Couple a friendly reminder with an unfortunately meaningful day, and you end up getting gold.
Instead of making you dig back some months for Benzi’s summer theme-track, Get Right Radio Summer 09, here’s an oh-so-appropriate Skratch Bastid-assisted blend of Aaliyah’s “Rock The Boat” over the ideal “Summertime” anthem from a pre-Scientology Fresh Prince.
If you’re reading/listening to this while sun-soaking poolside, I hate you.
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Download — Aaliyah – “Rock The Boat (Skratch Bastid & DJ Benzi Remix)”
BOBO & Three/21 – Baby Girl: The Best OF Aaliyah 2 Disc Tribute Mixtape
Soulculture Presents Aaliyah Revisited Tribute EP
DJ Concept More Than A Woman: The Best Of Aaliyah (2001)
Previously — “Like It Was Yesterday…” | DJ Benzi – Get Right Radio Summer 2009 | DJ Skratch Bastid’s New 110% Mixtape
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one of the dopest blends I’ve heard in a while, and one that makes sense, too…
Slick!
Aaliyah, rest in paradise
Aaliyah, timbo, missy, and Playa….One of the best damn production crews in modern R&B.
yo this track is so sick! damn i miss this girls voice! RIP
Aaliyah Revisited – A 2009 Tribute EP
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Eight years to the day after the tragic passing of Aaliyah Dana Haughton, the original princess of R&B, ten of today’s progressively soulful artists have recorded interpretations of their favourite Aaliyah songs for Aaliyah Revisited – a 2009 tribute EP internationally curated by urban-music-and-culture online magazine SoulCulture.
Producer Colin Emmanuel of Black Einstein, who has worked with the esteemed likes of Eric Roberson, De La Soul, Beenie Man, KRS-One and Beverley Knight, enthuses, “I was – and am – a huge Aaliyah fan. She is one of my all time favourite female artists… whose output holds a very special place in my musical makeup… I rate her as a vocalist, not because she had an amazing voice, but because she knew exactly how to use her voice to the best results. Sometimes in the studio we’ll say ‘it needs an Aaliyah harmony.’ A very classy act; she was able to be sexy without having to put everything out there like most of today’s acts.”
Cool beans. Aaliyah was so talented. A celebrity I both admire and miss. It’s a shame what happened to her. The pop art painting I own of her is supercool and will be cherished forever!