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I came across this youtube video the other day. If anyone is a fan of MUSIC not just a hip hop fan it’s definitely worth the time to sit and watch one of the greatest producers put together a few classics.

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Hey Yaka. Do you like the Pioneer S-DJ05 Monitor Speakers? Did you ever think about getting the 8″ monitors? I was debating about getting the 5’s versus the 8’s or simply going with the Yahama HS80Ms. I had the Mackie MR8mk2, but in my opinion they were prone overheating issues.

Hey, Jordylu…what do you know about that Slum Village “Climax”? Woooooo weee that’s a jam. When I first heard that cut I thought SV came from a time warp…LOL. Consequence’s “Please Disperse” sort of fits that bill too.

What’s up Dan. I take it that you’re entertaining a certain age group when you refer to 90’s hip hop and R&B? The previous responses pretty much laid out a LOT of music from the 90’s. I think 90’s R&B and Rap was a golden era for Hip Hop culture. I’m sitting here now wondering how long did it take the other guys to come up with all those names because they covered a lot of them. There were a lot of folks releasing banging hits back then, and for the most part it was GREAT music. Believe it or not, in most cases you could distinguish southern rap from west coast and up north flavors. Now, it appears everyone commercial are using a handful of producers that put out country rap tunes.

If you have a chance check out this brother’s Youtube channel in the UK named DJ Soops. He does a lot of Neo Soul mixes, but he also has a few videos where he mixes 90’s R&B and Rap. I’m also sure you can find more mixes available on Youtube if you do a search for 90’s Rap or 90’s R&B.

BTW, there’s one group I don’t see, but someone they’re associated with Del the Funkee Homosapien who was mentioned on the Reddit forum, and that’s Souls of Mischief. They had a bangin’ track called “’93 ’til Infinity”. And while we’re on the West Coast, we can’t forget Tha Alkoholiks. Check out Tha Liks album “21 & Over”. The West Coast had their own style. For the East Coast, Doo Wop’s “’95 Live Part 1” has to be one of the greatest mix tapes ever released. Doo Wop’s mix tape will give you more flavor of the 90’s gritty lyricists flaunting their talents. Can’t forget MOP, Group Home, Gangstarr, Nice & Smooth, Mob Deep (I nearly lost my mind when I first heard Mob Deep’s debut song “Shook Ones Part II” in a club), Digital Underground (West Coast), Sweet Sable (not rap, but a clash of R&B and hip hop), Queen Latifah, Naughty by Nature, Rottin Razkals, Special Ed (late 80’s, early 90’s), Da Bush Babees, Poor Righteous Teachers, Main Source, Nas, Mos Def, Jeru The Damaja, Ill & Al Skratch, The Roots, Brand Nubian, Grand Puba, The Pharcyde, Redman, Keith Murray, Jamal (formerly of Illegal), Kriss Kross, Common fka Common Sense, Black Moon, The Beatnuts, Big Pun, Fat Joe, Digable Planets, Apache (“Gangsta B”), Diamond D, Big L, Goodie Mob (Southern Rap, but not what you think, Ceelo was a member of this group), Too Short, Geto Boys (they represented southern rap, but the Texas way: in other words, southern rap was conscious too and wasn’t all about Miami bass music), Lords of the Underground, Missy Elliott, Timbaland, Mase, Craig Mack, Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz………

Ok….that’s a lot of people and I’m 100% sure I didn’t get everyone nor will we ever finish the list from all the responses here…LOL. It’s just a lot of folks to name, but I hope by now you have a good listing. You have a good 10 years to cover (give or take a year) so take your time. It never hurts to go with the chart busters because a lot of songs remained “B”side, but they are club classics.

Oh, let me give an honorable mention to DJ Kool’s “20 Minute Work Out” and “Let Me Clear My Throat” which had the clubs bangin’ back then too!

Good luck with your discovery because once you go down the road of hip hop of the 90’s you’ll soon discover the artists and producers sampled a lot of the music from a wide variety of genre’s from Soft Rock to Jazz from prior years. Back then artists and producers were very creative and tried to make different tunes from their parent’s music. Yes, some of it was a direct sample, but a lot of it was made from short snippets. It’s very cool to figure out where they got the music from. There are probably only a handful that do it now.

Steve Turner, post: 32277, member: 4363 wrote: Hey guys,

I have just started my DJ journey and am beginning to amass my music library.

However I am a bit un-certain on where to buy my music from. I have heard of sites like Beatport & Juno but was planning on buying the majority of my music from iTunes due to it being a bit cheaper until I heard that mixing music live in a club for example with iTunes purchased music was illegal due to some legal mumble jumble and that I could only use music purchased from DJ sites like Beatport.

Sounds a bit wierd but is this true?

Don’t want to spend hundreds only to find out I can’t play it live… ;(

Cheers

Steve, maybe this will answer your original question: SOURCE

This is why I love coming here. I never thought about signing up for Shazam because the free App itself is terrific. I tag songs all the time and when it’s time to buy music I use Shazam as a reference alongside of iTunes. Now, I’m going to check more into their website and see if there’s anything else the App offers. Thanks.

reason808, post: 31845, member: 831 wrote: I use the following three methods:

2) I Shazam any interesting song on my iPHone when I’m out and about. You never have to miss a cool song again: whether you hear it at a clothing store or in a DJ mix with no track list. Although Shazam isn’t perfect, and has some quirks, it’s accuracy is amazing, and its free! I also use it when listening to mixes online at work.

On those rare occasions when Shazam can’t find a song I use SoundHound. I’ve only had to use SH a hand full of times because Shazam is pretty accurate.

This may be a long shot, but I found it strange. Recently, when using Traktor on my desktop PC, I get a lot of static from the Denon ASIO driver without using the controller. I haven’t experimented with my Denon MC6000 on the PC using the ASIO driver yet, but at one point in time it did work flawlessly. Strangely enough, I was looking to warm up the sound for my mixes and came across JACK, http://jackaudio.org/

When I choose Jack Audio as the audio output Traktor returns to producing great sound. It’s the weirdest thing ever because Denon’s ASIO driver wasn’t producing static at first.

Maybe I’m missing something…