This lil number right here , Records, Oneness, Beats, Growing, playing gigs w/ friends & strangers, Skateboarding, collecting old headphones, finding out that I was wrong, mangos con chili, Ms.PacMan, Ethiopian/Indian/Thai/Soul food, Farsi, global family reunions
my Maker.
...and these two:
got this from my wonderful friend
DJ Shadow,
Cymande,
The JBs,
Madlib,
Saul Williams,
Funkadelic,
the Black Keys,
Amon Tobin,
James Marshall Hendrix,
Abyssinians,
Congos,
Robert Nesta Marley,
Tubby,
Marvin,
Common,
Buck 65,
Talib,
Mos,
Steveland "Stevie Wonder" Morris,
DJ Vadim,
Jazzanova,
Cluade Chalhoub,
J.Boogie's Dubtronic Science,
Cut Chemist,
Rjd2,
Fela Anikulapo Kuti,
Medeski Martin and Wood,
Sylvester "SLY STONE" Stewart,
Bill Withers,
Platinum Pied Pipers,
John Lee Hooker,
Jeremy Sole's Musaics, (what!?)
Yusef Lateef,
Prefuse 73,
Mulatu,
Zap Mama,
Tommy Guerrero,
DJ Krush,
Sade,
Nobody,
Jack Johnson,
Light of Saba,
the Meters,
Roots Manuva,
Kid Koala,
Native Tongues,
Kraftwerk,
Gil Scott Heron,
Hall and Oates,
Finley Quaye (1st record),
Herbie (Mann and Hancock),
Eddie Harris,
Antibalas,
Grant Green,
Santana (Divadip),
Brett Dennen,
Lafayette Afro-Rock Band,
Roy Ayers,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gabor Szabo,
Shango,
Steely Dan,
Joe Bataan,
Ray Charles,
Tom Waits,
Sun Ra,
Nina Simone,
Sweet Honey in the Rock,
BoomBip,
(70's) Stones,
Zepplin,
Joni Mitchell,
Rico,
Charles Wright,
Maker,
Kenny Burrel,
Lalo Schifrin,
Galt McDermott,
Live Human,
Sarah Vaughn,
Poets of Rhythm,
Robert/Karl/Elgin and the Greyboy Allstars,
Lewis Taylor,
John & Alice Coltrane,
the Headhunters,
Hi-Tek,
Al Green,
McCoy Tyner,
Dakah,
Breakestra & all of Miles' other funky tangents,
Idris Muhammad,
Can,
the Oneness of Juju,
Shantel,
Atmosphere,
Mahavishnu,
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey,
Sean Layton,
Gary Bartz,
FRIENDS' MUSIC:
Shakeyface,
Afrikan Sciences,
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey,
Tim & Tony Janda,
Megan Jacobs,
Damon Aaron,
Bintu,
Sidewalk Skolaz,
Rocky Dawuni,
JC (John Carmichael),
Jesse DeLa,
Rich Medina,
Blackbird,
Dez Hope,
Emily Wells,
Todd Simon,
Sign One,
Sahaja Uprockers,
DJ Form,
Shon Dervis,
Carlos Nino,
Zeke,
ShagOne,
Leggo,
Anthony Valadez,
J.Boogie,
Grizzly,
Absent One,
Blackalicious,
Johnny Guitar Watson (mainly just the "Listen" LP),
Taj Mahal,
Babatunde Olatunji,
Mickey Hart,
Lifesavas,
Lightnin Hopkins,
Shuggie Otis,
Funk Inc.,
Charlie Mingus,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Derrick Carter,
Ron Trent,
Nickodemus & TOTH family,
BessKepp,
JRocc,
U Roy,
Jose Feliciano,
Rhinoceros,
Yabby U,
Duane Allman,
D'Angelo,
Hugh Masekela,
Blo,
Manu Dibango,
AmmonContact,
Soul Syndicate,
John Brown's Body,
Blondie,
Leon Parker,
Rocky Dawuni,
Ron Carter,
Toots,
Ras Michael,
5-Style/Tortoise/Isotope 217 (& any other bands w/ Johnny Machine & Dan "Spectronix" Bitney!),
Yabby U,
Cannonball Adderley,
Savoy Brown,
Ultimate Spinach,
John Holt,
Tony Allen,
Lila Downs,
Martinho Da Vila,
Moacir Santos,
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan,
Paris Zax,
DJ Moves,
Monty Alexander,
Ibrahim Ferrer,
Steely Dan,
Muddy Waters,
Blockhead,
Mombasa,
Allen Toussaint,
Lil Louis,
DJ Rush,
Martinho Da Vila,
movie scores and soundtracks,
meditation and zen records
(Allen Watts, Manly P. Hall...),
poetry records,
instructional records,
chanting records,
hypnotism records,
sound fx records,
propaganda records...........
WHY WE FIGHT, The Tango Lesson, City of God, Baraka, Why We Fight, Everything is Illuminated, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, The Freshest Kids, Warriors, Rainbow Bridge, Waking Life, Winged Migration, Tarnation, Femi Kuti: Live at the Shrine, Style Wars, Dreams, Streetfight, Yo Soy Cuba, Do the Right Thing, Drugstore Cowboy, Brazil, Studio One Story, Buena Vista Social Club, The Royal Tenenbaums, Search for Animal Chin, Man Bites Dog, Scratch, Animatrix, City of Lost Children, Music Is The Weapon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, oh, and that "Blues" series that Martin Scorcese director on TV about a year or two back.
the Nature Channel (unplugged).
RETURN OF THE BIRD TRIBES, Letters To A Young Poet (Rilke), The Artists Way, Ponder On This, Tao Te Ching (Steven Mitchell translation), Wax Poetics, "Lamb: the gospel according to Bif, Jesus' childhood pal", graf design books (esp. w/ STRUGGLE INC & C.R.O.), Subway Art, Be Here Now, Itation, Bomb the Suburbs, No More Prisons, & all: Rumi, HP Blavatsky, Cicero, Saul Williams, the Dalai Lama...
The reality, concept and application of God in all forms and formlessness | my gramps Solomon Rubinrot who broke out of the concentration camp and returned to break my grandma out | my Mom/friend/teacher/guiding light | Anne Elizabeth Carmack | everyone who does Good when no one's watching | Ghandi, Jesus, Abraham, Mohammad, Martin Luther King Jr., Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Albert Einstein, Haile Selassie and all others who felt that they're existance was worth standing for the good that they percieved in humanity and the future of righteousness | my favorite deejay of all time... Tarek "DJ Dusk" Captan.