• Donald Fagen – Tomorrow’s Girls

• Mobb Deep – Give Up The Goods (Feat. Big Noyd, produced by Q-Tip)

All that and THEN some!

• Julian Jumpin Perez – Feb 14 1995 Hot Mix, Valentines Day (at U Dance with B96)
• Max-A-Million – Fat Boy

• U.P.I. – Better Love

• TroyBoi – And Wot?

Walter Becker and Donald Fagen back together on this one

• Donald Fagen – Snowbound

Paul Johnson Week, Day 3

• Daft Punk – Teachers

“Inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Burroughs explores the after-death state by means of dream scenarios, hallucinatory passages, talismanic magic, occultism, superstition, and his characteristic view of the nature of reality.”

• Material feat William Burroughs – Seven Souls

• Flaco Jimenez: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

https://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_oralh_flacojimenez.html

I’m the first one in class and the last to leave.
I mean the first one to leave out of class; believe
that I’m a mailbox pimp in my heart ’til I die,
even after I’m all gone and my ashes fry.

• Eminem & Kon Artis feat. Alchemist (on Tim Westwood, live at Maida Vale)

Mind you that in 1997, in the American mainstream, Hip Hop was not Hip Hop anymore. There were no B-boys, there was no graffiti. I’m not sure they even had DJs that could cut. All you had was bling bling Rap. The Jason Nevins Run DMC remix was a notable exception but, other than that, you had to go to brits like Fatboy Slim to see this sort of thing.

• Fatboy Slim – Going Out Of My Head [Official Video]

The Not Safe For Work (NSFW) Fortnight, Week 3 (one more nut): all these tunes, most of them House, will throw sex sounds, or sex lyrics—sooner or later.

From what I gather, this is a song about a guy that owns porno store. There’s not much of a story to it; he owns a pornoshop and wants to invite you to it.

• Plastilina Mosh – Pornoshop

The Not Safe For Work (NSFW) Fortnight, Week 2: all these tunes (most of them House) will throw sex sounds or sex lyrics, sooner or later.

• Chakachas – Jungle Fever

The Not Safe For Work (NSFW) fortnight: all the tunes these next couple of weeks (most of them House) will throw sex sounds or sex lyrics, sooner or later

At first, this song was annoying; the beat was decent but the lyrics were repetitive and her voice seemed to clash on top of the music. I thought: “OK, ha ha, it’s funny but it’s not even good comedy seeing as it only has two lines. Why couldn’t she just write more lyrics to at least try to save the song? It’s a novelty song, let me play some real music … ”.

Later, on good speakers (balanced EQ), where the bass was coming in stronger and the sound was better mixed, it started sounding good; “Damn, it’s got a little groove. OK, OK …”.
[Say what you want about the song but, back when, if you were making House in Chicago or New York you had to know a little something.]

Finally, after I saw the guy in the video doing that old House stepping (@ 1:35, on stage, black and white scene), I was trying out my own moves talking about “Don’t want no short dick man!”

This almost made “Too Good Monday” …

• Gillette and 20 Fingers – Short Dick Man

Written by Steely Dan

• Barbra Streisand – I Mean to Shine

2020 Tokyo Olympics Edition (Skateboarding is in the Olympics!)

• Cymande – Crawshay
• Skater: Danny Renaud
• Video: Habitat Mosaic

2020 Tokyo Olympics Edition (Skateboarding is in the Olympics!)

• Unsane – Scrape

2020 Tokyo Olympics Edition (Skateboarding is in the Olympics!)

• Mellow – Shinda Shima
• Skater: Heath Kirchart
• Video: This Is Skateboarding

• Etta James – The Blues Is My Business

• The Stranglers – Golden Brown