Daft In Africa (right click and “save as” to download)
Check the waves as we welcome Proof and Freddy Anzures to drop an afro-futuristic soul slap. The recurring Sanguine theme of retro-futurism (check: Android Boogie) resurfaces, this time with a focus on fusing music and technology stemming from the African diaspora. Don’t [...]
Iron & Fire (right click and “save as” to download)
Time flies, and we’ve already hit episode 49, meaning that this website now boasts 98 hours of recorded Sanguine Soul slammers! Jyeah, that’s at least 6 hours of Honey Knuckles saying “what up”, 8 hours of Z Note losing his breadth, 3 hours of [...]
Drums of Passion (right click and “save as” to download)
For this Valentine’s Day weekend we hit you up with not only some drums of passion but also the ebullient vocalizations and soulful poetics that spring forth from the valley of propulsive rhythms. Ya, it’s quite a ride, featuring exuberant sounds from Derrick Love–of San Francisco’s [...]
Verdant Volts (right click and “save as” to download)
For this week’s episode we tried out something new. Shelmatic jumbled some marbles in her mouth through the whole show, and I (Z Note waxing digital right here) tried to conjure strange words in a fruitless effort to describe the music of Bay Area experimental [...]
Liquid Alchemy (right click and “save as” to download)
After a 2 week hiatus, we are back! We hope you had good times closing out the decade because it’s been a great genesis for us, and we’re grateful that Sanguine Soul had a place in your heart last year. To celebrate the birth of [...]
Android Boogie (right click and “save as” to download)
King Most split between man and machine
Since the industrial revolution, people have leveraged arts to explore the concept of merging human soul with technology (see Fritz Lang’s Metropolis or read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein). With androids being the epitome of humankind’s effort to merge machine and homosapien, [...]
Mayhem (right click and “save as” to download)
So we don’t drink juice in the hood or smoke fools with glocks but we have a mean trio of spinners hitting you tonight. Honey Knuckles beacons with a funk that causes street corner folks to windmill with his old-to-new school span of breaks. Inspired by [...]
Disco Breakdown (right click and “save as” to download)
It seems we’re coming full circle with the history of hiphop and disco music. The inchoate beginnings of hiphop emerged from dance parties in Bronx projects where everything from James Brown to Kraftwerk and KC and the Sunshine Band could be heard. The first [...]
Hauntology (right click and “save as” to download)
Edvard Munch's Madonna
Halloween gave us Sanguine Soulsters a chance to play some of the freakier — and creepier — tunes that we usually don’t get a chance to bump on the show. From Blowfly’s “Fuck The Devil” to Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones Pt. II” we take you [...]
Synesthesia
The fortuitous gift of sensation astounds me. Our eyes pierce the window of the world from close to far. Our ears capture the smallest vibrations in the air. With tongue and nose we indulge in the flavors of this earth. And our bodies lunge into textures fine and grainy, substances liquid and solid. But the [...]