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The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #140 (January 31, 2012)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #140 (January 31, 2012)
bonobo – eyesdown featuring andreya triana + dels (ninja tune)
SBTRKT – atomic peace (self-released)
union – digital delight featuring guilty simpson (fat beats)
mecca:83 – new(ish) with the blend (freeform)
onra – the one (waajeed remix) (all city)
coultrain – playin’ catch up (self-released)
roddy rod – lightly anxious (instrumental) (self-released)
waajeed & the jazz kats – musiq (bling47)
darkhouse fam – take on the world featuring om’mas keith (earnest endeavors)
alice smith – fool for you (alicesmith.com)
sampha – indecision (self-released)
soul rebels brass band 504 (rounder)
new look – drive you home (!k7 (europe))
jazzanova – i can see featuring ben westbeech (holy ghost remix) (sonar kollektiv)
little specks of blood lust blood – music box (eat mor cake remix) (self-released)
boddhi satva – from another world featuring vikter duplaix (bbe)
four tet – angel echoes (domino)
ill-luzion – lucid dream (project mooncircle)
kenton dunson – beautiful fight (self-released)
moloko – absent minded friends (echo)
gang colours – fancy restaurant (brownswood)
mndsgn – *natportman (self-released)
miles bonny – bonny x trouble (self-released)
teebs – blessed assurance (brainfeeder)
visioneers – dirty old bossa nova (bbe)
black spade – spand (self-released)
sheckys jazzy tofu – butterfly (self-released)
robert glasper experiment – move love featuring king (blue note)
raashan ahmad – falling featuring aloe blacc & gift of gab (trad vibe)
jonti – the days have turned featuring the stepkids & illa j (stones throw)
james blake – once we all agree (r&s)
lo phi – medicated (insect)

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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New Look (Brooklyn/Ontario) In The Studio for Episode #139 (January 24, 2012)


(I forgot to take their picture…photos courtesy of the group.)

New Look‘s interview and guest song selections on this week’s The Main Ingredient.

My Set
new look – relax your mind (!K7 europe)
speech debelle – i’m with it (leo zero dub) (big dada)
the clonious – truth featuring paul randolph (krts remix) (affine)

The Interview
new look – teen need (!K7 europe)
new look – nap on the bow (!K7 europe)
new look – numbers (!K7 europe)

New Look Pick The Tracks
loose ends – gonna make you mine (mca)
zhane – groove thang (motown)
prince – scandalous (warner brothers)
arthur russell – arm around you (rough trade)
d’angelo – lady (emi)
sade – paradise (epic)
the clash – magnificent seven (cbs)
queen – body language (elektra)
gwen guthrie – it should have been you (12″ version) (island)
tones on tail – rain (beggars banquet)
TLC – red light special (la’face)
patrice rushen – let your heart be free (prestige)

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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New Look (Brooklyn/Ontario) On The Main Ingredient 1/23!

New Look, who’s excellent Self-Titled album was released on !K7 in Europe last fall and made my Top 10 Albums of 2011, will join me in the studio tonight to talk about the album and their upcoming European tour. Before they head out, they’ll be playing one show in NYC, next Monday Jan. 30th @ Cake Shop (152 Ludlow Street). Not to be missed!

New Look – Nap On the Bow by New Look

About New Look:

Recorded over the past three years, across the creative trinity of Berlin, Brooklyn and the sleepy hollow town of Hamilton, near Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada, New Look’s self-titled debut album is a feverishly anticipated affair. The Canadian future pop duo of Sarah Ruba and Adam Pavao first emerged in 2008, landing in Europe with a self-released EP of pitch perfect, experimental pop entitled, “How’s My Hair?”. This was accompanied by a masterfully stripped back yet soulful reworking of close friend and polymath producer, artist and photographer Jimmy Edgar’s anthemically androgynous smash single, “Function of Your Love”. The couple’s undeniable creative synergy translated directly to the stage, where the stunning, synth-playing chanteuse and former model, 25-year-old Ruba (previously shot by the likes of cult fashion provocateur Bruce Weber) and multi-instrumentalist, 31-year-old producer Pavao played a series of hypnotising live shows across the UK and Europe, with early support from the UK’s premiere music and style press, including an upfront spread in Dazed & Confused magazine.

“We’ve since developed a lot more and now fully realise what we have always wanted to do,” introduces Pavao, speaking from their home studio in a converted Victorian house in Hamilton, Ontario. “What’s most important to us is that every song has to sound super new to our ears. That feeling of unpredictability within every second of each song,” says Ruba. “We’ll never re-do a vibe and that’s the whole basis of what everything jumps off from.” There is a confidence and wit to their songwriting, coupled with a sublime subtlety in the cosmic tweaks and soft synths underpinning their future pop aesthetic. It’s controlled yet wistful pop perfectionism. “We try not to keep anything superfluous in our songs. We’re always conscious of the negative space in our music and that’s a constant theme,” explains Pavao, their trademark sparse 80s snap dynamically lifting Ruba’s crisp, siren-esque vocals and synth driven melodies.

Signed to !K7, certified home to Jimmy Edgar, Chromeo and the classic DJ-Kicks series, the first single to be released from their debut full length is “The Ballad”, a magical synth pop record, perfectly aligned to introduce New Look’s soaring ambition. “We recorded the song four different times, the vision of this was so strong and clear in our minds that it took us so many times to get it how we knew it should be,” Ruba explains. “We attempted it twice in Berlin, once in New York and finally got it in Canada. The song is a message to someone we know and even though it’s a fleeting message to them, we would never want them to find out. It’s too personal.”

“The Ballad” is set to a psychedelic music video directed by celebrated Australian fashion photographer and filmmaker Will Davidson. “It’s so beautiful, I can’t wait until it’s out,” enthuses Ruba. “I can really hear the energy of the different cities that we recorded in,” adds Pavao. “When we first got to Berlin and it was Spring and we felt so free, and then also moving back to New York, it definitely translates to the music.”

The self-titled album is also the inspired sound of a personal uprising for New Look, whose initial plan was to move to Berlin for nine months to finish the record amidst the critical acclaim surrounding their self-released EP that was followed by a sold out European tour supporting The xx. “We moved to Berlin to get a flow going, to focus just on music,” reminisces Ruba. “But last Fall it felt like absolutely nothing was happening. All these plans never came to fruition and we were really frustrated and felt like shit. So I wrote this song with super inspirational and motivational lyrics and – however cheesy it may sound – it actually somehow created a new hope. It’s called “A Light” and somehow actually manifested itself.”

New Look will be returning to the UK and Europe this Summer with their debut album and headlining tour which will see Sarah Ruba’s mesmerising vocals and melodic keys front Adam Pavao’s live analogue synths, drums and visuals performance. “It’s been three years and for us the album is hard to put into words, concludes Ruba. “We’re still super perfectionists and whilst some of the record is New Look pop, there are tracks that are pretty badass and serious. But it all reflects our grand vision.”

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The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #138 (January 17, 2012)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #138 (January 17, 2012)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute Show
leroy hutson – time brings on a change (curtom/charly)
union – intro / mystery part 1 (fat beats)
adrian younge presents venice dawn – two hearts (wax poetics)
full crate – without my heart featuring david simmons (self-released)
dj adlib – enter (melting pot)
martin luther king, jr. – dr. king’s desired eulogy (gordy)
hypnotic brass ensemble – prelude (self-released)
krts – make-up sex (forthcoming)
raashan ahmad – these foolish things featuring count bass d & silya noomen (trad vibe)
the mighty showstoppers – shaft in africa (freestyle)
jack & juke – ain’t nobody (self-released)
ta-ku & kit pop – bounce (DNte remix) (paperchain)
jonti – flesh of morning (stones throw)
saturn never sleeps – all season are good (starkey remix) (saturn never sleeps)
sbtrkt – blue cassette featuring sampha (young turks)
shigeto – huron river drive (ghostly international)
teebs – there is a difference (autumn’s trash) (brainfeeder)
diggs duke – holding on (self-released)

dr. martin luther king, jr. – i’ve been to the mountain (gordy)
played over:
-heather – billy cobham (atlantic)
-earth wind & fire – departure (columbia)
-soul mann & the brothers – bumpy’s lament (pickwick)
-james brown – theme from king heroin (polydor)
-the wooden glass featuring billy wooten – in the rain (stones throw)
-cymande – one more (janus)

The Year Was…1968
stevie wonder – i don’t know why (motown)
marvin gaye – chained (motown)
david mccallum – the edge (capitol)
blood, sweat and tears – i love you more than you’ll ever know (columbia)
hank ballard – how you gonna get respect (when you haven’t cut your process) (king)
freddie scott – (you) got what i need (shout)
the staple singers – (sittin’ on) the dock of the bay (stax)
jerry butler – just because i really love you (mercury)
the impressions – fool for you (curtom)
diana ross & the supremes – i’m gonna make it (i will wait for you) (motown)
the delfonics – ready or not (here i come) (philly groove)
marvin gaye – his eyes are on the sparrow (motown)
jazz crusaders – love & peace (pacific jazz)

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 #137 (January 10, 2012)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #137 (January 10, 2012)
quantic & alice russell with the combo barbaro – look around the corner (tru thoughts)
tall black guy – love to the world (crosstalk)
robert glasper – afro blue featuring erykah badu (blue note)
union – blue wave (fat beats)
julien dyne – so far featuring mara tk (bbe)
dj adlib – ice cold (mpm)
diggs duke – something in my soul (self-released)
homeboy sandman – sweet emotion (orchard beach) (stones throw)
hezekiah – ways to go (saturn never sleeps)
sbtrkt – hold on featuring sampha (live) (young turks)
little dragon – crystal film (closer remix) (self-released)
columbia nights – stormy weather (record breakin)
raashan ahmad – pain on black (trad vibe)
mayer hawthorne – you’ve got the makings of a lover (pillow talk edit) (self-released)
bonobo – all in forms (falty dl remix) (ninja tune)
dego – pushing you to begin featuring ferraz (2000 black)
aeed – error code (error broadcast)
hawthorne headhunters – teleport (plug research)
georgia anne muldrow – seeds (madlib production) (someothaship)
charles bradley – stay away (dunham/daptone)
b.lewis – what it do donkey (self-released)
fLako – blurry dream (project mooncircle)
14kt – blessed (a-side worldwide)
icebird (rjd2 & aaron livingston) – wander (rj’s electrical connections)
hipnosis – my words featuring marc frank (mitchell & dewbury remix) (perfect.toy)
chico mann – all that is rising (wax poetics)
dj rhettmatic & daz-i-kue – back to the beach house (the do over)
electric men – swede:art (tokyo dawn)
jamie woon – spiral (polydor uk)
rjd2 – to all of you (def jux)
j.rawls – light shine (polar)

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 #136 (January 3, 2012)
oddisee – al mawrada (mello music group) – May 17, 2011 release [support]
boom clap bachelors – falder ind og falder ud (plug research) – May 17, 2011 release [support]
new look – nap on the bow (!k7 germany/uk) EU – Sept. 26, 2011 release [support]
SBTRKT – trials of the past featuring sampha (young turks) – June 24, 2011 release [support]
jesse boykins III – light to dark (self-released) – June 30, 2011 release [support]
tall black guy – with you (self-released) – Sept. 2011 release [support]
vindahl – monday i die (tokyo dawn) – Oct. 17, 2011 release [support]
saturn never sleeps – hearts on fire (saturn never sleeps) – Aug. 2, 2011 release [support]
m-phazes – raise it up for dilla (self-released) – March, 2011 release [support]
jon phonics – the one (chakra sounds) – May 17, 2011 release [support]
evil needle – summer blap (self-released) – April 18, 2011 release [support]
malice & mario sweet – speed of light (self-released) – Feb. 14, 2011 release [support]
icey – salva (FoF) – Feb. 5, 2011 release [support]
b. bravo – kiss ‘n’ tell featuring zackery force funk (earnest endeavors) – Oct. 24, 2011 release [support]
b.lewis – streetview (self-released) – March 11, 2011 release [support]
full crate – fluffy dragons (wonderful ear) – Oct. 21, 2011 release [support]
omar & zed bias – dancing (tru thoughts) – June 27, 2011 release [support]
little dragon – when i go out (peace frog) – July 22, 2011 release [support]
scrimshire – ascension featuring the hackney colliery band (wah wah 45s) – Nov. 11, 2011 release [support]
oscar + martin – oyster / lions heart (twobrightlakes) – April 15, 2011 release [support]
wildcookie (freddie cruger & anthony mills) – jackson miles (tru thoughts) – March 8, 2011 release [support]
swiff d – 100 man march (self-released) – Feb. 2011 release [support]
brenk – one daaay (melting pot) – Sept. 23, 2011 release [support]
ta-ku – out of my way (self-released) – May 31, 2011 release [support]
jamie woon – night air (polydor uk) – April 12, 2011 release [support]
james blake – i never learnt to share (r & s) – Feb. 7, 2011 release [support]
jono mcleery – tomorrow (ninja tune) – Sept. 27, 2011 release [support]
submotion orchestra – all yours (exceptional) – May 23, 2011 release [support]
fredericks brown – land of plenty (jazz&milk) – April 18, 2011 release [support]
king – supernatural (self-released) – March 1, 2011 release [support]
krts – rooftop (project mooncircle) – Sept. 23, 2011 release [support]

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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Just to state the obvious, I only heard a small fraction of the music that came out this year but I did manage to acquire, listen to and rate 3601 songs that were released in 2011. The percentage of music that is released as albums by record labels is definitely shrinking but they still have the lion’s share, for now. Here are my favorites. I’ll also be playing my favorite songs of 2011 on my January 3rd show.

Every album listed here is either released by an independent label or by the artists themselves. Please support if and when you can.

1. Vindahl – Serendipity (Tokyo Dawn)
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Copenhagen
More Info/Support

2. Jono McCleery – There Is (Counter/Ninja Tune)
Release Date: September 27, 2011
London
More Info/Support | @JonoMcCleery

3. SBTRKT – SBTRKT (Young Turks)
Release Date: June 24, 2011
London
More Info/Support | @SBTRKT

4. B.Lewis – Science Within Reason (Self-Released)
Release Date: March 11, 2011
San Jose/San Francisco
More Info/Support | @blewis17

5. James Blake – James Blake (R & S)
Release Date: February 7, 2011
London
More Info/Support | @jamesblake

6. New Look – New Look (!K7 – only available in the UK and Germany right now)
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Brooklyn/Ontario
More Info/Support | @new_look_

7. Oscar + Martin – For You (TwoBrightLakes)
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Melbourne
More Info/Support | @Oscarandmartin

8. Toro Y Moi – Underneath The Pine (Carpark)
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Columbia, South Carolina
More Info/Support | @ToroyMoi

9. Salva – Complex Housing (FoF)
Release Date: February 5, 2011
Los Angeles
More Info/Support | @THEPROBLEMSALVA

10. Scrimshire – The Hollow (Wah Wah 45s)
Release Date: November 11, 2011
London
More Info/Support | @scrimshire

Other Excellent Projects That Came Out This Year
Bon Iver – Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar) Release Date: June 21, 2011
Minnesota, WI | More Info/Support | @boniver

Brenk – Gumbo 2: Pretty Ugly (Melting Pot) Release Date: September 23, 2011
Vienna | More Info/Support | @BrenkSinatra

Dego – A Wha’ Him Deh Pon? (2000 Black) Release Date: June 20, 2011
Brooklyn/London | More Info/Support | @2000black_dego

Elzhi – Elmatic (Self-Released) Release Date: May 10, 2011
Detroit | More Info/Support | @ELZHI

Evil Needle – Cirrostratus (Self-Released) Release Date: April 18, 2011
Strasbourg, France | More Info/Support | @itsmeneedle

Full Crate – Golden Glasses (Wonderful Ear) Release Date: October 21, 2011
Amsterdam | More Info/Support | @fullcrate

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Bulletproof Brass (Choice Cuts) Release Date: July 20, 2011
Chicago/NYC | More Info/Support | @hypnoticbrass

I, Ced – All In My Mind (Record Breakin’) Release Date: July 12, 2011
Los Angeles | More Info/Support | @i_ced

iSHÉ & Hezekiah – iSHÉ & Hezekiah Project (Self-Released) Release Date: June 1, 2011
San Diego & Philadelphia | More Info/Support | @iSHETHAiSH & @hezekiah3rd

Illvibe Collective – All Together Now (Soulspazm) Release Date: March 29, 2011
Philadelphia | More Info/Support | @illvibecrew

Jesse Boykins III – Way Of A Wayfarer (Self-Released) Release Date: June 30, 2011
Brooklyn | More Info/Support | @JB3Music

King – The Story EP (Self-Released) Release Date: March 1, 2011
Los Angeles | More Info/Support | @wearekingmusic

Krts – Hold On EP (Project Mooncircle) Release Date: September 23, 2011
Brooklyn | More Info/Support | @KrtsBrooklyn

Miles Bonny – Lumberjack Soul (Melting Pot) Release Date: June 24, 2011
Kansas City | More Info/Support | @milesbonny

Oddisee – Rock Creek Park (Mello Music Group) Release Date: August 23, 2011
Brooklyn | More Info/Support | @oddisee

Sarah White – Space Madness (Cultura Love) Release Date: October 18, 2011
Brooklyn | More Info/Support | @sarahwhiteblack

Saturn Never Sleeps – Yesterday’s Machine (Saturn Never Sleeps) Release Date: August 2, 2011
Philadelphia | More Info/Support | @satnevsleeps

Shigeto – Full Circle Remixes (Ghostly International) Release Date: February 1, 2011
Brooklyn | More Info/Support | @__SHIGETO

Space Invadas – Soul:Fi (BBE) Release Date: February 21, 2011
Sydney | More Info/Support | @spaceinvadas

Submotion Orchestra – Finest Hour (Exceptional) Release Date: August 23, 2011
Leeds | More Info/Support | @Submotion

Sunclef – The Tesser∆ct (Self-Released) Release Date: April 22, 2011
Toronto | More Info/Support | @snclf

Ta-ku – DAY & NIGHT EP. (highs & lows x new balance) Release Date: April 10, 2011
Perth | More Info/Support | @TakuBeats

Ta-ku – Scraps (Self-Released) Release Date: May 31, 2011
Perth | More Info/Support | @TakuBeats

The Stuyvesants – The Finer Things Vol. 1&2 (SD) Release Date: October 17, 2011
Brooklyn | More Info/Support | @TheStuyvesants

Teeko – Light Up The Darkness (4onefunk) Release Date: February 21, 2011
San Francisco | More Info/Support | @TeekoMusic

TiRon & Ayomari – A Sucker For Pumps (The Cafeteria Line) Release Date: September 13, 2011
Los Angeles | More Info/Support | @TiRon & @ayomari

Various – The Boogie (Tokyo Dawn) Release Date: January 21, 2011
Munich | More Info/Support | @TOKYODAWN

Various – The Heart Volume 2 (Tokyo Dawn) Release Date: July 29, 2011
Munich | More Info/Support | @TOKYODAWN

When Saints Go Machine – Fail Forever EP (!K7) Release Date: February 21, 2011
Copenhagen | More Info/Support | @whensaints

Wildcookie (Freddie Cruger & Anthony Mills) – Cookie Dough (Tru Thoughts) Release Date: March 8, 2011
Stockholm | More Info/Support | @ghettotrance

Zebrahim – In My Heart I Am (Self-Released) Release Date: May 17, 2011
Paris, Vancouver | More Info/Support | @eebsofresh + @hazeldizzy

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The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #134 (December 20, 2011)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #134 (December 20, 2011)
the twilite tone – BOY! (uno)
paper plane project – don’t lie featuring j mitchell & raashan ahmad (self-released)
fLako – shake it harder (project mooncircle)
diz gibran & moonshine – slick (self-released)
paul white – never too late (one-handed music)
jamie woon – lady luck (polydor uk)
dimlite – heroine roof (now again)
scrimshire – everything you say featuring heidi vogel (wah wah 45s)
the stepkids – shadows on behalf (stones throw)
the echocentrics – party people (ubiquity)
gRadient overlay – cosmoviolettfantompowerlift (luckyme)
new look – the ballad (!k7 germany)
robot koch – tapedeck (project mooncircle)
sina. – from love to dust (kelpe remix) (project mooncircle)
oscar + martin – party time is scary (two bright lakes)
jono mccleery – garden (ninja tune)
b.lewis – saddle up (self-released)
14kt – ain’t really that funny (janet flip) (a-side worldwide)
i, ced – flying under (record breakin)
the stuyvesants – strollin’ (self-released)
analog players society – let the music play featuring ethan white (redbud)
mecca:83 – with you (freeform)
toro y moi – freak love (freddie joachim remix) (mellow orange)
krystal klear & olivier daysoul – never thought you would go (eglo)
ta-ku & roughsoul: LoveChild – we are (self-released)
the log.os – blades (self-released)
kindness – seod (female energy)
james blake – measurements (r&s)
masterclass – survival (self-released)
duke hugh – w a v e (self-released)
sbtrkt – sanctuary (young turks)
sixtus preiss & the clonious – specimen from (affine)
fLako – i want you featuring dirg gerner (tokyo dawn)
lee fields – you’re the kind of girl (truth & soul)
b.lewis – our journey begins (self-released)
teebs – verbena tea with rebekah raff (brainfeeder)

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 #133 (December 13, 2011)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #133 (December 13, 2011)
zaki ibrahim – something in the water (motif)
the echocentrics – it’s hot (ubiquity)
james blake – love what happened here (r&s)
oOoOO – nosummr4u featuring miss lisa (self-released)
1000names – paper trip (project mooncircle)
captain planet – another dollar (bastard jazz)
samuel & the dragon – rising up (slow mix) (brownswood)
pavel dovgal – kissing purple (project mooncircle)
coultrain as seymour liberty – mutual possesion (self-release/FRSH SLCTS)
the roots – the otherside featuring bilal & greg porn (def jam)
sarah white – dance on mars (bagpack)
bairns – s-type (lucky me)
mr. scruff – bounce (ninja tune)
damu the fudgemunk – faster rhyme for self (redefinition)
full crate – qcta (wonderful ear)
allen hoist – inner city blues (soulab)
tomson & benedict – blind featuring bantu soul (opolopo remix) (tokyo dawn)
new look – relax your mind (!k7 germany)
vindahl – you know (tokyo dawn)
oddisee – glamour (mixtape)
gonjasufi – love of reign (warp)
royalty – halley’s trail (five easy peices)
georgia anne muldrow – the jump rope song (animated creatures)
dj adlib – wine featuring black spade & the primeridian (melting pot)
the stuyvesants – thorough thread thoroughbreds (sd)
tanya morgan – in the city (self-released)
mecca:83 x kano sano x buscrates – midnight kids (freeform)
sam trump – groove (self-released)
kingpin slim – sad (self-released)
tawiah – run (warner/free ep)
jono mccleery – it’s all (ninja tune)
the log.os – dunes (rebirth) (self-released)

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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KRTS (Brooklyn) In The Studio for Episode #132 (December 6, 2011)

A photo from KRTS‘s interview and all new live set from this week’s The Main Ingredient.

My Set
the roots – kool on (def jam)
fLako – druff (project mooncircle)
oscar + martin – oyster (two bright lakes)
oscar + martin – lions heart (two bright lakes)
dirg gerner – my queen (hotep)
DRC music – hallo featuring tout puissant mukalo and nelly liyemge (warp)
coultrain as seymour liberty – morning papers (self-released/FRSH SLCTS)
common – i used to love her (tall black guy remix) (self-released)
zaki ibrahim – daylight (iqra/d6)
gonjasufi – holidays (warp)
ta-ku – poath (hw&w)

The Interview
krts – rooftop (project mooncircle)
krts – hold on (project mooncircle)
krts – hold on (pavel dovgal remix) (project mooncircle)
scarlet monk – ring (krts remix) (unreleased)

KRTS Live Set
Which defies song title categorization…

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.