//Home Sick Mini-Mix..

//Day 2 home sick with the flu...but can't help jumping on the turntables! Mos Def's new single dropping sparked me to put these songs together. When you hear the percussion it'll make sense. First, a slept-on DJ Spinna production, second a slept-on J.Dilla production. Third, a good sign for Mos' album The Ecstatic, which is titled after a really dope novel by Victor Lavalle, who also has a awesome collection of short stories called Slapboxing With Jesus. I'll never be mad when an mc or rap group references literature.


Jigmastas f/Sadat X "Don't Get It Twisted"
J.Dilla f/Black Thought "Love Moving"
Mos Def "Quiet Dog"

Now back to bed..1neluv

//January Morning..

Jah Cure - "January Morning" (Free Willy,2006)

//Fruitvale BART Station, 3PM-7PM TODAY...

BART officer has yet to give account in shooting 01.05.09 SF Chronicle

Obama 'deeply concerned' over Gaza 01.05.09 Al-Jazeera

Israeli envoy to Caracas expelled 01.07.09 BBC

//Dear President-Elect Obama..

January 5, 2009

Dear President-Elect Obama:

I am a public middle school teacher, dj and writer based in Oakland, California. I proudly and passionately voted for you on November 4, 2008 and actively campaigned for others to do the same. I was strongly drawn to your message of Hope and Change, as clearly were millions of other Americans. I was especially impressed with your condemnations of “politics as usual” and “politics of division” and in my heart hoped and believed that your rhetoric would have meaning and action behind it. On Election Day I read about and witnessed the reaction of the entire world, as people not only in the United States, but in all continents seemed emboldened by a new hope, including immigrants, Muslims and Arabs here in the U.S., in the Middle East and worldwide. I felt that the world could be a safer place.

Mr. President-Elect, as I write this Israeli F-16s and Apaches continue to light up the Gaza Strip for the 10th consecutive day of “softening” the ground, as Israeli tanks and infantry march into the territory adding to the toll of 548 known Palestinian deaths, many of them women and children. But you know this already. Your astute observations of world politics, race, religion and conflict are well-documented, from the experiences in your memoir Dreams of My Father to your acceptance speech on Election Night when you made the striking announcement, “I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.” You are a student of the world and surely are knowledgeable of such weighty times as these. At the same time, as shown in your rejection of “politics of fear,” you know that Israel’s campaign is not a “war against terrorism” but an extreme injustice.

Mr. President-Elect, it is far overdue for you to offer your voice concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and your vision for U.S. foreign policy. Tell us, will it be “politics as usual” for the U.S. to support Israel’s campaign under your leadership? Will the U.S. under your administration continue Bush's policy of blaming Hamas or will there be Change? The world knows that the U.S. has considerable weight with the Israeli leaders, and considerable capacity to provide humanitarian aid to the people of the Gaza Strip. We cannot wait for your inauguration to hear what your administration plans to do. If anything, your election began the process of restoring our country’s stature as the “beacon of light” that it was for your father and my Filipino grandfathers and grandmothers. Will your administration show this with your decisions and actions regarding the continuing assault on the Gaza Strip?

The Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak is determined to keep pushing to “reach all the goals that we have set for ourselves.” Mr. President-Elect, the slaughter must be stopped now! Your hands are not tied, your eloquent words--startlingly absent this past week--can make an enormous difference. Your weight as soon-to-be President of the United States must be used. The U.S. must apply resources and political capital to press Israel to immediately cease its campaign and allow humanitarian aid to be provided in the strip. In the long term, your administration must adopt a policy that provides safety and justice for the Palestinian people.

I know that you must be saddened and angered by the events unfolding before us as I am. People across the globe are in the streets. Even French president Sarkozy is in the Middle East as Israel has rejected the European Union’s call for ceasefire. Speak now. The people of the Gaza Strip cannot wait. The world cannot wait.

Sincerely,

David S. Maduli
Oakland, CA

sent to the Office of the President-Elect via http://change.gov/page/s/yourstory

//In Rainbows..

16th & Mission, SFC
December 22, 2008

Vulcan Concepcion, Ometepe, Nicaragua

August 2005

Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
gatefold vinyl artwork by the legendary KAWS
(Can you guys do this for Graduation? Thanks)

"Feel my finger paint as the world spins
Let my finger paint cleanse your sins
My finger's paintin' all colors on your skin
See my reflection in my brother, my twin
I'm sparkin' a light to your soul deep within
You can hear the echo when I drop my pen
The children hold hands under the rainbow
Everywhere we go we bring the same flow"
-D.U.S.T.

Zion I f/D.U.S.T & Susie Suh - "Finger Paint"
(Raptivism,2003)

//Dear Winter..

//Dear Winter-

//You've got us huddled up inside the house trying to stay warm (hearts go out to those without a home). Got me busting out clothes I used to wear in Boston and Chicago winters. Times is hard, my middle school kids are not even saying anything about the holidays or Christmas, but they are talking about family that got laid off or how they are going to spend their two-week break bored and broke. This year you have coordinated the arrival of your cold with an Economic Winter as well.

Winter, you've got us shivering but we are not shook. In times like these, it is even more important for us to use every opportunity to spread warmth. We know that music, family and friendship (and hey, some liquor too) can keep out the frostbite. You can freeze and blow and (try to) snow outside the double-paned glass, but if you look inside these spots you will see us cozy and smiling:

THIS Saturday, December 20
GOLDEN - Free before 10:30
Golden Soundscapes DJs ZITA & DMADNESS
Midnight Mix - The B Side Wins Again!

Next Friday, December 26
REVERSE - Free Home for the Holidays Edition!
Old School Hip Hop & R&B with Knowmadic DJs MPENZI & DMADNESS
**We will also be collecting warm gear (coats, blankets, sleeping bags, etc.)
to donate to Alameda Point Collaborative which provides transitional housing
for families formerly homeless or otherwise in need of a safe place to live.
Bring your extra presents or unload your closets!

Monday, December 29
SKYLARKING - Free!
Reggae throwdown in the Mission with I&I Vibration Sound's
BEATNOK & MR.LUCKY and special guest DMADNESS

..And they're all either dirt cheap or free, take that! So Winter, stay cold and don't forget to check the bottom for some songs dedicated to you.

Sincerely,

David//DJ Dmadness
Golden Soundscapes//Knowmadic DJs








//D's Frosty Five for the Winter:

1. Kirby Dominant - "Snow" (Rapitalism,1998)
What needs to happen to some of these ringtone rappers out these days: Kirby takes you out to the tundra and buries you in the snow. The beat even sounds like snow, especially that key solo at the end. And the Prince sample is just ridiculous. From Kirb's debut album Rapitalism:The Philosophies of Dominant Pimpin.


2. GZA/Genius f/ D'Angelo - "Cold World (rmx)" (Geffen,1995)
Features one of the illest verses by the Wu's most underrated lyricist: Inspecktah Deck. This one sounds like straight icicles. D'Angelo you better put out that album on '09.


3. Goodie MoB f/ OutKast- "Black Ice" (LaFace,1998)
The way Andre syncopates with the drums on the last verse is a thing to behold.


4. T.O.K. - "So Cold" (Secrets Riddim) (Don Corleon,2008)
I love the intro, they come in sounding like ghosts. T.O.K. are the true masters of Autotune, sorry T-Pain, they've been doing it for over a decade and this is how it should be done.


5. Kanye West - "Coldest Winter" (Roc-A-Fella,2008)
You already know about this. Whatever whatever about the album. It's got good songs and bad, it's Kanye being Kanye: breaking the mold but acting like he's the greatest thing ever for breaking the mold. But I feel you on this one 'Ye cause I lost my mom in the past year too.

//School of Hard Knocks, My IQ is MENSA..

//I don't mind Kanye's new medium, but for those moments when I just need to hear emcees go in and hospitalize a pretty beat, this is my duo of choice.. at least until Big Boi and Andre3000 make another rap album, the Brothers Thornton play give-and-go with the mic better than any. Double entendres all over the place, Pusha Ton sounding like a wicked hungry jackal, and Malice slanging biblical references better than a Comparative Lit professor. These guys are smart, witty, passionate, and ain't trippin about being p.c.

Excellent mixtape to promote their clothing line, which who cares if it's not that tight, the music is:

Clipse - Road to Till The Casket Drops Mixtape