This might sound crazy to you, but I've been having this conversation with GOD about music and my place within it for almost a year now. (First time that I would have talked about any of this was on my tumblr blog.) I believe it's had a direct effect on the amount of shows that I have released this year through the BSOTS channel. I tried talking about this while recording voiceovers for the last "buckwild" episode, but after rambling on for almost 20 minutes, I knew no one would listen and I hadn't the foggiest notion of how I was going to edit that session down. It sat on a thumb drive for about a month before I revisited it. I suppose that it was time to do so: seems as if the music chosen for the show led me to picking just the right sound bites from that voiceover session.

As a result, this show is a strange mixture of my current musical obsessions and my constant drive towards finding out what my purpose is in life. I'm not certain if people will really get this show or not; all I know was that I had to do this one. It's part cinematic instrumentals, part slow motion house, part spoken word, part left-of-center hip-hop, part unconventional hymnal, and jazz and ambient selections as well. All this and my musings on GOD, music, and my attitude towards music at the end of last year that directly influenced my approach towards releasing new BSOTS episodes in 2011.

I hope all of this is presented in such a way that it makes sense to you. If not, feel free to let me know. Here's hoping that purpose has come around your way and made itself known to you. As for me, I'm still searching...

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ID drop courtesy of EJ Flavors. Background music selections: "germinal ring" by Cyclops Joint, "ghettoblaster (marumari remix)" by Kid 606, and "Material Instrument 1" by Ezekiel Honig.

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this episode's tracklist:
1. Shadyzane - "Watersleep" (2006) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
2. Oddisee - "The Carter Barron" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
3. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Fright Night (Nevermore) (Dam-Funk Remix)" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
4. Ghostly Dust Machine - "Ode To A Baby Snowstorm" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
5. Def Sound - "(A)Gain" (2011) {Bandcamp}
6. Shabazz Palaces - "An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
7. Techniken Defunkus - "Infinity" (2009)
8. Colonel Red - "Gimme A Minute (feat. Ursula Rucker" (2011) {Amazon MP3}
9. Kool Kim - "What I Got Is Gonna Last" (1996) {Amazon.com}
10. Def Dee - "Lisa" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
11. Alias - "Wanna Let It Go" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD | More On This Album}
12. Nicolas Jaar - "Keep Me There" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
13. EOTL - "Let's Walk Together" (2011) {Bandcamp}
14. Orgone - "Faith Keep Rolling" (2010) {Ubiquity Records Store}
15. Autodeep - "Crossplot" (2011) {Soundcloud}
16. Lady Blacktronika - "If Some Rain" (2011) {Beatport}
17. Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth For Christ Choir - "Ever Since" (1971) {Amazon MP3}
18. The Campbell Brothers - "What's His Name - Jesus!" (2001) {Arhoolie}
19. Cosmic Analog Ensemble - "Everything Takes Longer Than One First Expects" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
20. Gorje Hewek - "At That Cafe" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
21. Sebastian - "Human" (2011) {iTunes}
22. About 9 - "In Time Things Will Be ok" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD | Amazon MP3}

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