The Musik Lounge

Rockin' & rollin' right into a new week with another edition of The Musik Lounge! Took advantage of the extended format of the show this week and broke y'all off with a couple extended, improvised jazz jams along with the legendary Brainfreeze set from DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist in full. Like to keep y'all guessing and blessing your ears with beautiful sounds. As always, catch me live every Sunday from Noon - 3 PST @ KTQA.org ! Tracklist: Jeff Parker ETAIVtet “Like Swimwear” Ra Kalam Bob Moses & Franklin Kiermyer “Whirling Dervishes” Nicolas Payton & Butcher Brown “Pursuance” LCSM “Soul In Yo Mind” Mary Halvorson & Ambrose Akinmusire “Blood & Sand” Brian Ennals & Blockhead “Aldente” Chuck Strangers “Torn In Two” Ohbliv “Time Fallen” Sharpshooters “Never Gonna” Anthony Braxton “Southampton, Set 2: Composition 52/Collage Form Structure/Composition 40F/Composition 108A” Kalia Vandever “Hubbard Road” Dezron Douglas “Octopus” Polyrhythmics ft. Adryo...

Periodically across the two tracks that comprise the latest release from the Jeff Parker ETAIVtet, Happy Today , drummer Jay Bellerose gets some in a manner that would absolutely make James Brown proud. He lays down a funk breakbeat that would have made the breakers go insane if Herc, Bam or Flash dropped it at a park jam back in the day. It’s this kind of joy that is captured on this record that makes the album title so fitting. As a band, and as individual players, this group has been on a tear for some time now. As I started working on this piece I kept thinking I needed to dig into the back story but everytime it just led to me stalling out. The words have been shed, the story is out there . The jist is that upon relocating to the Los Angeles area Jeff Parker wanted to continue what has been a consistent practice of his forever - regular improv sessions open to other players to drop through with their instrument in low stakes spaces, perhaps not even intentional venues. He found th...

Back again! Hitting ya with all them good sounds, new and old - your friendly, neighborhood groove session to soundtrack a slice of life. Turn it up, tune in, zone out. Just press play and get lost. Catch me live every Sunday from Noon - 3 PM PST @ KTQA.org ! Tracklist: Jeff Parker ETA IVtet “Happy Today” Sasco “Locked” Anna Butterss ft. Jeff Parker “Dance Steve” Busta Rhymes ft. Q-Tip & Chauncy Black “Can’t Hold The Torch” Ras G “Bell Beez Record” Bob Moses “Monktional/Carinho” Ian Fink “Loud In Detroit” Vjay Iyer Trio “Hood (Kassa Overall Remix)” Hot 8 Brass Band “Sexual Healing (Ibibio Sound Machine Remix)” Brother Ali “Sing Myself Whole” Ant “Sing Myself Whole (Instrumental)” Geng PTP “Wind of Time-Zone” Kratzwerk “1998_06” Khruangbin “Dern Kala II” Laura Nyro “Stoned Soul Picnic” Earth, Wind & Fire “Let’s Groove” GENA “Circlesz” The Breathing Effect “Cosmic Zoo” Triorität “Seven Marmelade” Kevin Richard Martin “Deep Space” Muslimguaze “Days & Night’s In No Man’s Land”...

They say the music you discover in your youth is the music you carry with you for life. While that isn’t entirely my story, it does hold that the music of my youth influences where my ears take me today.  My first CDs were Ace of Base and Shaq Diesel , and before that I have a distinct memory of owning a Garth Brooks cassette . From there my thirst for sounds developed rapidly - the Shaq sonics being the only one of those to carry forth as I came of age. I found the typical commercial rap sounds of the late 90s but was also curious where the music came from and found myself digging into the history. Around the turn of the century between Napster , RapReviews.com and the discovery of a show on the Lane Community College radio station dedicated to sounds of the underground my ears shifted and in that distortion emerged a new sound and style in Anticon and specifically Sole . The Juxies were cool, Atmosphere was good but there was something about the stream of conscious flows fr...

Just another friendly edition of your Sunday Afternoon Groove Session with DJ Abstractions! Ephemeral vibes, funky tunes, rollicking rhymes and illbient excursions! Catch me live every Sunday from Noon - 3 PM PST @ KTQA.org . Tracklist: Milton Michaeli, Asaf Shchori & Hamid Drake “For Wilbur Ware/We Travel The Space Ways” Pat Bianchi “Dizzy’s Dilemma” Your Brother’s Keeper & Gary Bartz “Cauldron” Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid “Soul Oscillations” Carl Craig “Meditation Five” Marvin Gaye “Just Like Music (Karizma Booty Mix)” Leron Carson “Say It” Oraculu “Birdview (Version 1)” Jelle Van Giel's Close Distance Band “Satori” Kutmah “Sketchbook Theme” Inkswel ft. Ohmega Watts & Lailah Reich “The Sun” Butcher Brown ft. Yaya Bey “I Remember” Cool Peepl ft. Billy Love, Amp Fiddler & Sundiata O.M. “Free (Original Vocal Mix)” Quantic ft. Nidia Góngora “Tierra Mama” Karate Boogaloo “Tremendous Fantastic” Mike & The Censations “There’s Nothing I Can Do About It” The Necks ...

Record store day weekend filled with all kinds of gems new and old! And a special appearance from DJ Snap & 2 Snax! Press play and get on down with the funky sounds! As always catch me live every Sunday from Noon - 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: Bob Moses “Mbira Tanzania” Tisziji Munoz “Spirit Path” Jaco Pastorious “Jaco” Ganavya “(Sister Said) Home Is Not A Direction” Madlib “Beat #47” Sasco “Sure” PremRock ft. Mary Esther Carter “Love Is A Battlefield Simulation” Nas “Halftime” One Sixth ft. Georgia Anne Muldrow, Bloomy Meadows & Willy Dynamo “All Good” Mansur Brown “So Far” Thundercat ft. WILLOW “ThunderWAVE” James Brandon Lewis & Lutosławski Quartet “Prologue - Humility” Ras G “Da Hipster Hummus” Moses Yoofee Trio “Inner Circles” Macy Gray “Tell Me” The Cinematic Orchestra “As The Stars Fall” Sisterlove “The Hypnotist” Gabor Szabo “The Lady In The Moon” Adrian Youn...