DJ Screw

[user_5013]

who else makes this kind of stuff?

DJ creepster scumbag is very low-profile, but the most recent mix tape is the best i've heard next to the legend himself -- he has a myspace profile, but most tapes aren't well circulated.

[user_5172]

who else makes this kind of stuff?

as long as I'm hyping my shit here while I'm bored at work...
I have my own project called DJ Yo-Yo Dieting that is heavily influenced by screwed-and-chopped, but I take most of the source material off hip-hop fm radio, eq it to sound totally muddy/shitty/alien, and run it through panning delay that is in time with the beat, then merge a bunch of shit...
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[user_4828]

Hey guys. I never post (just lurk and read little bit), but I couldn?t hold back on this thread.

I'm in H-Town and go to Screwed Up Records and Tapes as much as I can (especially when hosting guests).

Anyhow ? I just picked up Chapter 178, ?In The Zone?. AMAZING! Starts off with ?In the Air Tonight? by Phil Collins, screwed down from a real scratchy fucked-up record. Then it mixes into ?I Don?t Want Dick Tonight? by Lil? Kim (which samples ?One More Night? by Phil Collins). It?s a very nasty song. And when screwed down, it sounds like a man is singing it! Then - Screw cuts and chops a Jodeci jam and the mix gets absolutely psychedelic!

There are so many of these CDs (all doubles!) ? and no shortage of surprises. The cassettes are great too. They can be real noisy and trashy. Once I bought one that only played in one channel!

This is the sound of Houston.

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http://governmentnames.blogspot.com/200 ... apper.html

[Gaendaal]

I've posted this elsewhere on the board but it'd be interesting to see what some real skrewheads think to it:

Skrew You, Killah Ape!

http://www.mediafire.com/?tjnyxtuynwb

01: James Brown - The Boss (Boss Drank Mix)
02: Ruby - The Whole Is Equal To The Sum Of Its Parts (Lone Sum Dub)
03: Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song (DJ/Rupture mix, re-ruptured)
04: RSD - Jah Way (Killah Dub)
05: Skream - Stagger (Staggered)
06: Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure (Low Pressure Dub)

[jon abbey]

http://governmentnames.blogspot.com/200 ... apper.html

not crazy about this list/piece as I told you yesterday, it reads like a general music critic who has heard maybe 40 or 50 of the 200+ sets out there. FWIW, my current 'select Screw' iTunes folder (not sure if I did one earlier in the thread or not):

As The World Turns Slow
Codeine Fiend
Dead End Representative
Endonesia
Hard Times
June 27th
Let's Call Up On Drank
Southside Riders
Syrup Sippers

[O'Grady]

I have quite a few screw tapes now and here's a few of my favourites.

Da Funk Is On Your Mind
Mind Over Matter
Hard Times
In The Zone
Codeine Fiend
As The World Turns Slow
Charge It To Da Game
Shinnin Like The Sun
No Love
Late Night Fuckin' Yo' Bitch
Still A Gee At 27
On A Pint

[bkudler]

yeah.... this thread seems kind of overly ambitious, pretty hard to pick out stuff from the giant discography and recommend stuff which can be hard to find even on the internet outside of the biggies (the 3 in the morning set, Syrup Sippers, Weed and Hennessy, June 27th and a few more)... I have 1 and a half days on my itunes worth of shit.... that said I like the weird live recordings that are out there. I also would just like to say as far as the Houston scene goes the hugely underrated and amazing rapper E.S.G. needs more respect and attention.

[jon abbey]

yeah.... this thread seems kind of overly ambitious, pretty hard to pick out stuff from the giant discography and recommend stuff which can be hard to find even on the internet outside of the biggies (the 3 in the morning set, Syrup Sippers, Weed and Hennessy, June 27th and a few more).

the first 200+ releases were all on the bottom of the map blog the last I checked.

[bkudler]

yeah.... this thread seems kind of overly ambitious, pretty hard to pick out stuff from the giant discography and recommend stuff which can be hard to find even on the internet outside of the biggies (the 3 in the morning set, Syrup Sippers, Weed and Hennessy, June 27th and a few more).

the first 200+ releases were all on the bottom of the map blog the last I checked.

shitttt, you're right. That's where I got them all. I guess that's my suggestion, scroll through the dj screw section on Bottom of The Map and download the ones with the cool names

[mudd]

i need to drop by the store some time. i have a handful i picked up on recs from jon and mike shiflet, but never hurts to have a few more around.

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[jon abbey]

I guess that's my suggestion, scroll through the dj screw section on Bottom of The Map and download the ones with the cool names

what is the point of this post? it's like you're saying "if I don't know enough to make informed recommendations, then no one possibly can." maybe you don't mean it that way, but it comes off as a bit insulting to myself and O'Grady (whose list is very strong), plus anyone else who took a shot at it before us. I've listened to hundreds of hours of Screw in recent years and while I don't feel qualified enough (yet) to write a definitive primer, I do feel confident that the 15 hours of material I listed above is top-notch. maybe I'm overreacting, but your posts bugged me.

back on topic, there's a piece in the new Wire on Screw and the store by David Keenan, of all people. it's surprisingly not a bad piece, and it actually tipped me off to a recent release by Z-Ro, which is evidently the first and only non-Screw release that the store stocks, 'Relvis Presley', worth checking out.

[Joda]

...and it actually tipped me off to a recent release by Z-Ro, which is evidently the first and only non-Screw release that the store stocks, 'Relvis Presley', worth checking out.

I like that one, 'Relvis Presley'.... easy on the ears.

One, I don't think has been mentioned yet, that I find endlessly enjoyable is Point Blank - My Personal Screw Tape

The same tracks also appear on the tape called 'All Screwed Up', although slighty different mixes, maybe a little faster. There's also this one on Bottom of the Map labelled as Tha Bull, with a slightly different tracklist. Not sure what's the difference.

[bkudler]

I guess that's my suggestion, scroll through the dj screw section on Bottom of The Map and download the ones with the cool names

what is the point of this post? it's like you're saying "if I don't know enough to make informed recommendations, then no one possibly can." maybe you don't mean it that way, but it comes off as a bit insulting to myself and O'Grady (whose list is very strong), plus anyone else who took a shot at it before us. I've listened to hundreds of hours of Screw in recent years and while I don't feel qualified enough (yet) to write a definitive primer, I do feel confident that the 15 hours of material I listed above is top-notch. maybe I'm overreacting, but your posts bugged me.

back on topic, there's a piece in the new Wire on Screw and the store by David Keenan, of all people. it's surprisingly not a bad piece, and it actually tipped me off to a recent release by Z-Ro, which is evidently the first and only non-Screw release that the store stocks, 'Relvis Presley', worth checking out.

I could see how you could take it that way. I'm not saying no one could give a suggestion. I'm saying that's my suggestion, to just check different stuff out. That's why I said "my suggestion is....". My point really is that there are the essential classic ones, that are a good intro, but after that it's fun to just grab random ones and listen and get sucked into it. If when I got into screw I tried to find the ones that other people said were good, I think I would be a little frustrated and it would not be as fun as grabbing random ones and testing them and making my own collection that I could compare other Screw against. It's like collecting Wolf Eyes stuff, sure there are the essentials, the Sub Pop stuff and some others, but to pick through the tons of CDrs and tapes and say get these --which is saying forget these-- seems to take some fun out of it. Maybe it's more like collecting Dub records, where there are the big ones, then tons of nooks and crannies where different people can stake out territory, and decide that these are their favorites, and very few other people will know or care about that person's favorite dub artist. Obviously different folks different strokes, and many probably want a guide into the dense catalog. I'm sure a lot of people feel it would be more enjoyable for them to have lists as reference points. I'm saying I don't really want to put down my idea of what a canon of Screw would be. If anyone else wants to, that's great and probably really helpful to a lot of people. Again, I'm saying this is the experience I, "my suggestion."

[jon abbey]

My point really is that there are the essential classic ones, that are a good intro

and that's what we're talking about here and trying to establish, there's certainly been extremely little written anywhere by anyone along said lines.

also, I'd say better suggestions than "download the ones with the cool names" are maybe look for ones with tracks or artists you like, or go for the lower chapter numbers.

[Gaendaal]

I've listened to hundreds of hours of Screw in recent years

You've a stronger ear than me! I think I like the concept more than the actual execution of most skrewed stuff (although I should probably take a listen through your list as I've probably missed some gems).

D'you have any specific recs for tapes that use unusual mixes, Jon? Like using In the Air Tonight as mentioned by a poster below?

[Dan Warburton]

Wasn't there a download link to a lot of this Screw stuff a while back? Clicked on a few earlier in this thread and in Jon's ancient thread over at the other place (lots of those links seem to have expired), without much joy.
What an amazing body of work, though.

[dave quam]

There's nothing wrong with grabbing mixtapes because they have cool names, I do it all the time.

Some more I recommend:

Wreck Shop (the long version of Youngbloodz "84" for the intro is great, which was released the same year he died)

Straight Wreckin (this is one of the best, and weirdest screw tapes for sure. It's like half super stoned Notorious BIG "Juicy" freestyles and crazy echo. The track that is just Fat Pat and Lil Keke talking through an echo machine is hilarious.

Feel My Pain (just solid)

In the zone (I love the ones with Chicago stuff, his versions of Do or Die's "Po Pimpin" and Twista's "Adrenaline Rush" are scary.

I also second On a Pint and Late Night Fuckin Yo Bitch

As for other people doin this stuff, or doing similar stuff:

Choppaholix out of Houston are great. They do screwed Cumbia and Reggaeton mixtapes as well as Hip-Hop stuff and sometimes a combination of both. Mostly Mexican rappers from Texas, Aqueleo's "Cadillac Wires" screwed on their Choppin Up The Block vol 1 mixtape is amazing.

Some Cumbia DJs make "Cumbia Rebajado" which isn't cumbia slowed down like screw did, more like the batteries were dead.

I found a mixtape by some dude called DJ Macker the Music Hacker (pretty corny slogan) on datpiff a few weeks ago that is sort of his own variation on s/c. He chops vocals in different patterns and on the tape I heard he had pretty cool selections.

[jon abbey]

There's nothing wrong with grabbing mixtapes because they have cool names, I do it all the time.

sure, if there's no other info to go on, plus your perspective is pretty different from a Screw neophyte, which is who those lists are geared towards. to me it's no different from someone posting on the Mozart thread that there's too much to process so their rec is to grab the CDs with the cool covers.

[jon abbey]

Wreck Shop (the long version of Youngbloodz "84" for the intro is great, which was released the same year he died)

checked this out on my city errand run today, pretty good one, thanks for the tip. it's more than 50 percent freestyles, though, I tend to prefer the ones that are mostly songs.