Philip Owusu (Copenhagen) On The Main Ingredient December 4th!

In 2006 an album came along that broke my brain a little bit…or at least the rules in it. The instrumentation and the harmonies and the humor and the song structures didn’t seem like they could have all come from the two kids watching tv on the album cover and it definitely didn’t fit into my understanding of genres at the time. It was “Living With…” by Owusu & Hannibal. Some of you know it but it didn’t reach anywhere near the amount of ears it deserved to reach. I’ve listened to it and played tracks from it in DJ gigs consistently over the last 6 years and I’ve only grown more fond of it during that time. I was lucky enough to have Robin Hannibal as a guest on the show (as part of Quadron) a couple years back and I am finally completing the circle. Philip Owusu, who just completed his solo album, will come by and be a good a sport about the barrage of questions emanating from my mouth.

Listen to the album on Grooveshark.


The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #179 (November 27, 2012)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #179 (November 27, 2012)
s3 (miles bonny & brenk sinatra) – movin on (mpmsite.com)
the black opera – outrolude (mellomusicgroup.com)
flako – honey drips (five-easy-pieces.com)
the decoders – i am the black gold of the sun (thedecodersmusic.com)
positive flow – hold on featuring colonel red (tokyodawn.net)
grooveman spot – take a stance (jazzysport.com)
jessie ware – running (universal island)
kendrick lamar – real featuring anna wise of sonnymoon (aftermath/interscope)
dels – ylimh (ninjatune.net)
jesse boykins iii & melo-x – the perfect blues (jacques greene remix) (ninjatune.net)
arthur russell – how we walk on the moon (youth return to base edit) (leyouth.com)
me’shell ndegeocello – suzanne (naive)
ultraista – gold dayzz (maribou state remix) (temporary residence)
kidkanevil & daisuke tanabe – nanotrees (out in the woods) (projectmooncircle.com)
anthony mills – badman (soundcloud.com/anthonymills)
black spade – nobody’s fool (converse rubber tracks)
flying lotus – all in (warp.net)
submotion orchestra – thinking (exceptional)
dam mantle – r g b (notown)
diggs duke – duty of grace (diggsduke.bandcamp.com)
apollo brown & guilty simpson – wrong hand (mellomusicgroup.com)
catching flies – the stars (catchingflies.bandcamp.com)
dark time sunshine – overlordian featuring p.o.s. of doomtree (fake four, inc.)
kaah – visa sej (sum comfort belo horizonte remix) (twitter.com/sumcomfort)
birthday – lexus music (potholesmusic.bandcamp.com)
oddisee – anothers grind featuring tranqill (mellomusicgroup.com)
grasscut – lights (ninjatune.net)
the broken orchestra – over + over featuring natalie gardiner (phonosaurus.com)

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.


The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #178 (November 20, 2012)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #178 (November 20, 2012)
submotion orchestra – intro (exceptional)
b. lewis – world frozen over (blewis.bandcamp.com)
pac div – no superman (rbc)
positive flow – universal truth featuring andre espeut & heidi vogel (tokyodawn.net)
krts – something new featuring jon hairston (projectmooncircle.com)
grooveman spot – the new terrain (jazzysport.com)
lapalux – forgetting and learning again featuring kerry leatham (brainfeedersite.com)
zaki ibrahim – go widdit (motif)
ac lewis – tickles (domu remix) (nirobi edit) (www.robertluis.com)
strong arm steady vs statik selektah – through the motions featuring david banner & fiend (stonesthrow.com)
s3 (miles bonny & brenk sinatra) – stars shine (mpmsite.com)
lupe fiasco – hood now (outro) (atlantic)
diggs duke – well repel (diggsduke.bandcamp.com)
jesse boykins iii & melo-x – schwaza culture featuring street etiquette (ninjatune.net)
beyond luck – industrial hemp music (beyondluck.bandcamp.com)
state of zoe – two ways we fall (stateofzoe.bandcamp.com)
toro y moi – so many details (carpark)
jafu – escalation (waveform)
soia – obtaining (mez remix) (soundcloud.com/mezuian)
stro elliot – feel 4 chaka (cdmk.bandcamp.com)
the precious lo’s – listen to your heart (thepreciouslos.bandcamp.com)
flako – mating dance (five-easy-pieces.com)
nina simone – see line woman (ogris debris edit) (soundcloud.com/ogris-debris)
anthony mills – you and me (soundcloud.com/anthonymills)
freddie joachim – to remind us featuring miles bonny (melloworange.com)
purple hearts – sides of time (say wow) featuring shi wisdom (purplehearts.bandcamp.com)
the black opera – black lair featuring melody betts (mellomusicgroup.com)
kendrick lamar – sing about me (aftermath/interscope)

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.


The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #177 (November 13, 2012)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #177 (November 13, 2012)
toro y moi – so many details (remix) featuring hodgy beats (carpark)
freddie joachim – hold you through the storm (melloworange.com)
s3 (miles bonny + brenk sinatra – chakal (mpmsite.com)
positive flow – my prediction featuring omar (tokyodawn.net)
hint – aliens featuring t-fly (hint club mix) (tru-thoughts.co.uk)
me’shell ndegeocello – see line woman featuring tracy wannomae (naive)
apollo brown & guilty simpson – truth be told (mellomusicgroup.com)
nissim (fka d.black), fatal lucciauno, spac3man & larry hawkins – tell me (sportnliferecords.bandcamp.com)
jr & ph7 – goodbye featuring phonte & median (jakartarecords-label.bandcamp.com)
kylie auldist – all in you (tru-thoughts.co.uk)
anthony mills – pocket the watch (soundcloud.com/anthonymills)
kendrick lamar – the art of peer pressure (aftermath/interscope)
krts – your eyes featuring stevee wellons (projectmooncircle.com)
submotion orchestra – sleepwalker (exceptional)
dj vadim – lost my love featuring jazz bailey (bbemusic.com)
maribou state – pagoda (southern fried)
walker & royce – little things (ditherdown.com)
new look – janet (he doesn’t know i’m alive) (alt studio version) (k7.com)
hiatus kaiyote – mobius streak (anthony valadez remix) featuring miles bonny (hiatuskaiyote.bandcamp.com)
hannah williams & the tastemakers – tell me something (liberties) (recordkicks.com)
alice russell – heartbreaker (acoustic live) (tru-thoughts.co.uk)
grooveman spot – pretending featuring hollie smith & isaac aesili (jazzysport.com)
fat freddy’s drop – silver & gold (forthcoming 2013)
weedy of 40 winks – the blue (projectmooncircle.com)
terry callier – no more blues (verve)

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.