Zoning out to

Beat Junkie Radio 09/11/09 - The Beat Junkies and the Da Beatminerz making you realize why hearing this music spun how it should be - remains a big part of your life - believe it!

Sydney save 94.5FM

FBi Radio do a sterling job of pushing emerging Australian music, new sounds worldwide, arts and culture. Well as you would have heard, they are in a bit of financial trouble, requiring $1 million to keep the station alive and kicking.

In conjunction with their Ask Richard campaign, they are holding a bunch of eclectic, sure to be awesome parties, created to raise some much needed funds.

Here is a flyer for the Stolen Records Gala Ball





Tickets here

Some heavy electro funk and rap edition

(Picture from here)

Track List:

Johnny Chingas - Phone Home
Sounds of JHS 126 Brooklyn - Chill Pill
Air Force One - See the Light Feel the Heat
Low Budget - 2082
Torae and Marco Polo - But Wait
Low Budget - Cool Out
Three Times Dope - Once More (You Hear the Dope Stuff)
Tuff Crew - Wreck Shop
Tuff Crew - My Parta Town
Tuff Crew - Behold the Detonator
The Sleeping Monk - Scientifico
EPMD - Give the People (Jeep mix)
Oh No - Move Pt 2 featuring J-Dilla, Roc C
Beastie Boys - The Skills To Pay The Bills
DJ Sing featuring Def Wish, Tom Thum - Boogie Boy
EPMD - You Gots To Chill
EPMD - So Wat Cha Sayin
EPMD - It's My Thing
Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want (All The Way Live Freestyle Version)

Tony D R.I.P. edition

(Anthony Depula pictured far right)

Ice Cream Tee / Tony D - Keep Hushin'
YZ & G. Rock - In Control of Things
Tony D - Back to the Lab
Blvd Mosse - U Can't Escape the Hypeness

Mic Break

King Sun - The Gods Are Taking Heads featuring Poor Righteous Teachers
Ministers of Black - Step Into My Office
Poor Righteous Teachers - Strictly Mash'ion
Almighty & K.D. Ranks - Trenton Where We Live
King Sun - King Sun with the Sword

Mic Break

Crusaders for Real Hip-Hop - That's How It Is
Shawn Lov - True Music featuring Big Ooh, Lin Que, Pace Won
Blaque Spurm - Splendid
Shawn Lov - I Can't Complain featuring Tony D
Tony D - Erase the Pain featuring Spikey T

Mic Break

APEX - Mi Hermano (R.I.P. APEX)
Easybass - Simple Starts First

The Sounds The Sounds

Over there, over there

04/04/09
Tracklist:

DMX Krew - Radio Bliss
Fatima Al-Qadri and Brennan Green - Modern Robot Chorus
Shocking Pinks - Dressed to Please (Echospace Reduction)
M.R. - Night Travel (Yam Who? Re-Edit)

Mic Break

Jungle Brothers - Tribe Vibes
Leaders of the New School - Case of the P.T.A
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Good Life
Troy (Wicked Minds) - Soul Terrain
Zion I - Cheeba Cheeba (remix) featuring Aceyalone

Mic Break

Jackie Osbourne - We Need Love
Jackie Mittoo - Get Up and Get It
Arthur Verocai - Pelas Sombras
Santana - Aqua Marine
Shirley Horn - Return to Paradise (Mark De Clive Lowe remix)
Arbeid Adelt - Death Disco (Todd Terje edit)
Joy Division - Transmission

I Am What I Play

This classic from '79 remains the truth! Catch the drift.



On that note, here is last weeks playlist from a little radio program I steer weekly. You already know what it is:

Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Nickel Eye - Brandy of the Damned (Mark Ronson remix) featuring. Wale
Cat Power - Blue
Radiohead - All I Need
Radiohead - Everything In It's Right Place

Mic Break

Incognito - L 'Arc En Ciel De Miles
Chris Whitley - Drifting
Santana - Aqua Marine
Allan Holdsworth - Shallow Sea
Santana - Stormy
John McLaughlin - Don't Let The Dragon Eat Your Mother

Mic Break

Quro - Hunter Gatherer
13th Son - Yo
Good Buddah - Sydney has got the System
13th Son - Our Lives
13th Son - Symphony of Man
13th Son - Ladies featuring Fame
Seekae - ?

Priceless

A DJ Is Not a Jukebox!

Massive shout out to the Paradise Lost collective for throwing another of their AWESOME house, disco, funk, soul sound-tracked party in Inner Sydney last night this morning. There were no requests, no too cool for everybody types, just a monster sound system, heavy tunes, good deejays and a care, stress free crowd who came to let loose. Sydney Needs more parties like this...

Be sure to check out Brut 33 and Mikey (Paradise Lost), radio show Boogie Dance Cafe on....

Madness of the Modern World edition

Sound Shift Eastside Radio 89.7 FM
21/03/09

Track List:

Weather Report - Young and Fine
A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation
Weldon Irvine - We Gettin' Down
A Tribe Called Quest - Award Tour featuring Trugoy (De La Soul)
Tom Scott & The LA Express - Sneaking In The Back
Donald Byrd - Wind Parade

Mic Break

Gil Scott Heron - The Bottle
Ronnie Laws - Always There
Joe Tex - I Gotcha
Ike & Tina Turner - Cussin', Cryin' & Carryin' On

Mic Break

Sir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul - (I Got) So Much Trouble In My Mind
Bobby Bland - I Pity The Fool
Skull Snaps - It's A New Day
The O'Jays - For The Love Of Money
The Temptations - Ball of Confusion (That's What The World is Today)

Mic Break

Binge Thinkers - One Step At A Time (Remix)
Def Wish Cast - Once More
Junie Morrison - Techno-Freqs
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove

Afrobeat Grand Groove Rap

Here is this weeks track list from Sound Shift on Eastside FM 89.7FM

Tony Allen - The Same Blood
Afro Dizzi Act - The Pilgrim
Femi Kuti - Beng Beng Beng
Afro Dizzi Act - The Drop Off
Kiala - Batumwindu
Afro Dizzi Act - Sunrise Over Merherabad

Mic Break

The Meters - Ain't No Use
Labi Siffre - I Got The...
Bobby Hutcherson - Hello To The Wind

Mic Break
(Sereck - Full-time MC (Eastern Suburbs mix) (Instrumental)

Koolism - Tapes
Powerule - Let The Years Roll
A Tribe Called Quest - Footprints
A Tribe Called Quest - Check The Rhime
King Sun - Sippin' Brandy
Organized Konfusion - Fudge Pudge featuring OC

When In Flight

(Pic: Tiritirimatangi)

Sound Shift 07/03/09
Eastside Radio 89.7 FM

Cashmere - Do It Any Way You Wanna (Instrumental)
Shamwell - Do It On The One (Fun In The Sun)
Raw DMX - Do It To The Funk
Carole Sylvan - Think
Sky Trane - Fox On The Run (Instrumental)
Imagination - Burnin' Up
Rhetta Hughes - Crisis (Instrumental)

Mic Break

The Moon People - Hippy, Skippy Moon Strut
The Meters - Handclapping Song
Gang Starr - DJ Premier In Deep Concentration
James Brown - Payback (The Final Mixdown)
Brand Nubian - All For One
Jungle Brothers - In Time
Beastie Boys - Transitions

Mic Break
(Menahan Street Band - Make The Road By Walking)
(Menahan Street Band - Tired Of Fighting)

Beastie Boys - The Scoop
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Hope
Freddie Hubbard - First Light
Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin'
J*Davey - No More
Loose Ends - Hangin' On A String (Contemplating)

Sound Shift 27/02/09
Eastside Radio 89.7 FM

Track List:

Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground
Rare Earth - Celebrate
Skye - Ain't No Need
Deluge - Not Easy (To Love)
Big Linda - Glass Onion
Selway - Shake the Snow (Instrumental)

Mic Break

Andre' Lodemann - Searchin' featuring Nathalie Claude
Two Armadillos - Nostalgia
Trus' Me - Good God
Sound Stream - Live Goes On

Mic Break

Bomb the Bass - Bug Powder Dust (La Funk Mob mix)
Extra Prolific - In 20 Minutes
Rek Shit Rebulz - Make Ya Feel Better
Genius - True Fresh MC
Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours
Organized Konfusion - Who Stole My Last Piece of Chicken?
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince - Brand New Funk

More and More Hits

To kick off proceedings here is the David Letterman meets Joaquin Phoenix awkward encounter from early Feb 09.
Having not seen it myself, I figure there are also plenty of others who would not have either, forgot about it.



Moving along, check out the back to '88 Western youth culture homage from the Columbus, Ohio wordsmith. Off his album, aptly titled 1988, out now through Rhymesayers.



My radio show Sound Shift on Eastside is going strong, here is last weeks track list.

Hundarna Fran Soder - 10500 bc
DMX Krew - Radio Bliss
Linda McCartney - Oriental Night Fish
Kate Bush - Blow Away
Sister Sledge - Lost In Music
Sound Stream - Live Goes On

Mic Break

Temper - No Favors (Dub)
Faze Action - Hypnotic (Disco Mix)
Liquid Liquid - Rubbermiro (The Loving Hand remix)

Mic Break

Kurtis Blow - Star Life
Alliance - Get On Down
Kids In The Hall - Drivin' Down The Block
Ice Cube - A Bird In The Hand
Jay Electronica - Whirlwind Pyramid
Def Wish Cast - Once More
Soul Shock - Break the Limits featuring See-Que

Air Waves

I am back on radio and it is great. The show is called Sound Shift on 89.7FM Eastside Radio Friday nights, from 12:30 - 2:00am. Shout out to Lyndon (Meat Skull) for the encouragement.

Thanks to Tony for giving me a show!

Here is the track lists for the last two weeks:

14/02/2009

Caroline Peyton - Just As We
Katalyst - How Bout Us featuring Steve Spacek
John Coltrane - Moment's Notice
Rance Allen Group - Peace of Mind

Mic Break

The Bad Plus - Feeling Yourself Disintergrate featuring Wendy Lewis
Kurt Elling - Oh My God
Nathan Boddy - Vintage Warmer
Ramsey Lewis - Sun Goddess
Krumb Snatcha - Feelin
DJ Cam - Premier

Mic Break

Grassrootz - Grasslandz
Menahan Street Band - Montego Sunset
Red Cafe - So Easy (Remix)
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Galapagos Duck - The Emu Dance
Interpol - Rest My Chemistry

07/02/2009

Eli Escobar - Heavenly Break
Pete Rock and CL Smooth - Act Like You Know
Sleeping Monk - Control, Alt, Delete
Zimbabwe Legit - Straight From The Mothership
Menahan Street Band - Make the Road By Walking
High Fashion - Love (DJ Anonymous edit)

Mic Break

OC - Born 2 Live (Bonus CD Mix)
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Damian "JR Gong" Marley - Khaki Suit featuring Bounty Killer, Eek-A-Mouse
Jackie Mittoo - Get Up and Get It
Santogold - Unstoppable
Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady (Danny Krivit edit)
Sade - Spirit

Mic Break

Janelle Monae - Many Moons (Trackademicks remix)
NSM - The Show
Santana - Aqua Marine
Robert Glasper featuring Bilal - Chant
DMX Krew - Radio Bliss

Königreich Arktis DVD trailer

Take a second to marvel at the brilliance.

Was listening to ATL ambient, garage, punk group Deer Hunter, fitted perfect while watching. A song of theirs came on Caroline Gates program on FBi 94.5FM.

Suffice to say, I'll be seeking out that new Microcastle album.

There is so much good music out there, borders on impossible to keep up.

That is just part of the reason why it has been so quiet here lately…

Essential Listening for Hip Hop fiends

The Block radio with Capital P & OG Chino - September 26th, 2008 with Special Guests The Amen Ra of Hip Hop Culture Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmixer DXT, Kimba, Shahiem, Phase II, TC Islam, KD, Ken Swift, Burn One, Taste Crew, Moni & Mike, friendswelove.com, Dinco D (L.O.N.S)

As above, in case you missed over at Grand Good

DJ U-Tern's Hip House 08 experiment

Listen here

This is a truly innovative, very fresh concept, executed flawlessly by Vancity's U-Tern

Here's what DJ U-Tern had to say about this latest edition of One Day Later radio.

Any one remember that short-lived genre in the late 80's called "Hip-House"? If you were around for that era you were either the hardcore hip-hopper that kind of hated what it represented, or you were in the club losing your shit to "I'll House You" by the Jungle Brothers. I wanted to see what it might sound like in the present day, an experiment if you will. So I took a gang of current house tunes, some classics and a bunch of acapellas and made it happen.

Tracklist:
Frankie Knuckles vs Pimp C - Baby Wants To Ride
AC Slater vs Trick Daddy - Bassline Time
Soul Grabber vs Trick Daddy - Soul Grabber Pt. 3
Paul Johnson vs Rick Ross - She Got Me On
Franz N Shape vs Rick Ross - Angel Gate
Christian Alvarez vs MIA - Intergalactic Voyager
C-Mos vs T-Pain - 2 Million Ways (Axwell Remix)
Bob Sinclair vs Rick Ross - Everybody Movin'
Sound Factory vs Pitbull - Understand This Groove
Paul Johnson vs Pitbull - Get Get Down
DJ Gregory vs Lil Wayne - Attend
Unknown DJ vs Lil Wayne - Bass Tronic
Voodoo Chilli vs Lil Wayne - Look What You've Done To Me
Rainer Weichhold vs MC Luscious - Bamboo
Pest vs MC Luscious - Pat Pong (Solid Groove Remix)
Kerri Chandler vs Rakim - Bar A Thym
Fred Falke vs Rakim - 8-08pm @ The Beach
Claude VonStroke vs Kool G Rap - The Whistler (Jesse Rose Mix)
The Martin Brothers vs Kool G Rap - Dum
Supermal vs Hotstylz - Bigger Than Big (Lifelike Remix)
The Juan Maclean vs Hotstylz - Happy House
The Juan Maclean vs Pack - Happy House
Soha vs Pack - Gardens
Da Sunlounge vs Ludacris - Do You Wanna
Claude VonStroke vs Ludacris - Whos Afraid Of Detroit
Shur-I-Kan vs Outkast - Vacated
Swirl People vs Outkast - Ride The Pony
Solid Groove & Sinden vs Iconz - Gotta Get Up
Kerri Chandler vs Iconz - Useless
Inland Knights vs Snoop Dogg - Not Crazy
Steve Silk Hurley vs Snoop Dogg - Jack Your Body
KC Flight vs Run DMC - Let's Get Jazzy
EDMX vs Run DMC - Whiskey Lima
Jump vs JVC Force - Funkatarium
Frankie Knuckles vs JVC Force - The Whistle Song
Aly-Us vs Kanye West - Follow Me
B-Capracara vs Kanye West - Flashback 86
I Cube vs Notorious BIG - Oblivion
A Guy Called Gerald vs Jay-Z - Voodoo Ray
Juergen Paape vs Jay-Z - So Weit Wie Noch Nie
Thomas Bangalter vs The Clipse - On Da Rocks

loose Club mix for "Sat Night Discotek" on FBI 94.5

Big shout out to Ankia for inviting me to do a set for her new radio program.

Tracklist:

Gosub - Laugh Track
DJ Godfather - Lets Ride (Instrumental)
DJ Pataassa - Sweat Gunz
The Boogie Down Bottle Nose Dolphins - U Used To Hold Me
Danielsan (War & Peace Remix) - Passing of Peace
The Society feat. Al Agami & Kendra Lohman - Q & A (Part Two)
Dj Ayers - Angel of Death (Fuck Off Nazi Punks Instrumental)
Zumen - Rolexx
Markus Enochson - What About Us (Electro Clash Rework)
Sheila E - The Glamourous Life
Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday Night
Joakim - Vibramatic
Matsumoto Hisataakaa - At The Marble Bar (Dodeka Horn Remix)
Shannon - Let The Music Play
Sereck - In Search of Planet Robie
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Renegades of Funk
Afrika Bambaataa & James Brown - Unity
James White - (Track 2, Side A)
Dam-Funk - Private Funk

Listen / Download here

If you're in Sydney or on the web Sat. night, make sure you check it out (FBI radio link over in sidebar), it's a cool show!

APEX, Eli tribute tonight on FBI Radio's Stolen Records.....

(APEX on far left. Pic from Sleeping Monk)


...May You Both Rest In Peace...



(Main picture: Eli Westlake. Insert: Sarah May Ward pic from Channel 9)

This blog goes worldwide, so I wanted to shed some light on what's happend here in the Sydney Hip Hop community, the terrible losses we have suffered of late....

...Struggling to type this....

Firstly I wanted to send my condolences, thoughts and prayers out to all the family and friends of Eli Westlake.

His death is all over the news here....

We (even those who has just met him a couple of times) are all in shock, many of us still can't comprehend APEX's (Angel Amado's) death and then to find out that a talented, humble, honest, genuine human being such as Eli was cruelly taken from us at just 21 years old. Some of us (especially those close to both these amazing human beings) are struggling...try to stay strong peeps!

Update: The main focus of the Stolen Records on Sunset tribute edition was on the life of APEX. Hopefully they do something similar for Eli. Big shout out to the Yoda of Hip Hop in Australia - Blaze - for recording it, check Sleeping Monk and 13th Son speaking about APEX, who he was - here (starts just past the four minute mark).

Gator$-n-Fur$ 1 year anniversary!

...So, so Dope!!!!!!!! Raising my glass as this gets typed, for the celebration...

Listen here

....And now over to Zone himself.

"We did it! Gator$-n-Fur$ has put down one year of monthly mayhem with this June show , so we're gonna celebrate by playing whatever the f**k we want. No theme, just an hour of good music and madness. In true anticlimactic fashion, we're taking July 2008 off from the show to clear our heads and catch up on real life things. Take that time to check out past shows you missed (download some of the self-proclaimed greatest Gator$-n-Fur$ shows below) and we'll see you in August! But for now enjoy Victory!!, and celebrate our one year anniversary show with us!

And for all of you that hate zshare links and don't subscribe to Gator$-n-Fur$ in itunes and would like a better (more organized and no pop-up ads) method in downloading past shows, the show is also hosted by UGHH. Shows typically post there a few days after I e-mail them from here, post them on myspace and Zonesite.

Til August, keep cool..."

J-Zone aka Mr. Don't Holla aka $ir Charge aka Gargamel Jones aka DJ No Requests aka Zone Loc aka The Fax Phone Gigolo aka Stop Wearing Sunglasses Indoors Dumb A*s, You Look Stupid

Seldom seen often heard

There has been a serious lack of activity on this blog, as of late. However this is no time for apologies. I'm about to throw up a feature I did with Meg and Stu of "Disrupt" - a really cool clothing, jewellery, toy store in Sydney's Surry Hills. I'm also working on an hour mix for my homegirls radio show on FBI called "Sat Night Discotek", which i'm really excited about and honoured to be doing. Also working on a mix for DJ Nes's blog - "Dirty Waters" and one for DJ Blueprint's "This Is Tomorrow" page, both of whom were kind enough to invite me to do guest posts...

Designer Music (ODL Radio #35)

(Artwork / Design: U-Tern)

The latest edition of DJ U-Tern's,
One Day Later radio show is untouchable.

It's a wonderful array of flawlessly - blended, sophisticated HEAT for grown folks, can't rave enough about this mix!

Tracklist for "Designer Music" (mixed by Vancity's DJ U-Tern)

Lipps Inc. - Designer Music
Metronomy - My Heart Rate Rapid
Benga - Night
James White & The Blacks - Contort Yourself (August Darnell Remix)
Bobby Nunn - Sexy Sassy
Static Major (Feat. Lil' Wayne) - I Got My
D-Classics - Jammaster (Joie Noire Re-Edit)
Fake Shark Real Zombie - Designer Drugs (Designer Drugs Remix)
Underworld - Ring Road (Fake Blood Remix)
Mr.Oizo - Yves
Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses
Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire
Maximum Joy - Searching For A Feeling
Pnau - Baby (Breakbot Remix)
Boys Noize - Oh! (A-Trak Remix)
Air - Mer Du Japon
Only Fools And Horses - Spectacle Wins (Holy Ghost! Remix)
The Bombers - Shake
Calvin Harris - Colours
Air France - Beach Party
Junior Boys - No Kinda Man
Grand National - Peanut Dreams
Siriusmo - Lastdear
Bah Samba - Let The Drums Speak
James Pants (Feat. Deon Davis) - Crystal Lite
Chris 'The Glove' Taylor - Itchiban Scratch
B.W.H. - Stop
Tashan - Read My Mind