December 15th, 2008 by skidz | posted in .nl, download, free music, funk, hiphop, jazz, mix, soul |

Back in March I dropped my second mixtape called “More Than Meets The Ear vol. 2″. After doing the first volume, which is basically a mix with hiphop tracks and some of the originals (tracks that were sampled to make the beats)  blended in, I wanted vol. 2 to really stand out from the rest.

As you’ve probably noticed at the end of vol. 1 I’m a Transformers freak, and I decided to incorporate that hobby with my first love: collecting and mixing records. I had never done anything like this before so it took a lot of time to get the concept really together. Here’s a little overview:

• Watch Transformers: The Movie (1986) and the series over and over again for soundclips
• Choosing the records. Since vol. 1 had mostly older jams I wanted to keep this one fresh with more recent tracks
• Getting the records for the originals
• Picking covers from old records and getting some fools to recreate them
• Making a design to use as CD-spray
• Getting the materials (CDs, trays, spraycans, cardboard, cover-prints etc)
• Folding the covers
• Spraying the CDs and numbering them

We got Joris Pol to do the photography and Rutger to finish it off in Photoshop. The end result looks like this:

Check this post for more info on the covers.

As for the mix, Inf did the intro track and our boy Qualitee gave us a beat for the outro. The mixing proces was a back-and-forth play between me and niwa, and he also helped out in putting the interludes together.

Tracklist:

01 skidz & inf – jam that transmission (intro)
02 www.thebeats.nl – farewell (interlude)
03 reef the lost cauze – give it up
04 wax tailor ft. voice – the games you play
05 ugk ft. talib kweli – real women
06 www.thebeats.nl – the leader (interlude)
07 prodigy – stuck on you
08 saigon ft. kool g. rap – the letter p
09 evidence ft. kobe – all said and done
10 little brother – good clothes
11 freeway – this can’t be real
12 www.thebeats.nl – help revive the dead (interlude)
13 shells – why i love you
14 rhymefest – all i do
15 kool g. rap – risin’ up
16 skyzoo & torae – get it done
17 www.thebeats.nl – the return (interlude)
18 black milk ft. ahk – shut it down
19 marco polo ft. o.c. – marquee
20 outlines – waiting in line
21 erykah badu – honey
22 www.thebeats.nl – wisdom of the matrix (interlude)
23 ski beatz ft. camp lo – ticket for 2
24 snowgoons ft. el da sensei – show love
25 qualitee – roll out(ro)

Get the mix here, and check my site for news, info and playdates!