Episode 18 – Limit Zones

Limit Zones

Human creativity is pushed into new realms on this week’s episode, Limit Zones.
In a world limited by constraints in the form of laws, labels, and rules, the sanguine family sets out to investigate artists who they think have pushed their artistic creations beyond the normal conventions of their times, thus pushing past their limit zones.
We begin as Shelmatic sets the mood of our conversations by featuring tracks from the always innovative Cinematic Orchestra.
Honey Knuckles rallies legendary composers, Ramsey Lewis, Stan Getz, and Gary Bartz to enrapture us in some sonic serenity, and the Philipians drop a Pharcyde remix treat. Next up we invite the talented musician, Emily Wells, for a conversation about creating music, unconstrained by genre or labels. Be sure to cop her new EP, Dirty, available on iTunes now. Z-Note finishes the evening by rounding up some of today’s best beatsmiths for a treasure chest of head nod. New Dilla and Quik tracks are just a few of the gems you’ll discover.

-Honey Knuckles

Tracklist
Cinematic Orchestra/Man With The Movie Camera/Everyday
Cinematic Orchestra/Child Song/Ma Fleur
Cinematic Orchestra/Oregon/Horizon

Honey Knuckles
Skull Snaps/Tresspassing/Skull Snaps
Ramsey Lewis/Slippin Into Darkness/Good Vibrations
Shoes/Grandmas Hands ( Remix)/Re-Soled Vol. 1
Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfa/Saudade Vem Correndo/Jazz Samba Encore
The Pharcyde/Runnin’/Labcabincalifornia
The Pharcyde/Runnin’ (Philipians Remix)
Gary Bartz/Celestial Blues/Harlem Bush Music
Ramsey Lewis/Les Fleurs/Les Fleurs

Cinematic Orchestra/Ma Fleur/Ma Fleur
Cinematic Orchestra/As The Stars Fall/Ma Fleur

Interview with Emily Wells
Emily Wells/Symphony 1: In the Barrel of The Gun/The Symphonies: Dreams, Memories, & Parties
Emily Wells/Symphony 6: Fair Thee Well and The Requiem Mix / Dirty
Emily Wells/Juicy/Dirty
Emily Wells/Take It Easy San Francisco/Dirty

Cinematic Orchestra/Filte/Everyday

Z Note
Samiyam/Polkabots/Rap Beats Vol. 1
J Dilla/Lazer Gunne Funk/Jay Stay Paid
Jneiro Jarel/Soul Star/Three Piece Puzzle
Flying Lotus/Fall In Love/12″
Ras G & the Afrikan Space Program/Neck Snap/I of the Cosmos
DOOM/Ballskin/Born Like This
Samiyam/Snake Cola/Rap Beats Vol. 1
Madlib/Disco Dance/WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip
Mos Def/History/The Ecstatic
Floating Points/For You/12”
Sound Tribe Sector 9/Shock Doctrine/Peaceblaster
Jneiro Jarel ft. Mel Owens/Sun Walkers/Three Piece Puzzle
Serge Gainsbourg/Requiem Pour Un Con/Les Anees Psychedeliques: 1966 – 1971
DJ Quik & Kurupt/9 Times Outta’ 10/BlaQKout
Sound Tribe Sector 9/The New Soma/Peaceblaster
The Broken Keys/Slingshot (Part 2)/Gravity
DJ Shadow/What Does Your Soul Look (Part 4)/Endtroducing

Cinematic Orchestra/Borrowed Time/Horizon

Episode 16: Electric Soul

Electric Soul

A schematic experiment with organizing life forms of music; frame a particular sonic structure not by genre or geographic location or even general features of the sound, but by a conceptual orientation. What results is an unfamiliar stretching at the seams of our comfort zones with the music at hand. A bending of our familiar understanding, allowing us to venture into the borderlands of the unknown. What falls into the conceptual categorization may be playful and evocative and ultimately challenging to our conventional expectations of what sorts of music should engage in collective dialogue.

In the spirit of such sonic experiments Sanguine Sunday presents to our listeners a special episode on Electric Soul! We gather inspiration from Little Dragon’s unique brand of cobalt musings in sun drenched, synthesized space folk. Whoo, adjectives! Hemmingway must be rolling in his grave. Fuck it. At halftime, Shelmatic catches up with lead crooner of the outfit, Yukimi Nagano, for a back on forth on Little Dragon’s idiosyncratic influences and nuanced tightness as a prismatic bending band.

Honey Knucks jumps it off with a seamless meandering through the electric soul of D’Angelo to Pretty Lights’ highly original florescent funk and back to the fundamental earth tones with Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”. Summoned in response, I (Z Note “The Asteroid Surfer”) push the smoked out burgundy wavelength–flipping the bold new rhythms of Sa-Ra into the slick swagger of Fatima and Prince’s b-side brilliance.

This episode is guaranteed to warm the heart and relax the anxious mind. Imbibe in the therapeutic shining, and tell us what you think fits into this Electric Soul liquid pump.

Tracklist:

(talk over)
Jneiro Jarel/Here Comes the Sun/Three Piece Puzzle
Jneiro Jarel/Breathin Feat. Rocque Wun/Three Piece Puzzle
Jneiro Jarel/Intro/Three Piece Puzzle
Jneiro Jarel/Crashing Comets/Three Piece Puzzle

Honey Knuckles
D’Angelo/Devil’s Pie/Voodoo
Thievery Corporation/The Time We Lost Our Way feat. Lou Lou/The Cosmic Game
Stolen Identity/Hey (Omganic Mix)/OM: Chilled Vol. 2
Erykah Badu/Honey (Captain Planet Remix)
The Knife/Heartbeats/Deep Cuts
Pretty Lights/Hot Like Sauce/Filling up the City Skies
RJD2/Ghostwriter Remix/The Horror
Pretty Lights/My Other Love/Filling up the City Skies
Pretty Lights/Finally Moving/Filling up the City Skies
Marvin Gaye/T Plays it Cool/Trouble Man
Stevie Wonder/Superstition/Talking Book
Shuggie Otis/Strawberry Letter 23/12″
Jill Scott/Golden/Golden

(talk over)
Jneiro Jarel/Sun Walkers Feat. Mel Owens/Three Piece Puzzle
Jneiro Jarel/Won’t Let You Go (No, No, No)/Three Piece Puzzle
Jneiro Jarel/Soul Starr/Three Piece Puzzle

Little Dragon Interview
Little Dragon/After the Rain/Little Dragon
Little Dragon/Twice/Little Dragon
Little Dragon/Recommendation/Little Dragon
Little Dragon/Constant Surprises/Little Dragon

Z Note
Sa-Ra(ft. Erykah Badu & Georgia Anne Muldrow)/Fly Away/The Hollywood Recordings
Fatima (ft. Cuthead, Cohen, & Dorian Concept)/Do I Know You/Various Assets 2
Georgia Anne Muldrow/Olesi:Fragments of an Earth/Wrong Way
Dr. Who Dat?/Nights Over Nantes – Brakes /Beyond 2morrow
Flying Lotus (ft. Andreya Triana)/Tea Leaf Dancers/Reset EP
Harmonic 313 (ft. Steve Spacek)/Falling Away/When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
Pete Rock/A Little Soul/Petestrumentals
A Tribe Called Quest/Electric Relaxation/Electric Relaxation 12″
Dudley Perkins/Ya’ Soul/A Lil’ Light
Amp Fiddler/I Believe In You (Jaylib remix)/I Believe In You 12″
Dolphin/Light St./Mono vs. Stereo Collection
J*Davey/Slooow/The Beauty In Distortion/The Land Of The Lost
Prince/17 Days/The Hits 3

(talk over)
Jneiro Jarel/Black Cinderella Feat. Dr. Wh/Three Piece Puzzle
Jneiro Jarel/Eeee Love/Three Piece Puzzle
Jneiro Jarel/Stranger They Come Feat. Rocq/Three Piece Puzzle

Yours,
Z Note

Episode 11 – Rollerspace Boogie

Rollerspace Boogie
http://soundcloud.com/sanguinesunday/ep-11-roller-space-boogie/download

After a fleeting glimmer of basking-in-the-hot-sun days, San Francisco retreated back to it’s cold and windy demeanor. Bundled up, we loaded up the car with our equipment and trekked to the Pirate Cat radio station. We reminisced about those few precious days by warming up the station and cafe with some sweet, sticky bass slaps and rollerspacin boogie beats.

Joining us in the studio was our dear friend DJ Shred One (SweaterFunk, BkC leCirque). Born and raised in LA, her music tastes were formed and molded as she followed around her vinyl collectin’ older brothers and cousins. She fine-tuned her selection skills in NY, created her unique style in LA and continues to grow here in the Bay Area. In her own words, she was born in LA/molded in Brooklyn/dreaming in SF.

To appease our appetite for boogie funk, each DJ brought their own tangy special recipe to create a delicious array at our sanguine table. Honey Knuckles started the night off with a heart racing set of funky disco beats such as those of One Way and Mandre, which graced roller rinks and b-boy circles everywhere in the late 70’s and early 80’s. We reaped the benefits of some heavy e-diggin’ by Z-Note as we traveled many cosmic miles to read the “Message from the Stars” and sway to some rich boogie roots. Lastly, Shred One brought it all together with a bangin powerhouse set of boogie classics like Paul Hardcastle and Evelyn “Champagne” King while the entire show bubbled harmoniously over the beats of Dam Funk, leading ambassador of modern boogie funk.

— Shelmatic

Tracklist:
Vaughn Mason & Crew/Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll
Dam Funk/Burgundy City/Burgundy City (Talk)
Dam Funk/Galactic Fun/Burgundy City (Talk)
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DJ Honey Knuckles
Jackson 5/Dancing Machine
Jackie Robinson/Pussy Footer
Cashmere/Do It Anyway You Want
Banbarra/Shack Up
One Way feat. Al Hudson/Pop It/Do it Till You’re Satisfied
Shalamar/Make that Move
Kool and the Gang/Fresh
Ray Parker Jr./Still in the Groove/Da Funk
Tom Browne/Thighs High
Cameo/I Just Wanna Be
David Bendeth/Feel the Real
La Pregunta/Shangri La
Mass Production/Groove Me
George Duke/Brazilian Love Affair
Kano/Iam Ready
Mandre/Freakins Fine
—
Dam Funk/Let’s Take Off (Far Away)/Let’s Take Off 12″ (Talk)
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DJ Z-Note
The Fatback Band / I Found Lovin’ / 12”
Floating Points / Love Me Like This / 12”
The Rah Band / Message from the Stars (Love Wave Mix) / 12”
Dexter Wansel / Life on Mars / Life on Mars
Midnight Express / Danger Zone (remix) / 12”
Jesse Johnson / Can You Help Me / Jesse Johnson’s Revue
D Train / You’re the One For Me (remix) / 12”
—
Dam Funk/Electrik Breeze/European Nights (Talk)
Dam Funk/LAtrifying/Let’s Take Off 12″ (Talk)
—
DJ Shred One
SOS Band/High Hopes
Evelyn “Champagne” King/Back to Love
Howard Johnson/Much Too Much
Kashif/Stone Love
Central Line/Don’t Tell Me
Hi-Gloss/I’m Totally Yours
Evelyn “Champagne” King/If You Want My Lovin
Aretha Franklin/Jump To It
Fonda Rae/Over Like a Fat Rat
Barbara Mason/Don’t I Ever Cross Your Mind
Carol Williams/Can’t Get Away
Boogie Corporations/Junk
Sharon Redd/Beat the Street
Paul Hardcastle/Rainforest
Aretha Franklin/What a Fool Believes
—
Dam Funk/Special Dimensions/European Nights (talk)
Dam Funk/Nyghtryder/European Nights (talk)
Dam Funk/She Lights Me Up/European Nights (talk)
Dam Funk/Hood Pass Intact/Let’s Take Off 12″ (talk

Sanguine Sunday Radio

Yo Sanguine Fam~

We’re going LIVE on the radio every Saturday  from 8-10pm on Pirate Cat Radio. Listen to us live in the Bay Area on 87.9FM or streaming worldwide at piratcatradio.com.  You’ll still be able to download/listen on our site via archived podcasts, pero you can now also kick it with us at the station/cafe on 21st & Florida, San Francisco. Come out!

The show will now broadcast on a weekly basis, and we will update our website each and every Sunday afternoon. We’re always looking for interviews with local musicians and community organizers. Please email us at sanguinesunday@gmail.com if you are interested!

See yaaaaaaa

Episode 7 – Cosmic Vibrations

Cosmic Vibrations
http://soundcloud.com/sanguinesunday/episode-7-cosmic-vibrations/download

Yo soul journiers…Please make sure that your valuables are stowed in the compartments overhead and that your persons are securely fastened, because this week we are taking you on an extraterrestrial inter-nebular spacial odyssey. Oh Yes, let us disclose that you will feel disconnection from the turf below as your reality shifts—yet, no need to trip, it’s just a minor side effect of zero gravity while you enter Psycho-galactic Stargate Sanguine.

This episode our eccentricity is as vast as the Sirius star system. Borg Queen Aisha secures our collective entity as the most powerful force anyone may encounter, as Federation Captain Honey Knuckles ignites from the funky wobbly-wobbles of Milez Benjiman, through haunting jazz vocals of Asha Puthi. He also navigates us through the asteroidal storm that our guest co-navigator Oscar “the Wild” Medina beams into the path of Sanguine. Tapping into his Telepathic Empath powers Znote senses our sublunary loss as an empowering gift—realizing that we can only progress by going beyond—he sonogramally projects the awareness and peace theology of Sun Ra in IG Cultures’s Ra Bops In Blacknuss, and motivates our transformative properties with the move-your-booty-baps of Afrika Bambataa. Although we voyage into higher reaches beyond our solar system Stargate Sanguine would not be at homeostasis without a report of our local pulse, presented by our Solarsonic Engineer Shelmatic.

Let us be the bearers of soul-sonic cosmic sensuality…Rest assured, your best interest is in the forefront of our minds, thus feel more than welcome to fully recline, respite from your alpha-wave activity, and centrifugally chillax as our journey unfolds.

Opening:
Deodato Zarathustra (2001)

Tracklist:
Dr. Octagon – 3000 (talk)

Honey Knuckles [Start 4:33]
Thievery Corporation – Amerimacka (feat. Notch)
Galt Macdermot – Space
Edwin Starr – Easin In
Milez Benjiman – Chop that wood
Del tha Funky Homosapien – Mastermind
The Mystic Moods – Cosmic Sea
Asha Puthli – Space Talk
Simian Mobile Disco – I Believe (Space Dub)
Living Legends – Rabbit Hole
20th Century Steel Band – Heaven and Hell is on Earth
Bassnectar – Verbing the Noun
ESG – UFO
Dexter Wansel – Space Funk
Paul Hardcastle – Rain Forest

Dr. Octagon – Blue Flowers Revisited (talk)

Oscar features Cosmic Disco [Start 43:01]
Don Cherry – Brown Rice
Black Devil – “h” Friend
Patric Cowley – Sea Hunt
Talking Drums – Courage

Dr. Octagon – Blue Flowers Revisited (talk)

Z-Note [Start 1:05:58]
IG Culture – Ra Bops In Blacknuss
Cinematic Orchestra – Evolution
Hi-Res – This World
Quasimoto – Microphone Mathematics
Sun Ra – Space is the Place
Madvillain (ft. Quasimoto) – Shadows of Tomorrow
Dr. Who Dat? – Viberian Twilight
Stacy Epps – Cosmic Dust
Heliocentrics (ft. Percee P.) – Distant Star
Portishead – Machine Gun
Brainticket – Black Sand
Can – Mushroom
The Last Poets – It’s a Trip
Son of Raw – Black Man in Space (Sax Mix)
Slick – Space Bass
Afrika Bambataa – Planet Rock

Shelmatic Presents Local Pulse [Start 1:47:23]

Dr. Octagon – Girl Let Me Touch You (talk)

Episode 2 – Recession Soul

Recession Soul

Ya’ it’s that time of the year, one brisk San Francisco morning after winter solstice, the days are just about to get longer but not much brighter. In tune for the Holiday season in the midst of thin wallets and heavy eyelids, Sanguine Sunday mixes up some of what we like to call recession soul. Bringing you that uplifting flavor from the hustle to the bounce, some of those I need monay type of jams, and even the more contemplative what the hell is goin’ on with our economy ballads–recession soul covers all it takes to overcome the despair of dusty pockets.

In the spirit of such hard times, Aisha interviews Rayan on the grind, a struggling San Francisco renter and resident of Moss Street about the merits and craft of couch surfing. Meanwhile Z-Note mangles 2 for 40 dollar buttered up lobster dinners. Keep on listening for a surprise battle between man and crusty sea beast; shit is sinister.

And Happy Holidays everyone! Moss Street’s Sanguine Sunday will see you again in 2009!

LISTEN

Tracklist:

Intro
Souls of Mischief – 93 Til’ Infinity (inst.)

DJ Z-Note
Slum Village – Reunion
Black Milk – Bounce
James Brown – Talkin’ Loud and Sayin’ Nothing (remix)
Pilooski – Can’t There be Love
De La Soul – Say No Go
James Pants – We’re Through
Jesse Johnson – Can You Help Me
Brothers Johnson – Ain’t We Funkin’ Now
Slave – Slide
Bernard Wright – Spinnin’
Con Funk Shun – Got to be Enough
DJ Quik – Tear it Off
Roland Appel – Dark Soldier

Honey Knuckles
(Talk) Eddie Kendricks – My People…Hold On
The O’Jays – For The Love of Money
Laura Lee – Crumbs off the Table
Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd St Band – What Can You Bring Me?
Joseph Henry – I’ve Never Found a Girl
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes?
Sound Experience – Devil With the Bust
Breakstra – Getcho Soul Togetha (Part 2)
Brick – Dazz
Carl Carlton – She’s a Bad Mama Jama
Lyn Collins – Mama Feelgood
Fatback Band – Backstrokin’
Lakeside – Fantastic Voyage
Jackson Sisters – I Believe in Miracles
Earth Wind and Fire – Brazilian Rhyme
Patrice Rushen – Forget Me Nots
Herbie Hancock – Wiggle Waggle
Johnny Pate – Shaft in Africa
(Talk) Barry White – I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little Bit More Baby
(Talk) Gary Bartz – I’ve Known Rivers
(Lobster Dinner Freestyle Battle) Edan – Sing it Shitface Instrmental