Best Of Both Offices And Three/21 Present Lucid Dreams Vol.1 Mixed By Rik Cordero

If your into jazzy, boom bap'esque Hip-Hop and you dabble in some good, down-tempo, alternative rock as well, this mix is what you want. The second or third joint I've picked up from the Three/21 media group, "Lucid Dreams" is a tour de force of solid musical selections and so far everything Three/21 has dropped has been nothing short of stellar and arrestingly interesting.

Soulful, warm and relaying music from some of Hip-Hop's greatest musicians ever conjointly with some of Rock's murkiest headbangers, this joint defines cross-genre achievement. Built for popping in ya deck when you've successfully completed a hectic 5 hour night immersed in Vodka and Redbull, blunt haze and club debauchery, it's the background music needed as you wind down, stumbling back to your senses in your dingy apartment.

From Hip-Hop and Neo Soul guru's like Madlib, Dwele, Talib Kweli, Bilal and J.Dilla to Trip-Hop and Alt-Rock performer's like Radiohead, Portishead, The Smashing Pumpkins and Sinead O'Connor the actual mix is purely good music. I enjoy a good meshing of ideas and sounds as much as the next record store rat and that's basically why I think this is a great mixtape for my generation. We're all so influenced by the rebellious sounds of Hip-Hop, but also if your upbringing was similar to my own, you appreciate Rock and Grunge too because that's what your older, "Generation eX" sisters/brothers were bumping. I also was intrigued by the fact that Indy film and video director extraordinaire Rik Cordero was the mix man for all the music. I have always enjoyed his directoral chops, I figured the same would apply to his mix game and I was correct. His abilities for tracking together shit is admirable indeed.

-BIG D O





01. Lucid Dreams Intro
02. The Funky Lowlives - “Inside”
03. Thievery Corporation - “Facing East”
04. Portishead - “Sour Times”
05. Kenna - “I’m Gone”
06. Radiohead - “Scatterbrain”
07. N.E.R.D. - “Bobby James Interlude”
08. Lambchop - “Up With People”
09. Madlib - “Stepping Into Tommorow”
10. Mr. Lif - “Friends & Neighbors”
11. The Roots - “Sacrifice”
12. Jay Dee - “Think Twice”
13. Vivian Green - “Ain’t Nothing But Love”
14. Res - “Ice King”
15. Dwele - “Subject”
16. Talib Kweli Feat. Bilal - “Talk To You”
17. Dzihan & Kamien - “Smile”
18. Thievery Corporation - “Lebanese Blonde”
19. N.E.R.D. - “Bobby James”
20. Gorillaz - “New Genius”
21. The Stone Roses - “Shoot You Down”
22. Smashing Pumpkins - “Set The Ray To Jerry”
23. Badly Drawn Boy - “The Shining”
24. Portishead - “Strangers”
25. Sinead O’connor - “Healing Room”
26. Lucid Dreams Outro

http://www.three21media.com/lucid01/lucid-full.zip