Film. Vinyl. Design. Dance.
People that aren't afraid of me. The Non-Wack. The Honest and True. People that've got my back. People with Soul. People with an appreciation of things Foreign to them. People that lack the ability to make rash, snap-judgements. People that aren't afraid to Dance. People with the Beautiful Eye. People with extensive Record Collections. And Bruce Lee.
You gotta be kiddin' me... Minnie Riperton, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Shuggie Otis, Otis Redding, Brubeck, Aretha, MJ, Prince, The Meters just some basics... Then on to my adolescence when I started listening to The Cure, The Smiths, Siouxsie Sioux, Depeche Mode, X, Joy Division, New Order... My first transition into dance music started with all those early Arista 12"s, and I hit the industrial scene for a little while... Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Thrill Kill, etc... Simultaneously, Yo! MTV Raps had become my best friend. So of course, De La, Tribe, Slick Rick, BDP, Kane, PR & CL, Eric B & Rakim, Jungle Bros... Soul has always beeen a huge part of my life. And the list goes on. Fast forward to what I've been listening to a lot lately. M.I.A., Prefuse 73, The Doves, Bloc Party, Edan, De La, LCD Soundsystem, Alicia Keys, The Go! Team, The Raveonettes, C-Mon & Kypski, Death From Above 1979, Beck, Arcade Fire... Those have been on pretty constant rotation. Hip-Hop is a humongous part of my life: Kanye, Jay-Z, Common, Aceyalone, Aesop, Blackalicious, J5, Digable, Dizzee Rascal, Erykah Badu... I am officially getting sick of typing now. There's a shitload out there. I have my moods when I like to listen to some Sade, Air, some dope new Brazilian shit by way of Sabrina Malheiros or the like... But then I am a huge house, nu-jazz head. MAW, deep Chicago House, Bugz, blah blah... Big fan of DJs. Hollertonix, TTOTH, yadda yadda. I could go on forever. Maybe one day I'll come back and make a more complete list without leaving a bunch of shit out. And then all my local faves. The Pretty Please, Nicknack, Bavu, Pong, Tee-Double, Octopus Project, Blaze, Starsign, Chicken George... Again. I have to stop or I will never get back to work.