Bullion- Pet Sounds: In The Key of Dee

"I Remember How You Used To Say/ It's Fantastic"

To be perfectly honest I can't believe we haven't posted about this yet, but hey, we're busy doing other stuff like..uh.. Ok there is no "real" reason we haven't sung the praise of Bullion's sample magic, Pet Sounds: In The Key of Dee. As you can tell from the lovely photoshopped album art, this mix pits the effervescent harmonies and orchestrated acid pop of the Beach Boy's Pet Sounds against samples from the late, great J. Dilla's monstrous catalog (RIP). The mastermind behind the ingenious pairing is Acton, England's Bullion, who refuses to let people label ...In the Key of Dee as a mash up. You see, while Bullion has blended samples from Pet Sounds and the Dilla ouevre, he didn't borrow any of Dilla's drums. And the drums on this mix are a thing of beauty. They feel like drums; tight and smooth like ?uestlove and thick like B-More bangers. Making great use of the massive Pet Sounds box set, Bullion boils Brian Wilson's sonic masterpiece into 24:38 of head bobbing hip-hop, cooled out with the Beach Boy's trademark So-Cal surf style. Not just an incredible mix, but also a damn good reminder that no one should be without the Beach Boy's classic and a sampling of Dilla's greatest hits. Download a .zip file of Pet Sounds: In the Key of D down below. As a bonus there's also a link to a tight mix Bullion did for the british website Shhhh, Mixed Up In Love, which features everyone from A Tribe Called Quest to Arthur Russell to J. Davey and, of course, J. Dilla.

Bullion-Pet Sounds: In the Key of Dee
Bullion-Mixed Up In Love

Diplo Can't Forget J. Dilla

J. Dilla R.I.P 2/7/74-2/10/06

Mad Decent just put out another podcast in their seriously bumping Worldwide Radio series. A tribute to the late great J. Dilla. Here's the description:

"like any self respecting hip hop fan, i’m completely obsessed with Jay D.. the hip hop producer from detroit that is every producers favorite producer (he was actually hip hop incarnate) ... he died last year - feb 10th, and i cant even say how tragic it was for our generations musical landscape.... you will figure that out in time.

Dj soul just did an exclusive mini mix for mad decent radio, because I just wanted to keep people out there knowing he was one of the reasons we do any of the things we do over at mad decent .. and i can do a dilla mix every 2 weeks for gods sake

http://www.myspace.com/djsoulnyc

and check out the incredible assorted donuts mix soul has done, and big huge propers goes to soul for taking part in the Dilla project walk for lupus 2 weeks back in detroit

23 minutes and 17 seconds of straight funkin' SOUL music.

Mad Decent World Wide Radio #15- Cant Forget J. Dilla