Category: CJSW – Fat Beat Diet (Page 33 of 51)

This week, I had to spend some time paying respect to Heavy D, who passed away suddenly on November 8th. Adding to the tragedy of his untimely early death are the rumours of planned return to the music industry (with his cousin Pete Rock, no less), especially after a really strong performance at this year’s BET awards. Hip Hop trivia tid bit: Pete Rock and CL Smooth’s They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) was written with Trouble T. Roy, one of Heavy D’s dancers, in mind.

I remember way back in the day, I recorded the A Different World episode where Heavy D guested and I studied the dance moves carefully, rewinding and replaying the closing credits over and over again to get Heav’s dancers’ and Ron’s moves down.

[skip to 7:28 if you’re short on time]

It’s fun seeing that clip again. Back then, everyone had a pair of dancers and a DJ with them at shows and in videos.

*****

After a break, I had to play a couple of tracks from the Blastmaster himself, KRS-1, ahead of his Calgary show. Then we rolled through some more hip hop and ended off with some dubstep.

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I’ve been doing a couple of show fills here and there over the last few months, so I thought I’d share them here as well.

First up, the Road Pops. I could never match the banter that Kevin and Grant are known and loved for, so I just dropped some tunes.

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DJ Cosm runs a tight ship on Mental Illness and he’s way more up and current hip hop than I am, so I played soem funk and then dropped into some nice late summer jams.
Mental Illness, September 25th 2011 (mp3 – 89Mb)

Ian Chiclo hosted the Friday morning slot for years and years, but recently decided to move onto other things. I know many, including myself, will miss his presence on the airwaves. I’ve had the pleasure of filling for him on the House Blend and its previous incarnation the 2 1/2 Hour Coffee Break, a few times over the years, but this was unfortunately the last.
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If you don’t know the Musiquarium, well… Let’s just say I’d be surprised if you listened to my show and didn’t know about the lead show of CJSW’s Friday Night Lineup. Here I am doing my best impression of a nice and friendly Sideshow Sid, which is to say, someone not like Sid at all…
The Musiquarium, November 4th 2011 (mp3 – 51Mb)
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A personal favourite - The Oscar Peterson Trio

The week after funding drive is often one of the best weeks to be listening to CJSW because all of the programmers are still coming down from their funding drive highs and usually still all talked out, so you end up with some phenomenal programming straight from the heart. This year’s post-funding-drive show was on Hallowe’en so if you’ll let me, I’ll let this show stand in its place as the show that should have come straight after funding drive.

This turned out to be one of favourite shows in a long while — so much so that I was almost getting nervous as I was doing it, hoping not to screw it up with a botched mix… Luckily, other than a few vocal stutters, it turned out just fine. This is the kind of show I think embodies the soul of the Fat Beat Diet, with a wide range of genres spanning several different eras. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

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Much Love going out to all those who once again stepped up and dialed/emailed and donated to CJSW during our annual funding drive. This year, the show was a bit quieter than usual, but with some of the email pledges, I probably raised around $1000. I don’t know if I’ve lost a few listeners with the move to Mondays or whatever, but I may have to rethink the personal efforts I go through for funding drive . Still, I’m very thankful to each and every one who donated to the Fat Beat Diet.

This year the show fell on Hallowe’en, so I did my best to stay on topic as best I could. Some of the ties are tenuous at best (and the first track doesn’t count), but I think it’s still a pretty listenable show. Geto Boys’ My Mind Playin’ Tricks on Me remains the best Hallowe’en related hip hop song ever, imho.

Anyways, here’s the show.

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Downtempo, drum’n’bass, then some hip hop ahead of this week’s Redman and Beatnuts shows.

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Starting it off this evening with some nice new work from DJ Jazzy Jeff and Toronto native Ayah. Available from his website for free, so go check that out. After that, some nice uptempo funk and then some recent clubbier stuff since I feel like I’ve been rocking a lot of rap on my show as of late.

At the end of the show, I brought it down with some Peanut Butter Wolf and an amazing Jay-Z cover from Aloe Black. Those tracks aren’t on the following mix, but here’s the Aloe Black track if you haven’t heard it yet.

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Nice wide-ranging show starting it out with some downtempo moving through funk, hip hop and then ending off with some breaks . Seems like I can’t do a show without playing some Nas these days, and fans of his should definitely check out Elzhi’s latest work.

Also, I haven’t been playing enough Sade. I’m sorry. I’ll try and make up for it.

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Seeing as the Yeah What She Said folks were interviewing Brenda from the Calgary International Film Fest, I thought I’d start it off with one of the finest movie soundtracks of the 70s, Superfly. After T-Connection’s Groove to Get Down, I figured I’d play a bit of DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince. The title track to He’s the DJ, I’m The Rapper samples the T-Connection break, so there’s the connection. I actually meant to play that track, but ended up playing Live at Union Square because I got the songs mixed up. People clown a lot on on The Artist Formerly Known as The Fresh Prince, but say what you will, dude could rhyme. Sure, many of the singles off of their 1998 release were aimed squarely at the pop charts, but Will Smith lets loose some pretty good battle rhymes on the title track without even having to resort to cheap slurs or swearing.

The CD version of the song ends around the 5minute mark, but the LP and cassette versions run for another minute and half while Jeff rocks the T-Connection beat a little longer. That tape was in heavy rotation in my walkman.

This was my shiznit

I could barely keep up with the MC as I rapped along. And all the while Jeff’s cutting up a storm on the beat in the background. He does the same on Live at Union Square. A true measure of Jeff’s abilities on the 1s and 2s are how well those scratches withstand the test of time (as compared with say, Eric B’s scratches at the end of I Know You Got Soul, from about the same time). Really, that should come as no surprise seeing as Jeff won the 1986 NMS DJ Battle and co-invented the transform scratch . He’s the DJ, I’m The Rapper is basically one of the reasons I started DJ’ing.

Anyways, after that, I rocked a bit of Maestro Fresh Wes (who was no slouch on the mic either) and the aforementioned Big Daddy Kane. After that, what else? more hip hop and funk. I’ve recently rediscovered Nas’ 1996 sophomore effort, It Was Written. So after playing the Main Source track which was his intro to the world, I dropped an early demo and then a handful of tracks off of It Was Written. I rocked Nas debut Illmatic ’til I wore out the tape, so after that his sophomore effort would be able to live up to my expectations for his follow-up. It’s not that I didn’t like the album at the time, I just didn’t L.O.V.E. it like I did his debut. I’ve been rocking it a bit more of late and have really been enjoying re-discovering it.

Anyways, ’nuff yappin’, here it is:

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Funk, hip hop, breaks, and electro.

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