It’s Wednesday. Time to kick off the shoes and just lay in bed staring at the ceiling trying to meditate yourself into a different dimension than the day to day grind. Relax. Put this mix on and get yourself into a hazed half conscious state and let the ethereal instrumentation lead you into some lucid dreaming. Or do some crazy closed eye line drawings. Or some stream of conscious writing. Or do some straight up easy like Sunday morning fucking. All these roads lead to a happy ending.

Cheers to Fader and Tycho for putting this mix together.

I may have failed to post about the passing of jazz giant Yusef Lateef but it did not go by without my notice. And thankfully a myriad of others were much more johnny on the spot with their tributes, including one of the hardest working men in the game, Giles Peterson (a giant in his own right). Here he blesses us with a tribute mix to one of my all time favorite jazz cats. You should also check out some of Yusef Lateef’s essays and visual artwork. Peace Mr. Lateef, you sure enough deserve it.

Pick up this mix and others on [warning Google Chrome gave a me a warning about this link] his site. The whole track list after the jump…

 1 Diamond D / SSO I went for Mine
2 Gang Starr / Clarence Wheeler & the Enforcers Dwyck
3 Nice and Smooth / Parliament Funky for You
4 Gang Starr Jean-Jacques Perrey Just to get a rep
5 Gang Starr / Manhattans Work
6 Gang Starr / Monk Higgins Code of the Streets
7 Kool G Rap / The Fatback Band Streets of NY
8 Big Daddy Kane / Albert King Young Gifted and Black
9 Kanye West / Mandrill Two Words
10 Kanye West / Mike Oldfield Dark Fantasy
11 Kanye West / Elton John Good Morning
12 Kanye West / Marvin Gaye Space Ship
13 Kanye West / Labi Siffri I Wonder
14 Kanye West / Natalie Cole Heard em Say
15 Jay-z / The Originals Guess Who’s Back
16 Jay-z / The 4 Levels of Existence Run This Town
17 Kanye West / Continent number 6 / King Crimson Power
18 Kanye West / Curtis Mayfield Flashing Lights
19 Talib Kweli / Nina Simone Get By
20 Reflection Eternal Move Somethin’
21 Smif N Wessun / Jack Bruce Bucktown
22 East Flatbush Project / Odetta Tried By 12
23 Jeru / Shelly Mann Come Clean
24 Jeru / Modern Jazz Quartet Can’t Stop the Prophet (remix)
25 Blackmoon / Ronnie Laws Who Got The Props
26 Crooklyn Dodgers Crooklyn
27 Crooklyn Dodgers / Young-Holt Unlimited Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers
28 Group Home / Ramsey Lewis Livin’ Proof
29 Group Home / Cameo Supa Star
30 Royce da 5’9 / Marc Hannibal Boom
31 Notorious BIG / Les McCann 10 Crack Commandments
32 Notorious BIG / Bobby Caldwell Sky’s the limit
33 AZ / Lou Donaldson Your World Don’t Stop (original version)
34 NAS / The Dells If I Ruled the World
35 Nas / Chic Just a Moment
36 Big L / James Gilstrap Flamboyant
37 Big Pun / Brenda Russell Still Not a Player
38 2pac / Zapp Get Around
39 Ice Cube / Evelyn Champagne King You Know How We Do It
40 Dr. Dre / Soul Mann & the Brothers XXplosive
41 Dr. Dre / David McCallum Next Episode
42 2Pac / Joe Cocker / Ronnie Hudson & The Street People/ Zapp / California Love
43 Snoop Dogg / The Counts / P. Funk What’s My Name
44 Snoop Dogg / Laid Back Drop it like it’s Hot
45 Raekwon / Earl Klugh Ice Cream
46 Raekwon/ Koko Taylor Incarcerated Scarfaces
47 Method Man / Jerry Butler Bring the Pain
48 The Diplomats / Sanchez Dipset Anthem
49 The Diplomats / Major Harris I Really Mean It
50 A$AP Rocky / S.O.S. Band Peso
51 Rick Ross ft Jay-z / The Friends of Distinction Maybach Music
52 Drake / Bill Conti Forever
53 Lil Wayne / Diana Ross and the Supremes Lollipop
54 Chris Brown / Sparks Look at me Now
55 OutKast / Joe Simon So Fresh and So Clean
56 T.I. / Roberta Flack What You Know
57 Jay-z/ MIA / The Clash Swagger Like Us / MIA Paper Planes
58 O’Jays For the Love of Money
59 Prodigy / Jack Mayborn Keep It Thoro
60 Mobb Deep / Esther Phillips Give Up The Goods
61 Mobb Deep / Quincy Jones / Herbie Hancock Shook Ones part II
62 Alchemist / Al Cooper Hold You Down
63 Dialated Peoples / William Bell Worst Comes to Worst
64 A Tribe Called Quest / Kool and the Gang Oh My God
65 A Tribe Called Quest / Gary Bartz Butter
66 A Tribe Called Quest / Rotary Connection Bonita Applebum
67 Q-Tip / Joe Pass Let’s Ride
68 Jaylib / Gap Mangione The Official
69 Slum Village / The Singers Unlimited Players
70 J Dilla / Stylistics Baby
71 Jaylib / Cris Williamson The Red
72 Slum Village / Gap Mangione Fall In Love
73 Hi-Tek / Camel Music For Life