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"You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream or a fever.

We woke up one morning and fell a little further down - for sure it's the valley of death.

I open up my wallet, and it's full of blood."

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Today’s mix:

Code4109 by DJ Krush 2000 Trip Hop / Illbient / Hip Hop / Abstract Hip Hop / Turntablism

I think this might be the greatest hip hop and trip hop mix I’ve ever heard in my fucking life. Like, I know we haven’t found a way to slow down the passage of time yet, but musically, this feels like the closest that anyone’s ever gotten to accomplishing it. From start to finish of this hour-plus masterpiece, Tokyo’s DJ Krush shows us why he’s simply one of the greatest jazzy hip hop and trip hop musicians to have ever produced and spun records. The man digs deep into his own notoriously vast collection and pulls out an unbelievable set of obscure tracks, ranging from boom bap raps and beats you’re likely to have never heard before, to super chill Japanese jazz, to even a blend in which he incorporates a Bulgarian orchestra and choir. And Krush manages to make every single song on this sound as if they were actually made in his own image.

Molasses-slow, brain-frozen, on-another-planet, stoned-to-the-point-of-seeing-stars type of stuff; the absolute pinnacle in hip hop and trip hop haziness; a desert island DJ mix if there ever was one.

Listen to the full mix here.

Highlights:

The Legion - “Jingle Jangle (Mental Mix)” Gravity - “Back to the Essence” DJ Cam - “No Competition” Nick Wiz - “Four Elements” / John Klemmer - “Yes to Life” / Beats International - “Just Be Good to Me (Acapella)” The 45 King - “Flipshot” / John Klemmer - “Love Is Life/Life Is Love” Old World Disorder - “3hree6ix5ive (Detrimental)” Gravity feat. Kamam Leung - “What Is It…” Monkey Ken & DJ Seto feat. Hazaed & Daddy Shadow - “Taiyou Ga Arukagiri” / Orchestra & Choir of Bulgarian Radio - “Polegnala E Pschenitza” DJ Krush feat. DJ Yas & DJ Hazu - “No More” Jazzanova - “Coffee Talk” DJ Fashion - “Wild Drums” Virtuoso - “Incinerator (Radio Version)” DJ Krush feat. Esthero - “Final Home (Vocal Version)” DJ Krush - “Ryu You” The Blue Herb - “Chie no wa” RYU - “Ilektrik” RYU feat. The Beat Knuckles - “Beataholic Reformatory” DJ Krush - “Kemuri” / Minoru Muraoka and New Dimension Group - “El Condora Pasa”

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DJ Krush - Final Home (Feat. Esthero) (Kakusei, 1998)

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fuji city

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Some 8mm film footage from a project I'm working on - shot on my 1970s Agfa Super 8 camera

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Pink landscape.

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Greg Girard, Tokyo

1976-1988 series

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Shrine to the Night, Shinjuku 新宿