Malcom Cecil of Tonto's Expanding Headband with an epic Moog setup

This episode pays homage to those artists who created electronic music outside of the standard computer and software program. From analog synthesizers to vocoders, there exists a legacy of [...]]]> Something New, Something Old, Something Borrowed, Never Blue (right click and “save as” to download)

Malcom Cecil of Tonto's Expanding Headband with an epic Moog setup

This episode pays homage to those artists who created electronic music outside of the standard computer and software program. From analog synthesizers to vocoders, there exists a legacy of resourceful musicians that leveraged the technology of their time to bring their musical inspirations to life. On top of that, we welcome Aeion Solar (aka the Marquis DuQue) from Burning Man Information Radio to join us in shepherding today’s theme and helping us raise money for Pirate Cat Radio and BMIR-FM. The man is a true musical mind, bringing an eclectic and rare mix of funky electronic music.

If you are listening and would like to donate to Pirate Cat Radio for some much needed equipment, it’s not too late! You can send it via PayPal to BMIR@pobox.com or simply stop by the Pirate Cat Cafe at 2781 21st @ Florida in San Francisco. Any donation is appreciated. Keep independent radio stations alive!

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Hello Sanguine family! In our 56th episode, we focus on the thought of the family or La Familia as we call it here. The Family transcends time, it’s an ancestral connect-the-dots back to the beginning.

In our first set, Honey Knuckles drops some new jams [...]]]> La Familia(right click and “save as” to download)

Hello Sanguine family! In our 56th episode, we focus on the thought of the family or La Familia as we call it here. The Family transcends time, it’s an ancestral connect-the-dots back to the beginning.

In our first set, Honey Knuckles drops some new jams from Aloe Blacc, Mux Mool, and Sub Swara.
Keeping to the stride of la Familia, we welcome Sanguine cousin, Spank Bank playing under the moniker Mack Lau. He drops a classic funk and 80′s set. Tying things together, Mama Feelgood gives props to her Moreno Valley fam, and features tracks from hometown heroes Afta-1 and Stereodojo.

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This week around we welcome editor, writer, and artist Johnny Ray Huston to guest host and share some sweet yet oh so lugubrious selections with the Sanguine Soul fam. We oriented this episode around Connie Converse’s “How Sad, How Lovely”, a theme set [...]]]> How Sad, How Lovely (right click and “save as” to download)

This week around we welcome editor, writer, and artist Johnny Ray Huston to guest host and share some sweet yet oh so lugubrious selections with the Sanguine Soul fam. We oriented this episode around Connie Converse’s “How Sad, How Lovely”, a theme set to help us indulge– deeply and magnificently– in our melancholia. Don’t worry though, such mournfulness does not come without its joy! As some writer out there mentioned, in reference to what some other writer said, “if you can’t exorcise your demons, exercise them. ”

Johnny proves to stretch our eclectic and expansive repertoire once again with some excellent picks across the rock, disco, and electronic spectrums, charting the many many ways to express sad/lovely emotional territory. And I, Z Note, help out once I finally get my laptop to work properly with the mixer (oh, pirate radio equipment). There’s a couple exclusive treats in the mix, from Soft Moon‘s introspective and haunted synth-wave to Alexis Penney‘s oceanic disco, and After Dark‘s demo thriller set to run chills down your voyeuristic cyborg heart. But, you have to listen until the end for those lovelies.

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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 [...]]]> 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 sleep on this one; the apt duo incorporate vinyl with digital throughout their set, dosing us with a taste of their Daft iN Africa series.

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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 [...]]]> 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 Aisha making cat noises, and 90 minutes of Shelmatic’s marbled mouth mushroom flow. Did I really just write all that?

So, in case you were wondering if “Iron & Fire” means that we got our blacksmithing on this show, let me break it down. We finally got a chance to grace the decks for a full 45 minutes each this time around. Whereas Honey Knuckles blessed the decks with 45 minute of the fire-side of the soul spectrum, I (Z Knoooowt) laid down the icy iron backwoods. It makes for a dynamic range of music, from the propulsive madness of Afro-House to the cold drum machines and synth keys of minimal wave. Anyone know of some good minimal Afro-synth-wave? Oh wow, I just blew my mind.

Enjoy, this one’s music heavy, lots of jams!

Z Note

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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 [...]]]>
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 straight heated monthly get-down, Gemini Disco. He rocks a straight vinyl set linking James Brown to pummeling disco jams. We chop up it for a minute, exchanging ideas on creativity with restraint: the focused and specialized character of vinyl DJing in contrast to the sprawling and rhizomatic nature of mp3 DJing.

Shelmatic, back from her LA travels for the moment, starts it all off with the legendary percussionist Babatunde and his unstoppable “Jin-Go-Lo-Ba”, as the drums of passion take us from Nigeria, to Jay Electronica’s New Orleans upbringing, back to California, and all the way around the world once again. I end the show with some slow burning polypercussive fire spanning the Afrobeat, breaks, disco, and electro skunk spectrums of the funk. Tell us what you think, send us music, suggests guests or even yourself as a guest, and we got more for your listening pleasure coming up next week!

- Z Note

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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 [...]]]> 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 indie band Birds & Batteries. Who wants to be boxed into the silly expressive powers of language anyway? Band frontman and vocalist, Michael Sempert, dropped in to select some Eritrean drum machine tunes and tell us a bit about B&B’s latest EP, Up To No Good, a minimal funk synth effort that instills magnetizing images of an enchanted forest where the flora and fauna are actually robotic manifestations projected from the mind of a twisted hillside gnome–a psychotic little creature with dark intentions and yet, the pathos of a P Funk, cosmic liberator. It’s really a very satisfying combination of sounds. Imagine if John Carpenter produced the soundtrack to Lord of the Rings in the early 80s. Or consider a prismatic focus into one corner of David Bowie’s labyrinthian monsters.

In the spirit of layering the organic with the electric, we happily conceptualize this episode Verdant Volts, a certain tongue twister for our mush mouthed Shelmatictron. And, yet she still carries the torch, saying much wiser things than I. In the second half of the show I suspend my cationic words in favor of spinning some tunes, intertwining psychedelic jazz, post-punk electronica, abstract beats, and a bit of funkified disco for ya’ll. Enjoy!

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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 [...]]]> 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 2010, we decided to forgo the expected decade in review or top 50 list and instead, decided to throw a theme of the abstract variety in your direction: Liquid Alchemy. Special guest U9Lift joins the Sanguine team for a live set, transforming original beats with samples and acapellas to create his own form of musical gold. As usual, Z-Note and Honey Knucks dispel their own brand of magic on the decks to show you their interpretation of the theme. So as you consume our first show of the decade, what is your liquid alchemy?

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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, [...]]]> 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, the Sanguine family decided to honor the theme in an episode titled: Android Boogie.

We invite local DJ, King Most, to join us this week and step up to the decks to showcase his eclectic range of drum machine and synth driven tracks. Be sure to catch him next week at the Mezzanine spinning with Spinna and Bobbito for the Stevie Wonder party, Wonderfull. Don’t sleep on that one yo!

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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 [...]]]> 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 the ruckus brought forth—straight from the grime of SF underworld shenanigans, guest DJ/producer Ground_Control owns our listening process with a set that leaps yet bridges each and everywhere from breaks to dubstep and funky electro. And before you have a moment to assure yourself that you’re back in the pilot seat of your being, Z Note slaps you silly with circus disco into psych disco and disco house!

Shout out to THE WOMAN, Nicole, promoter of Infatuation Winter Formal for hooking us up with tickets we gave away to a faithful listener. Yes, if you call and email us amazingly splendid things may happen! Our show is so full of amazing that technology prematurely cuts us off—oh well, ya can’t expect 001 1001 001 01110 100110  to keep up with us cause we break all time/space/musical/existential boxes.

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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 [...]]]> 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 rapp (double p) records pressed on wax were disco raps, from the assumed first of the batch in 1979, Fatback Band’s “King Tim III” to the legendary Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight.” By the late 80s New York hiphop artists rejected disco in favor of the louder funk that would orient the genre for the next two decades. Even the burgeoning West Coast electro rap scene folded for the funk. You can hear recent vitriol (still, in the most fun way possible) towards disco in the Dr. Octagon’s “Bear Witness,” (produced by Dan the Automator), sampling an amazing Tommy Boy promo record by the forgotten 4-Ever Fresh, “Urban Sound Surgeon.” And some heads still can’t get down to the fever.

But, disco is back with a vengeance. From infecting indie punk with infectious dance grooves (thanks “House of Jealous Lovers”), mainstream pop (Black Eyes Peas, Lady Gaga, Kanye), as well as the futuristic thump of the underground (Dam Funk, Hercules and Love Affair). So, in spirit of the restored disco energy, Shelmatic and I (Z Note) venture through a disco breakdown to give you a taste of the variability and exceptional sounds of over 30 years of disco tunes. We lay down some modern soul, dusted boogie grooves, the funkier side of the cowbell, and a dip into synth heavy madness. Tell us what color of the spectrum gets your magic shoes flailing. We love it all.

For more journeys into the disco groove, peep some earlier episodes:
Ep. 11 – Rollerspace Boogie
Ep. 7 – Cosmic Vibrations

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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 [...]]]> 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 down a sometimes funny, occasionally scary, and once in awhile absolutely frightening journey through the concept of hauntology. Halloween is an uncanny night where we are encouraged to wear masks and channel the specters of the past or take on the altar personae of what we would like to be. Much of today’s electronic music, from the sample based form of hip-hop to dub-step’s haunted memories of the future, do the same. So, we explore this spirit of the mask with ghostly rhythms and wraithful melodies. Be forewarned, this mix might shake you!

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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 [...]]]> 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 senses do not always divide so cleanly. Sounds, colors, substance, and audible vibration blend in the most fascinating ways within the neural pathways. We might feel the wretched smell of the Civic Center metro station, hear the ringing heat of a tumultuous sun, or like Nabakov, visually associate letters with colors. And music too often evokes impressions beyond the strictly audible, from raw feelings to colors and smells to tastes. In fact, music lies deep within the realms of synesthesia, where the expression of the world and human body meet in an ever dynamic, nebulous intertwining.

For this week’s episode in dedication to the phenomenon of synesthesia, we decide to select some synth based tunes and variations thereof that might just impress your skull with bubbling colors. I (Z Nooooooote) hold down the Sang crew solo for this one. Honey Knucks and Aisha are busy melting their brains in the desert, and Shelmatic has peaced to Lala land. So enjoy my shit! Expect some jazz-funk masterpieces, sultry boogie nastiness, and dub-step erotica. But I’m much more excited to mention that Luis Vasquez joins me in the studio to guest select a synth-wave radiality and introduce one of his many projects, The Soft Moon, to all listeners here and far. We discuss the immediacy of creative expression and the hindsight of categories and genres. And we chop it up about some of Luis’ most imaginative sonic muses. The Soft Moon debut full length will come out some time in the winter with a tentative November date, so stay tuned!

I apologize for the louder than necessary background volume over some of our vocals, you’ll have to fill in he gaps of the conversations. It’s an experiment in audience participation really. Tell us what you see. For me it’s a lot of burgundy stained indigo with a sludge water consistency.

- Z Note beaming out

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Spank Bank…Honey Knuckles…Sass Appeal…Lokae & Joe Mousepad…these are the contenders on today’s episode of Sanguine Soul, the Royal Rumble. That’s right. Tonight, in absence of Aisha, Shelmatic, and Z-Note, Honey Knuckles uses his powers to summon some sonically sick DJ’s to bring it. In one corner, we have Spank [...]]]> Royal Rumble

Spank Bank…Honey Knuckles…Sass Appeal…Lokae & Joe Mousepad…these are the contenders on today’s episode of Sanguine Soul, the Royal Rumble. That’s right. Tonight, in absence of Aisha, Shelmatic, and Z-Note, Honey Knuckles uses his powers to summon some sonically sick DJ’s to bring it. In one corner, we have Spank Bank, beginning our evening with an epic electro earfuck. Next, Honey Knuckles floats onto the floor and drops a little hip hop, funk, and world rhythms for your aural pleasure. Expect some new joints by the Quantic crew and a few remix heaters. After a brief intermission, Sass Appeal brings it hard with her sultry smooth tech house set. And closing out the Rumble, DJ Lokae and emcee J. Mousepad (Lok-Pad) destroy it on Ableton, a mic, and a Kaoss pad.

Sanguine Soul thanks all the artists who represented their style on the Rumble. We hope you appreciate and enjoy this diverse session, and thanks for listening.

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Live set by Sass Appeal [begins 1:02:08]
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Live set by Lokae and Joe Mousepad [begins 1:31:20]
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As San Francisco closes out a gloomier than usual July, we celebrate the source of life in this week’s theme, Sunshine. Tonight, it’s Mama FeelGood and Honey Knuckles holding it down in the studio.

On today’s episode, Aisha ascends us toward the solar nexus with the vibrant sounds of Yppa. Enveloping us in a [...]]]> Sunshine

As San Francisco closes out a gloomier than usual July, we celebrate the source of life in this week’s theme, Sunshine. Tonight, it’s Mama FeelGood and Honey Knuckles holding it down in the studio.

On today’s episode, Aisha ascends us toward the solar nexus with the vibrant sounds of Yppa. Enveloping us in a state of luminescence, Honey Knuckles brings happy waves with the genius of Galt MacDermot’s Let the Sunshine In and the brightness of a classic Arrested Development track. Next we take a break with our homies from OM Records. These down to earth cats share their experiences in the music game and show us how a prominent record label can operate like a warm family. Although, Z-Note and Shelmatic are on a brief hiatus taking a sun ray seeking road trip up the Pacific coast, Z-Note leaves us with a sizzling prerecorded afro-beat session featuring the likes of Fela Kuti and Tony Allen. If you lack the opportunity to enjoy the sunshine right now, we hope this episode will bring in that sanguine sun. Thanks for listening.

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; face melting music is a state of mind beyond states of mind; a music outside of music; a formula underneath all formulas. The shit just rips you outside of yourself, throws you into a warp hole, and spits you back out in clothes you’ve [...]]]> Space Mountain Madness

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; face melting music is a state of mind beyond states of mind; a music outside of music; a formula underneath all formulas. The shit just rips you outside of yourself, throws you into a warp hole, and spits you back out in clothes you’ve never seen before, a parched body that looks strangely unfamiliar (like going through puberty all over again), and a brain state that rings out of wack like you just woke up from a 17 hour dream about whirling supernovae explosions that you hear with your mouth and see from your toenails. Call it musical surrealism — or maybe it’s simply insane. What’s the difference anyway?

When the Lumerians make geometry explode

In tribute to face melting music of the 5th dimension, we put together a double edged show with the A-side “Space Mountain Madness” and B-side “Oscillating Brainwaves”. This episode is named by our special guests, mad decent Bay Area psychedelic outfit the Lumerians. We attempt a Q&A mid session, but the Lumerians prefer to play music rather than talk about it (at least this time around), unless they’re making jokes or impressively having three conversations at once. It must be the psych.

The Lumerians drop some new tracks off their upcoming full length LP, the percussive hypnotics of “Melting Space” and “Xulu”, as well as a couple off their original self-titled EP from last year. We then switch in and out of fuzzed out Turkish psych, experimental French ridiculousness, and Nigerian rhythms set to put you in a hex. Honey Knuckles and I (Z Note) open and close the show respectively with heavy percussive psych breaks, chanting funk grooves, and other attempts at face melters. Shelmatic tunes in with some of Dr. Octagon’s illustriously blunted instrumentals, setting the mood for a way out there show.

Prepare to oscillate your brainwaves in this sojourn through space mountain madness.

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The intertwining of drums and fire date back to ancient days of story telling and human expression. Crackling flames spin in a symbiotic dance upon the backbone of frenetic drum licks. Channeling this spirit, Sanguine Soul decided to conceptualize a “drums and fire” theme. We experimented with light blue flames burgeoning into ferocious [...]]]> Drums and Fire

The intertwining of drums and fire date back to ancient days of story telling and human expression. Crackling flames spin in a symbiotic dance upon the backbone of frenetic drum licks. Channeling this spirit, Sanguine Soul decided to conceptualize a “drums and fire” theme. We experimented with light blue flames burgeoning into ferocious fires, all supplemented by a dynamic range of drum energy levels.

The Gaslamp Killer jumping in your face

I (Z Note) jump off the session with vortex breaks from DJ Shadow, Jean-Pierre Massiera’s wondrous disco, and Free The Robot’s electric jazz funk. At half time, LA’s own fanatic of drums and fire straight out of the Low End Theory, The Gaslamp Killer, joins us for a brief Q&A. We talk about his beginnings as a DJ in San Diego, where his production is taking him, and the influences behind his feral mixtape masterpieces, sojourning through global psych, cackling drums, freaked out atmospherics, and laser heavy dub-step madness. Be sure to peep his new mixtape Hell And The Lake Of Fire Are Waiting For You! and stay tuned for the upcoming ep My Troubled Mind (Brainfeeder) to be released on Aug. 4.

Our absentee Honey Knuckles premixes some burners for your listening calisthenics. He takes us to the hypnotic south of Asia with Deejay Om, Nickodemus connects Brooklyn and Romania, and Afrika Bambaataa beams us up to another fucking dimension of sound. Shelmatic keeps the background jazzy drum kicks locked down with Pete Rock’s Petestrumentals (Bbe, 2001). Tell us what you think of this episode yall!

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- Z Note

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Happy Holiday weekend! Whatever you celebrate, whether you recognize an independence day or the farce of July (wattup LA), we at Sanguine Soul are having a 3 day weekend summer madness BBQ. All beats be grillin!

While things got crackin in the mission with a little grassroots fire works poppin on every street [...]]]> Summer Madness

Happy Holiday weekend! Whatever you celebrate, whether you recognize an independence day or the farce of July (wattup LA), we at Sanguine Soul are having a 3 day weekend summer madness BBQ. All beats be grillin!

While things got crackin in the mission with a little grassroots fire works poppin on every street corner, Honey Knuckles kicked off the evening with an extravaganza of assorted flavors. Expect some feel good music by Bill Withers, Jackson 5, and Nicole Willis with some hot summer Fela Kuti-inspired heaters sprinkled in between.

Z-Note keeps the decks hot with the classic Roy Ayers’ Everybody loves the Sunshine and continues the freshness with a track from Sa Ra.
Big ups to Shelmatic for featuring the audio pleasures of a Sanguine favorite, Dr. Who Dat aka Jneiro Jarel.

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Human creativity is pushed into new realms on this week’s episode, Limit Zones. In a world limited by constraints in the form of laws, labels, and rules, the sanguine family sets out to investigate artists who they think have pushed their artistic creations beyond the normal conventions of their times, thus pushing past their limit [...]]]> Limit Zones

Human creativity is pushed into new realms on this week’s episode, Limit Zones.
In a world limited by constraints in the form of laws, labels, and rules, the sanguine family sets out to investigate artists who they think have pushed their artistic creations beyond the normal conventions of their times, thus pushing past their limit zones.
We begin as Shelmatic sets the mood of our conversations by featuring tracks from the always innovative Cinematic Orchestra.
Honey Knuckles rallies legendary composers, Ramsey Lewis, Stan Getz, and Gary Bartz to enrapture us in some sonic serenity, and the Philipians drop a Pharcyde remix treat. Next up we invite the talented musician, Emily Wells, for a conversation about creating music, unconstrained by genre or labels. Be sure to cop her new EP, Dirty, available on iTunes now. Z-Note finishes the evening by rounding up some of today’s best beatsmiths for a treasure chest of head nod. New Dilla and Quik tracks are just a few of the gems you’ll discover.

-Honey Knuckles

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After a fleeting glimmer of basking-in-the-hot-sun days, San Francisco retreated back to it’s cold and windy demeanor. Bundled up, we loaded up the car with our equipment and trekked to the Pirate Cat radio station. We reminisced about those few precious days by warming up the station and cafe with some sweet, sticky bass [...]]]> Rollerspace Boogie

After a fleeting glimmer of basking-in-the-hot-sun days, San Francisco retreated back to it’s cold and windy demeanor. Bundled up, we loaded up the car with our equipment and trekked to the Pirate Cat radio station. We reminisced about those few precious days by warming up the station and cafe with some sweet, sticky bass slaps and rollerspacin boogie beats.

Joining us in the studio was our dear friend DJ Shred One (SweaterFunk, BkC leCirque). Born and raised in LA, her music tastes were formed and molded as she followed around her vinyl collectin’ older brothers and cousins. She fine-tuned her selection skills in NY, created her unique style in LA and continues to grow here in the Bay Area. In her own words, she was born in LA/molded in Brooklyn/dreaming in SF.

To appease our appetite for boogie funk, each DJ brought their own tangy special recipe to create a delicious array at our sanguine table. Honey Knuckles started the night off with a heart racing set of funky disco beats such as those of One Way and Mandre, which graced roller rinks and b-boy circles everywhere in the late 70′s and early 80′s. We reaped the benefits of some heavy e-diggin’ by Z-Note as we traveled many cosmic miles to read the “Message from the Stars” and sway to some rich boogie roots. Lastly, Shred One brought it all together with a bangin powerhouse set of boogie classics like Paul Hardcastle and Evelyn “Champagne” King while the entire show bubbled harmoniously over the beats of Dam Funk, leading ambassador of modern boogie funk.

– Shelmatic

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*Edit*: From the wishing well rises the fuzz of the found episode in fully glory!

Rapper’s Delight (Found Episode)

Last Saturday between the indigo hours of eight to ten, the Sanguine Sunday crew enjoyed a landmark moment in our evolution. We pushed our first live show on the longest running independent based radio station [...]]]> Rapper’s Delight (Lost Episode)

*Edit*: From the wishing well rises the fuzz of the found episode in fully glory!

Rapper’s Delight (Found Episode)

Last Saturday between the indigo hours of eight to ten, the Sanguine Sunday crew enjoyed a landmark moment in our evolution. We pushed our first live show on the longest running independent based radio station in San Francisco, Pirate Cat Radio. If you were lucky enough to listen to the show on the live broadcast then I hope you bumped that shit loud because I have a slightly confident and not too egotistical feeling that we killed it! If not, then my apologies, but the show is lost in the abyss of squandered recording opportunities.

I kind of like that though. It brings back the hazy nostalgia for the not too distant old days of radio when you had to get the tape deck out, prepared anxiously with a new cassette, fingertips steady on the record button ready to click as soon as your favorite show bumped something fresh. My nostalgia however quickly fades away to a stronger sting of, “fuck we lost the show!”

In tribute to the lost episode, number ten in the working, Honey Knucks and myself (Z Nooote) decided to rerecord our sets in the raw. My research delves into the early wax poetics of hiphop spanning the years 1979-1983. This rapper’s delight goes far beyond the commercial success of The Sugarhill Gang. During halftime, listen in to a concise Q&A I conducted for International Record Store Day with Cool Chris, owner and manager of Groove Merchant Records. He drops fifteen years expertise knowledge in the vinyl dealing trade and the ethos of digging physical vs. surfing digital, wrapping it up later with his own take on the beginnings of hiphop. Honey Knuckles digs into his own crates to spin a strictly vinyl set that follows the development of two turntables and a mic into the disco and break dancing clubs of the 80′s. Whether cultivating rhymes, looping break beats, cutting up jazzy backbeats and horns, or arranging a whole new resonance of electro-funk, this era offers a plethora of rapper’s delight.

– Z Note

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We’re going LIVE on the radio every Saturday  from 8-10pm on Pirate Cat Radio. Listen to us live in the Bay Area on 87.9FM or streaming worldwide at piratcatradio.com.  You’ll still be able to download/listen on our site via archived podcasts, pero you can now also kick it with us at the station/cafe on 21st [...]]]> Yo Sanguine Fam~

We’re going LIVE on the radio every Saturday  from 8-10pm on Pirate Cat Radio. Listen to us live in the Bay Area on 87.9FM or streaming worldwide at piratcatradio.com.  You’ll still be able to download/listen on our site via archived podcasts, pero you can now also kick it with us at the station/cafe on 21st & Florida, San Francisco. Come out!

The show will now broadcast on a weekly basis, and we will update our website each and every Sunday afternoon. We’re always looking for interviews with local musicians and community organizers. Please email us at sanguinesunday@gmail.com if you are interested!

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Arriving at our eighth episode strong, we at Moss Street Studios decided to take a step back and wonder, how did we get here? But instead of giving you a stale linear narrative connecting the dots from point A to episode 8, we decided in good Sang Sun fashion to get abstract on yo’ ass. [...]]]> Transportation

Arriving at our eighth episode strong, we at Moss Street Studios decided to take a step back and wonder, how did we get here? But instead of giving you a stale linear narrative connecting the dots from point A to episode 8, we decided in good Sang Sun fashion to get abstract on yo’ ass. For episode eight, we pay tribute to the many modes of transportation that take us from ‘here’ to ‘there.’ Often taken for granted if not straight up neglected and spat upon (have you seen the 14?), transportation can get a hard rap. But whether you get your move on around this world by foot or double dutch bus, train or scraper bike, airplane or spaceship, roller skate or hover craft, there’s always a way to funkify your spacial travellin’.

If your daily grind ever feels a little too boring, or if the idea of exploring new lands does not seem to get you out of bed, then well, let your mind take you elsewhere. Aisha baptizes it “movementation,” (another word added to the Sanguinetionary), let’s just define it as the art of movement. And what better way to praise movementation than through one of its most celebrated conjurations? Music. Let music into your life and it will teleport you within instants across the seven seas and throughout the depths of time.

So, join us in this episode of Sanguine Sunday on an imaginative odyssey, flowing seamlessly from David Axelrod’s masterful “The Mental Traveler”. Z-Note plays up the theme that nothing takes us spacio-time traveling quite like bumping the memory lane of music, transporting us to the raw feelings of distant places and far off times. We take stops along the journey at essential Hiphop junctures, from the heart of beef with Juice Crew’s “The Bridge is Over” to Quasimoto’s drowsy escape from the cops in “Come on Feet”. Afterwards, our guest of the week, David Snyder, transportation policy director at SPUR (San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association), grounds us in the current state of and hopeful future for transportation in the city. Honey Knucks flips the ground mobility tunes into a provocative dance grind in the spirit of Betty Davis’ nasty seduction, “Walkin’ Up the Rode”. Keepin’ it movin’, two step yourself into the world of Dre’s “Let me Ride” monster back beat, getting sticky with the sub-woofers under the sheets. Finally, we pull up into the local pulse station where Shelmatic suggests some future destinations for sonic voyagin’. Mode of transportation? All yours.

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Yo soul journiers…Please make sure that your valuables are stowed in the compartments overhead and that your persons are securely fastened, because this week we are taking you on an extraterrestrial inter-nebular spacial odyssey. Oh Yes, let us disclose that you will feel disconnection from the turf below as your reality shifts—yet, [...]]]> Cosmic Vibrations

Yo soul journiers…Please make sure that your valuables are stowed in the compartments overhead and that your persons are securely fastened, because this week we are taking you on an extraterrestrial inter-nebular spacial odyssey. Oh Yes, let us disclose that you will feel disconnection from the turf below as your reality shifts—yet, no need to trip, it’s just a minor side effect of zero gravity while you enter Psycho-galactic Stargate Sanguine.

This episode our eccentricity is as vast as the Sirius star system. Borg Queen Aisha secures our collective entity as the most powerful force anyone may encounter, as Federation Captain Honey Knuckles ignites from the funky wobbly-wobbles of Milez Benjiman, through haunting jazz vocals of Asha Puthi. He also navigates us through the asteroidal storm that our guest co-navigator Oscar “the Wild” Medina beams into the path of Sanguine. Tapping into his Telepathic Empath powers Znote senses our sublunary loss as an empowering gift—realizing that we can only progress by going beyond—he sonogramally projects the awareness and peace theology of Sun Ra in IG Cultures’s Ra Bops In Blacknuss, and motivates our transformative properties with the move-your-booty-baps of Afrika Bambataa. Although we voyage into higher reaches beyond our solar system Stargate Sanguine would not be at homeostasis without a report of our local pulse, presented by our Solarsonic Engineer Shelmatic.

Let us be the bearers of soul-sonic cosmic sensuality…Rest assured, your best interest is in the forefront of our minds, thus feel more than welcome to fully recline, respite from your alpha-wave activity, and centrifugally chillax as our journey unfolds.

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There ain’t no denying that folks from all walks of life–those nestled at the coast, perched in the hills, to the salts of the earth spread over heartland and valleys–are tuned into its frequency. We’re talking about the throb-throb in your chest that connects each ventricle’s eighth note to California’s veracity. This week, [...]]]> California Meditations

There ain’t no denying that folks from all walks of life–those nestled at the coast, perched in the hills, to the salts of the earth spread over heartland and valleys–are tuned into its frequency. We’re talking about the throb-throb in your chest that connects each ventricle’s eighth note to California’s veracity. This week, the shrine of Sanguine delivers sound escapes generated circa Cali’s geographic identities–allowing us to kick back and meditate on the miraculousness of her musical births while ameliorating some of toil’s stresses.

As Marlena Shaw elucidates, “It’s like the sound you hear that lingers in your   ear / That you can’t forget from sundown to sunset. . .” ya’ll know it–the pulse reverberating via sea breaks on an endless shore, the rolling hills that abrupt or mature into mountainous Sierras, the every shade of emerald gesturing you to partake in sticky sweet inhales, the sun-loved earth mirroring skin tones while reflecting warmth into desert skies. These tracks just don’t hit our eardrums, they reverberate through our veins and capillaries. Just as each individual is separate yet whole, the bounty of California’s sonorousness are distinctive however united through her splendor.

Let us connect between our geographic and reflective states as Aisha moderates the sanctity of the Sanguine. Beginning our mientes melodic massage Honey Knuckles awakens our third eyes with love from the Yay. Recent Oakland resident transplanted to LA, DJ Phatrick syncs-in conjoining our worlds by juxtaposing Cali’s polars. Continuing our rhythmic meditations, Z-Note sends us on explorations through southern sonance. And though we could infinitely continue into resonance, Shelmatic centers our awareness back into our locality with a community mantra.

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We’ve been trying to orchestrate a podcast feed, but such a feat combined with the time consuming ventures in learning sound editing via logic, has postponed our new years mix so long that well, it’s almost 2010 already. Granted it’s only the middle of the month, there ain’t going be another day to wait for [...]]]> Resolutionary

We’ve been trying to orchestrate a podcast feed, but such a feat combined with the time consuming ventures in learning sound editing via logic, has postponed our new years mix so long that well, it’s almost 2010 already. Granted it’s only the middle of the month, there ain’t going be another day to wait for us to throw down our mix… Soooo…

Let’s get down to the program. In the spirit of the new horizon set forth by 2009, Honey Knuckles cuts up some soul collaborated proto-break tunes–putting emphasis on the afro-beat, disco, and krautrock sectors–with the resolution of improving his b-boy technique in the cypha’. And I (Z-Noooote) take the year of recession to reflect upon the magical quality of money. In resolving that it’s time to either find a hustle or make some more cash money in recession times, or less ambitiously, just wondering about the poetics of the dollar bill, I find some inspiration in a collection of cross-genre dollar lamentations, on the grind motivations, and fuzzed out flows flipped up for my own purposes. Finally, Aisha rocks steady with some knowledge on the Oscar Grant protest in Oakland and the perennial abuse of police authority in the inner city. Let the chi flow!

Much resource is to be found in the rich history of music to help us make the resolute kind of resolution that will prove lasting. So peep that shit. And tell us about your transformations.

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Ya’ it’s that time of the year, one brisk San Francisco morning after winter solstice, the days are just about to get longer but not much brighter. In tune for the Holiday season in the midst of thin wallets and heavy eyelids, Sanguine Sunday mixes up some of what we like to call recession [...]]]> Recession Soul

Ya’ it’s that time of the year, one brisk San Francisco morning after winter solstice, the days are just about to get longer but not much brighter. In tune for the Holiday season in the midst of thin wallets and heavy eyelids, Sanguine Sunday mixes up some of what we like to call recession soul. Bringing you that uplifting flavor from the hustle to the bounce, some of those I need monay type of jams, and even the more contemplative what the hell is goin’ on with our economy ballads–recession soul covers all it takes to overcome the despair of dusty pockets.

In the spirit of such hard times, Aisha interviews Rayan on the grind, a struggling San Francisco renter and resident of Moss Street about the merits and craft of couch surfing. Meanwhile Z-Note mangles 2 for 40 dollar buttered up lobster dinners. Keep on listening for a surprise battle between man and crusty sea beast; shit is sinister.

And Happy Holidays everyone! Moss Street’s Sanguine Sunday will see you again in 2009!

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