Dusty Donuts presents
NEEDLE DROPS
Volume Two

A new monthly DJ streaming show, where four selected world class DJs telling a story in their own way, just through the selection of seven 45s in the mix, live on Twitch & FB Live.

The second episode of NEEDLE DROPS went down on friday the 12th of march, when the hardest workin' man on twitch and digger deluxe Sam Tweaks from the UK & canadian 45 staple Flipout from Vancity met Dusty Donuts’ Jim Sharp from London & Naughty NMX from Hamburg.

The topic of the livemix is : “Hit the Route 66“

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NEEDLE DROPS Volume Two feat. Sam Tweaks & Flipout

Gift of Gab was most definitely a big part of my life's soundtrack since high school. I might have seen Blackalicious in concert more often than any other group. He was one of the most brilliant emcees I've ever heard, and from all accounts was just a great human. Sending love out to his family and friends. This is just a short tribute mix with a few favorite tracks and a few samples that give me that feeling that became part of the legendary music he and Chief Xcel made together. RIP.

June 30 2021

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Pullin from the Stacks - Episode 171 (Gift of Gab Tribute)

Album influences & Inspirations mix. A dusty jazz funk and rare groove selection to coincide with the new 'Trash or Treasure' album. Cooked up by our man behind the pots 'n' pans - Paprika. A selection of sounds that help join the dots and showcase some inspirations and influences for the record. feat tracks from The Whitefield Brothers, Bobby Hughes, Placebo, The Stance Brothers, Unity Sextet, The Bamboos, UK Library sounds plus tracks from the new album. Free Download. 

Buy Trash or Treasure LP/CD/DL here: http://legererecordings.bandcamp.com/album/trash-or-treasure

Trash Or Treasure DJ Mix

In association with Planet Rock Graphics, Village Live are proud to announce the release of the first in a series of Mixtapes by Donnie Propa. After the success of The Ace Tape with Masta Ace and the J Dilla Tribute tape, now comes Straight From The Crate Cave - The Pete Rock Edition!

Limited Cassette Tape available from www.villageliverecords.com

DONNIE PROPA -STRAIGHT FROM THE CRATE CAVE - THE PETE ROCK EDITION (SIDE B)

____FULL WILL SESSIONS MARBLE BAR SET 2019

Back in 2002, High C of the Dallas Texas based crate digging crew Rehash and DJ Raj Mahal of Soul Strut would swap mixes to feature on each other's site (Real Audio style).  The mixes usually contained loads of breaks and beats lifted from obscure 70s jazz & funk, with the occasional soundtrack and prog record thrown in.  I present you exhibit A.

Originally posted on Soul Strut in 2002

Blend 2002

DJ High-C - Summer Blend '02 (2002)

Had to take a break from the podcast this past month - there's so many more important things happening now that deserved, and continue to deserve, everyone's focus. As I come back to the records, I want to make clear a few things for all the listeners of this podcast and my mixes, if it wasn't clear before: BLACK LIVES MATTER - and have ALWAYS mattered - to me, and I am forever in debt to the role that Black people, and Black art, music, and culture have played in my life. As a white DJ playing majority Black music, I have never felt I could sit back and somehow separate music from the people, politics and issues contained within. In fact, my attraction to hip-hop music was much in part because of the political and social education I received from the Black people creating it.

And as a white person, I am a guest and a visitor in many places and spaces, and I will never know what it means to be Black or be able to understand the full power or meaning behind much of the music I play. That doesn't mean Black music and art hasn't had profound effects on who I am and my music and politics. The records that I collect and play have furthered my dedication to fighting white supremacy on all levels - individual to systematic - which includes being self-critical and hearing criticism from others in how I might perpetuate white supremacy in my own work or music. I FULLY support the ongoing efforts to ABOLISH POLICE AND PRISONS, as well as calls for REPARATIONS for Black people. If you are white and you listen to my podcasts, and you don't understand why I stand for these things, or have questions, I recommend checking out http://m4bl.org (Movement for Black Lives) for more information, and also feel free to reach out. I'd rather build on anti-racism and anti-white supremacy with folks who are open than immediately shun anyone. If you don't want to build and are white and just think the records I play are "cool" or "ethnic" or "raer" then, generally, fuck you. 

BLACK LIVES MATTER. This should be plainly evident, especially to us DJs and record nerds, but unfortunately that's not always true. 

This episode contains music from several records created by Black artists that had incredibly important impacts on who I am as a DJ and person.

TRACKLIST:
Ramsey Lewis - "Opus #5"
Charles Mingus - "Haitian Fight Song"
Alice Coltrane - "Stopover Bombay"
Curtis Mayfield - "I Plan to Stay a Believer"
Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles - "Spirit in the Dark (Live at Fillmore West)"
John Coltrane - "Trane's Slo Blues"
Eric B. and Rakim - "In the Ghetto (Drums-only Mix)"
Jungle Brothers - "Beeds on a String"
Blackalicious - "Lyric Fathom"
Digable Planets - "May 4th Movement"
Boogie Down Productions - "Ya Slippin"
A Tribe Called Quest - "Excursions"

June 26 2020

Pullin from the Stacks Episode 135 (Dedicated to Black Artists Who Inspire, Educate & Shaped Me)

Pre "J.T" 70s Kool & The Gang is one of the seminal funk outfits that would later inspire a generation of hip hop producers and musicians.  As a tribute to co-founder Ronald Bell who recently passed, Raj Mahal spins some of his favorite classic and obscure funky Kool joints with a few covers thrown in for good measure.

Video Live Stream Version: https://youtu.be/Leo7ZLWv4CE

Track List:

Jungle Jazz  - Kool & The Gang	
Higher Plane -  Kool & The Gang	
Soul Vibrations - Kool &  The Gang
More Funky Stuff - Kool & The Gang
Spirit Of The Boogie  - Kool & The Gang
Electric Frog (Part 1) - Kool &  The Gang
Love The Life You Live - Black Heat
Love The Life You Live (Part 2) - Kool &  The Gang
Sport - Lightnin' Rod
Rated  X	- Kool And The Gang
Electric Frog (Part 2)- Kool & The Gang
Dujii - Kool and the Gang
N.T.	- Kool And The Gang
Life Is What You Make It - Kool & The Gang
Breeze & Soul - Kool & The Gang
North,East,South,West	 - Kool & The Gang
Summer Madness	- Kool & The Gang	
Winter Sadness -  Kool & The Gang	
Here After - Kool & The Gang

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Solitary Selections Ep. 19 - 70s Kool & The Gang Tribute - All Vinyl Funk Mix

After Breonna Taylor again saw no justice this past week, I felt compelled to break from Pullin from the Stacks and put together something about abolition - abolition of the police, of prisons, of the systems of repression operating throughout this country. Took a few days but here is a mix in the vein of my "Zinnstrumentals" tapes, featuring some interview excerpts of brilliant people talking abolition over a blend of hip-hop instrumentals from the crates. I urge everyone to take a listen, especially if you're not sure about abolition yourself. And I also urge everyone listen to the full interviews and recordings, which I've linked to below. Thanks so much to all the amazing people pushing for abolition and social change right now. 

Interviews used (in no order):
Andrea Ritchie and Derecka Purnell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eii5WqeOHlA
Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Democracy Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HWqYANmWLY&t=226s
Angela Davis on Democracy Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ebWFnGWOaA&t=54s
Marc Lamont Hill and others at Riverside Church: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCJt2pLP_s
Peter Murkuria on Prison Radio: https://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/peter-mukuria/meaning-abolition-220-peter-mukuria
Mumia Abu-Jamal on Prison Radio: https://www.prisonradio.org/audio-listings
Walidah Imarisha on the Activist Files podcast: https://soundcloud.com/activist-files-center-for-constitutional-rights/episode-11-walidah-imarisha-and-gabriel-teodros-talk-science-fiction-as-social-justice-strategy

ABOLISHtrumentals

Abolish the Police!

Back at it, direct from the crates to your ears! Eclectic sounds from vinyl new and old. Many thanks for listening!

Tracklist: Sylvia Telles, Nucleus, Mekbuda, Greg Foat, Paul Bley Quartet, Freddie Hubbard, El Chicano

November 25 2020

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Pullin from the Stacks - Episode 148

Much appreciation to everyone who's tuned in the last six years! We made it to 150 episodes, way farther than I ever anticipated. Couldn't have gotten here without so many folks tuning in. Special shouts to Pipomixes and everyone else who's reposted episodes on the internets! Also big thanks to all the guest selectors the last fifty - DadBodRapPod, J. Rawls, Bruce Phillips, Evolve-One, DO77 and Waffles Hidalgo. So - I feel like every fifty episodes is a good time to pull the hip-hop rarities and b-sides out the crates. Here's another short stack of a few favorites of mine! Dig it.

Tracklist: 
Dirty Treats ft. Praverb the Wyse
Makeba Mooncycle ft. J. Sands
K-Otix
Mad Fanatic ft. RagChyld
Rascalz
Konceptual Dominance 
Sly Da Brown Hornet ft. Jumbo, Libretto, Dubb Flex and Vursatyl
Grouch and Eligh ft. Abstract Rude and Asop
Wisdom ft. Breezly Brewin and Adagio
Jean Grae
A-Butta and L-Swift
Damu the Fudgemunk

December 9 2020

Pullin from the Stacks - Episode 150 (Another Hip-Hop Episode)

When I'm not at the dayjob, I'm probably at a record store. Pullin from the Stacks podcast most Wednesdays, available here, Apple Pods (please subscribe!) and elsewhere.

Pullin from the Stacks Episode 135 (Dedicated to Black Artists Who Inspire, Educate & Shaped Me)

DJ Ian Head