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A paen to the idea of travel when travel is fleeting.
Though travel is always fleeting. But for some time it hasn't even been.
Sometimes, with a deep sigh, it feels like it never will be.
Openness. Freedom. Moving toward a fixed point.

Road trippy stuff, and a chance to work through a backlog of folksy tunes.

1. Sam Amidon – Maggie
2. Cass McCombs – County Line
3. Leif Vollebekk – Elegy
4. Wilco – Love Is Everywhere (Beware)
5. Vashti Bunyan – Against The Sky
6. Helena Deland – Saying Something
7. Waxahatchee – Lilacs
8. Aldous Harding – The Barrel
9. Jessica Pratt – This Time Around
10. Micah P. Hinson – Beneath the Rose
11. Laura Marling – I Was An Eagle
12. Still Corners – White Sands
13. Loma – Ocotillo
14. The War On Drugs – Eyes To The Wind
15. Timber Timbre – Curtains!?
16. John Hiatt – Damn This Town
17. Kevin Morby – I Have Been to the Mountain
18. Spoon – Wild
19. Clairo – Bags
20. Big Thief – Wake Me up to Drive
21. Alex G – Runner
22. Sufjan Stevens, Angelo De Augustine – Back To Oz

A bit mystical,
A bit existential,
A bit of a prayer
to what's out there
and what's in here.

1. Beth Gibbons — Floating On A Moment
2. Helado Negro — Running
3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Bright Horses
4. ANOHNI, Antony and the Johnsons — Sliver Of Ice
5. Julie Byrne — The Greater Wings
6. The Smile — Free In The Knowledge
7. King Krule — Seaforth
8. Nilüfer Yanya — Mutations
9. Ada Lea — damn
10. Cate Le Bon — Moderation
11. Japanese Breakfast — Paprika
12. SPELLLING — Little Deer
13. Jockstrap — Concrete Over Water
14. Avalon Emerson — Sandrail Silhouette
15. The Weather Station — Robber
16. Beth Orton — Weather Alive
17. Cassandra Jenkins — Hard Drive
18. Julia Holter — Sun Girl
19. Beverly Glenn-Copeland — Ever New

For flushing the system out.
Maybe that's what all music is about.
Ambient, jazz, electronic, the occasional song.

1. Ana Roxanne - Suite Pour L'invisible
2. Claire Rousay - discrete (the market)
3. Cassandra Jenkins - Hard Drive
4. Fred again.. - Kyle (I Found You)
5. Sam Gendel - Sometimes I Feel So Good
6. Rosie Lowe, Duval Timothy - Gonna Be
7. L'Rain - Find It
8. Carmen Villain - Gestures (with Arve Henriksen)
9. Julianna Barwick - Inspirit
10. Javier Segura - Malagueñas 2
11. Wormwood - Harptree
12. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 1
13. Nala Sinephro - Space 1
14. Jon Hassell - Last Night The Moon Came
15. Arushi Jain - My People Have Deep Roots
16. Arooj Aftab, Darian Donovan Thomas - Baghon Main
17. Kelly Moran - Autowave
18. Agnes Obel - Familiär
19. Eartheater - Below The Clavicle
20. Arca - Piel
21. Lyra Pramuk - Witness
22. SOPHIE - Is It Cold In The Water?
23. ANOHNI - Drone Bomb Me

Witches on the moor under the full moon, but the witches are connected to the internet. A set of darker, atmospheric but fairly intense stuff.

1. DEBBY FRIDAY - Runnin
2. Backxwash; Devi McCallion - Spells
3. Smerz - Believer
4. JPEGMAFIA - REBOUND!
5. Jenny Hval - High Alice
6. The Notwist - Into Love / Stars
7. DARKSIDE - The Limit
8. Moor Mother and billy woods - The Blues Remembers Everything the Country Forgot (feat. Wolf Weston)
9. Madlib - Road Of The Lonely Ones
10. Boldy James; Real Bad Man - Held Me Down
11. FKA twigs; Headie One; Fred again.. - Don't Judge Me
12. Sampha - Blood on Me
13. Chromatics - Light As A Feather
14. Vallens - While You Are Still Waiting
15. Circuit des Yeux - Dogma
16. John Glacier - Some Other Thing
17. MATTIE; Black Taffy - Human Thing
18. Georgia - Move Systems
19. Ela Minus - el cielo no es de nadie
20. Kae Tempest - Perfect Coffee

A quarantuned tribute to being locked inside. This was originally put together in the wide eyed early days of the demic when 2 months of COVID protocols seemed like a long time. Some are thematically related, some just felt right.

1. Against All Logic – This Old House Is All I Have
2. Caribou – Home
3. Durand Jones & The Indications – Morning in America
4. Anderson .Paak – Lockdown
5. Tyler, The Creator – GONE, GONE / THANK YOU
6. Desire Marea – Tavern Kween
7. Moses Sumney – Conveyor / boxes
8. Owen Pallett – A Bloody Morning
9. The Weeknd – Initiation
10. billy woods; Kenny Segal – Spider Hole
11. Gil Scott-Heron – New York Is Killing Me
12. Quelle Chris – Obamacare
13. Yves Tumor – Gospel For A New Century
14. Fiona Apple – Heavy Balloon
15. Sharon Van Etten – Seventeen
16. Angel Olsen – All Mirrors
17. The National – Apartment Story
18. R.E.M. – Sweetness Follows
19. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Albequerque
20. Phoebe Bridgers – I Know The End

Disco dancing and then relaxing and then getting introspective.

1. Jessie Ware - Spotlight
2. Shura - religion (u can lay your hands on me)
3. Magdalena Bay - Secrets (Your Fire)
4. Róisín Murphy - Murphy's Law - Edit
5. Solange - Stay Flo
6. Tinashe - Bouncin
7. Amber Mark - Mixer
8. Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel
9. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
10. Charli XCX - forever
11. Tei Shi - Go Slow
12. Frøkedal - First Friend
13. POLIÇA - Lime Habit
14. Kacy Hill - Dinner
15. Half Waif - Blinking Light
16. Kelly Lee Owens - On
17. KROY - Hull
18. Fatima Yamaha - What's a Girl to Do
19. Todd Terje; Bryan Ferry - Johnny and Mary
20. Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia

A long festering delight, this playlist is dreamy and a little bit lush and wistful, before getting a little sultrier toward the end once the sun goes down (plays real nice in before #145)

1. Camille - Seeds
2. Apparat; Soap&Skin - Goodbye
3. PJ Harvey; Harry Escott - An Acre of Land - Edit
4. Mary Lattimore - It Feels Like Floating
5. AKUA - Offering
6. FKA twigs - cellophane
7. Jenny Hval - Ashes to Ashes
8. Caroline Polachek - Door
9. Let's Eat Grandma - Falling Into Me
10. U.S. Girls - Rosebud
11. Hundred Waters - Wave to Anchor
12. Beach House - Lemon Glow
13. 0171 - SMTHN RL
14. Real Lies - You Were in Love - Unreal Mix
15. Channel Tres - Topdown
16. Masego - Big Girls
17. Valee; Jeremih - Womp Womp
18. ABRA - Roses

A conflagration of several works in progress involving music relating to black identity (and a few ahem bangers). Maybe it's the coda to the never-completed history of hip hop series (which can never happen on Spotify/streaming due to the lack of availability of some pretty important artists).

Starts off jazzy and bouncy and femme (1-3), moves into politics (4-6) and pop (-9) before some straight ass kicking (11-13) back to hard politics and then jazz (14-19).

1. Little Simz - Offence
2. Noname - Blaxploitation
3. Simpson - I Got It!
4. A Tribe Called Quest - We The People....
5. Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker The Berry
6. Saul Williams - The Noise Came from Here
7. Jamila Woods - Blk Girl Soldier
8. Beyoncé - Formation
9. Childish Gambino - This Is America
10. Genesis Owusu - I Don't See Colour
11. Run The Jewels - Panther Like a Panther (Miracle Mix) (feat. Trina)
12. Danny Brown - Really Doe (feat. Kendrick Lamar; Ab-Soul; Earl Sweatshirt)
13. ScHoolboy Q; Jadakiss - Groovy Tony / Eddie Kane
14. Vince Staples - BagBak
15. Terrace Martin; Denzel Curry - Pig Feet (feat. Kamasi Washington, G Perico & Daylyt)
16. Sons Of Kemet; Kojey Radical - Hustle
17. SAULT - Strong
18. Angel Bat Dawid; Tha Brothahood - Black Family - Live
19. Kamasi Washington - The Rhythm Changes

I feared/suspected this site was purely archival, but my brain can't not make playlists so even though it's real slow (a lot of these have been gradually cooking up over several years) I am now putting out some content.

No fancy mixing, just Spotify playlists due to time constraints and software constraints, but they're certainly inordinantly fussed over still.

It still doesn't quite feel the same as the full-blown episode/mixes, so given that radio is dead and streaming is redundant in these times we're going from Radio Slipstream to The Slip.

If you ask certain music scholars "What was the first hiphop song?" "Where did hip hop come from?"

This is an extensively researched selection of the answers you're likely to get.

Full commentary available on Medium

• The Last Poets — When The Revolution Comes
• Cab Calloway — Minnie The Moocher
• Louis Jordan — Saturday Night Fish Fry, Parts 1 & 2
• Bo Diddley — Say Man
• the watts prophets — Funny how things can change
• the watts prophets — Amerikkka
• Gil Scott-Heron — Whitey On the Moon
• Richard Pryor — Niggers Vs. The Police
• Cassius Clay — Round 1: I Am The Greatest
• Rudy Ray Moore — Flatland
• Gil Scott-Heron — The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
• Big Youth — Screaming Target
• U-Roy — Natty Rebel
• The Congos — Fisherman
• Lyn Collins — Think (About It)
• James Brown — Funky Drummer
• James Brown — Funky President (People It's Bad)
• The Honey Drippers — Impeach the President
• The Winstons — Amen Brother
• Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band — Apache
• Sly & The Family Stone — Sing A Simple Song
• Parliament — Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)
• Herman Kelly & Life — Dance to the Drummer's Beat

Episode #143.

Instruments (mostly synthesized), melodies and beats that will cut you deep and serve your heart on a platter for the amusement of your friends.

Trippy and a bit weird at the beginning, giving way to some comforting and soulful, heartbreaking stuff further inland.

• Machinedrum – Eyesdontlie
• Arca – Thievery
• Flying Lotus – Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
• The Field – They Won’t See Me
• Gidge – I Fell In Love
• Andy Stott – Faith In Strangers
• FKA twigs – Two Weeks
• Fatima – Ridin Round (Sky High)
• DJ Quik – Puffin the Dragon
• Röyksopp & Robyn – Monument
• Vince Staples – Limos
• Big K.R.I.T. – Saturdays = Celebration (feat. Jamie N Commons)
• Hundred Waters – Murmurs
• Wild Beasts – Mecca
• Say Lou Lou – Fool of Me (feat. Chet Faker)
• Jessie Ware – Tough Love
• Caribou – Back Home
• How to Dress Well – Words I Don’t Remember

The intersection of disco, electro and hip hop in the early 80s.

Themes of technology, space, and to dance dance dance.

Inspired by Patrick the Bunny‘s DJ set from Retro Electro Sideshow from London’s 2014 Nuit Blanche which I helped curate.

• Grace Jones – Slave to the Rhythm
• Mantronix – Bassline
• The Packman – Im The Packman
• Steinski – The Payoff Mix
• George Clinton – Loopzilla
• Tyrone Brunson – The Smurf
• C.O.D. – In The Bottle
• Q – The Voice of Q
• Shannon – Let The Music Play
• Warp 9 – Light Years Away
• The Masterdon Committee – Funk Box Party
• Whodini – Magic’s Wand
• Herbie Hancock – Rockit
• Art Of Noise – Beat Box (Diversion One)
• John Carpenter – The End
• Newcleus – Jam On It
• Man Parrish – Hip Hop Be Bop (Don’t Stop)
• Hashim – Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)
• Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force – Planet Rock
• Twilight 22 – Electric Kingdom
• Cybotron – Cosmic Cars
• World Class Wreckin Cru – Mission Possible
• Klein & MBO – Dirty Talk
• Giorgio Moroder – Chase
• Section 25 – Looking From A Hilltop (Restructure)
• SHOCK – R.E.R.B.
• Capricorn – I Need Love
• Yello – Vicious Games
• Space – Magic Fly
• Charlie – Spacer Woman
• New Order – Blue Monday