Mixpak 024 is brought to you by New Jersey’s DJ MikeQ, a pioneer of the new generation of Ballroom DJs that’s been steadily bubbling up from the underground NY scene and making waves worldwide. Producing tracks and remixes in the vogue fem style, MikeQ has put his magic looping touch to Chelley, Egyptrixx and Willow Smith to name but a few, and heads up his own production company, Qween Beats. His Mixpak FM offering is 90 minutes of brash, club-driven sounds, jumping between Ballroom and Jersey club. It includes tracks and remixes from Vjuan Allure, DJ Jayhood, DJ Tameil, Kingdom and more, alongside tracks from his forthcoming EP on Fade To Mind, released on November 22nd. It will be sure to get you (trying) to vogue.

[For a more comprehensive look into the Ballroom scene, read the XLR8R feature from earlier this year]

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Mixpak FM 024: DJ MikeQ

Mixpak FM 024: DJ MikeQ Tracklist

The Soul Shaker
Audio Ball Ha
Walk For Me
Back It Up
Back It Up 2011
Tenderness
Bounce Like Me
nuCunt
Get Back
That Bitch Right Thurr
Super Hair Ha
Gurk That Shit
Let It All Out 2012
Vogue Bitch
Moment 4 Life
Stalker Ha
Deep Inside
Ha Dub Rewerkd Rmx
The HA Dub Rewerkd
Ice ICe Bay (Dance)
My Bad (MikeQ Ballroom Rmx)
Baby Got Back
Baby Got Back 2
I Whip My Ha (ReEdit)
Left, Right
Hot In Here
Poison
Count Da Pussy
The Master Blaster
Dig Where Im Comin From
No Habla Ingles (Americano)
We No Speak Americano Ballroom Mix
Slangin Dis Dick/PussyDrive U Crazy
The Pump
Bring It To The Wall
Cunty Rendezvous
Get Da Patty Cake Goin 2
Mizrahi Ha
Sexy Walk
The End
You Just Cant Take It
Liberation Front (MikeQ Remix)
Drummers Pump
Push It
10,000 Screaming Faggots
The Elite Blast
Guernica – Saxo
Lift U Up
Work
Done (MikeQ Remix)
She Will

Melé’s brand new EP, Starlight, drops right here on Mixpak records on Tuesday September 13th. XLR8R are exclusively streaming the EP as of today, get over there to hear all four tracks in full before they drop. Stay tuned for more exclusives.

Uproot Andy supplied SF’s XLR8R with this incredible mix that bounces across funky, dancehall, and his usual Latino madness. TNT dropping into R1 Ryders? YES PLEASE! (Oh and there may even be a Mixpak release and a Dre Skull remix in there!)

Go here to listen and download.

In case you’ve been sleeping on the brilliance that is Night Slugs, XLR8R have kindly invited Girl Unit for their latest podcast. Dubplate and unreleased tunes galore!

Head here for the DL.

Not since the days of Bobby Konders’ and Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez’s ragga-hip-hop hybrids of the early to mid-’90s has the US-Jamaica bashment connection seemed so energized as it does with Brooklyn producer Dre Skull’s Mixpak label.

Buy the July/August issue of XLR8R magazine to check out a nice profile of Mixpak in their Labels We Love feature. If you have trouble getting the hard copy, read the entire issue online.

Matt Shadetek’s solo instrumental album came out last week and it features some impressive production that explores the intersections of UK garage, funky and the low end of the sound spectrum. The world needs more full length albums in these genre lanes, so do your part by supporting Matt Shadetek’s Flowers LP now. If you need any convincing, listen to Matt Shadetek’s recent XLR8R podcast which features dancehall, UK funky, grime and a bunch of his own productions.

As we ready Natalie Storm’s Mixpak EP, she continues to do bigger and bigger things. Check the current issue of XLR8R magazine which is out now (you can read it online here). From the article,

[Natalie] says her future collabos will span R&B, pop, one-drop, calypso, and electro, genres in which she’s already established her presence. she voiced five songs on Enur’s 2008 album, Raggatronic, recorded “Look Pon Me” on the Sticky-produced Jumeirah Riddim, and has plans to keep experimenting. “no matter what style I work with—electro, R&B, pop—I will always be representing Natalie Storm vibes,” she says, describing her approach as a mix of patois vocals, electro sounds, and hardcore garrison beats. “it’s a mash-up, a bashment sound.

Meanwhile her Look Pon Me video is making strides in the UK market getting spins on MTV UK, Channel AKA and Flava TV. Pick up “Look Pon Me” on iTunes, Beatport and all quality digital stores.

Dre Skull helms the most recent XLR8R podcast previewing a bunch of unreleased Mixpak material. Check it out.