Peace y’all. We’re back it’s another episode of THE JUST RECORDS PODCAST. I can’t believe we’re at episode 10! Thank you so much for listening. This month we have a special guest mix by the incredible BeatNick Dee. I’ve known Dee for quite sometime know. He is a crate digger in the truest sense. The man knows his records (which I cop from him from time to time). He’s been putting work for years dropping his incredible “International Breaks” series and his recent Prisma Music Library. He’s also quite the established producer who’s worked with the likes of Blu, Fredwreck, Ras Kass and more. Today we have the privilege of listening to an all vinyl mix he put together for the podcast so sit back and enjoy because he killed this mix. As always, thank you for listening.
MANIP
INTERVIEW
Favorite dollar bin record find.
Off the top of my head maybe the Home Grown II album with Nohelani Cypriano – Lihue featured on it. Found 2 really clean copies both for a dollar. Not super rare or anything but just good music. Either that or the Swing to Fitness kids record that has like 10 drum breaks on it haha
What’s your current holy grail record?
I’d say Nimbus – Children of The Earth, or David Axelrod – Songs of Experience. Nimbus is Soulful Aor yacht rock vibes that I love, and Axelrod is just a stone cold classic that I’d love to have for the collection.
Any strange or funny diggin stories you could share?
I had stumbled into a Russian Book Store back in 2012 in LA. I asked the owner if they had any records, and he said he had a bunch of stuff in the back that he was willing to sell. They had all the dope Russian/Soviet prog/psych/jazz records. I’m going through stuff in this back room, and it smells pretty bad; dusty and dirty. He was a bit of a hoarder. He’s sitting back there at his little office set up and just randomly starts watching Porn! All casual like it’s nothing, while I was digging like 10 feet away! So bizarre. I just carried on and ignored it. I found some amazing stuff for cheap in there, so that awkward situation was worth it haha.
What are you currently working on?
I’m working with a really talented singer named Jenn Em, just making a bunch of songs that we’ll hopefully release soon. I have some songs with Michael Christmas, more work with Fredwreck, Cashius Green, Nana. A joint project with my boy Finyl. Also a new album I’m fully producing which will have a bunch of cool features, andhopefully some major label placements that’ll drop before the year is out.
Also new stuff for Prisma Music Library, and International Breaks Volume 18 should be out hopefully by the end of the year.
Where can people find you?
https://www.instagram.com/beatnickdee/
www.twitter.com/beatnickdee
www.beatnickdee.bandcamp.com
www.soundcloud.com/beatnickdee
For Drum Breaks/Sample Libraries – https://gumroad.com/prisma_music_library / https://gumroad.com/internationalbreaks
