SpaceTimeMusic

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The SpaceTimeMusic theme music is a sample of the Ana-Tole x Jonah Christian Remix of Ready or Not by the Fugees.

SONG CREDITS:
In order of appearance
Hello
25
Adele
2015
England

Hello (Reggae Cover)
Strictly the Best Vol. 54
Conkarah and Rosie Delmah
2016
Jamaica

Someone Like You
21
Adele
2011

DJ6 Bachata Remix
2012?

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The SpaceTimeMusic theme music is a sample of the Ana-Tole x Jonah Christian Remix of Ready or Not by the Fugees.

SONG CREDITS:
In order of appearance
Bonita Applebum
People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
1990

Daylight
Come Into Knowledge
RAMP
1977

Memory Band
Rotary Connection
Rotary Connection
1968

Fool Yourself
Dixie Chicken
Little Feat
1973

Jagger the Dagger
Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse
Eugene McDaniels
1971

Killing Me Softly With His Song
Killing Me Softly
Roberta Flack
1973

Killing Me Softly
In Effect Mode
Al B. Sure!
1988

Killing Me Softly
The Score
Fugees
1996

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The SpaceTimeMusic theme music is a sample of the Ana-Tole x Jonah Christian Remix of Ready or Not by the Fugees.

SONG CREDITS:
Ponta de Areia
Elis
Elis Regina
1974

Minas
Milton Nascimento 
1975

Native Dancer
Wayne Shorter
1975

Ponta de Areia (Brazilian Rhyme)
All ‘N All
Earth, Wind & Fire
1977

Boca Livre
Boca Livre
1979

Silvana Malta Group
Crave e Canela
2001

Esperanza Spalding 
Esperanza
2008 

Ponta de Areia
Ponta de areia, ponto final
Da Bahia à Minas, estrada natural
Que ligava Minas ao porto, ao mar
Caminho do ferro mandaram arrancar
Velho maquinista com seu boné
Lembra o povo alegre que vinha cortejar
Maria Fumaça, não canta mais
Para moças, flores, janelas e quintais
Na praça vazia, um grito um ai
Casas esquecidas, viúvas nos portais

Ponta de areia (Sand Point), last stop
Of the Bahia-Minas, a natural road
That connected Minas to the sea and its ports
Iron road that they ordered to be ripped out
The old conductor with his cap
Remembers the joyful, simple people he used to greet
The steam locomotive that doesn’t sing anymore
To the ladies, flowers and backyards
At the empty public square, a scream, an “ouch”
Forgotten old houses that became widows at the cities’ portals

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The SpaceTimeMusic theme music is a sample of the Ana-Tole x Jonah Christian Remix of Ready or Not by the Fugees.

SONG CREDITS:
Sinner Man (traditional spiritual)
Revelations
Adapted and arranged by Howard A. Roberts for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Vocals by Leon Bibb
1969
Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture

Sinnerman
Pastel Blues
Nina Simone
1965

Sinnerman- Felix da Housecat’s Heavenly House Mix
Verve Remixed 2
2003

Get By
Quality
Talib Kweli
Produced by Kanye West
2003

Gibraltar
Gibraltar
Abd Al Malik
2006

LYRICS:
Sinnerman (Traditional)

Oh, sinnerman, where you gonna run to?
Sinnerman where you gonna run to?
Where you gonna run to?
All on that day
We got to run to the rock
Please hide me, I run to the rock
Please hide me, run to the rock
Please hide here
All on that day
But the rock cried out
I can't hide you, the rock cried out
I can't hide you, the rock cried out
I ain't gonna hide you there
All on that day
I said rock
What's the matter with you rock?
Don't you see I need you, rock?
Good Lord, Lord
All on that day
So I run to the river
It was bleedin', I run to the sea
It was bleedin', I run to the sea
It was bleedin', all on that day
So I run to the river
It was boilin', I run to the sea
It was boilin', I run to the sea
It was boilin', all on that day
So I run to the Lord
Please hide me, Lord
Don't you see me prayin'?
Don't you see me down here prayin'?
But the Lord said
Go to the Devil, the Lord said
Go to the Devil
He said go to the Devil
All on that day
So I ran to the Devil
He was waitin', I ran to the Devil
He was waitin', ran to the Devil
He was waitin', all on that day

Get By (Nina, Talib, Kanye)

Yeah...my Lord...yeah
We sell, crack to our own out the back of our homes
We smell the musk at the dusk in the crack of the dawn
We go through "Epidodes II, " like "Attack of the Clones"
Work 'til we break our back and you hear the crack of the bone
To get by...just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by
We commute to computers
Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors
We survivalists, turned to consumers
To get by...just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by
Ask Him why some people got to live in a trailer, cuss like a sailor
I paint a picture with the pen like Norman Mailer
Me and Willa raised three daughters all by herself, with no help
I think about a struggle and I find the strength in myself
These words, melt in my mouth
They hot, like the jail cell in the South
Before my nigga Core bailed me out
To get by.. just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by
We do or die like Bed-Stuy through the red sky
with the window of the red eye
Let the lead fly, some G. Rap shit, "Livin' to Let Die"
This morning, I woke up
Feeling brand new and I jumped up
Feeling my highs, and my lows
In my soul, and my goals
Just to stop smokin', and stop drinkin'
And I've been thinkin' - I've got my reasons
Just to get (by), just to get (by)
Just to get (by), just to get (by)
We keeping it gangster say "fo shizzle", "fo sheezy" and "stayincrunk"
It’s easy to pull a breezy, smoke trees, and we stay drunk
Yo, I activism - attackin' the system, the blacks and latins in prison
Numbers of prison they victim black in the vision
Shit and all they got is rappin' to listen to
I let them know we missin' you, the love is unconditional
Even when the condition is critical, when the livin is miserable
Your position is pivotal, I ain't bullshittin' you
Now, why would I lie? Just to get by?
Just to get by, we get fly
The TV got us reachin' for stars
Not the ones between Venus and Mars, the ones that be readin' for parts
Some people get breast enhancements and penis enlargers
Saturday sinners Sunday morning at the feet of the Father
They need somethin' to rely on, we get high on all types of drug
When, all you really need is love
To get by...just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by
Our parents sing like John Lennon, "Imagine all the people watch"
We rock like Paul McCartney from now until the last Beatles drop
Some people cry, and some people try
Just to get by, for a piece of the pie
You love to eat and get high
We deceive when we lie, and we keepin' it fly
When, the people decide, to keep a disguise
Can't see they eyes, see the evil inside
But there's people you find
Strong or feeble in mind, I stay readin' the signs

On today’s episode:

If I Was Rich: From Short Story to Dancehall Classic

I think it was in episode 2 that I mentioned how our West Indian brothers and sisters will remix any and all songs so this is the first of a number episodes that will feature some of my favorite use of samples, of remakes and remixes by Caribbean artists. 

Rich Girl by Louchie Lou and Michie One is probably the first time I remember hearing a dancehall song sample a song that is so clearly NOT of reggae or even soul or R&B origin but I didn’t immediately know it was a sample and remake of If I Was a Rich Man from the musical Fiddler on the Roof. It’s quite possible that my mother overheard it and asked if I was listening to Fiddler on the Roof but I could just be making that up. I can’t really remember how I discovered where the song was from but it was the first time I thought, man, Jamaicans will make a dancehall remix of ANYthing.

SONG CREDITS:
If I Was a Rich Man
Fiddler on the Roof Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Chaim Topol, John Williams
1967

Rich Girl
Louchie Lou, Michie One
1993

Rich Girl
Love, Angel, Music, Baby
Gwen Stefani, Eve
2004

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The SpaceTimeMusic theme is a sample of the Ana-Tole x Jonah Christian Remix of Ready or Not by the Fugees.

On a completely different note, if you are in need of some centering, healing, calming music I highly recommend the Healing Vibes series from Yogetsu Akasaka, a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk/live-looping artist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUoG8MfKNoQ

In this episode Lyd the SBW listens to Soul Makossa. Soul Makossa and its musical children exemplify the call-and-response nature of music. Black American music has its roots in west Africa. Enslaved Africans brought their musical traditions with them as they were sold across the Americas creating rhythms and music that would give birth to gospel, blues jazz, samba, rhumba, soul, funk, rock, r&b, pop, reggae, soca, bachata, merengue, house, hip-hop and innumerable sub-genres, including, makossa, a style of funk-dance music from Cameroon. Little tidbit, kossa means "I dance" in Duala. 

Song Credits in order of appearance:
Zombie
Zombie
Fela Kuti
1977
Nigeria

Soul Makossa
B-side of Hymne de la 8e Coupe d'Afrique des Nations
Manu DiBango
1972
Cameroon

Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
Thriller
Michael Jackson
1982
Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson
USA

Don’t Stop the Music
Good Girl Gone Bad
Rihanna
2007
Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Tor Erik Hermansen, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tawanna Dabney
USA

Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Welden Johnson (lyrics) and John Rosamond Johnson (music)
Poem written by James in 1900 and set to music by his brother John in 1905

Déjà Vu
(B’Day, 2006)
Homecoming
2019
Beyoncé Knowles, Rodney Jerkins, Delisha Thomas, Makeba Riddick, Keli Nicole Price, Shawn Carter
USA

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The SpaceTimeMusic theme is a sample of the Ana-Tole x Jonah Christian Remix of Ready or Not by the Fugees.

On today’s episode:

I Only Have Eyes for You

I was listening to Spotify, playing classic Lode Runner online (yes, I am played-the-original-Lode Runner-on-an-Apple IIe-years-old) and falling down Spotify holes, when a song by Timothy Bloom came on. I liked the sound of his voice and went to his artist page to find that I was already following him and had even “clicked the heart button” on one of his songs it’s called The Beginning (Work it Out).

I began playing it to refresh my memory and heard the haunting first notes of I Only Have Eyes for You by The Flamingos sampled in the background. 

SONG CREDITS:

I Only Have Eyes for You
Composer: Harry Warren
Lyricist: Al Dubin
Ben Selvin, 1934
Oscar Peterson and Billie Holiday, 1955
The Flamingos, 1959
Corrine Bailey Rae, 2010

The Beginning (Work it Out)
Timothy Bloom
2016

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The SpaceTimeMusic theme is a sample of the Ana-Tole x Jonah Christian Remix of Ready or Not by the Fugees.

I picked Ready or Not, track number 3 on the Fugees’ sophomore album “The Score” for the first episode because listening to this song was the first time I heard musical proof of someone having the same allegedly weird musical taste as me. 

Ready or Not
The Score
Fugees
1996
Songwriters: Wyclef, Pras, Lauryn, William Hart & Thomas Bell of the Delfonics, Enya, Nicky Ryan, Roma Ryan
Producers: Wyclef, Pras, Lauryn, Jerry Duplessis (Wyclef’s cousin)
New Jersey

Boadicea
The Celts
Enya
1987
Writers/Producers: Enya, Nicky Ryan, Roma Ryan
Deep in Ireland

Ready or Not Here I Come (Can’t Hide from Love)
sound of sexy soul
The Delfonics
1969
Writers/Producers: William Hart & Thomas Bell
Philadelphia, PA

Sock It 2 Me (Feat. Da Brat)
Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliot
1997
Writers/Producers: William Hart & Thomas Bell of the Delfonics, Missy, Da Brat, Timbaland
Virginia

Ready or Not
The Dreaming Room (Special Edition)
Laura Mvula
2016
Writers/Producers: William Hart & Thomas Bell of the Delfonics, Laura Mvula
England

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SpaceTimeMusic theme music is a looped sample of the Ana-Tole x Jonah Christian Remix of Ready or Not by the Fugees