DO THE DIP VOLUME 2!

I made a hot new rap mix to celebrate The Dip’s 2nd birthday. I made one last year with a tonne of Miami Bass on it. Since we’re launching a new hip hop / r&b night this Thursday I thought I’d make this one a straight up rap mix. These are the songs that we blast in the kitchen, and in the car on our drive home from work. It’s almost 50% songs produced by DJ Mustard, which is pretty special.

Tracklist: WAVEY DAVEY B INTRO / THEM PHRESH BOYZ dip / DJ DRAMA (feat TRAVIS PORTER & KIRKO BANGZ) real niggas in the building / YOUNG JEEZY feat 2 CHAINZ r.i.p. / TY$ & JOE MOSES weekend / RASHAD feat T.I. & YOUNG DRO tell em what they want to hear / YG toot it & boot it / MYSTIKAL bouncin’ back / YG pop it / HOT BOYS feat BIG TYMERS i need a hot girl / T.I. feat LIL’ WAYNE ball / TRAVIS PORTER feat TYGA ayy ladies / TYGA feat RICK ROSS dope / FRENCH MONTANA feat TYGA & ACE HOOD thrilla in manilla / 2 CHAINZ i’m different / RICH KIDZ house wife / E-40 feat YG, IAMSU & PROBLEM function / BEYONCE feat LIL’ KEKE, SLIM THUG, WILLIE D, SCARFACE, Z-RO & BUN B i been on (h town remix)

Speaking of mustard, we’re having a goddamned Hot Dog Eating Contest this Thursday night! Lots of awesome prizes to be won – all the details are here on The Dip site

We also made our first ever t-shirts, which will be on sale this Thursday night, and online over at Label State.

And we’re launching a new weekly party! DIP HOP – rap and r&b every Thursday night in the Front Bar at Goodgod for FREE. I’m DJing every week plus kool pals like Joyride, Franco, Elston, Leon Smith, Radge and more are playing too.

Enjoy the mix and come along this Thursday night if you can! 

HALFWAY CROOKS THIS WEEKEND

Halfway Crooks, my rap party with Franco and Elston, is back on this weekend! Did you see the article I wrote for Oyster last month with my top 10 tracks from the first 4 years of Crooks? It’s a good one!

Franco has made an awesome mix for you to get familiar with before tomorrow – the final in his Lush Lyfe mix series – THE FINAL WAVE. Listen and download below!

I GOT MARRIED & MADE A MIX 2 CELEBRATE

Hey! I got married on the weekend, to the girl of my goddamn dreams BIANCA.

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We made a mix of all our favourite love songs that we have played the hell out of over the 5 years we’ve been together. We gave the mix out to our wedding guests but here it is for YOU to enjoy.

These are the songs we like to dance to, to fall asleep to, to sing to each other in the car, to play to our friends at 5am. It’s a mixed bag of cute jams from a lot of different genres.

Obviously I had to get a Wavey Davey B intro as well.

Levins & B – The Soundtrack 2 Da Wedding

Tracklist:

Wavey Davey B Intro

Sleepy Brown – Me, My Baby & My Cadillac

Slum Village – Fall In Love

50 Cent feat. Nate Dogg – 21 Questions

Jay-Z feat Beyonce – ‘03 Bonnie & Clyde

Cassie feat. Diddy – Must Be Love

Justin Timberlake – Strawberry Bubblegum

Spectral Display – It Takes A Muscle To Fall In Love

Rufus Wainwright – Tiergarten (Supermayer Remix)

The Juan McLean – Happy House

Larry Heard – The Sun Can’t Compare

Lykke Li – Breaking It Up (Pocketknife Remix)

Ghost Town DJs – My Boo

Alessi Brothers – Seabird

Hot Chip – Take It In (Osborne Remix)

K-Ci & Jojo – All My Life

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BONUS BEAT: The Apology Rap!

My amazing friends Nina and Charlie (Nina / Nina’s Dad took the photos in this post too!) put together this incredible song featuring raps from all my international friends who couldn’t make it down for the wedding – including my cousin Patrick, B’s old friend Lucy, Heaps Decent affiliates Erin and Lucas (and their little baby Miles!), plus superstar DJs Jess Jubilee, Nick Catchdubs, Diplo and Anna Lunoe with her husband and best rapper on the whole track Hendo. Nina and Charlie produced the whole thing and sang the hook, which has been in my head since the wedding!

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The wedding was the best day of my life. I highly recommend everybody get married and spend all the money and time putting on the hugest party of their dreams. We added a lot of cool personal touches to the day which I’ll put up here over the next couple of days, along with 4 billion photos of me kissing the cutest gal in the universe.

NEW MIX: 2 MILLION IQ

Good news! I made a sequel to my WILDLY SUCCESSFUL 1 Million IQ mix from earlier in the  year. It features almost 20 triumphant jams that have been proven to increase your IQ in a very cool way. It’s called 2 MILLION IQ. Thanks to Bobby Gelato for doing that art and of course to Wavey Davey B for them drops.

DOWNLOAD 2 MILLION IQ HERE

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TRACKLIST

WAVEY DAVEY B INTRO

RICH KIDZ popping shit 2

SEQUENCE feat QUEZ thinking of you

RICH KIDZ feat YUNG BOOKE i know ya

ROSCOE DASH hard work 

PRINCE CY HI go outside

FUTURE double cups and molly

SOULJA BOY feat KWONY CASH and J MONEY zan with that lean

ONE CHANCE cowabunga

F.L.Y. feat BAND GEAKZ party time

TRAVIS PORTER party time

YOUNG THUG thinkin’ out loud

RICH KIDZ nun else 2 do

K CAMP she got it

SOULJA BOY for my money

KWONY CASH thinking

YOUNG THUG feat HELLACOPTA foreign

TROUBLE molly world

WAVEY DAVEY B OUTRO

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NEW MIX: 1 MILLION IQ

I made a new mix of all YUNG/DUMB/FUN rap anthems that I have been listening to a shitload of lately. A couple of years ago Rico Uno and Eric Devereaux did an amazing mix for Mad Decent of this kinda shit and this is kinda similar. It’s a mix of new and less new (the oldest song here is about 3 years old), mostly from Atlanta, mostly by young ass dudes. I ripped a few of these joints off youtube, these kids couldn’t be more than 13 years old!

Anyway I’m probably gonna do a few of these over the next year because it’s my favourite shit coming out at the moment. There are a few rappers on here a few times (Young Thug rightfully features three times!) and most of the production is by DJ Spinz, K.E. On The Track and London On Da Track. Naturally I had to get Wavey Davey B to do the best intro/outro that he’s done for me yet (shout out to his wife too!). The dude Bobby Gelato did the fine artwork.

Sooooo… please enjoy 1 MILLION IQ!

WAVEY DAVEY B INTRO

CA$H OUT – i got it

TRAVIS PORTER feat J MONEY – uhh huhh

RICH KIDZ feat YOUNG THUG 100 dollar autograph

YOUNG THUG feat CAPOKAM & KUMTIE oooorrr

SMASH SET (CLOCK & TAY) headlines remix

RICH KIDZ bend over

BAND GEAKZ feat MOOK well alright

BANDIT MARCO feat YUNG TONE thangs you do

BRYAN J feat TRAVIS PORTER lemme take you out

ROSCOE DASH feat JARED EVAN all i know

F.L.Y. out yo league

CA$H OUT cashin out

YOUNG THUG keep in touch

FUTURE turn on the lights

SOULJA BOY my city

YOUNG L sex is dope

WAVEY DAVEY B OUTRO

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THE DIP TURNS 1

Do The Dip! by Levins on Mixcloud

Hey so that restaurant I opened with my girlfriend is still open after a whole year and we are doing birthday things like having a hot wing competition and selling deep fried cupcakes all week. Check out the bday vibes.
I made this mix to celebrate our birthday, it’s a collection of Miami Bass tunes with a smattering of other up tempo rap hits from the 80s and 90s. Perfect for doing the dip to. 


ROD LEE birthday theme
MC LUSCIOUS da dip
95 SOUTH wet n wild (DJ LAZ remix)
LEJAUN LOVE i still feel good
ANTOINETTE baby make it boom
B-ROCK & THE BIZZ my baby daddy
95 SOUTH rodeo
ANQUETTE throw that p
MC LUSCIOUS boom! i got your boyfriend
GUCCI CREW ll sex shooter
2 HYPE BROTHERS AND A DOG doo doo brown
L’TRIMM (we like the) cars with the boom
POISON CLAN dance all night
702 get it together (booty bass mix)
GHOST TOWN DJS my boo
INOJ time after time (LIL’ JON remix feat THRILL DA PLAYA)
WAVEY DAVEY B OUTRO

FYI the Wavey Davey B outro is among his best work yet.

TURN UP YOUR STEREO – AUSTRALIA DAY MIX

LEVINS – TURN UP YOUR STEREO! | AUSTRALIA DAY MIX FOR ACCLAIM

Happy Australia Day! I’ve been feeling fairly un-patriotic ever since my final laser session removed all traces of the Southern Cross tattoos on my neck, lower back and left buttock so I thought I’d put something super Oztrayan together to re-pledge my allegiance. Something that really puts the third ‘Aussie’ in ‘Aussie Aussie Aussie’ and the second ‘Oi’ in ‘Oi Oi Oi’. I needed to take a little trip back though, to a time where almost all the music I listened to was local produce, and boy oh boy did I fuckin’ love that shit. I’m talking about high school, which for me was 1997 – 2002. Instead of studying for 4 Unit English or hitting on girls you could catch me spending all my time listening to triple j on my ghettoblaster, my fingers patiently hovering over the red record button, ready to capture my new favourite songs from The Jebs, The ‘Spoon or The ‘Gurge so I could learn all the words before I saw them play at the all ages festival at St Ives skate park that weekend, where I’d be pretending that the 10 dexies my friend had stolen from his brother with ADD and shoved down my throat had really got me fucked up (they hadn’t).

This mix is a tribute to those days. If you went back in time and stole all my cassettes out of that walkman I won from the MS Read-A-Thon, they would probably sound exactly like this mix, except luckily bloody Tunny isn’t yammering over the top of all the tracks in my mix. I tried to include as many of my favourite songs from that era, all of them Australian. There are some glaring omissions but hey this was super fun to do so I’ll probably put together another volume for the next patriotic public holiday (Easter? Jesus was a digger right?).

Spray some water on your stereo and turn it up loud. Sing along to the songs you know and pray that Quan and Janet get back together one day. Explain to a younger cousin what Recovery was and pretend you never saw Garage Days. Happy Australia day mates. PS thanks heaps to @bobbygelato for drawing that amazing artwork on his computer machine!

SOME MORE WORDZ 

Last month I was asked by Alex at Acclaim Magazine (who is awesome fyi) to put together an all-Australian mix for Australia Day. My first thought was to put something together of all the recent releases from young electronic Australian producers but that mix would probably just be Jonti’s recent free album with the tracks in a different order, so I needed to come up with a better idea. Obviously that idea was to go BACK IN TIME.

I was a huge fan of the Radio Friendly Unit Shifter mixes that Nick Catchdubs put together with Mr Ducker for Mishka NYC. If you haven’t heard these amazing tributes to alternative music in the 90’s listen to all three of them now! They’re a fantastic, well mixed collection of time capsules to a better time (for ‘alternative music’ anyway, when was the last time you even heard that term?!).

After listening to those mixes some hundred times each, I wanted to do an all 90s Australian mix in a similar style. Catchdubs had represented the American side super well, even delved into some UK shit but understandably there was not one Aussie song on any of the mixes. So I had to do my part for my country. Half my favourite songs from that era are from 2000 – 2002 (the final two years of my high school xxxperience) so I had to extend the timeframe a little. 

I put together a list of 150 songs that I loved back then and set out on a pretty impossible task of actually finding half of them. So many brilliant old Australian record labels have no presence whatsoever on the internets, many of them just exist as text on a Discogs page, with nowhere to buy their back catalogue. It’s easier to find videos of their artists performing on Recovery on YouTube than it is to find the songs they’re performing.

After raiding my old CD collection at my parents’ house (shouts out to them for not throwing it out yet) and bugging some pals at triple j to raid the music library for me, I had a pretty great collection of old Aussie gold / gold Aussie olds. So here are 26 of those songs, all mixed, just in time for Australia Day (happy that, by the way).

LEVINS – TURN UP YOUR STEREO! | AUSTRALIA DAY MIX FOR ACCLAIM

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Tracklist:

1. ESKIMO JOE sweater

2. AMMONIA drugs

3. CUSTARD nice bird

4. REGURGITATOR i sucked a lot of cock to get where i am

5. THE FAUVES dogs are the best people

6. SCREAMFEEDER dart

7. NOT FROM THERE sich offnen

8. ROCKET SCIENCE being followed

9. TISM greg! the stop sign!!

10. HOT ROLLERS wickerman’s shoes

11. SOMETHING FOR KATE working against me

12. TURNSTYLE spray water on the stereo 

13. TUMBLEWEED silver lizard

14. SIDEWINDER god

15. THE VINES get free

16. JEBEDIAH military strongmen

17. POLLEN not rocket science

18. GERLING death to the apple gerls

19. MOLER infatuation 

20. HAPPYLAND don’t you know who i am?

21. SPIDERBAIT buy me a pony

22. FRENZAL RHOMB you are not my friend

23. FRONT END LOADER summer hits

24. MACHINE GUN FELLATIO unsent letter

25. SILVERCHAIR tomorrow

26. YOU AM I purple sneakers

DISCLAIMER: There are some seriously legendary artists missing from the mix, I’ve been losing sleep over that so I guess I have to do another mix super soon. Enjoy!

NO HANDS

Me and my pal Leon Smith started a party at Bada Bing, the strip club in Kings Cross. Leon DJs there 3 nights a week and convinced me to go there once for a few drinks. Upon getting there I realised that all Leon does is play my fav kind of rap for hours and hours surrounded by girls. I asked if I could get myself a small slice of that delicious pie and surprisingly Leon said yes. Thus, ‘No Hands’, our monthly Sunday night joint, was born.

It’s happening again this Sunday night, if you need a taste of what to expect Leon recorded our sets from last month! have a listen here!

See you at The Bing!

NEW MIX: LOVE KINGS VOL 1

Hi! I made a new R&B mix for Oyster Magazine to promote Goodgod’s First Birthday this weekend. It’s a few slow jams mixed with a few fast jams. Enjoy!

Levins – Love Kings 4 Oyster Mag (Download)

CHERISH stop calling me
GRIND MODE i’m so high
T-PAIN feat CIARA blowing up
SWITCH feat ANDREA MARTIN i still love you
MARIAH CAREY feat BIG BOI, GUCCI MANE & OJ DA JUICEMAN h.a.t.e.u (remix)
NINA SKY get your clothes off
NELLY FURTADO do it
GUCCI MANE feat USHER spotlight
GWEN STEFANI feat LUDACRIS luxurious (POLOW DA DON remix)
LLOYD get it shawty (FIRST MAN remix)
KANDI don’t think i’m not
KP & ENVYI shorty swing my way (r&b remix)
THREE 6 MAFIA feat REMY MA pussy got ya hooked
CO-ED feat T.I. roll wit me (remix)
KENDRICK LAMAR blow my high (members only)
AALIYAH four page letter

CLUB AL IS BACK

Hi! I’m bringing Club AL back this Saturday night in the front bar at Goodgod Small Club! From midnight I’ll be playing records, jumping from genre to genre and sharing some terrific vibes with those who choose to be attendance.

Get yourself in the mood with these Club AL mixtapes I made earlier in the year, they are some cool tapes that I’m pretty proud of. 

Club AL Volume 1

Club AL Volume 2

Club AL Volume 3

I’m making a new Volume of the Club AL mix series, I started the year promising to make a new mix every month but then I opened a kitchen like the worlds stupidest asshole so I haven’t made shit since April. This next one better be good right?

PS. Thanks to Joe Laney for making all the dope little Club AL banners.