Star Eyes: A Life in the Electronic Underground

Episode 1: Day of Umoja 2021 (DJs Daz, Jun, Monalisa, Aaron Paar, Culture D & Tomas)

itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/a0/3a/90/umojahifi/3000x3000_15890625.jpg] Umoja Hi-Fi presents Day of Umoja 2021! An annual celebration on the first day of Kwanza. All 6 DJs from the Umoja DJ collective spinning eclectic sets of reggae, soul, funk, jazz, hip-hop, Afrobeat, rocksteady and more Check the set lists below for full artist and song titles. Follow us everywhere @umojahifi Sets lists: Monalisa: Otis Gayle - I’ll Be Around Johnny Osborne - We Need Love Delroy Wilson - Same Old Song Annetta Jackson - Meditation Byron Lee & The Dragonaires - Message From A Black Man Fatback Band - Wicky Wacky Boris Gardiner - Melting Pot Chosen Few - Funky Buttercup Toots & The Maytals - Funky Funky Peter Tosh - Buck In Hamm Palace Badder Than Evil - Hot Wheels Tony Allen - Black Voices Jun: Dillinger - Cocaine Desmond Dekkar - 007- Shanty Town Monyaka - Go Deh Yaka Kwanzaa posse - Wicked Funk Lord Domino & the Ska Boys - Simply Funky Manu Dibango - New Bell Earth Wind & Fire - Runnin’ Re-Edit William DeVaughn - Be Thankful For What You’ve Got Bob Marley - Reggae on Broadway James Brown - There Was A Time Miles Davis - Black & Satin Aaron Paar: Ernest Ranglin - In The Rain Funkadelic - Can You Get To That The Isley Brothers - Brother, Brother Marvin Gaye - Symphony (Salaam Remi Remix) Reflections - She’s My Summer Breeze Allen Toussaint - Goin’ Down Grassella Oliphant - Get Out Of My Life Woman Labelle - Moon Shadow Isaac Hayes - Breakthrough Art & Ron - Can’t Stop Talkin’ Kitchener - The Road Cornell Campbell - Duke Of Earl The Impressions - Gypsy Woman Daz: The Soul Jazz Orchestra -Mamaya Fela Kuti - Water Get No Enemy Pete Rock - Pete's Jazz Towa Tei - Technova The 45 King - Spread Love Beats J-Live - A Charmed Life Dam-Funk - Mirrors Outkast - Happy Valentines Day Tomas: Bounty Killer - Smoke The Herb (Brooklyn Jackers Remix) Lady Lee vs Nubian Crackers - Situation (Symphonic Matt Nelkin Mix) Cutty Ranks & General Levy  - Watch Me Now (Blend Mishkin Rmx) Funkdoobiest  - We A Doobiest (Titan Sound Rmx) Stylo G - Call Mi A Yardie (Blend Mishkin Rmx) Rayvon vs Don T - No Guns, No Murder (Outstanding Matt Nelkin Mix) Super Cat - Dem No Worry We (Hip Hop Ragga Mix) Fu Shinkins - La Schmoove Gangstarr - The Illest Brother UTFO - Roxanne, Roxanne Hortense Ellis - People Make The World Go Round Derrick Harriott - Let Me Down Easy Keith & Tex - Hypnotizing Eyes Donny Hathaway - Someday We'll All Be Free Culture D: Konshens - Dem Nuh Know Joy White - Dread Out Deh Delroy Wilson - Cool Operator Billy Boyo & Little John - What U Want to Be A Disc Jockey Cocoa Tea & Heavy D - Walls Come Tumbling Down Jennifer Lara -  Mr DJ Sonya Spence - Talk Love Coffee -  Harder They Come Lutan Fyah - Rub A Dub Galaxie P - Ole Stalawa Tonto Irie - Me A Di Cooker Bounty Killer/ Spragga Benz - Remember to Pray

Aaron Paar - Stomping Grounds Radio Tribute to Al Jackson

itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/a0/3a/90/umojahifi/3000x3000_15396815.jpg] Umoja HiFI's Aaron Paar (Worldship Records, Teflon Dons) pays tribute to DJ Al Jackson, of the LA-based Soul Children, presenting his recorded works as Aljax3. This set originally appeared on Paar's Stomping Grounds radio show (2nd & 4th Mondays 8-10 PM on dublab.com). Al Jackson's show Explorations is also archived on dublab.com Al Jackson: peace be with you brother, thank you for your life and music!

DJ Tomas presents The Day of Umoja 2020

itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/a0/3a/90/umojahifi/3000x3000_15263208.jpg] A mix for the first day of Kwanza (Umoja or Unity) to celebrate the origins and sound of my DJ collective Umoja HiFi Soundsystem. This 1-hour mix features sublime selections from Latin and downtempo to broken beat, and other eclectic rhythms. Day of Umoja Tracklist Brownout – Con El Cuete (Second Sky and Thomas Blondet Remix) Ondatropica – Tiene Sabor, Tiene Sazón (iZem remix) Joe Bataan – Ernestine Robert Glasper Experiment – Afro Blue featuring Erykah Badu (9th Wonder's Blue Light Basement Remix) Om Unit – Lightgrids Arp 101 – Warriors Galactic Pomrad – Bofhaun Tatham,Mensah,Lord & Ranks – Teacup feat Eric Lau Mr. Scruff – Music Takes Me Up Featuring Alice Russell Willie Colón – Ché Ché Cole (Sake1 Leftism Edit) Ambient Jazz Ensemble – Jazz Face (Kirk Degiorgio Remix) Chip Wickham – Snake Eyes (Ishmael Ensemble Remix) Kid Sublime feat. Nicky Guilland – Something About Your Love Yellowtail – Juju Mim Suleiman – Bibi Na Mpu (Maurice Fulton Dub) Nomumbah – Milziq Sleepwalke – Brotherhood (Marc Mac Dirty Jazz Mix) Atjazz feat Sarah Jane Morris – Fantasy (Domu remix) 4hero – Sink or Swim Peshay – Vanguard

DJ Tomas - Umoja SoundStation on NiceUpRadio (Reggae)

itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/a0/3a/90/umojahifi/3000x3000_14386112.jpg] It's Umoja Hi-Fi's Nice Up Radio show #46 with DJ Tomas in the mix. New music from Buju Banton, Anthony B, Jah9, Romain Virgo, Nattali Rize, Christopher Ellis and more. New riddims, and strictly 2020 reggae vibes! Listen to the show live Sundays 3-5PM PST or catch the weekly re-posts at www.soundcloud.com/umojahifi

Star Eyes: A Life in the Electronic Underground

itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/a0/3a/90/umojahifi/3000x3000-2208x2208+248+1168_14759204.jpg] Welcome to the Umoja Hi-Fi podcast. Umoja Hi-Fi is a seven person DJ collective formed in Los Angeles in 1992 and we are active to this very day! Subscribers to this podcast may be used to the various DJ mixes we’ve been dropping on this channel, and those are going to continue, but today we’ve got something special - we'll talk to DJ Tomas's long time friend and colleague Star Eyes, a.k.a. Vivian Host, an accomplished DJ, producer, music journalist, radio host and podcaster in her own right. DJ Tomas met Vivian in LA in the early '90s around the same time that Umoja Hi-Fi formed. Tomas booked Star Eyes for one of her first gigs at, an after-hours event at Nova Express cafe, he wrote and edited with her at URB and XLR8R magazines, and watched her career flourish at Red Music Music in New York. Speaking of Red Bull, Vivian's New York party crew Trouble & Bass won the 2013 Red Bull Culture Clash event -- a true underdog upset, besting Max Glazer's Federation Sound, Que Bajo and hip-hop producer Just Blaze. Since then, she's only continued to rise. Dubbed "Brooklyn's Queen of Heavy Bass," hear how Vivian discovered reggae sound system culture, became a pioneering US drum & bass DJ, and forged a successful music journalism career along the way.