We had a good ol’ time talking about our favourite flower arrangements. I’m quite fond of native arrangements myself. You can’t go wrong with Paper Daisies. They just last forever. You can hear our conversation and Miss Lane’s live performance in this episode of our show…
Great interviews and live performances from two of the biggest reggae artists in the biz. This is one of my favourite shows we have done. Listen back to it below. Guaranteed to make your dance moves at least 20% more sexually inappropriate…
One of UK’s finest DJs, former Scratch Pervert and Extended Players members, Mr Thing joins us in the studio for a mix and interview. Get Thingy-ma-Jiggy wiv it!
Playlist:
Nas – Nasty
Cormega – Slow Down Baby (Ft Foxy Brown)
Jay-Z & Kanye West – That’s My Bitch
Koolism – Yeah
Mz Bratt – Get Dark
Ru CL – Skillz
Enoch Light – Hijack
Beatnuts – Watch Out Now
Jennifer Lopez – Jenny From The Block
Daniel Merriweather – Chainsaw
Big Boi – Shine Blockas (Feat. Bun B & Project Pat) (Remix)
Big K.R.I.T. – Country Shit (Remix) (feat. Ludacris & Bun B)
Jay-Z & Kanye West – Niggas In Paris
Kelly Rowland – Motivation (feat. Lil’ Wayne) (Diplo Remix)
Shystie ft Lioness & Lady Leshurr – Warning
Thundamentals – Check My Fresh ft Vyda Sunshyne
MR THING DJ SET
The Game/DJ Premier – Born In The Trap
Random Axe – The Hex
Jon Phonics – Bruk Out
The Last Skeptik/Rewd Adams – Unknown
Pete Rock & Smif N Wessun Feat Hurricane G – Do It
Nottz – Shine So Brite
14KT – F What They Say
Pharoahe Monch – Clap (One Day) Feat Showtyme and DJ Boogie Blind
Hassan Mackay & Apollo Brown – Volume
Freddie Foxxx/DJ Premier – The Gang Starr Bus
The Last Skeptik Feat Jehst – Lullaby
Ellesquire – Chasing The Pay
Ghostface Killah – New Splash
Gappy Ranks – Put The Stereo On
John Legend – Used To Love You (JBMD Reggae Remix)
Skarra Mucci feat. Weedy G Soundforce – My Sound
The Tongue – Forever
Kween G again in take over mode, while I was overseas. P Smurf of Daily Meds and the Big Village Massive popped by the studio. Not wanting to rap on his lonesome, the Kween dropped a verse or two with Mr Smurf. Watch out!
Lanie Lane. If you don’t know, you definitely will soon. Her music is a mix of blues, country, rockabilly, soul and folk, and the few tracks she has available have left me in anticipation of her album being released in October. She swung by the studio for some light conversation and a live performance.
Playlist:
The Valentinos – Sweeter Than the Day Before
Etta James – Seven Day Fool
Nina Simone – It Be’s That Way Sometime
Otis Redding – Shake
Sam Cooke – Chain Gang
The Bamboos – King Of The Rodeo ft Meagan Washington
Wendy Rene – After Laughter (Comes Tears)
Wu-Tang Clan – Tearz
Ghostface Killah – Holla
J. Cole – Can’t Get Enough ft Trey Songz
Lanie Lane – What Do I Do
The Sugars – End of Our Love Affair
The Trammps – Rubber Band
Kanye West & Jay-Z ft Otis Redding – Otis
Young Chris & Freeway – Otis Freestyle
Wu-Tang Clan – Pass The Bone
Chi Ali – Funky Lemonade
Lizzy Parks – All That (Natural Self mix)
Amy Winehouse – Know You Now
Jim Jones – Believe in Magic (Feat. Lloyd) (Prod. Girl Talk)
Jean Grae – Casebaskets
Fabolous – You Be Killin Em
Game Ft Dr.Dre & Snoop Dogg – Drug Test
Pegz – Bombs Away
Davante – Gin & Juice
Jodeci – Success
LL Cool J – Big Ole Butt
Nuthin Nyce – Down 4 Whateva
AMG – Jiggable Pie
Eric Sermon – Just Like Music
Mello – Moody Mello (Up Hygh Remix)
House Shoes – The Making
Music from Lanie Lane, Raphael Saadiq, Frootful, Estelle and more. However, the centre piece of tonights show is our tribute to the late great Miss Amy Winehouse. She was a troubled girl, but there has always been something I have admired about her rugged charm, brash sense of humour and honesty, which comes out with such feeling in her music.
Famed producer, Salaam Remi – who worked with Amy Winehouse on Frank, Back To Black and her unfinished comeback album – had this to say about Amy’s personality when recently talking to New York’s Power 105.1 FM.
“Amy had strong opinions on everything. …. She was very opinionated about what she liked. At the end, she was a real person,” he said. “She had a huge heart. We’d be working for hours and she would have everybody in the room snickering. She always had a joke. You could hear a lot of that in her lyrics, she could be sarcastic and she was extremely witty … but more than anything else she was a real person, an individual artist.”
“To put it all in a nutshell, Amy loved to sing, to write … that ability never left her,” he said. “She was very good at channeling her emotions into lyrics, and then being able to sing them. She was in a place to go forward and make it happen. … The way that Amy and I always created was, she would write and we would toss ideas around.”
Rest In Peace Amy!
Playlist:
Cassidy – Drink and My 2 Step (Cousin Cole REMIX)
Aldo Vanucci – Naive ft Amy J
Jay-Z feat. The Dap Kings – 99 Problems (Prince of Ballard Remix)
Dennis Coffey – All Your Goodies Are Gone feat. Mayer Hawthorne
Kanye West & Jay-Z ft Otis Redding – Otis
Lanie Lane – What Do I Do
Ballin’ Jack – Found A Child
Young MC – Bust a Move
Frootful – Fish In The Sea (feat Angeline Morrison)
Cookin’ Soul x Chuuwee – Just Ain´t Gonna Work Out feat. Mayer Hawthorne
Amy Winehouse – Me & Mr Jones
The Specials – Hey, Little Rich Girl
Amy Winehouse – Hey Little Rich Girl
Amy Winehouse ft Pharoahe Monch – Rehab (Remix)
The Zutons – Valerie
Mark Ronson Feat. Amy Winehouse – Valerie ft Rukus Precha, Alex Blood and Malik (Baby J Remix )
Andy & Joey – You’re Wondering Now (Mix out at around 1:00)
Amy Winehouse – You’re Wondering Now
Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
The Shirelles – Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
Amy Winehouse – Know You Now
Funky DL ft Amy Winehouse – Handed To You Free
Amy Winehouse – Fuck Me Pumps
Ghosface Killah & Amy Winehouse – You Know I’m No Good
Nas Made You Look (acapella)
Amy Winehouse – In My Bed
Amy Winehouse – He Can Only Hold Her
The Icemen – My Girls She’s a Fox
Billie Holiday – There Is No Greater Love
Amy Winehouse – (There Is) No Greater Love
Common – Ghetto Dreams ft NAS
Major Lazer ft Santigold & Mr Lexx – Hold the Line (yum yum Warning Rmx)
YT & Mr Williamz – Smiley Culture Tribute
Estelle – Come Over
Warren G & Nate Dogg – Regulaterock (Jstar Remix)
Beastie Boys – Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win (feat. Santigold) (Major Lazer Remix)
Frank Ocean – Novacane
Janelle Monáe – Tightrope (Wondamix) (feat. B.o.B & Lupe Fiasco)
J. Cole – Ladies ft. Lee Fields and the Expressions
Clipse ft Lee Fields – Mr. Me Too (Z.A.K. Remix)
Lee Fields – Honey Dove
Raphael Saadiq – Movin’ Down The Line
That Kween G is a problem. While I was away eating tacos and trying not to get kidnapped by taxi drivers, she was filling in on my show plotting a coup. This is her interview with Kurtis Blow backstage at Tone Nightclub in Sydney, before his performance. Pssssttt… whatever.
Since when did R&B turn into really bad dance music? Not interested in a night of Fatman Scoop with David Guetta clones? Shiiiittt… seems the only places that you can hear new club R&B and Hip Hop in Sydney is at Snapback, Levin’s sets at Halfway Crooks and DJ Leon Smith playing at strip club/nightspot Bada Bing.
While most R&B DJs are content peddling the same hits each week, Leon is one of the few that is pushing new R&B and Hip Hop. Leon popped in the studio to play a set of tunes that strippers like to get naked too.
Playlist:
Sean Paul – Give Me The Loving
Protoje and Keida – All Again
Mr Vegas – Mi Tuff Like Steel
Cecile – Pree Mi
Sean Paul – Gal A Bawl For More
Prince Zimboo – Shut Off
Mr. Vegas Feat. Natalie Storm – Doggy
Busy Signal – Pengeleng
Mercci – Oye Pappi
Katalyst – Ready To Drop ft Kween G
Harry Belafonte – Day Oh (The Banana Boat Song)
Lil Wayne – 6’7″ (feat. Cory Gunz)
Dead Prez – Let The People Be Heard Feat. Estelle
Eve f T.I. – Cash Flow
Fabolous – You Be Killin Em
Swizz Beatz feat. Eve & Gilbere Forte’ – Everyday (Coolin’) Remix
DMX – Get It On The Floor (ft. Swizz Beatz)
Jean Grae – Rocket In Pocket ft Styles P & Talib Kweli
Wiley – Information Age
DJ LEON SMITH STRIPPER ANTHEM SET
DJ Drama ft Fabolous & Roscoe Dash – Oh My
Big Sean ft Kanye & Roscoe Dash – Marvin Gaye & Chardonnay (DJ Graff Mix)
Waka Flocka Flame – Grove St Party
Birdman – Fire Flame ft Joell Ortiz & Lil Wayne (Remix)
WIN WIN x Kingdom x Rick Ross – Chopper In The Car (Jimmy2times Blend)
Young Jeezy – Powder (Power Freestyle)
Kreayshawn – Gucci Gucci (J Farell Remix)
Monchichi & Mez – Money Money Money (Remix)
Monchichi – Go A.G. ft Alien Gang
Cam’ron ft Lil Wayne – Suck It Or Not
Gucci Mane & Swizz Beatz – It’s Gucci Time
Big Boi – You Ain’t No DJ (ft Yelawolf)
JR Writer – Get Em
Lil Wayne, Pusha T & Kool G Rap – Dopeman Remix
Jay-Z – So Ghetto
Big L – Flamboyant
DJ LEON SMITH PLUGGING STUFF
Ellesquire – Ready
SBTRKT – Wildfire (Remix) Ft. Drake
Kelly Rowland – Motivation feat. Lil’ Wayne (Diplo Remix)
Busta Rhymes Vs Stagga – I Got Bass
Wiley – 100% Publishing
The Weeknd – Rolling Stone (No Big Deal Remix)
So ahh… since one dollar notes went out in Australia, do strippers take coins? Is that why they call it a coin slot? Cha-ching! Get your objectification on.
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U miss me? Yeah I know there has been a big Shantan shaped hole in the heart of Sydney, but I have returned to your radio with a swag of Cumbia, Salsa and other Latin Grooves.
To get it started we also invited one of our favourite DJs to pay tribute to one of our favourite artists. The right honorable DJ Naiki San plays a set of Gil Scott-Heron classics mixed with the Hip Hop artists that sampled him. Rest In Peace!
Playlist:
Bobby Valentin – Amor a Medio Tiempo
Quantic and his Combo Barbaro – Un Canto A Mi Tierra (Cut Chemist Remix)
Quantic Soul Orchestra – She Said What? (feat. J Live)
Niña Dioz – Criminal Sound (El Hijo De La Cumbia Remix)
Bomba Estéreo – Feelin
Dead Prez – Dead Man’s Shoes
Linda Lyndell – What A Man
Salt`N`Pepa – Whatta Man
Fame – What’s It Gonna Be
Frank Ocean – Novacane
DJ NAIKI GIL SCOTT-HERON TRIBUTE SET
Gil Scott Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Masta Ace – Take A Look Around
Gil Scott – Home Is Where The Hatred Is
Kanye West – My Way Home ft Common
Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson – Delta Man (Where I’m Coming From)
Slim Thug – Coming From
Gil Scott Heron – Angel Dust
The Game – Angel ft Common
Gil Scott Heron – Legend In His Own Mind
Mos Def – Mr Nigga
2Pac – Ready 4 Whatever
Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson – 1980
Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson – Angola, Louisiana
PM Dawn – Paper Doll
Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson – The Bottle
Gil Scott Heron – The Klan
Little Brother – Make Me Hot
Gil Scott Heron – We Almost Lost Detroit
Grand Puba – Keep On
Gil Scott Heron – We Almost Lost Detroit
Common – The People
Mos Def & Talib Kweli – Brown Skin Lady
Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson – Winter In America
DJ Ralph – Latino and Proud
Kinfolk Kia Shine – So Krispy (Kinky Electric Noise Cumbia Nativo Remix)
Bomba Estereo – Fuego
Rye rye – Shake It To The Ground (Cumbia Remix)
Systema Solar – Bienvenidos
Willie Hutch! Doesn’t he look good here at Soul Train. Willie was a singer songwriter, but also a producer for Motown working on songs with the Jackson 5, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye and also did the soundtracks for ‘Foxy Brown’ and ‘The Mack’. He also had his own fair share of success as a recording artist. This track comes off his 1973 album ‘Full Exposed’ and was nabbed by Three 6 Mafia.