DJ not-I: The Sôhei Album Sampler



This is an 8-track sampler of my upcoming full-length virtual album. The Sôhei Album is an experimental project marking my semi-departure from mash-up-making and leap into original music-making. The album will be a blend of new mash-ups, found samples, as well as original material. This mash-up sampler offers a kind of veiled preview of the album, as only a few of these tracks will be included, and these in altered form. I hope you enjoy the tunes. And if you do, stay tuned!

Love, ~I

Sly featured Stranglehold Friday in his rockin' Storms of Asgard mix.

Deathchurch Radio included Fergie Must Go in this booming episode.

And just recently, DJ Audio1, Mike B The Blenda, and J1 featured both Pass the Chunfly and Fergie Must Go in their Bay Area All Stars Mixshow #4.

Cool! Big-ups to all those guys!

Get everything HERE as a 50MB zipfile, complete with covers & mp3 playlist.



Tracklist & Comments:

1. Lupe Fiasco vs. Ez3kiel: I Gotcha Sûrement
One of the freshest new rappers from 2006 meets breakbeat electronica from France. The extended album version will also feature beats & rhymes from Lewis Parker.

2. Pete Rock & Dead Prez vs. Genesis: Abacab Warzone
Pete & Prez's club banger hooked up with a track from when Phil & the boys were still making bangin' weirdo rock.

3. Lords of the Undergroundvs.
Asian Dub Foundation: Dhol's What I'm After
Jersey old school mashed up with UK-transplanted South Asian beats and a bit of the A-Team for fun.

4. Cool Calm Pete vs. Chops vs. Ted Nugent: Stranglehold Friday
Ice cold Asian-American NYC rapper (revisited) meets blazing hot Asian-American producer from Philly meets politically incorrect Midwest rawker/hunter meets vegan Rhode Island poet (Sage Francis). This is one of my personal favorites on the sampler, and the album will feature more of this kind of sophistication.

5. People Under The Stairs vs. Voltio & Nesty: Pass the Chunfly
Fly Bay Area underground unit teamed up with a hit tune from one of Puerto Rico's finest reggaeton crews. Yo mama ain't lookin.

6. El-P vs. Polow the Don vs. The A'z: Fergie Must Go
Ill NYC rapper, producer and Def Jux label boss spits viciously over THAT song, mixed with trunk-thumpin' beats from Oakland. Yadadamean? No, i don't hate Fergie, i just intensely dislike most everything she and B.E.P. (R.I.P.) now represent.

7. Ak'sent vs. Crissy Criss: Tika Toc Krunk
In case you felt there was any whiff of misogyny on the last track, check this one out. It features a REAL female MC (just out with her debut) spitting over a bangin' track produced by the UK's Crissy Criss. Get krunk wit dis!

8. Nas vs. Sicknotes vs. KRS-One: Cry Hope
This is the last track made for the sampler and it came together spontaneously after listening to Nas's fantastic last album for the first time. It seemed to me like Obie Trice's "Cry Now" would fit like a glove. KRS live rounds it out.

The Sôhei Album Sampler - Virtual Release, January 20, 2007.
The Sôhei Double Album due out April 2008!