TRIBUTE TO JAMES BROWN, PART 4 [LIVE MIX]

Tuesday, December 23 was amazing -- nearly 600 people packed into Pacific Standard Time to celebrate the life and music of James Brown. This is about 75% of tha tribute set that i played that night, minus tha mic which we recorded on a separate track to be safe. big shout out to henroc, tommy aka prophet and everyone else who held me down on tha mic (sorry, vocals were crazy distorted so i had to take em off). thank you to EVERYONE who came out and shook yo sh*t to my personal favorite artist of all time -- really, i am still high of that night!!

please remember, this is a live recording so there are some volume fluctuations, effed up blends, and a few spots where i cut tha music out so tha crowd can sing along (not too bad tho). overall i hope yall enjoy it!

DJ Sake One, "Tribute to James Brown, Part 4" [Recorded live at Pacific Standard Time, December 23, 2008].

THERES ONLY ONE GODFATHER...THA REST OF US ARE GODCHILDREN!!!!

stay classy, san diego....

had a blast this weekend rockin SD but unfortunately, winter has decided to make a real dramatic entrance and flights are delayed everywhere. sittin here at San Diego Int'l is no fun but at least there's free wifi, so i figured i'd slap some sh*t up on tha blizzog.

gigs were good times, dj'ed for more white people than i have in a really long time on Thursday, and went in super hard Friday for tha homie Beatnick's birthday popoff. Saturday was shapin' up to be tha grand finale when a drunk driver murked my rental car outside Bar Dynamite and kinda put a damper on thangs. We went in anyway and had fun, triple shots of patron got everybody in tha zone and allegedly i was playing a Beyoncé acapella over a Femi Kuti instrumetal. But like, not in a BAD way...

i would certainly be remiss if i didn't mention our saturday am swap meet excursion which resulted ina couple vinyl come ups (David Joseph 12" a couple SAM 7s and a Mizell Bros. production or two) and me and Beatnick probably overdoing it at tha 99 cent CD stand. However, 99 cent CDs allow you to track down obscure Kanye West productions that feature super lazy "Lovely Day" chops, songs by Biz's little brother, halfway (and i DO mean halfway) decent R&B joints off movie soundtracks from films you never heard of, them old "Ragga Ragga Ragga" comps that inevitably have some hot slept-on cut from di Warlord himself, a classic 90s house CD or three and of course, those underrated Roc club bangers that we love so much (at least for a week or so).

I can't front, they also had some good ass hummus there. Normally i would never buy perishables at a swap meet but we were drunk off our CDs and Beatnick even continued his tear with a $5 Gucci sweatshirt and a staggering collection of subpar 90s NBA team caps. He had to talk me outta buying tha "MICHELOB BIA" mirror. Gotta learn to live with regrets....

Anyway, had fun. Be back soon. Stay classy, etc.

FRAUDCAST #2

i recorded this actually a couple days ago but didn't have time to upload it. for tha record, i do these sh*ts in one take, live, so any volume issues, janky scratches, etc can somewhat be attribtued to that. i'm pretty sure its already cold/raining wherever you are, so apologies if this 'cast seems to be piling on.....

Oh yeah -- obviously, dug up that "Queen City" 12 ;)



DJ Sake One, "Fraudcast #2"


TRACKLISTING
Johnny Temple @ tha Sin-agog intro
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, "The Third Eye"
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, "Moments in Love" (Live)
Sheila Hylton, "The Bed's Too Big Without You"
Sonia Sanchez interruption
BJ & Piakhan, "Queen City"
War, "Don't Let No One Get You Down"
Om'mas Keith, "City Got Me Watchin"
Ethel Beatty, "It's Your Love"
The Heptones, "Pretty Looks Isn't All"
Marvin Gaye, "Distant Lover" (Alternate Version)
Chico DeBarge, "Love Still Good"
Gil Scott-Heron, "Home is Where the Hate Is" (Re-Edit)
Taana Gardner, "When You Touch Me" (Larry Levan 12" Mix)
Kanye West interruption
The Ordells, "Sipping on a Cup of Coffee"
Taylor McFerrin, "Georgia"
Dr. Angela Y. Davis interruption
Mona Lisa, "Those Eyes"

NYE WITH THA MIGHTY MOS DEF

advance tickets is a MUST for this one...open bar, bangin' food, a live performance by Dante and 4 of tha West Coast's best DJs. This one is a sure shot, get tickets sooner not later.

slept on rapper of tha century...

...what ever happened to Piakhan?? Dude was ill...his verse on "Queen City" is crazy, I gotta find that 12" in my record room and rip it just for special Nerdtime moments. Anyway i use to run this Hi-Tek produced track on tha REGULAR at Soluna backinnaday. This sh*t go!!


Piakhan, "Spheres" (produced by Hi-Tek)

I found dude on Myspace but he ain't havin' me cuz i'm a "band." Go figure. Maybe you will have more luck? www.myspace.com/piakhan

Tell him to drop an LP already!!!!

FRAUDCAST #1

deep deep down inside every club dj, there's a little radio dj that wants to come out for a big hug. most of us started DJing out of a love for music -- in my case, a particularly intimate relationship with music that probably was unhealthy for most of my teenage years. DJing in clubs and getting paid money to do so is fun, sure...but there's that part of us that wants to play slow songs, jazz records, poems, weird sh*t that sometimes is difficult to program when tha task at hand is making a few hundred people dance they ass off.

so, alotta folks are doing internet radio and podcasts. i am technically ignorant and incredibly lazy however, so i decided to do weekly Fraudcasts -- fraudulent versions of a shortwave or internet radio show or podcast. I assure you they will get better and more "lifelike" (i.e. drops, interviews, talking) as I get comfortable with them; for now i kick it off mixtape style. This isn't technically a DJ mix and its absolutely not a party joint. In more ways than three, tha music reflects a mood. Deal with it =P

DJ Sake One, Frisco Fraudcast #1

TRACKLIST:
Marvin Gaye, "Cleo's Apartment"
Siji, "Sanctuary" (Fijisoul Mix)
Sharon Forrester, "Silly Wasn't I"
Lou Bond, "To The Establishment"
Hen Boogie feat. Kissy Asplund, "Adore"
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, "Song for Bobby Smith"
K.M.D., "Plumskinzz"
Freda Payne, "I Get High (On Your Memory)"
Donnie Hathaway interlude
Leon Ware, "Rockin' You Eternally"
Don Blackman, "Holding You Loving You"
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, "Time & Space"
N'Dambi, "Call Me (Yamwho? Rework)"
Bilal, "You're All I Need (Like Heaven)"
Outkast, "You May Die (Intro)"
Rene & Angela, "Imgainary Playmates"
Rahsaan Patterson, "Stop Breaking My Heart"
Tiombe Lockhart, "Don't Understand"

*for maximum "enjoyment," burn Fraudcast to a cd and play in car when driving in tha rain*