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THE OZONE SHOW: SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL

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Had some time to kill this afternoon while waiting on some ribs to cook up on the grill. Decided to jump on the tables and put together an impromptu radio show on ustream.tv. 75 minutes, mixing up some new arrivals, some classics, and some stuff I literally just grabbed randomly off the wall.

The Ozone Show: Saturday Night Special (1-26-13)

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OZONE SHOWS FROM THE GOVERNATOR ERA

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In going through my old radio aircheck tapes, I found one labelled with my dude Adam Mansbach’s name, from 2003. How old is this? It’s so old that he tells us to “look out for my upcoming book, The Angriest White Boy in the World” (or something like that; I’m paraphrasing). That book, of course, turned out to be entitled Angry Black White Boy but my point is: this was from a ways back.

Adam is now touting his latest book (two novels and one runaway hit “children’s” book later), Rage Is Back. Read his hilarious accounts of what being on book tour is like (spoiler: not anything like you see in movies).

In any case, Adam rolled through with a selection of tunes on that show, along with whatever I was into back in ’03.

September 16, 2003 (download)

Special guest DJ: Adam Mansbach, author of Shackling Water

*Adam’s Picks*
Olympic Runners: Out to Lunch
Stanley Cowell: Miss Viki
Gene Russell: Get Down
Camille Yarbrough: Take Yo Praise
*Cedar Walton: Road Island Red
Detroit Emeralds: You’re Getting Too Smart
Pretty Purdie: Artificialness
Cleveland Eaton: Keep It Funky
Cannonball Adderley: The Price You Gotta Pay To Be Free
Lonnie Smith: Drives
Son Seals: How Could She Leave Me?
Dizzy Gillespie: The Matrix

Don Campbell: Campbell Lock
The Eddy Jacobs Exchange: Pull My Coat
Chocolate Star: Got To Get Your Love
Spirit of Atlanta: Hunter Street
Calbido’s Three: African Penta Song
Sunshine Anderson: Heard It All Before (QSO remix)
Frankie Nieves: Mi Guajira
J-Love and Ric Nice: King of New York
Lyrics Born: Callin Out
Diverse: Build
Mark Ronson w/ Mos Def and MOP: On the Run
Beanie Siegel: When You Hear That
Uptown: Dope On Plastic
Diverse: Explosive
DJ Zeph: Underworld
Family Tree: Push, Move, Build
Scoopy: Scoopy Rap
Black Moon: Stay Real
Lil Kim: Came Back For You
J-Biz: The Treasure Pt. 2
Push Button Objects: 360 (Prefuse remix)
De La Soul: Much More
DJ Shadow: Right Thing (Z-Trip remix)
Flavornaughts: If You Know Me

As a bonus, I discovered a second aircheck on the same minidisc (though I didn’t bother to write it on the disc): a show from two weeks later, right after Ahnauld had been elected governor of California following the recall of Gray Davis. It seems not-quite-weird now, looking back, but believe me: that sh– was weird at the time. A real black eye for California. Anyways, I had two guests on that day: DJ Frane and the Feenom Circle.

October 7, 2003 (download)

Special guests DJ Frane & Feenom Circle

ANOTHER PAST BLAST: OZONE SHOW (12/27/2000)

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So…it only took me a dozen or so years to get around to digitizing more of my KALX shows but at the risk of being self-absorbed, it’s interesting to me to revisit a period of my musical life to see what kind of records were a big deal to me back then and what I’d still cosign on today.

I just posted an old show, also from 2000, the other week. This latest comes from the literal end of 2000, a December 27th show. Alas, I don’t have the playlist for this one (I guess I got lazy at year’s end and never bothered to type one up). Nonetheless, I think folks will dig on the mix of jazz, funk, soul and hip-hop. At the very least, it reminded me how good this song was:

Enjoy!

The Ozone, Dec. 27, 2000

MELTING POT SHOW 9-12-10

Thanks again to Michael Barnes of the Melting Pot for letting me sub his show this past Sunday. It’s been at least six years that I had to host a show on my own and let’s just say it’s not like learning to ride a bicycle again. More like trying to remember how to cook a recipe!

The total show was 2 hours but a recording snafu killed the last 40 minutes so here’s the first 80 minutes of the show, including mic breaks.

Here’s the total playlist:

DJ Day: Drum Track #2
Perez Prado: Going Out of My Head
Bobby Reed: The Time is Right (Prince of Ballard Remix)
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings: Better Things to Do
John Legend and the Roots: Hang On In There
Mike James Kirkland: Hang On In There
J-Dilla: Rico Suave Bossa Nova (Rough Extended Mix)
Quantic: Dre En Cumbia
Trio Servando Diaz: El Viejito Canandonga
Shooting Stars of Dominica: Bang Bang
Carlton and His Shoes: Never Give Your Heart Away
Betty Padget: My Eyes Adored You
Ralph Thamar feat. Mario Canonge: Siboney
Chimp Beans: Lovely Chimps
Soul II Soul: Back to Life (full acapella)
The Darlettes: Lost
Sugar Pie DeSanto: I Don’t Wanna Fuss
Allen Toussaint: Soul Sister
Ino Hidefumi: Spartacus
Blvd. Mosse: U Can’t Escape the Hypeness
One World: Victor
Zambrano: La Cocona (Edit)
Ranil and His Tropical Band: Cumbia Sin Nombre
Phirpo y sus Caribes: Mi Moooto
Rita Lee: Minha Vida
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Greenwood Rhythm Coalition: Oye
The Creations: I’ve Got to Find Her
Jerry Jones and Sound Dimension: Still Water
Joe: Untitled (aka This Time)
Carl Thomas: I Wish
Great Pride: She’s a Lady
Le Hot Jazz: Planet Rock
Lee Moses: Got That Will
The Magic Tones: Good Old Music
King Tee: Cali Expert
Univ of Miami Concert Jazz Band: Shining Star
Organo Bailable: El Preso

THE OZONE – 9/29/02

I often times forget that when I’m too busy to do a full post, I still have roughly 10 years worth of radio shows to draw from so long as I remember to digitize them once in a while. Here’s a show from about five years ago (christ, I can’t believe 2002 = five years ago. Damn, I feel old). I like how I talk about a “new segment” on the show but I’m pretty sure I stopped doing the “Under the Covers” segment after only a handful of times…not for any particular reason besides laziness. Still, some good “Cissy Strut” action there for Meters’ fans.

So far, I’ve digitized the first two hours:

The Ozone, hosted by DJ O-Dub. 90.7 FM, KALX

9/29/02 – Hour 1

Primeridian: Jigsaw

The Meters: Cissy Strut

Hoctor Records: Cissy Strut

Trinidad Steel Band: Sissy Strut

Earl Van Dyke: Cissy Strut

Rod Piazza: Cissy Strut

Ni Double Ki: Movin On

Rupert Cobbett: Seven Heaven

Nancy Ames: Pow, Pow, Pow (Mas Que Nada)

Jadell: Spanish Fly

The Cabilidos: Barrio Bueno

Lee Dorsey: Yes We Can

Sly and the Family Stone: A Trip To Your Heart

The Vibrettes: Humpty Dump Pt. 1

Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings: Cut the Line

Lilith: Pick Up the Pieces

Hour 2

James Brown: The Payback Mix

Instant Funk: I Got My Mind Made Up

Michael Jackson: Billie Jean (instr)

Fat Larry’s Band: Lookin’ For Love

Latasha: I’m Every Woman (from “Hustle!”)

Andy Loore: Mixed Drums

West Coast Revival: Feelin’ Alright (from “California Soul”

Electric Church: We Had a Love (from “Welcome to the Newsroom”)

Horace Silver: Acid, Pot Or Pills

Mickey and the Soul Generation: Football

The Aquarians: Bayu-Bayu

Bobby Paunetto: Fenway Funk

The Ozone – July 5, 2000

Another retrieval from my radio past at KALX FM in Berkeley, CA. This clip comes from a show that’s just a little over seven years back. Yowzers. Apart from the usual mix of styles, I included a short set of “Spinning Wheel” covers.

Here’s the playlist:

JUST ADDED: I’ve been dealing with computer problems the last few days so that’s slowed my output. Just to hold folks over, here’s part 2 of that July 5, 2000 radio show:

Speaking of mixes: DJ Pump’s Jeepney Mix Vol. 6 is . Cop this!

The Ozone, 10/14/03 Pt. 2 and 3

First of all, a quick SSV2 update: I finally got in everything: LPs and CDs. LPs all went out over the weekend. CDs are packaged and ready to ship but I’m nursing a stomach flu bug that’s kickin’ my a– right now so I wasn’t able to take stuff down to the post office today. Hopefully, by tomorrow, I won’t be laid out as badly.All CDs went out on 6/13.

Second, congrats to J. Thorton who won the copy of the Mingering Mike book for correctly guessing the eight record label logos in the new banner. They are, in order: Black Jazz, Tommy Boy, Stax, Tico, Prestige, Wackies, Motown and Def Jam. Most people got everything except for Tico and Wackies was especially tough for many.

Lastly, here’s parts 2 and 3 from my old radio show.

Round Midnight Mix
High and Mighty: Take It Off
Krown Rulers: Kick the Ball
The Roots: Silent Treatment remix
A Team: GB In Your Life
Apani B Fly MC: Abracadbra
Styles of Beyond: Mr. Brown remix
Kool G Rap: Bout That remix
Oh No: Chump
Diverse: Explosive

(Just to note: the mix was done without the benefit of a mixer or crossfader. I had to mix it through the studio board).

Hopefully, I’ll feel less like dying tomorrow. Cheers!

Blast from the past

The Ozone Show, Tuesday, October 14, 2003
90.7 FM, KALX, Berkeley

It’s been a long time coming but I’ve been meaning to digitize a few of my old radio shows. For those of you who didn’t know, I did college radio for over 10 years, all at KALX in Berkeley. This was one of my last shows, in late 2003, before I left radio and – coincidentally – started audioblogging. Seems like a good time to bring it full circle, plus give ya’ll some tunes to listen to while I’m busy with some writing work that’s keeping me from blogging more. The total show was actually 2.5 hours but I edited out the first hour. I also cut out most of my “radio DJ” dialogue out (save for the first bit) since, really, you don’t need to hear me talking about ride share programs and other PSAs. Here’s the playlist of what’s included: