Another freestyle situation. Finally got in a lot of the new goodies that have been piling up in the lab. And my new baby is also making her first appearance.
1. Daru Beats - Gratefull feat. Deenahea (DNA)
2. Kissey Asplund & Suff Daddy (feat. Bless 1) - 99bottles
3. Erik Rico - Making Love
4. Nickodemus (Wonderwheel Records) exclusive joint
5. Coultrain - Green
6. Nicolay & Kay - I’ve Seen Rivers
7. Mr. Windmill & Jay.Soul - Hugo Hovenkampp
8. Trevor Lovey’s - Elevate Your Mind
9. The RH Factor - For Fun (SoulFeast Vocal Remix of “Common Freestyle” feat. Omar)
10. Reel People - Outta Love feat. Omar
11. Ave.To - Cuz Of You
12. Chris Barker - Breakin Bread edit
13. Demetrius Price - No Holdin’ Back
14. Moodyman - Black Mahogani
15. Amp Fiddler - I’m Doing Fine (live)*
16. Exchange Bureau - The End of Me & You feat. Salah Obeid
1. Takuya - Summerjam
2. Caron Wheeler - UK Blak
3. Anthony Hamilton - Nobody Else
4. Sade - Turn My Back On You
5. Femi Kuti - Blackman Know Yourself (The Roots Remix)
6. Moodymann - People Make The World Go Round
7. Dionne Farris - 11th Hour
8. Chaka Khan - What Cha’ Gonna Do For Me
9. Maxwell - Now/At the Party
10. Whole Darn Family - Seven Minutes Of Funk
11. Starpoint - Bring Your Sweet Loving Back
12. Strange Fruit Project - Good Times
13. Blackalicious - Make You Feel That Way (DJ Eurok Kenyatta mix)
14. Pimps of Joytime - Street Sounds
15. Alice Russell - Remember To Forget
16. Paul Hardcastle - Rain Forest
17. 4Hero - Star Chasers (4hero Version Excursion)
18. Restless Soul feat. Zansika - And I Know It (Dub)
19. Agent K - Feed The Cat
This post is responsible for the unearthing of this nugget from the vaults. Take a look at the playlist and you’ll know what time it is. I’m not even going to identify when I recorded this one, but it’s another collection that has remained popular over the years whenever I’d burn a batch on CD. Now err’ybody can get a copy. Not holding onto these old jonts anymore!
1. Mos Def - Umi Says
2. Faze Action - Samba
3. Femi Kuti - What Will Tomorrow Bring (Remix LP MIx)
4. Los Amigos Invisibles - Bruja (MAW Mix)
5. Tom & Joyce - Queixume (MAW Mix, Main Vocal)
6. Salome de Bahia - Theme of Rio
7. Los Ladrones - Las Luces del Norte
8. Osunlade - Diamant
9. Jiva - Love Chooses Lovers (The ‘Heart Chakra’ Mix)
10. Tortured Soul - I Might Do Something Wrong pt. 2
11. Fertile Ground - Peace & Love (Jazztronik ‘Mardi Gras’ Mix)
12. Nickodemus & Osiris feat. Carol C from Si*Sé - Mariposa
13. Sade - By Your Side (Naked Music Mix)
14. T.Kolai - Congo (T.Kolai’s Andalu Vocal feat. David Crosby)
15. Opa - African Bird
16. Charlie Byrd & Cal Tjader - Samba de Oneida
17. Osunlade - Aldeia de Ogun
18. Nuspirit Helsinki - Afro-Cuban Haze
Isabella - Aurora
Omar - World Of You
Saukrates feat. Common - Play Dis
Raheem Devaughn - Heaven
Owusu & Hannibal - Blue Jay
The HYBernation Project - Heavy
Ernesto - Juice (Dimlite Remock)
Kokayi - Beautiful
Marvin Gaye - I Want You 2 (Waajeed Outro)
DJ Mitsu - Dokkou Jazz Orgy
Roy Davis Jr. feat. Peven Everett - Someday
Shanice - It’s For You
MC Lyte - Eyes Are The Soul
Dego & Kaidi Tatham - Dealt A Bad Hand
Shae Fiol - I Dance
Blvd. East & Louie “Lou” Gorbea - A Journey Into
Tom & Joy - Antigua
Aklimatize - El Uno
Statik
Foremost Poets - Where I’m Going
Teddy Douglass - The Caribou (Karizma rmx)
Anto Vitale - Theorema Del Faya
Nadirah Shakoor - Just A Breath Away
Robert Owens - Bring Down the Walls
First Choice - Double Cross (Larry Levan mix)
ESG - Moody (Spaced Out)
Bernard Wright - Master Rocker
Martin Circus - Disco Circus
Gerardo Frisina - Helen Samba
1. Ben Westbeech - So Good Today
2. Peven Everett - Can’t Do Without
3. Tweet - Taxi (Cab Ride mix)
4. Kemdi - Still A Dancer
5. Lathun feat. India Arie - When Love Came In (Quentin Harris remix)
6. Musiq - Thereason
7. Reel Soul & Byron Stingily - Walk Away
8. Silhouette Brown - Spread That Bruno E (Drop tha’ funk mix)
9. Aaliyah - 4 Page Letter (DJ Stylus Ruff Rider blend)
10. Ski Oakenfull - Where Did The Love Go? (Restless Soul mix)
11. Jooski feat. Cherie Mathieson - Ease Your Mind (original)
12. Fertile Ground - The Moment (Seiji remix)
1. Blue Girl - Q-Tip
2. Why - Eric Benét & The Roots
3. The Hop - Radio City feat. Bajka
4. Summertime - Mos Def feat. Esthero
5. Very First Time (hip-hop 01) - Aloe Blacc
6. Simply So (Sa-Ra Rmx) - GB feat. Steve Spacek
7. Keep On - Up Hygh feat. Phonte & Big Pooh
8. Love You Can’t Borrow - M1 feat. Q-Tip
9. Speak - Olatuja feat. Ty
10. U Better Run - Rasiyah
11. Amongst Pride - DJ Roddy Rod feat. Wayna
12. Ever (After) - Lyric L
13. The Gift Pt. II - Up Hygh
14. I’ll Be Around (Kev Brown remix) - The Spinners
15. The Light - Reel People feat. Vanessa Freeman
16. Listen For It (original vocal) - Markus Enochson feat. Ingela Olsson
17. Having Your Fun (Phil Asher remix) - 4 Hero
18. Our Time to Shine - Modern Groove Assembly
My girl Kia asked me for a sexy house mix a while ago. I wanted to call it “Foreplay” when I eventually got around to putting it together. February is The Love Movement over at ProjectVIBE so I figured I’d hook up the romantic joint for them. I take no responsibility for any children conceived as a result of this mix.
1. Teddy Rok 7 - Feel (feat. Okou)
2. Bah Samba - Far Away
3. Kemetic Just - unknown title
4. Moodymann feat. Amp Dog Knight - I’m Doing Fine
5. Ananda Project - ICU (DJ Spinna rmx)
6. Jimmie Abney - Is There Anybody Here?
7. John Beltran - Your Colors (Yoruba soul mix)
8. Sade - Surrender Your Love (rmx)
9. Renovation - Antonata feat. Roy Ayers (Atjazz Remix)
10. Frank-l - Let The Record Play (Casamena Living Room Rmx)
11. Osunlade - Beloved (Main Mix)
12. Fertile Ground - Come 2 Me (Don Ray’s Docile Mix)
13. Vikter Duplaix - Sensuality (Extended)
14. Raheem Devaughn - You (DFA rmx)
15. Siji - Sanctuary (DJ Deep and Franck Roger Remix)
I finally got around to putting this up almost 5 years after I first recorded it. All things in due time I guess. This was actually a mix that I did to hustle up some gigs. I took a downtempo and a house mix and put them on the same cd to try to impress upon promoters that I was versatile. I gave out a ton of these as freebies at gigs and still get inquiries about it. I had only been into house seriously for about a year at that point so if you’re a hardcore house head please don’t snicker at the naivete of the house section. Great records have long shelf lives, that’s for sure.
1. Jill Scott & Common - 8 Minutes to Sunrise
2. Ronny Jordan & Mos Def - A Brighter Day
3. Omar - Saturdays
4. A Tribe Called Quest - Like it Like That
5. Vodu 155 - Mama Dadu (instr.)
6. MoKenStef - Baby Come Close (instr.)
7. Davina - I Can’t Help It
8. De La Soul - Breakadawn
9. Common - The Light (rmx.)
10. J-Live - Play (instr.)
11. Jazztronik - From the Picture
12. Miguel Migs - Lionel’s Jam
13. Scott Grooves feat. Chris Codish - Organ Nights Part 1
14. U.C. Heights feat. Anthony Flanagan - Never Lost Faith (Original Mix)
15. Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl (Quasar Mix)
16. Incognito - I Can See the Future (Ski’sa Main Mix)
17. Turnstyle Orchestra - Latin Soul (..Not so Latin Sonic Soul Mix)
18. Blue Six - Pure (Jay’s Original Vocal)
19. MJ Cole - Sincere (Naked Music’s Jay’s Breakfast Dub)
20. The Rurals - Grey Clouds
21. Incognito - Nights Over Egypt (MAW Bonus Beats)
22. Marie St. Claire - Closer I Get (Johnick Vocal mix)
23. Willie Washington presents Paula Ralph - Ain’t No Running Away (Ricanstruction Vocal Mix)
24. Masters At Work feat. India - To Be In Love (Ricanstruction vocal)
Back in late ‘04 the Soul Controllers were solicited to be a part of WPFW’s new programming block that would possibly incorporate hip-hop. Here’s the demo we did. Doesn’t really resemble what Decipher is now but it’s a decent bit of listening.
DJ Stylus
Roy Porter - Party Time
Common - Heat
DJ Spinna - All Up In It
The Rebirth - This Journey In
Prince - Ballad of Dorothy Parker
Patrice Rushen - Music of the Earth
Larry Gold - Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now feat. Black Thought
Lizz Fields - When I See Love (Ty & Drew’s Lizzie’s Children Remix)
Organized Konfusion - Let’s Organize feat. Q-Tip
Till Bronner - No Fusion Generation (Mark de Clive-Lowe rmx)
The Roots - Melting Pot
DJ Jahsonic
Theo Parrish - Ebonics
Rahsaan Patterson - So Hot
Roy Davis Jr. - Someday feat. Peven Everett
Quant - Tryin’ feat. Ernesto
Alan Hoyst - Inner City Blues
Blaze - Shine
Franck Roger & M-Salem - No More Believe
Universal Principles - Inspiration and Light
I did the first Progressive Groove mix about 4 years ago. It marked a period in my path as a dj where my style broadened considerably and laid the groundwork for the Vibe Conductor concept. Some fortunate networking got me gigs where I was able to rock a lot of the records that I was buying for my own enjoyment but had no audience for. I challenged myself to put together sets that covered much wider stylistic ground but still “made sense” and the process has been a lot of fun.
This past Saturday was the official Rhomiepalooza birthday celebration and I created a new mix for the occasion that was distributed to my guests at the jam.
It’s woven with several thematic threads. Some of these tunes are current personal faves, others are records that have stayed in heavy rotation in my sets over the last couple of years and are popular with folks that come to see me. Most importantly, I’ve included some of the many local artists who have inspired me during my time in the DC arts scene. It feels like a fitting way to mark the 30th birthday milestone.
So if you missed out at the party, here’s another chance. Enjoy and tell a friend!
1. Ty - Look For Me
2. Opus Akoben - Ronin
3. Asheru - Black Moses
4. Georgia Anne Muldrow - Nothingness
5. Bobby Hutcherson - La Malanga (Kenny Dope rmx feat. Kronkite)
6. Chuck Brown - Bustin’ Loose
7. Rare Essence - Back Up Off The Wall
8. John Arnold - Rise Up
9. Beady Belle - Hindsight (Ricanstruction mix)
10. Okada Taxi - Season 2 Season (feat. Abdul Shyllon &
Mark De Clive-Lowe)
11. Mark de Clive-Lowe - 4.Y.V. (feat Abdul Shyllon)
12. Snowboy - 42nd And Broadway
13. Deadline vs. Batacumbele - Batacumbele
14. Big Bang feat. Nathan Haines - Smile In Your Eyes (Mark De Clive-Lowe rmx)
15. Ty - Wait A Minute (Dwele rmx)
16. The Sunburst Band - Far Beyond
17. Kenny Dope - Comin’ Inside
18. Alice Russell - Take Your Time, Change Your Mind
19. Common - Go!
20. Lizz Fields - I Gotta Go (DJ Spinna rmx)
21. Platinum Pied Pipers - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
22. Chris Lowe Anda Ill Pedestrians - Midnight Blue
