The Musik Lounge

A live show full of fresh new sounds and some old classics, kinda like we always do but something about this edition felt right! Press play and get dialed into a diverse array of sounds from around the world. As always catch me live every Sunday from 1 - 3 PST @ KTQA.org ! UPDATE: This show is no longer available to stream, if you'd like to hear it holler at me ! Tracklist: Luke Stewart “Works For Upright Bass & Amplifier, Vol. 2 - Part 3” ShrapKnel & Controller 7 “Worry Doll” Økse “Fragrance (Some Days Dosn’t Have Fragrance)” Elucid ft. billy woods “Instant Transfer” Previous Industries “White Hen” Surreal & DJ Balance “Moment In Time” Nas “Black Zombie (Zilla Rocca Remix)” Waajeed “Make Doe” Amaro Freitas ft. Hamid Drake, Shabaka Hutchings & Aniel Someillan “Encantados” High Pulp ft. MonoNeon “Never In My Short Sweet Life (Makaya McCraven Remix)” Alabaster DePlume “The Sound Of My Feet On This Earth Is A Song To Your Spirit” Dave Harrington “Acid Western” DJ Harr...

  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+ “...

Artists, rappers especially, like to talk about collaborations and this in turn makes us fans excited to hear the music from those sessions. Often they don't ever come to fruition. When Nas & Damien Marley started talking about doing an album together I greeted it with great suspicion. Yeah right. But in did happen. Distant Relatives is in stores now and Nasir Jones is touring with Damien Marley. Last night the show stopped in Seattle. I haven't listened to Nneka yet but with all the good things I've heard and the bit of the set I did catch last night I think her album is about to be searched out. She seemed to mix a lot of different styles into her set, demonstating quite a powerful and unique voice. I'm curious what the music sounds like on her album, as she was backed by a few live instruments but not a full band. Once she was done the show got boring with no DJ rocking tunes between sets. I found myself outside ignoring the sold out crowd and trying to catch a...

I saw someone promoting a Dilla night in Philly rechristian the town Dilladelphia . I liked that. Bullshitting with Swervewon one evening we came up with Dillauary, definetly not as cool but the point remains the same. Anything we can do to keep James Dewitt Yancey's name alive and in the mouths of the public the better everything will be. This mans beats have been praised by far sharper tongues than I but his beats truely can be anything. He flips styles no one fucks with in ways people never would of found imagineable before him. With his passing we all lost. Music lost. Heveans band just got a little bit stronger. Just think about what he and Marvin are cooking up? People hold Dilla in high regard for this very reason, he was supremely dope. This has led to posturing from people wishing they had been part of the band wagon and it inevitably leads to a person being asked what their relationship is with Jay Dee's music. It doesn't matter. People are listening and that'...

For those that know the name I expect you download this on GP alone. If you're confused just check out the discography and this interview . From his roll in exposing a young Nasir Jones to the world ( BBQ is still the cut isn't it?! )to being invovled in a number of classics, Extra P has always been on the low and one of the best to touch an SP (now an MPC) and at the same time he holds it down on the mic finer than alot of these so called emcees of today. Having laid back in the shadows, the Professor is getting ready to unleash his new joint on the world and if you have been missing what he cooks up you need to hear this. Paying tribute to, and reminding the suckers about, his former group Main Source is fresh and new displaying both Large Professsors ability to continue to deliver vintage beats, but at the same time never relying on his past. Their shouldn't be any talk about this record sounding "old school." It drops September 30th, cop that shit !

Another week past and more craziness going down! But before we get into all that I just want to send a big thank you out to Saigon, dude came to town and killed it! Then he spent an afternoon talkin with the people at Seattle Central. This guy is on some real uplifting Hip Hop music and he deserves his props! Now let’s get this thing started. Bun B is coming to town April 4th! Nuemo’s is about to be crackin! He was out here in November or December at the War Room but I couldn’t make it so I’m definitely trying to make it out to this show. RIP Pimp C. I have to once again give respect to hiphopdx.com for dropping another fresh interview. This week they sat down with Olu Dara. That’s right Nasir Jones pops! Check it out here . Any of y’all see the new site that popped up this week www.kingmathers.com ? What do you think? Is Em going to come back and wreck the game? My boy Mike says that him and Dre are back in the lab and Em is on his Slim Shady/Marshall Mathers type ish? Can Eminem ma...