Our amigos Don Leisure and Metabeats aka Darkhouse Family dropped a great little mixtape for the Friends Of Friends site. Here it is with a bit of blurb from the crew...

“Darkhouse Family is the product of many smokey studio hours shared by Don Leisure & Metabeats… Linking up in late 2007 the duo gelled quickly over a shared musical heritage of hiphop and uk club culture and a loose beat tape project began to grow. This later turned into DHF after the old chopped up soul sample sound was replaced by a more synthed out, smoked out & synthetic sound that the group is known for… The Family Trees EP on Fat City Recordings put Darkhouse on the map with solid DJ support from Martyn, The Gaslamp Killer, Alex Nut, Illum Sphere, Kutmah, Dibiase & more.

This mix is just a collection of some new stuff we’ve been sent and are feeling and some of our latest beats also. One of the loose ideas of the mix was to showcase a bunch of new producers who are making dope tracks who may not be household names to everyone.

We are planning an LP in 2011 but will release some more material on Fat City hopefully this year and also undertake some remix work for Frite Nite and Jon Wayne. Don Leisure also has some solo project work on the bubble and Metabeats is set to release his 2nd LP on Associated Minds and also continues to shake skirts with his CRST project.”

FoF Mix #5 Darkhouse Family - "Pump That In Your 4×4" by FoFMusic

Tracklisting:

DHF – INTRO
MADLIB – SLAPPED UP [SLAP N CLAP] – STONES THROW
EXILE – POPULATION CONTROL [SAMIYAM MIX] – PLUG RESEARCH
DARKHOUSE FAMILY – DE LA GHETTO – CDR
DAM FUNK x BIGGIE – GOING BACK TO CALI – CDR
LLOYD BANKS – BEAMER, BENZ OR BENTLEY (INST) – EMI
LAZER SWORD – WEB SWAG – INNOVATIVE LEISURE
DARKHOUSE FAMILY – RED LEATHER – CDR
J DILLA – DON’T NOBODY – HOUSE SHOES RECORDINGS
DEVONWHO – WINDMILSHIRE – CDR
DON LEISURE – PUNTA SKALA – CDR
LAKRITZE – TROPICAL MEAT – ROBOX NEOTECH
SLUGABED – BREADCRUMBS & BUTTERBEANS – CDR
EPROM – PSYCHO – CDR
JOHN WAYNE – A BANGER – CDR
SHIGETO – AND WE GONNA [SAMIYAM RMX] – GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
DIBIA$E – DUNGEON DUST – CDR
METABEATS – OPA BEAT – CDR
ILLUM SPHERE – ONE FOR DIMLITE – CDR
BUSTA RHYMES – GENESIS – FLIPMODE