The Musik Lounge

Back to the flow, tapped in and feeling the sounds. After a quasi week off I had to hit the lounge with a big pile of fresh sounds, new and old of course! Some chances to breath, to dance, to nod your head. Turn it up and sink in with us! Catch us live every Sunday from 1 - 3 PM PST @ KTQA.org ! UPDATE: This episode is no longer available to stream. If you'd like to listen back, holler at me! Tracklist: Carlos Niño ft. Jesse Peterson & Janitor “...and the Fire Dragon dreams” Doug Hammond & Jazzanova “Dance The Dance” Azymuth “Marca Tempo” The Allergies ft. Mr. Woodnote “Take Me Back” HOT16 “Water Ceremony” Resavoir ft. Elton Aura & Whitney “Sunday Morning” Quasimoto “Microphone Mathematics” Tunga “Kill The Father (Instrumental)” Ant “Head Heart Hands (Instrumental)” Brother Ali “Head Heart Hands” Rod Stewart “I’d Rather Go Blind” Witch “Totally Devoted” Tcheser Holmes “Heaxagram 56” Leikeli47 “H.N.I.C.” The Pyramids “Lalibela Pt. 2” Nosaj Thing ft. Kazu Makino “Eclipse...

You know what it is! Episode 99! Wild... Thank you. More sounds from all corners of the sonic landscape of yesterday and today. Up beat and down beat, good vibes and grooves galore. Be sure to tune in next week for a special extended show in celebration of the 100th episode with 5 guest sets coming in hot! Catch us live every Sunday from 1 - 3 PM PST @ KTQA.org ! UPDATE: This episode is no longer available to stream. If you'd like to listen back, holler at me ! Tracklist: Alan Niblock, John Butcher & Mark Sanders “Mantle Plume” Grachan Moncur III “Monk In Wonderland” Macie Stewart “Stairwell (Before & After)” Air ft. Beth Hirsch “All I Need (Vegyn Remix)” Omari Jazz “Root” Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones “Farmer’s Song” Sohn “Lessons” Lunice & The Alchemist “Clear” Confucius MC & Bastien Keb ft. Zemora Amour “Care About” Brother Ali “Mysterious Things” De La Soul ft. Cee-Lo “Held Down” Little Simz “Sideways” Sir Froderick “Comehomealready” Anushka “Really (Nothing is C...

Another week, another go round of gems, jams and funky grooves! As always, thank you for listening and catch me live every Sunday from 1 - 3 PM PST @ KTQA.org ! UPDATE: This show is no longer available to stream, if you'd like to listen back, holler at me! Tracklist: Alison Cotton “Behind The Spider Web Gate” Skyzoo & Dumbo Station “Give & Take” Shabaka ft. billy woods “Timepieces” Psalm Trees & Alexander “High Hope (Philanthrope Remix)” Bruno Migotto, Sergio Machado & Felipe Silveira “Casa Nova” Sly5thAve “Water Suite (Thirst) (Kassa Overall Remix Instrumental)” Isaac Hayes “Going To Chicago Blues” El Michels Affair “It’s Yeti Season” Nicole Mitchell & Ballaké Sissoko “Spicy Jambalaya” Brother Ali “Handwriting” Lightheaded “Soul Power” DJ Phantom “Jazz Soul Thing” Joiisol, Shadeemus & O.K Asanda “Primrose Hill” Maisha “Kaa” Atlanta Space Quartet “Moons of Saturn” Bootsy’s Rubber Band “Psychoticbumpschool” Jeff Parker ETA IVtet “Freakadelic”

Back at it like we always do! Mizo & I convened in the lounge for a spur of the moment session in the middle of the week while the sun was shining bright and laid down this weeks grab bag mix. The weather is changing and the vibes were clearly influenced by it. Filled with up beat tunes, happy sounds and and usual stew of sonics you get a lil bit of everything here, even going a lil deeper into the electronic realms with some techno, disco edits and a classic from Prefuse 73. Of course I came with some rap and soul and Mizo with his world explorations and some beautiful ambient grooves. Press play and brighten up this grey Daylight savings day! Thanks for listening with us! Eyedea & Abilities “Music, Music” Rob Mazurek & Emmett Kelly “Android Love Cry” Waltel Branco “Zorra” Catalyst “Ain’t It The Truth” Freddie Hubbard “Echoes of Blue” Boldly James & Sterling Toles “Detroit River Rock” Youandewan “Our Odyssey” Beatrice Dillon “Work Around Four” Mos Def “Mathematics” Ki...

I pulled out Brother Ali’s debut Shadows on the Sun for this weeks edition of tunes from the whip. Bringing all my CDs up from my moms house has me tripping at what I could listen to. I could proly do one of these every other day and still find something new or that I forgot about. But this is about Brother Ali. The man who spits hot fire all over brilliant Ant tracks. After Jet Set last week, the day I’d thrown this into the deck, I ended up giving Vitamin D a ride to the studio. On the drive he heard “Star Quality,” asked what it was and smiled. He then revealed to me that he had worked on the project for them out in the Mini Apple. I love the learning the back stories. Listening to the album the rest of the week was great. It constantly brought smiles to my face and got me ready to go into work feeling good, feeling great. Ali is an amazing emcee. When all is said and done he pretty much has to be in the top 10 greatest list. As he says he “weaves a web of words so intricate the En...

I've never been very good at these lists but i decided I had to do one for 2009 as there was a lot of great music and I can't seem to remember almost any of it. The ones i did remember, and returned to, are presented here. I'm not doing these in any particular order nor am I worried about genre, medium, format, etc. These were simply the best new pieces of music I could remember making an impression on me during the last 12 months. Things are always forgotten and as is always the flaw in these things, the selections are weighted towards the second half of the year. Oh well, enjoy and hopefully you discover something new! First up is the one and only ambassador of Funk. Dam brought back an era that has long been forgotten about and the butt to many jokes. Showing me that I have long been mistaken to think the 80s had nothing to offer, the Toeachizown EPs showed me how to boogie and proved that sometimes happy music is better. While the double disc CD offering is massive, th...

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” -Sergei Rachmaninov It what has to feel like typical fashion by now, I vanished from these parts of the Internet once again. As usual there is no telling when and where I'll strike again but one thing I hope to continue in the coming months will be collections of tracks that were in my ear for the last month. October was crazy for me as I quite my jobs and left Oregon to once again return to Seattle – I just can't stay away! Between the move, not having a place of my own and the general craziness that is life on party mountain I wasn't surrounded with as much time to devour new music as per usual. I did have 10 cuts catch my attention and I hope they might catch yours as well. Anyone around me lately knows that I've become fascinated by all things electronic music. While mainly focused in the dubstep sub genre, house, glitch, electro and an assortment of other sounds have been blowing my mind. B. R...