• Billy Paul – Me and Mrs. Jones
Sample Tuesday
• Locksmith – Far Beyond
• Basement Jaxx – Red Alert
Too Good Monday
There’s a moment in every music genre when the game changes. The genre stays recognizable and carries all the heritage but something happens to where it goes mainstream, in a good way. Something adjusts, modernizes whatever’s going on, and takes it to the outside world. I’d have to do a little research to see what specific tunes did it in the different genres but Dylan did it to Folk, The Beatles did it to Rock, Bob Marley to Reggae, Run DMC to Rap, Daft Punk to Electronic music, etc. Ruben Blades, with this tune, did it to Salsa. (It’s a NYC/Latin version of Mack The Knife from the Threepenny Opera.)
• Ruben Blades – Pedro Navaja
Remix Friday
• Furry Phreaks feat Terra Deva – Soothe (Original Club Mix)
• Prisoners of Technology Instrumental Remix
Future Thursday
• Feed Me – Blood Red
Random Wednesday
Jigga-jigga-jigga-jigga-jigga like JAY-Z.
Jig is up, you fuckers who didn’t write anything
are getting washed.
Thicka, thicka, thicka, like bathing.
Young Hova, I know hitters like Yankees,
gun toters that pull triggers like crazy;
unloading leave you shot up in your Rover
your body goes limp and slumps over
like A-Rod in a month lull, but he just homered.
• Eminem and Logic – Homicide
Sample Tuesday
This is probably the best production I’ve heard for a Latin American Hip-Hop act.
• Shuggie Otis’s – Aht Uh Mi Hed
• Tiro De Gracia’s – Sueños
Too Good Monday
One of those incredible performances I remember coming late at night on Conan, with no announcement.
• Placebo – Pure Morning
For those interested on how a band with two guitars sounds so full, with a heavy bass: the red guitar is not actually a guitar, it’s a small bass with six strings.
https://www.fender.com/articles/tech-talk/the-bass-vi-baritone-guitar-or-bass
Remix Friday
This is a really interesting to me: The original is class but it’s hard to make sense of, it has a beat and it moves but it’s so ethereal, I’m not sure where it starts or ends. The remix seems like it starts right away but keeps the vibe of the original so much that it doesn’t end until it ends [know what I mean?]. Beedle really did some work here.
• Bent – Always
• Ashley Beedle’s Mahavishnu Remix
Future Thursday
• Sub Focus – Rock It
Random Wednesday
“I think when people realized that you’re dancing to a record that goes ‘you think you’re a man but you’re only a boy’ or ‘it’s raining men’ you do kinda realize that you’ve been sucked into the gay world … without prejudice.” — Fatboy Slim
• Divine – You Think You’re a Man
Sample Tuesday
• Dazz – Brick
• Ice Cube – No Vaseline
Too Good Monday
• Michael Wycoff – Looking Up To You
Remix Friday
• Mr V – Put Your Drink Down (Louie Vega Mix)
• Bob Sinclar Remix
Future Thursday
• Silkk The Shocker – It Ain’t My Fault (Ft. Mystikal) Prod. Craig B
Random Wednesday
There’s parts of the video that look terrible, they look “80’s”. But I wonder if the colors and the aesthetic are actually bad or they’re only bad because of their strong association with the 80’s. The chicken or the egg?
• Culture Club – Miss Me Blind
Sample Tuesday
• Dennis Edwards – Don’t Look Any Further (ft. Siedah Garrett)
• 2Pac – Hit Em Up
• Eric B & Rakim – Paid In Full
• Eminem – Quitter
Too Good Monday
• Radiohead – Karma Police
Remix Friday
Not safe for work!
• Todd Terry – Jumpin
• Thumpin Rhythm Masters Mix
Future Thursday
This is how you make a hook.
• Bee Gees – Tragedy
Massive Tunes 