Thursday, December 27, 2007

Just Fine (Illo Dj Tool)




I had this song on my Truth mix, and alot of people had been asking so here it is. I know this songs a little cheesy, but i kind of like it. I took it and added a proper intro, and drums to beef it up for the clubs. Its been working well so far, cuz who doesnt like some dancey Mary J. right?

Mary J Blige - Just Fine (Illo Club Mix)

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Truth Radio (12/15/07)



Another slammin' Truth Radio show has come and gone, for those who want a copy for their ipods, here it is. This show contains MY OWN edits of Fergie, Justice, Mary J, Amy Winehouse, Neil Sedaka, Michael Jackson, and a great paper planes minimix courtesy of Grandtheft & B.Cause. Enjoy!


Dj Illo - Truth Radio Show (12/15/07)

Sunday, December 2, 2007

The Eh! Team Djs Debut @ Modern (Vancouver BC) November 29 / 2007

Thanks to all who came out and supported and thanks to Jenn for the pics. This was truly a special event with many more to come in the future.















Sunday, November 18, 2007

Truth Radio (17/11/07)



So heres my new mix from this weekends' Truth Radio show. This is a little hiphop / funk&soul mix to remind Pump & Hedspin that they aint the only one with old records!! HAHA. I was going to do a little mix of everything but figured, why not do an all hiphop mix. Its been long enough! Enjoy!



As an added bonus, ive been ripping alot of records lately so i figured id give an example of what "old records" i was talking about earlier. This isnt rare, but seemed to slip under the radar because most of the songs on the LP suck. I remastered the wav too so that the drum break would stand out a little more.

Shalamer - Take Me To The River


Truth Radio Show (17/11/07)

Monday, November 12, 2007

DJ HEDSPIN TRUTH MIX SHOW



- Aired on Saturday November 10 / 2007

- Lots of exclusive remixes by myself, Illo, Jr Flo, and Grandtheft

- I jacked Illos drums for a couple remixes because I like his drums.....Thanks Illo


Enjoy!

DJ HEDSPIN TRUTH RADIO MIX

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Jr. Flo Asian Tour CD & New Mix CD Sampler



The homey Jr. Flo is in Taipei or Beijing right now, playing "records" and buying "real" a bathing ape gear, but he was nice enough to send over this clip from his upcoming mix cd that he'll be releasing when he gets back home. This little blend clip is only the beginning of what will prove to be an amazing mix. What else would we expect??? Also attached is the cover art for the cd he's pushing over there right now.


Gangsta Boogie (clip from upcoming mix cd)


Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Truth Radio (10/23/07)


Heres another little minimix that i did for the Truth Radio show - Flow 93.5 fm. Big shouts to The Eh! Team and Team Canada. This is the first show i've done, that i didnt really have a theme to stick to. So this is basically just what i would play on any given night in the club.

enjoy


Truth Radio Show (10/23/07)

Tracklisting
1. Domino (Illos Bmore Only Copout Mix) - Dj Illo vs Van Morrison
2. Biggie Loop Blend
3. Yesterday Man (Illos Boombap Mix) - Dj Illo vs Roz Bell
4. Play Acapella Blend - JLo
5. Freak Me - Dj Illo vs Silk
6. B Without U (Illos Summer Bounce Mix - Dj Illo vs Aaliyah
7. Girlfriend - Dj Technics
8. Feelings For You - (Rhythmes Digitales Rmx) - Cassius
9. Oh Sheila Acapella Blend - Ready For The World
10. Way I Are (Nicky T Blend) - Timbaland vs Martin Solveig
11. '79 Jangles (Illo Mashup) - Dj Illo vs Smashing Pumpkins vs Pitbull
12. Like The Way You Move It - Bodyrockers vs Real II Real
13. Do It - Nelly Furtado
14. Sugar Acapella Blend - Trick Daddy ft Ludacris
15. Coolie Dance Version
16. Lady Acapella Blend - Modjo
17. Saturday Love Rmx - Dj Ayres vs Cherelle
18. Pro Nails Rmx ft Kayne West - Kid Sister

Monday, October 15, 2007

Classic Material: Mixtape Madness Vol 1




DISC 1:

01. INTRO
02. ENTER BOOGIE DOWN
03. KRS-ONE - OUTTA HERE
04. KRS-ONE - RETURN OF THE BOOM BAP
05. KRS-ONE - SOUND OF THE POLICE
06. FRESHCO & MIZ - AINT YOU FRESHCO?
07. KING JUST - WARRIOR'S DRUM
08. BEATNUTS - ARE YOU READY?
09. LORD FINESSE - RETURN OF THE FUNKY MAN
10. SHOWBIZ & AG - SOUL CLAP
11. DIAMOND D - FREESTYLE (YO, THATS THAT SHIT)
12. LEADERS OF THE NEW SCHOOL - SYNTAX ERA
13. LEADERS OF THE NEW SCHOOL - WHAT'S NEXT
14. LEADERS OF THE NEW SCHOOL - CASE OF THE PTA
15. A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - SCENARIO
16. A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - OH MY GOD
17. A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - AWARD TOUR
18. A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - ELECTRIC RELAXATION
19. FU-SCHNIKENS - TRUE FUSCHNIK
20. FU-SCHNIKENS - LA- SCHMOOVE
21. BLACK SHEEP - GIMME DA FINGA
22. BLACK SHEEP - FLAVOR OF THE MONTH
23. BLACK SHEEP - THE CHOICE IS YOURS
24. SPECIAL ED- IM THE MAGNIFICENT
25. SPECIAL ED - THE MISSION
26. MC LYTE - POOR GEORGIE
27. YAGGFU FRONT - SLAPPIN SUCKAZ SILLY
28. POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHERS - ROCK DIS FUNKY JOINT
29. DIGABLE PLANETS - REBIRTH OF SLICK
30. DIGABLE PLANETS - NICKLE BAGS
31. DIGABLE PLANETS - 9TH WONDER
32. LORDS OF THE UNDERGROUND - HERE COME THE LORDS
33. LORDS OF THE UNDERGROUND - CHIEF ROCKA
34. DJ PUMP ON DA CUT
35. LORDS OF THE UNDERGROUND - FUNKY CHILD
36. THE ONYX IS HERE!!!
37. ONYX - SHIFTEE
38. ONYX - SLAM
39. M.O.P - HOW ABOUT SOME HARDCORE
40. ED OG AND THE BULLDOGS - I GOT TO HAVE IT
41. ED OG AND THE BULLDOGS - LESS THAN ZERO
42. ORGANIZED KONFUSION - THIRTEEN
43. ORGANIZED KONFUSION - STARY BULLET
44. ORGANIZED KONFUSION - FUDGE PUDGE
45. COMMON SENSE - SOUL BY THE POUND
46. COMMON SENSE - TAKE IT EZ
47. DELA SOUL - BREAKADAWN
48. BLACK MOON - WHO GOT THE PROPS
49. SOULS OF MISCHIEF - 93' TIL INFINITY


DISC 2:

01. IT AINT OVER / DROP THE BIZZOMB INTRO
02. NASTY NAS - LIVE AT THE BBQ
03. NASTY NAS- BACK TO THE GRILL
04. MAIN SOURCE - LOOKING AT THE FRONT DOOR
05. MAIN SOURCE - FAKIN THE FUNK
06. 3RD BASS - THE GAS FACE
07. KMD - GASFACE REFILL
08. 3RD BASS - POP GOES THE WEASEL
09. LL COOL J - EAT EM UP L CHILL
10. LL COOL J - MAMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT
11. LL COOL J - TO THE BREAK OF DAWN
12. LL COOL J - BOOMIN' SYSTEM
13. PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH - GOOD LIFE
14. PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH - STRAIGHTEN IT OUT
15. PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH - THEY REMINISCE OVER YOU
16. BRAND NUBIAN - ALL FOR ONE
17. BRAND BUBIAN - SLOW DOWN
18. BRAND NUBIAN - PUNKS JUMP UP TO GET BEAT DOWN
19. NAUGHTY BY NATURE - UPTOWN ANTHEM
20. NAUGHTY BY NATURE - IT'S ON
21. NAUGHTY BY NATURE - O.P.P. / HIP HOP HOORAY
22. FLAVOR UNIT MC'S - ROLL WITH THE FLAVA
23. RUN DMC - DOWN WITH THE KING
24. RUN DMC - OOH WATCHA GONNA DO
25. ALKOHOLIKS - MAKE ROOM
26. ALKOHOLIKS - DAMN
27. CYPRESS HILL - HAND ON THE PUMP
28. CYPRESS HILL - LATIN LINGO
29. CYPRESS HILL - WHEN THE SHIT GOES DOWN / HOW COULD I JUST KILL A MAN
30. REDMAN - TIME 4 SUM AKSION
31. REDMAN - BLOW YOUR MIND
32. EPMD - GIVE THE PEOPLE
33. EPMD - SCRATCH BRING IT BACK
34. EPMD - FUNKY PIANO
35. DAS EFX - MIC CHECKA
36. DAS EFX - THEY WANT EFX
37. ENTER GANGSTARR
38. GANGSTARR - JUST TO GET A REP
39. GANGSTARR - SPEAK YA CLOUT
40. GROUP HOME - SUPA STAR
41. JERU THE DAMAJA - COME CLEAN
42. JERU THE DAMAJA - YOU CANT STOP THE PROPHET
43. WU-TANG CLAN - SHAME ON A NIGGA
44. WU-TANG CLAN - PROTECT YA NECK
45. WU-TANG CLAN - METHOD MAN
46. BIGGIE - UNBELIEVABLE / GIMME THE LOOT
47. BIGGIE - PARTY AND BULLSHIT
48. CRAIG MACK - JUICY
49. CRAIG MACK - MAKIN' MOVES WITH PUFF
50. CRAIG MACK - GET DOWN / FLAVA IN YA EAR

Sunday, October 14, 2007

The Truth Radio Show (Jr. Flo 10/13/07)


This weeks edition of our radio show was handled by JR Flo. The mix is bananas and contains beaucoup d'exclusives!!!!! Not sure if this pic is of Jr Flo or not, he''s much more whiter in person.

Jr Flo Truth Radio Mix

Sunday, October 7, 2007

THE GOOD LIFE


8 Bar Friendly DJ Intro.......


THE GOOD LIFE 8 BAR INTRO EDIT

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

DJ Hedspin Livestock Mix CD Hosted by Bobbito Garcia




DJ Hedspin Livestock Mix CD Tracklisting
Hosted By Bobbito Garcia

1.Run DMC – Intro / No Laces / Rock Box / My Adidas / Sucker DJs
2.LL Cool J – Jack The Ripper / Ashley’s Roachclip
3.Cash Money - All The Ugly People Be Quiet
4.Luvbug Starski - Live @ The Disco Fever
5.Schooly D – Saturday Night / JVC Force – Strong Island
6.James Brown – Blues & Pants / Super Lover Cee – Do The James
7.Stezo – It’s My Turn / It’s A New Day / UFO / Atomic Dog
8.Dimples D – Sucker DJ’s / Antoinette – I got an attitude / Sardines
9.The Turtles – Chief Kamanawanalea / Steady B – Im Serious (Remix)
10.BDP – Jack Of Spades / Greedy G / Trouble Funk – Lets Get Small
11.Grandwizard Theodore – Can I Get A Soul Clap / Trouble Funk – Drop The Bomb
12.Wildstyle – It’s Working / Jimmy Spicer – The Bubble Bunch
13.Doug E Fresh & Slick Rick – The Show / Doug E Fresh – Original Human Beat Box
14.Biz Markie – Make The Music With Your Mouth / Nobody Beats The Biz
15.Roxanne Shante – Have A Nice Day / MC Shan - The Bridge
16.Marley Marl – Droppin Science / Biz Markie – Somethin For The Radio
17.Kool G Rap – Road To Riches
18.Public Enemy – Fight The Power
19.Mantronix – King Of The Beats / Eric B & Rakim – I Know you got soul
20.Ultramagnetic MCs – Give The Drummer Some
21.EPMD – I’m housin / James Brown – Funky Drummer / EPMD – The Big Payback
22.Jungle Brothers – Straight Out The Jungle / NWA – If It Aint Ruff / Mango Meat
23.NWA – Straight Outta Compton / Big Daddy Kane – RAW / Hot Pants
24.Big Daddy Kane – Warm It Up Kane / Big Bad John
25.Grandmaster Flash – White Lines / Sugarhill Gang – Rappers Delight
26.West Street Mob – Ooh Baby / Kurtis Blow – Party Time / These Are The Breaks
27.Trouble Funk – Pump Me Up / Sugarhill Gang – 8th Wonder
28.Sugarhill Gang – Freedom / Freedom – Get Up and Dance

Download

Da King And I - Flip Da Script



I was thinkin of something to blog about when I opened up an email from my man Flipout. He was lookin for this song so I decided to post it. Big up my man Kilo-Cee for playing this on the Krispy Biskit radio show back in 1993 and for selling me this record at Rhythm Zone.

Da King & I - Flip da Script (Original Version)

Da King & I - Flip da Script (Instrumental)

Monday, October 1, 2007

October 7 - Long Weekend Party


Event Name: The EH! Team Long Weekend Party
Event Venue: Modern
Venue Address: 7 Alexander Street
Event Date: October 7
Hosts: Grandtheft / Pump / Hedspin
For Guestlist: hedspin@tmail.com

Info: The Team Canada DJs Presents - The Eh!Team DJs Grandtheft (Team Canada), Pump (DMC champ, Calgary) and Hedspin (Vancouver) rock mashups, classics and new shit on Thanksgiving. The first in the Eh!Team club series, you do not want to miss this. Brought to you by Livestock and The Team Canada DJs. Big Shouts To Jungle and Richie Rich. Relaxed dress code for this party too kids - baseball caps and sneakers are alright.

Lookout Thursdays


Starting October, LOOKOUT presents the weekly TOKYO THURSDAYS w/ Team Canada's The EH! Team DJs.

As summer and the rooftop terrasse come to a close come inside and witness the fitness of Canada's top DJs: THE EH! TEAM as they come from cities across the country to mashup the best party in Montreal on a weekly rotation.

The all-weather heated lower terrasse is open, as are the 2-4-1 specials all night. Dance to mashups, discover new tracks, and enjoy strictly good times at the consistently FUN Tokyo Thursdays.

Send an email to tokyo@lookoutpresents.com for no cover GUESTLIST, BEFORE 11:30.

ARRIVE EARLY to avoid any delay at the door.

Schedule:

October 4th:
Jr. Flo (Toronto)
http://jrflo.com

October 11th:
Illo (Ottawa) //Stylusts Crew
http://myspace.com/djillo

October 18th:
Illo (Ottawa) //Stylusts Crew
http://myspace.com/djillo

October 25th:
Pump (Calgary)
http://myspace.com/djpump

See you there!

Thursday, September 27, 2007

The Truth Radio Show (Again, I Know, I Know)


So in my last post i guess i should have included this episode too! This was the first one i did for the show. This week, expect to hear Grand Theft & D.R. one holdin it down.

Dj Illo - The Truth Radio (08/07)

Monday, September 24, 2007

Hedspin & Illo Mix - Truth Radio Show


So if you're not living in the GTA, and never log on to Flo 93.5 live to air saturday nights, you may not know about Team Canada's "The Truth" radioshow. You may also not know that The Eh! Team has joined forces to make it the best live to air in the country (i dont get out much so i don't know the authenticity of said statement). This week Hedspin & I joined forces to do the show. I handled the slower, hippy-hoppy stuff, while Hedspin killed the more dancey stuff. Expect to be able to download a new mix every sunday on here!


Illo & Hedpsin - The Truth Radioshow (09/22/07)

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Bee Bee Oh Why



Remember when all of the djs played records? I remember playing at bboy jams back in the day and I would always save this track until the final rounds of the competition knowing that the bboys would get amped as soon as I dropped it. The first time I ever heard this track was on a bboy video and I called every person who might know what song it was and held the phone to the tv hoping that they would be able to recognize it. After several attempts it was my man Momo who told me that it sounded like a 70's prog rock band called CAN. Still not knowing who it really was the only words I could make out in the song were "Hey You!" and "Vitamin C". So I took this lead and went to a used record / cd store called Otis and asked if he's ever heard of a song called Vitamin C by a band called Can. The owner's eyes lit up and he said that he loved the band and had just burned a compilation of his favourite Can songs onto a CD. He gave me the CD and told me that the cover of the Can record I'm looking for has a picture of a big can on it and that it's pretty hard to come by. I left the store with the Cd in my hand, not knowing how valuble it would be to me in the future. One year later I went to go look at some records at my man Birdapres'. He had the record, I bought it off him, and now I still have to track down another original copy.

To this day I only have one copy of this record making it impossible for me to ever loop the break. The record was also a really bad pressing so in order to hear it I had to crank the gain, the treble, and the bass to the max in order to make it somewhat better sounding. Now with the digital revolution I took a good quality mp3 version found on the cd that was given to me and added an 8 bar extended intro for smooth mixing and juggling purposes.

CAN - VITAMIN C (8 BAR INTRO EDIT)

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Filipino Funk



So I just recently got married on a remote island in the Philippines. I also managed to play some gigs out in Manila and do some digging out there with my man Shortkut who happened to be booked out there at the same time. This was quite the experience as we were goin to these little pawn shop looking places that were based out of peoples houses. It was 40 degrees celcius (Eh!) while we were going through all these records and I remember some of the owners of these places breaking out their electric fans and trying to accomodate us as we were rummaging through all of their shit. They were all probably laughing at us because we were drenched in sweat and our fingers had turned black from all the dust. I've decided to post a couple of items that I found out there. The first song is off a series of RCA Compilations based in the Philippines called Blackbuster released in the mid to late 70's. What these compilations consist of are mainly covers of disco jams played out by a Filipino funk band. I don't know exactly how many comps there are in this series but I managed to find 6 of them.

Blackbuster - Shack Up

Allow Me To Introduce Myself...


So maybe some introductions are needed around here. Being that we're all from different parts of the globe, this could be a good way to get acquainted. My name's Illo and i make remixes, mashups, hiphop beats, and anything else that will keep me busy when im at home smoking weed.

Being that this is The Eh! Team, i figured i would post 2 remixes i did involving fellow Canadians.

Neil Young vs Outkast - Horse With New Beat


Roz Bell vs Dj Illo - Yesterday Man

PS - Im the guy in that pic not djing for Kayne West!

enjoy

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Awwww Shiiieeeeet

So the way this came about,,, is myself, Grandtheft, and Hedspin were all sitting around, and I was saying how "I generally hate blogs, don't have the patience to navigate through them, and think they are overall kinda gay." Heds and Grandtheft were shocked. They were like "yoooo where do you get all your music from?" My response was a shrug of the shoulders. Buuuut,, then I got the thinking. Maybe I'm missing out on some key music by not being on these blogs. So my fellow Eh Team counterparts started showing me everything from soul/funk blogs, to new wave and Rmx blogs. Who knew??? Lol. So within about 5 mins my tune completely changed from "I hate blogs" to "this blogging shit is genius,, and maybe we should do one." From anti-blogger to blogmaster,,, probably a day I will never live down. A dark day indeed.

Flo