Dusty Crates

Last night’s Bun B solo performance was damn near legendary. Shit, I’m getting goose-bumps just thinking about it. Warehouse Live filled to capacity with every colored Texas folks under one roof. After an excellent extended set by The Rub’s DJ Ayres (check out the Houston for Dummies mixtape below), the live funk/soul band Orgone took the stage. They became the backdrop for the pride of PA as Bun stepped up on stage.

For the next hour, Bun set off the place with all his classics (“Draped Up”,  “Pocket Full of Stones”, “Front Back, Side to Side”, “Get Throwed”, “Big Pimpin”, “International Player’s Anthem”), new jams off his latest album, II Trill (“You’re Everything”, “Gangsta”, “Swang on ‘Em”) and he even did his remix of MIA’s “Paper Planes.” Wow, indeed!

I paused to video tape the clip above. Throughout his performance, I kept thinking how incomplete it felt without Pimp C. Although, I’m sure it was an understatment for Bun. Midway through the show he very eloquently thanked his H-town crowd for their never-ending support and expressed how much he misses his brother. Bun went on to reassure everyone that Pimp’s spirit was in the building.

And the show went on as we all chanted “UGK for life!”

Download Houston for Dummies mixtape – DJ Ayres & JD.

More photos of the Bun B show on DustyCrates and AustinSurreal.blogspot.com.
 

I came across a gang of Klever remixes and mashups online a couple of years ago, vaguely making the connection that this was the same DJ Klever that once reigned as 2000’s DMC National Champ (click to watch the video of Klever killin it). Truth be told, I just thought (and still do!) that this ATL white boy’s tracks are slammin’ hott.

I soon began a campaign to bring Klever down to RockBox Thursdays, but as fate would have it, Klever’s star was quickly rising and we couldn’t bring him down.

Well, next Tuesday, August 26, is my chance to witness his Houston headlining debut along with Fashen and The Knux and my homeboys Witnes, Squincy and Dayta. And the best thing about this is that I, Gracie Chavez, have just been added to the lineup!

RSVP @ www.scionevents.com/rsvp/

Check out the Fahrenheit-Media press release we dropped on local media that offers up more info:  

Scion presents Klever, The Knux & Fashen in Houston

And, check out the local press we got from Houston Press:

The Knux, Klever, Fashen (08/26/08)

Download Klever’s Carpe Mixxx for free here:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/carpe-mixxx-mp3-mp3.html

Live mix by DJ Fashen here:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/119925551a3a0411/

2008 Scion and Imeem.com present

B.E.A.T TOUR with Witnes & Squincy Jones,

Gracie Chavez and License 2 Trill

Friday, August 22th

Boondocks (1417 Westheimer Road, Houston, TX)

Doors: 10 p.m. – 2 a.m.; Admission: Free, 21+

Houston, TX (08/14/08)–That City of Syrup is in for a real treat as 2008 Scion and Imeem.com bring the B.E.A.T. Tour to Houston. Very special hometown DJ Witnes joins his counterpart, Squincy Jones, along with Gracie Chavez and locals License 2 Trill at Boondocks (1417 Westheimer) on Friday, August 22nd.

Last year, Houston’s scene-setters Witnes and Squincy Jones released Do Ya Homework, an online mixtape of difinitive ’80s hip hop cuts that earned them lots of positive press on Urb Magazine , trend-setting blogs and various social networks. The party-rockin’ DJs also held down Rock Box Thursdays for a few years with Spin Magazine nodding that the weekly was, “the best time you’ll have all month.” After Witnes’ departure to New York, Squincy’s SpeakerBoxx parties have carried on in the same tradition.

Former Rock Box resident DJ, Gracie Chavez, is a veteran of the Houston music scene and one of its first female DJs to grace the decks. From guiding fellow female DJs as co-fiounder of Les Femmes all-female rendezvous, to her 10,000 download triumph of her recent Yo! Mami mixtape, Gracie Chavez is just the perfect act with a pedigree heavy enough to handle the chaos of any party.

License 2 Trill are brothers and DJs Bobby and La-Low . They’ve been featured in Houston’s Sneaker Summit for which they released a mix, H-Town Winter Sneaker Summit ‘08 Official Mixtape.

This B.E.A.T. Tour show is a precursor to the Klever, The Knux and Fashen soirée at Warehouse Live (813 St.Emanuel) on Tuesday, August 26, which also features Witnes, Squincy Jones and Dayta.

This event is also sponsored by Frank151 and Grills Houston.

Howdy, partnahs!

After somewhat a sabbatical, I’m finally back to play some tunes for you around town.

But are ya’ll ready to shake it to the ground? Yah, ya’ll know wassup!

Hatetown’s very own Squincy Jones has been slangin’ the gammut–from screwed, Nintendo dub remixes to mashit beats and hyphy mixes your girlfriend’s panocha will be itchin’ for. He’s recently teamed up with his homie Joey Honey to bring you “Altered Beast Riddims” using those old school Sega(r) game samples you know and love. Yeah, it’s downtempo, but the ATL-snap beat will make you cry for some more “beat ‘em up” riddims.

Welcome to your doom! Ha, ha, ha,ha!

Squincy Jones & Joey Honey – Altered Beast Riddim (zshare)

Posted on Houston’s Most Hated, 8/06/08.