"A Work In Progress" is available on all streaming platforms! Thank you to my brother Saint Ezekiel for blessing me with some amazing guitar and to my homie Darwin at Classick for mixing it! Lastly, blessings to my good sis Kim Wells for the artwork. 

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A Work In Progress

Bear Good Fruit

This week’s show features my favorite house music from South Africa between 2012-now. Of course, there is much more to South African house than Black Coffee and Amapiano. I’ve traveled to SA (Joburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, etc.) for the last two decades with a mission—to exchange music and listen. To witness.

Some might say house music began in the 90s with kwaito music, some might reference Hugh Masakela’s Techno Bush album, and others might cite The work Miriam Makeba does with her voice as a technology of South African folk-jazz. All of it matters to what is known as South African house today.

The show also features music from Osunlade, Marc Mac (4Hero), Atjazz, Da Capo, Vincemo/Patricia Edwards, and more. This week I was thinking about the importance of honoring house music with all its sub-genres and what Black folk have done with it across diaspora.

Finally, I share a special song. In 1997, Robin S dared to cover Phyllis Hyman’s “You Know How to Love Me,” and covered she did, she and @kingbritt created a version masterpiece. Find the song now. We miss you, Phyllis.

Cheers to @1btnradio for hosting my research.

The Black Atlantic/Black Fantastic

Sunburn

How Much Is Weed?

Burning Desire by michael J. bonema
executively produced by dj blackpower
artwork by DA. Jasper
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1. Intro with Klein
2. Dambe
3. Zap!
4. African Sex Freak Fantasy (produced by GAWD)
5. Snake Charm (produced by laron)
6. plz don’t cut my wings (feat. Earl Sweatshirt)
7. REAL LOVE with fashionspitta
8. U think Maybe? (feat. Liv.e & Venna)
9. Zombie
10. Set the Mood
11. Billboards with Anuoluwapo “Sandra” Majekodunmi 
12. 98
13. Do you Believe?
14. Burning Desire 
15. THEY DON’T STOP IN THE RAIN with TAKA
16. Baby Jesus
17. Ho-Rizin
18. Mussel Beach (feat. El Cousteau & Niontay)
19. Sixteens 
20. should be! (feat. Lila Ramani)
21. What U Say U Are
22. Golden Hour (feat. Larry June)
23. Playtime (Interlude)
24. Let’s Have a Ball (feat. mark william lewis)
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youtube ~ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Y35Tnro_M&t=1994s)
bandcamp ~ (https://mikelikesrap.bandcamp.com/album/burning-desire)
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#BurningDesire

Burning Desire

This mix is for Black women who love Björk Guðmundsdóttir. For some of us Björk is one of the guiding forces in the most secret parts of our emotional lives. And there is something to be said about the fact that my deepest, most intimate romantic relationships have been with Black women who speak Björk. She is one of the most brilliant artists of our time, with relevance far beyond the boringly sensational Academy Award swan dress debacle, which on the low, I believe was a challenge to American popular cultural values. Like on some fashion resistance shit. “I thought I could organize freedom, how Scandinavian of me?”

During my New York years, I had the opportunity to witness Björk live at the Apollo with three other Black women. Björk at The Apollo? What a combination and what an honorable way to honor the Black folks that get down with her like that. Aside from the sheer weight of the decision to perform in Harlem, we, like thousands of her students, made sure to have loot in hand ready to buy tickets the moment they went on sale. We managed to get tickets, but please understand, in less than five minutes the show was sold out. And to be honest, it wasn’t Harlem or Brooklyn who showed up to see her, which I understand; Björk is ‘strange fiction.’ It was the usual crew at the Apollo concert; former club kids, angsty white women and entitled hipsters. And of course some of us were in the house. My crew and I represented for all the Black women inspired by her audaciousness, by her work ethic, and by her willingness to make whatever screw face necessary to offer ‘love scholarship’ through song. We cheered from the balcony squinting to experience what looked like an Icelandic ball of glitter performing unapologetically to self-composed electro folk music. I will never forget her relationship with the microphone, dancing around it, stepping away from it, looking into it and making it sing her songs. She’s a beast of a live performer. 

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Bjork Mix Final

I Feel Different Every Day

Background, context, and transcribed text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/13/james-baldwin-the-artists-struggle-for-integrity/

Recording by Pacifica Radio Archives.

iKnow.Em.All.

d e f . s o u n d .

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