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Rotatin’ : Volume 10, April 2007.
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01 – Markus Enochson featuring James Ingram- Day And Night
02 – Adriana Evans – Hey Now (Gota Remix)
03 – Blue Six – You Just Can’t Stop
04 – Sa-Ra Creative Artists featuring Rozzi Daime – So Special
05 – Donald McCollum – No Matter What I’ll Do
06 – Nate James – Funkdefining
07 – DJ Jazzy Jeff featuring Raheem DeVaughn – My Soul Ain’t 4 Sale
08 – Joe featuring Fabolous – Let’s Just Do It
09 – Lathun featuring India.Arie – When Love Came in
10 – Macy Gray – What I Gotta Do
11 – Lily Allen – Friend Of Mine
12 – Anthony Hamilton – Magnolia’s Room
13 – Eric Roberson – Pretty Girl
14 – Mica Paris – Sixth Street

The Markus Enochson track with James Ingram entitled Day And Night from the CD Night Games is a nice surprise that I never expected. Adriana’s Hey Now is
one of the tracks of the awesome El Camino release which I consider one wonderful CD, definitely on par with her other two releases. Blue Six’s cut from Aquarian Angel, You Just Can’t Stop with Lisa Shaw’s vocals, is heavenly, leading into Sa-Ra Creative Partner’s So Special, lit up by Rozzi Daime, from their release The Hollywood Recordings.

Donald McCollum’s track No Matter What I’ll Do is excellent, as is Nate James’ Funkdefining from Kingdom Falls. Much to my delight, DJ Jazzy Jeff teams up with Raheem Devaughn for My Soul Ain’t For Sale which is excellent. On top of that Joe teams up Fabolous on his CD Ain’t Nothin’ Like Me to serve up Let’s Just Do It. I’ve gotta admit that the track is definitely a head-nodder for me that I did not expect.

Lathun’s cut with India.Arie entitled When Love Came In is a solid track, which leads up to Macy Gray’s What I Gotta Do from her release Big. Lily Allen’s Alright, Still serves up Friend Of Mine, leading into Anthony Hamilton’s Magnolia’s Room from his great CD Southern Comfort. Eric Roberson’s Pretty Girl from …Left leads us into Mica Paris’ Sixth Street, a cut located on both her Black Angel CD as well as Soul Desirables.

Take it light.

Here’s what’s in my ears starting off this month….

Rotatin’ : Volume 9, April 2007.
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01 – Ralf GUM feat. Beate S. Lech – Warrior (Ralf GUM & CrisP House Mix)
02 – Miguel Migs – Side To Side
03 – Lanu – Mother Earth
04 – Strange Fruit Project featuring Thesis – Parachutes
05 – Blue Six – Fast Free Delivery
06 – Deyampart – It’s You
07 – Samantha James – Angel Love
08 – Vikter Duplaix – Make A Baby
09 – Eric Roberson – Right Or Wrong
10 – Musiq Soulchild – Ridiculous
11 – Gimenez-E – that day
12 – John Mayer – Vultures
13 – Jhelisa – Love Is A State Of Mind
14 – Tracey Thorn – Easy

The first track from Ralf GUM has vocals by Beate S. Lech, the one and only female member of Beady Belle giving you a nice downtempo house track. Miguel Migs’ track from the CD Those Things has vocals from Lisa Shaw. Lanu’s Mother Earth is a very nice track from the CD This Is My Home.

Strange Fruit Project’s Parachutes is one of my favorite tracks from their CD, as is Blue Six’s Fast Free Delivery from Aquarian Angel. Deyampart and Samantha Jones lead the way to Vikter Duplaix’s cut from Bold and Beautiful and Erro’s track from …Left. Musiq’s Ridiculous brings us to Gimenez-E’s track that day. His site is here.

To end the rotation, I’ve got some John Mayer from Continuum, Jhelisa from A Primitive Guide To Being There, and Tracy Thorn of Everything But The Girl from Out Of The Woods.

Special thanks to The Mighty Mons Def for hooking me up with Gimenez (he’s got the entire album here on his site also) and Mr. Madison for alerting me to the website Save Net Radio, which is helping to lead the fight of helping internet radio avoid extinction. Check it out.

Take it light.

I was able to attend a wonderfully awesome podcast seminar this past weekend. Let me tell you that I’m excited now because it now pushes me forward to make some changes this year. There were great seminars, and I met some very, very knowledgeable and exciting people. Through their wisdom and teachings I managed to obtain some really good audio equipment.

Because of this (and all the good music out there these days), rotations will now be every 2 weeks now and podcasts will now contain my voice. Trust me, I will probably sound like Alvin (just call me MC Chipmunk), but should make it more personable instead of just melodies. This is the first of the set that I did last week without the equipment, which is also available over at Flowink, along with Sincere’s.

Rotatin’ : Volume 8, March 2007.
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01 – Blaze – Found Love (Shrine DJ Vocal Mix)
02 – Robbscott – Revolution
03 – Elmore Judd Feat Fae Simon – Your Eyes
04 – Roy Ayers – Funk In The Hole (Platinum Pied Pipers Remix)
05 – Natalie Williams – You Don’t Know
06 – Koop – I See A Different You
07 – 4hero feat. Carina Andersson – Morning Child
08 – Nicole Willis – All the Time
09 – Iman – Who Was I Trying To Fool
10 – Sy Smith – Bad On You
11 – Anthony David – Stop Playin’
12 – Eric Roberson – If I Had A Chance
13 – Emmanuel – Right Here
14 – 4hero feat. Jack Davey – Take My Time
15 – Conya Doss – The One
16 – Darien Brockington – Come On Over

I’m here to tell you that I’m a huge fan of Blaze’s ability to mix tracks, as you will see on Found Love, which is a perfect segue into Robbscott’s Revolution. The song that I keep playing like it’s going out of style is Elmore Judd’s Your Eyes, with the vocals of Fae Simon gracing the track and Yam Who? putting their own spin into it. Funk In The Hole is nicely mixed by Platinum Pied Pipers, which enables the track to transcend jazz, hip hop, and soul. It’s all about Natalie Williams’ vocal stylings and the terrific flute on You Don’t Know which is absolutely fantastic.

Koop’s I See A Different You and 4Hero’s Morning Child have fantastic instrumentation, as does Nicole Willis’ All The Time. Iman’s Who Was I Trying to Fool (from Brownswood Bubblers) is followed by tracks by Sy Smith, Anthony David, and Eric Roberson. Mellowing us out is a cut from 4Hero’s Take My Time, sung by Jack Davey, Conya Doss’ The One, and Darien Brockington’s Come On Over finishing out the sex.

Hope you enjoy, and stay tuned for more rotations.

Continuing with the vibe for this month….

Rotatin’ : Volume 6, August 2006.
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I had to go back in and throw some of my favorites, like Aquanote’s Nowhere, The Sunburt Band’s Far Beyond, Osunlade’s The Closer I Get, and Blue Six’s Pure. However, I could not let this mix go without throwing some Emmanuel in there (much props to Hyps to alerting us to such a great CD). I had to break it down with Kelis’ Trilogy from the album Kelis Was Here. I also pulled in my favorite cut from Aya, Uptown.

I’m still a big fan of Yam Who which is why I had to drop And I, which is silky smooth. No one can deny that Martin Luther has the smooth voice to lay out a track with Rich Medina Too Much. The Roots’ Game Theory is still growing on me, but Clock With No Hands is an instant favorite. Todd Kelley and I shared the same vibe which is why we dropped Psychedelic Love on both of our mixes. The track by Natalie Williams gives me absolute chills. Choklate’s Gettin Is Good and Corinne Bailey Rae’s Butterfly are also two exquisite tracks that finish off the set.

This mix, of course, is available on Flowink, along with So Sincere’s, so check it out there also. Vibe with me.

Continuing with the vibe….

Rotatin’ : Volume 5, July 2006.
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DJ Spinna and Christian Ulrich vibe nicely, as does Stephanie Cooke. The cuts with Sean Escoffery and Blaze are two of my favorite house cuts from recent past. Madonna’s Inside of Me has been on my mind for weeks now thanks to Old School Wednesdays. Sex God is one of the many great cuts from Brand New Heavies’ Get Used To It. Nelly Furtado’s Showtime stands out as one of my favorite tracks from Loose, with its great arrangement in 6/8 time. While Aya’s Soul Flower is well known, E.M.B.R.A.C.E by Society of Soul may not be. Think Organized Noise/Sleey Brown. Donell Jones’ I’m Gonna Be is from Journey of a Gemini, while N’Dambi is available on Tunin’ Up And Cosignin’. Janita’s Seasons of Life, Quintessence’s 5AM and Corinne Bailey Rae’s eponymous CD are great CDs and are great considerations for my 5 after 6, coming soon.

This mix, of course, is available on Flowink, along with So Sincere’s, so check it out there also. Vibe with me.

ManNMotion is the supplier. I’m the provider.

Overtime.
I’m still doing it, and I’ve been trying to balance it and life in general. Life is back on track, and now go back to travelling, but something had to give, right?

Other Folk’s Blogs

Man, I haven’t read blogs in about a 8 days, literally. I probably missed out on something, because there’s always something going on. I’m walking through Bloglines now being tasked to read 2000+ entries. It’s like trying to read a novel in 7 hours. So hey, if you think I missed something, it’s not ’cause I don’t love you, it’s because I’ve been going through a helluva time at work. Pure madness.

This Blog .
This blog turned 4 years old a couple of weeks ago. Four years of existence, 86 OSWs, and 54 rotations. Man, that’s a lotta work. Where’s the birthday cake?

Homeslices
While I was in The Work Inferno, KB took control of the OSWs and Todd had a birthday which I almost missed. On top of all that, Todd and Lynne did some serious change-ups. While I was laying in the cut trying to keep my head above water, Billy Preston died. Dag. Oh yeah, and then….

The Crash of Iapetus
On Wednesday, I started listening to some music at work, and then all of a sudden, my portable disk gave me an error message: The file or directory is corrupt and unreadable, which basically means: your 40GB of music is gone, and you, my friend, are royally screwed. I’ll have to re-rip disks (40+), and as for music I used to have but can’t find now? Well, I’ve either lost that music completely or call in favors to get the tracks back. I don’t quite know what I’m going to do about the old-school Wednesday at this point. This week will hereby be called The Week Of Reconstruction. Damnit.

The Good Stuff.
There was some great stuff that came out last weekend, however. If you haven’t checked out Flowink, specifically Music Lounge 06.05.06, don’t worry, I have it here for you. Here’s how the flow goes down.

Rotatin’ : Volume 4.
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Check out the tracks.