Enjoy.

Sunday, August 21st, 2011

I’ve been down in DC for a few months now and doing bookings around the city. This is a promo mix I made for the frat-star/bottle service clubs, hope you find a use for it. And a little pro-tip for all the DJs out there: don’t play the Chris Brown verse on “Look At Me Now.” 1) He hits women. 2) It’s not particularly good, especially given how it stacks up to Busta’s. Now THAT is a verse.

Download: Ezra Mechaber – Commercial Mix August 2011 [mp3]

 

Tracklist:

1. Kreayshawn – Gucci Gucci
2. Chris Brown/Busta – Look At Me Now
3. Atrak/CyHi – Ray Ban Vision
4. Wiz Khalifa – Black and Yellow
5. Keri Hilson – Pretty Girl Rock
6. Drake/Swizz Beats – Fancy
7. Kanye West – Paranoid
8. Robyn – Dancing On My Own (from Paranoid is the single greatest transition in the history of ever)
9. Katy Perry – Teenage Dream
10. Usher/Pitbull – DJ Got Us Fallin In Love
11. Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks (Skeet Skeet remix)
12. Alexandra Stan – Mr Saxobeat
13. Afrojack – Take Over Control
14. Ne-Yo/Pitbull/Afrojack – Give Me Everything Tonight
15. LMFAO – Party Rock Anthem
16. Major Lazer – Pon Di Floor
17. Beyonce – Girls (Who Run The World)
18. Dragonette – Hello
19. Dev – Bass Down Low
20. Britney Spears – Till The World Ends
21. Calvin Harris – Feel So Close

Saturday, June 4th, 2011

So I graduated from University of Rochester a couple of weeks ago and hauled myself down to Washington, DC. I’m here for the forseeable future doing public sector/non-profit work. Pictures to follow throughout the summer.

In the meantime, I made a mixtape for some of the clubs down here. This one is all disco, including a re-edit I did of a certain 90′s UK girl group. It’s summery and fresh and you should download it. It was recorded all in one take using Serato/1200s. There are only two edits to this mix – one to fix a control-vinyl issue and another to adjust a drop around the 25min mark.

Soundcloud:
Summer Madness (Disco Promo 2011) by ezramechaber

Tracklist:
1) Chilly Gonzalez – You Can Dance
2) Prance – Wanna Be Your Lober (Dimitri From Paris Re-Edit)
3) Nightcrawlers – Push The Feeling (Silver Disco Remix)
4) DJ Disciple – Yes (feat. Suzy) (Ian Carey remix)
5) Christoph Andersson – Capital
6) Aniki – Lesbian Bondage Fiasco
7) Senor Stereo – Unintentional (U-Tern Remix)
8) Sammy Bananas – Move Your Body (Cassian Remix)
9) Punches – Feeling Right (Treasure Fingers Remix)
10) Ezra Mechaber – Who Do You Think You Are? (Spice Girls re-edit)
11) Falke/Burns – You Stopped Loving Me
12) Duck Sauce – aNYway
13) GRUM – Can’t Shake This Feeling (DCUP Remix)
14) The Knocks – Dancing With The DJ
15) Calvin Harris – The Rain

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

I’m incredibly proud to announce the second installment of my mix series Driving North. For those of you who are new to this series, the idea is pretty simple: I take the last song of my last mix, and use it as the first song in my new mix. It’s a pretty simple constraint, but it helps give direction and makes for an easy gimmick. If you haven’t heard it already, take a listen to my first installment of Driving North. As always, please feel free to tweet/post/blog about this mix. You can find me on Twitter or Facebook.

About Part 2: This is a dark and moody collection of house, garage, and dubstep. Though I have a really hard time with “brostep” (dubstep that sounds like a chainsaw), there are elements of the genre that are really just incredible. The moodier part of dubstep tends to have heavy R&B influences, something I’ve always appreciated. If you’re looking for more of this sound, I highly recommend you check out extrawater radio by my friend Joe Lzrz.

This is a pretty good mix of new and old, all tied together by more or less one constant: I’ve never been able to play them out. That’s not entirely true, I’m sure I’ve managed to squeeze a couple of these into a set somewhere, but these aren’t typical going-out songs so it’s been nice to finally give them a home.

Download: Ezra Mechaber – Driving North, Part Two (save target as)

Tracklist:

1. School of Seven Bells – Half Asleep (Lusine remix)
2. Florence & The Machine – You Got The Love (XX remix)
3. Paul Kalkbrenner – Sky & Sand
4. CWB feat. Tash Baxter – Into The Twilight
5. Katy B feat. Ms. Dynamite – Lights On
6. French Fries & Chaos In The CBD – With You
7. Joy Orbison – The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow
8. The Count & Sinden – You Make Me Feel So Good
9. Joy Orbison – J. Doe
10. Addison Grove – Footcrab
11. Disclosure – Linstigator
12. Throwing Snow – Un Vingt
13. XI – Light
14. Gold Panda – Snow & Taxis (Throwing Snow remix)
15. Skream feat. Freckles – Give You Everything
16. Todd Edwards – I Might Be (MJ Cole remix)
17. Maddslinky – Special (MJ Cole’s “Back To The Future” remix)
18. Broken Social Scene – All To All (Skeet Skeet remix)
19. Drake – Fireworks (Deadboy Slo Mo House Edit)

Production note: this was recorded in 3 pieces and then cleaned up a little (2 volume edits, tweaking a loop, and smoothing out a recording glitch). The original sounds good, but this is a little shinier.

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

I’m so proud to finally release my next mixtape, entitled “Driving North: Part I.” It’s a selection of some of my favorite disco records of (mostly) 2010 and moves in a darker direction towards the end.

Why the darker direction? Because it’s winter. Also, because this is going to be a mix series and part 2 will be a darker selection of juke/dub/stuff. So that’s why. And yeah, I’m well aware the middle of this mix is practically a Treasure Fingers’ Greatest Hits mix. Oops. Check the tracklist below, and twitter or facebook me if you’re feeling it! Oh, and check out my past mixtapes.

Download: Ezra Mechaber – Driving North Part I (save target as)

Tracklist:

1. Miami Horror – Holidays
2. Flight Facilities feat. Giselle – Crave You (Cassian Remix)
3. Michael Gray – Borderline
4. U-Tern – 808 Remix
5. Marina & The Diamonds – Shampain (Fred Falke Remix)
6. Sky Ferreira – Stand Back (Stevie Nicks Cover)
7. Aniki – Lesbian Bondage Fiasco (Nightriders Remix)
8. Treasure Fingers – Lift Me
9. Rogerseventytwo – Take Me Higher
10. Burns & Fred Falke – You Stopped Loving Me (Treasure Fingers Remix)
11. Pharrell/Uffie – ADD SUV (Armand Van Helden Remix)
12. Treasure Fingers – What Am I Supposed To Do?
13. Senor Stereo – Hot Damn!
14. Senor Stereo – Hot Damn! (Gigamesh Remix)
15. Tensnake – Coma Cat
16. Telephoned – Hold Me (7″ Mix)
17. Punches – Feeling Right (Justin Faust Remix)
18. Hipstamatic – True
19. Myomi – Sun In My Eyes (MJ Cole Remix)
20. School of Seven Bells – Half Asleep (Lusine Remix)

In the interest of full disclosure: This was recorded in one take with Serato, but I made two tiny edits after the fact. Nothing major, just changing the levels on one track and taking out the song I originally started with.

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

So WBER/Elektrobank Radio/Alex Ng was nice enough to have me into the studio last weekend for an hour and he was even nice enough to record the set.

This mix was all live, one-take, and on some really weird disco trip. But here it is – it’s an hour long, rough edges and all. Enjoy.

Edit: the occasional popping is most likely due to a dirty needle, sorry about that.

Ezra Mechaber – Live on WBER Elektrobank [mp3 download]

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Tracklist:

1. Dr. Hook – “Sexy Eyes”
2. Sister Sledge – “Thinking Of You” (Original Re-Touch)
3. George Benson – “Give Me the Night”
4. Zapp – “Heartbreaker, Pts. 1-2″
5. Midnight Star – “Operator”
6. Capsule – “I Wish You” (Corporate Remix)
7. Keenhouse – “Ari-es” (Hemingway’s Starlight Yacht Remix)
8. Skrillex – “With Your Friends (Long Drive)”
9. Chilly Gonzales – “You Can Dance”
10. Breakbot – “Baby I’m Yours”
11. Miami Horror – “Holidays” (Shield Your Eyes Big Chorus Edit)
12. George Michael – “Jive Talking” (Ravi Loves The Bee Gees Mix)
13. George Michael – “Faith”
14. The Source and Candi Staton – “You Got The Love” (Slow Funk Vocal Mix)
15. Inner Life – “I’m Caught Up (In A One Night Love Affair)”
16. Earth, Wind & Fire – “Brazillian Rhyme” (Bozo Meko Edit)
17. Hot Toddy – “Down To Love”
18. Hall & Oates – “I Can’t Go For That” (Streetlab mix)
19. Stevie Wonder – “Do I Do” (U-Tern Edit)
20. CLASSIXX – “I’ll Get You” (Treasure Fingers Remix)
21. Shena – “Nasty Little Rumour” (Fred Falke Remix)
22. Nate James – “The Message” (Messy Boys remix)

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Just in time for what is shaping up to be a beautiful weekend in Boston, here’s a new disco tape. It’s another promo mix, no editing except for a track that wound up running a little hot.

Usually my disco has a tad more bass to it, but I was feeling funky and spacey. I really like the plinky, afternoon-y, sound it starts with and the bigger-room sound it ends with. That Russ Chimes remix is probably my favorite track of the whole mix, but how can you say no to Treasure Fingers? And that incredible remix of Dragonette? Defintiely a mix to enjoy while there is sun to be found.

Ezra Mechaber – Disco Afternoons (June Promo Mix) [mp3]

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Tracklist:

1. Eddy Grant – California Style (Classixx style)
2. Bumblebeez – Rio (Jimmy2sox & U-GO-B Remix)
3. Royksopp – Happy Up Here (Breakbot remix)
4. Groove Armada – Paper Romance (Classixx remix)
5. Bag Raiders – Shooting Star (Shazam remix)
6. Treasure Fingers – What Am I Supposed To Do?
7. Au Revoir Simone – Only You Can Make You Happy (Punches remix)
8. Mat Van Schie – Saturday Night (GLOVES remix)
9. Priors – What You Need (Hey Champ remix)
10. Helsiniki 78-82 – So Lifelike
11. Dragonette – Pick Up The Phone (Arithmatix! edit)
12. Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyed (Russ Chimes remix)
13. Funk Fanatics – Love Is The Answer (Freemasons remix)
14. Kele Okereke – Tenderoni (Punches remix)
15. Music Talking – The Montanas & Roland Clark

Have a great 4th!

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Club music and bottle-service house. I was feeling summer-y and I needed to record a promo mix for some of the commercial-format clubs. Recorded in one take. It’s short – just 26 minutes – but I hope you enjoy it.

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Ezra Mechaber – Bottle Service All Night [MP3 Download]

Tracklist:

1. Drake/Catchdubs – Drakeover!
2. Estelle (feat. Kardinal Offishall) – Freak (Benzi Edit)
3. Enur & Natasja – Face Down/Calabria (DJ Ayres Edit)
4. Rihanna – Rudeboy (Them Jeans Remix)
5. 3Oh!3 (feat. Kesha) – My First Kiss (Chuckie Remix)
6. A-Trak – Loonies To Blow (Ezra Edit)
7. Kesha – Blah Blah Blah (Skeet Skeet Ravey Remix) (Ezra Edit)
8. Lady Gaga – Alejandro (Afrojack Remix)
9. Mike Posner – Cooler Than Me (Gianni Marino Remix)
10. Gyptian – Hold Yuh (Major Lazer Remix)
11. Duck Sauce – aNYway
12. Carte Blanche (feat. Kid Sister) – Do! Do! Do!
13. Armand Van Helden – I Want Your Soul
14. Swedish House Mafia – Nothing But Love For You

I’m doing another lounge tape next, stay tuned.

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

I finished this mix one up a few months ago, but I wanted to make sure I was happy with it. Yes, it’s 128kbps. When you pay as much per mb as I do for internet, maybe you’ll understand. It’s a pretty laidback feel – some jazzy stuff, some disco-y stuff, but all things that you can “lounge” to. I wanted to include some hip-hop, but honestly it just wasn’t sitting right. I’ll be recording part 2 at some point, though, and expect some Guru Jazzmatazz tracks in there (RIP).

I made this tape because 1) I’ve always wanted to make a lounge/downtempo tape, and 2) There’s a particular bar that always evokes this kind of feeling in me and the endless beaches only add to the fire.

Ezra Mechaber – Loungin Electric [mp3]

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Tracklist:

1. Jorge Ben – Take It Easy, My Brother Charles
2. Bitter:Sweet – Our Remains
3. Etro Anime – Forgotten Love
4. Frou Frou – Breathe In
5. Kings of Convenience – I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From (Mojib remix)
6. Lemon Jelly – His Majesty King Raam
7. Keenhouse – Air-es (Hemingway’s Starlight Yacht Remix)
8. Samantha James – I Found You (feat. Celso Fonseca)
9. Soul Clap & Aaliyah – Rock The Boat
10. Munk – Down In LA (Shazam Remix)
11. Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream (Treasure Fingers remix)

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

So in Cape Town (as well as most of the world), minibus taxis are the way people get around. For the uninitiated, the minibusses must seem like a terrifying proposition – you cram into a tiny bus with 20 other people, or so. Just you, passengers who invariably have too many bags, the fare collector, and the crazy driver. Parts of the van are invariably broken, just hope it isn’t the window. Seatbelts? Forget it. AC? You wish. Pounding kwaito music and death-defying speeds? Oh yes. If you’re really lucky, you’ll get to catch a talk about politics in english, so you can even pick up a little bit of local culture.

But anyway. Apparently the really colorfully decorated cabs with the really loud subwoofers are connected to sound systems. “No kidding,” you might say, “That’s how you play music.” No, no, my friend. I mean a sound system, with DJs and whatnot. Oh yes. And they have the craziest music – heavy bass, spacey drums, blaring synths, and amazing zulu hooks. Apparently they organize drag races/raves every once in a while.

While I don’t have the stones to track down a taxibus rave, I do have the stones to try and swap music with the drivers. The plan: make mixtapes, hand them to the driver, and convince them to hand me over their cd. The mix I put together is all heavy bass, some club rhythms, etc. Stuff that is similar to their cds in idea but totally different in execution. In other words, some hectic driving music. And now I present to you…

Ezra Mechaber – Traffic Jams [mp3 download]

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Tracklist:

1. The Very Best – Warm Heart of Africa [French Fries remix]
2. Major Lazer – Pon De Floor
3. French Fries – Saurus Rhythm
4. Them Jeans – Flying Rats
5. Tonka – Ready For War
6. AC Slater – Jack Got Jacked [Jack Beats remix]
7. Kid Sister – Right Hand Hi [Kingdom remix]
8. Young Punx – Juice And Gin
9. Designer Drugs – Back Up In This [B. Rich remix]
10. Jack Beats – Get Down [VIP edit]
11. Math Head – Turn The Music Up [AC Slater remix]
12. Emalkay – When I Look At You
13. Damien Marley – So It Was Written [Chasing Shadows remix]
14. Basement Jaxx – Feeling’s Gone [Rusko remix]

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Just a short promo mix.

Ezra Mechaber – Cape Town Summer Club Promo [mp3 download]

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Tracklist:

1. Tittsworth – September
2. Major Lazer – Keep It Goin’ Louder (Tommie Sunshine remix)
3. Ke$ha – Tik Tok (DJ Skeet Skeet remix)
4. Chuckie & JD – Let the Bass Kick
5. Ce Ce Peniston – Finally (Kam Denny & Paul Zala remix)
6. David Guetta & Akon – Sexy B**** (Yoni Edit)
7. Amanda Blank – Shame On Me (Chew Fu refix)
8. La Roux – Not Your Toy (Jack Beats remix)
9. Wiley – Never Be Your Woman (Solo “Loves Garage” remix)
10. Kid Cudi – Day N Nite (Sneak Bang Acido remix)
11. Little Boots – Meddle (AC Slater & Skeet Skeet remix)
12. Robyn S – Show Me Love 2009 (AC Slater remix)
13. BBD – Poison (B. Rich remix)
14. SubFocus – Could This Be Real