Yep, pretty much forgot my laptop at home before the show, so I had to dig into the CJSW library for source material for the show this week. No biggy, the library’s got some pretty solid stacks of wax. Before we got into the wax though, I kicked off with a few tasty joints from some nice Canadian peeps, and some PUTS tracks ahead of their show that night (which was amazing, btw…).
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It was a nice day and I had a few beers on a patio before dropping by the station, so that pretty much guarantees a mostly mid-90s hip hop set.
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Ahead of Calgary’s Jessy Lanza show, figured I’d kick things off with some of this Hamilton native’s fine musical output.
All the hearts for @jessy_lanza. http://t.co/eej8LXNJBs
— ※ (@masonhastie) May 16, 2014
Apperently, it was a pretty good show!
After that, some downtempo, some hip hop, then back up to speed for the end of the show.
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With the unfortunate passing of DJ Eazy Rock, we had to take a moment to celebrate the man responsible for one of the most sure-fire hip hop club bangers of all time.
After a pretty wicked bad mix out of Pal Joey, we moved into midtempo stuff and string of disco heat, followed by some golden era. After that I figured I should play some current hip hop that’s been turning my crank these days.
As we moved into the second hour of another extended edition of the show, I figured I’d venture into Dubble Bounce territory with some bass music, and we kept it there for a little while before slowing it back down for some classic downtempo from the likes of Portishead, Sade, and Massive Attack. The vibe stayed pretty mellow for the rest of the show.
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Feeling a bit nostalgic this week about the old acid jazz days so I started it out with some a bit of old Canadian acid jazz goodness with bit of new jazz goodness courtesy of badbadnotgood. Does anyone out there remember 90’s outfit Bass is Base? The trio, consisting of Ivan Santilly, Chin Injeti and MC Mystic, really only had one hit (linked above), but I do recall not minding the album as a whole. I’ve been following the musical output of Ivana Santilli on again and off again throughout the years and have always enjoyed it. She’s apparently working on an album slated to release this year. Can’t wait. Chin Injeti meanwhile has a new album out and we’ve got it at CJSW, which is sort of what set off this whole trip down memory lane. He’s also been doing quite a bit of production apparently (including work with eminem, pink and madchild), but I hadn’t really been aware of it. His new album is a bit meh imho, but there’s a couple of decent tracks on it. Speaking of things I was not aware of — It’s funny, I only just realized while watching the video that MC Mystic is actually Roger Mooking, and is currently on the food network doing his thing.
Anyways after the acid jazz stuff, we rolled into a few tracks of hip hop featuring great female singers before spending a bit of time with Jeru the Damaja tracks. Then we slowly wound things up for the end of the show.
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This week, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nas’ Illmatic. It remains to this day what I consider to be the best hip hop album of all time. If you’re a hip hop fan and you don’t own or haven’t heard this album, you’re dead to me go out and buy it right away. I think I own it in four different formats now.
So we ran through a bunch of Illmatic tracks and original sample material, then some Illmatic inspired or derivative tracks. After the tribute was over, some old hip hop and funk gave way to more recent stuff. Capping off the hip hop, a song from Bishop Nehru, who incidentally as name-checked by Nas himself as the future of music.
Ended the extended show with some drum’n’bass and reggae vibes.
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Had to commemorate the passing of Frankie Knuckles this week on the show by starting things off with one of his seminal tracks.
After that, continued on in a house vibe for a little bit, including recent work from Calgary-born singer Kiesza who’s currently blowing up so big in the UK that even the Sun is on to her now. If fellow Calgary son Neighbour could get similar shine, I’d be thrilled.
After that, what else but hip hop, both old school and semi-recent. Enjoy
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Slightly extended show this week, so we run through a bunch of stuff, kicking off with some funk before gliding into hip hop, jumping into drum’n’bass and ending up with some house. wicked.
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Love kicking off the show with this Vikter Duplaix – A super smooth track, yet at the same time, completely filthy. Rolled through some nice house styles, including this amazing new track from Route 94.
Eventually ended up back in hip hop beats. whaddyagonnado?
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