Thoughtful Summer Series (Updated)

The second of these two mixes was the one that sat with me the longest.  I started planning it the summer of 2007, but I just never found the time to actually sit and put it together.  Then my records were packed up and slowly made their way to Barcelona that December.  After repairing my turntable and replacing my stereo, I was finally prepared to make the mix, but was distracted by Jay Dee and made the first mix, musically one of the most focused I've made in years.  The third and final of the series will be done eventually, in my head it has split into two different mixes, and the trilogy may become a quadrology.

UPDATED

Nevermind, it is a trilogy, the third volume is an exploration of our longings for summer while trapped in winter's embrace.




Volume 1
The Young Gemini Mix: Down Wi' the Big Gizzy

To listen or download:
https://archive.org/details/TheYoungGeminiMixDownWiTheBigGizzy
To download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?xun1mv25v69fb8d

Amiri Baraka    Nobody Knows Summer’s End (pond mix)
& Peanut Butter Wolf
Reflection Eternal     Memories Live
Organized Konfusion     In Vetro
Blackalicious     40 oz for Breakfast
Amiri Baraka     Moreland’s Lunar Props (pond mix)
& Peanut Butter Wolf
Guilty Simpson & J Dilla     Man’s World
Jay Dee & Madlib     Champion Sound
Kanye West     Heard ‘em Say
Jay Dee & Madlib f/ Quasimoto     Sex Freaks
Cannibal Ox     F Word (Instr.)
Erykah Badu     The Healer
Mos Def     U R the One
Madlib f/ Medaphor     Please Set Me at Ease
Haki R. Madhubuti     Wake Up Luther (pond mix)
& Peanut Butter Wolf
Highlife Movement     The Prayer
Mos Def     Dollar Days
Kanye West     Crack Music
Melky Sedak     Attraction (Instr.)
Jay Dee & Madlib     The Mess
Platinum Pied Pipers     Ridin’ High
Roots f/ Bahamadia     Proceed III
Danger Doom f/ Cee-Lo     Benzie Box
Erykah Badu     Soldier
Mos Def     Undeniable
Amel Larrieux     Say You Want It All




Volume 2
Every Childhood Ends (and not always in darkness)

To listen or download:
https://archive.org/details/EveryChildhoodEndsandNotAlwaysInDarkness
To download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2irrubsllb3gd5n

roy ayers     hummin’
highlife movement     history
j dilla     lightworks
prefuse 73     pastel assassins
fela kuti     monkey banana
whitfield brothers     witch jam
paul hunter     paul’s pal
de la soul     my writes (instru.)
j rawls     cao
pharcyde     trust (instru.)
madlib     figaro (instru.)
psycho realm     stone garden (pete rock rmx instru.)
raw produce     richard’s radio jam (instru.)
yesterday’s new quintet     sun goddess
j rawls     the seed (instru.)
bad medicine     trespasser
osibisa     survival
bollywood funk     mera jawani
thievery corporation     facing east
zeb     sufism (react mix)
quantic     tell it like you mean it
highlife movement     the movement

Volume 3

MemorieTo s of Summer on Frozen Beaches 

To listen or download:
https://archive.org/details/ThoughtfulSummer3c
To download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?x6o2by417ovn1zy

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el michaels affair     el pueblo unido

african diva     kafo fite (thieboudienne mix)

atjazz     touch the sun (king britt remix)

anima sound system     68

break n’ bossa     watch them come (jazzanova mix)

koop     summer sun  (markus enochson remix)

quasimoto     am i confused

maceo parker      better half

 & all the king’s men

gangstarr     forms of intellect (instrumental)

gangstarr     forms of intellect

el michaels affair     hung up on my baby

the roots     lazy afternoon

digable planets     black ego

aim     good disease

menahan street band     the traitor

grant green      down here on the ground (remix by the ummah)

 f/ dianna reeves

menahan street band     home again

curtis mayfield     the makings of you (backing tracks)

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