KieyaA - I Thot There Was One Wound in This House, There's Two (Slowed & Reverbed)

Fluidly shifting through archived audio recordings and music, Juniper aka. Justin Lamarr Jones returns to the intimate soundscape of a time when they felt at home. Inspired by James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk” this episode is an homage to the sacred relationship between an individual and the place they call home.

Beale Street

“I like to produce these mixes as sonic love letters to myself. Sometimes its just to remind myself of the audacity I have to explore and re-explore my own emotions. Other times it's just to give myself a soundtrack to process the contentious moments of my life with ease. I’m just here to make as many experiences as I get the chance to live.”

Justin (Juniper) Lamarr Jones (@131.295) sonically illustrates periods of growth, fever dreams, and introspection with an hour long mix for this Month’s episode of @blx.w.blues radio —titled—

“The Bull In Me Is Building A Bridge Between My Bodies/A Walkway From Nightmares To Childhood Desires”
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Beneath I carry my torso and pelvis through warm waters of pleasure_firm in my acceptance of the way my skin and muscles know to rejoice at the familiar sensation of fluidity. Inside _ & out.

Bull In Me Is Building A Bridge...

𝕾𝖑𝖔𝖜
/𝖘𝖑ō/
𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔟.
①. 𝖒𝖔𝖛𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖔𝖗 𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖞 𝖆𝖙 𝖆 𝖑𝖔𝖜 𝖘𝖕𝖊𝖊𝖉; 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖈𝖐 𝖔𝖗 𝖋𝖆𝖘𝖙.
②. 𝖗𝖊𝖉𝖚𝖈𝖊 𝖔𝖓𝖊'𝖘 𝖘𝖕𝖊𝖊𝖉 𝖔𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖕𝖊𝖊𝖉 𝖔𝖋 𝖆 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘.

𝕭𝖚𝖗𝖓
/𝖇ə𝖗𝖓/
𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔟.
①.(𝖔𝖋 𝖆 𝖈𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖑𝖊 𝖔𝖗 𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝖘𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖈𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙) 𝖇𝖊 𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙.
②. (𝖔𝖋 𝖆 𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖊) 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖉𝖚𝖈𝖊 𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖒𝖊𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖙 𝖜𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖊 𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖚𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖆 𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖑 𝖘𝖚𝖈𝖍 𝖆𝖘 𝖈𝖔𝖆𝖑 𝖔𝖗 𝖜𝖔𝖔𝖉

𝕿𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13H2kOchFLp1BLBO6P8Qtm9y5RKFgwh_M9eIrKWPgHZw/edit?usp=sharing
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𝕾𝖑𝖔𝖜·𝕭𝖚𝖗𝖓

A meditative mix for the creative spirit.

Woman In Flowered Dress

Blacks With Blues Radio Presents A Very Special Mix
Juniper celebrates their DJ debut with
“𝕊𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕚𝕖—𝕊𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕚𝕖 ℕ𝕒𝕙”
A 30-minute first—time—on—the—controller journey through musical momentum
Tune in, turn it out, and turn it ALLLLLL the way UP.

Tracklist:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t4ypQF95lSrGlU9VfO3dIn80EpE93BCmNXvSRuLtHMQ/edit?usp=sharing

“𝕊𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕚𝕖—𝕊𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕚𝕖 ℕ𝕒𝕙”

I'm Talking To My God (The Sacrecy of Life)

Late night practice. Started recording halfway into something that became a cool flow. Love this lil amapiano flow that came in the end.

Mini Amapiano (Practice Mix)

First-time on the controller with lady Ghettotech.

GHETTOTECH

Oral History Teaser

Practicing pressing record more often during my practice sessions. Embracing imperfections and all!

TittyMoufThrowawayPracticeJam #1

Red Beans & Rice Practice Mix

Funk Practice mix

Formerly Known As DJ JUNEE (aka Mooncricket) • ROT.8 • 10/17/24

posting my practice sessions to get over performance anxiety

It's like Black Panther meets Final Fantasy X-2 meets Mortal Combat meets afro-futurist Star Fox meets intergalactic midnight club meets practice session, right?

ps.
Serato should have a recently played option so I can remember the songs I played, right?

Oh wait… it does :)

FIGHT_SEQUENCE

Like crickets, they sang at night under the moonlight...

MOON_TECH

cricket wireless Practice Mix

Just Keep Going- Practice Mix

Last Jam @ 523 E Hazel St

"Just a little reminder that you don’t need to conquer the world right now. You don’t need to engage in every hobby, every idea, or every hit of inspiration right this second. You don’t need to change your whole life right now. Just sit down. Breathe. You will have time to do what you want. Take it day by day. Pick one thing you’re thinking about right now and focus on that. You won’t be productive with 50 other things in front of you. Push those aside, put something that matters in this moment in front of you, and attack it hard, then move on to the next. One thing at a time."

Practice Mixin Thru Da Weeds

My set from Moondog Cafe in Detroit. First solo set back home :) 
Big thanks to the homies @BlueMoonRadio for programming me into their live broadcast https://www.bluemoonradio.live/

Mooncricket @ Moondog Cafe  (8.23.25)

A very heartfelt and wholesome THANK YOU to every soul that found this podcast and took the time to indulge into what I, Justin Jones, and Blacks With Blues humbly represent.  A special thanks must go outl to our music curators here at Blacks With Blues, Audrey Meadows and Alyssa Osasere for helping out with the episode. Here, we believe in music, art, and black culture as a means of healing and telling the stories of our people - black and brown people with the blues. This episode is a brief (well as brief as three hours can be)musical and verbal explanation as to what is going on in our world as brown and black people with the blues along with a few feel good tracks and songs that make you thin about what it feels like to be a black anything. Obviously the entirety of the "black struggle" couldn't be condensed into one episode so stay tuned for more talk on issues facing the black diaspora & so much more...

***TRACK LIST***
1. Intro to Alright- Kendrick Lamarr
2. What's Happening Brother? - Marvin Gaye
3. New Black - Goldlink
4. Umi Says - Mos Def
5. Hey Young World - Fashawn
6. Paranoia - Chance The Rapper
7.U.N.I.T.Y - Queen Latifah(ft. Erykah Badu)
9. Ab soul's Outro - Kendrick Lamarr
10. Rest In Power Mike Brown - Micheal Anthony
11. Solider/Master Teacher Live Version - Erykah Badu
12. Alright - Kendrick Lamarr
13. De La Soul - I Am I Be
14. I'm A Black Man In A White World - Micheal Kiwanuka
15. Ama Be Happy - ArchDuke
16. Offering - Jaden Smith
17. Power - JMSN
18. Metropolis - Logic

Part 2
19. These Walls - Moss Kena
20. What They Do - The Roots
21. Smooth - Saib
22. Leave me Alone - RC & The Grits (ft. Erykah Badu)
23. De La Soul - Royalty Capes
24. Flamingosis - Football Head
25. 'Bout it - JMSN
26. Yesterday - Noname
28. Words To Say - Alex Szotak
29.Rasool (Live) - Jill Scott
30. FIND YOUR WINGS - Tyler the Creator
31. Lettuce & Croutons - ScienZe (ft. Fresh Daily)
32. The Devil Be Tryin' - Imaneurope
33. Falling - Gaelle
34. LAST CHANCE TO DANCE - EKKAH
35. Black Man In America - October London
36. Willow Smith - Female Energy
37. Lifeness - Zo! (ft. Dornik)
39. Me - Junglepussy
40. The Art of Easing - Disable Planets
41. Blacks and Blues - Bobbi Humphrey

WHATS REALLY GOING ON?

1. PYRMDPLAZA - Yoshi
2. Rvdical the Kid & MasterMack -  Ethereal
3. Jets - Pink Beat
4. Possible
5. Thats Not Me
6. Sluush
7. Happy
8. Willow- Whip my hair remix
9. Simole
10. Sheslays
11. Little Simz - The Hamptons
12. Missy Elliot - I'm really hot Kaytranada edit
13. TNGHT- Higher Ground
14. XXYYXX- Set it off (shms party bootleg)
15. Kendrick Lamarr - Money Trees (Finch Fetti Trap Remix)
16. Sam Gellaitry - Long distance
17. The Prodigy -  No good (Sam Gellaitry remix)
18. Solange - Cranes In the Sky Kaytranada Edit
19. I bootlegged Foisey
20. Estelle - American Boy Ezra Remix Vubey
21. Electric yellow(mellow Suite) - Teressa Jenee
22. Frank Ocean - Pink + White Feat Beyonce
23. Raury - Peace Prevail
24. Beyonce - Me Myself & I Esta Edit
25. Bug Bites
26. Thuggin
27. Frontin' (for Mishi)
28. Disclosure -  You & Me (Flume Remix)
29. Wonder
30. Saywhat
31. Running Away - Jill Scott

WE IS, WE AINT

I wanted to provide this episode as a reminder that we are all still here together. We are all breathing, learning, and experiencing within this world. You are not alone. Things may seem bad, they may prove to get worse, and bouts of depression may surface, but as a Black person with a surpassable amount of blues I want to express to you that the preservation of ourselves is vital to survival. It is love that carries us through the doomsdays just as it is the preservation of ourselves that allow us to stand day-to-day. I hope these messages and vibrations bring you peace and move you to feel liberated in thought. 
I want to thank all of the amazing people who had a part in this episode. Please consider yourselves welcome members of Blacks With Blues. This project is a work in progress and with your help we will continue to grow and create a structured narrative of what it means to be Black with the blues. I also want to thank Alyssa Osasere for the cover art for this episode. Collaborations like these is what unify us which also makes us harder to rule. 

Feel better my people, a positive shift is coming soon, but first we have to prepare ourselves for a much needed change. <3

Self Love & Black Self Preservation

This one is the beginning to an experimental podcast used to emphasize the voices of Black individuals with the blues.
List of tracks coming soon.

Detroit |Lost Episode #1|

Welcome to another episode of Blacks With Blues. This month Justin comes back home to a "New Detroit" & is prompted to address personal growth, Black artistry, & the belief of self as a Black Human. 


Tracks:
Nina Simone x Robert Glasper - So Beautiful (Music Soulchild Cover)
Anderson Paak - Come Down
Falcxne - Tams (off Tidbits III)
brwn sgrrr - luv yourz
Little Simz - Wings

GoldLink - Spectrum (GEOTHEORY Remix) 
Kris L - Hoopty feat. Milan
TEK. LUN - WUNTOOTRI!
Kristen Leigh - Hooked (prod. Sum Total)

 Jessica Care More - You Want Poems feat. Roy Ayers & Jose James
Anderson Paak - Water Fall (Interluuude)
Daniel Cesar - Violet
Barney Artist -  Where’s Your Soul At? feat. Alfa Mist & Lester The Nightly
Abby Diamond - Love To Watch You Leave
wntr - down with u
J-Louis - CAMARILLO
Khadisma - Latley (Khaisma X Soulchild)
Khadisma - Relatively 
Whereisalex - Whats it going to be (remix)
Jerome Thomas - The Stone

Crawl Before You Walk |Detroit, Black Artistry, & Personal Growth|

Self identified Wallflowers, Alyssa Osasere & Kiani Brown, discuss how they combat political trauma within every day institutions as Black women. 

Track List:
Fatima - Cinnamon
HEAVN - Jamila Woods
Why Don't You - Cle Sol

Cover art Done by Alyssa Osasere

Wallflower |Feat. Kiani Brown & Alyssa Osasere|

This weeks episode features a group discussion on socioeconomic status & work culture as it directly impacts the mental health of Black individuals. 

Track List:
King Andrew [Rest Empowered] - MMYYKK
Rock The Boat Remix - ButcherBrownVA
Meant 2 Be/ No Filter - el.
Heavenly Father - Isaiah Rashad
Get Dis Money (Mozaic Refix)- Slum Village
AAAAA - Kiefer

Cover Art By Justin Lamarr Jones

Shades of Blue |Feat. Tae, Alyssa, & Grover|

After William H. Johnson's Painting "Seated Woman In Flowered Dress" I am curating this mix as a love letter to the mundane. I am identifying the beauty of mundanity in my everyday life. Intuition, self-belief, and the radical acceptance of earthly imperfection are my friends. I schedule dinner with them several times a week just to ensure that I never forget what their faces look like at my table.

Track List:

1.)Trust Your Judgement_Yves Jarvis
2.)Welcome_Dougie Stu
3.)Decant - Demo_ Taves
4.)Harmonee_ Joel Ross
5.)w/ me interlude_MHYSA
6.)The Joy_Prince Josh
7.)Trill Suite, No.1 (Daydreaming| Skylark)_ Melanie Charles
8.)Welcome_Sam Wilkes
9.)Bolted Orange_M.Sage
10.)Furniture In The Valley_North Americans
11.)Pork Belly_ Bastien Keb
12.)Naima - Take 2_ John Coltrane
13.)ラビリンス (thousand tears orchestra instrumental)_ Mondo Grosso
14.)Relax_Labi Siffre
15.)It's My Time_ Mansur Brown
16.Abject_Taves
18.)Nostalgia_ Dougie Stu
19.)I'm Free_ Yves Jarvis
20.) A special overlap Thanks to KeiyaA, Barry, and Baby :)

Lately: The Seated Woman In The Flowered Dress

It is said that our ancestors who tilled soils in the night utilized CHANT & SONG to maintain through slave labor. The colloquial antebellum slur was then coined “mooncricket”, to mimic their CHANTS & SONGS emerging from fields similar to restless crickets in the night. 

Surely CHANT & SONG is a technology used to maintain at the backdrop of state sanctioned horror. And those that employ this sacred technology are practitioners, not of survival, but of life’s truest rhythm… love. Therefore the Black predecessors who escape into the night and chant and sing alongside crickets in the marsh converge in this sacred knowing.

Chant and song fuels, feeds, defies, & defends.

Moon_Cricket

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