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

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which led to this…

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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?

The Fat Beat Diet, August 13th 2012 (mp3 – 85Mb)

Tracklist
artist – name [time]

Pépé Bradock – Un Pepe Dans La Dentelle – 8:29:57 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