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Hip-hop and rap, that's where my heart's at. But I'll play anything so long as it ain't crap!
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Format | Comments | New | |||
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Disturbed Pepe Papaya | unreleased and unwanted | unreleased | intro stream of nonsenseness | |||||||
Clint Eastwood & General Saint | Stop that train | reggae classic | ||||||||
Black Uhuru | reggae rock | from one of their numerous dub excursions | ||||||||
Descendents | good good things | SoCali punk's goldend era personified by Milo & Co. | ||||||||
Just say no | 2004 | Taken from one of the countless anti-drug PSA (public service announcements) CD compilations that arrive at radio stations across the USA on a regular basis. Often so bad they're good. Usually they never get airplay by the stations but end up in their trash bin where I forage for these gems....Love em! | ||||||||
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C Rayz Walz | Blacker | 2005 | performing later today (6/29/05) in Brooklyn along with Vast Aire and J-Live...t | |||||||
Eddie Def | Sometimes I think I'll kill you | self-released cassette | from Eddie Def (Bulletproof Space Travelers)Hemp Lords III tape mix....utitlizing countless samples inc. one of his all time faves: Nirvana | |||||||
Leadbelly | Matchbox Blues | an American great whose music transcends all time and genres! | ||||||||
Quasimoto | Green Power | |||||||||
Various in da mix | Uh oh! The new FMU DJ just discovered the Reverb button | Features about seven albums inc. ones by Negativeland, Steven Wright, and the Black Shampoo soundtrack | ||||||||
Jethro Tull | nursie | |||||||||
LTJ Bukem | Journey Inwards | |||||||||
Morricone 2000 | ||||||||||
Shystie | some dayz | Polydor UK | ||||||||
Joanna Newsom | The Book of Right On | |||||||||
Kid Koala | Drunk Trumpet Live | XEN box set | CD | Note this live version of Drunk Trumpet is totally different and much better from his album reg. studio version and can be found on the recommended three CD compilation XEN cuts that features the likes of Steinski, Coldcut, and Quannam cats. | ||||||
Popeye | a friend is someone you like | Vinyl | This old record is an example of why I love and fully appreciate the vast WFMU library. I stumbled upon this gem under soundtracks. I never heard it before but fell in love with it right away! | |||||||
Doug E Fresh & MC Ricky D | La Di Da Di | 1985 | Vinyl | Twenty damn years ago this dropped! A time when naysayers where still talking about the "rap fad" and how it was about to burn out. What a long way hip-hop has come! | ||||||
Baldhead Slick/2Mex | I Win U Lose | 2005 | Vinyl | * | ||||||
Kid 606 | Secrets 4 Sale | down with the scene | Tigerbeat 6 | CD | ||||||
Cybotron | Clear | Vinyl | Like Strafe's "Set it off" this influential classic from two full decades ago was at the time considered both hip-hop and dance and consequently pops up simultaneously on both ol skool rap and dance compilations. | |||||||
Queen Agnes B | live mix/various songs | 2005 | Excerpt from unreleased mix CD from yet another one of San Francisco's DJ greats (last week featured was Charlotte the Baroness). This week's Bay Area DJ's featured mix is by Queen Agnes B who has a resfreshingly diverse take on dance music. Sometimes she is hardcore breakbeat driven. This mix (various tracks) catches the SFDJ in a more deep house groove. | |||||||
Moondog | Theme | CD | ||||||||
2 Many DJs | Soulwax mix | CD | the kings of da mashup craze in one of their best mixes, throwing everything (but doing it well....which is what its all about) such as "I wanna be your dog" | |||||||
Egyptian Lover | Egypt Egypt | Vinyl | influential electro classic from SoCal's Uncle Jamm's Army collective of DJs from twenty years ago. | |||||||
Popeye and others | backwards mix | impromtu backwards mix of Popeye and other stuff.. | ||||||||
Steven Wright | Water | I have a pony | Comedian extraordinairre whose dry humor stands the test of time. So does the man himself who I just saw on TV recently and he was still funny-as-fuck! | |||||||
Sextero Electronico Moderno | Soul Neuvo | * | ||||||||
Survivors | Rawhide | Scratchy Sounds of Roots, Reggae, Dub | CD | |||||||
Blackgirl soundtrack | Vinyl | |||||||||
Pop WIll Eat Itself | Poison to the mind | Vinyl | ||||||||
Melt Banana | Mind Thief | CD | from that great collection of Melt Banana tracks tracing their music over several years from a decade or so ago. This one originally appeared on a 7" single. | * | ||||||
America & Chocolate | Sow de preto | 2005 | more of that Baile Funk from Brazil | |||||||
Meat Beat Manifesto | Bohemian Grove | At the center | 2005 | Jack Dangers, Ben Stokes and crew, who are currently touring (in NYC @ Irving Plaza on 6/30/05), have dropped an amazing new album in "At The Center" - Like it so much played another track later in this show. Also hope to interview them for next week's show. | * | |||||
John Lurie | Car Cleveland | Stranger than Paradise soundtrack | Vinyl | Actually a three song EP with another song by Mista Lurie as well as the song most associated with the great movie "Stranger than Paradise" - Screaming Jay Hawkins' "I Put A Spell On You" | ||||||
Live Human | Breakseven remixed | 2005 | not sure of song title or artist who did the actual remix on this (for now) unreleased project. Will track down info and update here later....promise | |||||||
Taco Bell | 1995 | Episode II in this ongoing "Bring that beat back" weekly series (usually around the midway mark in the four hour show) that captures the crazy adventures of these two Ohio, USA women from the 1995 recordings conducted by NoNekNed | ||||||||
Beastie Boys | Cookie Puss | |||||||||
Graffiti Death Threat | Cairo '96 | 2005 | CD | LA group that features DJ T-Rock | ||||||
Z-Trip/T-Rock | Listen to the DJ | 2005 | CD | remix of the latest Z-Trip single (feat. Soup) by DJ T-Rock...unreleased...only heard on WFMU to date. | ||||||
Double Dee & Steinski | play that beat mr. dj | CD | sometime FMU contributer Steinski along with his partner....in this landmark cut n paste recording that is still being bootlegged and much sought after | |||||||
Eric B & Rakim | Eric B is President | I always said if I had a show on WFMU that I would make a point to "bring back that ol New York hip-hop" and that;s what I was doing around this point in show. What a rich legacy of music! | ||||||||
Ultimate Force | cuts like these | Vinyl | ||||||||
Mixmaster Ice | UTFO's DJ Mixmaster Ice | |||||||||
Graffiti Death Threat | my lady | 2005 | ||||||||
Klement Juilere | mannix | Lounge Stories 2 | CD | * | ||||||
Bill Laswell | Chabon & Daniel | Imaginery Cuba | ||||||||
Mary Lou Williams | Med I Am Med 2 | religous jazz | * | |||||||
Exocet | Demon Seed | Shades of Technology | DnB comp put together by DB | |||||||
Immortal Tehcnique | Bin Laden | 2005 | ||||||||
James Blood Ulmer | Devils Gotta Burn | Birthright | * | |||||||
Meat Beat Manifesto | United .....etc etc | at the center | * | |||||||
Meshoma Orchestra | warm up | Jewish Aerobics | Vinyl | |||||||
Joe Batton | i got a new dance | Vinyl | * |
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