Electric Soul
A schematic experiment with organizing life forms of music; frame a particular sonic structure not by genre or geographic location or even general features of the sound, but by a conceptual orientation. What results is an unfamiliar stretching at the seams of our comfort zones with the music at hand. A bending of our [...]
Sample Edition
This week, we laud the ingenuity, passion, talent and sheer determination that created Hip Hop. These young and poor musicians took what they had and started an entire new genre of music. We pay tribute on this episode to some amazing hiphop as well as the fresh funk and soul that laid the foundation. [...]
Yes Yes Y’all. This last Saturday the Sanguine Sunday crew felt some heat in the studio. Part of it was the weather, but most of it was us going international on the music tip with Z-Note dropping that Balkan boom and Honey Knucks doin it with some Latin and Afro soul-funk. And [...]
Food (The Beat Buffet)
It is surprising how similar music and food are. Both satisfy our hunger for nourishment, albeit in different ways. It could be said that hunger satiates pangs of a physical emptiness while as music enriches and fills out feelings of spiritual yearning. Although on the counter argument, music can inspire the body [...]
Hiphop in the Park
This last Saturday, the Students for Hip Hop at UC Berkeley put on it’s 13 annual Hip Hop in the Park. For more than a decade, this free community event has featured live hip hop bands and emcees, graf artists, bboys, bgirls, and even some shit you’ve never seen before. Eager to [...]