Appetite for Deconstruction - A multi-genre, multi-generational mix

[bedouin]

Haroon Al-Qahtani Presents:

Appetite for Deconstruction - A multi-genre, multi-generational mix

http://homepage.mac.com/alqahtani/.Public/appetite-for-deconstruction.mp3

Mix tapes throughout the years have generally been themed around particular eras, genres, or eras in a specific genre; sometimes they focus on specific artists, technical abilities, or in their lowest form, a presentation of new songs, oftentimes not even mixed, but accompanied with plenty of shouting.

Appetite for Deconstruction should be consumed in its entirety as a complete work, not just a series of songs chained together through scratching and mixing.  By ripping apart and recombining various styles, some of which seem at odds with one another, we find something new.

In short, this is the essence of Hip-Hop.  New Order and INXS, if presented within the correct context, can be equally 'Hip-Hop' as Nas or Run DMC.  After all, what was "Rock Box" about?  Enjoy!

Track list:

1) Intro
2) Cre-a-Tine (Italo Syrup Mix) - Cool Breeze
3) The Chase (Scratch Mix) - Giorgio Moroder
4) Blue Monday - New Order
5) White Horse - Laid Back
6) Homeless Interlude
7) Hard Times - Run DMC
8) Smerphies Dance - Spyder D
9) Home Computer (Hard Mix) - Kraftwerk
10) Love Come Down - Evelyn "Champagne" King
11) Shout (Jazzy Mix) - Tears for Fears
12) One Touch - The Wreck All Stars
13) I Need You Tonight - INXS
14) Catch the Beat - T-Ski Valley
15) Show You the Way to Go (Shacked Up Mix) - The Jacksons
16) I Turn My Camera On - Spoon
17) Wishing Well - Terence Trent D'Arby
18) Girls - The B-Boys
19) Fresh is the Word (Shante's Mix) - Mantronix
20) Sign o' the Times (Cops & Robbers MIx) - Prince
21) What's Going On (Impeach the Messenger Mix) - Marvin Gaye
22) Spread My Wings (Continuation Mix) - Troop
23) Rock Box - (Dub Vocal Presidential Rick James Mix) - Run DMC
24) All Night Long - The Mary Jane Girls
25) Tell Me - Groove Theory
26) Nas is Like - Nas
27) Society is Brainwashed - Ill Bill
28) Unstoppable - Mic Geronimo
29) Rockin' It - Fearless Four
30) Queens Only Appearance (From Will C's "Down the Dial")
31) Just Another Day - Queen Latifah
32) Deeper - Boss
33) This is the End
34) Does Anybody Know I'm Here? - The Dells

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[worker201]

"Appetite for Deconstruction" was the originally planned title for rock journalist Chuck Klosterman's first book.  It was about hard rock and heavy metal of the 80s as a soundtrack to an average Midwestern life, so the titular reference to GunsN'Roses first album "Appetite for Destruction" was quite appropriate.  For some reason, the publisher didn't see it that way, and decided to call the book "Fargo Rock City", since the author lived in North Dakota.

I'm sure you didn't need to know that.

[bedouin]

Mine is actually in reference to the Philosophical theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction

[worker201]

Nice little mix, by the way.

[Lead Head]

Yarh, I liked the mix as well

[Lead Head]

Curious, around ~4:20 in, what is the song called?

[bedouin]

I think you're probably talking about "Blue Monday" by New Order.

[Lead Head]

That would be the one, thanks.