Started the year off with a bit of nostalgia for the 1990s, and a warm and fuzzy feeling for the period of time where I came up as a DJ. As I mention in the show, the inspiration for this show, and the choice for the mood “Kama Muta” (which I made a bit of a slip at the start saying “Kama Suta” which is a little close to the Kama sutra and tells you a bit of where my mind was at the time, Ha!), a sanskrit word which directly translates as “moved by love,” but has been applied to that warm and fuzzy feeling that comes from a cherished memory, was from growing up in Atlanta and listening to Album 88 and the Weekend Wrecking Crew. On Sundays during their legendary show, “Rhythm & Vibes,” they would do a “Sample Clearance,” where they’d play the sample to a Rap song, and then see if the audience could guess which track flipped it. All the 1990s nostalgia I was feeling at the start of the year reminded me of how much that show and its DJs shaped my ears and had me digging for samples from Golden era Hip-Hop songs, which was a major influence on my musical tastes all the way to the present day. Over two sets in this show, I do a sort of re-creation of “Sample Clearance,” that Randall and them used to do on Album 88 back in the day (most of the crew is actually still together and still on the radio, just now on WREK). Hope you dig it as much as I dug digging up these breaks back in the day.
Moods In Free Time: 024 – Kama Muta
Playlist – Moods In Free Time 025: Kama Muta
{opening theme} The Visitors – The Juggler – In My Youth (Muse)
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Bohannon – Singing A Song For My Mother – Stop & Go (Dakar)
Ed O.G. & Da Bulldogs – I Got To Have It – Life Of A Kid In The Ghetto (PWL America/Polygram/Mercury)
Lonnie Smith – Spinning Wheel – Drives (Blue Note)
A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick It? – People’s Instinctive Travels In The Paths Of Rhythm (Jive)
Ronnie Foster – Mystic Brew – Two Headed Freap (Blue Note)
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James Brown – Can Mind – Sho Is Funky Down Here (King)
Brand Nubian – All For One – One For All (Elektra)
The Crusaders – A Message From The Inner City – 2nd Crusade (Blue Thumb)
Queen Latifah – U.N.I.T.Y. – Black Reign (Motown)
Tom Scott with The California Dreamers – Today – The Honeysuckle Breeze (Impulse)
Pete Rock & CL Smooth – They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) – Mecca & The Soul Brother (Elektra)
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{closing theme) Tony Williams – Wild Life – Believe It! (Columbia)