backburner.mixtape-2004
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01 - Burner Boys (Nappy Roots "Aw Naw")

02 - Take It Again (Saukrates "Hate Runs Deep (remix)")

03 - Stop Your Barking (Jamal "Fades Em All (pete rock remix)")

04 - Said It Before (Biggie "Kick In The Door")

05 - Haltown Dodgers (Masta Ace, Buckshot & Special Ed "Crooklyn Dodgers")

06 - interlude (Chubb Rock, Jeru & OC "Crooklyn Dodgers '95")
- Name Up In Lights (Nine "Whutchu Want")

07 - Beef Potato Pie (Domino "Sweet Potato Pie")

08 - From Queens Comes Kings (Run DMC "Down With The King")

09 - We Made Us (Viktor Vaughn "Change The Beat")

10 - Smash TV (Baby & Clipse "What Happened To That Boy")

11 - Superguht (NORE "Superthug")

12 - Spoken Language (Smoothe The Hustla & Trigga The Gambla "Broken Language"),
- interlude (Supreme Being Unit "When It Gets To The Roach")

13 - Canadian Thanksgiving pt.1 (Maestro Fresh Wes "Another Funky Break")

14 - Canadian Thanksgiving pt.2 (DJ Serious "The Enlightening")

15 - Heaven For Sure (Souls Of Mischief "Never No More (76 Seville remix)");
- interlude (Non-Prophets "Bounce")

16 - The Gene Wilder pt.1 (Beyoncé "Work It Out (Rockwilder remix)")

17 - The Gene Wilder pt.2 (Method Man & Redman "The Rockwilder")

18 - Get Bisee (El-P "Dead Disnee (remix)" and "(LP version)")

19 - Obscene Obesity (OC "Time's Up")

20 - Faker Than Fuck (Main Source "Fakin The Funk")

21 - All In A Week (Organized Konfusion "Fudge Pudge (remix)"),
- Realest State (Cypress Hill "Real Estate")

22 - Beef Estate (Cypress Hill "Real Estate")

23 - Halifax Historical Homage (MC J & Cool G "So Listen")

24 - You Know Who You Are (EPMD "So Whatcha Sayin")

25 - DJ Beef Goes All-City (Olde Scottish - "Wildstyle (The Krush Handshake)")

26 - Do The Improbable (Jay-Z "Hovi Baby")



Backburner is: Fresh Kils, Dexter Doolittle, Uncle Fester, DJ Beef, Process, Jesse Dangerously, MF Deluxe, Thesis Sahib, Jay Bizzy, Ginzu, Johnny Hardcore, Wordburglar, Jabba The Kutt and Beat Mason.

We are also friends with Toolshed/Sequestrians and many other rappers.

This recording features 26 tracks. Every piece of music on the album comes from the hip hop 12” collections of Jesse D, Wordburglar, Fester and DJ Beef (plus one loaned by Skratch Bastid - thanks!). All praises due to the many talented producers whose beats we jacked!

Due to the itinerant nature of many of our members, not every one of us is represented on this mixtape (let alone any of the producers). Those who were involved in this mixtape are as follows:

Jay Bizzy - raps on 1,5,6,8,11,12,14,16,18,20,21,23,24,26
Johnny Hardcore - raps on 1,4,5,8,9,11,13,17,18,20,21,23,26
Ginzu - raps on 1,2,5,6,14,16,18,19,21
Jesse Dangerously - raps on 1,3,5,8,10,12,13,15,17,20,21,23,26
Fester - mixed instrumentals from 12” and rapped on 1,3,5,9,13,17,20,21,23
Wordburglar - rapped on 1,2,3,5,6,8,12,14,15,16,20,26
DJ Beef - all scratch routines and juggling
Beat Mason - engineered and mixed everything in ProTools
Dexter Doolittle - drove us around a bit, hung out, acted “cool”


For information on what 12”s were used, and other vital statistics on our posse, you have no choice but to visit www.backburner.ca

Also you should know that as good as we are at rapping, we might be even better at making beats. I don’t know. Maybe. Tough call. oh hey by the way...

Currently available Backburner releases:

- Self-titled albums from Johnny Hardcore, Word Burglar and Bending Mouth
- Thesis Sahib - Wartime Themesongs for the Modern Ego
- Jesse Dangerously - Eastern Canadian World Tour 2002
- Jay Bizzy - Hard Rhymes In The Maritimes


Coming soon from Backburner:

- Jay Bizzy - The Ghost Of Jacob Marley
- Johnny Hardcore - I Know What You’re Up To And I Don’t Like It
- Wordburglar - Burglaritis
- Jesse Dangerously - The So-Called Solo Project