It’s been over a month since I’ve been on the air and I’ve missed it. After almost 20 years since I started in radio, I’ve never tired of the simple joy of playing music for other people and telling them about it. One month doesn’t seem like a long time, but it felt like ages since the last time I was at KPFK. being away for so long means there’s a ton of music, new and old, that I’ve been stockpiling to play for y’all. Newer tunes come your way via Valerie June, Fat Night, Haitus Kaiyote, Marta Ren & the Groovelvets, Frootful, King Khan & the Shrines, the Spandettes, Chicano Batman and (finally!) the Boogaloo Assassins, with classic material worked in from the Isleys, Michael Jackson, Donald Byrd and others. Very very happy to be back on the air and looking forward to all of these Sundays in September to bring you the best music I can find.
Melting Pot on KPFK #137: First Hour
Melting Pot on KPFK #137: Second Hour
Playlist: 09-01-2013
{opening theme} Booker T & the MGs – Melting Pot – Melting Pot (Stax)
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The Isley Brothers – Work To Do – Brother, Brother, Brother (T-Neck)
Bing Ji Ling – Move On – Shadow To Shine (Tummy Touch)
Belle & Sebastian – Your Secrets – Third Eye Centre (Matador)
Myron & E – If I Gave You My Love – Broadway (Stones Throw)
Marta Ren & the Groovelvets – 2 Kinds Of Men – 7” (Record Kicks)
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Fat Night – Things You Do – 7” (Colemine)
King Khan & the Shrines – Pray For Lil – Idle No More (Merge)
Lake – Giving & Receiving – Giving & Receiving (K Recs)
Michael Jackson – I Can’t Help It – Off The Wall (Epic)
Quadron – LFT – Avalanche (Vested In Culture)
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Elyas Khan – Bells – Single (BBE)
El Guincho – Bombay – Pop Negro (Young Turks/XL)
Lime – Your Love – Your Love (Prism)
The Spandettes – Sweet & Saccarhine (Whiskey Baron Remix) – 7” (Do Right!)
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Haitus Kaiyote – Nakamarra – Tawk Tomahawk (Flying Buddha)
Jose James – Love – The Dreamer (Brownswood)
Frootful feat. Mazen – The Road – 7” (Freestyle)
Jovenes y Sexys – Amor Platonico – Original Music and Songs Inspired By Rudo Y Cursi (Nacional)
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The Decoders feat. Noelle Skaggs – Walk On By – Single (Self-released)
Valerie June – The Hour – Pushing Against The Stone (Concord)
Dimas III & the Royal Jesters – I Won’t Love You Again – 7” (Clown)
Chicano Batman – Cycles Of Existential Rhyme – Magma EP (Self-Released)
Terence Blanchard – Central Focus – Magnetic (Blue Note)
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The Boogaloo Assassins – Para Mi – Old Love Dies Hard (Sicario Records)
The Hawk feat. Little Hannah Collins – Don’t Judge A Book – Record Kicks 10th (Record Kicks)
Donald Byrd – Dominoes – Places & Spaces (Blue Note)
{closing theme} Dungen – C. Visar Vagen – Tio Batar (Kemado)
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Trinikas – Remember Me – 7” (Numero)