The Musik Lounge

  Happy Mother's Day y'all!! Lots of fresh vibes in this weeks set and plenty of love to spread out to all the fabolous moms worldwide. 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 would like to hear it holler at me ! Tracklist: Erykah Badu “Certainly (Flipped It)” Nas “Doo Rags” Jimetta Rose & The Voices of Creation “Operation Feed Yourself” Mandingo Griot Society “Chedo” The Pyramids “The King He Comes” Isaiah Collier ft. Dee Alexander “Love” Blockhead “Tinder In The Time of Cholera (Instrumental)” Rufus “Change Your Ways” Earth, Wind & Fire “Got To Get You Into My Life” 2Pac “Dear Mama (Moe Z Mix)” David Harrow “Ever Hopefull” Carlos Nino & Friends “AmazonianPulse” Contours ft. Abraham Parker “Pots” Bell Cobain “Awakening” Moor Mother ft. Aquiles Navarro & Alya Al Sultani “Meditation Rag” Shabaka ft. Saul Williams “Managing My Breath, What Fear Had Become” Mikko Innanen 10+ “...

  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...

Happy Sunday y’all and welcome to another exclusive all social music mix for your ears! Mizo was out of town so I invited YAKOOB! into the lounge to help me lay this one down. Being a player and appreciator and recent inductee into the vinyl addict club he fell through with a crate of the latest gems he has unearthed out there in the dusty bins. You are in for a run through the gamut of styles this music can encompass. New and old, classic and fusion and everything in between. Turn it up, get ready to dance, clean your house or just relax on this beautiful day of rest. Thank you all for riding with us and stay tuned for some exciting developments in our continual progression to expose sounds. Ahmad Jamal “Raincheck” Return To Forever “Sofistifunk” Rainer Bruninghaus “Elbow Room” Count Basie & His Orchestra “Blue & Sentimental” Dizzy Gillespie & Machito “Calidoscopico” King Khan “Follow The Mantis” Al Jarreau “I’m Home” George Benson “The Borgia Stick” Herb Alpert & Th...

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 .

  Movin' & groovin' with ya for another solo Sabbath Sessions. As is usual around here it was a free for all filled with all sorts of sounds that just felt right. Sometimes a tune will feature a piano note that inspires the next selection, sometimes it's just the vibes that seem to match and other times it's nothing at all but where my ears feel like traversing. I'm continuing this theme of discovering how tracks can be blended and merged to create something perhaps unheard before or at least provide a unique mixture of styles. The old and the new, the disparate, the found and forgotten. The beats are heavy, the funk is present and of course a constant undercurrent of soul is effervescent. Thanks for riding with us!