Buried Treasures, Biz Markie & Damon Locks

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share some music you may have missed that you need to hear. We call these songs buried treasures. Plus, they talk with Damon Locks about his Black Monument Ensemble project, bid farewell to Biz Markie and hear from some listeners.

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Featured Songs:

Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble, "Keep Your Mind Free (feat. Ben LaMar Gay)," Now, International Anthem, 2021

Polo & Pan, "Les jolies choses," Cyclorama, Hamburger, 2021

The Mysterines, "Who’s Ur Girl," Love's Not Enough (Single), Pretty Face, 2020

Swt Valli Hi, "Over It," Over It (Single), Eighteen, 2021

Jaimie Branch, "theme 001 (Live)," FLY or DIE LIVE, International Anthem, 2021

Comet Control, "Secret Life," Secret Life (Single), Tee Pee, 2021

BLK JKS, "Maiga Mali Mansa Musa," Abantu / Before Humans, We Are Busy Bodies, 2021

Trenchmouth, "Sea of Serenity," More Motion: A Collection, Thick, 2003

Angela Davis, "Interviewed By Art Seigner," Soul And Soledad, Flying Dutchman, 1971

Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, "Song For Billie Holiday," The Poetry Of Langston Hughes, Caedmon, 1969

Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble, "The Colors That You Bring," Where Future Unfolds, International Anthem, 2019

Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble, "The People vs The Rest of Us," Now, International Anthem, 2021

Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble, "Now (Forever Momentary Space)," Now, International Anthem, 2021

The Eternals , "Destroy The Body," Espiritu Zombi, New Atlantis, 2016

The Specials, "Ghost Town (Extended Version)," Ghost Town (Extended Version) (Single), Two-Tone, 1981

Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble, "Rebuild a Nation," Where Future Unfolds, International Anthem, 2019

Biz Markie, "Vapors," Goin' Off, Cold Chillin', 1988

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, "Melting," Flying Microtonal Banana, ATO, 2017

Taylor Swift, "the 1," folklore, Republic, 2020

Prick, "Tough," Prick, Nothing/Interscope, 1995

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0:00.0	Hello, Chicago! So, You're listening to sound opinions and this week we'll be talking with Damon Locks
0:31.8	about Black Monument Ensemble. We'll also bid farewell
0:35.8	to the rapper Biz Markey and hear from some of our listeners. I'm Jim Deregatus.
0:41.1	And I'm Greg Kot, but first some buried treasures, Jim. Yes, a show we love
0:46.0	Greg, whether we are hearing about these treasures from emails, from publicists, pokes in the
0:51.8	ribs from friends. How come you have them reviewed X, social media
0:55.7	chatter, you name it, we've always got our antenna up to check out sounds that aren't necessarily
1:01.4	getting hyped anywhere that we are excited to share with you.
1:05.1	So I'm going to lead us off here, Greg, and as you know, especially lately, I am a huge
1:12.3	fan of that wonderful French pop that world that is combining
1:18.0	electronic dance music and pop and disco and House and Psychodelia.
1:24.4	We've had a couple of good records so far this year along those lines
1:29.0	and I am just now catching up with a duo
1:31.6	named Polo and Pan that have been making great music since
1:35.7	2013. Three EPs, a debut album in 2017 and now a new album that just came out
1:42.4	called Cyclorama.
1:44.4	Our old friend Bobby Gale, one of the few people I actually would call a friend in the publicist
1:48.8	world, you know wrote to me and said, hey Jim, I don't know how your summer is going but what I've wanted
1:53.8	all summer is something playful carefree and just a tad risque like a day at
1:59.2	the beach in France and I'm like yeah yeah, yeah, that sounds good. Now Bobby, this music better measure up. And indeed, it does. I'm late to this group. It's led by a producer duo, Paul Armand Delil, and Alexandra Grisbon, with various collaborators,
2:20.2	including some wonderful female vocalists, and again mixing all these elements of
2:25.2	that 60s French pop world with a modern electronic consciousness. The song
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