 Until this week, I didn’t realize how many duos we regularly feature on this show. Gwen & George, Bobby & Madison, Otis Jr. & Dr. Dundiff. Shocker: I’m also into DJ/MC pairings, doubles tennis, and tag team wrestling. This week I’ve got another incredible duo that came together on a beautiful collaboration album. Check out Zeitgeist by rapper Elzhi and vocalist/producer Georgia Anne Muldrow. Also, if you’re as sick as I am that Carl Carlton’s Kung Fu Fighting is the only Kung Fu anthem in rotation, I’ve got a remedy courtesy of Mr. Curtis Mayfield. Thanks again for listening, follow PurpleRoomRadio on Instagram. This Week's PlaylistJacob Banks
Parade Bilal West Side Girl Lee Fields & The Expressions The Only One Loving You Curtis Mayfield Kung Fu Orgone Watch It De La Soul CBGB’s solitude. you. Ezra Collective James Speaks to the Galaxy Shafiq Husayn Love Still Hurts Keyon Harold Wayfaring Traveller Chronixx Never Give Up Sault Wild Hundreds Pt. 55 Otis Jr. & Dr. Dundiff One Time Yesterday’s New Quintet Kuhn’s Theme Phife Dawg Once Again (WunTwo Remix) Juju Rogers & Bluestaeb Psalm 137 Elzhi & Georgia Anne Muldrow f/ Dudley Perkins Every Moment --- The Purple Room Curated by @ShantuDiggs Saturdays @ 2 pm MT FM 88.5 (yeg) | @cjsr_fm | CJSR.com (stream)  Today we went bell-to-bell with music the way it was intended to be heard – live on stage, with its loose imperfections and adlibbed beauty. So often, I hear people say they prefer the way music sounds on an album but listen … in 2017, I heard Lauryn Hill perform Everything is Everything around 30 BPM faster than it was meant to be played. It was so dope that we forgave her for being 20 minutes late to the stage. Nothing beats a live performance. Check out the playlist at the bottom of this post; here are a few highlights. Sade I opened up with Sade’s Soldier of Love from her Bring Me Home album, recorded in Ontario, California in 2011. Bring Me Home was Sade’s second live album, after Lovers Live from 2002. Erykah Badu Erykah Badu drops a great verse in her live version of On & On, which came from her 1997 live album (which also features that version of Tyrone you forgot about). Lianne La Havas Lianne La Havas is a composer and vocalist with a purple connection – a friendship and mentorship with Prince, who once held a concert in La Havas’s London apartment. I played her song Forget, recorded live in Paris, from La Havas’s 2012 debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough. Digital Underground f/ Tupac Digital Underground’s ability to apply humour to socially relevant topics was almost unmatched. The group was creative and forward-thinking and served as the stomping ground for one of the most recognized names in music, Tupac Shakur. I played a live version of their track Same Song, which appeared in the 1991 movie Nothing but Trouble. The song is from their 2010 Greenlight EP and features a great live moment when they turned a cold crowd in their favour and boosted the rising stars of their collective (ie: ‘Pac) This Week's PlaylistSade
Soldier of Love (Live) Georgia Anne Muldrow Brokenfolks (Instrumental) Lianne La Havas Forget (Live) Erykah Badu On & On (Live) Khruangbin & Toro y Moi First Class (Live from the Filmore Miami) Osibisa Beautiful 7 / Y Sharp (Live) Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio Otherworldly (Instrumental) Big Daddy Kane Wrath of Kane (Live from The Apollo) Oddisee & Good Company Built by Pictures (Live) Run D.M.C. Sucker MC’s (Live) DJ Harrison Carnival 74 (Instrumental) Digital Underground Same Song (Live) —-- The Purple Room Curated by @ShantuDiggs Saturdays @ 2 pm MT FM 88.5 (yeg) | @cjsr_fm | CJSR.com (stream) |
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