root)
4. Breakdawn: Tanya Morgan (produced by 6th Sense)
5. Oooh: Fly Union (produced by Fly Union)
6. Baby Phat: Skillz & Colin Monroe (produced by nVMe)
7. Stakes Is High part 1: U-N-I (produced by 6th Sense)
8. Say No Go: Chaundon, Esso + The Kickdrums (produced by The Kickdrums)
9. Rock Co Kane Flow: Shawn Christopher & Pheo (produced by Garbs)
10. Ego Trippin: Asheru (produced by The Els)
11 Ooodles of O’s: Camp Lo (produced by Apple Juice Kid)
12. Sunshine: Christian Rich + Curtains (produced by Christian Rich)
13. Plug Tunin’: Tabi Bonney + Stalley (produced by Judah)
14. Hey Love: Chip Tha Ripper (produced by Remot)
15. The Bizness: Big Pooh, Butta Verses, and 6th Sense (produced by 6th Sense)
16. I Am I Be: 6th Sense (produced by Hasan Insane)
17. Eye Know: Daytona & Mike Maven (produced by 6th Sense)
18. Saturdays: Niko Villamor, Brittany Street & Kidd Neer (produced by SMKA)
19. Watch Out: J.Sands (produced by J. Rawls)
20. Stakes Is High part 2: Talib Kweli (produced by eJones)

Download here.

Tell me this does not sound like something off of ‘93 ‘Til Infinity. Seriously, tell me. “Proper Aim,” a track off of Souls‘ forthcoming album, Montezuma’s Revenge, produced by Mr. Prince Paul. Listen here.

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I have a feature running this week on Del and Tame One’s new album, Parallel Uni-Verses, in SF Weekly. Read it here.

The heir apparent to Aphex Twin, except not bringing it quite as much:

Thanks, Major Lazer.

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band has a new EP, An Eskimo Christmas, which will be for sale at the band’s Seattle show on 12/18 (visit Tour Support for the all the tour dates). Before you buy your plane tickets to the NW, listen to “Anchors Dropped” here.

John Woo’s latest, the overblown, action-packed historical epic, Red Cliff, gets reviewed here.

Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay was murdered in his studio in 2002, and the crime remains unsolved. This new film, due out on DVD 12/1, attempts to shed some light on what really happened. Another Kennedy-Tupac-Jimmy Hoffa conspiracy in the making? Perhaps…

Nas’ ex-boo, Kelis, is back with a Dave Guetta-produced club track, “Acapella,” and a new album to come. Listen here. Move over, Kylie.

Vice will release Iraqi metal band Acrassicauda’s new EP, Only The Dead See The End Of The War, in March, and you can preview a song, “Garden of Stones,” here. Honestly, the most interesting thing about the song is that it’s from an Iraqi metal band. If this was just a bunch of heshers from Ohio, no one would be paying attention.

The Seven Fields of Aphelion, aka a female member of Black Moth Super Rainbow, will release her debut solo album, Periphery, on Graveface this February. Listen to a track off the record, the beautiful, spacey “Mountain Mary,” here.