The Musik Lounge

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...

  Happy Fathers Day to all the pops out there! Whatever you are doing today related or not to this holiday, Mizo & I are here to bring you another in our line of all things Jazz editions to the Sabbath Sunday series. We run the gamut here with some classic sounds, some soul inflections, some hiphop heads who get down on the jazz tip and deep meditative grooves. We kept the energy level pretty much up as we ran through our crates in the lounge, with our usual back and forth conversation always leaving us inspired by whatever cut the other one played. Press play and let the positive vibes soak in #listentomorejazz. Cal Tjader Quartet “Noonies Groove” Cannonball Adderley “Sagittarius” Lonnie Smith “The Call of the Wild” Rudolph Johnson “Devon Jean” The Sound Providers “Pacific Vibrations” Bobbi Humphrey “Rain Again” Cosmic Eye “Dream Sequence B” Harold Land “Damisi” Jimmy Smith “High Heel Sneakers” Freddie Hubbard “Neo Terra (New Land)” Eastern Rebellion “Bittersweet” Lee Morgan “...