Download Episode 33

Dave and Ian discuss how to style in the cold weather, call out wack podcasts, make bold NBA predictions and disect these DOOM lyrics.

Episode #32 - Download

Dave and Ian welcome in 2012 with some classic verbal exercises, discussing wack record stores, shopping sprees, and a visit from George Bless. Plus why Dave is rooting for his team to lose when they're playing well, and Ian getting excited about the 90s, troop.

January 2012: Green Tags
DJ Ian Head

I usually spend the holidays in the Northwest, where I grew up and where I first started hitting the crates heavily. Back in the mid-to-late 90s, me and Alex Stange, fellow beat-digging fanatic and high school friend, would make regular trips to a growing chain of Portland record stores, Everyday Music, which at the time had great prices and thousands of records - especially those filed with "green tags" and costing $.50. All kinds of musical treasures would turn up in the 50-cent bins - funk, jazz, obscure 12 inches, rock, you just never knew. They were regularly re-filled, and the store stayed open until midnight every night - so you could just drop by almost any time to get a little digging in.

So I invited Alex to contribute half of this mix, which I'm sending out from southeast Portland before heading back to New York. The 50-cent bins are still here, though not quite as fruitful as they used to be, but still fun to paw through on my trips home. It's essential digging - getting your self-education on the classics of soul, rock and pop music for cheap, and realizing that you should never pay more than a dollar for certain records if you're in these crates long enough.

Fresher Than Your Father Podcast #31

Ian and Dave are back to discuss the forthcoming NBA season, rappers people tell us to like that we don't, and Ghostface lyrics. Get amped!

Organize! - December 2011 Mixtape

DJ Ian Head - "Sunday Morning" Sampler EP - Limited Release

A new release of beats I've worked on the past couple months. Been trying to experiment more with playing some keys and incorporating live drums and percussion.

You can download the full tape and/or two of the longer cuts on the tape at my Bandcamp site. Depending on how many people download, I'll post additional links here as well. Below is one of the cuts, "Fly Away."

DJ Ian Head - Occasional Mix #6 - Download

Another short mix for the month of November, some joints, mostly on mp3, I've been bumping on the walk to the dayjob.

Tracklisting:

Apollo Brown ft. Oddisee - "The Times"

Bambu - "Spare Change"

Homeboy Sandman - "Parallel Perpindicular"

K-Def - "Times Change"

Macklemore ft. Prometheus Brown "Church"

Damu the Fudgmunk "Supply for Demand (Instrumental)"

Oddisee "The Carter Barron"

Collapsible Mammals "Travel Music Pt 1"

Monthly Mixtapes: November 2011 "Treats"
DJ Ian Head

To be honest, I wanted to do two things this month: play some hip-hop, and use these really funny voicemail messages I found while digging through old samples and sound files. I was able to do both, to a certain degree - I could have played more records, and I could have played more messages, but I think what came out is a decent little tape, a couple treats to vibe out to in your headphones, something a little more rugged for the hoodies-and-jeans fall weather. These are a few records that remind me of hitting classic vinyl spots ten years ago while flipping a Rob Swift mixtape over in the walkman. Hmm..that might have been a bit more than ten years ago.