Real life had me a bit stressed out and short of breath, so tonight, we had a musical prescription of mellow beats . No doubt influenced by the list of post-Valentine, post-wedding love songs which were still on my mind. I wouldn’t have thought of myself as sappy in any way, but recent shows would seem to indicate otherwise.
Category: CJSW – Fat Beat Diet (Page 46 of 51)
Wow. It’s crazy how a few months can just seem to zip right by in the blink of an eye. In my own defense, i’ve had a few big lifetime events keeping me occupied in the non-internet world, which included my wedding, a short trip, and the purchase of a new home. Sadly this has left little time for updating this blog, which is now in need of some serious love.
I spent a few weeks in January and February training a (relatively) new volunteer at CJSW. It’s the nature of a community-run station that on-air folks are constantly changing. Having the privilege of having my own show dictates that I must sometimes take time out of my usual programming to help get the new young bloods get up to speed on how to do this radio thing. It doesn’t always make for the most captivating radio however, so some of the shows haven’t been archived here in mp3 form.
The Fat Beat Diet – 2009-01-15
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The Fat Beat Diet – 2009-01-22
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The Fat Beat Diet – 2009-01-29
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The Fat Beat Diet – 2009-02-05
As I mentioned, I recently got married . As part of the ceremony, I put together a mix of love songs. When I was going through my collection trying to pick out tracks for the wedding, I came across a great number of great love songs. For various reasons — but mostly because they were about heartache — these were unsuitable for a wedding, but I still really felt like playing them, so you can find them mixed into the second half of the show. My Trainee, Raj programmed and mixed the first half of the show.
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The Fat Beat Diet – 2009-02-12
I was away this week, so Raj had the show all to himself and did a great job holding down the fort.
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If there’s one thing I’m excited about for 2009, musically at least, it’s DâM-Funk‘s upcoming debut album. Unfortunately, it looks like we have to wait until the end of May for it. Well, there’s a tiny taste of it at least buried within the first segment of this week’s show, in amongst some very nice downtempo beats. Then of course, we break out the hip hop (man, i think i need to lay off ghost for a bit…) and end with one of my many favourites: Eddie Kendricks’ Girl You Need a Change of Mind. It got cut off last night, but here I can present it in it’s full 7 minute glory.
Geez. Another year already… I had big plans to do a retrospective show, but they ended up staying just that… plans. I ran out of time and threw together a show, as per usual. A bit of house, electro and breaks, before breaking into so Jamaican rhythms, and ending off with a bit of hip hop.
Nate was kind enough to let me fill in for him for full moon funkalicious on boxing day, so here’s that. No tracklist though… you’ll just have to keep your ears peeled.
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yes, ahem… well… that was a nice holiday…
here’s some funk and hip hop. duh. And then to end off, a few tracks chicano tracks inspired by the pbs documentary, Chicano Rock! The Sounds of East Los Angeles.
Once again, the technical gremlins prevent me from posting my show this week, but here’s the playlist, in case you’re wondering. If you’re really jonesing for a mix, head on over to Solidsteel… hopefully, that should tide you over ’til next week :)
For some reason, my recording of the show crapped out about a third of the way through. I’m as disappointed as you guys, if not more… I was really curious to hear how some of these mixes turned out, especially the herbaliser/black moon blend. ah, well.
