Peeps,

Putting the final touch on my forthcoming remix compilation right now. Mastering on Monday. Street date 09/09/09. Tentative title: RED BLACK AND BLUE-Some Remixes By DJ Mehdi. Ed Banger Records.

Browsing through my unreleased stash, I came accross this remix I once did for ‘Embrace The Martian’ by the CROOKERS:

Embrace The Martian CROOKERS Featuring KID CUDI –DJ Mehdi Remix–

A-Trak asked me to do it for a possible Fools Gold release of this baby, around September 2008. I guess, by the time I got to finish this (which I never really did), them crooks and the Cleveland kid were touching the stratosphere with their ‘Day and Night’ bomb, and thus never dropped ‘The Martian’.  It’s not the most inspired remix I ever did, but I still enjoy playing it from time to time. Enjoy—

Mehdi.

PS: you might’ve noticed that I took down the BUSTA RHYMES episode of THE VAULT. It’s because, finally, them good peeps at Universal decided they liked it and, believe that, they’re releasing it as an official Bussa Bus record on Motown…

Paris SOCIAL CLUB this Saturday—

It’s that time of the year again,

We love Sundays

We love Ibiza

We love Space

This weekend, as I started to read Randall Sullivan’s LABYRINTH on the murders of Big and Pac, I noticed how much MC Eiht and Compton’s Most Wanted’s impact on 90’s California rap has been almost completely dismissed by the rise of Death Row Records. Same goes for King Tee. And if it wasn’t for Ice-T’s “Cop Killer” move, it seems like Ice Cube would’ve remained the only L.A. gangsta rapper with a significant résumé, outside of Suge Knight’s arms reach.

Yet, the STRAIGHT CHECK’N EM album is simply a masterpiece. First single ‘Growing Up In The Hood’, which you might remember from the BOYZ N THE HOOD soundtrack, was as good as anything Dr Dre produced. ‘Gangsta Shot Out’, ‘Raised In Compton’, ‘Can I Kill It’, all these songs are still guaranteed to take you instantly right in the heart of Compton. Production is simple but effective. DJ Mike T is in the right line of Cali gangsta DJ’s (Yella, Total K-Os, Aladdin…). And MC Eiht’s voice and flow is so specific, and his accent is so crip, he’s only been matched by Eazy-E and Snoop Dogg in personifying that West Coast infamous swagger that shocked the world from 1988 to 96.

My favorite track of the record :

DEF WISH   Compton’s Most Wanted

And the hood takes you under,

Mehdi.