Photos from Ta-Ku‘s interview and guest set from this week’s The Main Ingredient.
My Set
switch – i stilll love you featuring andrea martin (dubside)
oddisee – uptown cabaret (mello music group)
b.bravo – kiss ‘n’ tell featuring zackery force funk (earnest endeavors)
the stuyvesants – tough love (because love is tough) (sd)
iSHE & Hezekiah – hold on (georgia anne muldrow remix) (self-released)
goapele – milk + honey (skyblaze/decon)
mux mool – palace chalice (ghostly)
sarah white – why cry? (cultura love)
3 – seekae (rice is nice/pop frenzy)
inc. – heart crimes (4ad)
The Interview
ta-ku – out of my way (self-released)
ta-ku – folk (self-released)
ta-ku + roughsoul – waves (self-released)
ta-ku – :::fanfare (highs + lows x new balance)
ta-ku – :::ladies night (highs + lows x new balance)
ta-ku – :::nine to five (highs + lows x new balance)
ta-ku – hey kids (brownswood)
ta-ku + miles bonny – down to earth club music (self-released/moovmnt exclusive)
Ta-Ku’s Guest DJ Set
ta-ku – sick
fitz amro$e – kassie
? – adams family isht
unthnkable – knxwledge
astronote – feel the heat
elaquent – teddy bear
? – NY4
? – lightmares
m-phazes – from russia with love
m-phazes – tryna do me
boombaptist – townsend-too late
christoph el’ truento – push on
ta-ku – bounce
b.lewis – your loss
co.fee – gypsy skirt
lunice – the name dunnit featuring troy dunnit
lunice – purp walk
eprom – elephantkillers2
duke hugh – yoshi’s island
hazel – twilight
mr. dibiase – track 10
? – get the job done (instrumental)
mndsgn – flybutter instrumental
mister bibal – black canary
stro elliot – dilla tribute (requiem for dilla)
bug – reach the clouds
the roots – upper egypt
m-phazes – eli porter deeed it
hazel – the v (raw)
thundercat – $200 TB featuring austin peralta
slum village – players (instrumental)
freddie joachim – meditation
a tribe called quest – crooklyn (instrumental)
thes one – target
tiron & ayomari – all my love featuring yummy bingham
tall black guy – ride the cali sun
zebrahim – zoning
zebrahim – zilch
zebrahim – beautifullest thing
The Main Ingredient is a weekly radio show covering brand new soulful underground music from around the world, featuring as in-studio interviews with the artists making it. New episodes can be found Wednesdays at noon at themainingredientradio.com/wp-content/uploads. The show began in May 2009 as a weekly broadcast from East Village Radio’s storefront studio on 1st Ave. & 1st St. in NYC and continued there until EVR closed it doors in May 2014. This episode is from the East Village Radio Archives.