Dream Girl Radio / EXT SRC presents:

 

Today I’m celebrating one year of @extsrc by playing tracks from my favorite LPs and EPs this year. I’m not physically in the studio, but my tune are. Happy Holidays! See in next year! 🎅🏾

 

    Dream Girl Radio / EXT SRC    December 25th, 2024

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Finding Sounds / Outer Focus presents:

Today’s episode of Finding Sounds is very special because our guest is my late grandfather, James W Black aka Jimmy Black. He was a renown jazz pianist from here in Richmond, Virginia. He played many years and countless events with so many great musicians. His focus was mainly dixieland and swing, but he played many styles ranging from country to big band to lounge jazz to flirting with classical music in his practice time. He passed away in 2004, and there is a vcu jazz building named in his honor by his longtime friend and jazz patron Bill Singleton.
He left behind a vast collection of music. Thanks to my friend Herbert, who lent me a Portastudio, i have begun digitizing his collection. This mix is exclusively from his cassettes and includes live bootleg recordings, home practice sessions, radio rips and more very rare and likely previously unheard recordings. This is a huge project for me to digitize and archive his catalogue but its very necessary. If it werent for him I would not be here. He gave my brother and I instruments at a very young age, which we both pursued later in life. I am very grateful to him, and it is a special feeling to connect to these moments. It is like time traveling in a way.
Keep an ear out for the small conversations between songs in the live recordings. They are a real slice of life from a world which now feels so distant. Enjoy these 2 hours of piano music. Much love to you Big D. I know youre here with us.
Thank you for listening, enjoy the show.
https://soundcloud.com/finding-sounds

    Finding Sounds / Outer Focus    December 17th, 2024

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Dream Girl Radio / EXT SRC presents:

 

Today I’m doing a bit of an origin story, reflecting on albums that live rent-free in my brain. That’s a weird way of saying I’m making a playlist of my favorite albums, excluding anything before 1997 because if we dig into vinyl this playlist would be 10+ hours long. These are albums that set standards for me and introduced me to new genres and styles. Maybe we share some favorites?

    Dream Girl Radio / EXT SRC    December 11th, 2024

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Dream Girl Radio / EXT SRC presents:

 

I’m slowing things down today with some mellow beats, ambient electronic, folksy tunes and cinematic scores.

 

    Dream Girl Radio / EXT SRC    November 27th, 2024

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Dream Girl Radio / EXT SRC presents:

 

Today I’m playing a selection of tracks as scattered as my brain is, but staying within the hip-hop/soul/jazz realm. Expect a few songs I’ve been playing at gigs, new tracks I dig and some old favorites.

 

    Dream Girl Radio / EXT SRC    November 13th, 2024

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The Sunday Morning Jazz Show presents:

Good morning, This is DJ Mike (Murphy) sitting in to get your Sunday morning started on WRIR with The Sunday Morning Jazz Show. Every Sunday starting at 9am to 11am and followed by the great BeBop and Beyond with Mr Jazz from 11am to 1pm.

    The Sunday Morning Jazz Show    October 20th, 2024

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Dream Girl Radio / EXT SRC presents:

 

Today I’m playing a selection of Australian jazz, funk, soul and dance music. The country’s been in the spotlight for the past few weeks and I wanted to redeem them in a way… Since Hiatus Kaiyote hit the scene I’ve been hooked at artists in that orbit. A lot of these tracks are Hiatus Kaiyote or 30/70 Collective adjacent. Some are by artists who may no longer live in Australia but grew up there, or grew up elsewhere and now call it home. I hope you enjoy the show!

    Dream Girl Radio / EXT SRC    August 28th, 2024

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Dream Girl Radio / EXT SRC presents:

 

I’ve spent the past few weeks in a rabbit hole of 70’s-era jazz. When I came back to modern music I missed that warm, organic feel that older music has. This playlist is partly inspired by my search for that energy in modern jazz, primarily focusing on music out of California and the UK. I hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

    Dream Girl Radio / EXT SRC    August 14th, 2024

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Dream Girl Radio / EXT SRC presents:

 

Today I’m digging into mostly 1970’s-era Brazilian jazz, Tropicália, and MPB. I don’t remember exactly when I started listening to Brazilian music. I do remember obsessing over the movie Cidade De Deus and Brazilian graffiti early in college. Probably through collecting vinyl and researching the samples use by some of my favorite beatmakers I dug deeper into artists like Airto Moreira, Milton Nascimento and Arthur Verocai. I distinctly remember Milton’s “Clube da Esquina” being the soundtrack for my study abroad trip in Italy. I had that album on repeat for a while, so much so that my future spouse had to ask me to play something else. Later I found a few Brazilian music compilations, most notably Jazzanova’s “Paz E Futebol” and Soul Jazz Record’s “Brazil 70” that got me through my post-college years. It feels a bit cliche to focus on just this era of music when it comes to Brazil, as I’m sure it’s just scratching the surface of what the country has to offer. But it holds a special place in my heart. So I gathered some of my old favorites, some highlights, and some tracks new to me after digging through Discogs and Reddit over the past week or so. Pardon me if I mispronounce some names and I hope you enjoy!

    Dream Girl Radio / EXT SRC    July 24th, 2024

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Dream Girl Radio / EXT SRC presents:

 

Today I’m lugging in some of my favorite jazz fusion records from my collection. I recently did a set including some of these tracks at Plan 9 Records, recorded onto my 404mkii. But today I’m pulling directly from the source! I haven’t DJed with vinyl since high school, so we’ll see how it goes.

Fusion (especially 70’s-era fusion) has been one of my favorite genres of music since I began collecting vinyl. I was hooked on the trifecta of The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever and Weather Report (along with having my parents’ Headhunters record on repeat). I spread out from that starting point and discovered a lot of great music. A lot of these records were either very cheap or straight out of the dollar bin, hence the title. In 2009 I made a similar set that you can listen to on my Mixcloud. I hope you enjoy this new crash course.

    Dream Girl Radio / EXT SRC    June 26th, 2024

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