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w/ skillits

June 14, 2025

Four-plus hours and this week we're joined by skillits — the first lady of ATC. She never arrives without heat, and this episode is no exception. rap79 opens with reggae from Rebel Vibrations and The Congos, then moves through Mtume Umoja Ensemble, Dayton and Hidefumi Toki Quartet. KEMS follows with zero rap — instead running Joe Jackson, Soft Machine, Scratch Acid and Soundgarden, playing two tracks from each because the records sounded too good to stop. skillits closes with The Unifics, Family Circle, Allah-Lahs and Tommy Guerrero. All vinyl, all vibes. Hope y'all enjoy. Peace. KEMS & rap79

Tracklist

rap79

Rebel Vibrations - Mountain Melody (Hitrun Records) Winston Jarrett & His Righteous Flames - Jungle Collie (Sonic Sounds) The Congos - Congoman (Black Ark) Fifth Avenue - Miracles (Lyon’s Record Corp) Patrice Rushen & D.J Rodgers - Given’ Up Is Givin’ Up (Elektra) The Townsends - Under The Whip (MCA Records) Earth, Wind & Fire - Make It With You (CBS) Dayton - Out Tonight (Capitol) Hidefumi Toki Quartet - Lullaby For The Girl (Three Blind Mice) Grachan Moncur III - Ponte IO (BYG) Mtume Umoja Ensemble - Alkebu-Lan (Strata-East) The Chameleons UK - Caution (Geffen) Osanna - Theme (P.I. Records)

KEMS

Soft Machine - The Soft Weed Factor (Columbia) Ferrante and Teicher - Lady Love (United Artists) Brothers Johnson - Strawberry Letter 23 (A&M) Kenny Loggins - This Is It (Columbia) Joe Jackson - Steppin’ Out (A&M) Steely Dan - Everyone's Gone To The Movie (MCA) Scratch Acid - Spit A Kiss (Rabid Cat) Scratch Acid - Amicus Soundgarden - Hunted Down (Sub Pop) Soundgarden - Entering (Sub Pop) Evan Parker / Derek Bailey / Han Bennink - Fixed Elsewhere (Otoroku) Joseph Jarman - Song For Christopher (Delmark) [Ahmed] - Wood Blues (Part 1) (Astral Spirits) Frank Wright - China Part 2 (BYG)

skillits

Beach House - Black Car (Sub Pop) The Sundays - I Won (Geffen) Woods - Death Rattles (Woodist) Allah-Lahs - Ferus Gallery (Round Hill) El Alamo - Pusher Men (GDR) Stormy - The Devastator (Twinight) Napoleon Demps - Norma Jean (Daptone) Tommy Guerrero - Cryptic Signals (Too Good) Sault - Living In America (Forever Living Originals) Freeway & Jake One - Money feat. Omilio Sparks & Mr. Porter (Rhymesayers) The Roots - Game Theory (Def Jam) Artifacts - The Ultimate (Big Beat/Atlantic) Blahzay Blahzay - Pain I Feel (Fader) Keith Murray - The Rhyme (The Slum Village Street Remix) (Jive) Mamman Sani & Tropika Camel - Nomadic (Dub) (Batov) Family Circle - It Doesn’t Make Sense (Numero) The Unifics - Toshi Sumasu (Kapp) Honey & The Bees - What About Me (Real Gone Music) The Dreamliners - Just Me And You (Numero)

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