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Discover: https://soundcloud.com/soulection 
Here is my Prezi presentation - http://bit.ly/1fCiqhc - that I was using as I was speaking. I would recommend for you to look at this and follow what I am saying. There is some great insight/messages/visuals in here.

I really want to give another BIG thank you to Leonard Lacsamana (Co-President) of Poly Founders (A multi-disciplinary organization for entrepreneurs) based at Cal Poly Pomona for having me. I am very humbled by those who attended and listened to what I had to say. This was my first time speaking about Soulection and my journey to a public audience and as a special guest. 

I really went as deep as I could within an hour and 26 minute session about my story and how Soulection was founded with Guillaume Bonte (96) and I back in January 2011 and how we brought on Andre Power afterwards. I talked about the pre-history of Soulection and touched on topics such as passion, the music industry today, my personal life, adversity, technology, social media, analytics, and more. I hope you can gain something from listening to me. This isn't about me flaunting my story or being self-indulgent. I am humble and many people have requested for me to upload this audio recording because people want to know the story. I look forward to doing more of these kind of speeches on a larger scale in the near future. Until then enjoy and thank you for your support.

Corrections**
I was going off the top of my head and at times I was feeling overwhelmed with information overload and stated some wrong facts. Here are the proper facts:

~Jordan Rakei is from Brisbane, Australia. 
~Sango attends Western Michigan University.
~Soulection Radio was ranked in the top 30 for best radio show of 2012 on Mixcloud.

This was recorded on Thursday, November 7, 2013 @ Cal Poly Pomona

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http://www.csupomona.edu

Soulection, My Life, & My Journey | Guest Speaker @ Cal Poly Pomona

I wish to hear all of Dilla's most famous beats in this form

Dear Dilla, you shaped my perception for music in ways I can't describe in words. Music has always touched my heart, but your music moved my soul. You had a gift of making the most creative music using samples from the most unlikely sources. I'll never understand why someone like you, who could have given the world so much more, would be taken way so soon. Dilla, you "literally" changed lives and you probably saved lives too, because when you make music "straight from the heart," it's not just music anymore.

You will always be my favorite musician of all time....

Thank You Dilla, Rest In Peace

Artwork By Denise Hestor

---- I DO NOT OWN ANY PART OF THIS TRACK --- I'm simply trying to express my soul, support my favorite artists and help spread good music to those who might not have heard it.

*LOVE, PEACE & MUSIC*

J Dilla - Find A Way (Miguel Atwood Ferguson & Carlos Niño Orchestral Rendition)

Fifty-years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed a law that abolished old racist immigration  rules. The law made it easier for for more people from more countries  to come to the United States and eventually become citizens It would change America, creating the multinational and multicultural society we have today.  KCRW's Saul Gonzalez has the story of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and how it affected Southern California. (Photo: LBJ Presidential Library)

How a 1965 Immigration Law Changed America and L.A.

Actor Martin Sheen as you've never heard him before. He has appeared in over 100 films, including Apocalypse Now. He’s best known on television as President Bartlet in seven seasons of The West Wing. But Martin Sheen, born and still legally named Ramón Estévez, has had another lesser-known life as a spiritual seeker and activist. He returned to a deep and joyful Catholic faith after a crisis at the height of his fame in in mid-life. He’s been arrested over 60 times in vigils and protests. "Piety is something you do alone," he says. "True freedom, spirituality, can only be achieved in community."

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/martin-sheen-spirituality-of-imagination/8257

Martin Sheen — Spirituality of Imagination

For more information visit www.romemu.org

Joy is Sorrow Unmasked: VAYIGASH - ויגש

Paul Muldoon holds the Howard G.B. Clark chair in the Humanities at Princeton University. He has served as the poetry editor at the The New Yorker since 2007. He is the author of 12 major collections of poetry, including "Horse Latitudes," "Hay," and "One Thousand Things Worth Knowing."

This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Paul Muldoon — A Conversation with Verse." Find more at onbeing.org.

[Unedited] Paul Muldoon with Krista Tippett

The Irish poet and The New Yorker poetry editor Paul Muldoon has won the Pulitzer Prize, written for other media from radio to song, and plays in a rock band. He visited us for a magical day at the On Being studios on Loring Park in Minneapolis, including a dinner salon and reading from his work.

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/paul-muldoon-a-conversation-with-verse/8276

Paul Muldoon — A Conversation with Verse

Stop Seeking Saviors: Vaychi - ויחי

Marlon Wayans checks in with Lip Service ahead of the January 29th release of his new movie “Fifty Shades of Black,” and discusses his S&M rookie kit, limits in the bedroom, “pegging,” and he educates the ladies on their G spot.  Wayans reveals what the greatest thing in the world in the bedroom is, his surprise golden showers, and releasing in a woman’s eye.  They discuss the 6 things that can happen when ejaculation gets in your eye and whether or not you can go blind, penile enlargements and their sex safe words. He then tells a story of playfighting gone too far.

@angelayee @marlonwayans @stephsdope @gigimaguire @imsofigreen


Episode 34 Ft. Marlon Wayans

Following on from the hugely successful discovery of a never-before-heard J Dilla mixtape, Boiler Room continue their coverage of hip hop's finest technician with their second Yancey-dedicated podcast in partnership with Classic Album Sundays.

Where Episode 1 saw Boiler Room Head of Music and Dillaphile, @RajiRags, break down his magnum opus Donuts, this sequel digs into the anatomy of his 2001 debut LP Welcome 2 Detroit (BBE Records) alongside Dilla's mentor, @AmpFiddler.

Containing rare tape demos from a 17-year-old Jay Dee, classic J Dilla productions and unheard beats broken down to their kick and snare bare bones (via Dilla's own MPC files) and plenty of other musical nuggets, it's a must listen for anyone vaguely interested in the genius' work.

Recorded live at Classic Album Sundays in London.
More info and download: http://blrrm.tv/Welcome2DetroitDissected

More Info & Download

Welcome 2 Detroit Dissected

The legendary interview w/ Jay Dee on World Wide dating from Feb 2001, as he speaks on the making of the seminal Welcome 2 Detroit, his production work w/ Pharcyde, Common, Tip and other stories... a must listen. Happy Bday Dilla. 


Jay Dee on Gilles Peterson's World Wide, Feb 15th 2001

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Boiler Room #21 Livin' Proof Takeover hosted by The bPm w/ special guests and friends; Hudson Hohawke, DJ Rags and DJ Snips.          

[Broadcasted live at 9pm on Tuesday 17th of August 2010]           

PODCAST / VIDEOS / TRACKLIST: http://su.pr/1kBmNh


Boiler Room #21 Livin' Proof Takeover w/ Hudson Mohawke

Danny Brown LIVE, Lunice & Livin Proof DJs: Budgie, Snips, Khalil & Rags.

[Broadcast on 20th July 2012]

Tracklist & video at http://boilerroom.tv

Lunice 45 min Boiler Room DJ Set

Boiler Room Los Angeles w/ Blood Diamonds, Knxwledge, Earnest Blount & Toro Y Moi

[Broadcast on 27th November 2012]

Tracklist & video at http://boilerroom.tv

Toro y Moi 55 Min Boiler Room Los Angeles Mix

"The Origins of Rhythm"
by Paolo Pietropaolo, 2011

Anytime I take the bus these days I notice the unsynchronized wobble of nodding heads, the arrhythmic patter of tapping feet: an outward indication that many of my fellow passengers are locked into private worlds, captive to personal soundtracks.

It’s curious that we so often listen to music as a way to block out the world, since many scientists now believe that music evolved as a way to bring humans together and to help societies function harmoniously. In The Origins of Music, biologist Walter J. Freeman makes the case that “music together with dance have co-evolved biologically and culturally to serve as a technology of social bonding.”

In some cultures, there are no separate words for “dance” and “music”. They are one and the same. That’s always rung true to me, even when swaying and otherwise reacting with my body to classical music, in overbearing concert halls, while feeling the disapproving stares of my neighbours.

I recently produced a series of documentaries about Indian music called The Subcontinental. One of the things that struck me was how much Indian music ties itself to the body with its rhythms. And dance is a big part of Indian music, from folk music like bhangra to the great classical dance traditions like Bharatnatyam, to the modern Bollywood stage.

I’ve long loved Indian music, and one of the reasons is because it always reminds me how much music is of our bodies as well as our minds.

In seeking to understand the origins of music, scientists like Freeman are analyzing the activities of our brains as we sing, dance, play or listen. (Their fascinating search inspired another documentary series called The Nerve.)

But there are other stories, old stories about the origins of music - perhaps none older than the Hindu story of the dances of Shiva and Parvati.

In this sonic exploration of the origins of rhythm, the great tabla master Ustad Zakir Hussain tells that story.

I think of this piece as a “scored story”, somewhere between traditional audio storytelling, and a musical composition with lyrics. In addition to Ustad Hussain, you’ll hear the voices of filmmaker Deepa Mehta and Bollywood choreographer Shiamak Davar. As well, you’ll hear the sounds of Bollywood movie dance rehearsals led by Shiamak, and the sounds of the very first college-level Bhangra dance course offered in North America, underway right now at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University and taught by Raakhi Sinha.

Taking these words and sounds, and adding others they suggest, I’ve attempted to celebrate the importance of dance - and its implication of people moving together - to the origins of music. 

-Paolo Pietropaolo


The Origins of Rhythm

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