holding down the underground
image courtesy of brilliantly mad!
On a frozen January evening, party people of Chicago rolled out and set the night on fire! A packed house had good vibes all around.
Thanks to all who represented dashing the ghosts of nye’s bad mojo to the curb!
sets this month from Striz, Radiohiro, and Adrienne Sanchez! As always, right click or control click to download the set…
Striz @ Smartbar with DJ Krush 10/12/07
Tickets for DJ KRUSH @ Empty Bottle on 1/27/10 available HERE
Couldn’t have asked for a more proper celebration of 1 year’s worth of freakin!
Photo gallery courtesy of Brilliantly Mad HERE
Another epic night of freakin easy on Chicago’s west side. Thanks to all who came out and made the night so dope – guests and artists. Here are three sets recorded live that night.
- as always right-click to download
Here are links to a couple live DJ mixes at Smartbar that I kinda like 
Striz @ Acid Test 7/29/09 (All Vinyl, House)
AND
Enjoy!
For the beginning of this mix project, please see: 2000 and 2001
OK party people, here is two more years for yah. I’m really enjoying this project so I hope you are enjoying it too. Post up your comments in the comments section.
Tracklisting:
2002
DJ Shadow ft. Mos Def- Six Days (Remix) (prod. DJ Shadow)
RJD2 ft. Blueprint- Final Frontier (prod. RJD2)
DJ DSL- Beats Fur Die Party (prod. DJ DSL)
DJ Vadim ft. Demolition Man- Who Me (prod. DJ Vadim)
Zion I- Kharma (prod. Amp Live)
Jurassic 5- Freedom Inst. (prod. DJ Nu-Mark)
Emanon- What You Live For (prod. Aloe Blacc)
Edan- Mic Manipulator (prod. Edan)
RJD2- Ghostwriter (prod. RJD2)
J-Live- MCee (prod. J-Live)
Mystik Journeymen ft. Me’Shell N’Degeccello- Jambalaya (prod. Sunspot Jonz)
2003
Boom Bip- U R Here (prod. Boom Bip)
Punjabi MC- Mundian To Bach Ke (prod. Punjabi MC)
No Luck Club- Percussion Funktion (prod. The Chan Brothers)
Chops ft. Mystic- No Pressure (prod. Chops)
J-Zone- Too Many Babies Inst. (prod. J-Zone)
Livesavas- Head Exercise (prod. JUMBO The Garbageman)
Soul Position- Printmatic (prod. RJD2)
Diverse- Ain’t Right (prod. Madlib)
Lexicon ft. Dizzy Dustin- Party Party People (prod. Vin Skully)
Atmosphere- Apple (prod. A.N.T.)
two chicago house icons
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Booya, Chicago West-Town represented full force at this year’s WestFest. Like last year illmeasures was once again on hand to provide the ill-sound (we have 3 blown sub drivers to proove it!). illmeasures’ own Justin Reed and Striz anchored Saturday and Sunday respectively. The other DJs were cool as shit, the crowd was electric…We love you chi-town!
Sunday
Striz – Downtempo into Broken beats & House
Special thanks to BassByThePound/Smallbar and the West Town Chamber of Commerce.
DJ Craze - getting ILL on Chicago Ave.
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Booya, Chicago West-Town represented full force at this year’s WestFest. Like last year illmeasures was once again on hand to provide the ill-sound (we have 3 blown sub drivers to proove it!). illmeasures’ own Justin Reed and Striz anchored Saturday and Sunday respectively. The other DJs were cool as shit, the crowd was electric…We love you chi-town!
Saturday
DJ Willy Joy – pop, house and electro house
Mark Gertz/Trancid – electro house
Million $ Mano – house and freestyle
DJ Craze – electro house – first half only (mc obliterated most of second half)
Special thanks to SmartBar and the West Town Chamber of Commerce.
Big up the freakeasy massive!
July Freakeasy was off the chain celbrating DhakFu’s bday and Ixnee and Hax’s Bon Voyage. rented sound blew the roof of the mutha. Where were you?
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