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Comments |
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Kool DJ EQ
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Death of hip-hop
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Return of the DJ Vol. 1 V/A
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BOMB Hip-Hop
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CD
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1995
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Sun Ra
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snippets of various tracks off vinyl version
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Media Dreams
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Vinyl
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snippets of various tracks off vinyl version mixed in backwards and sidewayz,,,,
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Blackalicious
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Rhythm Sticks
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Brand new single from forthcoming album from NorCali's finest sons: Chief Xcel and Gift of Gab, aka Blackalicious from the long revered Quannum/Solesides crew
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2005
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*
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The Fall
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Totally Wired
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Vinyl
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Mark E Smith is God or least he was God or at least a God who turned his back on his live audiences but managed to crank out such classics as this which two decades plus later still hold strong..."I'm totally wiraaard...Cant U see?"
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Buzzcocks
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What do I get?
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Vinyl
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from the Peel sessions 12" 3 song 45RPM
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No Empathy
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Ben Weasel Don't Like It
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Vinyl
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Just played short (several seconds) but funny-as-fuck spoken word intro off this track
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Dillinger
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Cocaine in my brain
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CD
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"A knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork. That's how we spell New York" - those lyrics for some reason recently got stuck in my head so I had to dig up this reggae classic ('79 I believe was release) out of the FMU library and play it...especially since - when recently -with that chorus stuck in my brain... I would start singing it to my friends (read: subjecting) - only to find none of them knew the damn song....So it was play it and make them learn it or make new friends...and I dont have time for new friends...only new music!
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C Rayz Waltz
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Blackout
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Year of the Beast
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While I don't think the new album is as strong as this particular track, "Blackout" with its irrestible chantalong chorus ("we're black and we wanna be white" and of course "we're white and we wanna be black") is both at once fun and very socially observant of this hip-hop era in which we dwell
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2005
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Los Bravos
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Black is black
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a classic but its still good...right?
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Only Ones
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Another Girl, Another Planet
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sure its a "college hit parade" staple...but fuck it, I love it....only regret is that I didnt have time to dig up the Neurotic Arseholes' "In Love" to follow it up with...since it has same vibe
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Camper Van Beethoven
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Where the hell is Bill?
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Basehead
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Better Days
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if these guys came out today they would be bigger than........(FILL IN THE BLANK)...too bad their best work is curse-laden and non radio playable....songs like Ode to my Fave Beer
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Minutemen
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Jesus and Tequila
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Double Nickles on the Dime
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sure its a classic....but thats coz its so good....how good?....if I was on that desert island...this, along with A Tribe Called Quest's first or second album, would be in my Top Five Disks
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Cat Power
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Free (remix)
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Skratch Pisstolz remix of Cat Power's loved song
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Baldhead Slick 2/Mex
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I Win You Lose
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Guru in disguise?....jeyeah......BTW 2Mex is one of LA's most underrated hip-hop acts....NOTE to self....play 2Mex on next weeks show....
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2005
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*
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LCD Soundsystem
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Losing my edge
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sure it was a hit when it came out on 12" two years ago or so....and garnered repeated play when it was featured on the more recent double CD (which is pretty lame except for this one and the Daft Punk at my house song)...but dammit....our mainman in LCD manages to sum up the history of popular music in one song better than anyone I have ever heard
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Mobius Plank Nuemier
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Speed Display
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Zero Set
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Dukey Man
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Hood Rat
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DJ Technics' clubtrax version 0.1
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Rod Lee
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Fam
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DJ Technics' clubtrax version 0.1
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Petty Tom
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Girl My Comes Here
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as contest question I played this song backwards for someone to identify and win tix to Sleater Kinney show......
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Z-Trip/Freestylers
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Check the Skills
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Tektonics compilation
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OM
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the melding of DJs (of the hip-hop scratch nature) with electronic acts...put out by San Fran's OM label under the name "Tektonics
- overall a so-so album....so dont go wasting your money!
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Lee Scratch Perry
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Party Time
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Vinyl
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Lee Scratch Perry is GOD....its true!.....and this 12" helps prove it....albeit only "scratches" the surface.....that was a joke....but even now...seconds after I type it ...it sounds trite...which in turn makes it funny again!...made you half-smile!
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Ultravox
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
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which came first? the movie or the song? in pop culture the song is what turns people onto the movie that inspiires the song....dems the rules of pop culture....dude
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Big Black
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Kerosene
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I am partial to this song and the album it comes form (inc. Jordan Minnesota track which is equally profound and unnerving in its delivery) for several reasons...first off I bought when it first came out...and second I interviewed Big Black back in those heady late eighties right before they called it quits (they told me they would be pompus assholes but they were really nice).....and I went to see one of their final shows later that same night (I Beam in San Francisco) and they literally gave me goosebumps....Fucking A!....Staring at the walls....nuthin to do
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The Mice
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Not Proud of the USA
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when was this released? 2005? it could have been.....the presidents may have changed but the song remains the same....Goddammit!
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Immortal Technique
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Bin Laden
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CD
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"Bin Laden didnt blow up the projects" - this has to be the best political hip-hop song of the year so far.....Harlem's finest is a fuckin prophet in our time.....give the man respect and support...and go out and buy everything he has released to date...Revolutionary music indeed!
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2005
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*
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Dubya
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quotes from speeches
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this guy is so ridiculous that you dont even have to edit his speeches to make them funny
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Hank WIlliams
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Why Dont You Love me?
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Frankie Lowery & the Golden Rockers
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Goin to Louisianna
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The Gnoua Brotherhood of Marrakesh
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Sidi Musamar
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from another great Rough Guide comp...this one marketed as Moroccan trance....hey eat some hashish in the hills of Fez and listen to this music and it is TRANCE...I am speaking from experience....for reals :)
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Was Not Was
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Dad I'm in jail
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No Means No
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Stop It
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Alternative Tentacles
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Vinyl
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Buzzcocks
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you know you cant help it
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Meat Beat Manifesto
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Hallucination Generation
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99%
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fucking classic track from Jack Dangers...who I always considered "hip-hop" even if the purists didnt and hit me when I used to play this back in the day at dem ol skool Cali hip--hop jams ...."Please Hammer dont hurt me"
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The Nomads
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Five years ahead of my time
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Robert Fripp
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some song backwards....
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even backwards Fripp makes sense.....
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Dynamo & Grace
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You have no money + You stole from Bill
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The Crazy Adventures of Little Dynamo & Amazing Grace
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Episode One in this weekly (around mid-show/2 hour mark) adventure in the 1995 "reality" radio assault
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Americaa & Chocolate
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Sow de preto
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2005
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*
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Vulga Select
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Trance
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*
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Giorgio Moroder
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Percussive
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Kid 606
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Luke Vibert can kiss my indie punk whiteboy ass
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Supercute
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Jamie Tha........(La Casa Azul Remix)
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Teen Anthems
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Roll Deep Live
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several from underground party/pirate UK grime mix
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Minor Threat
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Seeing Red
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The Vibrators
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into the future
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Sunnyland Slim
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got to get to my baby
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Mary Lou WIlliams
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Old Time Spirituals
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T Rex
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jeepster (live)
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Mr Dibbs/1200 Hobos
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Return of DJ Vol 2
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Quasimotto
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greenery
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further adventures of lord quas
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he is a genius....i mean this....i'm in this to win this.....WHAT?....I dont know....I am just danked out following Quas' lead
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Med
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the offering interulde
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in my opinion this interlude is best thing on MED's overhyped new album...dont buy it!
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*
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Stranglers
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Tank
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Black and white
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AA Allen
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excerpts from this man of God
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Butthole Surfers
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22 going on 23
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Yat Fu
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Art Attendam
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Senegal hip hop rocks!
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Dawgisht
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Onell Knows
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Alameda, CA artist delivers another fuckin amazing underground gem (unreleased)
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Mac Dre
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Thizzle Dance
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DJ Hyphy's New Bay Classics
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late great Vallejo CA rapper Mac Dre was a lyrical genius with a great sense of humor and love of life (RIP Andre Hicks)
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Dawgisht
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The 51 bus stops here
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Alameda, CA artist delivers another fuckin amazing underground gem (unreleased)
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Live Human
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Breakseven remixed
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Adonis
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No Way Back
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The Prunes
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Mute
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Charlotte the Baroness
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various in the mix
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San Francisco's favorite daughter, DJ Charlotte the Baroness., in a live mix from the city by the Bay's END UP club (May 2004)
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Ian Dury and the Blockheads
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Wake Up and Make Love
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Pigeon John
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Nothing without you
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It is hard to be original in hip-hop these days....but PJ manages it very well
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*
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Fairport Convention
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Reno, Nevada
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Semilla
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wistu vida
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from Rough Guide to the Andes/Bolivia
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*
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Amnesty
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free your mind
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Cold Heat compilation
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CD
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*
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Ry Cooder
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Feeling bad blues
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Crossroads soundtrack
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