#27

https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/ce0a43a8-d9f6-4286-817b-e3629ec1193e

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6RkowujyVUT8MJvBhMI5cj 

playlist:

1. Wanna Be A Baller - Lil' Troy

2. BlkSknn - Control

3. Days Of Our Lives - G Perico

4. Thinking(Live Sesh) - Louis Cole

5. Superstar - Fat Pat

6. Friends We Know - Fat Pat

7. Best Life - Danny Brown

8. I'm Feeling Love - Raphael Saadiq

9. One Blood, One Cuzz - Snoop Dogg, BattleCat

10. Burning Up - The James Blood Ulmer Blues Experience

11. Boo'd Up - Ella Mai

12. All I Own - Terrace Martin

13. Stained Glass Fresh Frozen - Julien Dyne, Mara Tk

14. Every Tub - Count Basie

15. A Long Time Ago - Yusef Lateef

#23

https://tidal.com/playlist/88b25321-bda8-42a3-9eb9-bbd5cd2d262a

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5xyVPj286R0O42YpnuA9CM

playlist:

1. Egocentric Molecules - Jean-Luc Ponty

2. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead - Warren Zevon

3. Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer) - Roky Erickson

4. Tennessee Song - Margo Price 

5. Choo Choo - Mac Demarco

6. Thanks To You - Clams Casino, Sam Dew

7. Lawless Society - Wailing Souls 

8. Na Ma Nin Me - Sali Sidibe

9. Comin' Dine - Beanz N Kornbread

10. Butter - Radiation City

11. Baby Flies - Poison Idea

12. Jason And The Argonauts - XTC

13. Fire Is Coming (feat. David Lynch) - Flying Lotus

14. Everybody Loves The Sunshine - Roy Ayers 

15. Tearz - Wu-Tang Clan

#17

https://tidal.com/playlist/a5829de7-aaae-4e91-bb60-a7416e0b91b9

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5aMbhKsVuoG6HoL7DHZAcO

playlist:

1. Makondi - Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell

2. Your Just Movin - Traxman

3. Dedication (feat. Kendrick Lamar) - Nipsey Hustle

4. CANT GET IN KANADA - YG

5. Brand New Player - Zapp

6. New Spaceship - George Clinton, Charlie Wilson

7. Runnin' Away - Sly & The Family Stone 

8. Summer Delight - Freestyle

9. Refuse To Love - Defunkt

10. Touch In Mine (fingers) - Esperanza Spalding

11. Let Me Know - DJ Harrison

12. Voice Of Chunk - Lounge Lizards

13. Big Spliff - Black Uhuru

14. Multiply - Dayone

15. Preach - Thom Sonny Green

#16

https://tidal.com/playlist/d454d6b6-632d-445a-83e9-22feadb360ae

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4FC8xbabjIdGb4BxyPLGJE

playlist:

1. Aht Uh Mi Hed - Shuggie Otis

2. Feedback Pt. 2 - Jason Moran

3. No Apologies - August Greene

4. Haw - 16 Horsepower

5. 5.45 - Gang Of Four

6. Talk Talk - The Music Machine

7. Kannon1 - Sunn O)))

8. Barracudas - Wayne Shorter

9. Statute of Limitiations - 2 Chainz

10. Rule The World - 2 Chainz, Ariana Grande

11. Sound Of Rain - Solange

12. Uvumilivu - E.J. Strickland Quintet 

13. And Now The Queen - Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein, Bill Stewart

14. _stuck_ - Jon Bap

15. Roland Alphonso - Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell

#15

https://tidal.com/playlist/a4e6fb04-348f-4614-80a0-c01573d43c48

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/59f3ybPqw7nwp4p9vaMq3R

Playlist:

1. Journey - Jafar Barron

2. Spiraling Prism - Herbie Hancock

3. Jrifted - Jeff Parker

4. a lot - 21 Savage

5. can't leave without it - 21 Savage

6. He's Coming - Roy Ayers

7. The Last Act - Adrian Younge, Souls Of Mischief

8. Discipline09-4 - Ras G

9. Room A Thousand Years Wide - Soundgarden

10. Down - 311

11. After The Flood - Talk Talk

12. In Your Mind - Built To Spill

13. Alma Llanera - Los Tres Reyes

14. Waitin' Around to Die - Townes Van Zandt

15. Goodbye's All We've Got - Steve Earl 

#11

https://tidal.com/playlist/71f0d6b6-b6aa-4f4c-a02c-b88983927f3c

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7q74SR7pwepXXHt02aVcJp

playlist:

1.  particle / spectra - Ambrose Akinmusire

2. If I Ruled The World - Kurtis Blow

3. If I Ever Lose This Heaven - Average White Band 

4. We Live in Brooklyn, Baby - Roy Ayers 

5. Hanoi 6 - Unknown Mortla Orchestra 

6. A Lot To Give - The Moondoggies

7. I' m Movin' On - Jerry Reed

8. Miracle Of The Fishes

9. Chelsea Bridge - Joe Henderson

10. You and the Night and the Music - Paul Motian

11. Casio Vanguard - Kurt Rosenwinkel

12. Hello - Erykah Badu 

13. Shy - Leon Bridges 

14. Two Sleepy People - Jason Moran

15. 101 FM - Little Simz

#9

https://tidal.com/playlist/6a5c0e31-15b5-4724-8684-39f27acf5d86

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5wox3CoKJEDgDKiWtlrV5G

playlist:

1. Juju - Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas

2. Deran Deran Alkheir (Well Wishes) - Bombino

3. One Way - Sly & The Family Stone

4. Sudsy - James Brown

5. My Funny Valentine (Live at the Plugged Nickel) - Miles Davis

6. Eyes Of The World (Live at the P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, BC, 5/17/74) - Grateful Dead

7. Fela - DJ Harrison

8. Daydreaming - DJ Harrison

9. Come Original - 311

10. Like A Sweet - Devin The Dude

11. Neva Go Back - Special Ed

12. The Ritual - LUV NY

13. You Can't Stop The Prophet - Jeru The Damaja

14. Animal Planet - GZA

15. Beneath The Surface - GZA

#3

quick note: #13 has an alternate track for Spotify because they do not have the full Akira soundtrack in their database. I highly recommend this album, which was re-released on 180 gram vinyl last year. The group that composed it is one of a kind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geinoh_Yamashirogumi

The Life I Live - Pete Rock

I had a conversation with a friend a while back about our favorite hip hop producers. As I recall, both of our top two were J Dilla and Pete Rock, except his number one was Dilla and mine was Pete. He was surprised by my choice, considering how pioneering Dilla was. I fully acknowledge Dilla's genius as well as the profound influence he has had on modern music, but there is something about Pete's aesthetic that resonates with me more personally. I love repetition in music. When a loop is composed or constructed well, it can be repeated forever and I won't get tired of it. (Another context where this comes up in the music I listen to is with 1970's Malian groups such as Super Biton de Segou and L'Orchestre Kanaga de Mopti.) Pete Rock's loops are deep and hypnotizing. I enjoy playing drums along to his beats to practice pocket, but also because the act of playing one phrase continuously is meditative. I get to a point where my limbs are on auto pilot, locked in to the music, and I am visualizing the sounds. 

https://tidal.com/playlist/d30360c7-2873-4e08-9015-ec75e09713d8

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5oe5eVYpqkebTMsh80PB3w

playlist:

1. Plaid Pants - The Black Tones 

2. Big Time - Omer Avital

3. Friday Morning - Khruangbin

4. Graduation Day - Ethan Iverson

5. RollSkate - DJ Harrison

6. untitled 06 | 06.30.2014 - Kendrick Lamar

7. Brother's Keeper - Anderson .Paak, Pusha T

8. Street Pharmacy - Butcher Brown

9. Do It Together - The Midnight Hour

10. Reggae To The High Tower - Don Cherry

11. We Got To Live Together - Buddy Miles

12. The Life I Live - Pete Rock

13. (Tidal) Exodus From The Underground Fortress - Geinoh Yamashirogumi

13. (Spotify) Kaneda - Geinoh Yamashirogumi

14. Track B - Duet Solo Dancers - Charles Mingus

15. I'll Be Good To You - Quincy Jones

16. Honey - Astronote

17. Alienman - Stone Mecca

18. Brown Liquor - Bearaxe

#2

A lot of great new music came out in the last couple of months. Some of the artists with new music featured in this week's playlist include Georgia Anne Muldrow, Kurt Vile, Yoko Ono, Ambrose Akinmusire, Aaron Parks, and Braxton Cook. Now, if you don't mind, I will expound on a couple of chosen tracks.


Rollin With The Flow - Kurt Vile

This cover song is not indicative of the album as a whole, which is otherwise comprised of Vile's chill, riffy, originals, but I have a specific memory connected to it. This summer I was helping a local fix-it guy do some work on my mother-in-law's house. We would listen to music via an Echo, which was a new gadget for this old-timer. He would say, "Alexa, play OLD country music". This would yield a playlist of about 30 songs, which we would listen to on repeat all day while he would sing along to almost every song no matter how many times it came on. The Charlie Rich version of "Rollin' With The Flow" was one of these songs. So, hearing this song is a good way to remember a great summer. Vile's version stays pretty true to Rich's, plus the drums really roll...with the flow.


Woman Power - Yoko Ono

Ono's new album consists of new versions of older tunes from her career. I had never actively listened to her music before this album, but I was drawn to it by the personnel, which includes Melvin Gibbs, Marc Ribot, and Kassa Overall. I have heard criticisms of her abrasive, dissonant vocal stylings, but I like the vocal improvisation parts of these tunes. On "Woman Power", Ono will sometimes draw the end of a spoken word out into a tone in a way that puts an extra emphasis on the phrase and creates tension.


https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0rPXhg3oyIw9MeREJmRlme

https://tidal.com/playlist/d2732af2-8af4-43cf-b55e-387fffa8856c

playlist:

1. Blam - Georgia Anne Muldrow

2. Love And It's Glory - Minnie Riperton

3. When It Comes Down To It - Minnie Riperton

4. Get You It Together - L.T.D.

5. We Major - Braxton Cook

6. Just A Thing - Black Milk & Nat Turner

7. Digital Society - Aaron Parks

8. Americana / the garden waits for you to match her wilderness - Ambrose Akinmusire

9. The Lung - Hiatus Kaiyote

10. La Luna (Ending) - Sun Araw

11. Rollin With The Flow - Kurt Vile

12. Woman Power - Yoko Ono

13. Children Power - Yoko Ono

14. Runabout - Little Dragon

15. O Superman - Laurie Anderson