Happy birthday to one of the most innovative/creative producers in hip hop history!  In July of 2011, The Pharcyde came through D.C. to perform and pay tribute to J Dilla as part of the 6th annual D.C. Loves Dilla (big up to Munch). It benefited the J Dilla Foundation and Lupus Foundation of Greater Washington. The backing band for the night was the The Players (lead by friend of the show Jon Laine) and the host for the night was Grap Luva. This is a dope annual event, which is now a staple in the D.C. area and only continues to grow! Past special guests have included Talib Kweli, Pete Rock, and Ma Dukes (part of the 2008 Dilla Day/Subsoniq collabo show), Phife Dawg, Dwele, Slum Village and more.

We were lucky enough to plug into the soundboard for the 2011 show and capture the audio. We can’t play all of it all in an hour (it was a 2+ hour show), and unfortunately we can’t make it downloadable right now, but what we have streaming below are just some of our hip hop highlights from the night, enjoy!

Listen to The Pharcyde and “D.C.’s finest” tribute to J Dilla below

Subsoniq Radio – DC Loves Dilla by subsoniqradio

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1. The Pharcyde Set (includes Dilla produced songs Bullshit, Runnin, Drop + more Pharcyde classics)
2. Flex Mathews – Stakes Is High
3. Gods’illa – Raise It Up
4. DJ Roddy Rod & Flex Mathews – F*ck The Police
5. J Laine (leader of the Players) “Whip Me With A Strap”
5. Kaimbr & Kenn Starr - (Busta Rhymes/Dilla set) – Just Another Day At The Range > What Up > Turn Me Up Some > So Hardcore
6. Memory Montage from Common, Busta Rhymes, T3 (of Slum Village), Pharoahe Monch, Questlove, Ghostface, Ali Shaheed Muhammad (from past Dilla specials on Subsoniq).

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What are Junebug Jugs? Who can crack the “Zodiac code? How can music/friends/record labels help heal? Lots of new music and a look into Raw Poetic’s mindset and art on this episode of Subsoniq.

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Subsoniq Play List 2-1-12

-Break 1 (0:00 – 7:05)-
Damu & Raw Poetic – Prosper
Gods’illa – You Don’t Have To Be A Star (remix f/MC Lyte, Bahamadia, Monie Love)
Evidence – The Red Carpet (f/Raekwon, Ras Kass)
Gangrene (Oh No & Alchemist) – Vodka & Ayahuasca
Jaylib (Madlib & J Dilla) – The Red
Jean Grae – U&Me&EveryoneWeKnow
Black Star – You Already Knew
The Foodchain – Dear Industry
-Break 2 (41:24 – 47:28)-
Panacea – Pops Said
K-Def – Night Owls (f/Raw Poetic)
Nas/Damian Marley – As We Enter
Kaimbr/Kev Brown – We Getting On
Bumpy Knuckles/DJ Premier – OwnIt
Erick Sermon – A Way Out
Brand Nubian – Maybe One Day (f/Common)
yU – I Believe
Tech N9ne – Worldwide Choppers (f/Yelawolf, Busta Rhymes, Twista, Ceza, D-Loc)
Clear Soul Forces – Get No Better
-Break 3 (1:26:28 – 1:33:09)-
Restoring Poetry In Music – Poetron

New hip hop for 2012! We take a look forward at what the first couple months of the new year holds. Artists featured this week are Black Star, Gift Of Gab, Freddie Foxxx (aka Bumpy Knuckles) & Dj Premier, B.O.B., Planet Asia, Slaughterhouse, Damu & Raw Poetic, Jean Grae, M-Phazes & DJ Rhettmatic, Erik Sermon, Juvenille, Gods’illa, Gangrene (Alchemist & Oh no), Clear Soul Forces, Krs-One, Ardamus, Archetype and much more!

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Subsoniq Play List - Year In Advance 2012 

Black Star – You Already Knew
Slaughterhouse – The Illest
M-Phazes/DJ Rhettmatic – Raw (f/Saigon, Inspectah Deck, Bekay)
Gangrene (Alchemist & Oh No) – Vodka & Ayahuasca
B.o.B. – Play The Guitar (f/Andre 3000)
Gods’illa – You Don’t Have To Be A Star Remix (f/Bahamadia, MC Lyte, Monie Love)
The Roots – Lighthouse
Erik Sermon – A Way Out
Bumpy Knuckles & DJ Premier – OwNiT
Juvenile – Power (f/Rick Ross)
Krs-One – Just Like That > The MC
Planet Asia – Golden State
Damu & Raw Poetic – Prosper
Jean Grae – U&Me&EveryoneWeKnow
yU – Time Machine
Eligh & Amp Live – Destination (f/Zumbi, The Grouch)
Lateef – Oakland (f/ Del The Funky Homosapien, The Grouch)
M.O.P. & Snowgoons – Opium
Archetype – Everybody’s Sayin’
Ardamus – I’m Not The One (f/Charlie Bucket)
Common – Cloth
Clear Soul Forces – Get No Better
Gift Of Gab – Protocol

Best albums of 2011. We’ll let the play list do the talking. What do you think? Post a comment below or join our e-mail list to stay up with the latest from Subsoniq

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Find out who we picked, play list after the jump!

Subsoniq – Best Albums of 2011 – Play List  **album names in asterisks**

• Pharoahe Monch – “Evolve” > “The Hitman” **W.A.R. (We Are Renegades)**
• Saigon – “The Greatest Story Never Told” > “Come On Baby” (f/Jay-Z,Swizz Beatz) **Greatest Story Never Told**
• Phonte – “The Good Fight” > “Everything Is Falling Down” > “Sendin My Love” **Charity Starts At Home**
• Common – “Cloth” **The Dreamer, The Believer**
• Pete Rock/Smif N Wessun – “That’s Hard” (f/Styles P, Sean Price) > “Feel Me” (f/Rock, Bun B) > “Roses” **Monumental**
• Blueprint – “Automatic” > “So Alive” > “Fly Away” **Adventures In Counter Culture**
• Statik Selektah – “Never A Dull Moment” (f/Action Bronson, Bun B, Termanology) **Population Control**
• Shabazz Palaces – “Are You..Can You..Were You (Felt)” **Black Up**
• Kendrick Lamar – “HiiiPower” > “Rigamortis” (remix f/Busta Rhymes) **Section .80**
• Gods’illa – “You Don’t Have To Be A Star” (f/Maimouna Youssef) > “Stay On” (MMM Mix f/Substantial) **CPR The Blend Tape**
• Money Making Jam Boys – “We Not Playing” > “Coming Out Hard” **The Prestige: Jam Boy Magic**
• Bop Alloy – Ocean Dance (Arrival)
• Mirandom – Wednesday
• Stalley – Lincoln Way Nights (Shop Remix f/Rick Ross)
• The Roots – “One Time” (f/Phonte, Dice Raw) > “The Other Side” (f/Bilal, Greg Porn) > “Lighthouse” (f/Dice Raw) **Undun**
• K-Def – “Escapizm” (f/Rob O) > “Night Owls” (f/Raw Poetic) > “Sparkle”  **Night Shift**
• Joell Ortiz – “Battle Cry” > “Put Some Money” (f/The Lox) **Free Agent**
• Kev Brown & Kaimbr – “Army Fatigue Rap” (f/Dj Roddy Rod, Hassan Mackey) **The Alexander Green Project**
• Elzhi – “Memory Lane” > “The World Is Yours” > “Represent” **Elmatic**

A brand new Subsoniq “Instru-Mentals”, which explores and promotes the deepest and dopest areas in hip-hop instrumentation. Hosted by Panacea producer and Subsoniq co-host, K-Murdock. If you love instrumental hip hop, this is a must listen. Check out our new soundcloud page where your music can be considered for future Instru-Mentals shows, you can share beats and be a part of the community and movement. Download or listen to the newest Instru-Mentals below (right click and “save as” over the orange download).

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Instru-Mentals Playlist (December 2k11):

1. Falside – Green Tea & Nicotine
2. Kev Brown – Snow fall (Happy Holidays)
3. Josip Klobucar – Slow Train
4. Stro Elliot – Blue Way
5. Abterra – Enter The Crate
6. The Nothing – Resurrection
7. Chief – Monday Jazz
8. Righteous Foot – Christmas Morning
9. K-Def – Supa Heath
10. IMAKEMADBEATS – So High
11. Danny Drive Thru – Crankenstein
12. Jluma – Doc
13. Masta Kate – Getting Older with the Holidays
14. Bop Alloy – Ocean Dance (Instro)
15. Natural High – Spaceman
16. DJ Roddy Rod – Christmas Carpet
17. Centauri- Song for Martha
18. Question – My Star

This is a recording of a live performance we, Panacea, did back in Fall of 2007 after the release of our album The Scenic Route. It was recorded in front of small, intimate audience in XM Satellite Radio’s Live performance studio as a “Sub-session” for SUBSONiQ. The set mainly features songs from Panacea as well as a few by R.P.M.  which is Raw Poetic’s other group that included (at the time) guitarist Patrick Fritz, bassist Adam Hopkins, Drummer Jon Laine & Aaron Gause on keys and trumpet; Session engineered by Mike Taylor.
 Panacea – “Sub-sessions” @ XM Radio (9.17.07) by Neosonix

Panacea Sub-Session Setlist:

1. The Scenic Route
2. Word Of Art
3. Ecosphere
4. RPM – There U R
5. RPM – Less Is More
6. Place On Earth
7. Bubble
8. Pops Said (Freestyle Version)
9. RPM – Sliders
10. RPM – Sleepwalkers
11. RPM – Poetry Bum
12. Starlie
13. Pulse
14. Classic
15. RPM – Poetron
16. Aim High
17. RPM – Grandpa
18. RPM – Life is Change

*Please note that this is the whole 90+ minute performance mixed, but unedited so as to capture the unique personality & vibe of this very special event

-  K-Murdock (Subsoniq co-host, Panacea producer)

New music from Black Star, The Roots, Common, MadGibbs (Madlib & Freddie Gibbs), M.O.P.,
Pac Div, Lupe Fiasco, Doomtree, Kendrick Lamar, Eligh & Amp Live, Ras Kass, yU, Panacea
......need we say more? Nah we didn't think so. Tune in and check it out! Download or 
listen below (right click and “save as” over the orange download).

Subsoniq Headphone Session December 2011

The Next - This American Life (f/Talib Kweli, Immortal Technique)
The Roots - One Time (f/Phonte, Dice Raw) > Tip The Scale
Kendrick Lamar - Rigamortis (remix) f/Busta Rhymes
M.O.P. - Opium (prod by Snowgoons)
Dres And Jarobi - PTI
yU - If u Down
MadGibbs (Madlib & Freddie Gibbs) - Deep
Freddie Gibbs - Natural High (Even Higher Learning)
Pac Div - Posted
People Under The Stairs - Talkin' Back To The Streets
Eligh & Amp Live - Destination Unknown (f/Zumbi, The Grouch)
Panacea - The Prelude
Slim Kid 3/DJ Nu-Mark - Friday Night
Ras Kass - Holes In The Ozone
Common - Celebrate > Blue Sky
Lupe Fiasco - Lightwork (f/Ellie Goulding, Bassnectar)
Idle Warship (Talib Kweli & Res) - Enemy
Evidence - The Red Carpet (f/Raekwon, Ras Kass)
Doomtree - Bolt Cutter
Black Star - You Already Knew > Fix Up
Grap Luva - Neva Done
K-Def - Sparkle

A brand new Subsoniq “Instru-Mentals”, which explores and promotes the deepest and dopest areas in Hip-Hop instrumentation. Hosted by Panacea producer and Subsoniq co-host, K-Murdock. If you love instrumental hip hop, this is a must listen. Check out our new soundcloud page where your music can be considered for future Instru-Mentals shows, you can share beats and be a part of the community and movement. Download or listen to the newest Instru-Mentals below (right click and “save as” over the orange download).

Instru-Mentals Playlist (November 2k11):

1.  Trey Hemingway - Dirty
2.  Tuelv - Feel Your Way
3.  DJ Roddy Rod - Livin' Conditions
4.  Sapp-One - Hokuto the Beat
5.  Abterra - 22
6.  Creep Crawl Fish - Adrift
7.  Astrological - Count Me Out
8.  PK Mao - Closure
9.  Shag - Spirit Temple
10. Moonbouncedj - Nina's Lament
11. IV The Polymath - Iced Tea & Nachos
12. Tristate - Tristate Of Mind
13. K-Murdock - Love Is Love

Here is a 2008 interview with Heavy D. KB and our friend E Green of Hip Hop Digest sat
down with Hev to talk about how the rock group Queen has a place in his childhood, the
Jamaican roots of the "Diddly diddly diddly dee", and find out which hip hop group set
the benchmark for what Heavy D wanted to be in the game. R.I.P. to one of the greatest,
you will be missed.

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"From The Vaults" 2008 Heavy D Playlist

Heavy D./Kool G Rap/Grand Puba/C.L. Smooth/Big Daddy Kane/Pete Rock/Q-Tip) - Don't Curse
Heavy D. - Now That We've Found Love
Apache - Gangsta Bitch
Heavy D. - You Ain't Heard Nuttin' Yet
Jay-Z/Lenny Kravitz - Guns & Roses
Heavy D. - Blue Funk
Heavy D. - Long Distance Girlfriend
Heavy D. - We Got Our Own Thang
Heavy D. - Nuttin' But Love

We let the music speak for itself this week. New offerings from Styles P, Statik Selektah, Lupe Fiasco, Amy Winehouse/Nas, Kendrick Lamar, People Under The Stairs, J-Live, Freddie Gibbs, K-Def, DJ Shadow, Idle Warship (Res’ & Talib Kweli), Murs, Evidence, 9th Wonder, Phonte, Common, and more! **Please excuse the random drops throughout the episode, we had some technical issues with our “drops trigger”.**

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Subsoniq - 11-7-11 (Headphone Session)

Styles P - Children (f/Pharoahe Monch) > Feelings Gone
Statik Selektah - New York, New York (f/Styles P, Saigon) > Play The Game (f/ Big K.R.I.T., Freddie Gibbs) > They Don't Know (f/Reks, Pill)
Nicolay & Kay - The Gunshot (f/Chip Fu)
Lupe Fiasco - Lightwork (f/Bass Nectar, Ellie Goulding)
Amy Winehouse - Like Smoke (f/Nas)
Kendrick Lamar - HiiiPower
People Under The Stairs - Talkin' Back To The Streets > Dewrit
J-Live - Pronounced Spitta
Freddie Gibbs - Natural High (Even Higher Learning)
J Dilla - Smoke (f/Blu)
K-Def - Supa Heath
DJ Shadow - I've Been Trying
Idle Warship (Res' & Talib Kweli) - Enemy
MURS - Animal Style > Dark Skin White Girls
Evidence - Late For The Sky (f/Slug, Aesop Rock) > You
9th Wonder - Loyalty (f/Masta Killa, Halo)
Phonte - Sendin' My Love > Who Loves You More
Common - Blue Sky > Ghetto Dreams (f/Nas)
Awthentik - Take A Bow