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Music is the Weapon x Recordbreakin T-shirt and Mix!

Music is the Weapon was one of the first events in Chicago I put together and still one of my favorites. The concept’s pretty simple - it’s a DJ dance party that benefits local non-profits and promotes collaboration between the featured groups. We’ve benefited local NPOs such as Connect Force, Rumble Arts, Original Change Project, CHIRP and En Masse. Since doing MITW, I’ve had the privilege of joining The People’s DJ Collective and doing similarly themed events with them such as EMPACT and Beautiful Struggle. The original flier design by Edit17 has caught a lot of eyes and many friends were asking for shirts. Well, thanks to DJ Junior at Recordbreakin’ Music they finally can. And to keep the MITW tradition going, 50% of sales go straight to an educational/art related non-profit picked by Junior in his current base, Philadelphia.

Shirts are available here:

Men:
http://www.recordbreakin.com/rbm_weapon_men_shirt.html
Women:
http://www.recordbreakin.com/rbm_weapon_woman_shirt.html

They look dope:
Music is the Weapon shirt maleMusic is the Weapon shirt female

To celebrate the shirt release, I put together a mix. I used to do a mix for each Music is the Weapon event featuring interviews from the non-profits and socially charged tracks. This one keeps the musical theme and features some of my favorite releases from Recordbreakin’. It’s a revolutionary, social uplifting, self-actualizing themed mix. Starts up stirring you up, asks some questions, gives some hope and ends with in introspective meditation.

Peep the mix here:

DJ Limbs - Music is the Weapon Recordbreakin Mix by DJ Limbs

Tracklist below, enjoy!:
20th Century Steel Band - Heaven And Hell Is On Earth
I, Ced - Another Look @ You vs Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not be Televised
Leroy Heptones - Revolution
The Pimps Of Joytime - H20 (Ft. Cyril Neville)
D’Angelo, Femi Kuti, Macy Gray - Water Get No Enemy
Lifesavas - State of the World / Apocalyps
Joy Jones - This Too Shall Pass (Spinnerty Remix)
Erykah Badu - The Healer
Ta’Raach - Liberation’s Lullabye
Mark de Clive-Lowe - Heaven (Ft. Bembé Segué)
Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can, Can
Cymande - The Message
Shapes of Broad Minds - Changes
John Robinson - Black Gold
Typical Cats - Justice Coming
Raphael Saadiq - Lift The People
Zeph and Azeem - Time to Wake Up (Ft. Joyo Velarde & Tony Moses)
Willie Williams - No One Can Stop Us
Flying Lotus - MmmHmm (Ft. Thundercat)
Bitone Troupe - All is Full of Love

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Soul Sauce Promo Mix

Last Soul Sauce someone came up and asked me to write down the last 5 songs I played and if I was selling any of them. I passed him my website then realized most of my mixes are actually at www.soundcloud.com/djlimbs.

So I’m quickly upp’ing this in case he drops by this side of the web. If so - thanks much for checking it out and glad you dig the soul music!!

Cheers

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DJ limbs - quick bboy mix

This is part two of my rough draft impromptu break mixes I randomly drop when the urge hits. Well the urge hit. Bboys and bgirls enjoy!

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97 Plays

Paint By BPM

I made this mix in 07 as a Christmas gift to my sister who likes to paint. It’s a mix of downtempo, hiphop, a little funk and quotes to inspire visual artists. Since then it’s gotten a few features on blogs, sites, and took on a life of its own on Soundcloud. It’s weird getting such great response these days on an older mix but shit, I’ll take it! Really happy to see one of my works stand the test of (a short period of) time.

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17 Plays

This mix has recently getting some play even though it’s kinda a old and was a quick set of my records before I did the digital jump.

Tracklist coming soon

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17 Plays

Very mellow mix I made of some abstract chilled beats and sultry melodies. Got some deep blue gems in there.

onra - my comet
king midas sound - one ting (dabrye remix)
beatspoke - dig deeper
clyde - come clean
spinnerty - miles and miles
waajeed - dusk
platinum pied pipers - ain’t no ifs or maybes
shablo - your last chance
krak & smaak - that’s my word
dj spinna - dillagence
destruments - schnozberry pharms
dr who dat - on the doelow
40 winks - sleep ritual

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DJ limbs - Modern Love Promo Mix

Made this mix to promote my guest gig at Modern Love every Tuesday at Liar’s Club, hosted by fellow party rockers DJ Demchuck and DJ Abducted. This space can accomodate a chill or hype vibe and the system packs plenty of bass. Real fun spinning here. DJ Ivy also dropped an ill party set that night!

Tracklist:

1 - DJ limbs - Joker/2000f J Kamata vs Triple Six Mafia vs Prodigy mashup
2 - Bassnectar - Cozafrenzy
3 - DJ limbs ft Ruth Vallera - MadJazzNoodle
4 - Erykah Badu - Honey (Seiji Remix)
5 - Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Addis Black Widow
6 - Rod Lee - Dance My Pain Away (Murdertronics remix)
7 - B Rich - Can’t Take What I Got
8 - DJ limbs - Cajmere vs The Amalgamation of Soundz mashup
9 - Rod Lee - Let me see what you’re working with
10 - DJ Blaqstarr - Hey MFs
11 - Weezer - Hash Pipe
12 - Soul Searchers - We the People
13 - David Last & Dominique Rowland - Put Me on your Guest List
14 - DJ limbs - Kanye vs Zombie Disco Squad mashup
15 - Delorean - Deli
16 - DJ Kaos - Love the Night Away
17 - Thievery Corporation - Revolution Solution (Brendan Lynch Remix)
18 - Cut Copy - Far Away (Golden Filter Remix)
19 - The Beatards - Gettin Jacked
20 - Calvertron vs Itchy Feet - Dwarf Porn

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DJ limbs - Music is the Weapon promo mix

I made this mix for Music is the Weapon, the first of a series of fundraiser parties I throw in Chicago. A collection of songs that inspire social activism with interviews with the featured NPOs Original Change Project, Connect Force and En Masse. Came out dope and spread the word about local groups doing good things for Chicago!

Tracklist:

Fela Kuti - Zombie
Co Real Artists - What About You (In the World Today)
The Dynamics - 7 Nation Army
Creedance Clearwater Revival vs Melle Mel - Fortunate Son x The Message
The Chequers - Get Up Stand Up
Tynnes Well & The Magic Fountains - Stop the Madness
Los Llamas - Siboney
Public Enemy - Fight the Power
Beatles - Revolution 1