What do you imagine M.O.P. would sing at karaoke? Aladdin’s ‘A Whole New World’, maybe Lionel Richie ‘Hello’ or possibly ‘Stay’ by Lisa Loeb? Find out when Pharoahe tells of his karaoke experience with the Mash Out Posse, and Jean Grae gives some amazingly sensible relationship advice in part two of our interview with the pair.
Listen: Pharoahe Monch – Haile Salassie Karate ft Mr Porter | iTunes Listen: Pharoahe Monch – The Light | iTunes Listen: Jean Grae – You Don’t Like It (So What) Listen: Jean Grae – Love Song | iTunes
Lovebombs! It started out as a house party that got a little too big for the house, and since then has always been a shindig that is good vibes and a lot of fun. The Lovebombs massive is doing a Pre-Easter party called Lovebuns, so I thought I would finally post the photos by the very awesome Leah Consunji from our Lovebombs Pre-Valentines do (Wedding Waltz Competition and all).
And no, I don’t do parties that don’t involve silly dancing competitions with equally silly prizes. What next though? Maybe a charleston dance off, or a breakdancing miming competition. Anyways, here’s some music…
Fuck yeah! I want more music from Santigold and I want it to be as good as her old music. Please lord, is this too much to ask? Santi dropped this one today on Jay-Z’s Life and Times. It is co-produced by Q-Tip, Switch and Santigold with some vocals from Karen O. So what do you think? Does the future look promising?
Join us at the Swampy Bottom Soul Jazz Bar and Grill. Tonight the specials include pork belly served with carmelised apples, and a linguine with blue crab sauce.
Sip on a martini while enjoying entertainment from New York gospel hip hop beatbox accapella group, Naturally 7 and Sydney funk and soul Songstress Roxie Ray (Dojo Cuts, L.E.S. Express, Lack of Afro, The Liberators, The Underbellys, MF Street and more)
Playlist:
Raphael Saadiq – Stone Rollin’
Frootful – Fish In The Sea (feat Angeline Morrison)
Boogie – Ray Needs No Doctor
Missy Elliot – Get Ur Twist On (DJ Twister Remix)
The Miracles – Mickey’s Monkey
Red Astaire – Love To Angie
Keith Mansfield – Junior Jet Set
Gnarls Barkley – Run
Kylie Auldist – Cut You Loose
Pegz – 7 Days 6 Nights (prod Jase)
NATURALLY 7 INTERVIEW AND PERFORM ‘KEEP THE CUSTOMER SATISFIED’
J. Cole – Ladies ft. Lee Fields and the Expressions
NATURALLY 7 INTERVIEW AND PERFORM ‘JERICHO’
Raphael Saadiq – Heart Attack
Ghostface Killah – Blue Hype (DJ 2-Tone Jones Remix)
Us3 – Life Love Music ft Brook Yung
Lizzy Parks – All That (Natural Self mix)
Speech Debelle – The Key
Outkast – International Players Anthem (Siik Remix)
Hermitude – Your Call ft. Elana Stone and Urthboy
ROXIE RAY INTERVIEW
Dojo Cuts – Easy To Come Home
ROXIE RAY LIVE PERFORMANCE IN THE STUDIO
MF Street – Move
Ella Fitzgerald – Gone With The Wind
Milano Jazz Dance Combo – Broken Rose (feat. Roxie Ray)
Common – I Am Music (Featuring Jill Scott)
Guru – Plenty feat Erykah Badu
Freestyle Fellowship – Inner City Boundaries
So I did a mix of Global club stuff a while back, There is a bunch of different stuff on there from Baile funk and Balkan Vibes to Grime, UK Funky and Miami Bass. Here is some tunes I like from it. You might too. Oh yeah download the mix and get your hip thrust on.
More proof that half casts are hotter. This sexy piece of instrument is part french horn, part clarinet and fully amazing. Invented by Adolphe Sax in 1841, the Saxophone was brought into the world to have the projection of a brass instrument with the agility of woodwind, and the ability to overblow at the octave. Oooooohh baby!
Inspired by youtube sensation, Sergio Flores the Sexy Sexophonist Saxogram, we are paying tribute to the Saxophone. This horn has been used to add a bit of sex to military bands, early rock, and jazz, but it wasn’t till the 1980s that the music industry developed a serious sax addiction. Every pop song needed an inappropriate, blaring, over the top sax solo, if only as an after thought during the fade out.
Here is some hot, steamy sax. The hottest and steamiest… perhaps.
Update: It was brought to my attention by one Andrew Quinn, that we missed some of the most seductive sax playing of all time… http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd518_wreckxneffect-rump-shaker_music
Video vixen and Bobby Brown Baby Mama, Alicia Etheridge – one of the hottest saxophone players since ever. Pay close attention to her finger work. Charlie Parker, who?
MP3: Wreckx-N-Effect – Rumpshaker
MP3: The Lafayette Afro Rock Band – Darkest Light
And when too much sax is barely enough. Here is John Coltrane on the Soprano Saxophone with the jazz equivalent of a tantric sax marathon (Enough with the forced puns already).
The ‘Fat Man’ Billy Stewart! Popular in the ’60s, he was a talented singer, songwriter and piano man discovered by Bo Diddley and signed to Chess Records.
From Washington DC, he started out in a group called The Rainbows (they don’t make band names like that anymore) which included Don Covay amongst it’s members, so you know he had been around the block before hitting the big time with songs like ‘Sitting in the Park’, ‘I Do Love You’ and ‘Summertime’.
In 1970 at the age of 33, he was killed in a car crash with three members of his band, but his music lives on and not just as material for hip hop producers hungry for new samples. For instance, ‘Sitting in my Car’ as been covered by a wide range of artists – 50 of them reggae singers and one of them a rapper (Slick Rick).
Here is ‘Cross My Heart’, released on Chess in 1967, and jacked by Just Blaze to produce Jay Electronica’s ‘Exhibit C’.
Grab your bourgeois bitch killer and lick a shot in the sky, because militant pinko rap cadre, Dead Prez come on the show to rally up the troops. Californian DJ guy, Lino Type (Not of the Do-Over) also gets in the mix.
The Revolution is coming! 10 seconds. Tell your bossman start running. Brrrttttttt!
Playlist
Dead Prez, Jorge Ben Jor, Talib Kweli, Bilal & Positive Force – Shuffering + Shmiling
Jay-Z Feat. Fela – Roc Boyz (MikeLove’s Nigerian Gangster remix)
J.Period & K’NAAN – Let Me Introduce Me (Messengers Remix)
Sade – By Your Side (Cottonbelly’s Fola Mix) ft 13th Son
Dead Prez – Radio Frequency
Mista Savona – Mona Lisa Holla
Spooky Tooth – The Mirror
Atmosphere – Trying To Find A Balance
Childish Gambino – Freaks & Geeks
Mon’wel – Buggin’ (rmx) f. El Prez & Fresh Daily
MED – Where I’m From Ft. Kurupt & Aloe Blacc
Pharoahe Monch – Clap (One Day) Ft. Showtyme And DJ Boogie Blind
U-N-I – Donkey Kong
Lykke Li – I Follow You (Tyler The Creator Mix)
Dead Prez Interview Part 1
Dead Prez – Walk Like A Warrior
Dead Prez Interview Part 2
Dead Prez – Fuck The Law
Dead Prez Interview Part 3
Dead Prez – Summer Time
Urthboy – Shruggin ft Jane Tyrrell
DJ Lino Type Talking Blah Blah!
Onra – Raw
Danny Brown – Guitar Solo
Pharoahe Monch ft. Styles P & Phonte – Black Hand Side
Big K.R.I.T. – King’s Blues
Frank Ocean – Swim Good
DJ Cam Feat. Cameo – Love Junkee (Dilla Vocal Remix)
MellowHype ft. Tyler the Creator & Mike G – BlaccFriday
Lil B – Motivation
Raekwon ft. Method Man – Every Soldier In The Hood
Baby Huey – Hard Times
Dela ft. Blu – Lucys&LooseLeafs
Ghostface ft Black Thought – In Tha Park
Sabo of Sol Selectors fame is the dude as far as Moombahton, Digital Cumbia and all good things Latin are concerned, so i thought i would post some new jams from the man himself…
Hot damn! We were joined in the studio by two real humdingers, Alphamama and Milan. Hear their ‘Crazy Sexy Cool’ performance live in the studio, plus tunes from DOOM and Mike Who? takes us on a digital cumbia ride into the post apocalyptic barrios of the future.
Playlist:
Ty – Break The Locks
Mobb Deep – Shook Ones Pt. 2 (MF DOOM Remix)
King Geedorah – Next Level ft Lil Sci, ID 4 Winds & Stahhr
MF DOOM – Rapp Snitch Knishes ft Mr Fantastik
Hell Razah – Project Jazz (Feat. Talib Kweli & MF DOOM)
Jess Harlen – I Go
Richard Harris – MacArthur Park
Roots Manuva – Dreamy Days
Illy – The Chase Ft. Oliver Daysoul
Los Rakas – Abrazame (Uproot Andy Remix)
The Fugees – Fu-Gee-La (Loo & Placido Remix)
Estelle – Come Over
Murs – Bad Man!
Da’Ville – Hey Now
Raphael Saadiq – Radio
Alphamama – Moodjack
Milan – Payday
John Legend – Used To Love You (Reggae Remix)
Dreadsquad – Question Riddim (Version)
Ward 21 – Jump and Skip
Cashflow Records – The Glory Riddim (Version)
London – How It Feel
Timberlee feat Ward 21 – Bubble Like Soup
Sabo and Cassady – La Curura
J Dilla – Rico Suave Bossa Nova
Nas and Damian Marley – Nah mean (DJ Nu-mark Remix)
Anita Tijoux – Partir de Cero
Mosca – Tilt Shift
Nextmen – Silet Weapon (Version)
Hermitude ft Serocee – I’ve Tried Ways
Zonora point & Douster – Algo Pasa en la Planta
Keida – Bubble Up
Sabo & Cassady – Esa Loca Cumbia
Jade – Don’t walk away (JBS Simba Zombo Relick)
Bingethinkers – Aus Stylin
MF DOOM – Hey!
Janini Panini
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