The Musik Lounge

As the title implies, Mizo & I pulled up to the lounge this week with bags of wax and got busy lacing y'all with an exclusive, all vinyl session! Coving all the bases of sound, press play and let it all soak into your mental. Take time to breath, time to dance - just take some time and let the music connect and enliven your day. Thank you for listening and as always, catch me live Sunday's Noon - 3 PM PST @ KTQA.org ! Tracklist: William Hooker & Elliott Sharp “The Hat... And It’s Train Pt. 2” Paternoster “The Pope Is Wrong” Seefeel “Time To Find Me (AFX Slow Mix)” Sees “Ithaca” Carlos Niño & Friends “Please, Wake Up.” Arthur Lyman “Moon Over A Ruined Castle” Donny Hathaway “Sugar Lee” Bill Laswell “Purana” Syrup “Sweat Shop” Herbie Hancock “Rockit” Tony Palkovic “Born With A Desire” Roxy Music “True To Life” Helen Reddy “I Am Woman” Sweet Honey in the Rock “Dream Variations” High Fashion “You’re The Winner” Happy End “Impossible” Three Dog Night “One” Brother Ali “...

What's up world?! Welcome to a new year! Another rotation, another stellar music year. To celebrate I had Yakoob pull up to the show with a bag of records and some other notes of things that caught his ears and we got down for 4 HOURS! Thanks for rocking with me this year and as always catch me 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: David Murray, Questlove & Ray Angry “Plumb” Danny Brown “Bass Jam” Killer Mike ft. Eryn Allen Kane “Motherless” B. Cool Aid “Cnt Fk Around” Seafood Sam “Rainboots & Ponchos” Black Thought & El Michaels Affair “The Weather” Kassa Overall ft. Laura Mvula & Francis and the Lights” jaimie branch “Burning Grey” Etienne Charles “Theatre of the Absurd” Hal Warren “Teuer Klunker” Butcher Brown ft. Jay Prince “Move (Ride)” OGSb “F.W.T.W.F.W.Y. (Fuck With Those Who Fuck With You)” Shaheed & DJ Supreme ft. Chali 2na “Appre...

Firefly by Alexa Tarantino Inspiration has been slow to come this week. Tired, frustrated, feeling the weight of the world and the shifting energies that arise as the seasons, planets and weather transition. Yet, there is still music. Exciting, captivating, energizing even if not leading me to words for y’all to peruse. Alas I sat in my head long enough and to the document I arrive. Funnily enough, and perhaps something that will prove to be a theme of these SG missives , I’m currently listening to an awful record. Why, do you ask? Well, I added it to my Apple music library at some point. There is an interesting power in sitting through an album. Perhaps it’s just me indulging my stubborn side? I know I will delete it immediately upon completion, but I will sit through it and reflect. What happened to hiphop? Am I just getting old? Is it my sobriety that makes me look upon this sleazy, intoxicated sound differently? If you are dying to know what album I’m talking about, hit me up . ...

My sonic journey has taken me through many sounds, styles, artists, and scenes. Preparing for this interview was cause to reflect on when I first heard the name Carlos Niño , and I think I can pinpoint it near the beginning of the LA beat era . Since that time his name has floated in and out of my ears depending on how tuned in I was. In more recent times his name has been near the top of my most listened to and cherished artists. These connections, these diverse and non linear weavings of activity are part of what make Carlos Niño’s music so inspired to my ears. He seems to just get it. He makes uplifting, soulful, joyous, energetic music - even when it’s calm and ethereal. As I’ve traveled a new path in my life over the last nearly five years, cultivating and developing spiritual and meditative practices to enhance and enlarge my essence, music has been intrinsically connected. As a doorway into the cosmos, a guide towards something greater, a companion through the dark and light mo...