V/A Urban Revolutions (Future Primitive) cd 14.98
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Hard to believe it's been five years since Mark Herlihy and Mark Wasserman started the now-legendary Future Primitive Soundsession series, the good time turntablist and DJ parties that basically catapulted the West Coast DJ breakbeat scene to international stature. The parties are, of course, still happening, and this cd, the fifth in the Future Primitive Recordings series, winningly replicates the feel-good bright 'n upbeat nature of the parties themselves. Good job! Features everyone from the amazing Z-Trip to Rob Swift, DJ Disk, Romanowski, Faust and Shortee, plus a short segment from the infamous 7-11 Slurpee set of all 45s performed by DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist. If you've never heard the fabulous Z-Trip/Radar and Cut Chemist/Shortkut Future Primitive discs, get those too.
RealAudio clip: AROMADOZESKI THERAPY FEATURING ROMANOWSKI & DEVIOUS DOZE "Strudel Strut"
RealAudio clip: DJ SHADOW AND CUT CHEMIST "Interlude"
RealAudio clip: DJ Z-TRIP "Downtime"

V/A Urban Revolutions (Future Primitive) lp 17.98
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Hard to believe it's been five years since Mark Herlihy and Mark Wasserman started the now-legendary Future Primitive Soundsession series, the good time turntablist and DJ parties that basically catapulted the West Coast DJ breakbeat scene to international stature. The parties are, of course, still happening, and this cd, the fifth in the Future Primitive Recordings series, winningly replicates the feel-good bright 'n upbeat nature of the parties themselves. Good job! Features everyone from the amazing Z-Trip to Rob Swift, DJ Disk, Romanowski, Faust and Shortee, plus a short segment from the infamous 7-11 Slurpee set of all 45s performed by DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist. If you've never heard the fabulous Z-Trip/Radar and Cut Chemist/Shortkut Future Primitive discs, get those too.

WAX FONDLER Black Market Snuff Braxe (Death Style/Dirt Style) lp 11.98
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A subsidiary of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz Dirt Style imprint, this is beats and breaks for DJs only.

WAX POETICS Issue #32 magazine 9.99
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Sly Stone makes the cover (did he really have to wait 'til issue 32?), and inside there's the usual profusely and colorfully photo-illustrated, deep-digging stuff about the likes of Jean Grae, Egyptian Lover and Arabian Prince, Jimmy Cliff, Large Professor, Houston rappers HSID, and even South Korean B-boys! Among other things. In case you didn't know already, or figure it out from that run-down, Wax Poetics is THE magazine of cool hiphop/soul/funk/reggae/jazz hipness old and new, for vinyl fetishists and general groove-hounds, and as usual this issue is a must-read if you're at all into that stuff, and why the heck wouldn't you be?!

WILD STYLE OST (Animal) lp 12.98
It's been way over twenty years since Wild Style came out. No doubt, one of the freshest, most fun and stylish hip-hop films ever made. A few years ago it played at the Red Vic, a great co-op run theater in the city, and those of us who had never seen it before totally fell in love with with the charm of the movie and the great early hip-hop soundtrack (not to mention to jaw dropping fashion that still looks so damn hot!). While there was a cd reissue of Wild Style a few years back, these really are the kind of tracks you want to have on wax. Brings us back to that so missed fun filled, groove rich sound of early hip-hop that was really the soundtrack to breakdancing, graffiting, and ultimate endless block parties. Turntable wizardry, flawless raw MC skills, all under the musical production of Fab 5 Freddy. Still sounds so damn good all these years later. And any of you who love stuff like Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, Doug E Fresh, Kurtis Blow, and the like, Wild Style is definitely the ultimate document of hip-hop's glory days. So fresh!

WORLD FAMOUS BEAT JUNKIES Volume 2 (Blackberry Records) 2cd 15.98
Featuring DJ Rhettmatic, mixing Jurassic 5, Mos Def, T-Love, Alkaholiks, Xzibit, Rasco, more.

WORLD FAMOUS BEAT JUNKIES Volume 2 (Blackberry Records) 3lp 15.98
Featuring DJ Rhettmatic, mixing Jurassic 5, Mos Def, T-Love, Alkaholiks, Xzibit, Rasco, more.

X-ECUTIONERS X-pressions (Asphodel) cd 15.98
Formerly known as the X-Men (name changed for obvious reasons), this Brooklyn quartet of world champion turntablists breaks out with first album. On their very own label, Audio Soul, a subsidiary of Asphodel.

XASTHUR / LEVIATHAN split (Profound Lore) lp 23.00
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The good news: we just got a handful more of these already out-of-print "vinyls" in stock! The bad news: they're more expensive, due to coming from a different supplier. But if you didn't get one already, get 'em now, 'cause they're just gonna be even more on eBay later...
It had to happen. It needed to happen. And now it finally has. Two of the most important, and musically creative black metal one-man-hordes in the new wave of west coast black metal (NWOWCBM?) team up for the ultimate NWOWCBM one two punch. Xasthur from Southern California and Leviathan from right here in SF are blackened brothers, both exploring similar themes of hate and misery, darkness and death, but coming at 'em from completely different sonic angles. Xasthur is more about mood and atmosphere, with thick swaths of fuzzy riffery, galloping drums, rumbling bass and agonised howls of despair, all dense and dark and claustrophobic. Leviathan is much more technical and a lot weirder, but no less moody, with ultra complex and bizarrely arranged parts, insane drumming, buzzing riffery, and hints of doom and progrock mixed into his bleak and blackened metalscapes. Obviousy absolutely essential!!
On clear vinyl only and housed in a printed inner sleeve!! And of course VERY VERY LIMITED!!

Z-TRIP All-Pro Soundtrack (Decon Media) cd 14.98

Z-TRIP Live: Los Angeles, CA 2003 cd 14.98
This sold like gangbusters last time we had it, and we ran out pretty quick. Well, it got repressed so we have some more. As always, not sure how long they will last. But folks who missed out last time get one more chance! For most AQ customers, DJ Z-Trip needs no introduction. Nor does this new live, limited edition (natch) cd from Z-Trip need much of a description! He's the man, what can we say? Along with DJs Jester and Q-bert, Z-Trip is one of AQ's favorite turntablists, always delightfully mashing up the hip hop with classic rock (and doing it *live* not on a computer, as he points out in his liner notes, and as you'll hear on this cd). Sure it's a gimmick, but it works! Plus he's playing this stuff 'cause he loves it. Here he provides 74 more minutes of 'Uneasy Listening' for fans, "to hold you over 'til the major label album drops" as it says on the back of the cd. Sure sounds like a party. Janis Joplin, Outkast, Tool, Black Sabbath, Rush, Run-DMC, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Joan Jett, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, and a zillion other disparate artists all feed into the Z-Trip blender as he shows off his ADD DJing skills at mixing the beats and riffs. Cutting stuff up the way he does, you'll actually hear more classic rock in the 74 minutes of this cd than you would over the same span of time on a radio station like The Bone, ferchrisakes! Z-Trip was kind enough to bring some by the store himself when he was just in town on tour, and he told us he didn't make a whole heck of a lot of 'em -- this is definitely not gonna be in print for long, so be quick or be deadly bummed you didn't get this rockin' Z-Trip document.
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Z-TRIP & DJ P Uneasy Listening, Volume One cd 14.98
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DJ Z-Trip and the rest of the Phoenix-based Bombshelter crew excel at mixing rock music into the hip hop subgenre of turntablism. Z-Trip has for years been performing his Monsters of Rock set, and you may have already heard him grind a little Black Sabbath into the hip hop on the famous track "Rock Star" from Return of the DJ, Volume 2. He does it so well and knows exactly how simultaneously sacrilegious and succesful his mixes are. On Uneasy Listening, you hear Sir Mix-a-lot with the Eagles, Naked Eyes and Public Enemy, Herbie Hancock and The Tubes, and most brilliantly -- Metallica with Midnight Oil. it goes on and on, with Ratt, Newcleus, Kansas, Cyndi Lauper, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Eurythmics, etc. Hip hop and breakbeats anchor the entire album, as well as assorted Yoda and other Star Wars samples. It's so entertaining and enlightening, you'll find yourself playing it for all your friends. Sure, it's a gimmick and a little hooked-on-classics-y but it's GOOD, just as good if not better than our other favorite turntablist storytellers Kid Koala and DJ Jester.
As we said before, Uneasy Listening is super rare, we only know of a couple stores to whom Z-Trip brought the disc, and he will not be making any more after the thousand are gone. This is the last batch we'll ever have.
RealAudio clip: "sample 1"
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Z-TRIP & RADAR Live at the Future Primitive Soundsession, Volume Two cd 14.98
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It's always heartening when the standout record of the week is a local production. The Future Primitive Soundsession has proved itself a turntablist event par excellence, consistently scheduled once every couple of months for the past year and a half, featuring heavyweight scratchers from all over the country. The Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Beat Junkies and the Cut Chemist are regularly scheduled, as well as the Bombshelter crew from Phoenix. It's simply one of the best parties in town; you'll find people of all shapes, sizes and races enjoying the music. This cd features Bombshelter talents Z-Trip and Radar who unashamedly make use of their '70s and '80s metal record collections (Pink Floyd, Boston) to delirious effect. Will appeal to hip hop AND rock lovers (imagine that!)

Z-TRIP / TERRACOTTA TROUPE / DEL Dynasty/Monster (Revolg) 12" 6.98
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Shingo does it again. The local via Japan producer/rapper has brought together Del and the amazing DJ Z-Trip for an excellent hip hop party. Del raps on the straight up hip hop Dynasty track, while Z-trip offers a remix of Dynasty that strips out everything but the super loopy bass and heavy percussion. Shingo raps on the distortion-guitar-laced Monster, and the record also features instrumental versions and some bonus Z-trip breaks for scratching with. The packaging is excellent, as with all of Shingo's productions. Remember his first cd that came gorgeously packaged like a hardcover book, then there was his video that was made of cardboard not plastic (it still works), now there's this 12 which comes in a clear vinyl sleeve and includes a sticker sheet so you can apply the circle labels yourself to the record, plus stickers of a cartoon version of Del, and other characters. So cute, so good.

Z-TRIP, DJ , & TOM C. Monkey Breaks (Primeight) lp 12.98
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This is a breaks record from Z-Trip (he of AQ-favorite song "Rockstar") and should be useful to DJs worldwide.

Z-TRIP, DJ / SKYJUICE (Ubiquity) 12" 5.98
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Yay, Ubiquity's second release in their new split 12" series is another winner. You ought to remember the awesome Z-Trip from the last track on "Return of the DJ II" compilation (the one where he messes with Judas Priest and Black Sabbath and makes them sound like helicopters). Note that Skyjuice is one half odf the local duo Bugs.

Z-TRIP, DJ AND DJ EMILE Best Friends (The Long Lost Bombshelter Mix CD) cd 14.98
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BACK IN STOCK!
Awww. Best friends. And they're into Star Wars too!
There's a pair of Stormtroopers in the cover photo as well as in the considerably more saucy pics inside (we can assume they're supposed to be Z-Trip and DJ Emile) and the disc art is of the Death Star, but that seems to be the extent of this release's Star Wars-iness. However, just as Star Wars fans are a somewhat obsessive breed, so too are fans of DJ acrobatics. If you count yourself among those legions (either specifically a fan of Z-Trip or of turntablism in general) then you know that the resurfacing of this long-lost mix is definitely a reason to celebrate. AWOL for eight years, these recordings have finally been rediscovered, remastered and released on cd. A very welcome, truly Z-Trippy release following his last, remarkably un-Z-Trippy (i.e, non-DJ, non-sampled) major label album Shifting Gears. Spine-tinglin' and ultra funky! Yes, this is why we dig him (and DJ Emile's sure no slouch either, going toe to toe with best bud Z-Trip in the Bombshelter)!
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ZEPH, DJ s/t (Wide Hive) cd 11.98
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Bay Area hiphop turntablist action from DJ Zeph with additional beats & scratches from fellow DJ's Quest (Live Human), Imperial, and others. There's lots of live playing from local jazz cats, with flavors like flute, sitar, and trombone in addition to upright bass, drums, and electric piano, etc. Several tracks have lyrics from local rapper Azeem (Spearhead), but most are funky instrumental grooves. Live Human fans take note.
RealAudio clip: "The Movement"
RealAudio clip: "Get This"

ZEPH, DJ s/t (Wide Hive) 2lp 14.98
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Bay Area hiphop turntablist action from DJ Zeph with additional beats & scratches from fellow DJ's Quest (Live Human), Imperial, and others. There's lots of live playing from local jazz cats, with flavors like flute, sitar, and trombone in addition to upright bass, drums, and electric piano, etc. Several tracks have lyrics from local rapper Azeem (Spearhead), but most are funky instrumental grooves. Live Human fans take note.