With the shuffling of CJSW programming, the Fat Beat Diet has moved to a new time slot. Instead of going from 10:30 to midnight, as we have for the last number of years, starting tonight the show will now air from 10pm to 11pm. Hopefully you can all join us in our new time slot. Because the show’s also losing a half hour, I’m hoping to slightly re-jig the format in order to make the show even tighter, but we’ll see if that actually works out.
So the idea this show was to link up hip hop songs and their respective breaks. I hastily made up the rules on the fly, so they’re followed somewhat inconsistently, but what I was trying for was to play a song (1) by a hip hop artist and then play the source sample (2). Follow that up with another song (3) from the source sample artist, which would lead into a hip hop song (4) which sampled the song 3. Follow that with a different song of the same hip hop artist from (4). So in effect, it would be 2 and 2 from each artist, hip hop to funk, and back again. What can I say, some funk artists got short-changed… Next time, I’ll have to make up the rules ahead of time and follow them somewhat more strictly…
Started out the show tonight with three tracks of the recent collaborative release from Bei Bei and Shawn Lee, entitled Into the Wind. Ubiquity Records have been releasing great music for almost 20 years now, and this album is another great addition to their catalog.
After that, we move through some hip hop and breaks, before winding up the tempo at the end of the show with a few crack house tracks courtesy of DJ Zinc. Zinc is one of the huge names in drum’n’bass, but “disenchanted by the lack of originality [in the genre],” he switched up his style in 2008/09 to crack house. Not familiar with this house variant? It’s like normal house, but fucked up, or so I’ve read. Read up on it here, or have a listen to on of his Fabric mixes. The track Music Makers is driving me crazy right now. If I was DJing a big room these days, I’d be playing it twice a night, and I never play a song twice in a night…
Ended off the show with some Stanton Warriors, who rolled through town last weekend also. Here’s the show.
This Saturday will be my last at my long-running Saturday night residency, The Spread at Broken City. It’s not without some sadness and frustration that I announce this, but on the bright side, I’ve had a lot of fun and good times over the course of the nights almost 5 year run.
If you’d like to join me for one last kick at the can, head on down to Broken City this Saturday, January 30th and we’ll party like it’s 1999. One-time co-DJ and longtime friend Gary Powers will be along to help, just in case I become overcome with tears.
Here’s an open letter I initially posted on facebook to all patrons of the night:
What an amazing 4 and a half years it’s been! Since I started DJing at Broken City in June of 2005, it’s been nothing but an honour and a pleasure to show up every week and share some music with you all.
It seems like barely yesterday, the night was having its tentative beginnings with Joe Chan helping me out. The night progressed quite a big when I teamed up with Gary Powers, but eventually I started holding it down on my own, and I loved mostly every minute of it. With your help, I’ve honed my craft and expanded my music knowledge, all the while having a blast .
The night has managed to persist longer than most DJ nights can ever aspire to, and for that I’m grateful to all who’ve helped along the way. Zak, the owner of Broken City, for initially giving me the opportunity; the staff and management of Broken City, who are some of the most hilarious, generous, and fun-loving people I could hope to spend a Saturday night with; and of course, all of the great regulars and visitors we’ve had over the years.
It is not without some sadness that I take leave from Broken City, but the management has decided they’d like to try something a little different on Saturday nights. What can I say, I’ve had a good run; I wish them the best of luck. And I hope to spot you from behind the decks somewhere down the road.
Treading some familiar territory on this outing with some downtempo and some hip hop.
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It was kinda surreal waking up the next day and reading that Apache had died. What a weird fluke that I decided to play him on the show. Had I known, I may have played more of his work.
Balls! I was really hoping to be able to post this show, but unfortunately the server konked out on me again, so no mp3 this week . Nevertheless, here’s the playlist. It’s too bad, because I liked a lot of the songs (shocker isn’t it? I actually like the songs I play…), but I don’t really get to really listen to them all that well when I’m DJing. So I look forward to listening again to my show just to hear them. I mean, I suppose I could make an playlist with all my new music and just have that playing on my mp3 player, but that’s a lot of effort and I’m kind of lazy like that.
If you were intrigued by The Roots’ Sandwiches, an EP of the ‘sandwiches’ that the band performs during commercial breaks on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, here’s where you can get to the meat of it.
Definitely taken aback by the passing of Teddy Pendergrass as well.
The Globe and Mail ran a great obituary from Nekesa Mumbi Moody which does a great job of outlining the tragic and inspiring arc of his life.
I don’t remember if as a kid I thought we’d all be riding around in flying cars by 2010, but I’m pretty sure I imagined we would’ve at least had a bit more space exploration under our belt – Maybe a mission to Mars or Jupiter colony…Something… Still, who knows what surprises this new decade may hold.
If I may using this show as a metaphor for the human race however, it should be no surprise that not nearly as much progress has been accomplished as sci-fi movies would have had me believe. Here in today’s show — as in most others — I mostly tread familiar ground with some hip hop beats and funk. Though I did manage to sneak a couple of at least semi-recent tracks…
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