Album Cover Of The Week:
Tenacious D - Rize Of Fenix Released on May 11, 2012 on Columbia Records
Sunday, May 27, 2012
The Mixtape Show 22, KCLA-FM 5/27/12
R.I.P.
Adam “MCA” Yauch (August 5, 1964 – May 4, 2012) of the Beastie Boys
(@beastieboys).
Playlist
for The Mixtape Show 22: #BeastieBoys that aired Sunday, May 27, 2012 from 12a
to 12:30a (PST) on www.KCLAFM.com or Listen In Line: (323) 461-6675.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Super Hero Of The Week, 5/26/12
Super Hero Of The Week:
Beth Chapel aka "Doctor Midnight" (DC Comics)
The character typically appears in stories of teamwork. Like many Golden Age heroic characters, the original Doctor Mid-Nite appeared as a member of DC's Justice Society of America. His two successors were also represented as members of the group or an offshoot. Doctor Mid-Nite has never appeared the solo protagonist of a regular title magazine, but the figure has been the subject of an anthology and a mini-series (see below).
All three characters who have represented the heroic Doctor in the DC Universe have exhibited the same basic features: a cowled costume featuring a crescent moon symbol, keen ability to see in the darkness at the cost of near or total blindness in sunlight, and the use of special visors and “blackout” smoke bombs to gain tactical advantage in combat. All three have been physicians who see not only to the needs of normal human beings but also to the needs of DC's "metahumans" (superheroes). All are skilled in martial arts. Two of the doctors have been accompanied by sidekick owls.
Doctor Mid-Nite is widely regarded as the first superhero in comics to exhibit a physical impairment (blindness). (The figure pre-dates by over twenty years the arrival of Daredevil, also a blind character, in Marvel Comics.)
Abilities
Perfect night vision; can see in light through infrared lenses
Beth Chapel
Upon McNider's death his student and protégé, Beth Chapel, an African-American medical doctor, steps into the role of Doctor Midnight (note different spelling). Beth Chapel is a native of Orangeburg, South Carolina. Her father is a pastor. Her mother sings in the church choir and crafts her daughter's hero costume from a choir robe. Chapel has four brothers: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Chapel first appears when Jade of Infinity, Inc. is rushed to the hospital for treatment after Mister Bones' cyanide touch. Her superhero career soon kicks into fast and full gear. During the onset of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Beth is blinded by an oxygen explosion. She is rescued by Hourman's son Rick Tyler, who has taken his father's drug that enhances ability to see in the dark. Like McNider, Beth discovers that she can do the same. She and Rick assume the mantles of their predecessors as Doctor Midnight and Hourman.
Along with a new Wildcat, Chapel and Tyler apply for membership in Infinity, Inc. They are not immediately accepted but eventually both gain admission. The association is short-lived, though, as Infinity soon disbands. Doctor Midnight and Wildcat are recruited by the U.S. government for a mission to defeat the supervillain Eclipso. By now Chapel has begun a romantic relationship with Rick Tyler.
Beth Chapel dies on the mission, though, along with Wildcat, the Creeper, Commander Steel, Peacemaker and Major Victory. She is survived by her family.
Via Wikipedia.org
Sunday, May 20, 2012
The Mixtape Show 21, KCLA-FM 5/20/12
A quick s/o to Andre N. for suggesting Gang Starr as a theme.
Gang Starr: Guru (@GuruGangStarr) & DJ Premier (@REALDJPREMIER) was an East Coast Hip-Hop duo from 1985 – 2006.
Playlist for The Mixtape Show 21: #GangStarr that aired Sunday, May 20, 2012 from 12a to 12:30a (PST) on KCLAFM.com or Listen In Line: (323) 461-6675.
Gang Starr: Guru (@GuruGangStarr) & DJ Premier (@REALDJPREMIER) was an East Coast Hip-Hop duo from 1985 – 2006.
Playlist for The Mixtape Show 21: #GangStarr that aired Sunday, May 20, 2012 from 12a to 12:30a (PST) on KCLAFM.com or Listen In Line: (323) 461-6675.
2. Gang Starr – The Militia Feat. Big Shug (@mizzourimuzikc) & Freddie Foxxx (@BumpyKnuckles); Moment
Of Truth, 1998
R.I.P. Keith “Guru” Elam (July 17, 1961 – April
19, 2010) of Gang Starr. You are missed.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Album Cover Of The Week, 5/16/12
Album Cover Of The Week:
Santana - Shape Shifter, (Starfaith Records, 2012)
Super Hero Of The Week, 5/16/12
Super Hero Of The Week:
Jackson Hyde aka "Aqualad" (DC Comics)
Abilities
Can breathe underwater
can swim at superspeed
superstrength
can withstand underwater pressures
hydrokinesis
bio-electric energy blasts
Jackson Hyde and his on-and-off again girlfriend Maria are first drawn into the events of Brightest Day after witnessing Deadman, Hawk and Dove activating the White Lantern Battery, which had landed in Silver City, New Mexico after the events of Blackest Night. As the Battery begins to speak to the heroes, the tattoos on Jackson's right arm begin to glow. Jackson Hyde is an average student who is pretty bored in Silver City, New Mexico. Since he was young, he’s been taught by his parents to fear water; they do not want him near it because his true parents would be able to locate him, not to mention certain changes happen to Jackson when he gets in the water. Jackson has kept this secret hidden for years, lying to his girlfriend about being afraid of drowning, being unable to swim and being in the dark about the mysterious tattoos he’s had since birth. He’s done his best to avoid it. Aquaman is later contacted by the Entity, which tells him to locate Jackson before a second unidentified group, which is speculated to be Siren and her Death Squad.
Jackson is seen outside his house during a rainstorm, where he displays for the first time his abilities. As he started to control the water from the rain, his tattoos and eyes began glowing. At this moment he is revealed to possess gills and webbed hands. Its also revealed that Black Manta is actually his real father, and that Mera also has some sort of connection to the youth.
After witnessing Jackson in the rain, his adoptive father takes him to a cottage by the sea. He tells him that Mera had given Jackson to him, asking that he keep him away from his parents, and he was given an Atlantean chest to be opened when the truth is discovered. Before the chest can be opened, Black Manta, along with Siren and her Death Squad, attacks. Jackson (using his ability to create hard water constructs) defends his adoptive father, but cannot stop Black Manta from shooting a trident-shaped dart at him. Jackson's adoptive father would have died if not for Aquaman's intervention, who blocks and crushes the dart. Aquaman gets Jackson and his foster father to safety where everything is explained to them. The chest is opened, which activates a map. Using the map, the two discover a sealed chest that only Jackson can open. Once the chest is opened, Jackson is shown a recording from Mera, who explains that his father and mother had been kidnapped and tortured by the people of Xebel (an extradimensional Atlantean penal colony) while exploring the Bermuda Triangle, where the gateway to the colony is located. Xebel's king had ordered that the child, the first "outsider" born there in centuries, be experimented upon in order to serve as a key that would finally free them from their exile. Fearing for the child's safety, Mera had stolen the infant and brought him to the surface world, where she subsequently gave him to the foster family that ended up raising him. She also reveals his true name; Kaldur’ahm. Once the recording is over, Jackson discovers several items which Mera had left for him, notably a soldier's uniform from Xebel and a pair of "Water Bearers", metallic constructs that help him control his water-manipulation abilities.
Aquaman and Jackson ultimately end up in Miami, Florida, where Black Manta and Siren are leading an army of warriors from Xebel in a full-scale invasion. Jackson successfully uses his waterbearers to create blades, which he uses to fight off the attacking troops, and even briefly holds his own in a duel with Siren. After Black Manta severs Aquaman's right hand, Jackson attacks his father and berates him for siding with the people who killed his own wife, only for Black Manta to throw Jackson to the ground and coldly states that both he and his mother mean nothing to him. Just as Black Manta is about to impale his son with one of his blades, Mera arrives with Aquagirl, who saves Jackson by kicking his father's square in the face. After using his bio-electrical abilities to cauterize Aquaman's wound, Jackson and Mera are able to work together to seal Black Manta, Siren and the rest of the invaders away in the Bermuda Triangle. As the heroes celebrate, Jackson is shown beginning to harbor a crush on Aquagirl. Afterwards, Mera tells Aquaman that Jackson wants to continue his training. Aquaman informs her that he has already contacted the Titans.
After Damian Wayne joins the Teen Titans, a vision of Jackson arriving at Titans Tower and confronting Superboy, Wonder Girl, Beast Boy and Kid Flash is shown as part of a collage of future events that will affect the team.
Via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Hyde
Sunday, May 13, 2012
The Mixtape Show #20; KCLA-FM 5/13/12
SWV (@TheRealSWV), aka Sister With Voices (Coko, Taj &
Lelee), is a female R&B trio from 1990-1998, 2005-present.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Super Hero Of The Week, 5/6/12
Super Hero Of The Week:
Black Vulcan (DC Comics)
Black Vulcan is a fictional superhero on the animated series Super Friends created by Hanna-Barbera. He was voiced by Buster Jones.
Abilities
Electricity manipulation
Unlike most of the Super Friends, Black Vulcan was not a pre-existing DC Comics character. This is particularly notable since DC Comics' roster did include an African American superhero with electricity-based powers, Black Lightning, who could not be used on the show due to disputes between DC and Black Lightning's creator Tony Isabella.
Originally introduced as a way to add a more culturally diverse roster to the team in the All-New Super Friends Hour series, Black Vulcan was the Super Friends' resident black superhero, although his character mostly refrains from being seen as a harsh stereotype. As originally depicted, Black Vulcan's costume had the super-hero equivalent of pants, but in later episodes his legs are bare.
His powers include the ability to emit electricity from his hands, as well as fly by charging his lower body with energy.
On a few occasions, he exhibited powers he had not shown before, such as the ability to assume a form of pure energy and travel at the speed of light (Challenge of the Superfriends: The World's Deadliest Game, September 23, 1978) (in an unsuccessful attempt to escape a black hole,[2] which, according to theory, is a feat not even light is able to accomplish once it has passed inside the event horizon). He was even able to travel back in time[3] by fluctuating his body's energy in such a way that it opened a rift in space-time (Challenge of the Superfriends: Secret Origins of the Superfriends, October 28, 1978). Finally, Black Vulcan is able to spot-weld microelectronics (World's Greatest Superfriends Episodes: Dive to Disaster).
In the final incarnation of the series, The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, he was replaced with Cyborg, another black superhero that was already well established in the DC Comics lineup and possessed a more developed personality.
Via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Vulcan
The Mixtape Show #19, KCLA-FM 5/6/12
A quick s/o Tamika S. (@Tinytee98) for suggesting "Booty Shaking
Music".
Playlist for The Mixtape Show #19: #BootyShakingMusic that aired Sunday, May 6, 2012 from 12a to 12:30a (PST) onwww.KCLAFM.com or Listen In Line: (323) 461-6675.
Playlist for The Mixtape Show #19: #BootyShakingMusic that aired Sunday, May 6, 2012 from 12a to 12:30a (PST) onwww.KCLAFM.com or Listen In Line: (323) 461-6675.
4. Lil Jon (@liljon) & The East Side Boyz – Get Low Feat.
Ying Yang Twinz (@tingyangtwins); Kings Of Crunk, 2002
6. Ester Dean (@EsterDean) – Drop It Low Feat. Chris Brown
(@chrisbrown); More Than A Game (Soundtrack), 2009
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
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- Host of The Mixtape Show. I have been an unofficial DJ seen the late 1990s, mix-tapes and boom-box: two tape decks and a CD deck. About 2002, the same time I started to host my first radio show, I become an official mobile DJ. I spin Hip-Hop, R&B, Old School, Reggae and some Blues. In 2002, I started my first radio show on KWRF Santa Monica at Santa Monica College. My first show was a genre free. After I lost my co-host, had to get his own show, my show because a full Hip Hop show. To cut down on overlap, the next semester, I added a R&B show (The Freak Show) and changed my original to Old School (Old School 101). After I transfer to Cal State Fullerton, I did a semester as a news radio host for my radio class. In early December 2011, I restarted my career as a radio host. With the goal of help people discover and rediscover music.