We been listening to you hip hop fans that want to hear more of our music. The Exhibition Files is our chance to give you some of the music we been working on. First up is OkiZoo’s Chi town transplant PreCise.  This song is about a young lady named Colors and what the wrong choices can lead to. Produced by Big Lo.

Download: PreCise – Colors (prod. by Big Lo)

REWIND: Download – PreCise – Eisa meets Afro

OkiZoo’s Junglist and Hip Hop DJ, Selrahc decided to spread a little holiday cheer by recording himself doing a little scratch practice with his cell phone(very sideways). Be on the look out for Drum & Bass mixes from him and DJ John Glist (say it fast) before the end of the year.  Also a little message to you DJ’s who live at home with your mom and aren’t very good. He’s coming for you!!! Merry Christmas.

P.S. our DJ’s (Tek Steez, John Glist, Selrahc, Alf, Jam On) are awesome!

Large Professor, formally of the rap group Main Source and hip hop producer extrodinare, chats with the people at Amobea about digging, making records, and his Vinyl Gloves. Shouts out to the Left Coast and Amobea Music.

(If you don’t remember how the Extra P gets down, scroll down to that last Boomin’ System post and peep game)

New segment! OkiZoo is not just hip hop. I want to be clear on that. You will start to see us spread our wigs and all the other pieces of the puzzle coming together real soon, so don’t be surprised. Our way of thinking is that all these elements belong together. With that being said, every Friday we will bring you the Arcade Archives. 10 songs  selected from the world of Electronica/Hard House from our very Tek Steez aka Camel Toe Jones. If you didn’t know, in addition to getting Photoshop to do his bidding, and being a card carrying MILF hunter, he’s also an incredible DJ with a one of a kind funky ear. So he decided to dip into his electronic/soul library to give you the songs that are the soundtrack for partying on the weekend. Hopefully these are the type of songs you hear when you go to a party/club. If not, LEAVE AND FIND COOLER PLACE TO BE. Welcome to the Arcade!

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LETS GET THE WEEKEND STARTED!!!

Boy 8 Bit – The Cricket Scores

When talking about electronic composers, Boy 8 Bit should be somewhere on the top of your list.  Using an Amiga to pump out 8 bit bounce, this dude crafts track after track with the agenda of  touching all end of the musical spectrum. Peep the cricket….. diffidently not the normal Trance music you may be use to turning off.

Atmosphrique – Metro Area

Coming Straight out of BROOKLYN, New York  Metro Area is easily one of you Mom’s new Favorite groups. Formed by producers Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani, these two push R&B, disco and boogie to new definitions. This Shit is Smooth….and that is all that needs to be said.

Lo-Fi-Fnk – Change Channel (Kaos remix)

I really am a fiend for those addicting baselines. Kaos on the remix of a Lo-Fi-Fnk track…..golden. You really have to enjoy this track as a whole as the direction of the track often changes right when you want it to. The drummy feal in the breakdowns, mixed in with some amazing horns are really what tie the whole track together. Is your T.V. stuck on MTV……wake the fuck up….Change the Channel.

General Elektriks – Terms & Conditions Apply

This track really speaks for it’s self. General Elektriks, started byHervé ‘RV’ Salters is currently in BERKELEY, California where he is putting in work with the Quannum crew. Check the  new album out….”Good city for Dreamers”. Vintage Jazz has come along way.

Crystal Castles – Magic Spells

My video game sessions must always have a sound track. Crystal Castles has taken that to a whole new level…..the level up.  Named after She-Ra’s crib,Ethan Kath and Alice Glass have found the perfect mix of 8 bit and glam vocals.

Yum Yum: Al Green (rmx)  -  Gotta Find a New World

You really can’t fuck up a  Al Green remix. DON’T get me wrong….2009 has definitely birthed some bullshit remixes by some bull shitty remixers , but this my friend is not one of them. Press play and enjoy.

Collin Hobbs – Coming Up (Riva Starr rmx)

Riva Starr is one of my favorite up and coming artist, with styles ranging from Disco craziness to tech house and Fidget. Look out for the BBC 1 Essential Radio mix on Jan 30th 2010. Let it bump.

R̦yksopp РEple

This track Eple is a electronic classic. If you don’t have this one by now you might be behind dude.  Consider this a blessing from Norway’s Röyksopp

Patrick Rassmusen – Hymn (Jahcoozi rmx)

“WE GOT MORE DRUGS IN THE BACK” Gridcore at it purest form. Jahcoozi remixes always come hard with plenty of glitch and baselines, this one is no different. New Ep out now called NAMEDROPPER .

Sissy – So Long (Kahuun rmx)

The kind of track that when listened to while driving inspires you go faster. Very entrancing vocals with a roller coaster of Jazzy melodies. Get ready to rewind son.

In the middle of 2007 was the first time I had ever heard the sounds of Perth, Australia’s Reggie “Ta-ku” Mathews production. The first thing I though was, WOW this dude really digs. I heard so many plush vintage sounds through his work. The drums were hard, the chops were brilliant, the bass was booming. I immediately knew he had what it took to go very far with his music. In a hip hop industry that is very fickle nowadays, he also proved to be a genuine person. OkiZoo has since then collaborated on various projects such as his Different Spaces LP which you will be hearing on blog.okizoo.com in the near future. Ta-ku has attended the prestigious and exclusive Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona, Spain in 2008 and taken home the crown in The Speak Easy Beat Down Battle in Perth for 2 years in a row. Perhaps the culmination of how fond we were for Ta-ku and his skills came from the admiration of OkiZoo’s own Theron Noble aka DJ Jam On. Theron has a very deep catalog of old soul records that he transfers from vinyl to his computer. While enlisted in the US Marine Corps (Semper Fi till we die) stationed in Iraq, Theron began sending samples to Ta-Ku and one by one Ta-Ku would weave his magic until it was a new creation. Thus THE WERAQ BEATAPE was born. A collaboration between Ta-ku’s recording home Paper Chain Records, OkiZoo, and distributed locally in Perth Australia by Highs and Lows boutique, this instrumental beat odyssey takes a “J Dilla – Donuts”  type direction where the soul of the sample is left intact and the drums are used as a vehicle to power the new chops. This collection of instrumentals are soulful from front to back. So download it here and get ready to enjoy this 48 minutes of Ta-ku beats!!!

Download: TA-KU & THERON NOBLE PRESENT: THE WERAQ BEATAPE

Reggie “Ta-ku” Mathews

Theron “Jam On” Noble

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When OkiZoo isn’t in the studio recording or killing some party till the break of dawn, we dabble around in some fun video editing. Our very own Daft Dodgers (if you don’t know who that is, it’s up to YOU to figure it out) decided to mess around with the Japanese anime series Cowboy Bebop, which is regularly seen on The Cartoon Network, and edit it to the sounds of  the New Young Pony Club’s “The Bomb“. Props to the homie Daft D. and The Ashitron Prototype for the super slick edits!!!

Cowboy Be-bomb! from Daft Dodgers on Vimeo.

So I woke up this morning, and said to myself, “I should check my Twitter, but first, my body demands Dijon mustard”. I, accustomed to the finer things in life, find most attempts at internet comedy to be bland and boring. *puffs Cuban cigar* After spreading Grey Poupon on a slice of wheat bread (because white bread is inferior), I sat down at my lame ass Twitter account and via my homie and bonafied hip hop purist Big Lo, I stumbled across something that we at okizoo.com thought was worthy of your time and pretty damn funny.