3rd Bass breakup

I miss 3rd Bass.

I've missed them since 1993. They were unique for many reasons and I enjoyed them very much.

3rd Bass came out of nowhere and earned my trust & respect right from the start. Since they were down with a lot my favorite rappers at the time, on Def Jam and had flavor for days, I had their back. I also have Derelicts of Dialect, The Cactus Revisited, Dust to Dust & Return of the Product. Derelicts of Dialect forces me to wonder which of their full-lengths is better. To this day, I haven't decided.

Not to take anything away from Serch but for some reason, Prime Minister Pete Nice was my man of two. His verses on Wordz of Wisdom are my favorite of all songs. No Static At All comes in a not very close second place. I'm a wordy guy and not so simple in my communication style, just like Pete Nice. I never always understood what he was rhyming but I loved hearing him. If I were to be cool and smooth more often than not, I would want to be as cool and smooth as I remember Pete Nice from the 3rd Bass days.

When I heard they were breaking up, I realized that there would be no 3rd classic hip hop album from them for me to listen to. I knew the break up would lead to no good. There were dope tracks on both their solo projects but their combined talents were magical.

I'm happy that I got to experience their music and vibe when I did. There will never be another 3rd Bass, unless they combine their magical talents again.

Neil Young

I'm not the biggest fan of Neil Young but I can feel that there are a lot of people waiting for his latest album whenever it drops.

Many years ago, I let go of my copy of Harvest and with the exception of the Decade CD, had no Neil Young vinyl to speak of or spin. 

I bought his Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and After the Gold Rush albums upon strong insistence. At the price I paid for them each, I could have been mistaken for a Neil Young fan.

However, knowing that I'm prone to playing 1960/1970s rock, pop and soul, his music would not only fit in but suit my needs statistically speaking. 

I was intrigued by his Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere album cover and curious about its contents from the first time I saw it.  When I learned that his version of Down By The River was on that album, I didn't need too much more coaxing to buy it.  My first contact with the song with through the late Buddy Miles and loved it. It if weren't for Heart of Gold, Down By The River would be my favorite Neil Young.



Speaking of Heart of Gold.....



A few years ago, I was informed that the late Rick James and Neil Young were in a band called The Mynah Birds.  I never heard any of their music clearly until now courtesy of this mix.

Mynah Mix from DJ_NEWSradio on 8tracks.

Ironically or not, while making my way to host my Suite Delight show, I started singing Buffalo Springfield's Mr. Soul for the first time in my life. A radio show called Brave New Jams played Mr. Soul one night among a couple other Neil numbers and I was able to hear it. 

I took the picture below at the Phantasmagoria Exhibition. I found it intriguing he is the only one not posing like the others. Apparently this was the last album the group would record as Buffalo Springfield. I don't know if it was his idea or the label's but I admire him and this album cover.



I found it intriguing he is the only one not posing like the others. Apparently this was the last album the group would record as Buffalo Springfield. I don't know if it was his idea or the label's but I admire him and this album cover.



I have a lot of respect for the legendary Canadian rocker.  It won't be much longer until Suite Delight listeners will be reaping from my harvest of music with the gold rush of Neil Young songs that will gracing upcoming show playlists.

King Britt

King Britt


King Britt Interview :: Saturn Never Sleeps :: Soul Superhero from Soul Superhero on Vimeo.
I have a lot of respect for King Britt, even though I`m familiar with very little of his work. It took my being RPM Director to learn he was important to house and electronic music. It was with that respect that once I found out through Exclaim Magazine that he released The Intricate Beauty, I did what I could to add a copy to our rotation. In turn, the album topped the chart.

Pierre Perpall

Pierre Perpall listed as 2013 Pop Montreal performer has a touch of local recognition.

I had the honor and privilege of receiving Perpall Jr. as guest DJ on my show twice in the last seven years. Ironically, Pierre Perpall's music was played nearly the same amount of times.  

A colored 12" single for Them Changes crossed my path and made its way onto my 4th Anniversary playlist. 

2012 Suite Delight guests Dylan Gagné & Papa Bill Records brought a few Pierre Perpall 7" singles (that I hadn't seen or been aware of) to my show.

Lastly, two copies of the compilation album featuring the late George Thurston (Boule Noire), Geraldine Hunt, Alma Faye Brooks and Pierre Perpall I found in local record stores found their way into my collection as well.

Pierre Perpall is one of Montreal's founding fathers of soul/funk.  The photo of himself and James Brown is symbolic in many ways because just as he is beside the Godfather of Soul, Perpall is Quebec's godfather of groove.

Enjoy the Pierre Perpall 2013 Pop Montreal performance at Église POP Little Burgundy.  

Papa Bill Records Suite Delight Playlist:
The Incredible Bongo Band - Let There Be Drums
The Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock
Preston Epps Trio - Say Yeah!!
Billy Hambric - New York City Baby
Les Coquettes - Jimmy Mack
Pierre Perpall - Stop Il Faut Arreter
Talk Spot
Eddie Spencer - If This Is Love (Then I'd Rather Be Lonely)
Merry Clayton - Gimme Shelter
Gloria Jones - Heartbeat
Dottie Cambridge - He's About A Mover
Les Nobels - Les Oignons Vertes
Marie Claire - Nitty Gritty
Talk Spot
Motherlode - What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)
The Original Caste - Mr. Monday
Phil Flowers - I Saw Her Standing There
Otis Redding - Satisfaction
Pierre Perpall - Satisfaction
Les Hou-Lops - Pas Besoin D'Un Docteur
The Temptations - All I Need
Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About A Mover
Talk Spot
Black Joe Lewis & The Soul Distributors - Boogaloo On Clark Street
Curtis Lee & The KCP's - Everybody's Going Wild
Tony Roman Cinq - Mickey's Monkey
Nina Simone - Suzanne
Talk Spot
Eddie Kirk - The Grunt
Gino Parks - Fire
The Quid - Crazy Things
Jenny Rock - Walkin' The Dog
Bill Cosby - Ursalena
Koko Taylor - Yes It's Good For You
Talk Spot
Les Preachers - Respect
Wilson Pickett - Sugar Sugar
Len Barry - Funky Night
Raphael - J'ai Vu
Ginette Reno - In The Year 2525
Talk Spot

Suite Delight Playlist: Dylan Gagne 05/12/2012
The Ron Johnson Trio - Hey Joe
The London Experimental Jazz Quartet - Destroy The Nihilist Picnic
The Everyday People - Magic Man
Frank Motley & The Hitch-Hikers - Hook & Sling
Paul Baillargeon - Cago 9
Marc Hamilton - C'est Que Tout Va Bien
Steppenwolf - Hey Lawdy Mama
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Small Axe
Georges Brummell - Il Travaille A La Mine
Pierre Perpall - Do Re Mi Fa Soul
Booker T & The MGs - Love Child
Erma Franklin - Light My Fire
Les Hou-Lops - Love
Les Lutins - Le Junglomanie (Instrumental)
Ruth Copeland - The Music Box
Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man
Les Napoleons - Fou De Toi
Les Sultans -  Tu Es Impossible
Melvin Van Peebles - Sweetback's Theme
Eddie Spencer - You're So Good To Me
Talk Spot
Jean-Pierre Ferland - Le Chat Du Cafe Des Artistes
Odia Coates - Showdown
Les Sextans - L'Amitie

The Suite Delight 4th Anniversary Playlist:
Alma Faye Brooks - Stop, I Don't Need No Sympathy
Perpall - Them Changes
Nancy Martinez - For Tonight
K-os - Superstarr, Pt. Zero
Zaki Ibrahim - Money (King Britt Remix)
Nelly Furtado - Say It Right (Dummies Remix)
Duck Sauce - Anyway (Extended Mix)
Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady
Gladys Knight & The Pips - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Jr. Walker & The Allstars - Shoot Your Shot
Eddy Grant - Time Warp
Chas Jankel - Glad To Know You
Instant Funk - Bodyshine
Colonel Abrams - I'm Not Gonna Let
The Bucketheads - The Bomb (Radio Edit)
Martin Solveig - Linda (Kenny Dope Remix)
Tenth & Parker - Kool Down (Dark Dub) feat. Mark Murphy
Hard Drive - Deep Inside
Shaun Escoffery - Days Like This (DJ Spinna & Ticklah Mix)
Michael Jackson - Working Day & Night

Big Pun

I was on an underground hip hop blog and left little comments about some of the golden-era hip hop artists/albums listed. It inspired me to write about some of them on my blog. I thought I would write about one of the greatest of all-time, Big Pun.

Capital Punishment is one of the best examples of a classic album to not get 5-mics from The Source. The album is so strong that Punish Me is considered by most as its weakest cut. Even then, is the song really that weak compared to the music that has been released since?


I remember reading about Pun and the question has he ever delivered a weak 16 stuck with me.

A young co-worker brought up Pun during a conversation among a few of us. He was tripping on Pun's verse on Twinz (Deep Cover '98). He was amazed at Pun's lyricism years after it was recorded and his death. I was tripping at his reaction because I, like most my age and anyone aware of that and other Pun classics, was there when he was tearing up mics and Capital Punishment made that summer all the more hotter. He made me remember the wonder of hearing Pun's murderous flow. It goes to show that at no matter what age you are, you can always be amazed by Pun's Capital Punishment.

I miss those days of hip hop and Pun.



The Suite Delight new time slot is Tuesday morning 2-3am EST on www.ckut.ca & 90.3 FM.

If you haven't already, please make yourself familiar with the link below for more of your favorite show and mine.

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Below are some podcasts to bring you up to speed.  Click here to download them and more.




The Suite Delight - April 8 2014 Playlist:

1. Big L - Put It On feat. Kid Capri
2. Common - Resurrection
3. O.C. - Time's Up
4. Big Pun - Super Lyrical feat. Black Thought
5. 2Pac - Ambitionz of a Ridah
6. Jay-Z - This Can't Be Life feat. Scarface
7. Gang Starr - Just To Get A Rep
8. Nice & Smooth - Early To Rise
9. The Beatnuts - Off The Books
10. Cypress Hill - Hits From The Bong
11. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca & The Soul Brother
12. Black Moon - I Got Cha Opin
13. Smif-N-Wessun - Bucktown
14. Nas - The World Is Yours (Remix)

The Suite Delight - April 1 Playlist:

1. James Last - Inner City Blues 
2. Scrimshire - All I Do feat. Stac
3. Aloe Blacc & The Grand Scheme - The Dark End Of The Street 
4. Greenwood Rhythm Coalition - Guajira '78 (Colman Bros. Remix)
5. Omar - Ghana Emotion (Una Mas Trio Remix)
6. Bob Marley & The Wailers – Get Up, Stand Up (Thievery Corporation Remix)
7. Mo Kolours - Bomptious (Shafiq Husayn Remix)
8. Fashawn – The Ecology
9. Jazz Spastiks - Move (Remix) feat. Apani B Fly
10. Moka Only - More Soup feat. MF Doom
11. Fat Joe - John Blaze Ft. Nas, Big Pun, Jadakiss & Raekwon
12. Jadakiss - Why (Remix) feat. Styles P, Common, Nas & Anthony Hamilton 
13. Naughty By Nature ‎– Guard Your Grill (Smooth Mix)
14. EPMD - Total Kaos
15. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Robes feat. Earl Sweatshirt & Domo Genesis

Allen Toussaint

From the moment I heard Allen Toussaint was going to be at the 2010 Montreal International Jazz Festival, I knew I had to see him.



If I had to pay, I would have paid. Lucky for me I didn't have to and neither did the others that saw him at the Mardi Gras themed finale.


On the night before the finale, I was watching CTV News and they mentioned he would be the finale's headliner. When I learned of my second chance to see him in Montreal, I was stoked. I called the Montreal Jazz Fest Info-Line to confirm show details.That night was the only night of Montreal Jazz Fest I had for the year and I had to be there. 

Allen Toussaint is most likely the source of New Orleans' musical output for close to 50 years. As a student of music and potential teacher, I needed to be there out of respect to the man. I told J.R. Ewing we were about twenty years too young to fully appreciate that night. However, we were old enough to know that was the right time to see the man perform live.



R.I.P. & thank you Allen Toussaint for the decades worth of music. 

Scarface

Scarface made my list of the greatest verses in hip hop history.  

I remember New York radio played a clean version of A Minute To Pray And A Second To Die in 1991. 

I believe recording that song from the hip hop radio show made it easier for me to accept Scarface's music.

The Diary comes in at a close second on the strength of songs like I Seen A Man Die and Jesse James.

My Block is the last great Scarface song I've heard within the last few years. 

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - The Main Ingredient

I’ll admit to being slightly harsh in my critique of The Main Ingredient when it dropped.

I guess you never forget your first. I felt Mecca & The Soul Brother would be tough to beat even for them.

I almost felt like they let themselves and me down with The Main Ingredient.

It wasn’t up to the high standards we had set.

Unfortunately, that would be the last album they would record together and I would maintain my position about The Main Ingredient.

I revisited the 1994 album some time last year and can state that as much as I was tough on it or classed it way beneath Mecca & The Soul Brother, it is still a better album than the majority of hip hop albums released in the last decade.

Contrary to what I thought or believed, it looks like they had it within them to drop back-to-back classics after all. Never two without three as they say.

Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords (1995)

 

It took me a while to realize that GZA was The Genius that I knew of from 1991.

I was slightly surprised to have learned that and also felt like I should have been more on the ball.



I had not heard anything from his after his debut album and he almost slipped my mind until the 1993 swarm.

 

The name is appropriate for him.

He is a solid lyricist that I have begun reaching for more on my radio show.

GZA is one of the few MCs that can stop me in my tracks to make sure I don’t miss a word.

The Suite Delight new time slot is Tuesday morning 1-2am EST on www.ckut.ca & 90.3 FM.

If you haven't already, please make yourself familiar with the links below for more of your favorite show and mine to bring you up to speed.

Feel free to request songs and artists below in the comments section below as well as on Twitter, Facebook.

Visit the Mixcloud page to listen and the Podomatic site to download the podcasts.

 

The Suite Delight - 2014-07-29 Playlist:

1. MC Serch - Back To The Grill featuring Nas, Chubb Rock & Red Hot Lover Tone 
2. Big L - Platinum Plus featuring Big Daddy Kane
3. Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth - Strictly For The Ladies (Radio Remix)
4. Keith Murray - Get Lifted
5. Genius/GZA - Labels
6. Big Pun - You Ain't A Killer
7. Choclair - Bare Witness featuring Guru 
8. Das-Efx - It's Like Dat
9. The Lady of Rage - Get With Da Wickedness (Flow Like That) 
10. Naughty By Nature - Feel Me Flow
11. Slick Rick - It's A Boy
12. House of Pain - Word Is Bond (Clean Radio Remix)
13. D-Nice - Time To Flow
14. Lords of The Underground - Lord Jazz Hit Me One Time
15. Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo - Truly Yours

The Suite Delight - 2014-06-24 by Dj Solespin on Mixcloud

 

The Suite Delight - 2014-06-24 Playlist:

1. Chubb Rock with Howie Tee - Bump The Floor

2. MC Shan - I Pioneered This

3. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Go With The Flow

4. Monie Love - It's A Shame

5. MC Solaar - Nouveau Western

6. Tha Alkaholiks - The Next Level (Remix) feat. Diamond D

7. Ed O.G. & Da Bulldogs - Bug-A-Boo

8. Dr. Dre - Let Me Ride

9. Double XX Posse - The Headcracker

10. Jemini The Gifted One - Funk Soul Sensation (Godfather Mix Clean)

11. Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords (Late Night Radio)

12. Big Pun - Twinz (Deep Cover '98) Featuring Fat Joe

13. Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (Diamond Remix) (Dirty)

14. Busta Rhymes - Do My Thing (DJ Scratch Remix - Clean)

Dr. Bob Jones - Stop & Listen Volume 1

 

Prior blog posts about Andy Smith’s The Document, The Rapture’s !K7 Tapes mixtape and the Beat Generation series would prepare one for this one.

BBE is one of my favorite record labels. It has put out fantastic compilations that managed to educate and entertain me for over a decade. When I learned of the Stop & Listen compilations, I saw them as various top producers and compilers’ choice cuts they deemed worthy for us to hear.


The majority of the songs on all of the Stop & Listen volumes were foreign to me but I knew they surely would be worth listening to and could very well become my next favorite songs.


I don't remember where I found a used vinyl copy of Stop & Listen Volume 1 but I was thrilled to have acquired it. It was my first and only BBE vinyl release added to my collection.

I only recently realized I have reached for that Stop & Listen compilation very often in DJ sets, adding to its used quality.



The CDs of Stop &Listen 1-3 crossed my purchasing path and I brought them home with me. A few days ago, I popped in and listened to the Volume 1 CD

Dr. Bob Jones was the first to compile the Stop & Listen series. Although I am very familiar with the compilations' track listing, I never heard it from beginning to end until a few months ago.

The coherence of the compilations' cuts came through after the initial first listen. The jazz & soul side of Jones is strongly represented with the songs he chose, regardless of the era in which the songs were recorded.