Can I Get a Mix?

Yes. I love the folks who keep time.

I grew up in rooms, halls, and parks where someone who would select the groove and keep the collective mood on high. For me, it’s always been about keeping me together with others and in joy. To move forward, I need to meet up, have a purpose, and sense the beats. (And, a good sweat never hurt.)

I’ve always had someone keep time – it makes me feel (human). I love joy I can express with other people.

I appreciate the DJ, the Selector, the drum, the musician, and culture.

DJ do what I dig. Take the culture and cut it. I understand the satire and commentary. I love that they help make the justifiable case for me to create. They remind me of the multi-faceted, politically conflicting, consistently debated and highly complicated* spaces that have schooled me.

The records of life that I need a DJ to mix (From Blackville to Comm Ave – Can you put a Bio on a Mixtape?):

Good Times (Original 12″ Mix) – Chic
Peace Behind The Bridge – Carolina Chocolate Drops
Wabash – Cannonball Adderley & John Coltrane
Without You – No Me (To Dizzy) – The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band
Way Down In the Hole – The Blind Boys Of Alabama
Green Onions – Booker T. & The MG’s
Satisfaction – Otis Redding
I Say a Little Prayer – Aretha Franklin
Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Gil Scott-Heron
Don’t Stop…Planet Rock (Bass In the Planet Mix) – Afrika Bambaataa
Do That Stuff – Parliament
I Just Want to Be – Cameo
Fool in the Rain – O.A.R.
Don’t Stop Me Now – Queen
I Wanna Be Your Lover – Prince
Night of the Living Baseheads – Public Enemy
Higher Ground – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Check the Rhime – A Tribe Called Quest
Another Generation – Fishbone
Spanish Bombs – The Clash

Love Girl Talk’s work – call me a fanboy. I get a brief moment to kick it with him and talk about the culture I love this afternoon at 2 p.m. Check it out on the live stream we’ve set up.

Peace.

* I bit some word connections and ideas in that sentence from Danny Hoch’s Towards A Hip-Hop Aesthetic: A Manifesto for the Hip-Hop Arts Movement