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Philip Owusu (Copenhagen, Denmark) In The Studio for Episode #180 (December 4, 2012)

Photos from Philip Owusu‘s interview on last night’s The Main Ingredient.

My Set
the decoders – baby this love i have featuring leon ware (thedecoders.bandcamp.com)
raycord – huard wurli (phonosaurus.com)
day – land of 1000 chances (pl70.net)
positive flow – do what i do featuring omar (tokyodawn.net)
rhye – the fall (innovativeleisure.net)
kidkanevil & daisuke tanabe – moooooon (projectmooncircle.com)
pac div – lacienega luxor (rbc)
t.i. – sorry featuring andre 3000 (grand hustle/atlantic)
krts – was she worth it (projectmooncircle.com)

The Interview
owusu & hannibal – lonnie’s secret (ubiquityrecords.com)
owusu & hannibal – le fox (ubiquityrecords.com)
gecko turner – monosabio blues (phillip owusu remix) featuring eska (lovemonk)
philip owusu – the followers (forthcoming)

Philip Picks The Tracks
alice coltrane & pharoah sanders – journey in satchidananda (impulse)
jorge ben – lalari-olala (philips)
karriem riggins – orbitz (stonesthrow.com)
alice russell – heartbreaker (falty dl remix) (tru-thoughts.co.uk)
mc lyte – paper thin (first priority/atlantic)
hackman – forgotten notes (forgottennotes)
ossie – moves (hyperdub.net)
melo-x – fiona apple – every single night (melo-x apt basement god mix) (soundcloud.com/meloxtra)
moody – it’s 2 late 4 u and me (kdj)
little dragon – brush the heat (peacefrog.com – london)

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Oddisee (Brooklyn via MD/DC) In The Studio for Episode #175 (October 23, 2012)

Photos from Oddisee‘s interview on last night’s The Main Ingredient.

My Set
dam mantle – lifting (notown)
cody chesnutt – i’ve been life (vibration vineyard)
erimaj – nothing like this (don’t cry)
homeboy sandman – whatchu want from me? (stonesthrow.com)
falty dl – straight + arrow (ninjatune.net)
dj vadim – akura uprock featuring gregory blackman (bbemusic.com)
bosq of whiskey barons – dem know featuring kaleta (ubiquityrecords.com)
dotmatic – overture iv: hello featuring i, ced & stopha vasquez (recordbreakin.com)
kendrick lamar – the heart pt. 3 (will you let it die) (soundcloud.com/topdawgent)
lupe fiasco – how dare you featuring bilal (atlantic)

The Interview
oddisee – the need superficial featuring olivier daysoul (mellomusicgroup.com)
oddisee – thinking maybes (mellomusicgroup.com)
oddisee – let it go featuring olivier daysoul (mellomusicgroup.com)

Oddisee Picks The Tracks
andrew ashong & theo parrish – flowers (sound signature)
rick ross – 3 kings featuring dr. dre + jay-z (def jam)
kanye west, jay-z + big sean – clique (island/def jam)
van hunt – what were you hoping for? (red distribution)
kendrick lamar – poe mans dreams (his vice) featuring glc (top dawg entertainment)
lianne la havas – don’t wake me up (liannelahavas.com)
phonte – the good fight (theforeignexchangemusic.com)
thundercat – is it love? (brainfeedersite.com)
santigold – disparate youth (atlantic)
kanye west + jay-z – the joy featuring curtis mayfield (def jam)

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.

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Oddisee (Brooklyn via MD/DC) On The Main Ingredient October 23rd!

Anyone that’s listened to my show, even if only once, has probably heard me play an Oddisee track. I’ve been playing his music since my 2nd show back in May of ’09 and I’ve played 95 songs that he’s either produced or rhymed on (often both) in my 173 shows. That’s by far the most of any artist. He first stopped by the show with Olivier Daysoul in late 2010 and I’m really glad to be able to get a little time in the middle of his tour to talk about his excellent new album “People Hear What They See.” He’ll also be performing at Public Assembly Tuesday night; I recommend being there.

About Oddisee:

The son of Sudanese and American parents, Amir Mohamed was born and raised in the United States capital city of Washington DC, spending hot summers in Khartoum learning Arabic and swimming in the Nile. Growing up amidst the sounds of New York hip hop, his father playing Oud, Go-Go, and gospel, Amir took his first steps as an MC producer in the analog basement studio of his legendary neighbor, Garry Shider (Parliament Funkadelic).

Convincing his entrepreneurial father that he too had business acumen, Amir laid the check from his first commercial release on the kitchen table before his 21st birthday and never looked back. Though Oddisee has gone on to perform with The Roots, produce for Freeway, Jazzy Jeff, Little Brother, De La Soul & Nikki Jean, and has MC’d on production from Flying Lotus, Hudson Mohawke and Kev Brown, his proudest moment was the birth of his critically acclaimed group The Diamond District with fellow Washingtonians X.O. and yU.

Known in the music industry for his independence, Oddisee consistently debunks the scatterbrained artist myth – doing everything from booking international tours to photography to marketing and promoting himself and even other artists. He now works as both artist and consultant with Mello Music Group, one of the foremost emerging independent labels to take advantage of the digital revolution to build a successful business.

Oddisee’s debut album “People Hear What They See” (set for release 12 June 2012) is a culmination of the duality of his life experiences, from DC internal politics to third world struggles, the line between love and selfishness, and the personal conflict between self-sabotage and progress, set to a backdrop of intricate drums, lush instrumentation, and soul-stirring harmonies.

“People Hear What They See” is out now –
iTunes // CD // Gatefold Vinyl // Deluxe Edition Haze Vinyl + Bonus 7″

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Pure P (Stockholm) In The Studio for Episode #173 (October 9, 2012)

Photos from Pure P‘s guest DJ set on last night’s The Main Ingredient.

My Set
14kt – the ellis wilson painting on the wall featuring skyzoo (mellomusicgroup.com)
anchorsong – darkrum (tru-thoughts.co.uk)
state of zoe – my fortress (stateofzoe.bandcamp.com)
cody chesnutt – that’s still mama (vibration vineyard)
menahan street band – three faces (daptonerecords.com)
bettye lavette – crazy (anti, inc.)
sbtrkt – wildfire (alex young bootleg) (soundcloud.com/alexyoungmakesmusic)
synthesthetics – lights on (soundcloud.com/synthesthetics)
mayer hawthorne – can’t stop featuring snoop dogg (dam-funk g-mix) (soundcloud.com/mayerhawthorne)
pomrad – hot rain (brownswoodrecordings.com)
robert glasper experiment – the consequences of jealousy featuring meshell ndegeocello (georgia ann muldrow’s sassy geemix) (bluenote.com)
orange & blue – into a dream (blue2.bandcamp.com)
anthony mills – who checkin out (soundcloud.com/anthonymills)
dojo cuts – sometimes it hurts (recordkicks.net)

Pure P’s DJ Set
jones girls – will you be there (paramount)
what cha gonna do with my lovin’ – stephanie mills (20th century)
pure p – baby be without you (gamm)
ryan leslie – you’re not my girl (casablanca/universal/motown)
pure p – keepin real love new (soundcloud.com/purep)
gap band – open up your mind (wide) (mercury)
bobby brown – something in common (mca)
jerry knight – nothing can hold us back (a+m)
pure p – human nature (retouch) (gamm)
r kellly – love letter (pure p refix) (soundcloud.com/purep)
bebe winans – thank you (atlantic)
up hygh – get out my face featuring melo (rawfusionrec.com)
yahzarah – love, come save the day (theforeignexchangemusic.com)
pure p – maybe she’ll dream of me (pure p remix) (soundcloud.com/purep)
yahzarah – cry over you featuring phonte (theforeignexchangemusic.com)
justin timberlake – why, when, how (unreleased)

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.

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Pure P (Stockholm) On The Main Ingredient 10/9!

Pure P (Twitter, Facebook) will join me on The Main Ingredient for a guest DJ set Monday night. I’m excited for this; I’ve been playing his productions going back to 2005. As part of the duo Up Hygh, he collaborated with with Eska (one of my favorite singers of all time) on the rocket launch “Be Known” (at the tender age of 20). His 2008 collaborative album with Swedish vocalist Melo (as Hygher Baby) also boasts some heat rocks, especially “Let U Go (Part 1)” and “Coming Home (Part 2) featuring Fatima.” And in addition to his periodic 12″ releases on GAMM (Sweden’s best kept secret remix label) he produced NY SH#T, a full album (also available as three 12″s) of remixes of NYC MCs which include imaginative recontextualizations like “Ms Phat Bootleg” and “Body Heat (Queens Mix)” which always get great reactions from hip hop heads, followed be even greater reactions when I tell them that it’s the work of a Swedish producer.

He’s also done production and remix work for The Foreign Exchange, Yahzarah, SoulParlor (I greatly prefer his remix of “Bang Illy” to the album version), and many more, in addition to running the popular Soul/Boogie/R&B club night Devotion.

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Abby Lee Tee (Linz, Austria) In The Studio for Episode #172 (October 2, 2012)

Photos from The Abby Lee Tee’s guest DJ set on last night’s The Main Ingredient.
You can find Abby Lee Tee on Twitter, Mixcloud, and Soundcloud.

My Set
robert glasper experiment – black radio featuring yasiin bey (pete rock remix) (bluenote.com)
stainless steele – night watch (pragmatictheory.bandcamp.com)
flying lotus – getting there featuring niki randa (warp.net)
humus – love affair featuring ekow (soundcloud.com/akanuke)
jeedo – make it boom (dirttechreck.com)
radiohead – pyramid song (boddhi satva ancestral soul mix) (boddhi-satva.com)
uptownxo – occupy dc featuring ab the pro (uptownxo202.bandcamp.com)
jose james – it’s all over your body (dj spinna remix) (bluenote.com)
the risks – too many y chromosomes (brownswoodrecordings.com)
maze hill – long haul (radio edit) (wahwah45s.com)

Abby Lee Tee’s DJ Set
douglas greed – morning gloria (ritornell remix)
stratasoul – lovesick (abby lee tee remix)
caribou – she’s the one (brokenchord edit)
empt – far
abby lee tee – morning scene (ritornell rework)
dimlite – can’t get used to those (afterlude)
the gaslamp killer – veins featuring gonjasufi
minor sick & abby lee tee – techno hearts
a.g. trio – countably infinate feat. m. zahradnick (abby lee tee remix)
lol boys – changes (shlohmo remix)
slow magic – on yr side
jennifer left – black dog (the wild knights remix)
chronotpimist – rawri
roman rauch & minor sick – nine oh nine (demo)
123mrk – pleasure
minor sick – unknown
dauwd – what’s there
shigeto – field day (braille remix)
abby lee tee – morning scene
leeux – tea leaf dancers remix
leeux – truckin
stikz – mssd up (leux remake)
roman rauch – rose royce love don’t live here anymore
the xx – angles (four tet remix)
boom clap bachelors – 002 lob stop sta
quest – smooth skin
om unit – cradle
abby lee tee – hungry cats (swedeart remix)
kalifornia kurt + abby lee tee – (without) you

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.