Remember last week when I was all smiling about the nice summer we’re having? Well, then this happened…

which led to this…

I could be really pissed but getting mad at acts of nature is pretty futile in the grand scheme of things. Still, it gave me a good excuse to play a classic Grandmaster Flash on my show. The Message is probably one of the main reasons I started listening to hip hop [period]. From the moment I heard that song (I might have been 5 or 6 at the time) i was like ‘WHAT is this and WHERE can I hear more?’ I had a little two-knob AM radio and listened all day and all night trying to hear more stuff along those lines. Sadly, AM radio in Ottawa at the time didn’t play a lot of hip hip so I’d have to wait a few more years to get a steady stream of hip hop. Incidentally, the mix from Crime Cut into The Message on this show is just about what I consider to be a perfect mix for these two tracks. My criteria for a perfect mix vary from track to track, and probably the time of day. It doesn’t happen very often and as a DJ, it’s the holy grail. I can’t even put the words together to explain to you why I think it’s so perfect, all I know is that it lasts all of about 600 milliseconds and it just makes me go ‘awww, yeaah.’

Anyways, let’s get to the show, yes?

Too late! File removed (mp3 – 85Mb)

Tracklist
artist – name [time]

P̩p̩ Bradock РUn Pepe Dans La Dentelle Р8:29:57 PM
Eliot Lipp – My Environments
Dirty Sample, The – Wonder What
Mantrakid – The War
destar – mama’s boy
Nas – The Don (Massive Attack Remix)
Bassnectar – Laughter Crescendo [2012 Version]
Fred Everything – Time’s Movin’ On
Roger Saunders – Darkness
Chubukos, The – House Of Rising Funk
Headhunters, The – God Made Me Funky – 9:00:55 PM
The 9th Creation – Bubble Gum
Artifacts – Wrong Side Of Da Tracks
Wild Style Allstars – Crime Cut (Instrumental)
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – Message, The
grand master flash – The Message (paul nice rmx)
Ice Cube – Check Yo Self (Remix) feat Das Efx
Fat Boys – My Nuts
Beastie Boys – Flute Loop
Beastie Boys – Car Thief
Grap Luva – Work It Out (Vocal Version)
Madchild – Like a Tech
The Extremities (Fresh Kils and Uncle Fester) – Lost Souls
Marlena Shaw – California Soul – 9:30:56 PM
J Dilla (Jay Dee) – Two Can Win
MA Doom (masta ace and MF doom) – Slow Down
Nightmares On Wax – Morse
Katy B – Disappear
The Heavy – 2Coleen
Morgan Zarate Ft Eska – Sticks And Stones (ft Ghostface Killah)
Koushik – Coolin
The Herbaliser – Shattered Soul – 9:54:41 PM