The Musik Lounge

Another week, another edition of The Musik Lounge for your ears! First solo show in a few weeks, it felt good to get back into the flow, start tapping in with a handful of new year tunes and toss in a couple random selections courtesy of my parents! Catch me live every Sunday from 1 - 3 PM PST @ KTQA.org ! Update: This episode is no longer available to stream, holler at me if you'd like to get the mp3 file! Tracklist: Mary Halvorson “The Tower” Joe Farrell “Sound Down” Trioritat “Inelegant Peeing” Ray Charles & Willie Nelson “Georgia On My Mind” Bob Marley “Blackman Redemption” Seafood Sam “Saylo” Jake One “Trouble (Instrumental)” King Curtis “I Stand Accused (Live)” Osibisa “Sweet Sounds” Heroes Are Gang Leaders “The Shrimpy Grits” Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Doug Carn “Processions” The Mothers of Invention “Absolutely Free” Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer “Ecoute Au Loin” Jorge Ben “Meus Filhos, Meu Tesouro” Jalen Ngonda “Give Me Another Day...

So after being gone from the town that raised me (well in many respects at least) I'm gonna dedicate the coming week to Seattle, my home away from home. Luckily the scene is thriving and that means even if I'm not there I can still get a fair dose off the internet and from my crew always making moves in the 2-0-6. So stay tuned and look out I got some great things planned! Oh and what better way to kick things off than with the perfect tribute to the town?

Seemingly out of nowhere Prodigy snuck a new album out towards the end of October. Obviously he isn’t around to promote Product of the 80's , but prior to his up north trip he put in a lot of work at Dirt Class studios with production duo Sid Roams – and it had to get heard. Sid Roams, comprised of Joey Chavez and Bravo, have been making waves for a minute but only in the last couple years joined forces with a unified name and their own lab in NYC to concoct their heavy brand of Hip Hop funk. Featuring hard synths and harder drums these two have created an atmosphere fitting for Prodigy and his partners Un Pacino and Big Twins to spit their tales. Prodigy “Cold World" P is P. You can’t really come into this record not knowing what to get. For as long as the Mobb has been around they have been the leaders of grimey QB hood shit. But as the fame got larger and larger and the gap between what they were living versus what they had lived grew they lost their touch. Signing with G-U...

Anyone from around here is going to be looking at this album with just a slightly different take, making me wish I could be talking with some people outside of the S-E-A about what they think of the debut offering from Jake One. The resident beat maker extraordinaire has been fudging the lines about what exactly “underground” and “mainstream” Hip Hop is for years now and to this end we see a diverse group of guests. From Young Buck and Busta Rhymes to MF Doom and a host of locally known emcees who will hopefully receive some much deserved attention after sharing grooves with the talent found herein. Now it could be my own bias but those tracks from the local emcees stand up incredibly well, to a point that I have to say I find them to be the best tracks on the album. From the D. Black solo “God Like” with it’s subdued beat (Blueprint esque? Shout to Crawford !) to the power trio of J Pinder, GMK and Spaceman on “Big Homie Style,” this is the hidden gem if you ask me. All three emcees h...