Welcome to the first installment of my ’20 Years a Kid’ mixtape series! This first mix covers the years from 1996 to 1998 when I first started DJing in Sydney (and long before most people in Australia had ever heard of me). This first mix captures some of the tracks I was playing back then: hip hop, big beat, and early breaks. ‘Breaks’ wasn’t actually a genre yet in 1996 and you had to dig pretty hard (at your local record store) to find a good breakbeat sounding record. But that’s what made it so exciting, the ‘discovery’. I’m sure there’s a tonne of tunes I’ve forgotten on here (and there were some I left off as they didn’t quite work in the mix) but the essence of what I did back then is here, including the last track ‘Papua New Guinea’ which I’d drop last EVERY time I DJ’d.

Anyway, I hope you dig the mix! Big love and welcome to my 20 year flashback! – Kid Kenobi

This mix is part of Breakzlinkz Retro series: www.breakzlinkz.net/retro/

Tracklist

01. The Number Song (Cut Chemist Party Mix) – DJ Shadow
02. Sure Shot – London Funk Allstars
03. Shake Your Rump – Beastie Boys
04. That Hip Hop Track – Bitch
05. Mella (The Herbaliser Drive Faster Mix) – DJ Food
06. Freestyle Noize – Freestylers
07. Trickshot – Ceasefire
08. Beat Bastik (Ceasefire Remix) – Hard Hop Heathen
09. Packet of Peace (Chemical Brothers Remix) – Lionrock
10. Take California – Propellerheads
11. Push – Bass Funk-tion
12. Left Hook – Simply Jeff
13. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 – DJ Icey
14. Pick Up – DJ Icee
15. Loose Caboose (Bassbin Twins Remix) – The Electroliners
16. Funk Da Fried Party – Simply Jeff
17. Higher State Of Consciousness (Tweekin Acid Funk) – Josh Wink
18. Big Ditch – DJ Icey
19. Who’s The Bad Man – Dee Pattern
20. unknown – Soulstice (white label)
21. unknown – Bassbin Twins Vol. 1 (white label)
22. Westway – Thursday Club
23. Papua New Guinea (Original 12″ Mix) – The Future Sound of London

BETA provides a wicked Ripecast mix for the Space Cowboys collective. Listen to this for a proper lesson on how to build a set. Subtle, melodic flavours which build and build into a crescendo of filthy breakbeats and bass.

BETA wi’ll be a guest at Space Cowboys’ upcoming party and playa fundraiser, URBAN COWBOY (Saturday, May 31st at Public Works).

TRACKLIST:
Trevino – Indulge [Apple Pips]
Shox – Want Back [Fat! Records]
Trickshot – Ceasefire [Wall Of Sound]
Kolombo – Play Ur Chick! [Tobus Limited]
Gladiator – Sweat [Fool’s Gold Records]
Branko – Dirty Works feat. Eloq & TT the Artist [Enchufada]
New York Transit Authority – 95 [Lobster Boy]
Icarus – Like I Do (Wile Out! Mix) [Free DL!]
Hironimus Bosch – Block Rocker [CDR]
Mechanical Pressure & Virus19xx – Undiscovered [Distortion]
Kid Digital – Loose It (Beta Remix) [Bombtraxx]
Winter Face – Great Business (Kid Digital Remix) [Rune Recordings]
Beta – Sinking [Succession Records]
Slyde – Underground [Slybeats]
Future Funk Squad – Cold Matter feat. Refracture [Audio Science Productions]
Hyper Take me Away (karl Sav Remix) [Ayra]

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BETA – RIPEcast 2014