The Return of the Challenge Thread - February 2020

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Greetings everyone! I will be your Dungeon Master for The February Challenge. I wanna first off Thank @LeeVing for putting together the December challenge. I used his challenge thread as a template. I hope I can live up to his example.

The "rules"
  • This isn't a contest or competition. You can't win and won't be eliminated.
  • Interpret each topic in your own way
  • Try to play something that hasn't been played for that day.
  • Catch up if you miss some days.
  • Don't be shy about telling stories about your selection, and yet don't feel you have to elaborate on anything you post
  • Have fun!
...And Away We Go!

Day 1 - Black History Month
Spin a record from you one of your favorite Black artists or groups

Day 2 - Happy Groundhogs Day!
Don’t drive angry. Spin a record that you could happily listen to on repeat, over and over and over...

Day 3 - What’s That Smell?
Spin something Funky

Day 4 - It’s Icy out
Spin your coldest IDM/Electronic/Ambient record

Day 5 - The OG
Spin a 1st/original pressing

Day 6 - RIP King Tubby
Burn a fatty Dub, Reggae. or Rocksteady record

Day 7 - Goin’ Solo
Spin an album from artist that split from their band and released a killer Solo record

Day 8 - That Should Do It...
Spin a record that you’d play LOUD to piss off the neighbors

Day 9 - This Ones A Grower
Spin a record that didn’t didn’t click initially but now love

Day 10 - Don’t Shoot The Piano Player
Spin a record that features phenomenal ivory tickling

Day 11 - Meet Me In The Bathroom
Spin some early 2000s indie rock

Day 12 - Very Instrumental
Spin an album without vocals

Day 13 - That’s A Nice Backside
Play an album with a great back cover

Day 14 - ❤Happy Valentines Day❤
Spin a Record for lovers

Day 15 - Love Stinks!
Spin an heart-breaking/break up record

Day 16 - Chin Up!
Spin a record that makes you feel like A FUCKING CHAMP!

Day 17 - Very Presidential
Spin a record that would make your country proud

Day 18 - Spill The Wine
In honor of National Wine Day pop a cork and spin an album that you enjoy while imbibing

Day 19 - It’s A Small World After All
Spin something that would fall under the vague “World” section at your local record store

Day 20 - Outta This World
Spin an album that sounds like outer space feels

Day 21 - Girls Run The World
Spin a record from a talented female performer

Day 22 - A New York State of Mind
Play your favorite NYC Rap/Hip-Hop record (if you can’t do Hip-Hop any NYC based artist or band will do)

Day 23 - Get Back To The Country
Spin a Country/Roots/Americana record

Day 24 - What’s On The Inside That Counts
Spin a record that includes a fun insert, booklet, poster, etc...

Day 25 - It’s Mardi Gras! Let’s Party!
Spin a record with ties to The Big Easy (New Orleans) or party music

Day 26 - I’ve Got The Blues
Spin either a Blues record or a Blue (colored wax) record

Day 27 - You’ve got Soul
Let’s spin an amazing Soul or R&B record

Day 28 - That Was Fast
Spin a 7” or 45 RPM (heck, if you have a 78 and wanna go that route that’ll works too)

Day 29 - Bonus!
Since it’s leap year and we get a bonus day, spin an album that includes bonus material
 
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I'm gonna try not to fall off the wagon this go 'round.

Day 1 - Black History Month
Spin a record from you one of your favorite Black artists or groups

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced

So many influential black artists out there but I can't think of one who made a bigger impact in a shorter window of time. Essentially, there is electric guitar BJ (before Jimi) and electric guitar AJ (after Jimi) and they are two very different beasts. Exhibit A -



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Day 1: Black History Month

First rap group to be inducted to the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame in 2007.

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five ‎– Greatest Messages
Sugar Hill Records ‎– SH-9121, 1984

Cut by Phil Austin at Trutone Mastering Labs
Pressed at MCA, Pinckneyville

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Day 1 - Black History Month

I’m going add a personal layer to this challenge to see if I can play a black artist for every category as well.

Starting off with something a little different from my favorite artist.

Alice Coltrane - The Ecstatic Music of Turiyasangitananda

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Day 1 - Black History

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - Kou Nawo/Houe Towe Houn

I'm in with @D Jilla and am going to try to play only black artists. Starting with unquestionably my favourite. Also going to try to combine this artfully with playing through my collection and fresh grabs where possible. So this is something I bought just before Xmas but haven't played yet. I already have the single but this copy came up cheaply and it's v rare to find covers for the 45s so I snapped it up. I can never quite believe how productive Poly-Rythmo were - I have about 110 singles and 50 albums and while some are better than others I've yet to be disappointed by a single one. This is an early single as it still refers to Dahomey (which became Benin in 1975)

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Day 1: Black History Month

Josh White - Josh At Midnight

From Wiki:

"He was the first black singer to give a White House command performance (1941), to perform in previously segregated hotels (1942), to get a million-selling record ("One Meatball", 1944), and the first to make a solo concert tour of America (1945).[26] He was also the first folk and blues artist to perform in a nightclub, the first to tour internationally, and (along with Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie) the first to be honored with a US postage stamp.[1][27]

White and Libby Holman became the first mixed-race male and female artists to perform together, record together and tour together in previously segregated venues across the United States. They continued performing off and on for the next six years, while making an album and a film together.[4][5]"

He was later blacklisted during the Red Scare largely due to being an anti-segregationist and advocate for international human rights.

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