Big shout out to Adia for letting me know about this. Another subgenre of hip hop that i can obsess over for a couple of months! Apparently Im late on this , since its actually something that’s been around in LA for a couple of years already. My excuse is that I’m not an African American high school kid living in Urban Los Angeles. If I was though, I would no doubt be wearing lime green skinny jeans with SBs or Chucks and a loud neon tee trying to “jerk”… to be honest I can see kids from South East Asia getting into this; the apparel is favourable plus we like doing group dances. All major labels putting out Jerk records in that part of the world please send me a cheque for this piece of valuable marketing advice.

I’ve heard maybe a dozen Jerk tunes, it sounds to me like a mixture of hyphy and snap music (nice!) Apart from the New Boyz “You’re a Jerk” in the video above, here’s a couple that I really like. Especially that Clothes off Movement tune, the way she says “I can pull a n!!ga h-way better than u can..” SEXY!

Young Rocky – Kicks real active

Clothes Off Movement – Better

Oh, and since Jerk is as much about the dance as it is about the fashion and the music, just go to youtube and type in “jerkin”, you will find amateur dance vids of this style aplenty!

Why am I so crap at posting stuff on the blog? Why is that I always have to wait till Big Dan Haaksman writes and complains about my lack of posts do I then actually write a post. Why? why? WHY?!?!?

I think it’s because I’m shy to share with the world  my humble opinion.  Plus the fact that at the moment, I don’t do much else than radio, gig, studio and the occasional game of ping pong.

Anyways…

I’ve done a couple of mixtapes for the beautiful and talented MPHO. MPHO is a singer from Brixton, previously best know for her work with the likes of Bugz in the Attic and Coldcut. She is now coming out with her debut album “Pop Art” on Parlophone/Wall of Sound. MPHO’s amazing voice and incredible song writing make the album an irrestible pop album. The first single “Box n Locks” is produced by Switch and has a sample from Echo Beach by “Martha and the Muffins”. They also got Armand Van Helden, Herve and Crazy Cousins to remix the track. My  favourite is still the original though.

MPHO -Box n Lox

and here’s a link to the mixtapes that we put together for MPHO

Art of pop vol.1

Art of pop vol.2

Enjoy!

Sorry its been a while… blame it on radio, Spring Festival (too much partying with Roundtable Knights, Motorpitch, Mixhell, Sinden …) , remixes, mixtapes and hay fever…

To make up for it, here’s a brand new bootleg of Michel Cleis “La Mezcla” that Motorpitch and I did. Big shout out to Toy Selectah for lacing me with the original Cumbia samples of the tune!

Hope u enjoy!

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La Mezcla (Beware & Motorpitch bootleg mix)

The prettiest girls of Vienna came down last Saturday to fiercly shake booty at Café Leopold in the Museumsquartier. Special guest Seiji played new remixes and his current UK funky favourites, while Joyce Muniz spanked the crowd hard with some serious Brasilian macho beats, topped with “Bambolero” from Gypsy Kings. DJ Beware shone brightly with seamless mixing everything from early 90s bogle to the latest Afro rave tunes. I dropped tracks from my new EP and was amazed to see people singing along “Subiu, Desceu” by Feadz which has become a radio hit on national radio in Austria. Big Up Vienna, you showed some big love for us again. A pity though the night had to end already at four though the club was still rammed. But we´ll be back soon!!

Its really hard to write stuff like “this is the ultimate 90s mega mix” or the “only 90s mix you need” without sounding like some terrible infomercial for some cheesy product that comes on at 4 in the morning on some TV shopping channel.

For those who know Dj Spinbad’s legendary mixtapes like “Rock the Casbah (The 80s megamix)” and “Needle to the Groove”, my guess is that you’re probably not even reading this anymore and have already clicked the download link and trying to contain your excitement as you watch that status bar grow.

I don’t really know what else to say about this mix other than its just straight sick… “Rock the Casbah” influenced my shit so much, and this one here just reminds me of how creative you can get with a bunch of records, two turntables and a sense of humour. Please just download it and listen to it.

Dj Spinbad -90s megamix

BIg shout to Dj Whatever for letting me know about this one!