Music:
THERE'S NO WAY for me to post everybody, so here's just a few highlights:
My favorites of all time: *OUTSIDE (Matt Cooper, Andreas Allen and friends); *SOUL II SOUL (Jazzie B, Caron Wheeler, Gota Yashiki and friends); *HERBIE HANCOCK; *SADE; *ERIC B. & RAKIM; *GANG STARR; *PETE ROCK + CL SMOOTH (and yes, they need to squash their silly beef & get back together again), *LL COOL J, *OLETA ADAMS; *NOBUKAZU TAKEMURA (unfortunately, ONLY his "Child's View" LP)
Notables, in no special order :
*John Beltran, *Stevie Ray Vaughan, *Masters At Work, *Blaze, *Larry Heard aka Fingers, *Ten City, *Donnie, *Stephanie Cooke, *Kyoto Jazz Massive, *Hajime Yoshizawa, *Grand Pianoramax, *DJ Spinna, *Selan, *the Native Tongues, *Swell Session, *M.O.P., *EPMD, *Koop, *DJ Kemit and Just1 = Kemetic Just, *Sandboy, *Marc Dorsey, *Jazzanova, *Bjork, *KRS-One, *Kenny Bobien, *the Gypsy Kings, *Obrie Smith III, *MARSHALL, *Caetano Veloso, *Cocoa Tea, *the Gershwins, *Ladysmith Black Mambazo, *Goldie and the Metalheadz, *Incognito, *modaji, *Robert Randolph and The Family Band, *Lonnie Liston Smith, *Roy Ayers, *Vinia Mojica, *Taral Hicks, *Brigette McWilliams, *Opolopo, *Ronny Jordan, *Goapele, *Donny Hathaway, *Yukihiro Fukitomi, *James Brown and the JB's, *Fela Anikulapo/Ransome Kuti, *Sun Ra, *Lizz Wright, *Vikter Duplaix, *Organized Konfusion, *4hero, *Kerri Chandler, *King Britt, *Antibalas, *La India, *Digable Planets, *James Ingram, *Alucidnation, *LTJ BUKEM and the whole Good Looking Records/Cookin' Records family (MC Conrad, Big Bud, Tayla, Words 2B Heard, DRS, K-Scope, Future Engineers, Bjorn, Makoto, Earth Leakage Trip, Vincent, White Rhino, etc. etc. etc.!!!), *Rebel MC, *Julie Dexter, *PM Dawn, *Hird, *Duke Ellington, *Nuspirit Helsinki, *Terrence Blanchard, *Marshall Jefferson, *Osunlade, *Stevie Ray Vaughan, *Marcus Roberts, *Gotan Project, *Photek, *Carleen and Jhelisa Anderson, *Ron Trent, *the Brand New Heavies, *Neon Phusion, *Aya, *Quentin Harris, *Tru.Ski, *Hip Hop during the years of
1988-1994