rob vanmega

not from france, but i eat french toast

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Social Disco Club - The Unity Agency Mix (May 2012) [mp3]

Currently listening to as my weekend jump off soundtrack.

90 minutes of real nice House-ish grooves. Perfect.

This is something I made for a couple of friends IRL… it’s not a monthly mixtape (remember those?), it’s not a DJ set.  It’s an hour and a half playlist of songs that are a great back drop for when you’re chilling out.  I recorded the playlist as a single mp3 and faded the songs in and out of each other.  You know, like a radio show, minus the talk and commercials.

It features bands like The Shins, Joni Mitchell, Bahamas, Bon Iver, Woodpigeon, The Tallest Man on Earth, Laura Marling, Birdy, Cur De Pirate, Gil Scott-Heron, Allo Darlin’, Craig Finn, Ryan Adams, Best Coast, and Grimes. Music mostly written on guitars (as opposed to synths or samplers).  Pairs well with a comfy chair and three cocktails.

Download and relax this weekend, won’t you?

Look, I made a funny!

(I’m a week behind on TV and just catching up now).

Fugees - Vocab (Refugees Hip Hop Remix) [mp3]

Yesterday, I listened to the latest episode of The Champs Podcast, which features a lengthy interview with Pras from the Fugees.

Today, I am going down a rat hole of mid-90’s Hip Hop mp3s.

Elijah & Skilliam - R&B Classics - Rinse FM 7/5/12 [mp3]

Afternoon at work cool jamz alert!

A 3 HOUR dj set of 90’s R&B.

Track list here.

Listen, I’m as excited as all the other self-identifying electo-nerds about the playable Google doodle of a Moog Synth, but is a 15 minute video tutorial on how to play the doodle really necessary?

Pretty great long weekend.  More of these, please.

Lazy Sunday - Dec 17th 2005
Lazy Sunday 2- May 19th 2012

The elephant in the room: The Lonely Island dudes have been fake rapping for 7 (seven!) years. I’m not knocking them… I’m just pointing out that we’re all very, very old.

Thinking about having a “Pop Rocks Minute” of my own. (Taken with Instagram at Westbank)

Something-something disobeying Prime Directive #4 something-something.

Dent May - Best Friend [mp3]

I hear you’re buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your computer ukulele out the window because you want to make something real a summer jam.

Kids In The Hall - These Are The Daves I Know

This clip was an actual point of discussion in a work meeting today!

Also: MOM JEANS ALERT.

Beck - Broken Train

Riddle me this… since seeing the whole Don Draper listens to The Beatles thing last Sunday, I’ve had this Beck song stuck in my head.  Which is stupid weird because despite the retro feel, it obviously sounds nothing like Tomorrow Never Knows (and apes a musical style that wouldn’t even have existed at the same time… would it?).

So either my brain is a complex warehouse of music memories that magically and non-linearly links together strangely related tracks… or I’m just getting ultra lazy subconsciously and lumping music into two broad categories of OLD! and NEW!

Between this and the collective lather over a magazine cover, I’m now ready to endorse burning the entire internet with fire and starting all over again.

theidiotking:

Hasan Minhaj is pissed off at Ashton Kutcher, and he’s also really fucking funny.

This is really good… not so much because it’s funny, but because it’s a really smart evisceration of lazy, stereotypical portrayals of Indians incorrectly justified as comedy.

FRIDAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

theidiotking:

Oh holy fucking shit, it’s Friday. Are you fucking ready for this, you sick bitches? It’s time to grab the weekend by it’s rubbery taint skin and never let go. Is that clear enough for you? TGIF doesn’t begin to do it justice. Maybe TAUFGIFFYPOS, as in Thank An Ugly Fucking God It’s Fucking Friday You Piece Of Shit!! You ready for this? You man/woman/dog enough to stare down the barrel of 3 days of debauchery and bacchanalia the likes of which haven’t been seen since ANCIENT GREECE?  Well, ARE YOU?

Oh, you’re gonna lay low, maybe hit a party or two but also try to get some work done?

Yeah, me too, probably.

Me too, probably.

Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, and Mike!

Hey, did the Sled Island guys get Greyhound as a sponsor?  Because I think every band from Vancouver is playing this year.

Note: I’m in no way complaining.  This is gonna be great!

Sets

Tracks

  • LOL (Parts 1 & 2) [Spring 2012 DJ Set]
    71 plays
  • all moombahton everything (DJ set - Jan 2012)
    313 plays
  • cool ice, cold soda (summer 2011 dj set)
    124 plays
  • Babe Rainbow - Music (rob's on hold waiting for TELUS customer service re-edit)
    108 plays
  • The XX - Islands (rob vanmega's seven day remix)
    461 plays
  • Late In The Evening! (DJ Set - Dec 2010)
    173 plays
  • Design of a Decade (DJ Set - Jan 2010)
    115 plays

Favorites

  • Social Disco Club - The Unity Agency Mix (May 2012)
  • Fool's Gold Radio - May 2012 Mix
  • Sam Sparro - I Wish I Never Met You (Azari & III Remix)
  • Duff Disco - Marvin (Snippet) Will be free, please read description.
  • goin in
  • Bart B More Minimix for Rauw
  • Camp Lo - Luchini (Cheapshot Remix)
  • Moonchild DJ set @ Chinese Laundry (25.02.12)
  • 01 TEKNO EURO MIXX
  • Full House
  • Fool's Gold Radio - March 2012 Mix
  • Spring Mix 2012
  • Fool's Gold Radio - February 2012 Mix
  • azari & III - fact mix 313 [01.12]
  • Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid
  • One Day Later Radio #77 - Best Of 2011
  • Nucast #29
  • Gill Scott Heron - I'll Take Care Of You (Mighty Mouse Re Work)
  • We F0und L0v3 (Dave Winnel Bootleg){Rih@nn@}
  • i-DJ: Ratcatcher
  • Fool's Gold Radio - December 2011 Mix
  • Cousin Culo & Phi Unit - So Emotional Mixtape
  • Bloom_Jamie xx Rework Part 3
  • Fool's Gold Radio - November 2011 Mix
  • Daft Punk - Something About Us (Cherokee Remix)
  • Bart B More 2011 Asia Tour Mixtape
  • Small Balls
  • Fool's Gold Radio - October 2011 Mix
  • Surrender - Conflicted (FREE DOWNLOAD)
  • U-Tern - Triple J Mix
  • Golden Era (90-94) Disc 1
  • Golden Era (90-94) Disc 2
  • Bart B More Mixtape for OMGITM
  • Tensnake - oki-ni Presents Travels Mix - August 2011
    by R_co
  • Oliver - I Need You
  • Phonat - Summer Disco Mix 2011 (1 hour)
  • Short Shorts
  • "THE ENTERTAINER" - A Skratch Bastid Mix
  • Breakbot - Lazy Sunday Selecta
  • Cordova - Paradigm
  • Todd Terje live recording - 06/05/11
  • Jamie XX - Far Nearer (Drvg Cvltvre Slow Grind)
  • Zima Club 2011
  • The-Dream 30 Mins Live (4.29.11)
  • DJ Wood "Zimba In The Deep" (Black Heat vs Adele) /CLIP/
  • Madlib's Trash is Another Man's Treasure
  • Notorious BIG-we got machine gun funk-Relative Funk Remix
  • Shelter (XX Cover)
  • I Wanna Be Your Facilitator
  • The Notorious Party Boy Soundtrack (2011)
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