#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

#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 

#10

https://tidal.com/playlist/ad54681b-f103-48fb-9b57-59b8e4a6cadc

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ArZDbv4W1AFTo0LNb2Aws

playlist:

1. Bubblegoose - Wyclef Jean

2. Baby Don't Break Your Baby's Heart - Kashif

3. everything - Nas, The Dream, Kanye West

4. Melquíades - Aaron Parks, Ben Street, Billy Hart

5. May - Ben Wendel

6. Birth Of A City - Ennio Morricone

7. Play It For Me (One More Time) - Aquarian Dream

8. Kasalefkut-hulu (Stereo Master) - Mulatu Astatke

9. If I Was Your Girlfriend - Prince

10. These Days - Nate Dogg

11. Lay Lady Lay - Hudson

12. Holophonor - Santa Ynez

13. Jet Fuel - Mac Miller

14. Mark Sampson - Kassa Overall

15. La Casa Azul (feat. Roy Hargrove) - Kassa Overall

#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

#7

https://tidal.com/playlist/2a78f8d9-3a11-4b40-9689-9bf656cb7754

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5qYlprfYmBQCakHnD0DQ28

playlist:

1. Everywhere We Go - Avatar Darko

2. No Matter How Far You Go - Gabriel Teodros

3. Arithmetic - Porter Ray

4. ATM - J. Cole

5. Discreet Music - Brian Eno

6. Boody - Dewey Redman

7. Compassion - Ornette Coleman

8. Dust - Charles Lloyd and The Marvels, Lucinda Williams

9. Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell

10. Raven Riley - The Maldives

11. Tidelands - The Moondoggies

12. Take Me With You (When You Go) - The Jayhawks

13. Keep Digging - Invisible Bird

14. Leaving To Zion - Black Uhuru

15. Homebody - Nai Palm

#5

https://tidal.com/playlist/5b8f5695-32f7-4f18-8f10-b17e577b33ca

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ajAo2ocGcSODXzKpXdAOI

playlist:

1. Density In Dan's Fan City - Happy Apple

2. Conception - Black Thought, Salaam Remi

3. Let's Get Down - Tony!, Toni!, Toné!, DJ Quik

4. Time - The Commodores

5. King Of The Hill - Thundercat, Badbadnotgood

6. In My Name - Jamila Woods

7. Cella's Walk - Jimi Tenor, Tony Allen

8. Everybody Wants To Feel Like You - John Prine

9. Play It All Night Long - Warren Zevon

10. Back To Earth - Farnell Newton

11. Hearsay - Krondon, Shafiq Husayn, Iman Omari

12. Hear My Train A Comin' (Live at Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkley, CA) - Jimi Hendrix

13. Amsterdam by Foot - Deantoni Parks

14. Ced-gee (Delta Force One) - Ultramagnetic Mcs

15. The F-Word - Cannibal Ox

#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