Drum’n’bass to start before dropping into some downtempo and hip hop beats, then into some dubstep and then some electro to end off the show.
Category: CJSW – Fat Beat Diet (Page 43 of 51)
This week, we take a moment to celebrate the life of turntablist pioneer Grandmaster Roc Raida, who passed away unexpectedly on September 19th. We start out with a bit of Raida’s 52 Beats mix followed by some of his work with the e-xecutioners. Then, back into the mix with some assorted beats. Again this week, technical difficulties conspire to prevent me from sharing the show, but hopefully the 52 Beats mix linked above will hold you over for a little while. Here’s the playlist.
I’ve been a bit slow keeping the site up to date, so I thought I’d try and make up for it with a few bonus mixes. This one’s from earlier this month when my man Cosm asked me to fill in for his usual Sunday show, Mental Illness. Gotta give my man props because he manages to fill 3 hours of hip hop each and every week with more enthusiasm for the music than seems possible, always coming correct with great tracks, and he keeps up on the new stuff and the local scene a lot better than I manage to do so… So it’s always an honor and a lot of fun when I can take some time on a Sunday afternoon and play some hip hop tracks on his show. So while Cosm was filming a video in Kananaskis Country with Moka Only and Teekay for Dragon Fli Empire, I was playing a few golden era hip hop joints as well as some great new stuff from Elaquent and some local stars — Just how I like it. Hope you do too.
It had been a while since I had done a mostly funk show, so that’s what ended up happening tonight. Some nice mellow longer funk tracks to start out the show, before the typical DJ affliction of attention deficit disorder started taking over the breaks started coming a bit quicker.
Building on the subject of perfection, I had a funny exchange with DJ Shidoshi after tonight’s show. He was listening to CJSW for a few minutes while driving between a few uptown watering holes and happen to catch the one mix I flubbed hard during this week’s show (that O’Jays track can be a bitch… Like many pre- click track funk songs, the tempo definitely wanders on you). How embarrassing! Having one of my DJ buddies, who almost never listens to my show, happen to catch me with my pants down… Ah well, such is life.
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I strive for (technical) perfection in my mixes and my shows. It’s a high bar to set for myself, which I seldom, if ever, achieve. Take this week’s show for example. I managed to flub at least three mixes throughout the night. Nevertheless, I had a blast putting it together. Hope you enjoy!
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Downtempo, drum’n’bass and some hip hop. Hot summer heat generally makes me want to play slow music. I mean, I usually like it a bit slower than most, but add a bit of heat, and it’s on; molasses here we come. I was having flashbacks of Arrested Development‘s show(s) at this year’s Calgary folk fest… so good.
Photo by David Kenney.
I’ve also been experimenting for the last little while on how to coherently string together some of the new hip hop/downtempo/experimental stuff that’s coming out of the LA area (think Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer) and from like-minded producers (Lone, MonoPoly). I don’t think I’ve quite figured it out yet to my liking… but I’m getting there, and I appreciate your patience while I get there.
Anyways, here’s the show.
Technical diffiulties once again prevent me from posting the show, but here’s the playlist… I’ll try and post a few different mixes over the next couple of days to make up for it.
Taking a break from hip hop on this show, we started out with some nice broken beat from yesteryear before moving on through breaks, baltimore, dubstep and ending with some drum’n’bass. I’m not yet convinced that dubstep really translates to radio. Because it’s all about the bass, i find it doesn’t translate so well outside of a club setting, unless you can turn up the bass on your system to stomach rattling levels. Hopefully a few listeners out there have a booming system which does the music justice, because once it’s broadcast over FM or translated to mp3, it can kind of get a bit tinny.
