I love this shit!

P-Money told me he’d hooked up this blend for a guest mix on MistaJams show in the U.K. When he mentioned he’d taken the “Indulge Me” acapella and hooked it up with a Duck Sauce song I was intrigued as I’ve had “aNYway” on repeat over the last 2 months… but damn, this shit right here?!? killer. A lot of the time blends don’t really float my boat, cause often dudes will just match tempos without considerin the vibe or the key of the song. This one really works for me though, props to Mr Money.

For the uninformed, Duck Sauce is a collaboration between A-Trak and Armand Van Helden. The tunes they’ve put out thus far(like the aforementioned “aNYway” ) have been pretty fucken choice so I suggest you hunt them down. Great way to amp up your house party sets on the ipod.

Shotty!

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David Dallas x Duck Sauce “Indulge Me/The Motion” (P-Money’s Ddot Sauce blend) [Sharebee]

And oh yeah, because I’m so amped off this here’s a link to the “Indulge Me” acapella for anyone else that wants to try their hand at a good remix/blend. Link it up in the comments or contact us if you guys do something dece!

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Dave recently sat down with Sam Wicks from National Radio to have an intellectual discussion about his new album, Something Awesome. The resulting piece was broadcast last week and I have managed to get my hands on the audio to share with you. This is great stuff for you fans who want to get a more in-depth insight into David Dallas and his new album.

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David Dallas discusses Something Awesome with Sam Wicks [Sharebee]

Something Awesome – out now:

iTunes | Vodafone | Amplifier | Digirama | Telecom

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“Eyes Wide Open” was conceived during the early writing stages for Something Awesome. A lot of the work FortyOne and I did around this time would eventually go on to become the Something Now EP, and I’d intended for this to be on there too. When it came time to finalise the EP however, I felt the vibe of this song didn’t sit with the rest so it was left off. I subsequently lost the drive it was on, and the song was left in limbo – possibly to never be heard from again.  Luckily I’d given Pete all the demos I had early last year, and when asked he was able to dig it up from his laptop archives.

Far as the song goes, I figure the lyrics are self explanatory. I always dug this beat because it made me think of some dark  Murda Muzik era Mobb Deep. For anyone that was wondering what happened to that moody Frontline sound, here ya go.

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David Dallas ‘Eyes Wide Open’ [zShare]

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As promised, here’s audio of the interview I did with my cousin Steven a.k.a Suga Pop. Taken from The Music Mix on Radio NZ, big thank you to Sam Wicks for hooking the whole feature up.

p.s I had the mean flu when we did this. LMAO

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David Dallas – David Dallas vs Suga Pop [zShare]

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From the first song on Borrowed Time, to the last. “Time is now” is a song I wrote for my brother in law who passed, and that’s really all I have to say on the matter – I’ll let it explain itself. I presume Nick hooked up a Japanese record for this blend, the vocals and music are off-key in parts but it still hits me in the heart so I ain’t even mad at it. Oh yeah, that mean looking place in the picture above – been there.

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Frontline – Time Is Now (Kyoto Blend) [zShare]

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Nick hooked me up with some more remix madness from the archives. This one is a remix of “Ready”, the first song on Borrowed Time. Yikes, listening to it is a real reminder of the tense mood I was in when writing that album. If you asked me why it was so tense now though, I wouldn’t be able to tell ya. Gnarly.

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Frontline – Ready Remix [zShare]

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Far, this is about as oldschool as it gets. This appeared on the first Breakinwreckwordz mixtape Fuck Music and was maybe the 3rd or 4th recording the public would have heard from me. Listened to it last night for the first time in probably 4 years – crazy. This has always been one of my favourites, cause I felt this beat was amazing. For those not familiar with it, it’s from the Nas song “Heaven” which appeared on the God’s Son album. Too much.

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David Dallas – Heaven Freestyle [zShare]

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This one’s a bit more recent, I had this up on my myspace on the low for the majority of last year. I still remember how floored I was when I first heard this song. I’d seen the Klaxons name floating around on a few music forums and blogs I frequent but didn’t check out the music figuring it’d be some shit I wasn’t into. How wrong I was – a week later I had that intro looped up and ready to roll.

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Ha, this one cracks me up. PNC put the idea of doing this to me for his mixtape and gave me the instrumental, so how could I say no ? Bone Thugs were inescapable in my youth, even people who hated them knew their songs. So it was fun coming up with the rhymes and trying to flip it in their style. I think of all the bootlegs and freestyles I’ve done, this is the one I get hit up about the most. Guess NZ just has a special affinity with this group.

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David Dallas ‘Thuggish Ruggish’ [zShare]

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Apologies for being slightly late in getting this up, but my internet has been on some shit, for real for real. Has anyone else on Slingshot been experiencing this ? just me ? ok. Anyways I thought it’d be a cool idea to chuck up all the little mixtape verses and bootlegs i’ve done which you may not have heard, or may not own, or may have lost over time. Just so it’s all out there in a nice organised manner ya know, computers are good for shit like that. Anyways this track was done for one of the Disruptiv mixtapes which would come packaged with the mag. Recorded it around when Borrowed Time was about to drop and I always rather liked it. So different from anything on the album in the sense that it’s some straight chopped up boom bap shit with cuts and all. Hip hop as fuck. Check.

p.s Couldn’t find a decent Disruptiv logo so I just found a picture I thought was cool instead.

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Apart from 41, these are the two fellows I’ve worked with most throughout my career. Quite fitting to be posting this now as the tour we’re currently on has felt something like a 2008 version of the tour we did for P Money’s Magic City album. “Get Back” is from that album and was the first song PNC and I collaborated on, as evidenced it would not be the last (we’ve got another one in the can for Something Awesome).

I recall picking the beat and thinking maybe we could do something cool with it. But when PNC wrote the first verse and brought round the demo it was on like Donkey Kong. We came up with the chorus in my bedroom in Paps, straight joking really – but we were like who cares, it’s hardcase. I thought when we took it to Pete he might fall back on it due to the excessive swearing.. but no. Subsequently that was that, and we’d go on to record the 321 remix a week or 2 later. Mean as.

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P-Money featuring David Dallas & PNC – Get Back (41 Remix) [zShare]

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“We ain’t done” was one of my favourite songs on Borrowed Time. It’s a song I felt people never actually got though – if you know what I mean. I have a habit of liking tracks that have an unorthodox pattern or timing to them, whether it’s the way the drums are programmed or whatever. I think I just like coming up with flows and rhymes to match or ride them. The sorta stuff you can’t just grab the acapella of and throw over any beat with the same tempo.

Anyways, this remix here I think Nick intended to be sorta comedic – I actually like it though. The beat sorta reminds me of “PN-Whoa” and contrary to what I was saying above it gives the song a more conventional feel timing wise i.e not so stop-start. Ha I confuse myself trying to explain this shit. Check it out.

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Frontline – We Ain’t Done Remix [zShare]

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I dont know if this is a remix in the strictest sense of the word, being that Nick has just titled the file as ‘Routineblend’ but whatever. The beat is different and that’s all that you need to know really – ha. Anyways, “Routine” is another song off the Borrowed Time album, I recall it being our engineer Steve’s favourite of the bunch when we were mixing the album at York St. I originally intended it to be kinda like an online exclusive type thing. Just a song that we could put up on the net and give away that wouldnt be on the album, so I pretty much wrote the whole song in one sitting and went and recorded it the next day. As it usually goes with that sort of thing, we were really happy with it once we recorded and heard it back so that pretty much sealed the deal and on the album it went. Shotty.

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My bad for being a bit slow in getting this one up, we had the first dates of the Tour of Dirty over the weekend so I was pretty hemmed up. Anyways onwards and upwards with the remix madness – This little number right here is a remix for a song off the Borrowed Time album called “Screw Loose”. Somewhat interesting fact about this one, is that it’s the first song we completed for the album. We demo’d a few other tracks after the release of What you expect but they all sucked, wasn’t till we got this one down that I felt like we were on the right track. I recall writing this around the same time as I was writing a lot of the Magic City stuff, and I remember writing the lyrics was stressing me out. Took me some time but we got there in the end, ha. Enjoy

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The remix madness continues with another song from the What you expect era. I always liked the original “Cliche”, and for me listening back it hasnt dated the way some of the others songs from that album have – to me anyway. Anyways, this remix has been kicking round since we were working on Borrowed Time and I always thought this sample fit real nice. Yes, it’s cheesey. Ha.

p.s Thank google image search for that random pic.

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Ok, lets do this. I thought this track would be an appropriate one to start on being that it’s a remix of the intro to What you expect – our first release.

I rarely listen to any of my stuff once it’s out, and generally after a couple of months or so of not hearing it, when I do hear it I’m cringing and looking for the off button. This one was particularly buzzy cause I dont think I’ve heard these raps in a couple years, it’s almost like I’m listening to someone else. Definitely reminds me of some good times though – I recall writing/recording these in a blazing hot bedroom under some stairs with an sm58 and a pantyhose pop filter. Cracked copy of Cool Edit of course. Ended up re-recording them after Nick copped Pro Tools and I saved up enough money for a Rode NT1000 though. We didnt really know how to use anything – but we were stoked to be making songs – and that’s what it’s all about aint it ?

..Well aint it ? Fool you betta come on innnnnnn.

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Frontline ‘Intro Remix’ [zShare]

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As promised we’re gonna continue to hit you off with exclusive content through the David Dallas podcast. Dave paid a visit to Rufus at The Get Up Show on Kiwi FM last Sunday night for an interview and to premiere the new David Dallas joint ‘Get Out The Way’ – Dave discussed with Rufus why he no longer uses the stage name ‘Con Psy’ and why he’s gone solo amongst other things, check it out it’s a great interview. The Get Up Show is on Kiwi FM every Sunday night from 8PM to 9PM.

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Finally, here it is, the joint that we’ve been working towards for the past three weeks – ‘Get Out The Way’. This joint concludes ‘The Artist Formerly Known As’ mixtape but wont be the last thing that we will broadcast via podcast, we’ll be releasing exclusive David Dallas content periodically through the podcast so keep checking in.

‘Get Out The Way’ is produced by FortyOne and is an exclusive joint taken from the forthcoming David Dallas solo album ‘Something Awesome’. Feel free to share this among your friends and make a point to hassle your local radio stations to play it. Enjoy

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This is the second to last joint from the mixtape, so now might be a good time to make sure that you’ve got all the joints downloaded, as you’ve probably figured out by now when played in sequence they form one cohesive mix, cool eh. Check back in on Monday for the exclusive joint from Dave’s forthcoming album ‘Something Awesome’.

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M.O.B.B again. The Infamous is second only to Doggystyle as my favourite rap album ever, and this track in particular could be my favourite rap song ever dependin on how I feel on the day.

Next track up Friday.

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Alright, we’re on the home stretch now, just two more joints this week then we will drop the exclusive from Dave’s forthcoming album ‘Something Awesome’. Check back on Wednesday for the next update…

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David Dallas – Survival Of The Fittest (Remix) [zShare]

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“Act like you know, not now but right now”

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All about the Benjis!
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Halfway there…

Thanks to all the folks that came out to the Melbourne show @ Miss Libertine’s over the weekend, I had a mean time. Special thanks to Pauly for bringing me over, Thief for stepping up to DJ @ the last minute and the bro Louie Knuxx for doing his thing. Shot peoples.

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Todays joint features Dave rapping two verses on the classic “Shaolin Style” by Shyheim. Thanks to everyone who has been checking this mixtape out and subscribing to the Podcast, Dave’s podcast hit #27 on the NZ iTunes top 100 music podcasts on Wednesday, keep it up and he might knock Radiohead off their perch. Dave’s in Melbourne today so if you are in the area head down to his gig at Miss Libertine. Next update on Monday, stay tuned…

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Rest in peace Ol’ Dirty! Next update on Friday…

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The third and last joint for the day features Dave on Gang Starr’s ‘U Know My Steez’. Stay tuned for the next joint which we will post up this Wednesday…

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Dave takes on the classic joint ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell’ from the must-have Nas album Illmatic.
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OK, so here we go, we’re starting off this mixtape with Dave’s interpretation of Red and Meth’s classic weed anthem ‘How High’. Oh yeah, and we’re hitting you off with three joints today so you can get a feel for the mixtape, you didn’t think we were gonna leaving ya hanging with just one track in the first post did ya? Feel free to share these joints around with ya mates (the ShareThis button at the bottom of every post is handy for this) and thanks to the local hip hop bloggers who have helped to spread the word. Enjoy

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