PODCAST #85 Soul Food & 45s

1. (0:00:15) Bibi Tanga & Le Professeur Inlassable AU FIL DU TEMPS
2. (0:03:38) Raphael Saadiq PEOPLE
3. (0:07:34) Menahan Street Band THE TRAITOR
4. (0:09:38) Nightmares On Wax BRINGIN IT
5. (0:13:46) Charles Bradley & Menahan Street Band STAY AWAY
6. (0:16:54) Mayer Hawthorne A LONG TIME
7. (0:20:18) Mayer Hawthorne HENNY GINGERALE
8. (0:24:08) Lindstrom CANE IT FOR THE ORIGINAL WHITIES
9. (0:27:18) Michael Leonhart & The Avramina 7 THE STORY OF ECHO LAKE
10. (0:31:38) Balam Acab BIG BOY
11. (0:35:50) Tosca MRS. BONGO
12. (0:39:16) fUnKy SoUl BuRnEr feat. Ryan Pollastro on drums NEW GLITCH
13. (0:43:40) Sefyu EN NOIR ET BLANC (INTERLUDE)
14. (0:48:36) James Brown IT'S A MAN'S MAN'S MAN'S WORLD
15. (0:51:00) Aloe Blacc I NEED A DOLLAR
16. (0:54:36) Gift of Gab feat. Raashan Ahmad Zumbi RISE
17. (0:58:08) Trevor and Lisa THE NIGHT OF THE WOLF
18. (1:02:42) Uptown Funk Empire N.O.W.
19. (1:07:56) Vern Blair Debate OOH-AH-EE
20. (1:10:46) Galactic JULOU
21. (1:11:50) Galactic HA DI KA

PODCAST #84 Nightfalls in Sullen City Life

Rats & roaches breach street drains and water pipes while crescent moon's reflection off the barrel pointed at the heart of Queensbridge, quivering arm hair, steady trigger finger blasts away the night!

1. (0:00:20) White Rabbits HEAVY METAL
2. (0:04:34) Mars Volta THE MALKIN JEWEL
3. (0:07:51) A$AP Rocky DEMONS (OG RON C REMIX)
4. (0:10:32) Lapalux GUTTER GLITTER
5. (0:14:02) Miike Snow feat. Lykke Li BLACK TIN BOX
6. (0:19:24) Schlomo RAINED THE WHOLE TIME (NICOLAS JAAR REMIX)
7. (0:24:28) BJ The Kid feat. Kendrick Lamar HIS PAIN
8. (0:29:45) Rhye OPEN
9. (0:33:16) Micatone SOUVENIR
10. (0:36:20) Gary Clark Jr. BRIGHT LIGHTS
11. (0:41:24) Homeboy Sandman SOAP
12. (0:44:47) Burial KINDRED
13. (0:52:57) Pandr Eyez EYES ON YOU
14. (0:56:33) Hooray For Earth NO LOVE
15. (1:00:30) Aesop Rock ZERO DARK THIRTY

PODCAST #83 Kony Island: Hollywood's Viral Naiveté 

There was a bad man hiding, a bad man hunting in a foreign land, a native tongue, fertile land in the country's north, post-conflict - always in conflict.  Do not decorate this man on an April day.  Columbines can't re-bloom nor Hitler unborn, and the Invisible Children, now adults, need a more appropriate plan for support 6 years past due.

1. (0:00:00) Intro by Ishmael Beah from a CNN interview - former child soldier of Sierra Leone
2. (0:00:53) Dolly Parton WAYFARING STRANGER 
3. (0:01:28) Pretty Lights feat. LiAnn Rimes WAYFARING STRANGER (ELECTRO MIX) 
4. (0:06:13) Blanche SOMEDAY… 
5. (0:08:17) Lanie Lane MY MAN 
6. (0:11:54) Dan Sartain ATHEIST FUNERAL
7. (0:14:07) El Columpio Asesino TORO 
8. (0:17:51) That Black UGANDA
9. (0:20:57) Mos Def N* IN POOREST (remix of Jay-Z & Kanye West N* In Paris)
10. (0:24:53) Pnuma Trio MORE SAMPLES  
11. (0:28:28) DropXLife NUERXOLD 
12. (0:33:03) DJ Shadow GIVE ME BACK THE NIGHTS
13. (0:36:38) Melanie Fiona meshed with The Zombies GIVE IT TO ME RIGHT / TIME OF THE SEASON 
14. (0:40:31) Wyclef Jean feat. Lauren Hill SANG FEZI
15. (0:44:24) Mark Ronson feat. Erykah Badu, Dap Kings, and Trombone Shorty A LA MODELISTE (BONOBO REMIX)
16. (0:50:05) Quantic DUB DEL PACIFICO 
17. (0:57:07) Mount Kimbie FIELD 
18. (1:00:07) Humble the Poet / Lupe Fiasco feat. Matthew Santos FIGHTERS
19. (1:04:40) Atlas Sound QUARK PART 2 
20. (1:07:05) DJ Premier feat. The Berklee Symphony Orchestra & Nas REGENERATION 
21. (1:10:53) Michael Jackson THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT US  

PODCAST #82 UTC -5 On A Train

It's been awhile.  I know.  Yes, time has been a passenger blur passing by on a train; been on the train a bit.  I hope you all enjoy this latest.  Speaking of trains...

Each of the tracks (pun very much intended) represents each station of the train, embarking on a new territory, perhaps a city or town, each with its own flavor, correlating, but differing from the previous station.  UTC-5 is the universal time coordinate for New York, specifically, while including the train I ride on... 

1. (0:00:10) K'naan UNTIL THE LION LEARNS TO SPEAK
2. (0:02:29) John Cage TOSSED AS IT IS UNTROUBLED
3. (0:05:12) Nosaj Thing US (DNTEL REMIX)
4. (0:08:38) Maceo Plex GRAVY TRAIN (NICOLAS JAAR REMIX)
5. (0:14:05) Matt Elliott THIS IS FOR
6. (0:17:49) Jack White LOVE INTERRUPTION
7. (0:20:18) Frankie White NIGHT SWIM
8. (0:22:44) Rocket Juice & The Moon (aka Damon Albarn, Flea, & Tony Allen) feat. Erykah Badu HEY SHOOTER
9. (0:26:44) Peedi Crakk feat. Chinko Da Great SUCKA FREE SUNDAY
10. (0:31:12) Damu the Fudgemonk & Raw Poetic HOLE UP
11. (0:34:48) Estelle feat. Janelle Monae DO MY THING
12. (0:38:12) ††† (Crosses) †
13. (0:40:59) M.I.A. bad girls
14. (0:43:12) THEESatisfaction DO YOU HAVE TIME (CLEAN)
15. (0:45:43) How To Dress Well feat. Yuksel Arslan DECISIONS
16. (0:47:45) John Cage THE PERILOUS NIGHT NO. 2
17. (0:48:28) CoH FFFETISH
18. (0:53:17) Modeselektor feat. PVT GREEN LIGHT GO

PODCAST #81 An Ominous Illumination at the Brink of Quietus

Keppler-22b, 600 light years out there, revolves & awaits a dreamer.  Countless others, undiscovered from our perspective, unnamed in our language, remain suspended awaiting, watching else-form stare off into 'notherland towards an ominous illumination at the brink of quietus.

There's that moment of wonder, stagnant & obvious, where light must pass - dark matter to blackness - reborn unto a new self, simple & swiftly.  Superstring & quark, passing through a multiverse, radiating without energy; shining having already extinguished.

The moment will one day come, but the blade of grass slowly comes to focus, awakening from a daydream of the mysterious light.

1. (0:01:15) Vladimir Horowitz & New York Philharmonic RACHMANINOFF PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3 IN D MINOR, OP. 30: I. ALLEGRO MA NON TANTO
2. (0:03:40) Loka ENTRANCE
3. (0:05:40) Kate Bush SNOWFLAKE
4. (0:12:24) Terje Isungset THE DAWNING - Now this is fascinating.  All Terje's music is played on massive blocks of carved ice, so every sound (other than the voices) is created with solidified water.  Pretty sweet!  I thought it would sound even 'cooler' if I laid it on top of Kate Bush's aptly titled track, "Snowflake," and so I did ;>.  
5. (0:15:36) Le Trio Joubran DOUJA
6. (0:21:55) Wilco RISING RED LUNG
7. (0:24:47) Drake feat. Andre 3000 THE REAL HER
8. (0:26:08) John Coltrane PART 4 - PSALM
9. (0:33:04) Nicolas Jaar VARIATIONS
10. (0:36:01) Apparat GOODBYE
11. (0:40:13) Kno feat. Nemo Achida LONELINESS
12. (0:43:33) Martina Topley Bird ORCHIDS
13. (0:46:28) Fleet Foxes BLUE SPOTTED TAIL
14. (0:49:08) Karen Dalton LITTLE BIT OF RAIN
15. (0:51:30) Kurt Vile BABY'S ARMS
16. (0:55:09) Sebastian The Crab I TUMBLED FORTH - If you didn't catch it in an earlier podcast, Sanju Sebastian is a brilliantly talented young musician I met with my wife in a subway tunnel at Canal Street a couple months back.  We heard this amazingly powerful amplified electronica music swallowing the sounds of rats eating trash and subway cars grinding on iron tracks.  Please support his music and check out his page: http://sebastianthecrabmusic.tumblr.com/  He has two EPs on his site that you can download, and please drop him a quick note to help support his art - these NYC artists/musicians do not get enough support, and their time and lifelong passion sometimes go unrecognized.  It is a complete shame.  Please support local music as much as possible, too, otherwise we run the risk of the music industry figuring out another shady way to fill your ears with poorly sculpted manure.
17. (0:58:09) J Dilla LAST DONUT OF THE NIGHT