DJ Easy Presents D’Angelo – Rhythm’N’Soul (In Loving Memory Of Michael Eugene Archer) [Mixtape]

Berlin’s DJ Easy aka Mr. Mixtape salutes a giant with his new tribute tape “Rhythm’N’Soul (In Loving Memory of Michael Eugene Archer)”, a deep, 80-plus-minute dive into the life’s work of the late neo-soul legend D’Angelo.

Arriving in the wake of D’Angelo’s passing in October 2025, the mix plays like a love letter from a fan who grew up on “Brown Sugar”, “Voodoo” and “Black Messiah” and refused to let any era get left out. Across 51 tracks, Easy threads together the core catalogue – album cuts and singles from “Brown Sugar (1995)”, “Voodoo (2000)” and “Black Messiah (2014)” – with live recordings, tributes and hard-to-find remixes.

You get the essentials (“Brown Sugar”, “Lady”, “The Root”, “The Line”, “Shit, Damn, Motherfucker”), live moments from the Jazz Café era, and joints like “The Hypnotic” with The Roots or “Break Ups 2 Make Ups” with Method Man woven straight into the narrative.

Digging even deeper, “Rhythm’N’Soul” pulls in a stack of remixes and collaborations, flipping between reworks from names like DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Beatminerz, DJ Krush and more. Plus appearances from Busta Rhymes, Kool G Rap, AZ, Slum Village, Common, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, BJ The Chicago Kid and others.

Instead of feeling like a random best-of, the sequence moves like one long, carefully mixed set – tempo shifts, mood changes and little transitions that underline just how many spaces D’Angelo’s music could live in.

For anyone still processing the loss, this is one of those mixes you just press play on and let ride front to back – from the early “Brown Sugar” glow through the “Voodoo” groove up to the raw, charged feel of “Black Messiah”.

“Rhythm’N’Soul (In Loving Memory of Michael Eugene Archer)” is available for streaming below via DJ Easy’s Soundcloud; pour something, dim the lights and spend an hour in D’Angelo mode.