Some downtempo, some hip hop, some UKG/two-step, dubstep, breaks, funk… Whoa… really hitting all the bases with this one…
Category: CJSW – Fat Beat Diet (Page 42 of 51)
Well, we finally made it into our new studio space. It’s only two floors up, but it’s a world of difference! Huge thanks to our Station Manager, the inimitable Chad Saunders, without whom I doubt this could have been accomplished. Of course, this is also due in no small part to the generous support of our listeners, so give yourselves a hand as well.
Anyways, I’m definitely taking more than a minute to get used to the new digs. The board is laid out backwards from the old one downstairs, and the DJ tables are a few steps from the mixing console (Not pictured above, but they’re below the window at right), so it’s a bit trickier to segue from the turntables to other media. But other than those minor complaints, this new space kicks serious ass.
This week on the show, we were spotlighting drum’n’bass and dubsteb ahead of the Blu Mar Ten and Rusko shows which happened on the 21st. I didn’t hear about the Blu Mar Ten show, but apparently the Rusko show was bananas. If I could’ve been in 3 places at once, I would definitely have checked out both shows while holding down my regular Saturday residency. Good thing I’m having so much fun at The Spread, or else I might feel like I’m really missing out.
Here’s the show:
This week turned out pretty good, despite some ill-advised pitchy tricks. Starting out this evening with some really mellow hip hop before winding it up right at the end with some house music for the last 15 minutes or so. Ah, those house tracks brings back the good old days of Sole Sessions at the Night Gallery with my homeboy Shidoshi. Nearly brings a tear to my eye! I’m gonna have to start playing more house after this. Seriously, 2-minute blends with dead easy intros and outros?! I’ve missed you! I haven’t ridden mixes that long in forever…
Enjoy:
Well, yet another funding drive has come and gone and I wanted to take a moment to thank all of you who pledged your hard-earned money to CJSW, but more specifically to you fine folks who pledged on the Fat Beat Diet. It’s truly rewarding to see all the community support for our little radio station. I hope you all like the mixes I’ve put together as incentives.
As such, no show archive this week as I suspect you all don’t want to hear me yakking for an hour and half straight — I certainly don’t. The tracklist went something like: A-Skills vs BeatVandals – Money Banger; various tracks from the funding drive mixes; The Temptations – Ain’t too Proud to Beg.
Thankfully, next week should see the return of normal Fat Beat Diet programming.
Pre-Funding drive edition of the show, so I thought I’d hit you up with a selection of tunes which I’ve really been digging of late. Falty DL’s Party, 2000F & J Kamata’s You Don’t Know What Love Is, Fred Wesley’s House Party, and The Hot 8 Brass Band’s ridonkulous cover of Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing have all been on pretty heavy rotation here at Beat Diet headquarters.
This week, we start off with some afrobeat before taking a terribly mixed detour over to some Stone Roses before recovering with some hip hop. Marking the passing of the great Mr Magic, we let the old school rock for a little bit before bringing you back to recent times with some newer hip hop. Apathy’s True Love has been my favourite song of the moment, fo sho.
