Sladjana Milosevic for Philip Pride… He will kick ass.

If you’re one of us good kind folks who care for the future of Lubbock, Tx even though we won’t be here after too long, then cast your stones by next Wednesday night midnight for Mr. Philip Pride. He’s by far the best candidate for SGA President this year and probably for a long time here at Tech. The opposing candidate is worth nothing in my opinion. I don’t know the person but it doesn’t matter cause the person apparently is going to get 1500 automatic votes cause of the sorority and what not they’re in…and I think that’s perfectly fine, except we the people of America need to know what it is to be a good role model and a good president of the student government. We don’t need some rich kids money to get a good president of the students in office. We got guts and balls that can take down anyone, anytime, anyplace. Philip has worked hard ever since he’s stepped his sexy sandles on Tech’s campus.

Just check out his facebook group page and read for yourself. I’m just helpin out a brother here. Laytas.

Philip Pride for SGA president-Facebook Group

mp3:Sladjana Milosevic-Miki Miki

Mechanical Bride & Jamaican Folk Singers

Mechanical Bride is this cool chick out of Brighton, Uk and the reason I played her was cause of her sweet sweet rendition of Rihanna’s Umbrella. It’s so different than Rihanna’s, it becomes almost haunting of a love song with its melancholic yet optimistic dreamy sounds. I didn’t even know the words were so nice when listening it in Rihanna’s version. Mechanical Bride’s version brings the words of “stand under my umbrella” alive and I’m glad she did this. I had callers asking who it was so here it is.

mp3:Mechanical Bride-Umbrella

Another tune enjoyed was “Mi Cahfi” by the The Jamaican Folk Singers. This group started out back in ‘67 and they recorded 3 lp’s and now are a classic in the Jamaican musical history. It’s a commoners story of one’s relationship with the phenomenon that is coffee. They have mostly female vocalist and they recorded the simple sweetness of people’s harmonious chorus that told the Jamaican folk stories, hence their groups name.

mp3:Jamaican Folk Singers-Mi Cahfi

Little Boots.Stuck on Repeat

This is a tune up on blogs everywhere so in that tradition, and also because it’s really good, I’ll post it up on here for its very danceble beats and the synths that keep on feeding your ears of that addictive sound. Little Boots based out of Blackpool/London and I do dig it. Check it out.

mp3:Little Boots-Stuck on Repeat

MIX 20. CTRL+Z’S GOOD TUNES FOR 2.18

Oy, Good afternoon. This week’s searchin has resulted with what you heard monday night. It was awesome and energizing. Noudi was out cause of the No Age and Go to Hell concert at Bash’s and I was on the air for all you gentle folks. This is going to be an interesting week cause there will be good music all week long somewhere in this town. I’ll be at J&B spinning on the technics from 9 till 11-30, I might be at the Fifth Friday art show in Slaton with Numerators and maybe Thrift Store Cowboys, and on Saturday night there’s a house party with Go To Hell and me (CTRL+Z) afterwards to get the party goin.

Nonetheless, here’s last nights music for you lovely’s and please do download cause I do it for ya’ll. I see a lot of people downloading more of the single song uploads I do and that’s because you can hear the song before you download it. So on my behalf, do not worry about these somewhat big .zip files cause you might not know everything in them, trust me they’re all good. I wouldn’t post them on here if they weren’t worthy of your hard drive space or your ears.

That said, enjoy the tunes. For everyone else here in town, I’ll see ya’ll sometime this weekend. Come out Thursday night and chill with me and your friends. Up there is a painting by Julie Mehretu, amazing artist. Check her out.

playlist: artist-song (origin)
Amplive-Weird Fishez (Bay Area, California)
Pnau-Come Together (Sydney, Australia)
Booty Cologne-Drunk Gods ft. Top Cat (Denmark)
Jorge Drexler-Sanar (Spain)
Wilson Pickett-Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (Detroit, Michigan)
Mechanical Bride-Umbrella (Brighton, UK)
Broadways-You Just Don’t Know (New Jersey)
Kaada-From Here on It Got Rough (Norway)
Dave Lewis-Searching (NYC)
Au Revoir Simone-Fallen Snow.Teenagers Remix (London/Paris)
Tsehaytu Beraki-Lale Bola (Eritrea)
Natasja-Long Time (Copenhagen, Denmark)
The Jamaican Folk Singers-Mi Cahfi (Jamaica)
Soko-Love No.Teenagers Remix (London/Paris)
Little Boots-Stuck on Repeat (Blackpool/London)
Toumast-Marao Orouan (Niger)
Nasrollah Nasspoor-Ze Man Negaram (Iran)
Orchestra Baobab-Ami Kita Bay (Senegal)
Eastern Blok-Balkan Healer (Chicago)
Pesos Pesados-Regey Mix (Ecuador)
NG2-Ella Menea (Puerto Rico)
Radio Zumbido-Revuelta (Barcelona, Spain)
Le Pop-No Tengo Calma (Costa Rica)
Dandi Wind-Adolescent.Nick Catchdubs Remix (Brooklyn, NY)

mp3:mix 20 part 1

mp3:mix 20 part 2

Bollywood and all its greatness

Some clips found in the uncharted realms of the internet. Hilarity at its Bollywood best. Enjoy.

mix 19

There was a great turnout last night on the airwaves. People enjoyed what was on and so did we. It was a big mix of African, Latin, European, Asian and American sounds. The night was needing great music and we were happily obliged to serve. I’m posting my portion up first and once noudi brings the info on her tunes, I’ll post up hers and for sure you don’t wanna miss her posts, it’s damn good.

Cheers,

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mp3: mix session 19 part 1

mp3: mix session 19 part 2

Australian Love *the love from down under*

If you or anybody you know was at the birthday party I dj’ed at on Saturday night, you know that party was SICK!!..that tiny little shack got so packed the girls were bumping into my technic’s…I had to stick with the laptop for that party but damn that was some tight ass dance party. Everybody came out and some people unfortunately couldn’t stay cause it was just too packed and there was no more booze. For those that came early tho, the party was jumpin till 4:30 in the morning. It was that good. I’m hoping somebody took a picture at some point cause I don’t have my camera anymore. If you do have a pic, please do comment and send me a copy. Anywho, the party got hot cause of the music and the I played some remixes of chromeo, M.I.A, Feist, Damn Arms…shoot, so many songs, I can’t remember all but it was damn good.

So I’m gonna post Tybalt’s remix and Van She’s remix that I liked playing at the party. I’ll post more another time so ya’ll can hear what a real good party should have. Check out their Myspace pages too.

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mp3:Damn Arms-Edie(Tybalt Remix)

mp3:Feist-1234(Van She Remix)

Tsehaytu’s Gift

Tsehaytu is an absolutely legendary singer from Eritrea. Born in 1939 in Quatit, a small village, she soon picked up the krar (5-string harp) and after moving to the capital Asmara she became a famous singer in bars, to attract men to the local traditional beer houses. In the 1970-ies she was discovered by producer Tewelde Redda, who took her to Addis Abeba, to record for Philips some 7² singles. She also appeared on television all over Ethiopia and Eritrea. She was a very big star. But the political situation got more and more intense. Eritrea was fighting for independence, and Tsehaytu got involved in the struggle. Her songs moved from love songs to more polical statements and comments. She was actually playing and singing at the front, for eight years. Heavy days. One time her concert was bombed, seven people died and Tsehaytu was badly injured. After her faction, the ELF, was pushed into the Sudan by the rivalling EPLF, she didn¹t give up and went back to the villages, to sing and support the women and children. Her courage and inspiration still mean a lot to all Eritreans. When the situation became too bad, she too had to flee into Sudan and in 1988 she ended up in Rotterdam, Holland, where she still is.

I’ve played Tsehaytu Beraki on the show quite a few times now and if one can tell, she’s one of my favorite musicians and she happens to be from my mamma’s country of Eritrea. I used to hear Tsehaytu on the cassette player or the radio when I was a little kid in Ethiopia. I think I must’ve been 5 or 6. I remember especially hearing her song Aminey and Medjemerya Fikrey. Those were some great tunes to listen to when you’re a kid and unfortunately I stopped speaking Tigrigna when I was a kid cause everybody in the family left the house when the right time came and so now I have a hard time sometimes understanding everything she says. It’s all good though, I’ll get that lingo back soon.

mp3:Tsehaytu Beraki-Medjemerya Fikrey

mp3:Tsehaytu Beraki-Atzmtom Keskisom

Monday Night mix numero 18

Rhythm Rue just turned 18 last night, if we may say so. It’s pretty amazing wouldn’t you say? An international music show of this caliber wouldn’t usually exist in Lubbock, Texas if it wasn’t for the great KTXT. Everyone should by the way tune in to the station online or however whenever you feel like it. It’s pretty damn good of a station. Now we got the hip-hop show back on air after a semester or so of a hiatus so now it’s on Saturday nights 10 to midnight, if I’m correct. I’ll probly be gettin my hand on that show once in a while.

If you heard any of the music from last night, it was great. I found some Mauritius music of all music. It sounds so great. They live on a tiny island that used to be inhabited by Indians from India, Africans from Madagascar & etc…then came the Portuguese, Dutch, French then English…and it’s officially part of the African Union. They also have this rich mixture of musical influence from all of these occupations and peoples that have gone through this tiny little island off the coast of Madagascar. Listen for yourself.

Besides that, we had some Astor Piazzolla from Argentina, Tsehaytu Beraki from Eritrea, Faytinga, Gaggi from Assyria, Luis Gallardo, The Apples from Tel Aviv with their dope funk music and much much more. A great mix of tunes brought to you by moi and noudi. Download and enjoy and share, if you feel like it.

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mp3:Monday Night mix 18. part 1.

Roots Manuva + Slow Train

Roots Manuva is an amazing British rapper whom you might find really interesting and crazy at the same time. I love his lyrics. Some of the best written words now-a-days in rap music, let alone any other genre of music. I’m posting up a non lyrical tune of his though, I know that’s lame but it’s the one I played on air so I’ll post of Roots more later on.

Slow Train is another group from London and I totally meant to play them on air Monday night but forgot to so here they are. They make some nice soulful tunes that relax the ears and get me in a nice mood after listening to the sad yet inspiring “In the black of night”.

Check it out, let me know what you think kids.

mp3:Roots Manuva-Witness Dub

mp3:Slow Train-In the black of night