Episode 185 – Backtrack V1
We rewind to take a second stab at digital downloads, combing for unaired gems, including BluFrank, Chat Pile, Alif, Roll The Dice, Slauson Malone 1, PEB/iamchainsaw, Small Medium Large, Panstarrs, Ensemble Volcanic Ash, and Red Snapper.
You can think of this series as a book-end to the Best of ABOT. With the Best of ABOT, what we do is curate a show based on the previous 20 shows using ONLY material from those shows. What this backtrack series is going to do is to curate from the previous shows starting with Episode 184 and working backwards, but selecting new tracks from artists that were featured on those shows. What this does is allows me to spend a little more time with albums that made a mark on my psyche. An album usually has around a dozen tracks, but I can only choose 2-3 for the show. But that shortchanges you, dear listener. Just using an example from this morning’s show- Slauson Malone. His new Excelsior record is riveting. It merits an end to end listen- but we can’t do that because of FCC rules.
What brought this to mind was the Lekfha record and the Alif record. After today, we will have played all of the available recorded material by those two groups. We did it 2-3 tracks at a time, stretching it over multiple shows. There are only a few examples of this, which is why we are starting this new series.
The first artist we are bringing to you is from a mixtape out of Cairo- some person who calls himself BluFrank. The second and third artists are from last week’s show- episode 184- Chat Pile and Alif.