Heat Rocks

Well, we're finally here. After nearly 200 episodes, we're ending our run with Maximum Fun! We intend to come back sometime in 2022, and to celebrate this occasion, it's and Oliver, Morgan, and Producer Christian episode. We talk about our favorite moments from the show, the things we appreciate about the show, and we have a few good laughs. 

Follow Morgan and Oliver on Twitter to keep up with upcoming projects! 

Until next time, Heat Rockers.
 

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Music writer and resident TikTok expert Cat Zhang sits down with us to discuss Flo Milli's 2020 debut mixtape Ho, why is you here?  We get into what goes into making a TikTok hit,  Flo Milli's unique voice, and her role in the current hip hop landscape.

More on Cat Zhang

• Check out Cat's latest article on TikTok trends
• Listen to Cat chatting with our friends at Switched on Pop
• Twitter | Website 

More on Flo Milli

• Flo Milli Is Here. Get Used to It. (The Ringer)
• Flo Milli Came to Flex (Rolling Stone)
• Back Pack (Flora The Explorer) music video

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Ho, why is you here? unless otherwise indicated):

• 19
• May I
• In The Party
• Paul Anka: Put Your Head On My Shoulder
• yung cxreal and baby frankie: dumb bitchitis
• Send The Addy
• Flo Milli: Back Pack (Flora The Explorer)
• Beef FloMix
• Not Friendly
• Pockets Bigger
• Pussycat Doll
• Ethereal and Playboi Carti: Beef
• Beef FloMix
• May I
• Like That Bitch
• Weak
• In The Party
• Mood Everyday (Intro)
• Pussycat Doll
• Jacki-O: Sugar Walls
• MC Lyte: 10% Dis
• Doja Cat: Streets

Hey Heat Rockers, if you have an appreciation for the show, we’d love to play some of them during our Aug 11th appreciation episode. You can either send use a voice memo to heatrockspod@gmail.com OR you can phone in a voicemail to (310) 986-3340‬. We just need them all in by August 8th (Sunday), thanks!

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there
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We continue our Music and Popcorn miniseries, where we chat about some of our favorite movie soundtracks. This week, we're talking to professor and writer Daphne Brooks about the soundtrack to Waiting to Exhale. We get into Babyface's prolific career, Whitney Houston's presence on both the soundtrack and the movie, and the mystery surrounding DJ Theo Mizuhara.

More on Daphne A. Brooks

• Check out her book Liner Notes for the Revolution
• And check out the accompanying playlist!
• Website

More on Waiting to Exhale

• Official trailer
• Shocking Omissions: 'Waiting To Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album' (NPR)
• 100 Greatest Soundtracks of All Time: 'Waiting to Exhale' (Albumism)

Show Tracklisting (all songs from the Waiting to Exhale OST unless otherwise indicated):

• Exhale (Shoop Shoop)
• My Funny Valentine
• My Love, Sweet Love
• Count On Me
• It Hurts Like Hell
• Why Does It Hurt So Bad
• Let It Flow
• Not Gon' Cry
• My Funny Valentine
• Sittin' Up In My Room
• Wey U
• Kissing You
• Let It Flow
• Prince: Head
• Exhale (Shoop Shoop)
• Maxwell: Sumthin' Sumthin'
• A Tribe Called Quest: Hot Sex
• Dionne Farris: I Know
• Oleta Adams: Get Here
• En Vogue: Don't Let Go (Love)

Hey Heat Rockers, if you have an appreciation for the show, we’d love to play some of them during our Aug 11th appreciation episode. You can either send use a voice memo to heatrockspod@gmail.com OR you can phone in a voicemail to (310) 986-3340‬. We just need them all in by August 8th (Sunday), thanks!

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We reboot our Music and Popcorn series, where we talk about some of our favorite movie soundtracks. This week, we invite our friend Jocelyn Brown to discuss a few iconic 90s OSTs, Love Jones, Boyz N The Hood, and Trainspotting. We get into what makes these soundtracks so memorable, the shift in tone from 80s and 90s OSTs, and proper record care etiquette.

Show Tracklisting:

•   Primal Scream: Trainspotting
• Refugee Camp All-Stars Presents Melky and Day:  I Got A Love Jones For You
• Ice Cube: How To Survive in South Central
• Monie Love: Work It Out
• Ice-T: New Jack Hustler
• Kid 'N Play: Fun House
• Too $hort: It's Your Life
• Quincy Jones: Setembro
• Stanley Clark: Boyz N The Hood Theme
• Main Source: Just A Friendly Game of Baseball (Remix)
• Yo Yo: Mama Don't Take No Mess
• Ice Cube: How To Survive In South Central
• Quincy Jones: Setembro
• Tony! Toni! Toné!: Me and You
• Ice Cube: A Bird In The Hand
• The Five Stairsteps: O-o-h Child
• Newcleus: Jam On It
• Compton's Most Wanted: Growin' Up In The Hood
• Blur: Sing
• Lou Reed: Perfect Day
• New Order: Temptation
• Underworld: Born Slippy (Nuxx)
• Primal Scream: Trainspotting
• Goldie: Inner City Life
• Brian Eno: Deep Blue Day
• Iggy Pop: Lust for Life
• Lou Reed: Perfect Day
• Brian Eno: Deep Blue Day
• Maxwell: Sumthin' Sumthin'
• Cameo: Shake Your Pants
• Meshell Ndgeocello & Marcus Miller: Rush Over
• Refugee Camp All-Stars & Lauryn Hill: The Sweetest Thing
• Dionne Farris: Hopeless
• Refugee Camp All-Stars & Lauryn Hill: The Sweetest Thing
• Duke Ellington and John Coltrane: In A Sentimental Mood
• Refugee Camp All-Stars Presents Melky and Day:  I Got A Love Jones For You
• SWV: Anything
• Dinosaur Jr.: Turnip Farm
• Large Professor and Pete Rock: The Rap World

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there
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This week, we talk to singer/songwriter Yola about Jill Scott's debut studio album "Who Is Jill Scott? - Words and Sounds, Vol 1." We get into Jill's time with The Roots, how her poetry shaped her songwriting, and Jill's role in the neo-soul movement.

More on Yola

• Check out Yola's newest single and upcoming album Stand for Myself! 
• Yola is Ready to Meet Her Moment  (Rolling Stone)
• Twitter | Instagram

More on Jill Scott

• Jill Scott’s Debut Album ‘Who Is Jill Scott? Words And Sounds Vol. 1’ Turns 20 | Anniversary Retrospective (Albumism)
• Check out the original version of  You Got Me by The Roots w/ Jill Scott
• Jill Scott's Def Poetry appearance

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Who Is Jill Scott? - Words and Sounds, Vol. 1 unless otherwise indicated):

• Love Rain
• Yola: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
• Yola: Stand For Myself
• A Long Walk
• Brotha
• The Roots: You Got Me (Live)
• Slowly Surely
• Jilltro
• Try
• It's Love 
• Jill Scott: Gotta Get Up (Another Day)
• Honey Molasses
• The Roots (Interlude)
• Do You Remember 
• Love Rain
• I Think It's Better
• Exclusively
• Jill Scott: Crown Royal on Ice
• He Loves Me (Lyzel in E Flat)
• A Long Walk
• Do You Remember
• Moe Koffman: Days Gone By
• Slowly Surely
• I Think it's Better
• He Loves Me (Lyzel in E Flat)
• Watching Me 
• A Long Walk
• Gettin' In The Way
• It's Love
• I Think it's Better
• The Roots (Interlude)
• Grenique: Star of the Story
• Adriana Evans: Love Is All Around
• Minnie Riperton: Les Fleurs

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there

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In honor of Kendrick Lamar's Section.80 turning 10 years old this month, we are re-airing our convo with Kris Bowers on Lamar's  debut studio album.

[show notes from original post]

To talk about Kendrick Lamar’s studio LP debut, we wanted to find someone of K-Dot’s generation, another L.A. young gun, and who better than pianist and composer, Kris Bowers? Like Kendrick, Kris grew up in L.A. and just as Kendrick has ascended the hip-hop ladder, so has Kris in jazz, as he won the prestigious Theolonious . But more than that, the web of Los Angeles musical ties was bound to bring the two into orbit in different ways – something we discuss in the episode – not the least of which is the fact that Kris covered one of the biggest tracks in Kendrick’s early career: “Rigamortis.”

In our conversation with Kris, we got deep into how he put together both the song and video for his version of “Rigamortis,” whether or not Kendrick has a jazz sensibility in his style, and what it’s like to see a hometown kid become the Greatest Rapper Alive.

More on Kendrick Lamar’s Section.80

• Kendrick talking about Section.80 in an interview with Complex.com.
• Ditto but in an interview with Billboard.
• Ogden Payne’s revisit of the album in 2016 for Forbes.

More on Kris Bowers

• Kris on NPR’s “Piano Jazz: Rising Stars.”
• NY Times on Kris winning the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Prize.
• Website | Soundcloud | Twitter | Facebook

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Section.80 unless indicated otherwise):

• Hol' Up
• A.D.H.D
• Kris Bowers: Forget-er
• Kris Bowers: Rigamortis
• Rigamortis
• Murs: Everything 
• Chapter Six
• Keisha's Song (Her Pain)
• Kendrick Lamar: Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst
• Ab-Souls Outro
• Poe Mans Dreams (His Vice)
• F*ck Your Ethnicity
• Kush & Corinthians
• Rigamortis
• Kris Bowers: Rigamortis
• Willie Jones III: The Thorn
• Rigamortis
• Blow My High (Members Only)
• HiiiPower
• Ab-Souls Outro

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there

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This week, we talk to producer/singer Benny Sings about Phil Collins' solo debut album, Face Value. We get into the incredible drum fill of In The Air Tonight, it's iconic use on Miami Vice, and the real life issues Collins was going through when making this album.

More on Benny Sings

• Check out Benny's new album Music
• With The Vibrant 'City Pop', Benny Sings Stakes His Claim For The Masses (NPR)
• Twitter | Instagram

More on Face Value

• Phil explaining the origins of In The Air Tonight
• In The Air Tonight on Miami Vice
• Check out Chris Molanphy's episode of Hit Parade on Phil Collins

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Face Value unless otherwise indicated)

• This Must Be Love
• Droned
• Benny Sings: Sunny Afternoon
• Phil Collins & Phillip Bailey: Easy Lover
• One More Night
• If Loving Me Is Easy
• Droned
• Hand In Hand
• I Missed Again
• Behind the Lines
• In The Air Tonight
• I'm Not Moving
• In The Air Tonight
• If Leaving Me Is Easy
• I'm Not Moving
• Gino Vanneli: Love & Emotion
• Frank Sinatra: Only the Lonely
• Paul McCartney: Say Say Say

Singer/songwriter Marzz sits down with us to discuss Kierra Sheard's gospel album This is Me. We get into the secular production of this album, Kierra's place in the Clark Sheard family, and Marzz's own experience in the church. 

More on Marzz

• Check out Marzz's Love Letterz EP 
• Marzz Evokes The Brightest And Most Vibrant Colors All By Living In Her Truest Aura (Uproxx)
• Instagram | Twitter

More on Kierra Sheard

• Kierra and Karen Sheard singing "You Loved Me"
• Kierra on This Is Me back in 2006
• This is Me music video

Show Tracklisting (all songs from This Is Me unless otherwise indicated):

•  This is Me
• Why Me?
• Marzz: Countless Times
• It Is What It Is
• No, Never
• Faith
• Karen Clark Sheard & Kierra Sheard: You Loved Me
• Have What You Want
• This Is Me
• Yes
• Faith
• No, Never
• You
• Yes
• Hear This
• Change
• You
• Kim Burrell: Open Up The Door
• Mary Mary, Shackles (Praise You)
•  J Moss: Rebuild

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there

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This week, Oliver and Morgan are discussing Lil' Kim's debut studio record "Hard Core" which is turning 25 years old this year. We get into Lil' Kim's role in Bad Boy and Junior M.A.F.I.A., the effect she had on the Megan Thee Stallions and Cardi B's of today, and what made this record so unforgettable.

More on Hard Core

• A timely reminder that Lil Kim’s ‘Hard Core’ is still the greatest rap record of all time (NME)
• Biggie's reference track for Queen Bitch
• How Lil’ Kim’s ‘Hard Core’ Changed Rap (The Ringer)

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Hard Core unless otherwise indicated):

• Drugs
• Spend A Little Doe
• Junior M.A.F.I.A.: Get Money
• Big Momma Thang
• Not Tonight
• Big Momma Thang
• Not Tonight
• Spend A Little Doe
• Jeru The Damaja: Ya Playin' Yaself
• Total: Can't You See
• 112: Peaches and Cream
• Junior M.A.F.I.A.: Player's Anthem
• Foxy Brown: I'll Be
• Foxy Brown: (Holy Matrimony) Letter to the Firm
• City Girls: Fuck On U
• HWA: Little Dick
• No Time
• Fuck You
• Roberta Flack: Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye
• Queen Bitch
• The Notorious B.I.G.: Queen Bitch
• Drugs
• Fuck You
• Dreams
• We Don't Need It
• Crush On You
• Big Poppa
• Dreams
• Scheamin'
• Big Momma Thang
• Crush On You
• Crush On You (Remix)
• The Jeff Lorber Fusion: Rain Dance
• No Time
• G Yamazawa: Crush On You
• Mariah Carey: A No No
• Lido: Melodies From Heaven/Crush On You
• No Time
• Crush On You
• Foxy Brown: Ill Na Na
• Nicki Minaj: Itty Bitty Piggy
• Nicki Minaj: Barbie Dreams

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there

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This week, we discuss Prince for the SIXTH time on Heat Rocks with musician/scholar Vijay Iyer. We get into Prince's love of the drum machine, Vijay's love of the 80s, and the many sides of Prince we see on this record. 

More on Vijay Iyer

• Floating Along In Uncertainty With Vijay Iyer (NPR)
• Check out Uneasy
• Twitter | Instagram

More on Sign o' The Times

• Is Prince’s Sign O’ The Times the greatest album of all time? (BBC)
• The Story of Prince's Sign o' The Times (Classic Album Sundays)
• Prince's 'Sign O' the Times' Turns 30: All the Songs Ranked (Billboard)

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Sign o'The Times unless otherwise indicated): 

• Housequake
• Starfish and Coffee
• Vijay Iyer: Night and Day
• Prince: Little Red Corvette
• Slow Love
• Sign O' The TImes
• Starfish and Coffee
• It
• Housequake
• If I Was Your Girlfriend
• The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
• If I Was Your Girlfriend
• It
• Hot Thing
• The Cross
• Adore
• U Got The Look
• It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
• Hot Thing
• The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
• Lords of the Underground: Flow On (New Symphony)
• The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
• Forever In My Life
• The Cross
• Slow Love
• Vijay Iyer: Human Nature
• Mystic Brew
• If I Was Your Girlfriend
• The Cure: Just Like Heaven
• Madhouse: Three
• Prince: Sometimes It Snows in April

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there

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Bassist/producer/rapper Patrick Paige II joins Oliver and Morgan to discuss Biggie's debut studio album Ready To Die. We get into Big's knack for storytelling, Patrick's very cool math teacher, and what Biggie's career might've looked like if he were still with us today.

More on Patrick Paige II

• Check out If I Fail Are We Still Cool?
• Bass to Bass: In Conversation with Patrick Paige II and Thundercat (Complex)
• Twitter | Instagram

More on Ready To Die

• The Notorious B.I.G.'s 'Ready to Die' at 20: Classic Track-by-Track Album Review (Billboard)
• Amazon Music's mini documentary on Ready to Die
• The Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘Ready To Die’ at 25: 9 surprising things about the era-defining album (NME)

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Ready to Die unless otherwise indicated):

• Respect
• Mary J Blige: What's the 411 (Remix)
• Friend of Mine
• Patrick Paige II: Voodoo
• Big Poppa
• Suicidal Thoughts
• Mary J Blige: What's the 411 (Remix)
• Super Cat: Dolly My Baby (Remix)
• Notorious B.I.G.: Party and Bullshit
• Unbelievable
• One More Chance
• Gimme The Loot
• Warning
• Things Done Changed
• Juicy
• Gimme the Loot
• Everyday Struggle
• Machine Gun Funk
• Me and My Bitch
• Who Shot Ya
• Things Done Changed
• Machine Gun Funk
• Unbelievable
• Big Poppa
• The What
• Unbelievable
• Respect
• Me and My Bitch
• Juicy
• Machine Gun Funk
• Wun Two: Juicy
• Craig Mack: When God Comes
• A Tribe Called Quest: Phony Rappers

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there

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Musician/producer/minister Steve Arrington sits down with Morgan and guest co-host Jocelyn Brown to discuss Heatwave's debut scorcher, Too Hot To Handle. We talk about the music scene in Dayton, Rod Temperton's prolific career, and Heatwave's ability to meld various genres into one cohesive and funky record. 

More on Steve Arrington

• Steve's interview on NPR
• Check out Down to the Lowest Terms: The Soul Sessions
• Twitter | Instagram

More on Heatwave

• Unsung: The Story of Heatwave
• Greg Phillinganes on Rod Temperton
• Always and Forever Live

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Too Hot To Handle unless otherwise indicated):

• Always and Forever
• Ain't No Half Steppin'
• Slave: Watching You
• Steve Arrington: Nobody Can Be You 
• Boogie Nights
• I'll Beat Your Booty
• Too Hot To Handle
• Super Soul Sister
• Boogie Nights
• Lay It On Me
• All You Do Is Dial
• Sho 'Nuff Must be Luv
• Slip Your Disc To This
• Rock With You (Rod Temperton Demo)
• Slip Your Disc to This
• Boogie Nights
• Ain't No Half Steppin'
• Michael Jackson: Off The Wall
• Boogie Nights
• All You Do Is Dial
• Too Hot To Handle
• Always and Forever
• Super Soul Sister
• Ain't No Half Steppin'
• Ohio Players: (I Wanna Know) Do You Feel It?
• The Brothers Johnson: Closer to the One That You Love
• Prince: Condition of the Heart

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there

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Rapper/producer Pell sits down with us to talk about N.E.R.D's "In Search Of..." We get into the sex, drugs, rock & roll of it all, The Neptunes' prolific career, and N.E.R.D's influence on Pell's own work.

More on Pell

• Website
• Check out glbl wrmng
• Twitter | Instagram

More on N.E.R.D.

• Explaining the Cult Popularity of N.E.R.D. (Vulture)
• Pharrell's Signature 4 Count  (Genius)
• ‘In Search Of…’: N*E*R*D’s 21st-Century Hip-Hop Mission Statement (uDiscoverMusic)

Show Tracklisting (all songs from In Search Of... unless otherwise indicated):

• Lapdance
• Pell: Eleven:11
• Mase: Lookin' At Me
• Mystikal: Shake Ya Ass
• Kelis: Caught Out There
• Britney Spears: I'm A Slave 4 U
• 702: I Still Love You
• Jadakiss: Knock Yourself Out
• Old Dirty Bastard: Got Your Money
• Jay-Z: I Just Wanna Love You (Give It To Me)
• Nelly: Hot In Herre
• Tape You
• Brain
• Brain (2001 Electronic Version)
• Brain
• Run To The Sun
• Young Franco: Juice
• N.O.R.E.: Superthug
• Am I High
• Provider
• Stay Together
• Run To The Sun
• Am I High
• Bobby James
• Things Are Getting Better
• Baby Doll
• Tape You
• Provider
• Lapdance
• The Neptunes: Light Your Ass On Fire
• N.E.R.D.: Perfect Defect
• N.E.R.D.: You Know What

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there

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Director and screenwriter Kemp Powers sits down with us to discuss De La Soul's  sophomore effort, De La Soul Is Dead. We get into DLS's shift in image and tone, the growth of Prince Paul as a producer, and Kemp's very , ahem, special connection to the song "Let, Let Me In"

And stay tuned to the very end for a short bonus beats on Kemp's love of dancehall music! 

More on Kemp

• Kemp Powers’s long journey to becoming Pixar’s first Black writer-director
• With ‘Soul’ and ‘One Night in Miami,’ Kemp Powers finally hits his artistic stride
• Twitter | Instagram

More on De La Soul Is Dead

• De La Soul Is Dead Turns 30 (The Source)
• De La Soul's Classic Album De La Soul Is Dead Is Turning 30. It Was The First Album I Fell In Love With (Very Smart Brothas)
• An Album Found in a Trashcan: De La Soul Is Dead (PopMatters)

Show Tracklisting (all songs from De La Soul Is Dead unless otherwise indicated):

• Intro
• Shwingalokate
• Jungle Brothers: I'll House You
• My Brother's A Basehead
• De La Soul: Brain Washed Followers
• Pease Porridge
• Bitties in the BK Lounge
• Oodles of O's
• Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)
• Kicked Out the House
• Skit 1
• A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"
• Millie Pulled A Pistol on Santa
• Let, Let Me In.
• Bitties in the BK Lounge
• Pease Porridge
• Rap De Rap Show
• Keepin' The Faith
• A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"
• Oodles of O's
• A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"
• Bitties in the BK Lounge
• Lou Donaldson: It's Your Thing
• Bittis in the BK Lounge
• Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)
• Skit 5
• Black Sheep: Flavor of the Month
• The Pharcyde: Otha Fish
• A Tribe Called Quest: Buggin Out
• Eek-A-Mouse: Border Patrol
• Shinehead: Chain Gang Rap
• Super Cat: Ghetto Red Hot (Remix)
• Sean Paul: Punkie
• Super Cat: Dolly My Baby (Remix)
• Shabba Ranks: Mr. Loverman

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Drummer and producer Karriem Riggins sits down with us to discuss a bonafide classic, A Tribe Called Quest's third studio album Midnight Marauders. We get deep into the samples used on this record, Q-Tip's growth as a producer, and how Bob Power helped shaped the sound of the LP.

More on Karriem Riggins

• KCRW Presents Lockdown Listening: Karriem Riggins
• Check out Pardon My French
• Twitter | Instagram

More on Midnight Marauders

• End of Discussion: Why A Tribe Called Quest’s “Midnight Marauders” Is Better Than “The Low End Theory” (Complex)
• A Breakdown of the samples used on Midnight Marauders (Power 106)
• A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘Midnight Marauders’ Turns 25 (Albumism)

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Midnight Marauders unless otherwise indicated):

• Midnight Marauders Tour Guide
• Electric Relaxation
• Jahari Massamba Unit: Etude Montrachet
• A Tribe Called Quest: I Left My Wallet In El Segundo
• Award Tour
• Steve Biko (Stir It Up) 
• The Chase, Part II
• Common: The Hustle
• Clap Your Hands
• The Roots: Push Up Ya Ligher
• Sucka N****
• Award Tour
• J Dilla: Beej-n-Dem Part 2
• Midnight
• Q-Tip: Let's Ride
• 8 Million Stories
• Electric Relaxation
• Oh My God
• God Lives Through
• Kool & The Gang: Who's Gonna Take The Weight
• Oh My God
• A Tribe Called Quest: Oh My God (Remix)
• A Tribe Called Quest: Oh My God (Know Naim Remix)
• Cal Tjader: Aquarius
• Midnight Marauders Tour Guide
• Lyrics to Go
• Minnie Riperton: Inside My Love
• James Brown: Just Enough Room For Storage
• Lyrics to Go
• Ronnie Foster: Mystic Brew
• Electric Relaxation
• Brethren: Outside Love
• Electric Relaxation
• Jack Wilkins: Red Clay
• Sucka N****
• The Meters: Handclapping Song
• Clap Your Hands
• Bob James: Nautilus
• Clap Your Hands
• Lou Donaldson: Ode to Billie Joe
• Clap Your Hands
• Weldon Irvine: We Gettin' Down
• Jade: Don't Walk Away
• Award Tour
• Lyrics to Go
• God Lives Through
• Digable Planets: Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
• The Roots: Good Music
• Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth: They Reminisce Over You  (T.R.O.Y.)
• Slum Village: Keep It On
• De La Soul: Breakadawn

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there

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 In honor of Computer World's 40th anniversary (!!!) we decided to rerun our episode with Nite Jewel discussing this classic album.

[show notes from the original post]

When we invited L.A.’s own Nite Jewel to join us, it probably shouldn’t have been a surprise that she picked Kraftwerk’s Computer World; after all, she’s toured the world performing the album. In sitting down with us, NJ (aka Ramona Gonzalez) broke down how she first became obsessed with the album, walking the streets of Berkeley, thinking about German philosophy (no, really!) and why the LP is such a masterpiece of fusing a variety of musical elements all colliding in the early 1980s.

More on Computer World

• How the album invented “computer funk” (Rolling Stone)
• The “sampling legacy” of the album (The Vinyl Factory)
• DJ Food’s appreciation (Clash Music)

More on Nite Jewel

• Nite Jewel on performing Computer World (Pitchfork)
• 2017 interview (Bandcamp)
• Interview with KALX (aka the best college radio station out there, according to O.W.)
• Website | Facebook | Twitter

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Computer World unless indicated otherwise):

• Computer World
• Nite Jewel: 2 Good 2 Be True
• Nite-Funk: Let Me Be Me
• Pocket Calculator
• Computer Love
• Zapp: Computer Love
• Home Computer
• Model 500: Future
• Cluster: Prothese
• It's More Fun To Compute
• Gillette: Short Dick Man (Bass Mix)
• Afro-Rican: Give It All You Got
• Numbers
• Nite Jewel: Artificial Intelligence
• Home Computer
• Night Jewel: Numbers
• Numbers
• Home Computer
• Computer World 2

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Bassist/composer Joshua Abrams sits down with Oliver and guest co-host Jocelyn Brown to discuss Arthur Verocai's underrated self-titled debut record. We discuss the rediscovery of this album via sampling, the texture of Arthur's synth work, and why we connect with the album even though our Portuguese is, uhh, a bit rusty.

More on Joshua Abrams

• Joshua Abrams' Chameleonic Quartet Gets Exuberantly Ornery On 'Cloud Script' (NPR)
• Joshua's Quarantine Concert
• Website

More on Arthur Verocai

• Arthur Verocai: Return Of A Brazilian Secret (NPR)
• The Legend of Arthur Verocai (The Vinyl Factory)
• I Threw Everything Away: An Interview with Arthur Verocai (Sounds and Colours)

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Arthur Verocai unless otherwise indicated): 

• Pelas sombras
• Seriado
• Velho parente
• Caboclo
• Little Brother: We Got Now
• Dedicada a ela
• Seriado
• Velho parente
• Presente grego
• Sylvia
• Caboclo
• Aaliyah: Are You That Somebody?
• Caboclo
• Que mapa?
• Caboclo
• Na boca do sol
• Sylvia
• Na boca do sol
• Que mapa?
• Karina (Domingo no Grajaú)
• Dedicada a ela
• Ivan Lins: Hei Você
• Celia: Na Boca Do Sol
• Gal Costa: Relance

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Writer and musician Jason King sits down with Oliver and guest co-host Jocelyn Brown to discuss the Sylvester live album Living Proof. We talk about Sylvester's vision of wholeness and sharing good vibes, the countless gorgeous moments captured in the live setting, and the medley of genres he blended together. 

Please stick around to the end of the episode to hear a snippet of our past conversation with Shea Serrano about DMX. Rest in Power.

More on Jason King

• Jason in conversation with Dua Lipa (NPR Music)
• Check out Jason's work with Pitchfork
• Twitter | Instagram

More on Sylvester

• Love Me Like You Should: The Brave and Bold Sylvester (Amazon Music)
• The Extraordinary Musical Legacy of Sylvester (The Guardian)
• Bigger Than Disco, 'You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)' Is A Celebration Of Self (NPR)

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Living Proof unless otherwise indicated):

• Overture - Live
• Happiness - Live
•  Sylvester: You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
• Sylvester: Over and Over
• Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?) - Live
• Herbie Hancock: Magic Number
• Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?) - Live
• Sharing Something Perfect Between  Ourselves - Live
• Body Strong - Live
• Sylvester: Fever
• Medley: Live
• Blackbird: Live
• You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Live
• Blackbird - Live
• Sharing Something Perfect Between Ourselves - Live
• You Are My Friend - Live
• Medley - Live
• Dance (Disco Heat) - Live
• You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
• Sylvester: I Need Somebody to Love Tonight
• Patrick Cowley & Sylvester: Do You Wanna Funk?
• Sylvester & The Hot Band: A Whiter Shade of Pale
• Sylvester: Be With You

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Producer and DJ The Twilite Tone sits down with Oliver and guest co-host Jocelyn Brown to discuss Stevie Wonder's 1980 comeback album, Hotter Than July. We get into Stevie's foray into country western and reggae, his return to All I Do, a song he cowrote over a decade prior as a teenager, and the impact Disco Demolition Night had on black music.  

More on The Twilite Tone

• Do It Properly music video
• Twilite Tone @ Vinyl Factory
• Twitter | Instagram

More on Hotter Than July

• Master Blaster (Jammin') Live in 1980
• KCRW's piece on Stevie Wonder's comeback in 1980
• The Making of ‘Hotter than July,’ The Album That Revived Stevie Wonder’s Career (Okayplayer)

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Hotter Than July unless otherwise indicated):

• Cash In Your Face
• Rocket Love
• The Twilite Tone: Do It Properly
• Stevie Wonder: Fingertips
• All I Do
• Do Like You
• As If You Read My Mind
• I Ain't Gonna Stand For It
• Master Blaster (Jammin')
• I Ain't Gonna Stand For It
• Happy Birthday
• As If You Read My Mind
• Master Blaster (Jammin')
• Tammi Terrell: All I Do Is Think About You
• All I Do
• Lately
• Rocket Love
• Do Like You
• Cash In Your Face
• Happy Birthday
• As If You Read My Mind
• Lately
• Syreeta: Cause We've Ended As Lovers
• Donny Hathaway & Roberta Flack: You Are My Heaven
•  Gary Byrd & The GB Experience: The Crown
• Logg: Lay It On The Line

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Multi-instrumentalist & songwriter Xenia Rubinos joins Oliver and guest co-host Jocelyn Brown to discuss Abbey Lincoln's underrated jazz LP, Abbey is Blue. We discuss Abbey's melancholy voice, her work in the civil rights movement, and how her work has influenced Xenia's own music.

More on Xenia Rubinos

• Check out Xenia's newest music video "Did My Best"
• Bandcamp
• Twitter | Instagram

More on Abbey Lincoln

• Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln performing live in 1964
• Abbey Lincoln: The Power Of Voice (NPR)
• How it Feels to be Free (PBS)

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Abbey is Blue unless otherwise indicated):

• Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
• Come Sunday
• Xenia Rubinos: Lonely Lover
• Lost In The Stars
• Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln: Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace
• Brother Where are You?
• Afro Blue 
• Thursday's Child
• Laugh, Clown, Laugh
• Lost In The Stars
• Xenia Rubinos: Laugh Clown
• Let Up
• Long As You're Living
• Mongo Santamaria: Afro Blue
• Afro Blue
• Lonely House
• Let Up
• Lonely House
• Laugh, Clown, Laugh
• Come Sunday
• Long As You're Living
• Laugh, Clown, Laugh
• Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln: Driva' Man
• Nina Simone: I Loves Your Porgy
• Charles Mingus: Fables of Faubus
• Duke Ellington: Warm Valley

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