THURSDAY.

T-minus two days till Wild Life makes its debut at Branx, Portland's premiere bass cave.

Here is a quick run through of the past mini-mixes in preparation:
WILD LIFE MINI-MIX 3 by lifepartner
WILD LIFE MINI-MIX 2 by lifepartner
WILD LIFE MINI-MIX 2 by lifepartner

GET WITH THIS PORTLAND; THIS IS WHAT THE FUTURE SOUNDS LIKE.

THE FUTURE AS INSPIRATION

Here at the Wild Life HQ, we take the future seriously. Sure, it's something that a lot of geeky sci-fi nerds ramble on and on about (myself included), but in the realm of modern dance music, it's only thing that matters.
Am I confusing you yet? I'm talking future bass, speed garage, hyper dub... the shit that sounds like it was made on a god damn space ship.
There's a small and growing group of DJ's that are pushing this sound forward, one them would be London's Manara of blog/collective/party entity Night Slugs. I've really been feeling what she's been doing, along with her colleagues Bok Bok and L-Vis 1990, for a while now.
She recently released a new mini-mix for the very fine folks over at Discobelle. This mix is HUGE, and inspiring.

Manara - Miracles Mix
Paula Abdul – Cold Hearted (Dubstramental)
Roska- Gone to a Better Place
Aero Manyelo – My 8 Kids
Aaron Carl – Oasis (Nick Holder Vocal Dub)
DJ Gregory – Klappa
DJ Gazzeto – Cruel 22
Shaun-D – Spanish Fly (Kingdom remix)
Ikonika – Brown Acid remix
GIRL UNIT – I.R.L
Dj Deeon – Freak like Me (Brenmar mix)

xo
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DISAPPOINTED

This was one of my favorite songs of 2009. The 2010 video SUCKS.

The newest mini-mix!

It's just one week till Wild Life takes over. Here's the mix that takes a little trip back to where everything started, dancehall, before moving into the hard future shit.
Enjoy.

WILD LIFE MINI-MIX 3 by lifepartner

1. Cold drop - Lifepartner
2. Teenage Pregnancy - Vybz Kartel & Gaza Kim
3. Welcome to Jamrock - Damien Marley
4. Welcome to Jamrock (Lifepartner speedy fix) - Damien Marley
5. Room 24 (feat. Rage) - South Rakkas Cure
6. Dance Wid We (feat. Serocee) - South Rakkas Crew
7. Love (Lifepartner funky re-edit) - Keyshia Cole
8. Bad Gyal (Hot Like Fire) - Ms. Dynamite
9. Go (Crazy Cousinz remix) - Meleka
10. Blau! - Laidback Luke & Lee Mortimer
11. Spell it out - Tifa
12. Bill - Lisa Hype & Gaza Kim

CRAZY COUSINS

2009 was a big year for Crazy Cousins.
In my opinion, they're producing the most interesting funky tracks to date (no offense Silva). I'm biased though, due to their knack for plucking out beautiful vocal tracks from some of the best up and coming female vocalists in the UK.
Expect to hear this track at the debut party, January 28th with our very special guest DJ Nolita in her last performance before shippin out to the gay bay.



xo,
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SKYDIVING

Funky House is another genre we're gonna be givin some love at the party.
Funky is the love child of speed garage/bassline, latin percussion and island nation music.
It's pretty much everything I've ever dreamt about in dance music.

Here's a re-edit I did of Greenmoney's remix of Skydiving. I added some kick to the bass and tossed a vocal track from my girl Keyshia Cole over the intro beat.

Skydiving (Lifepartner vocal edit) by lifepartner

xo,
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Bouncehall Queen

Here at Camp Wild Life (which is currently located in Suburban Boston, and it's fucking cold) we enjoy cross-genre creations.
In this spirit, and in continuation of the 5 tracks for the last 5 days of 2009, I present to you a rough edit I did a while back using the vocal track from Beenie Man's 'Dancehall Queen' and an air raid siren laced nola bounce style instrumental.
Enjoy!

Bouncehall Queen by lifepartner

xo,
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