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KXSC Radio proudly presents the 2nd Sample Showcase featuring special guest Patrice Rushen. Ms. Rushen is not only a USC alumnus, but is also the Director of the Popular Music Program of the Thorton School of Music and a Grammy-nominated musician. On January 29th, Patrice Rushen will sit down with Professor Josh Kun of the Annenberg School of Communication and share her thoughts on sampling and what it is like to be a sample musician.
"The View From Nowhere" - Spinning an eclectic mix of House Music & Electro, spanning the most soulful to the most distorted
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Featured on KSCR Radio (http://kscr.org,1560AM)
Air Date: 02-02-2010 10pm-12:00am
Photo Credit: Walter Bibikow
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Tracklist
Nouvelle Vague - The Guns of Brixton
VFN/WDPK Intro
The Clash - The Guns of Brixton
Eli Escobar - Heavenly Break (DJ Falcon Medley)
20th Century Steel Band - Heaven and Hell is on Earth
Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels
Cassius - Hi Water
Linus Loves - The Love
BWH - Stop (Nathan Wilkins & Midnight Mike Edit)
Sébastien Tellier - Sexual Sportswear (SebastiAn Remix)
Ratatat - Lex
Lonnie Liston Smith - A Garden of Peace
Jay-Z - Dead Presidents II
Talib Kweli ft. Jay-Z & Busta Rhymes - Get By
The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By
Will Smith & Jazzy Jeff - Summertime
Kanye West - Touch the Sky
Outkast - ATLiens
Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy
Luniz - I Got 5 On It
Kanye West - Good Life (Feat. T-Pain)
Ne-Yo - Miss Independent
Kanye West - Flashing Lights (Feat. Dwele)
Jamie Foxx Feat. T-Pain - Blame It (RBL Intro)
Chaka Demus & Pliers - Murder She Wrote
Yelle - Ce Jeu (The Twelves Remix)
N.E.R.D. - She Wants To Move
INXS - Need You Tonight
A Tribe Called Quest - Award Tour
Navigators - Superstar
Chic - I Want Your Love
Arrested Development - Mr. Wendal
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
Pryda - Wakanpi (Original Mix)
Siriusmo - High Together
Tone Loc - Wild Thing
Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl
Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
Duck Sauce - aNYway
Duck Sauce - You're Nasty
Daft Punk - Burnin'
Busta Funk - Back to the Old School
Scenario Rock - Skitzo Dancer (Justice Remix) (sample)
Retro/Grade - Moda
LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous! (Soulwax Remix)
Soulwax - Another Excuse (DFA Remix)
Mylo - Otto's Journey
Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen (Justice Edit)
Prinnce - Conntroversy
Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots
Green Velvet - Shake & Pop
Kanye West X Justice X Diplo X A-Trak - Fortisphere (VFN's Immuzikation Intro Edit)
Featured Artist - Retro/Grade
(http://www.myspace.com/retrogradeishere)
Disclaimer: If the respective artists wish to have these uploads removed, please contact publications@kscr.org and content will be taken down.
Before Outkast got big and released hits like "Aquemini" and "Stankonia", they dropped this gem of an album. "ATLiens" has been my jam for the past few weeks now. It's a great album, featuring top notch rapping and dope jazzy beats. The first five or six songs are perfect, but really the entire album is awesome. Do yourself a favor and give it a listen.
ATLiens
13th Floor
Buy this shit. You'll be glad you did.
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Nosaj Thing is performing this Saturday for KSCR at Groundzero, USC. Totally free show. Definitely come on by and check it out. Show starts at seven. Be there! Oh, and here's some music to get you excited:
Caves
Buy it
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Perhaps the best solo Wu-Tang release? It's debatable, but this record is definitely up there. Anyways, this album has some real bangers and does a pretty good job mixing in some pretty bad ass samurai movie samples. RZA's production and GZA's rapping are both really solid (although GZA does sound a bit tooooo relaxed at times). Plus, the art work is beyond dope. Check it out if you haven't already:
Liquid Swords
4th Chamber
Yeah. You should buy it too.
Disclaimer: Same as the rest of the posts... promo only
Second post! I hope to keep the blog musically varied, so here we have Big L, another one of those fantastic east coast 90 rappers who flew under the radar. This was his only release unfortunately,before he passed away like any good rapper. Anyways, L drops some really sick rhymes and pretty much kills on every track. I would have to say his flow and lyricism even rivals that of Biggie. If you haven't heard this yet, check it:
Put it On
All Black
As usual, if you dig it, buy it!
I spent last weekend at a music festival in Whitecliffs, the legendary valley farm 100 km outside of Christchurch, New Zealand. I~Nation's line up featured the best kiwi talent in Jungle, Funk, Soul & Breaks, and Dubstep. Tiki Live was the mind blowing headliner, but I was struck most by Ladi6, one of Aotearoa's premier hip-hop artists. Ladi6 (Karoline Tamati) is one of the most casually stunning and rhythmic performers I've ever seen on stage. Her smooth deep vocals keep your mind in a trance and your body moving with a spicy beat.
After much anticipation, on October 27th 2008 Ladi6 released her debut solo album "Time Is Not Much." In wake of the successful album release tour, Ladi6 has earned herself the title of New Zealand's leading "soulstress and our Queen of hip-hop," (nzmusic.com/forum). Pay your respects at www.ladi6.com.
Peace and Love,
Trojan abroadHello, Mellow, I know it's hard to love an ordinary fellow muses Blu, on the track "Melo" off of the mixtape Her Favorite Colo(u)r, dropped earlier this week. A leader in the reemergence of the Los Angeles underground hip-hop scene, Blu is hardly ordinary and extremely easy to love. Colo(u)r is a gem in the landscape of cluttered and over-produced internet mixtapes: simple, relaxed, and completely lacking in gunshots and sirens. It mixes samples ranging from the classic to the recent (including Billie Holiday, and a sequence from the 2004 movie "Closer") with Blu's meandering, laid-back flow reminiscent of Phife from the Tribe. The feel created is that of a sort of next generation Jazz rap; not quite as organic or ethereal, but just as poetic and honest.
Blu's earlier work, on his debut album Below the Heavens, and his collaborations with Producer Mainframe under the name Johnson and Johnson, has shown Blu to be introspective and intelligent. His lyrics reflect a genuine concern for the state of the world, particularly the working youth. On top of that, he's local. Her Favorite Colo(u)r showcases Blu's growing talent and his maturity, still with the same flair for simple wisdom and multi-syllable rhymes.
See I'm not the same as Lil' Wayne pleads Blu in the first verse of the songe "Untitled(LovedU)2". In a world where autotune dominates (and in light of the release of "Prom Queen") I think we can all be grateful for that.
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