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Brooklyn based producers/DJs Patrick Rood aka The Captin and Luca Venezia aka Drop the Lime bring bass to our faces this week. The two hail from Trouble and Bass Records spinning what sounds like voices from other dimensions trapped in a sub woofer. These fellas are [...]]]>

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Brooklyn based producers/DJs Patrick Rood aka The Captin and Luca Venezia aka Drop the Lime bring bass to our faces this week. The two hail from Trouble and Bass Records spinning what sounds like voices from other dimensions trapped in a sub woofer. These fellas are truly a vivacious pair—tag-teaming such a raucous set that keeping up with their beats would be difficult for those who think time and space are linear. I had the pleasure of raging with these gents in the Pirate Cat Radio café, and I must say that they bring nothing but raw energy. Drop the Lime graces us with something special from his upcoming January 2011 album, Hot As Hell. And The Captain brings ferocity so effortlessly that we are left searching for bass nevermore.

Feeling bassy,
Mama Feelgood

Connie Lim’s voice takes my senses from an urban café into a seed in the middle of the ocean that grows a tidal wave of lush canopy greens, hot orange birds of paradise, and deep red earth colliding into a majestic grand piano. Flavorpill.com describes Lim to [...]]]> Bountiful (right click and “save as” to download)

Connie Lim’s voice takes my senses from an urban café into a seed in the middle of the ocean that grows a tidal wave of lush canopy greens, hot orange birds of paradise, and deep red earth colliding into a majestic grand piano. Flavorpill.com describes Lim to be “armed with a brilliant voice that is both vulnerable and mighty”. Indeed! Connie’s live set is a wonder to behold as this woman brings such intensity that she takes you to distant mystical yet familiar lands. Gracing us from tracks off her latest release, The Hunted, her lyricalism is matched by her piano virtuoso. Check her video for “Sugar”, and you will see that her mighty vocals are as bountiful as her beauty.

~Mama FeelGood

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San Francisco local Lippe aka Phillip Garza is an up and coming producer that cannot be ignored. Lippe will be releasing with Daly City Records, and if you can’t wait until then you can check him out spinning with the likes of [...]]]> Up and Coming (right click and “save as” to download)

San Francisco local Lippe aka Phillip Garza is an up and coming producer that cannot be ignored. Lippe will be releasing with Daly City Records, and if you can’t wait until then you can check him out spinning with the likes of Dark Party, Lotus Drops, and other dub lovers who know how to bring your legs down to the floor with those deep wobbles.

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After a cold and dreary summer so far in San Francisco, Maneesh the Twister (Surya Dub and Dub Mission) descended upon the decks at Pirate Cat Radio and brought the summer heat with him.

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Christopher Nicholas, Joowan Kim, Golden Fetus Co-Founders

Back from a two-week hiatus we decided to hit ya with a two-part episode. First part, I (aka Mama FeelGood) felt the funk of a festive weekend–whether or not you believe that we actually live in a “land of [...]]]> The Epic Portals (right click and “save as” to download)

Christopher Nicholas, Joowan Kim, Golden Fetus Co-Founders

Back from a two-week hiatus we decided to hit ya with a two-part episode. First part, I (aka Mama FeelGood) felt the funk of a festive weekend–whether or not you believe that we actually live in a “land of the free”, we do get a federally mandated holiday and are privy to fire in the sky! So here’s to a renegades of funk-inspired set, only as eclectic as you know Sanguine Soul will do.

Second part, returning guests Joowan Kim and Christopher Nicholas drop some sizzling live tracks from their sold out performances of Great Integration. If you didn’t catch it the first time there’s many performances happening in the Bay this summer, check out their new record label, Golden Fetus Records for more info. Psst, if you listen towards the end of the show there’s a world premiere track–we have the exclusive…AND we have two tickets to their next show at Yoshi’s in SF, July 25th, 8:00pm, so email us at info@sanguinesoul.com for your tickets–subject line: Great Integration Tickets!

Great Integration @ Yoshi’s San Francisco
Price: $15 adv/ $20 at the door
When: July 25th, 8:00pm 2010

And feeling the need to represent, let me say that the tracklist is HOT, so do click below and check it out!

Love & Light
Aisha
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Can help but dance to DJ Gitane

Jumping off with the track Wonderland, off Onra’s soon to be released Long Distance, Honey Knuckles brings in local producer Lokae to cohost Sanguine Soul. The duo (aka Lokae Knuckles) hopes to put you in a state of wonderment as [...]]]> Wonderlands (right click and “save as” to download)

Can help but dance to DJ Gitane

Jumping off with the track Wonderland, off Onra’s soon to be released Long Distance, Honey Knuckles brings in local producer Lokae to cohost Sanguine Soul. The duo (aka Lokae Knuckles) hopes to put you in a state of wonderment as they select some jammy jams to prepare you for your journey ahead. After the brief stop at headnodding beats, special guest DJ Gitane shows up to send us all to the wonderlands of her worldly rhythms. So please, sit back, put your seat back and tray tables up, and enjoy your trip!

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With the Sanguine familia out of town, our good friend Canary Turd, fellow Pirate Cat Radio DJ and host of the Canary Hours takes over and does this Saturday proper. Don’t sleep on this one as she hosts Deceptikon off Daly City Records for a [...]]]> Canary Take Over (right click and “save as” to download)

With the Sanguine familia out of town, our good friend Canary Turd, fellow Pirate Cat Radio DJ and host of the Canary Hours takes over and does this Saturday proper. Don’t sleep on this one as she hosts Deceptikon off Daly City Records for a dope live set and interview to talk about his latest release, the Mythology of the Metropolis.

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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 [...]]]>
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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 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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Dj jb orange from http://djjb.vox.com/

Born from the higher powers of creation, there is a place many artists can describe as their “zone”, “nirvana”, or what freestyle MCs call getting open. This metaphysical realm is when paint, chords, camera angles, notes, words, or medium of choice escape the [...]]]> Love Supreme (right click and “save as” to download)

Dj jb orange from http://djjb.vox.com/

Born from the higher powers of creation, there is a place many artists can describe as their “zone”, “nirvana”, or what freestyle MCs call getting open. This metaphysical realm is when paint, chords, camera angles, notes, words, or medium of choice escape the artist, with little need for cognition, to simply take form from pure impulsive imagination. The guests we present tonight mold their clay from similar instinctive sites.

Tonight’s first featured guest, SF local DJ JB, described forming his sets as “on the fly”–meaning that he’ll have a rough estimate of the genres he’d like to vibe, but ultimately creates his sets in the moment. We also feature an interview with performance artists, Chris Sullivan aka Shockwave and Anthony Veneziale aka Two Touch, from the improv collective Freestyle Love Supreme. In a live pre-recorded interview (I know, the term “live pre-recorded” sounds oximoronic, but the interview was soooo off the hook when we recorded live, I had to disclaim!), breakdown their improv talents as analogous to free jazz.

To honor the free flowing spirits of our guests, Honey Knuckles and I also decided to wing-it, and ended up masterfully bringing-it; evident in the cohesion between banter and mixes which gracefully vibe almost as pure as Coltrane’s Love Supreme!…Haha, I wish! But I do give props to Honey Kunckles who not only spun two short sets so we could present the Freestyle Love Supreme interview within context of some boundary breaking artists, but mixed background for the interview impromptu…ahh that’s good skill.

Feelin the free~
Mama Feelgood

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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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If you’ve clicked the play button on the above audio then you may already realize that something is awry. We recorded a great show for our fam, featuring many songs of experiences contributed from near and far, and a mad talented live [...]]]> Songs of Experience (Glitch Edit) (right click and “save as” to download)

If you’ve clicked the play button on the above audio then you may already realize that something is awry. We recorded a great show for our fam, featuring many songs of experiences contributed from near and far, and a mad talented live performance from local electronic musician, Noel Vaughn.

But in a twist of fate after so many episodes of clear sailing until today’s one year anniversary show, our two hours of material got smashed into seven minutes of a glitchy pastiche. Quite a seven minutes worth listening to nonetheless–well, if you enjoy a collage of vocal and spatial patterns intermingled by the random impulses of the recording equipment. Much love to everyone who contributed a song and a strong memory associated with its sonic frequency; hopefully you were able to listen to us live! More songs of experience to come in the future!

Be sure to peep Noel Vaughn’s soundcloud for only a taste of what this man can do live with a computer, keyboard, and various trigger pad robotics.

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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With Aisha, Shelmatic, and Z-Note out, Honey Knuckles calls upon DJ Pandaman to co-host Sanguine Soul. From the mist of Wu Dang mountain, Pandaman arrives, records and bamboo shoots in hand to throw down a classic reggae and dancehall extravaganza. Honey Knuckles enters his ancestral being [...]]]> Roots and Rhythm (right click and “save as” to download)

With Aisha, Shelmatic, and Z-Note out, Honey Knuckles calls upon DJ Pandaman to co-host Sanguine Soul.
From the mist of Wu Dang mountain, Pandaman arrives, records and bamboo shoots in hand to throw down a classic reggae and dancehall extravaganza. Honey Knuckles enters his ancestral being and channels his internal dragon to celebrate tonight’s theme: Rhythm and Roots. Together, they are the Double Dragon DJ’s.

Hailing from Chicago by way of Panama, MC Zulu honors the duo with the genesis story of his electronic ragga rhythm. Zulu’s voice will shake you to your core and remind you what roots be all about son!

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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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We’re cooking up something special tonight on Sanguine Soul.  With the theme ingredient being Bass, guest chefs Matt Haze and Joe Mousepad (Slayer’s Club) drop by the studio to help create this musical feast. I don’t know how you like your Sanguine Soul, but be prepared [...]]]> Everlasting Bass (right click and “save as” to download)

We’re cooking up something special tonight on Sanguine Soul.  With the theme ingredient being Bass, guest chefs Matt Haze and Joe Mousepad (Slayer’s Club) drop by the studio to help create this musical feast. I don’t know how you like your Sanguine Soul, but be prepared for low frequency flavors.

For the first course, Z-Note prepares a mix with generous servings of dubstep and hints of southern production. I hope it whets your appetites because Matt Haze unveils the main course next, a classic Drum and Bass set. Using mostly vinyl, he achieves a bold meal with Joe Mousepad adding live freestyle flavors through the mic and Kaoss pad. If you can handle it, then don’t miss out on dessert. Honey Knuckles serves a massively decadent final course of hip hop, glitch, dubstep, and breaks.

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A few days ago, Mama FeelGood and I asked ourselves, “How would we represent the fundamental elements of nature through music?” The result is episode 34 of Sanguine Soul. With Shelmatic and Z-Note in LA, the Mic Mistress and I cobbled together a show dedicated to the four elements: Wind, Water, Earth, [...]]]> The Elements

A few days ago, Mama FeelGood and I asked ourselves, “How would we represent the fundamental elements of nature through music?” The result is episode 34 of Sanguine Soul. With Shelmatic and Z-Note in LA, the Mic Mistress and I cobbled together a show dedicated to the four elements: Wind, Water, Earth, and Fire. Enjoy 4 live sets, each representing one of the elements. So which element[s] speaks to your soul?

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It’s been a while since the entire Sanguine Soul family rocked the airwaves together. With the return of Honey Knuckles, and a visit from Shelmatic up from LA, Sanguine Soul brings the party on this week’s episode, Bounce. Join us as our special guest, Kush Arora, injects bass into Pirate Cat’s [...]]]> Bounce

It’s been a while since the entire Sanguine Soul family rocked the airwaves together. With the return of Honey Knuckles, and a visit from Shelmatic up from LA, Sanguine Soul brings the party on this week’s episode, Bounce. Join us as our special guest, Kush Arora, injects bass into Pirate Cat’s veins and gets the whole studio bouncing. Residents Z-Note and Honey Knuckles dig deep this week and fuse boogie, hip hop, dubstep, breaks, and funk into their sets. Mama Feelgood closes us out with the dope beats of PANTyRAiD in the background.

Z-Note Set
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Co-Creators Absurge, Danny, Tim, Travis + Fringe Crew

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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Teleportation / Global Throwdown! Pt.2

Feeling the oncoming flight of our dear friend/co-host Shelmatic from our San Francisco local we decided to throwdown a special four hour global party combined with Pirate Cat Radio’s Hetero-topia. YES, four hours of us–Sanguine Souls’ Aisha, Honey Knuckles, Shelmatic, Z-Note, with Hetero-topia’s DJ Asik and Shinobi [...]]]> Teleportation / Global Throwdown! Pt.1

Teleportation / Global Throwdown! Pt.2

Feeling the oncoming flight of our dear friend/co-host Shelmatic from our San Francisco local we decided to throwdown a special four hour global party combined with Pirate Cat Radio’s Hetero-topia. YES, four hours of us–Sanguine Souls’ Aisha, Honey Knuckles, Shelmatic, Z-Note, with Hetero-topia’s DJ Asik and Shinobi 009–kicking it and playing whatever we had in our stash of records, cds, and mp3s. Celebrating the vast physical realm we reside within–from terrain covering lush jungles and fathomless depths of deep, we bring the colors of this beautiful globe’s plethora of ethnolinguistic communities. Tapping into the sonic variance from the traditional, to tracks fused with a synergy of cultures, we represent regions that may seem like they are a great distance from us, but in reality are very close–only a few boom-bapping beats and soulful notes away.

Dematerializing from our Mission District studio we rematerialize deep into Eastern Europe with Shelmatic’s selection of Turkish Sufi psyche via Baba Zula. Deciding to turn up the heat we head to Sur de America where Mama FeelGood sends us soul tapping with the sensuous nuevo bossa nova of CéU. Within the Brazilian realm, reminding us of music’s ability to infuse hope and inspire strength for resistance, Z-Note drops the subtle rebellion of Arthur Verocai. Continuing our transport, Shinobi 009 shares solidarity with our brothers and sisters in South/South East Asia with his own Thai inspired Oillie Feelingz: Bangkok Thoughts. Always bringing it, Honey Knuckles sends us into the little known world of Angloa dance with a torso tinging grit of a track Kurum from Buraka Som Sistema.

I could go on for hours and hours listing our highlights, but why would I do that when you can press play and teleport for yourself?
Ya’ll know you’re hungry to go–I know I am! So yeeesss, let’s go for it!

With light and laughter,
Mama FeelGood

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The marriage between music and drugs is a complex, conflicted, and potent relationship. Much like a drug, music can dissolve the sensual surrounding of a listener, fragmenting that reality under the influence of resonating vibration and rhythm. A wondrous mythos surrounds modern musicianship and drug use. We speculate about a musician’s drug use and [...]]]> Intoxicated Rhythms

The marriage between music and drugs is a complex, conflicted, and potent relationship. Much like a drug, music can dissolve the sensual surrounding of a listener, fragmenting that reality under the influence of resonating vibration and rhythm. A wondrous mythos surrounds modern musicianship and drug use. We speculate about a musician’s drug use and reflect on the best fit between particular drug and genre of music; ecstasy and electronic music, psychedelic and well psychedelia, hip-hop and chronic, just to name a few of the most popular. Musicians often sing about drugs or equate their rhymes and rhythms to the effects of hypnotic chemicals. But we also acknowledge that music can take you there all by itself without any need for the help of external substances.

On the social level, the contemporary glorification of the drug dealer’s hustle pervades our urban centers and captures the imagination of so-seeming innocuous suburbanites. Whether embodied by Notorious BIG’s “Ten Crack Commandments” or Clipse’s more recent “Grindin’”, the seduction of the pusher’s intense lifestyle and Scarface style obsession with the American dream still colors America’s collective imaginaire. But the rejection of these archetypes and unveiling of the broader political implications behind it push forward as well, as seen in the sounds of Nina Simone’s “Pusher” and Immortal Technique’s “Peruvian Cocaine”. Honey Knucles and myself, the humble magnificent Z Note try to sketch out these multifaceted levels of the modern marriage between drugs and music. Quasimoto’s The Unseen (Stones Throw, 2000) provide the background instrumentals — a Madlib effort famously orchestrated while the musician binged on psyclobin mushrooms and other magic potions.

As if all that wasn’t enough, we also feature a special guest for this week, New York DJ and beatsmith Las Flores Project! Mic Mistress Aisha and Honey Knucks host a prerecorded interview with LFP and discuss the legacy of David Axelrod and DJ Shadow as well as the future of musicianship. Las Flores also blesses the decks with a mad decent set, introducing us to his lush grooves and swishing, wildlife soundscapes. His wavelength is certainly another reminder that music can take you higher–all by way of its own powers–to an ephemeral place of euphoria, adventure and novelty.

Oh, and we’re still trying to find a song that personifies a male love interest as a drug. Think Rick James’ “Mary Jane” but using a masculine metaphor. Who’s got it?

Peace and bless 1!
- Z Note

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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.

Live set by Spank Bank [begins 12:28]
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Live set by Honey Knuckles [begins 34:19]
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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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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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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 [...]]]> 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 familiar understanding, allowing us to venture into the borderlands of the unknown. What falls into the conceptual categorization may be playful and evocative and ultimately challenging to our conventional expectations of what sorts of music should engage in collective dialogue.

In the spirit of such sonic experiments Sanguine Sunday presents to our listeners a special episode on Electric Soul! We gather inspiration from Little Dragon’s unique brand of cobalt musings in sun drenched, synthesized space folk. Whoo, adjectives! Hemmingway must be rolling in his grave. Fuck it. At halftime, Shelmatic catches up with lead crooner of the outfit, Yukimi Nagano, for a back on forth on Little Dragon’s idiosyncratic influences and nuanced tightness as a prismatic bending band.

Honey Knucks jumps it off with a seamless meandering through the electric soul of D’Angelo to Pretty Lights’ highly original florescent funk and back to the fundamental earth tones with Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”. Summoned in response, I (Z Note “The Asteroid Surfer”) push the smoked out burgundy wavelength–flipping the bold new rhythms of Sa-Ra into the slick swagger of Fatima and Prince’s b-side brilliance.

This episode is guaranteed to warm the heart and relax the anxious mind. Imbibe in the therapeutic shining, and tell us what you think fits into this Electric Soul liquid pump.

Yours,
Z-Note

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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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Life pulsates at the speed of pushing pavements—foot to grind moving to your core’s cadence, while others peddle and postpone perched above saddles, some beat urgent blaps of car horns, as bus carriages screaming for passengers lurch to consume them then revive…We are the flesh moving about this concrete labyrinth, through and between [...]]]> Pushing Pavements

Life pulsates at the speed of pushing pavements—foot to grind moving to your core’s cadence, while others peddle and postpone perched above saddles, some beat urgent blaps of car horns, as bus carriages screaming for passengers lurch to consume them then revive…We are the flesh moving about this concrete labyrinth, through and between miraculous painted lines—or ignoring these boundaries laughing as lights flashing white men and red hands tell us when to go…Don’t get my drab tone wrong, there is beauty to this grid. The way we’re stacked upon one another—the vibrancy of every culture breathing, eating, loving amongst one another…

Let us celebrate the manic depressive ride of city life—the voluptuous highs and gritty gritty lows. Aisha, a rose growing out of the concrete, brings it hard with a special flow paying tribute to the splendorous energy of our metropolitan area. As Honey Knuckles takes us on a drop-of-the-dime safari through sonic textures as equally rough and wondrous as El-P’s T.O.J—weaving us in and out of architecturally abrupt changes.

Never letting us forget that concrete living is one of magic as well as grind, Z-Note packages the essence of inner-city turbulence and electricity from the souls of artists who were grown within the magical belly of pavement beasts—from the pensive instrumentals of Universal Magnetic to Fatima’s wailing Wildchild Z-Note channels city chi to and within us without fail. Also, never failing us with knowledge on the local, our very own urbanista extraordinaire Shelmatic not only updates our pulses, but challenges us to mind marinate on the art of piecing.

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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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