ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix ๐ฆด- Ancient to the Future (The Old New!) - New Icon Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop - Zomba, 1989. ๐คโฐ๏ธ๐๐ฝ โ๏ธ: Education. These songs all focus on teaching something: the history of Hip Hop; rewritten/overwritten Black History; the history of Boogie Down Productions; police violence - without… Continue reading In The Stacks 3/11/26
Tag: jazz
In The Stacks 2/25/26
ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix New icon! ๐ฅ - Drunk ass music VA - Bossa Copa: Un Show de Bossa en Bossa Copa - Historia De la Bossa Nova, 1966. ๐ง๐ท โ โบ๐๏ธ: A collection of live Bossa Nova that appears as if it were a concert recording, but seems to actually be a sampler from the… Continue reading In The Stacks 2/25/26
In the Stacks 1/26/26
ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix Luiz Bonfรก - IAmor! The Fabulous Guitar of Luiz Bonfรก - Atlantic/Collectibles, 1958. ๐ง๐ท๐ธ โ: Lovely guitar playing by a master, who performs Sambas, Bossas, Jazz Standards and mostly originals. There are many solo pieces, but also wonderful tracks featuring bleary vibraphone and mellophone. If anything the album is too short, but… Continue reading In the Stacks 1/26/26
In the Stacks 12/31/25
ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary - Jive, 1988. ๐ค๐ ๐ โ๏ธ๐๏ธ ๐๐ฝ: Both Public Enemy and BDP release their debut albums in 1987 and in a simultaneous inception they both brought the hard edged, woke Rap that hooked me deeply. When I am captured, deciphering the lyrical concepts and… Continue reading In the Stacks 12/31/25
In the Stacks 11/22/25
ItS Intro/Key Play/Mix Chico Buarque & Ennio Morricone - Sonho De Um Carnaval - Rym Musique, 1970/2000. ๐ง๐ท๐ซ๐ฎ๐น ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ ๐: This is a magical pairing, and also not an example of either manโs best music. Morricone had already done some of his most well known music for films at this point and many of the… Continue reading In the Stacks 11/22/25