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
Music
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...........
Movies
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.
Television
the Nature Channel (unplugged).
Books
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...
Heroes
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.
BEMBE (a monthly musical ceremony in various cities) Silverlake/San Francisco/Miami..., CA/FL... US Co-founder/Resident DJ/Flyer Designer www.myspace.com/bembecelebration
About me: * PLEASE ADD MY MUSIC PAGE (MUSAICS) AS YOUR FRIEND,
SO I CAN PLAY YOU SOME MUSIC AND INVITE YOU TO GIGS.
~;~:~;~:~;~:~;~:~;~:~;~:~;~:~~;~:~;~:~;~:~;~:~;~:~;~:~;~:~ SELF: Sun: Aries // Dexterity: southpaw // Yin: music // Yang: silence Religion: All of the above // Aspiring minimalist (recovering materialist) Income: non-monetary // Website: www.musaics.com Myspace Audio Page: www.myspace.com/musaics ~;~:~;~:~;~:~;~:~;~:~;~:~;~:~~;~:~;~:~;~:~;~:~;~:~;~:~;~:~
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Afro Funké: weekly Funk invocation
Afrobeat, Brazilian, Dub, Reggae, Cumbia,
Samba Disco, Batucada, Indian Beats,
Afro Latin House, Makossa and other deep
rooted Funk music from around the world.
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Thursdays @ Zanzibar
1301 5th st. Santa Monica, CA. 90401
9pm | 21+ | 310.451.2221 | $7 www.zanzibarlive.com
happy belated bday jeremy... i heard it was your bday last week..sorry i missed out on the festivities..i'm kinda in a cocoon right now... hoping to turn into a beautiful butterfly... i miss the afro funke family and will come out to play soon!
BUYEPONGO this wednesday March 25th at the conga room wit QUINto SOL and Pachamama
BUYE goes on at 10pm SPEcial quest -J-LO cuz she owns that damn place.
!WE"RE THIRSTY ! rip that little crotch
for tickets call 562 2065690
THE DIARY Volume 1.5 (20 Years of the Remix) now available for free download at WWW. MUSICOFSUBSTANCE. COM!
“This CD just shows how much Chris Read knows about historic Hip Hop production techniques - Its just a shame he wasn't creating this stuff during the eras he's covering as we would probably rate the man as being up there with Paul C, Pete Rock, Premier and all! - I can't think of another Hip Hop CD I've played so much in years” (ANDY SMITH - PORTISHEAD)
"Chris continues the rap anthology concept of his super-dope 'The Diary' megamix in the shape of a remix project, re-lacing acapellas from 89-2009 with historically accurate beats. 'The Diary 1.5' serves as a great platform for Chris to showcase his ample beat-making skills whilst referencing those who've inspired him." (DJ WOODY - FORMER WORLD ITF CHAMPION)
“Wicked! The perfect companion to The Diary Mixtape. Shows an impressive knowledge of sounds from all eras.” (MR THING - FORMER WORLD DMC CHAMPION)
"Crazy! This is Rap History in the making. Chris proves his production skills on this one to the fullest. A wonderful and refreshing journey through all eras of hip hop. Double thumbs up!" (MARC HYPE - FORMER ITF CHAMPION)
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