it's a podsafe music celebration of Blackness, basically, with music provided by podsafe music network and promonet. some hip-hop, some rock, and some electronic music touched by a servant of GOD (you'll know it when you hear it...)

if you dig Radio BSOTS, please digg this show. thanks...

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x-clan * weapon x (buylink info provided below)

drop squad * the drop

king britt / sister gertrude morgan * let's make a record (buylink info provided below)

black sheep * who dat

phil moore browne * biomass (buylink info provided below)

nadir * guantanamo

tv on the radio * staring at the sun

background music used is the instrumental version of "hot on both sides" by techniken defunkus. you can download the entire song here.

promonet links:

Download "Weapon X" (mp3)
from "Return From Mecca"
by X-Clan
Suburban Noize Records

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody

Download "Let's Make a Record" (mp3)
from "King Britt Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan"
by king britt
Ropeadope Records

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• Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody

Download "Biomass" (mp3)
from "Baggage Smasher"
by Phil Moore Browne
Hot Dog City Record Co.

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• Buy at eMusic

other key info:
saturday march 3, 2007 - macedonia hosts the listener hour on wfmu
solipsistic nation: the exquisite corpse mix

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about a half hour ago, i'm helping out a customer with correcting prices on their purchase order. somewhere in the middle of the conversation, the customer sighs and says, "i'm getting a headache...you do this for a living?" after a necessary pause (because i couldn't believe that i was given an opening like that by a customer), i simply said, "unfortunately, yes." a few more seconds go by and he respoonds with, "well, it's not what i would want to do for a living, i can tell you that."

that's it. i have GOT to get out of here. and if this doesn't get me active, nothing will.

this is the joint that turned me on to g-stone back in 1994, i think it was. when eightball records was still open in nyc, the cat playing records behind the counter wouldn't let me leave the store until he played something from k&d. the cut was "high noon." it had me dancing in the store. been one of my favorite cuts ever since.

i love the fact that they replicated a simon & garfunkel album cover perfectly with their poses - it's almost eerie how exact it is. i hear that this is difficult to find on vinyl these days, so i figured i'd throw up the bleep player and let heads check out some joints. on the real, if you don't have it already, cop this...

i have got to find another system for getting my show notes done. no more of this "put them up two days after i post my show" crap...

this is the first BSOTS blends session of the new year. musically, it's all over the place. some house, a little broken beat, brass bands, electronic funk and pop...it's another one of those "you're just gonna have to trust me" mixes. i do like how things start off. there's something about the opener that reminds me of early prince. perhaps it's the bass and the freeze-dried drum kit sounds in it. then there's psykosoul, who's all about his royal badness. check out the title of the song: that's "prince" spelled backwards. the title is the exact copyright prince published his songs under for his first album.

some of these songs go on for way too long, so it's more of a string songs together type of thing than full-on segues. at any rate, hope there's something you dig on here.

speaking of which, if you're diggin' Radio BSOTS and you also happen to hang out at digg.com, please digg this podcast. thanks...

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the flavor foundation * when miles smiles

psykosoul * 1978 ecnirp music

yamasaki * deep six (something deeper) feat. emeson

roisin murphy * sow into you

skeletons & the girl-faced boys * git {free download available at ghostly.com

ron wess musaq * a time out on the towne tonite {buy song at pmn)

richard dorfmeister vs. madrid de los austrias * on the moon maybe (buylink information provided below)

nina simone * turn me on (tony humpries vocal mix)

spiritual south vs. sleeptalker sleepwalker * hullabaloo (buylink information provided below)

mark de cliwe-lowe * state of the mental (feat. bembe segue) {buylink information provided below}

youngblood brass band * sell me more or like you just don't care

promonet links:

Download "On the Moon Maybe" (mp3)
from "Grand Slam"
by Dorfmeister vs. Madrid de los Austrias
G-Stone Recordings

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Download "Hullabaloo" (mp3)
from "Hullabaloo / Calypso Blues"
by Spiritual South & Sleeptalker Sleepwalker
Raw Fusion Recordings

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• Buy at eMusic

Download "State of the Mental" (mp3)
from "Slide b/w State of The Mental"
by Mark de Clive-Lowe
ABB Records

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• Buy at eMusic

other key info:
macedonia spinning at yorokobi on friday 2.9.07 (presented by koncepshun.org)

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this show wraps up the look back at 2006 with a few artists i hadn't gotten around to yet. of course, i have to give my local heads some love, so i rock a quick mini-set on their behalf. hip-hop and electronic joints mainly for this episode.

both the dj wally and dj olive albums i rep for on this show are sick. ditto for dabrye as well. how sick? preview some cuts from each via the embedded bleep players and you be the judge.

and as i like to say as of late, if you're diggin' the show, please digg this show. respect due...

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dj wally/dj willie ross*a strole down sutter avenue {free download available at theagriculture.com}

dj olive*sub bass commandante {free download available at theagriculture.com}

kankick*blood in i eye {buylink information provided below}

dabrye*encoded flow (feat. kadence) {free download available at ghostly.com}

baba israel and yako*emergency (feat. toli nameless) {buy the album at CDBaby.com}

frequency activism*SUVs (feat. farbeon of 3rd party)

ezekiel honig*books on tape

jonny sonic*medicine

promonet links:

Download "Blood In I Eye" (mp3)
from "SERIOUS BUSINESS THIS!"
by Kankick
Ramp Recordings

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• Buy at eMusic

other key info:
endless shouting matches with yourself
baba and yako's official website
frequency activism on myspace
jonny sonic's official website
buy 3rd party's separation of powers album at CDBaby.com

opening theme includes the closing portion of "hot on both sides" by techniken defunkus. (background music happens to be the instrumental from the same tune.) you can download the entire song here.

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show #53 of the Rewind premiered this week and i'm representing for Jonny Sonic in an exclusive clip for this episode. my bit's about 14.5 minutes into the show. other contributing podcasters this episode include Jack Elias of Get Jacked!, Mike Wills of New Music Today, Derek The Bandit of Sound Republic, and of course, Marcus Couch of The Scene Zine.

you can go here to check out this episode. just before my clip, Marcus takes a minute to tear Rob of podcast411 a new one regarding some remarks he made on a show recently. amazing the stuff you miss when you're not constantly plugged in...

3rd party - separation of powers
aloe blacc - shine through
ammoncontact - with voices
baba israel and yako - beatbox dub poetics
core rhythm - nat turner reloaded
ezekiel honig - scattered practices
jay dee (j dilla) - donuts
jonny sonic - coop resident
london elektricity - power ballads
relay - still point of turning
various artists - good GOD!: a gospel funk hymnal
various artists - soul gospel 2

apparently such a twisting of a mass media slogan doesn't just apply to Fox News: check out what happened to an American Studies professor on CNN via this article. seriously jacked up situation...

pretty good lineup of '06 highlights for this episode, all of them courtesy of ioda promonet. big shouts to them for making sure that a podcaster always has great music to play, both new releases and back catalog. respect.

my favorite song on this episode: "chips - chicken - banana split." funky drum breaks, punchy horns, the whole nine. next up would probably be "africa hot!" it's like new school afrobeat - i'm feelin' it. then there's the darc mind joint that i close with. kind of ironic that anticon records would end up releasing that album, seeing as how you can cause hip-hop electronic bulletin boards to go into meltdown just talking about that label. seems like headz either love or hate that label, depending upon who you talk to.

thanks for joining me for another episode. if you're diggin' BSOTS, please digg this show. peace, y'all...

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Download "Smoke In The Air" (mp3)
from "American Me 12""
by C.L. Smooth
Shaman Work

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Download "Make Dis Real (Radio Edit)" (mp3)
from "Grand Slam"
by Dorfmeister vs. Madrid de los Austrias
G-Stone Recordings

• Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
• Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody

Download "Chips - Chicken - Banana Split" (mp3)
from "Jamaica To Toronto: Soul Funk & Reggae 1967-1974"
by Various Artists
Light In The Attic

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at eMusic

Download "Salve" (mp3)
from "From the Soil To the Soul"
by Tommy Guerrero
Quannum Projects

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at eMusic

Download "Back To The Edit" (mp3)
from "Beatboxes At Dawn"
by E.Moss
The Consumers Research and Development Label

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• Buy at eMusic

Download "Africahot!" (mp3)
from "Africa Hot! - The Afrofuture Sessions"
by Wale Oyejide
Shaman Work

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• Buy at eMusic

Download "Outside Looking In" (mp3)
from "Symptomatic of a Greater Ill"
by Darc Mind
anticon

• Buy at eMusic
• Stream from RealNetworks / Rhapsody

other key info:
chillcast episode 34: g-stone spotlight
gilles peterson worldwide

promo featured: friday night dance party podcast

opening theme includes the closing portion of "hot on both sides" by techniken defunkus. (background music happens to be the instrumental from the same tune.) you can download the entire song here.

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i was wondering when my man Dr. Mark Anthony Neal would get around to writing something about the Godfather of Soul. and of course, he knocked it outta the park, as always. more on-point than a seasoned ballet dancer. read the article here.