So a while back the promo for the new Sexual Harrassment remix EP on Citinite dropped in our inbox. This four track EP features the likes of Dam Funk, Sweat X and Jimmy Edgar taking on Sexual Harrassment – a short lived funk/punk group from the 80s whose subject matter was raunchy and makes for amazing material for the remixes. We loved it. So when Citinite got in touch about airing a Spoek Mathambo (one half of Sweat X) mix themed around the group it was a no brainer. After all the emotions we’ve been through here recently in Japan we all need some good old fashioned fun.

What follows is a dope mix featuring the likes of Kraftwerk, Grace Jones, Timbaland, Too Short, Wiley, Sun Ra alongside Jimmy Edgar, Rashad, Magic Mike, Sweat.X and more. Just looking at the tracklist makes you sweat.

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A big thanks to Citinite for this one. Check their blog for more buy links for the digital of the EP, it’s out this week. And peep their previous releases from Ad Bourke among others if you haven’t yet – and you should have cos we’ve been airing them!

For now though grab a member of the opposite sex, crank it up and get sweaty.

Download Spoek Mathambo – Sexual Harrassment mix (right click and save as)

Tracklist:
Kraftwerk – Metal On Metal
Grace Jones – Pull Up The Bumper (Larry Levan Garage mix)
Caiphus Semenya – Angelina
Johnny Moog – Fantastic Lover (Drive Me Home remix)
Timbaland – Come Around
Sun Ra – Nuclear War
Beppe Gioia & Sal – Yes Sir (Dub)
DJ Magic Mike – Give It To ‘Em
Sampology – You ft Lady Chann
Oskido & Professor – Jezebel
Tittsworth ft Maluca – Unknown
Artist Unknown – Ribola
Detroit Grand Pubahs – Big Onion
Kriskha – Khannibal
Kriskha – Krumpet
Ready for the World – Oh Sheila (Ultimix)
Dam Funk & Lil Kenny – You Are My Sexual Connection
DJ Magic Mike – Magician Bassing It Up
Sweat.X – We Know What You Want
Party Boyz – HaHa Bitch (Manare & Marvy Da Pimp Remix Feat. Spank Rock & J0ke)
DJ Rashad – U See Dem Hoes
DJ Rashad – Living That Pack Life
Wiley – Avalanche
Robert O’Dell – If I Gave You A Party
Jimmy Edgar – Sheer, Make, Serve
Too Short – I Need A Freak (iamxl remix)
Jimmy Edgar & G.rizo – Excercise Your Ass Off
Sexual Harrasment – I Need A Freak

Regardless of what you might think of the current beat/instrumental hip hop movement, one of the most interesting things about it is just how well the whole thing lends itself to the reinterpretation of other genres and classics. It’s no surprise considering that reinterpretation has been a cornerstone of hip hop production since the beginning, when loops and breaks were getting chopped up. Today though the new generation of producers are taking things further thanks in no small part to the internet and modern technology allowing people to link together regardless of distance and make use of a wealth of recorded music.

With this in mind, it was a surprise to see something pop up on twitter yesterday about a bunch of producers, including L.A’s Ras G, having released a mix of reinterpretations of Sun Ra. The surprise quickly turned to pleasure when I started listening to it. There isn’t a wealth of information about it, beyond a tracklist, some art (one of which is used in this post) and a link to a myspace page for Re:source who seem to be the mastermind behind this effort. Looking at the tracklist it features quite a few known names to us, such as the aforementioned Ras G, Powell from Paris, Elaquent from Canada and Ichiro from Tokyo. Can’t say I’m too familiar with all the others though a few names ring a bell. See below for yourself.

As for the music, as I said it’s definitely worthy of your time and a keeper as far as I’m aware. It’s easy to see the inspiration that all the producers drew from, Sun Ra’s music, and yet they’ve all managed to come through with different takes, sounds, moods and atmospheres resulting in a 1h30 of instrumental goodness. Definitely a fitting tribute to an artist who I think would no doubt approve of such a project.

Looking on the myspace it seems the good people over at Monday Jazz are going to be airing this on their show, but in the meantime you can download it from the link below. Big thanks to @scaloni for the tip!

Download the mix here (via sendspace, zip file)

Alternative link:
Download the zip here

Tracklist:
Electric Egypt the invisible spectrum
Ras_G jouful noise!!!
Space Monk hello sun ra
Afro Bluu all systems go
SoulJim sun ra beat
Ichiro mori
Movementss cosmos
Powell popcorn contact
Skipless sometimes the universe speech
Samon Kawamura antique black
Sauce travel
SK.ILL 5:49 in the a.m.
Blak Maul china gate
Space Monk majestic waves
Stevo into the sun
Sudan Life what i learned from le sony’r
Elaquent calling planet earth
The Billion Dollar Quartet sun ra project
Cozmos one for the sun
Infinite Potentials not like planet earth
SK.ILL graveyard planet
-G-R-A-D-E- summer in paris
Ravage Beats 2012 sun ra 2012 mix
Don Bo anhk
Blunted Monks lars vertoht de sun ra et
Samon Kawamura imagination
Soul Kid shine like the sun
SoulJim Moon Shoes
-G-R-A-D-E- bad character
Dank Grooves the final sun
Jomac sun rawness
The Samurai i am sun ra
Depakote one for the sun
Sun Ra space is the place (Live)