#Del The Funk Homosapien

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for May 27, 2024; #377.

Gang Starr ft. J. Cole: "Family And Loyalty"

Benny The Butcher & Armani Caesar: "Buffalo Kitchen Club"

Meyhem Lauren & Daringer ft. Conway The Machine: "Red Pesto"

NappyHIGH f. Raekwon + Westside Gunn: "From The Projects"

Prodigal Sunn ft. Killah Priest: "Vintage"

El Camino ft. Inspectah Deck: "Victory"

Headkrack ft. Method Man + Kool Keith: "Buckwild"

Kool Keith & Real Bad Man: "Fire And Ice" + Battle (ft. Ice-T)

Real Bad Man & Blu ft. C.L. Smooth: "The Golden Rule"

Real Bad Man & Blu ft. Planet Asia: "Hebrews"

Planet Asia & Apollo Brown: "Get The Dough Off" + "Peas And Onions"

Che Noir ft. Planet Asia: "Caps Lock"

Che Noir & Big Ghost Ltd. ft. Skyzoo + D-Styles: "Brilliance"

1982 ft. Skyzoo: "Summer In New York"

Roc Marciano X Pete Rock: "Chris Angel"

KRS-One: "The Beginning"

Da Beatminerz Ft. KRS-One + Smif-N-Wessun: "Seckle"

Prodigy & Big Daddy Kane + DJ Scratch: "You Don't Want It"

DJ Premier X Snoop Dogg: "Can U Dig That"

DJ Premier & Slick Rick & Li'l Wayne: "The Root Of All"

Apathy ft. DJ Premier: "Stop What Ya' Doin'"

Apathy ft. Celph Titled: "Todd McFarlane"

Celph Titled ft. Buckwild: "Wack Juice"

Curren$y ft. Boldy James + The Alchemist: "No Yeast"

Masta Ace & Marco Polo: "Richmond Hill" + "P.P.E."

Marv Won ft. Freeway: "Roc Nation"

Royce Da' 5-9 ft. Redman: "Royce & Reggie"

Homeboy Sandman: "Then We Broke Up"

Armand Hammer ft. El-P: "The Gods Must Be Crazy"

eLZhi & Oh No: "Fireballs"

SonnyJim & The Purist ft. MF Doom + Jay Electronica: "Barz Simpson"

Madlib: "REEKYOD"

Byron G ft. Domo Genesis & Evidence & The Whooligans: "Lord Steppington"

A.F.R.O.: "Good Morning, FRO"

Cypress Hill: "Bye Bye"

DJ Muggs X Crimeapple: "Camisas"

DJ Muggs ft. Cee-Lo Green: "Jokers Wild"

Billy Danze ft. Lady Lee: "Blessings And Prayers"

El Michels Affair & Black Thought: "I Would Never" + "Glorious Game"

AZ: "This Is Why"

Kool G Rap ft. 38 Spesh + AZ + General Vee: "Born Hustler"

Logic ft. AZ: "Carnival"

Living Legends f. Del The Funky Homosapien: "The Return"

Deluxe hip-hop, rap, living legends, and golden-era veterans; consecutives and combos-.

[disease]

DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN // BM's [BOTH SIDES OF THE BRAIN, 2000]

[djmossback]

Spacebar 07/20/24

Third Space Saturday

The Tracks

2100 hrs

Brothers Johnson, Strawberry Letter 23 (12 Inch)

Grace Jones, I Need A Man (12 Inch)

Junie Morrison, Techno-Freqs (12 Inch)

Wire, Ahead (12 Inch)

KC and The Sunshine Band, I’m Your Boogie Man (LP cut)

Judas Priest, Metal Gods (LP cut)

George Clinton, Do Fries Go With That Shake (12 Inch)

One Way, Cutie Pie (12 Inch EP cut)

Beastie Boys, She’s Crafty (LP cut)

Booker T. & The MG’s, Hip Hug-Her (LP cut)

Average White Band, Pick Up The Pieces (LP cut)

Foreigner, Urgent (12 Inch)

ZZ Top, Cheap Sunglasses (LP cut) (2200 hrs)

Emotions, Best Of My Love (LP cut)

Michael Jackson, Rock With You (7 inch)

Sanford and Townsend Band, Smoke From A Distant Fire (LP cut)

Dazz Band, Let It Whip (7 inch)

Gap Band, Outstanding (LP cut)

Robert Palmer, You Are In My System (7 inch)

Roots Manuva, Again & Again (12 Inch)

Sade, Hang On To Your Love (12 Inch)

Dillinger, Cokane In My Brain (7 inch)

Simple Minds, Don’t You Forget About Me (12 Inch)

Vince Staples, Norf Norf (LP cut)

Flying Lizards, Money (That’s What I Want) (LP cut)

Dry Cleaning, Scratchcard Lanyard (7 inch)

Mary Jane Girls, In My House (12 Inch)

Donna Summer, I Feel Love (12 Inch)

Berlin, The Metro (7 inch)

DEVO, Snowball (7 inch)

Tilt, Arcade Funk (12 Inch)

Eddy Grant, Electric Avenue (LP cut)

Toni Basil, Mickey (7 inch)

The Clash, Rock The Casbah (7 inch)

Cheryl Lynn, Got To Be Real (7 inch)

Lakeside, Fantastic Voyage (LP cut)

Steve Miller Band, Abracadabra (7 inch)

Run DMC, Walk This Way (12 Inch)

Nazareth, RAZAMANAZ (LP cut)

Amyl & The Sniffers, Some Mutts (7 inch)

Kingsmen, Louie Louie (7 inch)

Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, Ruby (Don’t Take Your Love To Town) (7 inch)

Police, Roxanne (7 inch)

Go-Go’s, We Got The Beat (7 inch)

Bauhaus, Bela Lugosi’s Dead (12 Inch)

Madvillain, America’s Most Blunted (12 Inch)

Cameo, Word Up (12 Inch)

Skee-Lo, I Wish (12 Inch)

Pet Shop Boys, West End Girls (12 Inch)

Eiffel 65, Move Your Body (12 Inch)

Kylie Minogue, Can’t Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head (12 Inch)

J.J. Fad, Supersonic (12 Inch)

Ohio Players, Love Rollercoaster (12 Inch EP cut)

James Brown,I Got You (I Feel Good) (7 inch)

Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Mistadobalina (LP cut)

Kendrick Lamar, YAH (LP cut)

Leroy Sibbles Nicodemus, Rock Steady Party (12 Inch)

Barbara Lewis, Baby I’m Yours (LP cut)

0113 Finished

The scenery

TASTING NOTES

I spent the day not thinking about the set, preferring to head into Spacebar “cold” to see what developed. But, I had spent a fair amount of time since my last set combing through online lists and the singles section of the local Record Hut to find some fresh material. And, a lot of it found its way onto the decks and into the ears of the listeners at Third Space Saturday. I do love the format of the single. I’m not necessarily attached to the extended mixes; often I will play the LP cut included on the single, or the 7” mix if it is on there. I like the focus of the shorter versions, but sometimes the songs lend themselves to the stretched-out format. Just depends on the song, as always.

It is really hot in Boise – not just summer heat, but triple-digit temperatures every day for weeks on end. I got sweaty just loading the rig. When I got downtown, there was a huge event of some sort happening in Capitol Park, with several streets blocked, and I worried that I would have trouble finding a parking space. But I found a space really close, and rolled my gear into the elevator. Nothing worked. The door wouldn’t even close. I text Will, and am surprised when he appears at the elevator. We lug all my gear down the stairs, past the line going upstairs to the speakeasy. Evidently, the fire department had visited just before I got there, because the fog machine had tripped the fire alarm. Will is working the door, and I recognize absolutely none of the bar staff.

I’m later than I wanted to be, so after I set myself up, I hurriedly weigh my options. I usually start with a song that has kind of a fanfare intro, but tonight it seemed appropriate to ease into things, so I chose “Strawberry Letter 23” by the Brothers Johnson, a new 12” single I acquired last week. My first hour is a combination of 12” extended versions and LP cuts; going from Wire to KC and the Sunshine Band to Judas Priest to George Clinton sounded better in person than it looks on the page. The bar scene is ebbing and flowing as usual, but it’s summer, people are outside, or in the mountains, or hunkered down in the most air-conditioned spot they can find.

I put on a long Grace Jones single, and Will gives me a tour of the changes coming to the bar. The room that used to house the print shop is cleared out. It’s going to house more machines, and be a separate space within the space. The music will still be there, but there will be more options for people, and a better use of the space, which was not generating enough use before. It will be good to give people more places to hang, to be with their people. Our sound volume is lower, which I kind of like. It presents the music better, and makes things more comfortable.

My son shows up with a posse. He comes into the booth and greets me. I express my unease, how I feel like I’m aging out of such things as nightlife, and fun, but he is unconvinced. Says I’m fine. He heads out on the floor with his crew, and I lose track of him for a while. About a half-hour later he comes back up to say goodbye, introduces me to a friend, and they ask about the Grime record I played. Roots Manuva. They dig it. I told them I couldn’t see anyone reacting to the music one way or the other, aside from the kid who came up and scrolled through the new internet jukebox that’s on the wall by the bar. They assured me that people were vibing, even the youngsters. It was good to hear, and I noticed people moving to the beat after that.

After Sam leaves, I don’t see a single person I know come in for the rest of the night. I am ok with this. Not that I don’t love the support from people I know, but I’m also a realist. I know it would require great effort for me to be out downtown on a Saturday night, so I understand what it entails.

I’ve hardly played any 7” records, mostly concentrating on longer 12” mixes from my new acquisitions. It feels really good. I’m putting things together in the right places, there are very few technical gaffes from me, and I generally feel good about how I’ve put records together.

The Donna Summer 12” single “I Feel Love” is a record I’ve been looking for my entire adult life, and now it’s mine. The 8-minute version did not disappoint! The mechanized spine of the song, the repetitive bubbling riff, it was the first record I heard from her, and I instantly became a fan. The simplicity and directness appealed to me, as did the four-on-the-floor kick drum.

I put a different Nazareth track into the mix, RAZAMANAZ. (I don’t know, it just seems to work better in all caps.) I had it cued and ready to go, but I then reversed course, and instead of following it up with RUN-DMC (again with the all caps!) I switched the order, and played “Walk With Me” first. It worked. The Nazareth track is like Motorhead, with a “better” singer. I need to find a better copy of the record, though. It was kind of worn. So is the Bauhaus record I plucked from a dollar section a while ago. Even though it’s got an audible (and visible) scratch on it, it plays through, and the surface noise doesn’t detract – it kind of adds something to the sound of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead.” It’s kind of a gothic doppelganger to the Donna Summer record – repetitive, atmospheric, less busy and more organic. Music is amazing that way. Very disparate intentions coming through, and changing the way things sound. And you don’t stop/you go on and on/til the break of dawn.

The thing is, though, a lot of the old 7” records from the ’50s and ’60s still sound great, even with the wear. The record players they were made for were not like the Hi-Fi players for classical and pop records of the day, and by pop records, I mean things like Doris Day, Johnny Mathis and other adult music. I’m fascinated by how time takes language and meaning and metamorphosizes it to fit the needs of people, of audiences, of commerce. You don’t/can’t control it, but you can ride it, and see where it goes.

That is the essence of what I am trying to do: follow the through line, and paint pictures, express myself, play things that sound good to me, communicate a feeling and vibe to people. I didn’t put Amyl and the Sniffers next to the Kingsmen and follow it up with Kenny Rogers to be a clever show-off, I did it because I thought it would sound good, that they were all good records, and the juxtaposition would make a listener reconsider what those songs were about.

Or, they could just vibe to the beat.

I’m so happy I get to do this, and I’m glad to have the opportunity to contribute to Spacebar Arcade. I sometimes feel I should be doing more – get on the microphone and get the party started, as it were. It’s just not me. All I can do is show up until they tell me not to. It’s a tough business. It’s not complicated, but it is unpredictable. You can do everything right, and still fail. Luck is underestimated by our culture. Being in the right place, at the right time, doing something you love and believe in and being rewarded? It’s not a given. Trust this: it’s just business. Pivot. Change course. Listen. Be true to yourself.

Next Third Space Saturday for me is on September 21st, 2024. I’m taking August off for Holiday. Just like a European.

[theparanoid]

Del Tha Funkeé Homosapien - Sunny Meadowz

From The Album: I Wish My Brother George Was Here (1991)

[West Coast Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop, Funk, Boom Bap]

[barrymccaulkinem]

What is a booty and how will I know if I'm shaking it?

What is the funk and how will I know if I'm faking it?

[insufficientdata]

the french were on some shit in the late 60s and 70s with funk that i have yet to discover from other countries. this shit was insanely close to hip hop and i can only fuckin say that maybe they were just dramatic that way. anyway check this shit out

Whether through your own searching or unfortunate intervention by friends or strangers online, at some point you heard Immortal Technique's dance with the devil. But we won't get into the lyrics. Immortal sampled the theme to Love Story, a movie from 1970, from composer Francis Lai. This isn't the song he sampled, but wait for the drop, and listen to the strings and drums. I don't know how the French's particular flare for the dramatic lead them to this conclusion, but it certainly surprised me.

This next track was also composed in 1970 for a personal art project by William Sheller. Just... listen. And if you want to treat yourself, set the playback speed to 1.25

IIRC, either Dan the Automator or Kid Koala sampled this for 3030, the first song on their album Deltron 3030 with Del tha Funkee Homosapien

[cyarsk52-20]

Too $hort, Del the Funky Homosapien, Sway, and E-40 Define "The Bay Sound"

By Jay Quan

Published Fri, October 28, 2022 at 10:15 AM EDT

Rock The Bells recently spoke to a few Bay area Hip-Hop icons about the sound of the Bay for Rock The Bells Radio's All City Day: Bay Area, which dedicates an entire day to Hip-Hop from the Bay Area and features music and commentary from Too $hort, E-40, Spice 1, Money B of Digital Underground, Del The Funky Homosapien, and more. Additionally, Bay Area DJs including  DJ Fuze, DJ Apollo, and DJ D-Sharp will contribute exclusive mixes.

MC and Hip-Hop journalist Sway Calloway, who is also participating in RTB Radio's All City Day: Bay Area, talked about the Bay's expansive musical scope. 

"To me, Bay Area Hip-Hop is an extension of R&B and soul with different variants of street," he explained. "It's soul mixed with technology and so it's really about where you're from, your region, and what inspired you. Sly and the Family Stone, a Bay Area group, was a heavy influence on us. From songs like 'Everyday People,' to the way they played their bass and mixed their drums influenced us."

Sway stresses the influence of live instrumentation and funk bands on the area.

"A lotta that live instrumentation like Con Funk Shun was high energy," he explained. "For us, Con Funk Shun was equivalent to somebody like The Dazz Band or The Commodores. Sheila E. and her family were very huge with Latin percussion and the grooves that they included in their music — that's all Bay Area. So when you hear those older groups that were around before Too $hort and Tony! Toni! Toné!, you understand where that information that informed their music came from. Too $hort, Tony! Toni! Toné! Sheila E., MC Hammer, Souls Of Mischief, The Luniz, Rappin' 4-Tay, Sway & Tech — the list goes on. You'll find 20 or 30 different sounds coming from 20 or 30 different artists from the Bay based on the fact that a lot of older groups influenced our sound. It's Funk and Soul mixed with Hip-Hop and technology, all rolled up in one with some dope-ass melodies and crispy, precise vocals with true-to-life lyrics. That's the Bay Area sound."

Rock The Bells Radio dedicates an entire day to Hip-Hop from the Bay Area, California. Tune into All City Day: Bay Area to hear music and commentary from Too $hort, E-40, Sway, Spice 1, Money B of Digital Underground, Del The Funky Homosapien, and more. Plus hear exclusive mixes from some of The Bay's best DJs including – DJ Fuze, DJ Apollo, and DJ D-Sharp. Premieres 10/28 at 8 am ET on Rock The Bells Radio, Sirius XM Ch. 43. Listen to Rock The Bells Radio on @SiriusXM free for 3 months. Learn more: http://www.siriusxm.com/RTB3.

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[eggoverlord]

I'm gonna start posting the music I listen to every month. Just did it for February (which I will get to in a second) but before that, I want to say some things about it.

Number 1: Formatting. It is Album Name - Artist - Genre(s)

Number 2: Yes it's a lot of music. I have an hour long bus ride to and from school every day so I listen to 2 albums frequently, lately I haven't kept up as much, but that's why it's so long.

Number 3: all but one albums are new or mostly new to me. I listed the album I already listened to, the rest are new albums. Not necessarily new artist though

Anyway

Delete Yourself - Atari Teenage Riot - Digital Hardcore

Let My Children Hear Music - Charles Mingus - More experimental jazz? Avant-guarde I guess

AS HARD AS YOU CAN - LustSickPuppy - Digital Harcore

Cosmic Brownie - LustSickPuppy - Digital Hardcore

Headhunters - Herbie Hancock - Jazz Fusion

Take Me To Your Leader - King Geedorah (MF DOOM) - Hip Hop, kinda Acid Jazz

Diary of an Afro Warrior - Benga - Dubstep

Parrhesia - Animals as Leaders - Djent

Color Him Father - The Winstons - Soul

Lemonade - Beyoncè - R&B

LP! - JPEGMAFIA - Experimental Hip Hop

Try and Love - Ofege - Psych Rock or Funk Rock or something

The Battle of Los Angeles - Rage Against The Machine - Nu Metal and or Funk Metal

Uprising - Bob Marley - Reggae

I Wish My Brother George Was Here - Del The Funky Homosapien - Alternate Hip Hop

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic - Funk with some rock and blues elements

Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus - IDM or some other Electronic Thing

What Did He Say - Victor Wooten - Jazz Fusion

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Ms Lauryn Hill - Hip Hop and Soul and R&B and more probably

Exmilitary - Death Grips - I already listened to this many times but it's my favorite album, also punk rap or experiment hip hop or something

United States of Horror - Ho99o9 - Punk Rap with a heavy emphasis on Punk

Bad Brains - Bad Brains - Punk with Reggae influence but is also distinctly not ska if that makes sense

...For The Whole World To Remember - Death - Proto Punk

Visions of Bodies Being Burned - clipping. - Experimental Hip Hop

Vivid - Living Color - Kinda Funk Rock Kinda Hair Metal

Queen of the Blues - Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - Blues

TRYPNOTYX - Victor Wooten, Dennis Chambers, and Bob Franceschini - Funk and Jazz Fusion

Motherlode - Super Soul Brothers - Soul, Jazz, and Funk covers of Earthbound songs

Odetta Sings - Odetta - Folk

Graduation - Sleepy Dog - Math Rock, Midwest Emo

A New Machine for Living - Turing Machine - Math Rock

Aquemini - Outkast - Alternative Hip Hop

[omegaplus]

# 4,044

James Brown: “Stoned To The Bone” Italian 7″ (1974)

You’re all here because Del The Funky Homosapien sampled this at 5:51 for “Mistadobalina” (’91) and made it damn funky. While I’m here, I’ll point out that James Brown’s name is in American-flag on an epe-popping Italian 7″ pressing. And the A-side is ‘part 1′ as the Stoned-” album version is more than 10 minutes long, running across both sides on the entire 45.

[thehotboxsocial]

Oakland Rap 1993

I'm A Player [Too Short]

Somethin' To Ride To (Fonky Expedition) [Conscious Daughters]

Pimp Of The Year [Dru Down]

Souljah's Revenge [2Pac]

Holly Wantstaho [Digital Underground]

Not Yet Free [The Coup]

Hit It [Ant Banks]

Oakland Styles [FM Blue]

F--k 5-0 [Point Blankk Range feat. E-Roc]

Runnin From 5-0 [Saafir feat. Big Daddy & King Saan]

The 1 [Female Fonk]

That's How It Is [Casual]

Boo Boo Heads [Del Tha Funky Homosapien]

Get In Where You Fit In [Too Short feat. Rappin' Ron & Ant Diddley Dog]

Studio Gangster [Pooh-Man]

415-510 [TKO]

Give'm That Funk [Lavish Style Hustlers Klan]

I'm High [DNG]

Dead End [Twon]

Nothing But A Player [Criminal Behavior]

Straight Business [EA-Ski]

Something Kind Of Funky [Rally Ral]

93 'Til Infinity [Souls Of Mischief]

Welcome to Oakland, the land of funk and the dope fiend beat. 1993 was a bomb ass year for the city of dope; Too Short was an established veteran making the best rap of his career, 2Pac’s slow burning sophmore album produced 2 smash singles by the end of the year, new exciting artists like Dru Down & The Coup were popping up and then there was this whole other thing happening with Heiroglyphics. And dozens of dope regional tapes too! 

dl     yt

[cardest]

San Francisco playlist

San Francisco  - my favorite city in the world! The bands, the music, the songs are all here, in this playlist I created. I threw in a bit of Sac and went south by San Jose, Monterrey and up past Sausalito. Can we make it to 250 songs? Let me know what bands/songs I left out.

Have I left out a song or a band in this San Francisco playlist? Let me know! Cheers! 

Play the songs here at this link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1-HLG9q5rZLsqs8EYh6bhu- San Francisco

001 The Dillinger Escape Plan w/Mike Patton -  When Good Dogs Do Bad Things 002 Night flight Orchestra - California Morning 003 Quincy Jones - Call Me Mister Tibbs OST (Main Title) 004 James Taylor Quartet - Dirty Harry theme song 005 Faith No More - Seperation anxiety 006 Streets of San Francisco TV show theme song 007 Santana -  Evil Ways 008 High on Fire -  Electric Messiah 009 Metallica - Disposable Heroes 010 Hammers Of Misfortune -  Dead Revolution 011 Buddy Guy -  Hello San Francisco 012 Faith No More - Jungle 013 Isaac Hayes - Shaft 014 Orange Peels  - Back In San Francisco 015 Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids - Message To My People 016 Thee Oh Sees - The Dream 017 Merle Haggard - Here In Frisco 018 Audrey Horne -  California 019 Journey -  Lights 020 Death Angel -  Hatred United / United Hate 021 Mel Tor Me - Got The Date On The Golden Gate 022 Duke Ellington -  Tourist Point Of View 023 Sons of Anarchy  - This Life (Sons of Anarchy Theme Song) 024 Larry Graham's Central Station - Earthquake 025 LARD - I Wanna Be A Drug Sniffing Dog 026 Machine Head -  California Bleeding 027 Neurosis -  The Doorway 028 KING WOMAN - Utopia 029 Lalo Schifrin - Magnum Force OST  Main Title 030 Forbidden -  Adapt Or Die 031 DBUK - In San Francisco Bay 032 Jack Name - Werewolf Factory 033 John Carpenter - Theme from "The Fog" 034 Khiis - Saboor 035 Richie Havens -  San Francisco Bay Blues 036 Metallica - Battery 037 Autopsy - charred remains 038 ExTREMITY_-_Crepuscular_Crescendo 039 The Otherside -  Streetcar 040 Quincy Jones - Ironside (TV Theme) 041 Megadeth -  Back in the Day 042 Sly and the Family Stone - Stand! 043 Faith No More -  From Out of Nowhere 044 Willie Hutch-Vampin (The Mack OST 045 Orchid -  Mouths Of Madness 046 Lalo Schifrin - Bullitt OST - On The Way To San Mateo 047 Vince Guaraldi - Woodstock's Dream 048 Fantomas -  4-11-05 049 Violation Wound - Fearmonger + State of Alarm 050 Primus - Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers 051 The Flower Pot Men - Let's Go to San Francisco (Part.1-2) 052 Bosse-de-Nage - Crux 053 Rod McKuen - The Beat Generation 054 Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way To San Jose 055 The Watchers - Sabbath Highway 056 Possessed - the eyes of horror 057 Scott McKenzie – San Francisco (Be Sure to wear flowers) 058 Tower Of Power -  Oakland Stroke 059 Big Trouble In Little China OST - Pork chop express 060 Vio-lence -  Calling In The Coroner 061 Black Oak Arkansas - The Big Ones Still Coming 062 Mr. Bungle - Love Is a Fist 063 VUUR -  The Fire - San Francisco 064 Testament - The Haunting 065 Electronicat - Frisco Bay 066 Y&T - Mean Streak 067 Thee Oh Sees -  Toe Cutter/Thumb Buster 068 Sweet - California Nights - Promo Clip (OFFICIAL) 069 Sadus - Swallowed In Black 070 Chuck Berry - San Francisco Dues 071 Sammy Hagar - Keep on rockin' 072 Fuzz -  Sleigh Ride 073 Otis Redding - Sittin' on The Dock of the Bay 074 Pleasure Leftits - The Gate 075 BL'AST - Sometimes 076 Santana - Samba de Sausalito 077 Acephalix - Upon This Altar 078 Sun Ra    - Lady With The Golden Stockings 079 Chris Isaak - San Francisco Days 080 Pointer Sisters - How Long (Betcha' Got A Chick On The Side) 081 High On Fire -  Carcosa 082 Will Haven -  When The Walls Close In 083 The Coup -  Laugh/Love/Fuck 084 King Khan - Teeth Are Shite 085 Deafheaven -  Irresistible 086 Glitter Wizard -  Blood of the Serpent 087 Jefferson Airplane -  It's No Secret 088 Cannonball Adderley - This Here 089 The Warlocks -  Can't Come Down 090 Squirmy Sax Man - I Still Believe 091 Acid King - Coming Down from Outer Space 092 George Duke - Sausalito 093 The Lost Boys - Cry Little Sister (Theme From The Lost Boys OST) 094 Betty Davis - [They Say I'm Different] He Was a Big Freak 095 Fever Tree - San Francisco Girls 096 The Dillinger Escape Plan w/ Mike Patton -  Pig Latin 097 Build Them to Break - Lucky Strike 098 Montrose - Rock Candy 099 PRIMUS - THE TOYS GO WINDING DOWN 100 Joe Satriani - Big Bad Moon 101 Sleater Kinney - Jumpers 102 GRUESOME - Dimensions Of Horror 103 Sly & the Family Stone - Everday People 104 Huey Lewis and the News - Back in Time 105 Hammers Of Misfortune - 2 17th Street 106 Jerry Fielding - Prologue _ Main Title (The Enforcer OST) 107 Metal Church - The Dark 108 Deftones - Ohms 109  John Lee Hooker - Frisco Blues 110 DRI - Go Die 111 16th & Valencia Roxy Music- Devendra Banhart, What We Will Be 112 MC Hammer - Too Legit to Quit 113 Dead Kennedys-Police Truck 114 Rancid - Adina 115 San Francisco's Shiver - Up My Sleeve 116 Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo OST - The Bay 117 Faith No More - Last Cup Of Sorrow 118 Blackburn & Snow -  Stranger In a Strange Land 119 The Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes 120 The Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia 121 Cab Calloway - San Francisco Fan 122 The Charlatans - codine 123 Buck Owens - Want To Live In San Francisco 124 Sleep - Dragonaut 125 Death Angel - 5 Steps Of Freedom 126 Neil Young - Heart of Gold 127 Vastum -  Reveries in Autophagia 128 Dead Kennedys -  Moon Over Marin 129 EchoBrain -  Colder World 130 Riz Ortolani    - Lombard Street   131 Waylon Jennings - San Francisco Mabel Joy   132 Con Funk Shun - Confunkshunizeya 133 Chic - Hes the Greatest Dancer 134 Peace Creep - Radio Free Alcatraz   135 ABBA - Santa Rosa 136 Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks - San Fransisco 137 Together Band - California Curl California Girl 138 The Hellers - It's 74 In San Francisco 139 Pat Todd - No Place Like Home 140 Nancy Wilson - I'm Always Drunk In San Francisco (And I Don't Drink At All) 141 Anathema -  San Francisco 142 Blue Cheer -  Fool 143 Exhumed - Gravewalker 144 Darondo - Let My People Go 145 Exodus -  Blood In Blood Out 146 Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry OST - Scorpios Theme   147 Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues 148 Wild Light - California on my mid 149 Herbie Hancock - Man-child -  Hang Up Your Hang Ups 150 Fantomas -  Spider Baby 151 The Lord Weird Slough Feg -  Headhunter 152 The Animals - San Franciscan Nights 153 Twilight - Dance with Me 154 THE POINTER SISTERS - Yes We Can Can 155 Residents - Hello Skinny 156 CCR HEADCLEANER - Eat This Riff 157 LEON WARE  - Thats Why I Came To California 158 Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Put A Spell On You 159 Comorant - The First Man 160 Bosse-de-Nage  - The Trench 161 Hell Fire - Free Again   162 Riz Ortolani  - Golden Gate Bridge 163 Fleetwood Mac - You Make Loving Fun 164 Uther Pendragon - San Francisco Earthquake 165 Melvins - Zodiac 166 La Luz - California Finally 167 The Wyatt Act - Push 168 Santana - Soul Sacrifice 169 Cheap Trick - On the Radio 170 Electric Wizard -  Venus In Furs 171 Led Zeppelin -  Misty Mountain Hop 172 Tommy Castro - Callin' San Francisco 173 Viscious Rumors - Digital Dictator 174 Ghoul-Off With Their Heads 175 Diesel - Sausalito Summernight (Single Version) 176 Sheila E - A Love Bizarre 177 Starship - Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now 178 Jeffry Osboune - I Really Don't Need No Light 179 Nazareth -  Alcatraz 180 Freak of Nature - Rescue Me 181 Metallica - Crash Course In Brain Surgery 182 10000 Maniacs - Hey Jack Kerouac 183 Faith No More -  Get Out 184  URSA -  Wizard's Path 185 Jefferson Airplane - Aerie (Gang of Eagles) 186 Tower of Power - Just Enough and Too Much 187 Fred Hughes - san francisco is a lonely town 188 Mamaleek - Eating Unblessed Meat 189 Moby Grape - Naked If I Want To 190 Exodus - Metal Command 191 Pig Destroyer - Alcatraz Metaphors 192 the Donnas - You Make Me Hot 193 Hot Tuna - True Religion 194 Heathen - Opiate of the Masses 195 Fanny - Come and Hold Me 196 Sadus - Hands Of Fate 197 Negative Trend - Meathouse 198 Forbidden - Forbidden Evil 199 Spazz - Crush Kill Destroy 200 Testament - The Preacher 201 HEXX - Morbid Reality 202 Vio-Lence - Phobophobia 203 Dead Kennedys - One Way Ticket To Pluto 204 Tom Waits - Get Behind The Mule 205 CRETIN - It 206 RAMONES - Judy Is A Punk 207 Full House - Intro 208 Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band - Kerouac 209 Primus - Dirty Drowning Man 210 Wooden Shjips -  Motorbike 211 The Tony Williams Lifetime Ego - Clap City 212 Middle of the Road - Sacramento (A Wonderful Town) 213 Green Day - At the Library 214 Slayer -  Gemini 215 Tetema - Cutlass Eye 216 Defiance - Death Machine 217 Brisco County Jr theme 218 Doug McKechnie - Crazy Ray 219 Ulthar - Furnace Hibernation 220 Mr. Bungle -  ANARCHY UP YOUR ANUS 221 Dirty Ghosts  - Let It Pretend 222 They Might Be Giants - San Francisco (In Situ) 223 Metallica - The Shortest Straw 224 OM - Unitive Knowledge of the Godhead 225 Laaz Rockit - City's Gonna Burn 226 Autopsy - Skullptures 227 Mordred - Spectacle of Fear 228 Sly & the Family Stone - Luv N' Haight 229 Possessed - Seven Churches 230 Machine Head - The Rage to Overcome 231 Thelonius Monk - San Francisco Holiday 232 The Units - The Mission Is Bitchin 233 Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Mistadobalina 234 Arnocorps - Dead lift 235 The Grateful Dead - The Golden Road 236 DRI - All for nothing 237 Jim Martin - Disco dust 238 Thee Oh Sees - I come from the mountain 239 Death Angel - Discontinued 240 Starship - We Built This City 241 Captured! by Robots - Endless Circle of Bullshit 242 Pins Of Light - My revenge 243 Sun Ra - We Travel the Spaceways 244 Faith No More - caffeine 245 David Lee Roth - Just like paradise 246 San Francisco Fog Horns by Golden Gate Bridge 247 Abscess - Tormented 248 Mortuous - Bitterness 249 Dead Kennedy's - California uber alles 250 Twitch Angry - San Francisco 666 Neurosis - Water Is Not Enough

So, hop on a cable car, grab ice cream at Swenson’s or bark back at the seals down by Pier 39. Catch a Bear’s game at Berkeley and do some squirmy sax moves in the Haight after you down some beers at the Toronado and play my San Fran playlist! Here are the songs in the link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1-HLG9q5rZLsqs8EYh6bhu-

[djsandok]

(RECORDED ON APRIL 2012)

I was talking about this idea for a mixtape for quite some time now.  It was tough because I wanted to do so much with it but still keep the smooth westcoast vibe throughout.

I finally disciplined myself to sit down and look for a tracklist with my favorite westcoast artist. I opened with Tupac’s “To Live and DIe in LA” because it has that cruisin’ down sunset (liking the scene) vibe. I wanted to throw in Cube’s “It was a Good Day,” but I opted with the just-as-smooth, “You Know How We Do.” The rest of the track list kind of made itself. I really wanted to represent the westcoast G-Funk, Gangsta vibe, and raw talent.

I wanted to throw in some Odd Future and Blu since I put Kendrick Lamar on here��but Odd Future Hits too hard for this mixtape. and I couldn’t find a right place effort Blu.

Track Listing

01. tupac – to live and die in l.a. (oakland/los angeles) 02. ice cube – you know how we do (compton) 03. warren g – this dj (long beach) 04. tha dogg pound – let’s play house (long beach) 05. nwa – express yourself (compton) 06. dr. dre & snoop – nuthin’ but a g thang (compton & long beach) 07. dr. dre – the next episode (compton) 08. mista grimm – endo smoke (west covina) 09. snoop dogg – gin and juice (long beach) 10. snoop dogg – lay low (long beach) 11. nwa – chin check (compton) 12. nwa – hello (compton) 13. cypress hill – how i could just kill a man (south gate) 14. del tha funkee homosapien – BMs (oakland) 15. pharcyde – runnin’ (los angeles) 16. the game – hate it or love it (compton) 17. dj quik – you’z a gangsta (compton) 18. kendrick lamar – the heart part ii (compton) 19. rappin 4 tay & pretty lights – playa’s club (san fran) 20. tupac – i wonder if heaven got a ghetto (oakland/la) 21. luniz – i got 5 on it (oakland) 22. dr. dre – xxplosive (compton) 23. [bonus track] kendrick lamar – ronald reagan era (compton)

I hope you y’all enjoy this mixtape! To think…I almost left out Cypress Hill–one of my favorite hip hop groups!

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[marshallmatherslptwo]

Music to be Quarantined By - Eminem’s playlist on Shade45

Keep Ya Head Up – 2Pac Droppin’ Em – LL Cool J Yoke The Joker – Naughty By Nature Rock Dis Funky Joint – Poor Righteous Teachers Rap Summary (Lean On Me) – Big Daddy Kane Last Dayz – Onyx Streets Of New York – Kool G Rap The Devil Made Me Do It – Paris Young, Gifted and Black – Big Daddy Kane Music Man – Masta Ace Mind Blowin’ – The D.O.C Bring It On – Organized Konfusion My Melody – Eric B. & Rakim Top Billin’ – Audio Two Taxing – Special Ed Check Tha Resume – Grand Puba 93′ Till Infinity – Souls of Mischief Live at the Barbeque – Main Source/Nas Machine Gun Funk – Notorious B.I.G. Shook Ones, Pt. II – Mobb Deep No Sleep Till Brooklyn – Beastie Boys You Gots to Chill – EPMD Wack M.C.’s – Del The Funky Homosapien Boom Bashin’ – Masta Ace Rhymin’ and Stealin’ – Beastie Boys Baby, You Nasty – Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth Gangsta Gangsta – N.W.A. If I Die 2Nite – 2Pac Sophisticated Bitch – Public Enemy N.Y. State of Mind – Nas Wordz of Wizdom – 3rd Bass They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) – Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth Tougher Than Leather – Run-DMC Jive Talk – Kool G Rap & DJ Polo Paper Thin – MC Lyte Do It Baby – Def Jef/N’Dea Davenport Bring Da Ruckus – Wu-Tang Clan Rated “R” – Redman

[umbrageliker]

tagged by @resplendent-catboy

RULES: We’re snooping on your playlist. Put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first ten songs, then choose 10 victims.

1. If You Must - Del The Funky Homosapien

2. Airwaves - Thomas Dolby

3. One More Time - Daft Punk

4. Cisco Kid - War

5. The Game Of Love - Daft Punk

6. U Guessed It - OG Maco

7. Crack The Sky - Buckethead

8. Valley Of The Mind’s Eye - Thomas Dolby

9. Da Funk - Daft Punk

10. Slippin’ Into Darkness - War

— CAVEAT: i basically listen to music on youtube and don’t have the files or a player so i just clicked on the “for you” mix. i listen to a lot more of a variety but this is what my lately is like!!!!

i tag: @rosegadyn @varusteleka @kisamas @portentsofwoe2

[the-stoned-ranger]

music ask game take 2

i already did this but was tagged by @culumacilinte and had so much fun rediscovering music last time that I’m doing it again. so welcome to the niche corner part 2: is “sad electrofunk” a legitimate genre of music?

“Bourbon”, Gallant: I have a thing for falsettos. An awesome downtempo alt-R&B track. Makes you sad and also makes you wanna dance.

“Sprawl II”, Arcade Fire: While this is far from my favorite song on the album, “The Suburbs” is one of my favorite albums of the last ten years. One of my coworker’s mom’s worked for their record label, and leaked her son, an Arcade Fire fan, “The Suburbs” weeks before it was released. We listened to it on repeat. It reminds me of being young and dumb in New York City, racing around the streets on my bike and hanging out at the Banks and trying to learn BMX and falling and hurting myself and generally failing completely.

“Baby Sucks,” Polica: A bass-heavy 80’s inflected track whose catchy beats contrast against haunting, aching vocals

“Let Yourself Go”, Big Daddy Kane: An old-school track off Kane’s seminal 1994 album, “Daddy’s Home”

“Zero Hill”, the Herbaliser featuring Twin Peaks: A dystopian hip-hop track with an awesome droning ANALOG baseline--that’s an actual electric bass, up at the top of the mix! I love hiphop that mixes  real instruments with the samples.

“No Way”, Young Fathers: If you don’t know who Young Fathers are, you’re missing out! They’re a Scottish band that mixes rap, R&B, and African beats. Their songs are powerfully emotional and feel a kick to the stomach. Though they didn’t come up on this playlist, “Sister”, “Toy”, and “I Heard” are my favorites by them.

“Moon”, Beth Orton: I have loved Beth Orton since Portishead in the 90s. This song is  witchy, dark, and haunting. Her falsetto in the bridge gives me shivers.

“Secret in the Dark, Juan Maclean Remix”, Monika: Yes, I love trashy Euro dance music, why do you ask? Samples Stevie Wonder’s “Superstitious”, which is probably why I like it.

“Call It Heaven”, Shakey Graves featuring Esme Patterson: A stripped down, downhome arrangement that’s all about the dueting voices. I love the way that the singers push their voices to the limit; the imperfection and the gravelly, broken quality of their voices makes this song ache.

“Fantasy”, Kari Faux: Fierce lady hiphop with jazzy horns and a strong anti-patriarchy message.

“Electric Mistress”, Jamiroquai: OK, Jamiroquai are legit one of my favorite bands, you can stop laughing at me now. I remember buying “Traveling without Moving” and listening to it so much I wore out the CD. No one does “sad electrofunk” quite like Jamiroquai! This song is a riot of electronic blips and samples of ringing bells. 

“Today’s Your Day”, Fatlip: Just a super fun hip-hop song with a great beat. Mixes rap verses with a Parliament-style singing. I love putting this song on repeat and letting my fingers type to it.

“Runaway,” Nice as Fuck: Reminds me of a modern PJ Harvey or Liz Phair song. Strong female vocalists with a lo-fi arrangement: analog drum and bass, with some samples  

“Masterminds”, Hieroglyphics feat. Tajal: Hieroglyphics is an old-school West Coast hip-hop collective where Del the Funky Homosapien got his start. It’s like sci-fi hip hop

“Now or Never”, Smoove and Turrell: I usually prefer the more funk-infused songs by Smoove and Turrell. “Now or Never” is a departure from their usual style, an almost-vaudevillian R&B song. 

“Super Hero”, Kool Keith & MF Doom: Name a more iconic duo that Kool Keith & MF Doom. I’ll wait... Oh, you can’t. That���s OK, this is a nerdy rap song that sounds like reading a comic book. The beat in the background sounds like walking into a dungeon in a video game (I’m pretty sure Kool Keith actually sampled the Jehovah theme song from Final Fantasy VII in this song!)

“Action”, by Cassius, Cat Power, and Mike D: This is a weirdo. Genre-defying. A vaguely Caribbean beat, an aggressive rhyme style, and Cat Power’s melancholy voice. Somehow, it works!

“Steve Biko (Stir it Up)”, A Tribe Called Quest: A old-school icon from Jamaica, Queens. One of my faves since the 90s! I used to have this album on cassette tape

“Magic Together (Instrumental)”, Lack of Afro: A new-school funk musician. I love listening to instrumental versions of funk and hiphop songs to get me in the mood to write

“Born into the Sunset (Remix)”, Temples with Lindstrom and Prins Thomas: Another mostly-instrumental electrofunk track for writing times. 

[kushamisaru]

I have yet to hear a single good criticism of Humanz

"It has too many featured artists!"

Well for the price of two concert tickets (b/c obviously I wasn't going alone) I got to see my favorite band + like 5 or 6 other artists live, including the elusive Del The Funkee Homosapien, so, sorry you're bitter/ungrateful about that I guess?

"It's too political!"

Jaime and Damon literally started Gorillaz because they were tired of the empty, meaningless, garbage they'd hear on the radio. They set out to make music that had a point from the get go, all the way up to their premire music video (depending on where you were), Clint Eastwood. That is literally what that song is about. Throughout the years, they started tackling other topics too. Kids With Guns and Dirty Harry are anti gun songs, and Dirty Harry is also an anti war song. Rock It's video couldn't be more blatant in its message about not worshiping celebrities, which is what the Reject False Icons movement was all about. Almost every song on Plastic Beach has to do with pollution and how we're hurting the enviroment. That's the theme of that whole ass phase. Half the band (I don't count Cyborg Noodle) was living on an island of literal garbage. Look, I'm not gonna say every song they made has some super deep meaning. Some are just fun bops, and that includes some of the songs on Humanz because one of themes of that album is an "End-of-the-world party". But them having songs that do have meaning is far from a new thing, politics included.

"It doesn't sound like Gorillaz!"

What I imagine people mean by this is "there aren't enough alternative songs!" because your average person who's probably just heard like fucking... idk, Feel Good Inc, Clint Eastwood (though that sounds more like dark reggae to me but w/e) maybe the first half of Dirty Harry, will listen to those and think Gorillaz is an alternative band. Here's the thing though; Gorillaz dabs in a little bit of everything. I know it's a bit of a faux pas to do this but I'm not going to pretend to be an expert in music genres since some sound very similar. So for my sanity, and just for a frame of reference, let's look at the genre listings wikipedia has for Gorillaz as a band:

5 genres are listed here and 1 of those is alternative, and only half that.

But I also dug a little deeper and looked at the genres of specific songs. Here is a list of genres I found not already listed here, which also is not exhaustive:

Disco

Funk

Electropop

Funk Rock

New Wave

Electro Funk

Synth Pop

R&B

The total is now 12. I didn't look at any singles for Humanz when I made this list. Critics have even more labels for their music, enough to probably double this list. With this in mind, I think it's safe to say Gorillaz doesn't really have a set genre.

Interestingly, though, I have seen almost none of this criticism for The Now Now (which also isn't a bad album, don't get me wrong), even though it also doesn't have any alternative songs on it, at least none that I've heard. So maybe your problem isn't that it doesn't sound like Gorillaz, but that it doesn't sound like the type of Gorillaz songs you like? Maybe you just don't like the genres given more spotlight in Humanz? Just something to think about.

"It doesn't have any good songs!"

Sorry I was too busy dropping my ass before my ship heading for the Andromeda galaxy crashes into Saturnz rings Barz. The Strobelites I had installed make the whole thing more festive though.

...okay, I know that was awful, and there are more songs I like that I couldn't fit in, but like. You get the point. This album is full of bangers. Open your ears and your heart. Then, open your wallet and buy Humanz, because it’s a good fucking album