With the shuffling of CJSW programming, the Fat Beat Diet has moved to a new time slot. Instead of going from 10:30 to midnight, as we have for the last number of years, starting tonight the show will now air from 10pm to 11pm. Hopefully you can all join us in our new time slot. Because the show’s also losing a half hour, I’m hoping to slightly re-jig the format in order to make the show even tighter, but we’ll see if that actually works out.
So the idea this show was to link up hip hop songs and their respective breaks. I hastily made up the rules on the fly, so they’re followed somewhat inconsistently, but what I was trying for was to play a song (1) by a hip hop artist and then play the source sample (2). Follow that up with another song (3) from the source sample artist, which would lead into a hip hop song (4) which sampled the song 3. Follow that with a different song of the same hip hop artist from (4). So in effect, it would be 2 and 2 from each artist, hip hop to funk, and back again. What can I say, some funk artists got short-changed… Next time, I’ll have to make up the rules ahead of time and follow them somewhat more strictly…
Started out the show tonight with three tracks of the recent collaborative release from Bei Bei and Shawn Lee, entitled Into the Wind. Ubiquity Records have been releasing great music for almost 20 years now, and this album is another great addition to their catalog.
After that, we move through some hip hop and breaks, before winding up the tempo at the end of the show with a few crack house tracks courtesy of DJ Zinc. Zinc is one of the huge names in drum’n’bass, but “disenchanted by the lack of originality [in the genre],” he switched up his style in 2008/09 to crack house. Not familiar with this house variant? It’s like normal house, but fucked up, or so I’ve read. Read up on it here, or have a listen to on of his Fabric mixes. The track Music Makers is driving me crazy right now. If I was DJing a big room these days, I’d be playing it twice a night, and I never play a song twice in a night…
Ended off the show with some Stanton Warriors, who rolled through town last weekend also. Here’s the show.
Treading some familiar territory on this outing with some downtempo and some hip hop.
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It was kinda surreal waking up the next day and reading that Apache had died. What a weird fluke that I decided to play him on the show. Had I known, I may have played more of his work.
Balls! I was really hoping to be able to post this show, but unfortunately the server konked out on me again, so no mp3 this week . Nevertheless, here’s the playlist. It’s too bad, because I liked a lot of the songs (shocker isn’t it? I actually like the songs I play…), but I don’t really get to really listen to them all that well when I’m DJing. So I look forward to listening again to my show just to hear them. I mean, I suppose I could make an playlist with all my new music and just have that playing on my mp3 player, but that’s a lot of effort and I’m kind of lazy like that.
If you were intrigued by The Roots’ Sandwiches, an EP of the ‘sandwiches’ that the band performs during commercial breaks on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, here’s where you can get to the meat of it.
Definitely taken aback by the passing of Teddy Pendergrass as well.
The Globe and Mail ran a great obituary from Nekesa Mumbi Moody which does a great job of outlining the tragic and inspiring arc of his life.
I don’t remember if as a kid I thought we’d all be riding around in flying cars by 2010, but I’m pretty sure I imagined we would’ve at least had a bit more space exploration under our belt – Maybe a mission to Mars or Jupiter colony…Something… Still, who knows what surprises this new decade may hold.
If I may using this show as a metaphor for the human race however, it should be no surprise that not nearly as much progress has been accomplished as sci-fi movies would have had me believe. Here in today’s show — as in most others — I mostly tread familiar ground with some hip hop beats and funk. Though I did manage to sneak a couple of at least semi-recent tracks…
Another year, here and gone – Yikes! This year, despite the awesomeness of our new CJSW space, I had no intentions of spending Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve in the studios all by myself. I therefore arranged to pre-tape the shows for the Holidays. However, since I’m not super familiar with the new production rooms, I took a couple mixes I already had lying around and overdubbed the track announcements. But seeing as it’s the holidays and I’m feeling generous, I’ll give you the mixes in their original, chat-devoid, 4+hour glory.
These mixes were recorded live at my residency – The Spread (Every Saturday at Broken City). A snippet of the October 17th mix was played on Christmas Eve radio show, and a portion of the November 7th mix was played on the New Year’s Eve show.
October 17th
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November 7th
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Hope you enjoy, and Happy (belated) Holidays!
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