Forget all the lost summer music events and spend an hour with this special HOT Summer Mix from Mr. OK Jazz! Soul, Funk, Jazz, Samba, MPB, Rai, Cumbia, Minyo, Soukous & Reggae, great tunes from around the globe, perfect for a hot summer's night!
Today’s mix is 18 tracks of 100% authentic New York hip-hop, selected by Chyll Will including some worldwide legends like Nas and De La Soul, but also lesser known acts like Mic Handzs and SoSoon. Chyll is a writer, actor, comic strip creator, blogger, graphic artist, and occasional curator and collage-maker of beats with the collective Cut-Up City. He is also an active member of the Black TV & Film Collective based in Brooklyn.
Today’s guest selectors come from New York City, writer/archivist, and founder of the award winning NY Yankees blog Bronx Banter, Alex Belth, and audio engineer programmer & editor Ill Chemist. Entitled ‘Soup To Nuts’, it’s a mainly 1990s Hip-Hop mix that, in the creators words, has “a lo-fi, late-night radio kind of vibe, featuring dozens of movie and TV samples, creating a unique audio collage” This is a dense, perfectly put together mix that is best listened to on headphones to get the...
A return to K.O.L. Radio by Chyll Will, this time collaborating with his buddy Charles Mayo. These two deep Hip-Hop fans went into their collections to put together an epic mix of tunes covering almost 40 years of Rap history. Kicking off with the wonderful Digital Underground, Chyll and Charlie share some famous and familiar names from Method Man to Kendrick Lamar to Nipsey Hussle, but also performers not as well known in Japan, such as Heather B. and the influential but somewhat forgotten...
Takumi Koizumi is a label director, DJ, producer and for a long time the manager of Jun Seba, much better known as ‘nujabes’, the legendary DJ and producer who was so influential in the Japanese scene for his work mixing hip-hop and jazz and chill-out sounds on his Hydeout Productions label, before his tragic death in a traffic accident in 2010. The first half of the mix by Koizumi-san includes some of the great work nujabes released on the Hydeout label, a couple of nujabes’ own original...
The Digest returns! On episode 2, Mr. OK Jazz & DJ Otsuka introduce selections from five more mixes first shared on K.O.L. in summer 2020. A classic Latin music reissue, contemporary Jazz from Japan, Brooklyn Hip-Hop, new club sounds from the UK, and an Okinawan music legend! These tunes were shared with us on mixes by DJ Shima in Tokyo, DJ DSK in Okinawa, Chyll Will in New York, the Do It Jazz DJ crew in Kyoto, and DJ Tatsuro in Kobe.
The Digest is back! On episode 3, Mr. OK Jazz and DJ Otsuka introduce selections from five more mixes first shared on K.O.L. in Summer 2020. These tunes were introduced on mixes by Ian Martin from Tokyo, Radio Jakarta from Indonesia, The Funky Daitouryou and DJ Hysa from Okayama, Japan, Helena Guedes from Portugal, and Joshua Thompson from the USA.