DC native and soul connoisseur DJ Ronrica takes Lyd the SBW from Disney tunes to Super Fly and music cruises. It’s First Choice vs MJB, Anita vs Lalah and 90s hip-hop vs everybody.
DJ Ronrica’s Music Profile
What was your first and/or favorite 45/LP?
The Aristocats Soundtrack
Everybody Wants to be a Cat
Scatman Crothers
1970
Cassette?
Cassettes ring different for me. I bought them. I had them (needed tunes to drive to when I got a car) but we used them to listen to go-go music (DC girl) or to record music from the radio. The latter was memorable because there were a couple of trips I took to visit relatives in NYC. Boom Boxes and hip-hop were the thing, so I had to record this music I was hearing from the radio as it was different from what we were listening to in DC.
*You can also get a taste of go-go in episode 27 A Good Beat (Pump Me Up, E Flat Boogie, Trouble Funk, 1982)*
CD? MP3?
Can’t think of the first one, but I do remember listening to Anita Baker’s Compositions the first time and thinking it was one of the best sounding, best engineered CDs ever.
What is your go to getting ready to go out musical genre/song?
Could be anything, depending on mood…examples:
Henny & Gingerale
How Do You Do
Mayer Hawthorne
2011
Let No Man Put Asunder (as mentioned in episode 11 Fanfare for the House)
First Choice
1983
Mary
Mary J. Blige
1999
What is your go to rainy day genre/song?
Rainy Night in Tokyo
Passion Fruit
Michael Franks
1983
What do you have on heavy rotation right now?
Heaux Tales
Jazmine Sullivan feat. Ari Lennox, Anderson.Paak, H. E. R.
2021
What is your favorite sample and/or cover?
Sample:
Give Me Your Love (Love Song)
Super Fly
Curtis Mayfield
1972
My favorite use of this sample/song is when it was used in the movie ‘Love Jones’ by the house band at the lounge that the characters frequented for poetry/music. It was a great way to set the tone/mood.
The SpaceTimeMusic theme music is a sample of the Ana-Tole x Jonah Christian Remix of Ready or Not by the Fugees.
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SONG CREDITS:
In order of appearance
Everybody Wants to be a Cat
The Aristocats Soundtrack
Scatman Crothers
1970
Pump Me Up
E Flat Boogie
Trouble Funk
1982
Henny & Gingerale
How Do You Do
Mayer Hawthorne
2011
Got to Give it Up
Live at the London Palladium
Marvin Gaye
1979
Rainy Night in Tokyo
Passion Fruit
Michael Franks
1983
Give Me Your Love (Love Song)
Super Fly
Curtis Mayfield
1972
Nickel Bags
Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
Digable Planets
1993
Street Life
Street Life
The Crusaders (feat. Randi Crawford)
1979
Rahsaan Patterson
Hoodlum Original Soundtrack
1997
Angel
The Songstress
Anita Baker
1983
Lalah Hathaway Live
Lalah Hathaway
2015
