NEED help with RADIO playlist. Funky Soul/Jazz/etc
SouthCrackalack
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It's a new local grassroots style community volunteer radio project..that they refer to as a "radio revolution." Our local Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination is organizing and overseeing the Upstate, S.C. station(WMXP 95.5fm) and I spoke with the person that runs the center as well as this radio station and she said they are still in need of shows and for me to come to orientation this coming Tuesday to meet and discuss show proposals and shit pertaining to the station. From the response I got during the phone call I made today it seems like I can defintely get a show playing fitting music. Of course I want to play dope ass 60's,70's,etc funky soul/jazz/etc..you know, all the good stuff. Naturally, political based music,spoken word,and that type thing from that time period will be great and should work really well(Gil Scott,etc). A lot of the other shows will be people telling stories,talk shows,community news as well as national.I am going to make a demo playlist CD to give them to show what I have in mind..and show them I aint comin' in there on some ol' bullshit!(But I need it by Monday perferably) I know yall know the deal, so being that I NEVER got into the collecting mp3 thing(all my music is wax and currently don't have the means to record my vinyl onto my PC...and I am pretty sure I would have to play CDs for the show), I have to get busy downloading. I was thinking maybe we could get a list going in this thread of "must haves" for this "demo playlist" CD and maybe possibly even some MP3's posted here as well to get things poppin' if yall could be so kind! Also, I will DL Soulseek and maybe hook up with some of yall on there to grab some good stuff if I could.I hope this thread has a good response and some serious replies, because I would REALLY like to get this show just for fun. My city has never had a station like this and especially no station to play this type of music(besides some of the stuff that got play when it originally came out), so it would be sort of ground-breaking for this area if all works out as planned.As always, thanks to everyone who might be able to help.PS: I love SoulStut.
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hope this helps, peace
pweety pwease?
EXACTLY,Bellcity! This is perfect. Damn I wish I could just record my vinyl onto my PC, it would make this so much easier. But thanks a lot for hooking those two up...essential shit!
Honestly, Bambouche needs to read this thread.
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This may or may not work, divshare is rather appropriate as I am a div, when it comes to technical stuff.
DivShare File - 2-10_Be_Thankful_For_What_You_Got.mp3
I got a couple more coming, if this is the kinda stuff you're looking for.
Cymande - Brothers on the Slide
Thanks for posting that, but Medium Dude posted it just a few posts up. he beat you to it! But again, thanks for trying!
Check the PM.
From a reel-to-reel release (that's to SportCasual's mom) of poetry by Don L. Lee (aka, Haki Madhabuti) on the Broadside Voices label:
One Sided Shoot-Out[/b]
(for brothers fred hampton & mark clark,
murdered 12/4/69 by chicago police at
4:30 AM while they slept)
only a few will really understand:
it won't be yr/momma or yr/brothers & sisters or even me,
we all think that we do but we don't.
it's not new and
under all the rhetoric the seriousness is still not serious.
the national rap deliberately continues, "wipe them nigger out."
(no talk do it, no talk do it, no talk do it, notalknotalk do it)
& we.
running circleround getting caught in our own cobwebs,
in the sense old clothes, same old words, just new adjectives
we will order new buttons & posters with; "remember fred" & "rite-on mark."
& yr picture will be beautiful & manly with the deeplook/ the accusing look
to remind us
to remind us that suicide is not black
the questions will be asked 7 the answers will be the new clich??s.
but maybe,
just maybe we'll finally realize that 'revolution" to the realworld
is international 24hours a day and that 4;30 AM is like 12:00 noon,
it's just darker.
but the evil can be seen if u look in the right direction.
were the street lights out?
did they darken their faces as in combat?
did they remove their shoes to creep softer?
could u not see the whi-te of their eyes,
the whi-te of their deathfaces?
didn't yr/look-out man see them coming, coming, coming/
or did they turn into ghostdust and join the night's fog?
it was mean.
& we continue to call them "pigs' 'motherfuckas" forgetting what all
black children learn very early: "sticks & stones may break my bones
but names can never hurt me."
it was murder.
& we meet to hear the speeches/ the same, the duplicators.
they say that which is expected of them.
to be instructive or constructive is to be unpopular (like: the leaders only
sleep when there is a watchingeye)
but they say the right things at the right time, it's like a stageshow:
only the entertainers have changed
we remember bobby hutton. the same, the duplicators
the seeing eye should always see.
the night doesn't stop the stars
& or enemies scope the ways of blackness in three bad shifts a day.
in the AM their music becomes deadlier.
this is a game of dirt.
only black people play it fair.
I think it would fit nicely with some of the other tunes making their way onto your CD. If only because it's nice to offer a wide range of stuff for the listener. Heavy funk tunes with dudes absolutely screaming for justice is undeniably heavy, but Julius Lester recordings about pre-dawn that were recorded pre-dawn have a hauntingly light place in this body as well.
Bob Dylan is somewhere in the middle, too.
Also, it would work nice to compliment this tune, "Jonathan", the story of George Jackson's little brother who died trying to free Soledad prisoners, as sung by Elaine Brown on her Until We're Free LP. I like subtle strings instead of screaming in this scenario.
Excerpts from the Soul & Soledad Angela Davis LP pertaining to the same subject would be nice too. I haven't digitized this LP yet. Anyone?
You could fill 6 radio shows on this subject, actually. Freedom Archives have some great recordings, including George Jackson's mother relating a story of police telling her, after the shootout that took Jonathan, "We got one of your sons, now we'll get the other", just before George Jackson was murdered.
Free Radio!