This immaculately dressed mix, by Slovenia's DJ Nova, of .MODs
(and a few.MP3s) from the all-time tracking great, Sweden's
Mortimer Tee, serves to illustrate MT's prodigous and gorgeous
output from 1993 to the present day. Always operating beneath
the radar, Mortimer is an obscure prodigy who demands your
attention - like, why isn't this stuff major-label released?
So, whether he's busting out the heavy hiphop grooves of
"Streetjazz" or the mixed-up funk cut-ups of "Born Toulouse",
Mortimer's sample choices and rhythms are always exquisite.
His influences from abstract jazz, hiphop, dub, and funk,
and bad-ass vocal snippets combine to create the sound which
put him at the vanguard of things with his cult .MOD groups
Black Sista and Disciples of Ageema on the Amiga in the
mid-'90s.
And indeed, one mustn't forget the sterling mixing efforts of
DJ Nova, who really knows his Mortimer material, and even slips
in a crafty Alan Partridge sample or two in between his
neat mixing and lighting-fast cut-ups in this officially-
sanctioned-by-MT-himself mix. Nice one, guv.
The tracklisting for the mix is as follows (the original .MODs are hard to source
online right now, maybe the 'mythical' mod.soul.brother .MOD site mtk+friends might eventually make will fix that problem!):
1. Mortimer Twang - "Street Jazz" (Black Sista)
2. Mortimer Twang - "Near To You [Original/Loop]" (Divine Stylers)
3. Mortimer Twang - "Land" (Black Sista)
4. Mortimer Twang - "Beathead" (Black Sista)
5. Mortimer Twang - "Dirty Revenge" (Black Sista)
6. Mortimer Twang - "Medina's Revenge" (Choqolat Records)
7. Mortimer Twang - "Born Toulouse" (Black Sista)
8. Mortimer Twang - "Ageema Blues" (Black Sista)
9. Mortimer Twang - "Le Singe Bleu" (Black Sista)
10. Mortimer Twang - "Dream Soundtrack" (Black Sista)
11. Mortimer Twang - "MT's King Groove" (Black Sista)
12. Mortimer Twang - "Tranquility" (Black Sista)
13. Mortimer Twang - "Dub2000" (Disciples Of Ageema Blues)
14. Mortimer Twang - "Lovetheme From Me" (Dunka/Ageema)
15. Mortimer Twang - "Tranquil-mt981028" (Disciples Of Ageema Blues)
16. Mortimer Twang - "Originaldub" (Ryal)
17. Mortimer Twang - "Anita" (Divine Stylers)
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