It was a slow day yesterday in all the best ways. Leftovers from the feast on Thursday, friends stopping through to share light and being, and great music playing in the back. Mr. Oakland was digging this mix I did a couple weeks ago, so here it is. Several of the artists are definitely worth [...]
Posts Tagged ‘funk’
15 Jun
Real Radio June 2011
Summer, summer, summertime. Warm sounds for an afternoon or getting on the good foot for the night. Fatima’s first EP features great production from Floating Points (a fav of mine) with tracks ranging from downtempo haze to R&B and jazz influenced ambience. Can’t wait to hear more. Moodymann’s Black Mahogonie project is pure class with [...]
8 Mar
Real Radio #2
“I can’t live without my radio!” Today LL Cool J’s line might seem dated. We know longer think of the radio as a large boom box we can walk around with pumping the latest cassettes and hot mix shows. Today’s technology has changed that for good. Radio ain’t dead though. It’s expanded, multiplied and become [...]
5 Feb
First Friday February 2010
It’s the first Friday of the month, and in downtown Oakland, that means an Art Murmur. Loads of open galleries with new shows and loads of people mixing in the galleries, streets, restaurants and bars of the Uptown area. The energy is always great. I’ll DJing over at Mua with AJB. Been working on some [...]
27 Sep
Bashment Styles
Bashment = Dancehall = Body Moving. I was asked to post this by a patron, so here it is. Slew of different styles. Coolie Dance Riddim coming out of a disco mix, morphing into more multi-rhythmic Jamaican party vibes, deep Detroit house from Germany, a bit of Bob Marley class, and a nicely executed on [...]
