Category: Out and About/DJing

This week, local rapper Wyzaker drops by ahead of his upcoming CD release party this Friday June 10th at Dicken’s Pub. Joined by Ricca Razor Sharp, Soleo and SirKuss, they talk about the upcoming release and party and what’s going on. The segment stats around the 16:30 mark, and the interview starts in earnest at 22:00.

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Tracklist
The Fat Beat Diet – June 6th, 2011
CJSW 90.9FM
Mixed/Hosted by Marco Primo

artist – name [time]
Esther Phillips – Home Is Where The Hatred Is [08:32:07 PM]
Gil Scott-Heron – Lady Day and John Coltrane
The Jones Girls – Nights Over Egypt
kenny dope – Inside
Dragon Fli Empire – Just That Nice
Ricca Razor Sharp – Dance to the New Drum
Wyzaker – Popsickill The Dizzy Kid 08:54:48 PM

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Wyzaker Interview, with Ricca Razor Sharp, Soleo and SirKuss

Wyzaker – The Thirteenth Floor
Wyzaker – Boris the Spider

Wyzaker – Nikki Nine

Ricca Razor Sharp Freestyle
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Black Moon – How Many Emcees [09:22:36 PM]
45 king ft lati – lati rocks the bells
Luck One and Dekk – The Coolax
Touch – Cinderella Sequences
Masta Ace – Hold U [09:33:22 PM]
Blueprint – The Clouds
Busta Rhymes – Decision (ft Common, Jamie Foxx, John Legend, Mary J. Blige)
Jackie Jackson – Is It Him Or Me
Nas + AZ – Life’s a Bitch (DJ Delay Remix)
Special Ed – I Got It Made
Ripple – Don’t Know What It Is But It Sure Is Funky
Booker T. And The M.G.’s – Baby, Scratch My Back [09:56:01 PM]

This week for the Fat Beat Diet, I’ve got a pre-recorded mix which was originally recorded live December 11th at Local 002. I started playing right after the GSP roundly trounced Koscheck for the UFC title, hence starting out with LL Cool J’s Mama Said Knock You Out. Followed it up with some pretty familiar hip hop, funk, breaks, etc…

I only played 1 hour of the mix on my show, but here’s 2 hours of the mix for your enjoyment (Note: the mix doesn’t start until 17 seconds in).

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… I shouldn’t have left you
Without a strong rhyme to step to
Think of how many weak shows you slept through
Time’s up, I’m sorry I kept you
Thinking of this, you keep repeating you miss
The rhymes from the microphone soloist
And you sit by the radio, hand on the dial, soon
As you hear it, pump up the volume
Dance wit the speaker ’till you hear it blow,
Then plug in the headphone ’cause here it go

Did I say I’d be back in May? Sorry about that, I must have meant June…

Actually, keen listeners will not that even though I’m blogging again, I’m not yet back on the airwaves. I’m actually taking a short break from the radio show. I’ve been doing the Fat Beat Diet non-stop for 9 years now and felt I needed a bit of time off and distance just to make sure that I still want to do the show and would be able to put in the effort which I feel listeners deserve. Short answer, I do and I am, but I’ll still take a few more weeks off doing the show.

In the meantime, 2 things: First of all, for those tuning in live for the radio show, I’m pleased to announce that Nathan, who hosts the show after me – The Twisted Brain Wrong, has stepped up to the plate and is hosting local DJs in my time slot. Every week, a different DJ will take to the 1’s and 2’s and present their take on what DJ culture is about. I’m super stoked about this, and hope that you’ll all tune in. I’ll try and coordinate with Nathan to get the schedule out to you ahead of time, and also throw up some of the featured mixes if possible.

Secondly, I’d hate to think that the 3 of you who regularly check the site are jonesing for mixes, so I’ll try to regularly post new mixes for your listening pleasure. These will likely take the form of snippets of live sets I’ve done, but if there’s some music I really want to get out there, the idea of me making an internet-specific mix is not out of the question.

The first mix is a snippet from my new Fridays at Vicious Circle, Uptown Sound. I’m really starting to like the night, and I’ll probably talk a bit more about it in the coming weeks, but for now I’ll just put the mix out there. It’s a pretty wide ranging mix, musically-speaking, or at least I think so. I’m having a lot of fun recently playing with tempo changes, and I’ve pretty much always liked switching genres, for better and for worse.

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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!