The Musik Lounge

Fresh for the 2-0-2-6! I've been toying with the idea of extending the show to a three hour affair. I pulled the trigger this week and if felt oh so right. After a month of special themed shows it felt good to get back in the groove of blessin ya'lls ears with magical sounds new and old. Good vibes abound as usual, checking in with recent releases and hitting y'all with some vintage gems. Mizo pulled up for a quick set in the last hour as well! Thank you for listening and as always catch me every Sunday live @ KTQA.org from 12 - 3 PST! UPDATE: This episode is no longer available to stream. If you'd like to listen back, holler at me! Tracklist: Harry Craze “Wa6” Tom Skinner ft. Meshell Ndegeocello “The Maxim” Proh Mic ft. Mr. Write “Sunshine” Freddie Gibbs ft. Scarface “Decoded” Kamasi Washington “Clair de Lune” MUDD “Tell Me” Irreversible Entanglements “Woman” Johann Sebastian Bach “Fugues In Contrary Motion: Contrapunctus 5” Nitin Sawhney “Sunset” Amirtha Kidambi Eld...

A special all vinyl edition of The Musik Lounge for your ears! Lots of jazz, some hiphop and a few other random grooves for your ears. I hope everyone had a great holiday and as always you can catch me live Sundays from 1 - 3 PM PST @ KTQA.org ! UPDATE: This episode is no longer available for replay. If you would like to hear it holler at me! Tracklist: Willie Hutch “Theme Of The Mack” Nathaniel Leon Jones & James Brown “The King” Jay-Z ft. M.O.P. “U Don’t Know (Remix)” Randy Weston “Marrakesh Blues” Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Adrian Younge & Garrett Saracho “El Cambio Es Necesario” Irreversible Entanglements “Fireworks” Odd Nosdam “Fat Hooks” Prince “Housequake” Paul Oakenfold “Southern Sun (Breakz Dub Mix)” Sango “Fruitful (Maliyah’s Theme)” Duke Ellington “Thanks For The Beautiful Land On The Delta” Surprise Chef “Conversation Piece” Vanilla Fudge “Season Of The Witch” Miles Davis “Shhh/Peaceful” Jay Dee “Fuck The Police” Common “Testify” Khruangbin “Shades Of Man” Deodato “West ...

  What led me to this social music I find myself so enraptured by today? I grew up a fiend for hiphop, I found my way into working with rappers as a member of the media and as an aspiring label owner . I found my way to being a fiend for substances and in the process let my love for the art form slip away. Recently a question was posed on a jazz subreddit I lurk on about what was your doorway into the music. I was instantly flooded with a memory of my High School student chemistry teacher Ms. Simmons sharing a burned copy of Kind of Blue with me. The fuse was lit, and I didn’t dislike that record - but it would take some years to get me back to it and to dig deeper. When I started exploring dollar bins at an assortment of record stores as a Freshman in Seattle and picked the brains of diggers I’d begun to cross paths with my interest in this distinctly American artform started to enlarge. At this point it was all about the samples, although at times I would find things that I enjo...

Another week, another edition of The Musik Lounge for your ears! Tune in live Sundays 1 - 3 PM PST @ KTQA.org ! Thank you for listening. UPDATE: No longer available for streaming, reach out to me if you would like to hear it! Tracklist: Irreversible Entanglements “Six Sounds” Exile “San Pedro Cactus” Billian “Infinite Blue” Carlos Nino ft. Andre 3000, Nate Mercerau, Cavana Lee & Mia Doi Todd “Conversations” Armand Hammer “Woke Up & Asked Siri How I’m Gonna Die” Binker & Moses ft. Max Luthert “After The Machine Settles” Weldon Irvine “Quiet (In Memory of Duke Ellington)” Kipp Stone “Petrichor” Jake One “NSB” Jake One “SE” Jake One “Hunter” Dana & Alden “It Moves Like A Snake” Kassa Overall ft. J. Hoard “Maybe We Can Stay” Sugar Minott “No Vacancy” Contact Field Orchestra “Dorado Alucinari” Ike & Tina Turner “So Fine” Al Green “Perfect Day” Ahmad Jamal “Invitation” Ezra Collective ft. Nao “Love In Outer Space” Henry Franklin “Blue Lights” Jose James “Bird Of Space”...

It’s the time once again! Another Sabbath Sessions All Jazz Sureshot! Like we tend to do, we are blurring the lines of what this social music can be but we think you shall dig none the less. Beats and beauty abound. Grooves will entice and vibes will be raised. Just press play and swing with us. All styles, all eras all types are welcome - we do not discriminate nor do we hate - we just play selectah! Our crates are deep and the gems we have for you are glorious. As always, thank you for tuning in, sticking with us as we trudge the road to episode 100! Feels like just yesterday we were stoked on 50, now we are plotting on that illustrious triple digit mark! In gratitude always! Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad ft. Roy Ayers “Gravity” Walter Bishop Jr. “Coral Keys” Lonnie LIston Smith “Love Beams” Fabiano Do Nascimento “Malandro” Rob Mazurek & Emmett Kelly “Embyro Genesis” The Mystery Kindaichi Band “Meirosou No Sangeki” Irreversible Entanglements “The Port Remembers” Dezon ...

Another Sunday, and another Sabbath Sessions for your ears! Vol. 66 - you know what that means - time for our 11th all Jazz mix. Of course we can never quite keep it that predictable so don’t be confused by the Young Thug opening or the periodic leaps of abstraction we take. We are firm believers that this here social music is rooted and connected to a vast array of styles and can not be restrained. It’s all played from wax for your listening pleasure. Dig in, light up whatever herbs you need (Palo Santo has been my go to as of late) and kick back on this foggy Sunday for some good vibes and great times. As always, thank you for listening and keep riding with us, we can’t stop, we won’t stop. Young Thug “Just How It Is” Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes “Boa” Kenny Drew & Niels-Henning Orsted Pendersen “Serenity” Nubya Garcia “Boundless Beings (Georgia Anne Muldrow Remix)” Yussef Kamaal “Remembrance” Dayme Arocena “Oya” Jackson Conti “Praca Da Republica” John Klemmer “Crystalized Tears”...

Music is always better in the whip. While I have long considered CDs dead I found myself with a bind full of joints itching to be listened too. Upon picking up a commute for work I found myself really digesting these random tunes and even going back into time and burning new ones. Enter my review series Tunes From the Whip .

  Mizo and I linked up one mo' gin! As the end of the year approaches and we start contemplating the best sounds we heard this year (many documented right here, crazy to think we have been at this Sunday vibes thing for over three months now!) we knew it was time to lay down one more pure Jazz sesh. Given that one volume of our best of the year mixes will be entirely Jazz we figured this round would be best served to touch base on older sounds of this improvised social music we both love. We open with a Cannonball Adderley and David Axelrod jam espousing the traits of a Gemini over an atmospheric groove. As it plays along you will see some familiar names from the past and the more recent scene. Mizo dropped in a Freddie Hubbard jam and the tunes spoke to me in a way that I couldn't refuse an Irreversible Entanglements tune from their debut I recently swooped from IA's bandcamp. Hopefully the sounds here will soundtrack this gray and drizzly Sunday with peace, joy and som...