Search - DJ Bobby Evans :: Delicious Vinyl: 20 Years Fresh

They say time flies when you're having fun, but there's nothing like a great mixtape to bring back great memories... and create new sensations. Now, as the legendary Los Angeles record label Delicious Vinyl enters its third decade of operation, upstart DJ Bobby Evans has dusted and busted every nook and cranny of the label's catalog to create a stunning, 52-track retrospective CD "MiXXTape" that will rightly assume its place alongside DV's best-loved releases. In addition to seamless melds of famous hits by label stalwarts Tone Loc, Young MC, The Pharcyde, and The Brand New Heavies, the album includes lesser-known but no-lesser-quality jams by hardcore hip-hoppers Def Jef, Bucwheed and WhoRidaz, and a sizzling Reggae/Dancehall overcurrent featuring Mr. Vegas and Jovi Rockwell. And that's not all... In celebration of the fact that Delicious Vinyl is pushing things forward, the record also affords listeners an early opportunity to hear new tracks from DV s forthcoming "RMXXOLOGY" project. Electro club queen Peaches' new duet version of Tone Loc s "Wild Thing", Baltimore Club kings LaCrate & Samir's renovation of Young MC's "Know How" (currently zooming up the UK charts) and Bass Over Babylon's space dub of Born Jamericans "Boom Shak-A-Tack" are all featured to rump-wrecking effect. Masterminding the "MiXXTape" is L.A.'s Hip Hop production boy-wonder Bobby Evans. As half of the group Brother Reade (whose 2007 debut "Rap Music" lit up numerous year-end best-of lists), Evans skills prompted Stop Smiling Magazine to write: "Old school, gold school, new school, true school [he takes] all of what's great in Rap history and render it fresh, in every sense of the word." From his home studio in L.A.'s Echo Park, Bobby Evans speaks on the project: "The biggest challenge was to make it all cohesive and make it have an arc, because I was dealing with so much music created over a long span of time. DV has such a diverse catalog, so to get the spirit of say, The Pharcyde and Def Jef to go with a Mr. Vegas Dancehall hit, I designed interludes to make the feeling flow together better. "I knew Delicious Vinyl's main big jams, but digging through the masters and the label's entire catalog was really radical. I found out about groups that you'd otherwise never hear about, like Body & Soul. It was a learning experience for me, and then creating the mixtape was like taking a final exam... if final exams were fun to take!"