Melting Pot’s Best Of 2013!

Another year comes to a close, another year begins and we take a look back at some of our favorite selections from 2013. This year I was simply too busy to produce my usual “Honorable Mentions” web only mix, but there’s still plenty of music packed into the two hours of the program. This first full week of 2014 we’ll be taking a look back at our favorites from the past year, starting with some of the best vinyl I dug up tomorrow, and later in the week, best reissues, records and songs of 2013. As always, thanks for listening and for checking us out here on the web, enjoy the show!

Melting Pot’s Best Of 2013: First Hour
Melting Pot’s Best Of 2013: Second Hour

Melting Pot’s Best of 2013 on KPFK Playlist:

{opening theme} Booker T & the MGs – Melting Pot – 7” (Stax)

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Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge – Return Of The Ghostface Killah – 12 Reasons To Die (Soul Temple)
Superhuman Happiness, Sahr Ngaujah, Abena Koomson and Rubblebucket – ITT (International Thief Thief) – Red, Hot & Fela (Knitting Factory)
Bosq of Whiskey Barons feat. Mendee Ichikawa – Never Feel Cold – Bosq Y Orquesta De Madera (Ubiquity)
Boogaloo Assassins – No No No (Single Edit) – Old Love Dies Hard (Sicario)
Bosq of the Whiskey Barons – Get Involved – Bosq Y Orquesta De Madera (Ubiquity)

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Dom La Nena – Anjo Gabriel – Recorded Live At KPFK (KPFK Archives)
Sly & the Family Stone – Fortune & Fame – Higher! (Sony Legacy)
Fat Night – Things You Do – 7” (Colemine)
Toro Y Moi – Grown Up Calls – Anything In Return (Carpark)
Sly & the Family Stone – Undercat – Higher! (Sony Legacy)

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Jose James feat. Emily King – Heaven On The Ground – No Beginning, No End (Blue Note)
Toddla T Sound – Worst Enemy (edit) – Worst Enemy 12” (Ninja Tune)
Amatorski – Never Told – TBC / Same Stars We Shared (Crammed Discs)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Jubilee Street – Push The Sky Away (Bad Seed LTD)
The Heliocentrics – Calabash – 13 Degrees Of Reality (Now-Again)

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Jimi Hendrix – Mojo Man – People, Hell & Angels (Experience/Legacy)
Myron & E with the Soul Investigators – If I Gave You My Love – Broadway (Stones Throw)
Golden Grrrls – Past Tense – Golden Grrrls (Slumberland)
Frootful feat. Mazen Bedwei – The Road – Heavyweight (Freestyle)
Quadron – LFT (Looking For Trouble) – Avalanche (Vested In Culture)
Shelton Kilby – Poor Wayfaring Stranger – Good God!: Apocryphal Hymns (Numero)

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Valerie June – Shotgun – Pushin’ Against A Stone (Concord)
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou – Min We Tun So – Volume 3: The Skeletal Essence Of Afro Funk 1969-1980 (Analog Africa)
Nicole Willis & the Soul Investigators – On The East Side – Tortured Soul (Timmion)
Songs: Ohia – I’ve Been Riding With The Ghost – Magnolia Electric Co: 10th Anniversary Edition (Secretly Canadian)
Hot 8 Brass Band – Bingo Bango – Recorded Live At KPFK (KPFK Archives)

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Donny Hathaway – Memory Of Our Love – Never My Love: The Anthology (Rhino)
Rhye – The Fall – Woman (Innovative Leisure)
Hiatus Kaiyote – Nakamarra – Tawk Tomahawk (Flying Buddha)
King – In The Meantime – Recorded Live At KPFK (KPFK Archives)

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{closing theme} Adam Franklin – Big Sur (Instrumental) – Drones & Clones (Self-Released)