I filled in for Raj last week on his show Funk Senden.
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Mostly a hip hop show this week leading up to an interview in the last half hour with former rapper and member of the Outlawz Napoleon, who now goes by Mutah Beale. Beale was recently in town to give a lecture at Mount Royal University, which is where our man Zarif Alibhai caught up with him. He looks more like this now.
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Super fun show this week where we roll through a whole bunch of goodness.
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Remember last week when I was all smiling about the nice summer we’re having? Well, then this happened…
fuck yeah, hail! (and lightning, too. Lots and lots of lightning)
— marco primo (@marcoprimo) August 13, 2012
which led to this…
My car is like a grandmaster flash song: broken glass, everywhere...
— marco primo (@marcoprimo) August 13, 2012
Also: looks like a junkie from the alley took a baseball bat to it.
— marco primo (@marcoprimo) August 13, 2012
I could be really pissed but getting mad at acts of nature is pretty futile in the grand scheme of things. Still, it gave me a good excuse to play a classic Grandmaster Flash on my show. The Message is probably one of the main reasons I started listening to hip hop [period]. From the moment I heard that song (I might have been 5 or 6 at the time) i was like ‘WHAT is this and WHERE can I hear more?’ I had a little two-knob AM radio and listened all day and all night trying to hear more stuff along those lines. Sadly, AM radio in Ottawa at the time didn’t play a lot of hip hip so I’d have to wait a few more years to get a steady stream of hip hop. Incidentally, the mix from Crime Cut into The Message on this show is just about what I consider to be a perfect mix for these two tracks. My criteria for a perfect mix vary from track to track, and probably the time of day. It doesn’t happen very often and as a DJ, it’s the holy grail. I can’t even put the words together to explain to you why I think it’s so perfect, all I know is that it lasts all of about 600 milliseconds and it just makes me go ‘awww, yeaah.’
Anyways, let’s get to the show, yes?
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I ain’t gonna lie, summer in Calgary this year’s been pretty kick ass. The weather’s been bringing a smile to my face each and every week. This is a mix of nice summer hip hop tracks, then a bit of less-hip-hop-but-just-as-summery tracks.
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Mostly hip hop beats this show, although we did kick it up a notch for a few tracks at the end. Had to drop this Extremities track in the middle of the show this week.
I only just came up on it, but the track’s been around for a year or so. No matter, it’s been getting heavy spins on the vitrola at home. Here’s the whole show.
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After Yeah, What She Said focused their show on Amy Winehouse, Judy Garland, Janis Joplin and Marilyn Monroe we at the Fat Beat Diet had to kick things off with Dusty Springfield’s great cover of Piece of My Heart, a song made popular by Joplin (though originally written for Erma Franklin). After that, we wound it up through some funk songs before dropping into some Amy Winehouse on the 1yr anniversary of her passing.
After connecting Winehouse to Nas, we then made the connection to Main Source, who’s seminal album Breaking Atoms turned 21 this week (Thanks Soul Sides). Then on to some more hip hop before I flubbed a mix out of Q-tip’s Breath and Stop. I was desperately trying to remember the original sample source for the baseline which ends J.Period’s edit but couldn’t remember it on the spot. I knew it was a jazz cat, and for some reason I was trying to come up with Lou Donaldson but played Grant Green instead. Wouldn’t have mattered anyways as the correct answer was Freddie Hubbard and Povo. Next time…
Anyways, then some more hip hop before slowing things down with Zo’s cover of George Michael’s Everything She Wants. I love the way Zo sneak in a bit of MJ into the bridge (The whole EP is available for download on the Foreign Exchange website). Then a great sumer track from Little Dragon and a few more tasty biscuits to end the show (Don’t sleep on Oddisee‘s People Hear What They See).
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Good Vibrations, indeed.
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Hip hop beats to start it out before hittin’ you up with some nostalgic straight up bangers. Then winding it up with some acid jazz/dnb/house goodies at the end of the show.
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