Paying our respects to a few departed icons this evening as well as hitting you up with some funk, hip hop, breaks, and even managing to sneak in a bit of acid jazz in the middle.
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Tonight, we kick it off in a dancing mood, if only to show off some fine uses for a Chicago tune which most Chicago fans don’t even care for. The Bomb, indeed. The build up to the break is ridiculous. In the club version, it doesn’t happen until the 4:40 mark, which is more than minute longer than the entire official video version. I’m not kidding when I say it felt like an eternity on the dancefloor waiting for the break to happen. Interesting trivia: Chicago’s version of Street Player is actually a cover; the track was originally from Rufus and Chaka Khan.
Then we bring on the hip hop: Some new work from Freddie Gibbs and Madlib you should take note of — This tune has been stuck in my head for the last little while.
Then some more hip hop because – true story – you can never have enough Biggie Smalls. Hearing his early demos is awe inspiring. Then, a little kick inspired mix towards the end of the show.
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Not much to say about this one, other than to say that like mikey, I like it.
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A little bit of funky stuff to start the show, then a couple of guilty hip hop pleasures from Lloyd Banks and Jon Connor. I think in both cases, I like the beats more than the raps themselves with b.cause flipping the beat for the first track, and Jon Connor flipping a nice Funkadelic break for the next one. We ride some nice funk and hip hop rhythms before speeding up the pace towards the end again. Looking forward to hearing more from Julio Bashmore in 2012 – Well Wishers has been on heavy rotation at the crash pad since I first heard it a few months ago.
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Spent a few minutes of this show messing around with some blends, and playing a bit of hip hop. Nothing says Boxing Day quite like LL Cool J’s ‘Mama Said Knock You Out’.
Started winding it up a little bit towards the end of the show with some more uptempo beats.
I also was filling in for Christoph who does the Robotic Uprising at 11pm on Monday nights. That one started out with more leftfield beats, but we ended up back in hop hop by the end.
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Happy Holidays. a little late, I know. I’ll get around to sending the Christmas cards out soon too.
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Some disco to start, then some uptempo and house before breaking it down into some hip hop.
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After YWSS‘ discussion of the École Polytechnique massacre, we kicked things off with a set of bitchin’ female MCs, old and (somewhat) new. After that, a bit more hip hop and then winding it up a bit for the last third of the show.
I’ve been playing a fair bit of Ghostface Killah for the last few weeks ahead of his appearance in town at Flames Central on December 8th. This year’s been kind of crazy for wu-fans with GZA, Raekwon, and Method Man all rolling through with shows, the latter two within the last month.
Anyways, I shouldn’t have bothered with the hype. If you went to this because of me, I apologize. Despite surprise guest appearances from Trife Da God, Killah Priest, and Sheek Louch, this show was weaksauce. It started out really strong with Ghost hittin’ up some of his best material; but sadly 20 minutes in, the energy seemed to leave the room and never returned. This was sometime after about 50 complaints about the sound and yells halfway through songs along the lines of, ‘Ayo, Soundman! Turn my mic up’ and ‘Ayo, turn up the vocals in all of these monitors.’ This was also after Ghost was kind enough to explain ‘how things worked’ and that whatever energy we gave him, he would give back to us.
Fuck you. I didn’t pay fifty bucks to be told I’m not making enough noise, or waiving my hands enough or saying [hip] ‘HOP!’ [hip] ‘HOP!’ and [wu] ‘TANG!’ [wu] ‘TANG!’ (or any other played out rap show call and response) loud enough. Well, I mean – I literally didn’t pay fifty bucks, but most other folks surely did, and they came to see a show. You’re supposed to give the show, not them. We’ll get involved if we damn well feel like it, usually if the show is hype enough – but don’t expect it as a given.
Look, I understand the sound was crappy and I’m told you didn’t get to do a sound check because of the Flames game – but still… Ghost, you’ve been doing this a while: Overcome. You’re a pro, deal with it. Don’t let me get a hint about how much you’re hating our town at the moment. Make it look easy and effortless regardless of the bullshit. Act like our town is the best town you’ve ever been to. Then you’ll have a fan for life. Well regardless, you probably still have a fan for life… just… less of a fan. But I think you get what I’m trying to say here.
My sentiments exactly.
Also, for a dude who appears to hate Drake like nobody’s business, he sure has been spending alot of time blogging about TO’s favourite child actor/emo rapper. Jus’ sayin’.
Anyways, ’nuff bitchin’. Here’s last week’s show.
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An all-over-the-place show of downtempo, funk hip hop, dnb and UK garage. phew.
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Downtempo, mid-tempo, and some older hip hop. The mp3 starts 6 songs in with Groove Armada.
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