Audio Goodness: Cherry Pickin' with DJ Monk-One
Wax Poetics unearths a mix from '03, decides to share it with the world
Chris Daly could freestyle on Sway's Universe, "ALL DAY"
Look, I get it. Sometimes a mixtape is just a mixtape. While it's nice to ascribe themes, memories and motives to one person's grouping of songs, a playlist doesn't really have to be anything more than "good" to deserve repeated replays.
Case in point, Cherry Pickin' by DJ Monk-One. Waaaaay back in '03, Wax Poetics contibuting editor Andrew Mason (aka DJ Monk-One) dropped a bomb of a mix for WP and Adidas. There are no obvious picks here, and it's likely some-to-most of these tracks are ones you've never even heard of before now, which, as far as I'm concerned, makes for an altogether better listening experience. It has some hip-hop, a touch of old skool R&B, a bit of Brazilian and a taste of jazz.
At the time, they dropped it on wax and gave it away for free to the people. Life was good. As luck would have it, the Wax Poetics folks recently appear to have been involved in some spring cleaning and stumbled across a mint, still-in-package copy of ye olde CD and decided to upload, and once again share with the masses, the audio goodness that is Cherry Pickin.
Tracklist
1. Intro
2. "Ocapella" -- Lee Dorsey
3. "Tesouro de Sao Miguel" -- Rualzinho-Impacto 8
4. "Cherry Pickin' " -- Sugarman 3
5. "Cherrystones" -- Eugene McDaniels
6. "Jungle Music" -- Kelenkye Band
7. "Fireweaver" -- David Newman
8. "Feel Like Dancing" -- Bad Bascomb
9. "Heaven and Hell" -- 20th Century Steel Band
10. "Change the Beat" -- Fab 5 Freddy & Beside
11. "Can I Get a Soul Clap?" -- Grand WIzard Theodore
12. "Patty Duke" -- Cloud One
13. "Matrix" -- Dizzy Gillespie
14. "Bebete" -- Som Brasil
15. "Soul Traveling" -- Gary Byrd
16. "Listen to My Turbo" -- Raw Dope Posse
17. "It's Yours" -- T La Rock
18. "The Hen" -- Louis Chachere
19. "Hap'nin" -- Bernard Purdie
20. "Spellbinder (Live)" -- Gabor Szabo
21. "Baltimore Oriole" -- Lorez Alexander
22. "Keep a Light in My Window" -- Ben Vereen