On Uncommon Radio #11 Nasa flies solo and brings a grip of new music.  Tracks from Del the Funky Homosapien, Camp Lo, Elucid (pictured), Greenhouse, Super Chron Flight Brothers, Willie Green and a whole lot more!

Nasa also talks about the line up for the upcoming 3rd Annual "Yule Prog" event to be held on December 23rd, 2009 at Southpaw in Brooklyn NY, naming some of the participants.

Uncommon Radio #10 features new music from Anti-Pop Consortium, M.O.P., Raekwon, The Grouch & Eligh, Isaiah the Toothtaker and much more.  Once again hosted by your boys Nasa & Cirrus Minor.  We also premiered a new track from the Agartha Audio project that will be out soon on Uncommon Records.  It's from the upcoming album on Uncommon "The Hollow Earth" (pictured) and features Tracy Jones.

Tracklist should now be in the Lyrics Section of the actual Podcast and you should be able to view it on you Ipod.

Enjoy!

Uncommon Radio #9 features Nasa and Cirrus Minor hosting.  Our friend Myster Bruce (aka db Grant aka Huge Voodoo) passed away in April and we just found out.  In this episode during all the background beds are joints from his first album "Emphatic Phorms").  We closed the episode out with a rarely heard track Bruce did with Mike Ladd.

We also played joints from Mos Def (pictured), Wu-Tang's Chamber Music project as well as tracks from Isaiah the Toothtaker, Self Says, IZReal, Phenetiks and more.

We also got Cirrus to attempt naming some rappers on a rap song he had never heard before.  This may become a regular game here at Uncommon Radio.

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Uncommon Radio #8 features in studio guest The Protege (pictured) along with Deto-22 & Roc1 (both from the Phenetiks crew which The Protege is also a part of).  Also in the house is Dirt E. Dutch, owner of Little Ax Records & the voice behind the well known Indie Feed Hip-Hop Podcasts.

The Protege breaks down his new album "Untitled Is Hard Enough", which we've played joints from here previously on Uncommon Radio.  He gets into the science of the sound, concepts and building of the record.  We played more joints from it along with other Phenetiks projects and some exclusives.

We also had some conversations with the Phenetiks crew about mediocrity in hip-hop and in culture and talked with Dirt E. Dutch about his starting of Little Ax & the roots of Indie Feed Hip-Hop.

Plus we ended with The Protege getting loose on the mic with a freestyle session.  We also played a full show worth of music too!  For full playlists of what is spun on Uncommon Radio make sure you sign up for the mailing list at www.uncommonmusic.net so that your not having to hit rewind all the time to see what dope track we just played!

Nasa flies solo for this episode playing new joints from Marco Polo & Torae, Camp Lo, Super Chron Flight Brothers, W.A.S.T.E.L.A.N.D.S., The Presence, The Protege, Tone Tank, Atari Blitzkrieg (Pictured) and much more!  A small trip down memory lane with some throwbacks as well.

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Uncommon Radio Episode #6 is co-hosted by Eleven of 11:00A.M. (check out their album "Free*" available on Uncommon Records).  Eleven brought some exclusive tracks from Vyle, V8, Hype Wonder and others.  All that got mixed in with our regularly schedule programming here at the show starting with "Say G&E" from Grouch & Eligh (pictured).  Joints from Mr. Lif, Autolect and more can also be heard as well as a freestyle from Eleven

Episode #5 is all music selected by Cirrus Minor, Co-Host of Uncommon Radio.   Cirrus brought by music from the new DOOM LP (pictured) and played joints from artists as varied as Papoose and Thursday.  He also brought some super rare treats too.

Nasa & Cirrus also gave a recap of the vulture like process of the Virgin Mega Store closing and talked about getting ripped off in Manhattan.  Fucking scam artists!  Enjoy!

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Episode #4 is a very special episode!  We played ONLY tracks from releases that have been made available for FREE by the artist online.  Making this the first official FREE Episode of Uncommon Radio!  Well, all episodes of UR are Free, but you get the point.  In addition to Nasa hosting once again, he was joined by Cirrus Minor, also of The Presence. 

Somehow neither Nasa or Cirrus had ever heard Nas' "Where Are They Now (90's Remix)" so we ran the track without knowing who was on it and decided to play the game of naming who was on the track by voice only.  In the next segment we came back with the "Google Machines" results and figured out how much we knew or didn't know.  Some classic comedy there.

We also played a live version of The Presence's upcoming track "Quarter to Freedom", in addition to new FREE music from Illogic (pictured here), A-Plus, Teddy Faley and none other then Chip-Fu!  All that and much more, enjoy this nearly 60 minute special episode!

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Hosted by Nasa, Episode #3 of Uncommon Radio features music from Guilty Simpson (pictured), EPMD, W.A.S.T.E.L.A.N.D.S., Valient Thorr and much more.  For full playlists from Uncommon Radio, sign up for the Mailing List at www.uncommonmusic.net.

I am restarting Uncommon Radio up!  It won't be a strictly interview format anymore, but we will feature dope music on a regular basis and some interviews.  I had re-started up again on another site, but am moving back here to libsyn.  This show is referred to as the ProgBlogCast, but I will continue it in this format as "Uncommon Radio" once again.  Enjoy!

***Cirrus Minor joins me as co-host for this episode***

This episode features music from One Day As A Lion (pictured) among others.

I am restarting Uncommon Radio up!  It won't be a strictly interview format anymore, but we will feature dope music on a regular basis and some interviews.  I had re-started up again on another site, but am moving back here to libsyn.  This show is referred to as the ProgBlogCast, but I will continue it in this format as "Uncommon Radio" once again.  Enjoy! 

This episode featured music from Autolect (pictured) and others.

This episode was recorded in September 2006 just before their album "Use Your Confusion" was released.  They talked about their early years making music together, the deal with the Dante Ross lead Elektra that never came to fruition, the underground scene they helped create, and their latest album.  They also dropped some freestyles at the end.  The tracks we played, at the time never heard before exclusives, were:

1. Leon Phelps
2. New $$$
3. Sumday
4. Namesake

This is the first of our long awaited re-airings from the pre-podcast era of the show.   Pumpkinhead came by Nasa Labs last year to record this episode where he talked about his full length album "Orange Moon Over Brooklyn" produced by Marco Polo.  He also got into his thoughts on the 'Battle Scene' and dropped a fire freestyle at the end.  We played tracks that were unreleased as well as some from his LP and Mix CD, Park Slope Renaisance.  We will be re-airing other Uncommon Radio episodes week by week starting now, next week will be The Juggaknots.

This episode features Beans.  Beans is a former member of Anti-Pop Consortium and veteran of 3 solo LPs since that time in the group.  He stopped by with exclusive never before heard tracks from his forth coming album "Thorns".  He talked about his new album, his roots as an artist, his time in Anti-Pop Consortium & solo career and his break with his long time record label, Warp Records. The tracks we played were:

1. Thundermouth (Thorns)

2. No Thrills (Thorns)

3. Ultimate (Thorns)

4. Beauty of a Beast on a Beat (Thorns)

5. Only Four (Thirsty Ear project "Only")

You can check out more on Beans by visiting www.myspace.com/mrballbeamakabeans

(Programming note: Starting in 2 weeks we will be posting all the episodes of Uncommon Radio that were recorded and aired previous to us having them hosted at this location.  One of these episodes will appear per week, starting with the last to the first ever episode.  The episodes include The Juggaknots, Pumpkinhead, Arcsin and many more.)

The current episode features Smacks Records owner and a co-founding member of Company Flow, Mr. Len.  Mr. Len and the group he became known for, Company Flow, changed hip-hop forever.  They were part of the NYC scene that sparked the independent/underground hip-hop movement.  He's since released a solo album "Pity the Fool" on Matador Records, been part of the group, Roosevelt Franklin and started his own label Smacks to which Bullymouth, Kice of Course, Mental Case & Rhino CMZ are signed.  On this episode he talks about the state of the underground scene, the state of DJing nowadays, his record label and the rumors of a Company Flow reunion.  Also, in the house was Espee from Bullymouth who rocked freestyles at the end with Mr. Len on the tables.  The tracks we played are from the roster of Smacks Records:

1. Who Is It?- Mental Case
2. Rock & Roll- Rhino CMZ
3. Boombox- Bullymouth
4. Definition of a Bullymouth- Bullymouth
5. Competition- Kice of Course (Prod. by Mr. Len)
6. For Kicks- Bullymouth feat. Kice of Course (Prod. by Mr. Len)
7. ***Suprise Throwback Classic

You can find out more about Mr. Len and Smacks Records by checking out www.dummysmacks.com.  

This episode was recorded in Late March 2007. 

The current episode features hip-hop pioneer and avant garde hip hop performance artist, The Rammellzee.  The Rammellzee was on some of the earliest European Hip-Hop tours, bombed with Dondi in the NYC subway system in the late 70s and went on to make a succcessful career in the art world as well as the music world.  He's most known for performing on stage around the world in multiple costumes and for some of his most current artwork, like his Letter Racers and action figure like dolls.  You can find out more about him at www.gothicfuturism.com

The tracks we played are:

1. Beat Bop (Original Version) feat. K-Rob {End portion}
2. New Meaning (Japanese Import)
3. Jamming Zabar (Bi-Connicals of The Rammellzee)
4. Quack (Bi Connicals of The Rammellzee)
5. Caution (Unreleased, from Bill Laswell project features Buckethead on Gtr)
6. This Was My School Bag (Unreleased from forthcoming "Gothic Futurism" LP)