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The Avalanches are a huge source of inspiration for me.

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Cassette Mix Side A

Alain Goraguer - "Déshominisation (I)"

Jay Electronica - Dimethyltriptamine (Produced by J.Dilla)

Portishead - Silence

Serge Gainsbourg - Requiem Pour Un Co

Toto Bissainthe - Papa Dambalah

DJ Screw - Pont Blank

Ennio Morricone - Guerra E Pace, Pollo E Brace

Tapper Zukie - Man Ah Warrior

Muddy Waters - Tom Cat

Vampires of Dartmoore - Hello Mr Hitchcock

Gank Move - Murderer

Side B

Carmike - Riding through the hood

Francois De Roubaix - Arrivee Au Manoir

Exuma - Obeah Man

Obijuan & Dylantheinfamous - Jah Jah Xity

Mirel Wagner - Despair

Nina Simone - Dambala

Dean Blunt - 19 ft Asap Rocky & Sauce Walka

Dj Anderson Do Paraiso - Sadomasoquista

Jorge Ben - Zumbi

Project Pat - North Memphis

ESG - UFO

Scientist - Come Together

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Max Roach Quartet with the inimitable Abbey Lincoln

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I do not have a brand because I am not a corporation.

Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to.

So you want to be an artist. Do you have to start a TikTok?

I lost my job recently and had to log back into my LinkedIn account. The whole thing felt forced and weird because I never use the app and I never post anything and suddenly I posted an alert showing I was open for work. The whole process felt weird because everyone in my network seemed to be confused because everyone on there is an ace at networking and using their personal brands to show people what they have going on in their work lives and I felt like a faker. Same way I feel when I am told I am not effectively branding my radio show and my escapades in the record digging world to become a vinyl influencer (not sure if that exists). The whole thing has me depressed because I get the feeling my inactivity is not helping with my job prospects. And no matter what advice I read on Forbes or whatever blog about personal marketing I’m never going to be good at it. I lack the brand consistency or whatever it’s called because ultimately I am not that committed to this world of personal branding. The article above from the wonderful folks at Vox reminds me that this is one of the legacies of late market capitalism everyone is merely a sellout but we don’t have interests or passions anymore everything we do or say has to be leveraged for likes and followers. The thing I find most intriguing about this world is the pervasisveness of hucksterism, and just pure fakery. I find people employing awful vague corporte phrases like maximizing productivity to describe their day to day lives.I find people posting shit about how one can leverage their brand to build a following that will lead them to make a living off social media. it is all disgusting but more than anything speaks to just how much consumerism, and capitlism in general has infected every sacred facet of human life. We have all become brands, and as brands your ultimate goal is to sell, sell and sell. Sell agressively, sell even if it means lying and sell with your consumer in mind. I look at myself I truly joined social media to connect with friends, at some point I left Facebook because my conservative family had joined and thewas now on they had an issue with my Halloween costume (Me dressed as a member of De La Soul and my girlfriend at the time in. slutty Nun costume), so I deleted the account and stuck with IG. On IG aI liked sharing music banter, odd ball humour and rap references with my small cast of friends who get it, and I use it to let people know when my radio show is on. My show is decently popular and I dont make a living doing it, I do DJ gigs on the side and I make decent guap doing it but would absolutely never do that for a living. The DJ gig funds the record collecting, and the radio show is a creative outlet that is all it is. I dont give a shit about branding, even though in a sense I am acting like a brand but I am not selling you anything. I put myself out there simply to say hey check out what I am doing and let me know if you fuck with it other than that no biggie. I aint out here saying if you listen to my radioshow your dick will grow bigger, all the chicks will like you and I am offering somekind of solution to one of lifes ills. My purpose is simply to say hey dont know what you doing but tune into my non-commercial uninterrupted absolutley amteurish radio show where you get to hear me play funk, soul, jazz and african music, for its on sake and not to sell but plugs or lawn mowers. The branding shit is particularly insidious because it makes us forget that there was a time when people congregated because they shared deep interests outside of the capitalist objective, think about stamp collectors, book clubs, bowling leagues and in my case a group of guys who drive around the midwest frequenting record stores spending huge amounts of hours scouring dollar record bins for prized records (This is also a dying art but I digress). I think at the heart of it social media has democratized aspects of the creative world. I just want to live in a world where I am not a brand.

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Alice Coltrane: The Artist in Ascension - Everything Jazz

In the early 1970s, whilst grieving her husband John, Alice Coltrane was on a journey of spiritual and musical growth. A newly released reco

I feel like her example is really shaping a lot of newer black artists operating in a world that works with black spirituality that stretches itself outside the bounds of Christianity and says we too can explore other spiritual and religious textures.

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Stooges all day

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