BBC 1Xtra Playlist, Issue Date: 22nd August 2008

A plethora of excellent stuff here but today I'm going for the jocking.

SOMETIMES I WAKE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING

TO PLAY MY CON-CON-CONGO

Wiley Feat Kenna

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Donaeo.

Crazy Cousins feat Calista - Bongo Jam

lots of crossover w/ the us r&b/rap top 50 poll that we did. i would vote for jeezy again but since its the remix that def isn't happening. would vote for a milli but that would be boring so i voted for jazmine

I've been a bit zingy about Sarah Love on ILX before, but she's really growing on me as the "here's a shitload of hip-hop" DJ on 1Xtra. Still not as good as MistaJam used to be on M1X, or Rodney P and Skitz's "Original Fever", but still a fuck sight better than Semtex's one-armed ass.

Woah best poll ever.

http://www.thequietus.com/articles/is-the-bbc-the-enemy-of-hip-hop/

^^^arguably the worst article ever written by a British music journalist

In 2002-3 I tried my hand as a promoter and actually wanted to bring hip-hop music to the indie kids in an indie world with an indie atmosphere," says Tego. "We had a venue ready to go in the West End, we had acts on standby, we had branding, we had concepts, we actually had partnership from the main hip-hop magazine in Britain and one of the key indie websites at the time, but at the last minute the gig was pulled because a government letter went out to local councils who forwarded them on to local venue managers telling them not to promote any hip-hop nights that summer.

woah wtf, was this because of So Solid thing?

That article is amazingly bad.

The writer seems to work on the assumption that Dizzee and Bizzle are the only black music that deserves to be played in UK. As long as those two get played on Radio 1 everything else can go to hell.

i think this thread deserves better than to devolve into nitpicking over online journalism, and i pity anyone who has a comment about that rather than any of the songs

(am going to listen to a few that i've not heard before doing that myself, but am pretty sure 'fallin again' will get my vote.)

(jay-z remix of 'put on' ugh! haven't heard it yet but can't imagine it'll trump kanye's verse. plus i don't know why even bother playing one over the other: just got a v disheartening email from jeezy's UK PR informing me that there are no plans to release the recession on this godforsaken, miserable island :( )

I want to hear all of these before I vote. I trust 1xtra.

Nice to see N-Dubz are still going. Black Eyed Peas - sex + "a very special school assembly"

According to HMV The Recession is due out here on 8 Sept but it's easy enough to pick up on import (without paying HMV import prices) if you know where to go.

why does everyone like 'Bongo Jam'?

It's catchy and you can sing it whilst walking around work.

'bongo jam' is the kind of song which is perfect both for dancing to after an all night rooftop party as the sun rises, and for giving you some ~positive vibes~ as you stroll to work. SOMETIMES I WAKE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING TO PLAY MY CON-CON-CONGO

i like 'do you mind' better though!

agh, have just listened to that kano song. wtf has happened to his flow! is entirely possible that kano, dizz and wiley have the 3 worst tracks on this playlist :/

omg jay-z is tedious on the 'put on' remix. but nelly only adds to the already-awesome 'kiss kiss :D

hadn't heard the busy signal or patrice roberts tracks before: they are both really great

youtubing thru the whole list now - quite like the common and jazmine sullivan. hoping i can find something on here i like more than 'rolex sweep'...

OK Nas might win. love the loop.

special bonus vote for Rick Ross's beard

My vote's for Officer Ross as well.

omg this roll deep track, OBV what electrogrime needed was a frisson of freestyle.

thumbs up for the shola ama too.

That's the Big Brother Celebrity Hijack "Bongo Jam", I presume? Ah yes, "feat Calista"... she was the one...

Kid Cudi - Day & night (Crookers Remix) either brilliant or terrible can't decide

"Green Light" kind of wipes out everything John Legend's ever done previously. Really enjoying its Kraftwerkian contours.

Saw the Mavado album in Dub Vendor on Monday. Is it worth investing in?

23 Deluxe the only bassline tune here i notice

Nas, Wookie, Wiley and Skepta are my favourites. PCDs remix and Teezy also worth my time. Lots of 'good but not great/not feeling it enough' for me inc. 'Comfortable' and the soca tunes (Machel Montano, Patrice Roberts), Flo-Rida, Lloyd and a few more.

ok my top 20!

1. wookie ft. ny - fallin' again
2. perempay & dee ft. katie pearl - in the air
3. lil' wayne - a milli
4. jazmine sullivan - need u bad
5. paleface ft. kyla - do you mind (crazy cousins remix)
6. lloyd ft. lil' wayne - girls all around the world
7. crazy cousins ft. calista - bongo jam
8. jennifer hudson - spotlight
9. machel montano ft. pitbull & lil' jon - defense (the anthem)
10. ne-yo - closer
11. chris brown ft. t-pain & nelly - kiss kiss (remix)
12. busy signal - unknown number (private caller)
13. mariah carey ft. t.i. - i'll be lovin' u long time (remix)
14. shola ama - love lost
15. roll deep ft. janee - do me wrong
16. mavado - so special
17. flo rida ft. will.i.am - in the ayer
18. tinie tempah ft. cleo sol - tears
19. elephant man - nuh linga
20. pussycat dolls - when i grow up
21. donaeo - african warrior/devil in a blue dress
22. rick ross ft. nelly & avery storm - here i am
23. ll cool j ft. the-dream - baby
24. estelle ft. cee-lo - pretty please
25. blaxx - breathless

pretty much all but like 5 are really good though, kudos 1xtra, no kudos to the bbc for ghettoising this awesome shit

BOTTOM FIVE = jay-z, common & pharrell, kano, wiley, dizzee. SHAAAME on them.

nb i have not heard, and really want to hear, the sadie ama crazy cousins remix.

common & pharrell good i thought (if only for the synth loop). we really do hear this music in completely different ways.

bottom 5 for me: Alicia, LL, Chase & Status, Keyshia, Kano

I really want to hear 'In The Air' out. Are there any bad records with Katie Pearl on them?

"Kiss Kiss" is getting played in the UK now? and it's a remix with Nelly? weird.

Righto, links for everything except Blak Twang, if anyone can help with that?

Alicia Keys - Superwoman
Busy Signal - Unknown Number
Chris Brown Feat T- Pain & Nelly - Kiss Kiss (Remix)
Common ft. Pharrell - Universal Music Control
Crazy Cousins ft. Calista - Bongo Jam
Dizzee Rascal Feat Calvin Harris & Chrome - Dance With Me
Donaeo - African Warrior/Devil In A Blue Dress
Jay-Z - Dope Boy Fresh (Jocking Jay -Z)
Jazmine Sullivan - Need U Bad
Lil Wayne - A Milli
Lil Wayne Feat Babyface - Comfortable
Mariah Carey Feat T.I - I'll Be Loving You Long Time (Remix)
Mavado - Overcome
Mavado - So Special
Nas Feat Keri Hilson - Hero
Neyo - Closer
Neyo - Miss Independent
Paleface - Do You Mind (Crazi Cousins Remix)
Ray-J Feat Yung Berg - Sexy Can I
Rick Ross Feat Nelly & Avery Storm - Here I Am
Skepta - Rolex Sweep
Sway Feat Lemar - Saturday Hustle
Taio Cruz Feat Busta Rhymes & Sugababes - She's Like A Star
Tinie Tempah Feat Cleo Sol - Tears
Wiley Feat Kenna - In The Summertime
Wookie Feat Ny - Falling Again
Blaxx - Breathless
Machel Montano Feat Shaggy - Winin Season (Remix)
Patrice Roberts - Wukking Up
Machel Montano Feat Pitbull & Lil Jon - Defense (The Anthem)
23 Deluxe Feat Daniel Joe - Show Me Happiness
Chase & Status Feat Plan B - Pieces
DJ Perempay & Dee Feat Katie Pearl - In The Air
Elephant Man - Nuh Linga
Estelle Feat Cee-Lo - Pretty Please
Flo-Rida Feat Will.I.Am - In The Ayer
J Majik & Wickaman - Crazy World (Ez Rollers Mix)
Jennifer Hudson - Spotlight
John Legend feat Andre 3000 - Green Light
Kano - Hustler
Keyshia Cole Feat Mario - Heaven Sent (Remix)
Kid Cudi - Day & night (Crookers Remix)
LL Cool J Feat The Dream - I'm Your Baby
Lloyd Feat Lil Wayne - Girls Around The World
Pussycat Dolls Feat Diddy, Lil Wayne & Fatman Scoop - When I Grow Up (Darkchild Remix)
Rihanna - Disturbia
Roll Deep - Do Me Wrong
Shola Ama - Love Lost
Taxman - Original Ninja
Young Jeezy Feat Jay-Z - Put On (Remix)
Plies Feat Neyo - Bust It Baby Part 2
Shifty Spirit - Renaissance
Natalia - Perfect Day
N-Dubz - Ouch
Sadie Ama V DMP - Those Were The Days (Crazy Cousins Remix) (this, marvellously, is only 30 seconds - the original is here)
Teezy - Take Your Shoes Off

That's my evening sorted then.

(One thing that doesn't seem to be mentioned in the 1Xtra = ghettoisation argument is the interests of the presumably sizeable 1Xtra audience with no interest in sitting through The Hoosiers and Alphabeat while waiting for a song they want to hear).

I seriously have a crush on John Legend.

i want to bump 'nuh linga' quite a lot more up my list, been jamming it solidly since yesterday. plus i have belatedly realised it's the dance usain bolt did after the 100m!!! totes awesome.

(One thing that doesn't seem to be mentioned in the 1Xtra = ghettoisation argument is the interests of the presumably sizeable 1Xtra audience with no interest in sitting through The Hoosiers and Alphabeat while waiting for a song they want to hear).

there is an easy solution to that - don't play the fucking hoosiers or alphabeat at all. no one with ears has any interest in sitting through them.

Hoosiers and Alphabeat are Radio 2 material really.

i keep meaning to post to this thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqaGhDo_bCA&feature=related

Bongo Jam (alt)

'Boyfriend' is better than most of the stuff on here. I'm white supremacist btw.

Useful Google-friendly info there.

I'm voting for Lloyd, if only for his excellent rapport with Tim Westwood - so SO much great stuff here though!

Damn, yeah, the Westwood/Lloyd show last Saturday was total classic radio and one for the time capsule - BLACK PUDDING! CASH MY CHEQUE!

Why are the racists at Radio 1 not playing Elephant Man's excellent version of "No Air" called "No Queer"?

it's a lovely ditty about how he's just recovered from a fit of nausea so yeah can't see the harm

i will admit to being a sucker for "heatwave"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rVabciuuJ0

keep up grandad ;)

if the yank contingent thought heatwave was goofily disjointed wait til they get a load of this btw

Angel Haze - New York
Azealia Banks - 1991[Polydor]
Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools (Drank)
Wiley - Heat Wave (feat. Rymez & Ms D)
Delilah - Shades Of Grey
Gappy Ranks - Wine Pon De Edge
Mariah Carey - Triumphant (Get 'Em) (feat. Rick Ross)
Nicki Minaj - I Am Your Leader (feat. Cam'ron & Rick Ross)
Nicki Minaj - Va Va Voom[Cash Money/Island]
Orange Hill Productions - Pon Time
Miguel - Adorn (feat. Wiz Khalifa)

^^i would be fine hearing any of these and actively happy in many cases, that's not a bad number. several that i need to hear like the popcaan and tulisa ones too

angel haze a-listed huh

not sure anyone's actually listened to a word she's saying if it makes any difference

>> http://www.youtube.com/v/8rVabciuuJ0&fs=1&hl=en

wiley doubles down on club pop..? i like the beats in the verse though

Are we really FOUR YEARS on from Bongo Jam/Do You Mind/In The Air already? ;_;

the tulisa track is horrendous.

aren't 1xtra sailing close to the wind in terms of fulfilling bbc trust's need for each station to provide a distinct service. that list looks quite radio 1, unless r1 is just going to revert fully to crap bands covering each other's tunes.

you have a point but in part it's because R1/the charts have moved closer to 1Xtra's output, which i'd argue is a good thing

I suppose it's because British pop culture in general has moved much closer to 1xtra than it was four years ago. On paper they look similar but the station is (just) distinctive enough when you listen to it. If we were in a peak period for indie there'd be a fair amount of overlap between the Radio 1 and 6music playlists as well.

(xpost - what Tracer said)

1xtra as breeding ground for r1 was a great move but this is just throwing the baby out with the bathwater

fucking "simulcasts", pure hack n slash costcutting masked as brand integration & streamlined unity of purpose

― r|t|c, Monday, 28 May 2012 16:48 (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i can't think 1Xtra feels too great now about being 1's "sister station"

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 May 2012 17:06 (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thing is 1xtra ought to be the sister station though, hauling it out of its ghetto and positioning the station like that was its great success of recent years - and besides, the landscape has changed and blurred enough so the two's remit has grown closer anyway. (you could even argue 1xtra has had a direct role in shaping that). but a sister should have a vibrant life of her own and not be hostage to the brother the way it looks like it'll be now.

― r|t|c, Monday, 28 May 2012 18:51 (3 months ago) Bookmark

i guess i wonder if the above justification (matt's and tracer's) would wash in the current bbc environment, r1/1xtra both seem to be the focus of a lot of negative internal attention, ime.

Wouldn't wash at all is my guess.

I'm assuming the BBC is still looking to cut even more and a less differentiated 1xtra is probably an easy target. Especially 1xtra doesn't have the air of worthiness or chattering class preservation society that ensured 6music's survival.

like i say even within this period of kinship 1xtra could be doing more to be proactive, i think there is a hesitancy or laggardness about the transition from specialist track to mainstream daytime currently and 1xtra are waiting too long for the bona fide breakout hits (by which time radio 1 have usually got to first)

r1 do a good job for themselves these days, everything seems well integrated and might be even more so once grimshaw gets breakfast

http://www.choice-fm.co.uk/music/the-playlist/

otoh here's the choice playlist which is more classically "urban" and compared to 1xtra's it does just seem predictably dowdy and shit tbh

How much of 1xtra's airtime is devoted to general playlist? I only check the specialist shows.

Especially 1xtra doesn't have the air of worthiness or chattering class preservation society that ensured 6music's survival.

painfully true.

xpost i don't love r1's music but it is a tight ship, they know their audience, their listening figures are better than ever, or were last time i checked at least.

Still find it a bit weird that people like Skrillex have no more natural home than on 1xtra, although I suppose yer Mistajams and whoever have been more active in repping that stuff than anyone.

How much of 1xtra's airtime is devoted to general playlist? I only check the specialist shows.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 12:03 (55 minutes ago) Bookmark

more or less it's daytime til 7, mistajam weird bridge zone til 10 (target on fridays which is the best show on the station now fyi), then a four hour specialist mix show

until this recent change it used to be that you had a 2 hour specialist show followed by a 4 hour mix show through the night (so for instance cameo first then dj q) but the longer shows were completely useless for the most part

the format is right, the personnel and integration through daytime imo is not

if you take the skrillex / damien marley song for the outlier it is then you pretty much are left with just mistajam playing this stuff i think

as i've said before, jam's show is a baleful thing but you have to accept it's a marvellous example of public demand being whatever you say it is

possibly no one now posting on this thread is unaware of this but i started working for R1 and 1X in april; i find myself nodding along with most of what's being said and also pleased at hearing unvarnished criticism (which happens internally as well of course but usually in grumbling us-v-them pubchat terms)

looking at that choice fm playlist, surely "overload" is by dot rotten and not d'banj? /supposed to be my day off

ah i had suspected you were an inside man, didnt know for sure tho

gizza job

adding headcount? hilarious

bah

i'm not there anymore btw, full disclosure.

that's not why i got let go, ho ho.

http://i.imgur.com/UnOGx.png

lol

(http://www.flavourmag.co.uk/steel-banglez/)

ha, thanks

fixed

do you ever check your giaour address r|t|c?

aww why would you fix that

i love that they look thugged out enough in the accompanying pic to lend it 0.1% plausiblity

yeah they look rude!!

hm maybe i should get a mod to star out my prev. post

Which 1Xtra DJ would you guess chose these as their "big records" so far in 2013?

Katy B - Light as a Feather
Bondax - Gold
Submotion Orchestra - Thinking
S. Chu - Oh My
Chris Malinchak - So Good to Me
Egypt - Stand Up
Youan - Girl
Giovanna - To Be Found (ZDot Remix)
BANKS - Fall Over
Laura Welsh - Unravel
AlunaGeorge - Attracting Flies (Baauer Remix)
Lulu James - Closer
Die & Jenna G - 1000 Soul Songs
Little Nikki - Where I'm Coming From
KCat - Greater Love
All About She - Bullet (feat. V V Brown)
Gorgon City - Intentions
Dr Meaker - Don't Think It's Love
Chasing Grace - Trust
BANKS - Warm Water
Rainy Milo - Deal Me Briefly
Sinead Harnett - Got Me
Ill Blu Fall Out - (feat. Jake Isaac)

the answer may surprise you

hmm probably tallies closest with target. jam would have heard and liked but not chosen all of those, if he likes s chu it'll be on the sly. for it to be cameo is more plausible than you'd maybe think but still you'd expect trashier. as this is probably a trick question though... i'd like it to be trev but i'm maybe getting a woman's touch. sarah jane crawford?

ur gonna say charlie sloth now arent u

sara-jane crawford!

and full marks for showing your work as well

https://twitter.com/CapitalXTRA

err am i blind or is this thread not showing up in new answers (just came here thru search to post this)

omg secret thread

how many more topics have been suppressed by the racist mod cabal

clearly we are being forced to start ILXTRA

or it's just my browser. that's weird

It's seen on mine.

http://pappzd.com/2013/10/choice-fm-blocks-unfollows-urban-musicians-on-twitter/

Back in the day.

ilxtra is still a good idea tbh

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/is-black-british-music-being-erased-no-its-just-evolving-kele-okereke-response-1xtra

got some thoughts there trace?

i think austin's right and kele's wrong, but i won't surprise anyone with that.