DJ Jo Quaid 5

 Download: DJ Jo Quaid 5 Brings You The Hits Mix (an 8-bit produced mixtape)

DJ Jo Quaid 5 is the Wrong Music affiliated electronic artist Chris Moss Acid when Chris Moss Acid does 8-bit style music. This mixtape was made in the late 90s but still holds up well with me. I've never heard a mix quite like it still--it's a great blend of gameboy, remixes and covers, party, and ridiculousness and it moves along very well. It's also a good length for this sort of thing at just under 30 minutes.

Chris Moss Acid has tons more free music available here:
http://chrismossacid.kaen.org/2006.html and http://chrismossacid.kaen.org/downloads.html

Short Pockets

www.shortpockets.com
My previous favorite thing that Short Pockets had done was his part in the band Take No Damage (who Country Death was also a part of), in particular their awesome dreamily-harsh-reality/post-post-depression/indie-pop album: Mushroom Clouds and Silver Linings. Solid Fucking Gold has similar production values, but is definitely instrumental hiphop. To me SFG sounds like if a good southern rap producer decided to make an instrumental hiphop album primarily using samples right after having to deal with a death to someone very close to them and had been spending time dealing with it by watching lots of movies, smoking and drinking, and listening to bass heavy music as their eyes glaze over but their brain stays busy and time goes on.
Or, how's this, it kind of sounds similar to/like a combination of Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer, Blockhead, and Michael '5000' Watts.

Lil Mook

http://www.datpiff.com/DJ_Pyrex_Lil_Mook_No_Im_Not_Futuristik.m81402.html

or: noimnotfuturistik.torrent if you prefer torrents.

Download it! I think this was Lil Mook's 9th mixtape of 2009, released late in the year. Lil Mook could in some ways be compared to Jurrarri a.k.a. Ju a.k.a. Ju Ferrarri a.k.a. 'Rrarri, and Ju is on one of my favorite tracks on this mixtape; "Walked In tha Spot". I also especially liked "No Im Not Futuristick" feat. Trapmob, "Bands In The Sofa" feat. Jigg, "What About You", "Crazy" feat Darryl J & Cran Neely and "Wake Up To The Trap" feat. Lethal GK. Really there there aren't too many skippers on here.
If you don't know, Lil Mook has a fairly simplistic yet zone-y flow and mainly raps about things like how crazy his shoe game is, but in that 1017 Bricksquad way of rapping with confidence that makes people who hear him quickly form a strong opinion on him. Also, he's usually about this excited on his mixtape covers.

Country Death mixtape

The Country Death mixtape was uploaded in February or so. I've been listening to it a lot since then cause it's really good. Kind of noisy-indie-pop-stoner-depression, mixed and produced by Superstar Allstar.
Downlod it at countrydeath.com or right here:

http://wrongmanproductions.com/countrydeath/downloads/CD_666_EP_MP3.zip

Also check out his video for the first song on the mixtape:

Why isn't Freddie Gibbs famous yet?

If you haven't heard him yet, Freddie Gibbs has that rare sort of voice and flow that makes you know that every word out of his mouth is the most important truth that you could possibly hear, whether that's actually the case or not. His lyrics are hard, interesting, and high and his flow always adds to the music and it flows (yep, his flow flows). Also, he's the best artist to come out of Gary, Indiana since the Jackson 5.

Of his 4 mixtapes that I listen to, I think that Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik is probably the best:

Download Mixtape | Free Mixtapes Provided by DatPiff.com

I hear that there's a non-dj version of this mixtape floating around the internet too, but DJ Skee actually does a pretty good job staying out of the way as well as keeping the mix going.