Attic Beats 022 - Original concept: June 2002; podcast recorded February 26, 2006
This week, I revisit a favorite mix CD I made as part of my short-lived monthly-MP3-mix-CD series on my personal site.
This is the soundtrack for driving through New York City at 3am. This is a soundtrack for cabbies that work the graveyard [...]
Attic Beats 021 - Recorded February 1, 2006
aka “The Episode Where I Say ‘Interesting’ Entirely Too Many Times”
I admittedly have only a beginner’s level of knowledge on this week’s theme: exotica. So much so that I’m combining exotica, lounge, and space age pop into one big batch, which may make more knowledgeable fans cringe. [...]
Attic Beats 020 - Recorded January 11, 2006
For the 20th episode, I decided it was time to bring on the first guest of the show’s history. It seemed only fitting that for a show on turntablism and the art of DJing that I bring on the dopest DJ I know to drop some knowledge [...]
Attic Beats 019 - Recorded January 2-3, 2006
To kick off the New Year, we’ve got a little (actually a lot) extra for you this week. The show runs nearly two hours and covers loads of great hip-hop, reggae, dub, downtempo, abstract beats, jazz, breaks, exotica, and even some of that forgotten subgenre of the [...]
Attic Beats 018 - Recorded December 7 and 13, 2005
Happy Holidays (and yes, that includes Christmas, dearest AFA)! We’ve got some jolly happy tunes for you this week, so gather the kids ’round the fireplace (actually, the kids shouldn’t be anywhere near this podcast) and enjoy some holiday cheer from your friend at Attic [...]
Attic Beats 017 - Recorded December 1, 2005
To kick off December, we have some great jazz from the 1960s, including tracks from Lee Morgan, Booker Little, Freddie Hubbard, and Miles Davis (duh).
Attic Beats 016 - Recorded November 23, 2005
This week’s theme is Hip-Hop That Samples Sesame Street. While some of the samples are pretty blatant (like either of the KMD/MF Doom tracks), others are buried deeper (like the “5″ on Jurassic 5’s “Monkey Bars”). There’s also a gem of a major label obscurity here [...]
Attic Beats 015 - Recorded November 11, 2005
Back in week 3, I did an episode titled “Stuff I Bought at the Library Book Sale.” The total cost of the music played that episode was somewhere in the range of 50 cents. This time around, it’s a little more expensive, coming in at $14, [...]
Attic Beats 014 - Recorded October 27, 2005
This week’s episode demonstrates three things:
How major labels were totally clueless when it comes to trying to market hip-hop in the early-90s
What a lunatic can do with a toy xylophone
What the heck a Korean tape with a red pepper driving a teacup has to do with anything
Enjoy these [...]
Attic Beats 013 - Recorded October 20, 2005
Sorry for the delay in getting the corrected version of this episode back on the site!
Hip-hop has been my life for over 20 years now and I have fond memories of first discovering it at my cousin’s house in the mid-80s. This week’s show takes a look [...]