Episode 21: Drums and Fire

Drums and Fire

The intertwining of drums and fire date back to ancient days of story telling and human expression. Crackling flames spin in a symbiotic dance upon the backbone of frenetic drum licks. Channeling this spirit, Sanguine Soul decided to conceptualize a “drums and fire” theme. We experimented with light blue flames burgeoning into ferocious fires, all supplemented by a dynamic range of drum energy levels.

The Gaslamp Killer jumping in your face

I (Z Note) jump off the session with vortex breaks from DJ Shadow, Jean-Pierre Massiera’s wondrous disco, and Free The Robot’s electric jazz funk. At half time, LA’s own fanatic of drums and fire straight out of the Low End Theory, The Gaslamp Killer, joins us for a brief Q&A. We talk about his beginnings as a DJ in San Diego, where his production is taking him, and the influences behind his feral mixtape masterpieces, sojourning through global psych, cackling drums, freaked out atmospherics, and laser heavy dub-step madness. Be sure to peep his new mixtape Hell And The Lake Of Fire Are Waiting For You! and stay tuned for the upcoming ep My Troubled Mind (Brainfeeder) to be released on Aug. 4.

Our absentee Honey Knuckles premixes some burners for your listening calisthenics. He takes us to the hypnotic south of Asia with Deejay Om, Nickodemus connects Brooklyn and Romania, and Afrika Bambaataa beams us up to another fucking dimension of sound. Shelmatic keeps the background jazzy drum kicks locked down with Pete Rock’s Petestrumentals (Bbe, 2001). Tell us what you think of this episode yall!

peace and bless 1
– Z Note

Tracklist:

The Gaslamp Killer/Showstopper/The Killer Robots Digi-EP
Pete Rock/Walk On By/Petestrumentals (talk)
Pete Rock/What you Waiting For/Petestrumentals (talk)

Z Note:
Sound Tribe Sector 9/Peaceblaster ’68/Peaceblaster
Heliocentrics & Mulatu Astatke/Addis Black Widow/Inspiration Information 3
DJ Shadow ft. Mos Def/Six Days (remix)/Six Days
El-P/Constellation Funk/Fantastic Damage Plus
Mark Pritchard/The Hologram (original mix)/12”
Harmonic 313/Dirtbox/When Humans Exceed Human Intelligence
Slum Village/Get Live/Trinity (Past, Present, And Future)
Nosaj Thing/IOIO/Dirty
Orient Expressions/Dunya/East 2 West: Istanbul Strait Up
Bonobo/Scuba/Sweetness
Dorian Concept/The Fucking Formula/When Planets Explode
Herman’s Rockets/Space Woman/Jean-Pierra Massiera – Psychoses Freakoïd (1963-1978)
The Budos Band/The Volcano Song/The Budos Band

Pete Rock/Boss/Petestrumentals (talk)
Pete Rock/For the People/Petestrumentals (talk)
Pete Rock/Give It To Y’all/Petestrumentals (talk)

The Gaslamp Killer (interview):
The Gaslamp Killer/I Spit On Your Grave pt. 1/I Spit On Your Grave (clip)
The Gaslamp Killer/Hell And The Lake Of Fire Are Waiting For You! pt. 1/Hell And The Lake Of Fire Are Waiting For You! (clip)
The Gaslamp Killer/Zalim/The Killer Robots
The Gaslamp Killer/Kobwebs/From L.A. With Love

Pete Rock/A Little Soul/Petestrumentals (talk)

HoneyKnuckles:
Blackalicious/Bow and Fire/Blazing Arrow
Rasputin’s Stash/Mr. Cool/12″
J-Boogie’s Dubtronic Science/Revolution Dub/Soul Vibrations Dub Remixes
Chali 2Na/Lock Shit Down/Fish Outta Water
The Chakachas/Jungle Fever/Jungle Fever
Sola Rosa/Del Ray/12″
Deejay Om/Bellyfull of Dharma/Reheated Naan and Curry
Nickodemus/Brookarest/Sun People
Midnight Lab Band/Run Riot/12″
Soho/Hot Music/12″
DJ Vadim/Hidden Treasure/U Can’t Turn Imaginashun
Afrika Bambaataa/Got that Vibe/Got that Vibe

Pete Rock/Only Play This At Night/Petestrumentals (talk)
Pete Rock/Smooth Sailing/Petestrumentals (talk)
The Jahari Massamba Unit feat. Karriem Riggins/Umoja (Unity)/Yesterday’s Universe

Episode 20 – Summer Madness

Summer Madness

Happy Holiday weekend! Whatever you celebrate, whether you recognize an independence day or the farce of July (wattup LA), we at Sanguine Soul are having a 3 day weekend summer madness BBQ. All beats be grillin!

While things got crackin in the mission with a little grassroots fire works poppin on every street corner, Honey Knuckles kicked off the evening with an extravaganza of assorted flavors. Expect some feel good music by Bill Withers, Jackson 5, and Nicole Willis with some hot summer Fela Kuti-inspired heaters sprinkled in between.

Z-Note keeps the decks hot with the classic Roy Ayers’ Everybody loves the Sunshine and continues the freshness with a track from Sa Ra.
Big ups to Shelmatic for featuring the audio pleasures of a Sanguine favorite, Dr. Who Dat aka Jneiro Jarel.

Tracklist:
Dr. Who Dat?/Beat Rock/Beat Journey
Dr. Who Dat?/Brazillian Thought/Beat Journey
The Shape of Broad Minds/Beast From Da East/Craft of The Lost Art
The Shape of Broad Minds/Bopper Blocker/Craft of The Lost Art
The Shape of Broad Minds/Buddafly Away/Craft of The Lost Art

Honey Knukcles (mix)
The Detroit Emeralds/Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms)/You Want It, You Got It
Nickodemus/Calle Sol/Sun People
Pharcyde/Passing Me By/Bizarre Ride 2
Kool and the Gang/Summertime/Spirit Boogie
Midnight Lab Band/Run Riot/12”
Grand Puba/I Like It/2000
Bill Withers/Lovely Day/Menagerie
Jackson 5/I Want You Back/12”
George McCrae/I Get Lifted/12”
Grandmaster Flash/The Message Afro-Remix
S.O.S./Colegiala Dub/12”
Chic/Good Times (Remix)/12”
Earth Wind and Fire/Brazilian Rhyme/12”
Ish/Don’t Stop/12”
Bartel/Summer in the City/The Doors of Perception
Nicole Willis/Feeling Free (Natural Self Remix)/12”
Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra/Sabroso (Sabo and Zeb Remix)/12”
Prince/Chelsea Rodgers/Planet Earth

(talk)
The Shape of Broad Minds/Buzz Around TownCraft of The Lost Art
The Shape of Broad Minds/Changes/Craft of The Lost Art
The Shape of Broad Minds/Electric Blue/Craft of The Lost Art
Dr. Who Dat?/Pharoah’s Dream Featuring Capital Peoples/Beat Journey

Z Note (mix)
Gary Bartz/Gentle Smiles (DJ Day edit)/CDR
Slum Village/Players/Fantastic Vol. 2
Chino XL/Don’t Say A Word/Dillanthology Vol. 1
Showbiz & A.G./Still Diggin’/Runaway Slave
Masta Ace Incorporated/The I.N.C. Ride/Sittin’ On Chrome
De La Soul/Breakadawn/Buhloone Mind State
A Tribe Called Quest ft. Faith Evans/Stressed Out/Beats, Rhymes, Life
Quincy Jones/Body Heat/Body Heat
Roy Ayers/Everybody Loves The Sunshine/Everybody Loves The Sunshine
Emanative/Petite Planete/Space
Sa-Ra/Spacefruit/Nuclear Evolution
Human Egg/Feeling On My Mind/Human Egg
Bohannon/Happiness/Stop & Go
Dr. Who Dat?/Brazilliant Thought/Beat Journey
Venus Gang/Love To Fly/Galactic Soul
Dam-Funk/Hood Pass Intact/Let’s Take Off 12”
Rodney O & Joe Cooley/Say It Loud/Three The Hard Way
Ohio Players/Fire/Fire
Heavy D & The Boyz/We Got Our Own Thang/12”

(talk)
Dr. Who Dat?/B-Boy Portrait in Spain/Beat Journey
Dr. Who Dat?/March to Viberia/Beat Journey
Dr. Who Dat?/Stop Calling Me/Beat Journey
Dr. Who Dat?/Thumpa/Beat Journey
Dr. Who Dat?/On the Doelow/Beat Journey

-Honey Knuckles

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 13 – Food (The Beat Buffet)

Food (The Beat Buffet)
http://soundcloud.com/crooksandgrannies/ep-13-food-beat-buffet/download

It is surprising how similar music and food are. Both satisfy our hunger for nourishment, albeit in different ways. It could be said that hunger satiates pangs of a physical emptiness while as music enriches and fills out feelings of spiritual yearning. Although on the counter argument, music can inspire the body to get down just as easily as food can make your soul float up (or root down) to celestial heavens.

So for this episode, the Sanguine fam decided to pay tribute to the wonderfully delicious sounds of food inspired jams. We jump it all off discussing the spreading phenomenon across San Francisco of food carts, serving up reasonably priced pastries and curry dishes and so much more for local denizens of the Mission district. Seduced by the sound of such tasty cakes, Aisha scouts out the creme brulee cart and brings back some patrons to get personal with their love for the cuisine revolution on the streets.

Honey Knuckles and myself (Z-Note) cook up a five-course meal made of the finest sonic ingredients. I’m telling you, this shit is fresh. Enjoy Idris Muhammed‘s thick bodied funk and DOOM‘s pure love for sustenance and the Fat Boys tell you what’s really good with “all you can eat” buffets and Fela Kuti take us back to the liquid source of all life. Shelmatic pulls the whole meal together with the instrumental soundtrack of Goodie Mob‘s classic “Soul Food” sound odyssey.

The food frequency resonates with some monster jams to satiate your eardrum hunger. I admit a good number of them conjure up rich libido imagery, from jams bursting ripe with sexual innuendo (Cameo‘s “Candy” anyone?), or others dripping steady with juicy rhythms and thumping slick bodied grooves; but there’s also straight forwards odes to the simple joy of good eats. After all, food goes pretty far in its metaphorical prowess. I recommend filling up on this sound spectrum to some soul food, whatever those two words might mean to you!

– Z-Note

Tracklist:

Goodie Mob/Blood/Soul Food (Instrumentals)
Goodie Mob/Cell Therapy/Soul Food (Instrumentals)
Goodie Mob/The Coming/Soul Food (Instrumentals)

Honey Knuckles
Chuck Womack & the Sweet Souls/Ham Hocks and Beans/12″
Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf/Ice Cream Truck/Big Shots
Kool and the Gang/Fruitman/Hollywood Swinging
Mtume/Juicy Fruit/Juicy Fruit
James Brown/The Chicken/Soul Pride 1960-1969
Idris Muhammed/Crab Apple/Turn this Mutha Out
Fela Kuti/Water No Get Enemy/Expensive Shit
JB’s and The Meters/Pass the Peas (Honey Knucks Blend)
Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf/Apple Juice Break/Big Shots
Brother Soul/Cookies/The Big Payback
James Brown/The Popcorn/Foundations of Funk
Highlighters/Poppin’ Popcorn/12″
Average White Band/Cut the Cake/12″
Cameo/Candy/Word Up
Freestyle Fellowship/Cornbread/Innercity Griots
Fat Boys/Fat Boys/The Fat Boys

Goodie Mob/The Day After/Soul Food (Instrumentals)
Goodie Mob/Dirty South/Soul Food (Instrumentals)

Z Note
9th Creation / Bubble Gum / Bubble Gum
A Tribe Called Quest / Ham’N’Eggs / People’s Instinctive Travels and The Paths of Rhythm
KMD / Plumskinnzz / Black Bastards
Wu-Tang / Ice Cream / Only Built 4 a Cuban Linx
Goodie Mob / Soul Food / Soul Food
Soul Position / Candyland Pt. 3 / 8 Million Stories
Sugar Pie DeSanto / A Little Taste of Soul / 12”
Chi Ali / Funky Lemonade (Beatnuts remix) / 12”
MF DOOM / Kookies / MM Food
Maggy Thrett / Soupy / 12”
Organized Konfusion / Who Stole My Last Piece of Chicken / Organized Konfusion
Freestyle Fellowship / Hot Potato / Innercity Griots
Idris Muhammed / Tasty Cakes / Turn This Mutha Out
Lionel Hampton / Greasy Greens / 12”

Goodie Mob/Fighting/Soul Food (Instrumentals)
Goodie Mob/Goodie Bag/Soul Food (Instrumentals)
Goodie Mob/Guess Who/Soul Food (Instrumentals)
Goodie Mob/I Didn’t Ask To Come/Soul Food (Instrumentals)

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)
—
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)
—
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

Episode 10 – Rapper’s Delight (Lost Episode) *and Found!

Rapper’s Delight (Lost Episode)
http://soundcloud.com/sanguinesunday/episode-10-rappers-delight-the-lost-episode/download

*Edit*: From the wishing well rises the fuzz of the found episode in fully glory!

Rapper’s Delight (Found Episode)
http://soundcloud.com/sanguinesunday/ep-10-rappers-delight-found-episode/download

Last Saturday between the indigo hours of eight to ten, the Sanguine Sunday crew enjoyed a landmark moment in our evolution. We pushed our first live show on the longest running independent based radio station in San Francisco, Pirate Cat Radio. If you were lucky enough to listen to the show on the live broadcast then I hope you bumped that shit loud because I have a slightly confident and not too egotistical feeling that we killed it! If not, then my apologies, but the show is lost in the abyss of squandered recording opportunities.

I kind of like that though. It brings back the hazy nostalgia for the not too distant old days of radio when you had to get the tape deck out, prepared anxiously with a new cassette, fingertips steady on the record button ready to click as soon as your favorite show bumped something fresh. My nostalgia however quickly fades away to a stronger sting of, “fuck we lost the show!”

In tribute to the lost episode, number ten in the working, Honey Knucks and myself (Z Nooote) decided to rerecord our sets in the raw. My research delves into the early wax poetics of hiphop spanning the years 1979-1983. This rapper’s delight goes far beyond the commercial success of The Sugarhill Gang. During halftime, listen in to a concise Q&A I conducted for International Record Store Day with Cool Chris, owner and manager of Groove Merchant Records. He drops fifteen years expertise knowledge in the vinyl dealing trade and the ethos of digging physical vs. surfing digital, wrapping it up later with his own take on the beginnings of hiphop. Honey Knuckles digs into his own crates to spin a strictly vinyl set that follows the development of two turntables and a mic into the disco and break dancing clubs of the 80’s. Whether cultivating rhymes, looping break beats, cutting up jazzy backbeats and horns, or arranging a whole new resonance of electro-funk, this era offers a plethora of rapper’s delight.

— Z Note

Tracklist:
The Sugarhill Gang / Rapper’s Delight (long version) / 12″
DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo/ HA-DOH / KI-OKU
DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo/ KI-GEN/ KI-OKU
DJ Z-Note
Funky 4+1 / That’s the Joint / 12”
Nice and Nasty 3 / The Ultimate Rap / 12”
Spoonie Gee & Treacherous 3 / New Rap Language / 12”
Sequence / Funk You Up / 12” (talk)
Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde / Fast Life / 12”
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five / The Message / 12”
Spoonie Gee / Spoonin’ Rap / 12”
Tanya Winley / Vicious Rap / 12”
Ronnie Gee / Raptivity / 12”
Queen / Another One Bites the Dust / The Game (talk)

Herbie Hancock / Rockit / Future Shock
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force / Looking For The Perfect Beat / 12”
Fatback Band / King Tim III / 12”
—
DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo/ MU-CHU/ KI-OKU
Interview pt. 1 w/ Cool Chris, Groove Merchant
DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo/ MU-GETSU/ KI-OKU
—
DJ Honey Knuckles
Rockwell / Somebody’s Watching Me / Somebody’s Watching Me
Newcleus / Jam on it / 12”
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five / She’s Fresh / The Message
The Jimmy Castor Bunch / It’s Just Begun /
The Temptations / Cloud Nine / Cloud Nine
Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band / Apache / Bongo Rock
Herman Kelly / Dance to the Drummer’s Beat / 12”
Bernard Wright / Master Rocker / ‘Nard
UTFO / Hangin’ Out / 12”
Herbie Hancock / Special Medley / 12”
Afrika Bambaataa and Soul Sonic Force / Renegades of Funk
Dominatrix / The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight / 12”
Herbie Hancock / Hang up your Hang Ups / Man-Child
Phenomena Theme
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five / It’s Nasty / The Message
Tom Tom Club / Genius of Love / 12”
—
DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo/ SUN IS SHINING/ KI-OKU
Interview pt. 2 w/ Cool Chris, Groove Merchant
DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo/ FU-YU/ KI-OKU
The Groove Merchants / Theres Got to Be Someone for Me

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 8 – Transportation

Transportation
http://soundcloud.com/sanguinesunday/episode-8-transportation/download

Arriving at our eighth episode strong, we at Moss Street Studios decided to take a step back and wonder, how did we get here? But instead of giving you a stale linear narrative connecting the dots from point A to episode 8, we decided in good Sang Sun fashion to get abstract on yo’ ass. For episode eight, we pay tribute to the many modes of transportation that take us from ‘here’ to ‘there.’ Often taken for granted if not straight up neglected and spat upon (have you seen the 14?), transportation can get a hard rap. But whether you get your move on around this world by foot or double dutch bus, train or scraper bike, airplane or spaceship, roller skate or hover craft, there’s always a way to funkify your spacial travellin’.

If your daily grind ever feels a little too boring, or if the idea of exploring new lands does not seem to get you out of bed, then well, let your mind take you elsewhere. Aisha baptizes it “movementation,” (another word added to the Sanguinetionary), let’s just define it as the art of movement. And what better way to praise movementation than through one of its most celebrated conjurations? Music. Let music into your life and it will teleport you within instants across the seven seas and throughout the depths of time.

So, join us in this episode of Sanguine Sunday on an imaginative odyssey, flowing seamlessly from David Axelrod’s masterful “The Mental Traveler”. Z-Note plays up the theme that nothing takes us spacio-time traveling quite like bumping the memory lane of music, transporting us to the raw feelings of distant places and far off times. We take stops along the journey at essential Hiphop junctures, from the heart of beef with Juice Crew’s “The Bridge is Over” to Quasimoto’s drowsy escape from the cops in “Come on Feet”. Afterwards, our guest of the week, David Snyder, transportation policy director at SPUR (San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association), grounds us in the current state of and hopeful future for transportation in the city. Honey Knucks flips the ground mobility tunes into a provocative dance grind in the spirit of Betty Davis’ nasty seduction, “Walkin’ Up the Rode”. Keepin’ it movin’, two step yourself into the world of Dre’s “Let me Ride” monster back beat, getting sticky with the sub-woofers under the sheets. Finally, we pull up into the local pulse station where Shelmatic suggests some future destinations for sonic voyagin’. Mode of transportation? All yours.

Tracklist:
David Axelrod – The Mental Traveler
Talvin Singh – The Traveler

Z-Note [Start 8:58]
Plantlife – Time Traveler
M.C. Shan & Marley Marl – The Bridge
KRS1 – The Bridge is Over
Nas – Memory Lane
Pete Rock & CL Smooth – Take You There
J-Live – Traveling Music
Quasimoto – Come on Feet
Edan – Beauty
Akrobatic – B-Bump
Masta Ace – Born to Roll
Masta Ace – I.N.C. Ride
Bob James – Nautilus
Ghostface Killah ft. Raekwon & Capadonna – Daytona 500
Common – Time Travelin’ (Tribute to Fela Kuti)
DJ Krush – Sonic Traveler (Talk)

DJ Shadow – What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4) (Talk)

Honey Knuckles [start 49:00]
Bonobo – (Change Down) (Talk)
Quasimoto – Bus Ride
Betty Davis – Walkin up the road
Beastie Boys – Car Thief
Mochipet – Take you down
Dr. Dre – Let me Ride
The Coup – Cars and Shoes
Q Tip – Let’s Ride
DJ Honda & Mos Def – Travellin’ Man Remix
The Notorious B.I.G. – Going back to Cali
Aldo Vanucci – Walk Like a Man
The New Mastersounds – Turn This Thing Around
The Vibrettes – Humpty Dump
De La Soul -A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays”
Instant Funk – I Got My Mind Made Up
Frankie Smith -Double Dutch Bus
Mr. Scruff – Get a Move On

Bonobo – Nocturnary (Talk)

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 5 – California Meditations

California Meditations
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There ain’t no denying that folks from all walks of life–those nestled at the coast, perched in the hills, to the salts of the earth spread over heartland and valleys–are tuned into its frequency. We’re talking about the throb-throb in your chest that connects each ventricle’s eighth note to California’s veracity. This week, the shrine of Sanguine delivers sound escapes generated circa Cali’s geographic identities–allowing us to kick back and meditate on the miraculousness of her musical births while ameliorating some of toil’s stresses.

As Marlena Shaw elucidates, “It’s like the sound you hear that lingers in your   ear / That you can’t forget from sundown to sunset. . .” ya’ll know it–the pulse reverberating via sea breaks on an endless shore, the rolling hills that abrupt or mature into mountainous Sierras, the every shade of emerald gesturing you to partake in sticky sweet inhales, the sun-loved earth mirroring skin tones while reflecting warmth into desert skies. These tracks just don’t hit our eardrums, they reverberate through our veins and capillaries. Just as each individual is separate yet whole, the bounty of California’s sonorousness are distinctive however united through her splendor.

Let us connect between our geographic and reflective states as Aisha moderates the sanctity of the Sanguine. Beginning our mientes melodic massage Honey Knuckles awakens our third eyes with love from the Yay. Recent Oakland resident transplanted to LA, DJ Phatrick syncs-in conjoining our worlds by juxtaposing Cali’s polars. Continuing our rhythmic meditations, Z-Note sends us on explorations through southern sonance. And though we could infinitely continue into resonance, Shelmatic centers our awareness back into our locality with a community mantra.

Tracklist and Start Times:
Intro
Marlena Shaw – California Soul
Nas – Street Dreams

Honey Knuckles [Start time 6:02]
DJ Shadow – Midnight in a perfect world
E-40 – Rapper’s ball
Luniz – I got 5 on it (remix)
Digital Underground – Freaks of the industry
Hieroglyphics – You’ll never know
Sugar Pie Desanto – Git Back
San Francisco TKO’s – Herm
Tower of Power – What is hip
Unforgettables – Sad Song
Sly and the Family Stone – Dance to the Music
Zion I – The Bay
Radiohead – Nude (Amp live remix)
The Coup – Ride the Fence
Native Guns – Champion
3XKrazy – Keep It on the Real

Inter: [Start time 44:41]
Phatrick Interview [47:25]
Daz Dillinger – In California
Above the Law – Endonesia
Del the Funky Homosapien – Foot Down
Dilated Peoples – Worst Comes to Worst
Bas Azz (ft. Doggy’s Angels) – How We Get Down

Z-Note [Start Time 1:01:32]
David Axelrod – The Human Abstract
Murs – L.A.
Dilated Peoples – Work the Angles
Visionaries – Blessings
Lootpack – Whenimondamic
Charles Wrights & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band – Express Yourself
N.W.A. – Express Yourself
Dr. Dre (ft. Snoop Dogg) – Nothin’ but a “G” Thang
Rodney O. & Joe Cooley – Everlasting Bass
The D.O.C. – It’s Funky Enough
Jaylib (Madlib & J Dilla) – The Red
Blu & Exile – Dancing in the Rain
Pharcyde – Runnin’
Black Eyed Peas (ft. Jurassic 5) – Get Original
Ice Cube – My Summer Vacation
People Under the Stairs – Anotha’ (BBQ)
Jurassic 5 – Verbal Gunfight
Ice-T – 6 N’ The Morning
Uncle Jamm’s Army – Dial-A-Freak
Egyptian Lover – Egypt, Egypt
N.W.A. – Panic Zone
JJ Fad – Supersonic
Arabian Prince – Strange Life

Outro: [Start Time 1:45:43]
Shelmatic’s speak [1:49:57]
Slum Village – Tainted
Tupac – California Love