It ain’t nothin’ like hip hop music… umm… well, actually, it’s pretty much all hip hop music, save for some jazz and funk bookends.
Category: CJSW – Fat Beat Diet (Page 45 of 51)
Started it out pretty downtempo on account of being sick, but managed to work my way up tempo pretty quick.
Towards the end of the uptempo set, managed to drop Basament Jaxx, a favourite of DJ/Producer Sammy Bananas, who just happened to be in town tonight (the 6th) at the Hifi. I had the chance to interview Sammy for Beatroute not too long ago. He was intelligent, super down to earth, and a pleasure to talk to. Peep the interview if you missed it.
As I mentioned, i was a bit sick, so after dropping that sick hudson mohawk track, I got lazy and played someone else’s mix.
Gotta admit, it’s a bit weird following a memorial show, especially when you’re not super familiar with the person in question. Nonetheless, out of respect or perhaps due to the lingering atmosphere in the studio, we start out pretty mellow before droppping into some nice vintage (save for the Fracture and Neptune), jazzy drum’n’bass, followed by some hip hop beats and breaks. I’m always worried that i’m just playing the same songs over and over again, and lo and behold, here’s Colton out of the blue asking for a show from last year, which just happens to contain pretty much the exact same mix of ‘get out my life, woman’ tracks which i just played this show. Luckily, i guess, i’d found another version of the track to mix in as well just to differentiate, but yeah… weird coincidence nonetheless.
Also, if you’re a fan of this show’s version of ‘Ain’t no Sunshine’, you should definitely check out The Soul Direction, a great new blog from longtime friend of the show, Alice.
So, here’s the show.
fuck me, it’s been a while. time to get back up to date, or at least close to it…
March 26th – Some dubstep, electro, and some funk to end off the night.
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April 2nd – Some disco and midtempo hip hop niceness
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April 9th – hip hop and funk to start, a Run-DMC tribute for their induction into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame, and some electro to end.
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April 16th – Just hip hop, as we plunder the CJSW library.
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Pretty much just some hip hop this show. If you’re a Q-tip or A Tribe Called Quest fan, I highly recommend you check out j.period‘s The Abstract mix for yourself. J.period’s been killing the mixtape game for a while now, and this is no exception. Also worth checking out is Haligonian Classified’s re-work of L.L.’s classic Going Back to Cali for the Canuckified Going Back to Hali.
Here’s the show:
Some hip hop and a few funk tracks too… I think… I can’t seem to find the playlist for this week’s show.
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I can pretty much thank my brother and a few shows on Ottawa-area campus radio stations for helping to shape my musical tastes. Elorious Cain’s The Groove was one of them, and it’s been on the air pretty much forever as far as I’m concerned (many, many years, if not decades. I started listening in the late 80s/early 90s) on Saturday afternoons on CKCU. Billing itself as a ‘disco show’, it plays all manners of dance music. It’s the first place I ever heard a Bernard Edwards bassline, and likely the first spot where I heard house and techno as well. I don’t know if he’s still doing this, but once a year for a month, he would take a break from his regular programming and play nothing but African rhythms; afrobeat, highlife, zook, sookous and the like. Needless to say, I was hooked. The guitars on the second track of tonight’s show totally takes me back to those days.
After some afrobeat and highlife and some uptempo funk, we break it down via some dubstep into a few more of my favourite old soul breaks. Then some old school hip hop, ostensibly for Black History Month. I say ostensibly since pretty much every week here at the Fat Beat Diet showcases some form of black history. I’m not necessarily sold on the idea of Black History Month, at least as far as it relates to my radio show programming, but I’ll be the first to agree that there still exists far too much racial inequity in the world today, even with Obama, and anything we can do to shed light on this nasty secret is a-ok with me. But it’s certainly not like I ever need an excuse to play some old school hip hop on my show. I used to love h.e.r. Still do, as a matter of fact… If highlife guitars bring me back to my early days listening to CKCU, listening to Special Ed brings me back to grade 11 homeroom, talking shit with Nile Séguin.
Anways, ’nuff blabbin’, here’s the show:
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Errata: I’m way too lazy to script my shows ahead of time like some of my harder-working CJSW brethren, so often times what comes out my mouth is a half-fabricated recollection, if not a flat-out lie. In this show, I should have gone with my first instinct, ‘God Put a Smile On Your Face’ was indeed originally from Coldplay not Radiohead. How I get those two bands mixed up is beyond me. Ice-T’s first album which features ‘6’n the Morning’ was called Rhyme Pays and MC Lyte was sister to Audio Two’s Milk D and dj Gizmo. Geez. I need to get some interns or something.
