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Omega Radio for July 20, 2026; #446.

Converge: “Hum Of Hurt”

REZN: “Cloudfall”

Russian Circles: “Empath”

Mastodon: “Your Ghost Again”

Hot Load: “Blood Damage” + “Petroleum Express”

Die Spitz: “American Porn”

Siyahkal: “The Decide For Us”

No Man: “Poison Darts”

Deule: “Du Sucre Dans Le Beton”

The Body: “The Crying Out Of Things”

Inferno: “With Raving Mouths They Utter Things Mirthless…”

Omega Radio for July 6, 2026; #444.

Parts & Labor: “Haunted Limbs”

Broker: “How’s It Going”

Clamm: “The Licensing”

Wipes: “Stone Eater”

Young Widows: “The Darkest Side”

Gilla Band: “Giraffe”

Bitter Branches: “Along Came A Bastard”

AAA Gripper: “The Arcade Claw King”

Art Star: “Rodeo Boots”

Lower Slaughter: “Hindsight”

Knub: “Bogus Remedy”

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: “Reducer”

Gre/ay: “Culturally Insensitive Ritual Suicide”

Pound: “x-.+.+.x-.+.x-.x-.+”

Piss: “How Can You Act Opposite To This Emotion?”

Allesandro; 2010.

During Record Store Day 2010, I ran into my industrialist friend Maniak at Looney Tunes in West Babylon. He was a plus-one who I initially met at the Stony Brook Press’ annual Beerfest and became immediate friends when we learned that we went to see Ministry at alternating dates. We had an hour to catch up in-store during our purchases and drove to High Fidelity in Amityville which was close because it didn’t take part in our holy holiday. Maniak then gave me directions to his friend Jae’s house, whom I thought couldv’e been any average faceless “Jay”. We arrive at his house and it was Jae from Failure 2 Comply who I went to Stony Brook with and haven’t seen in several years. Fellow industrialist Maniak was curious as to what Jae was working on so he showed us his electronics rig and demos. 

Our night wasn’t finished. We all were bored and decided to go to his neighborhood bar where they had a local hardcore showcase. That’s when I first met my co-worker Allessandro. We ran into each other by accident and he stopped dead in his tracks. He said I looked very familiar to him. I told him we both worked at our location for several months and another in a long line of re-connections was made. Allessandro and I stood before the stage enjoying the local hardcore bands while Jae was serving behind the bar and Maniak was being busy swatting (or threatening with his cold stares) the windmill-kick enthusiasts that were flailing themselves. The shows were over and both Allessandro and I would say our hearty goodbyes, guaranteeing we’d see other at work. I drove both Jae and Maniak back to their houses and called it a great eventful Record Store Day.

At the end of the year, Allessandro shared the wealth and offered me his favorite finds at the time. He was one of the only hardcore kids I known from six years working at our location, leaving before our other co-workers Rick and Jesus who formed the original Champ. Allessandro gave me a small blue shell worth of about 100 songs consisting of plenty of e.p.’s, full albums, and random finds along the way. He gave me the music in Winter 2011 but had the time to really enjoy it a few months later. Some made the partial soundtrack to what became a very involved Camaro summer involving friends, allies, family, randoms, and many extras. 

Allessandro was unceremoniously fired one Christmas Eve with no thanks to our scumbag jack-mafioso store ‘manager’ for not having a ride to work. He really did great for himself since disassociating from ever being there. He focused on going to more shows, took up graphic design and illustration to become an ambassador in the Long Island hardcore / grind scene. Go, Allessandro, go.

This is only 20% of what he gave me. It’s extremely brutal. Most of what’s here is very concentrated in sound, so it’s way more heavier, meaner, and dense in terms of physical sound than a good substantial number of bands before them. New York City hardcore, demos, and face-punching music in general. By the way, Maria Ruiz of Orange Is The New Black was a member of Everyone Gets Hurt. I didn’t say shit.

World Of Pain “Buried In Sin”

Billy Club Sandwich “Bodega”

7 Angels 7 Plagues “Away With Words”

Acirema “The Devil’s Work”

Taste The Steel “Racial Beaurocracy”

Brooksite “Focus”

Ruckus “True Testament”

Cold As Life “Police”

Everybody Gets Hurt “Scumbag”

Fang “Burn It Down”

100 Demons “Destiny Never Came”

Back Of Tha Neck “Worthless”

Locked In A Vacancy “Woke Up Swallowing Blood”

Billy Club Sandwich “Narco Cabron”

Without Remorse “28g Later”

Brooksite “Destiny”

100 Demons “Never Surrender Virtue”

Mushmouth “Here To Stay”

Out To Win “In A Perfect World”

Blood Has Been Shed “The House Of Fists”

Strife “Stand As One (Redemption)”

36 Deadly Fists “Everything Burns”

Billy Club Sandwich “Veteran’s Day”

World Of Pain “Drowning”

Sampling Genesis.

Living in Brentwood meant you were in a hip-hop demographic. At least half of the less-than-18′s we knew were exposed to the golden-era of it. We had 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G., The Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep…you name it, we had it. There was never a day we didn’t listen to it on our Walkmans roaming down the street, made tapes off the radio, hear it blasting on backyard basketball courts and out of cars, or you and four of your friends pumping Nas’ Illmatic while playing Mortal Kombat in your room late at night.

I have plenty of dubs going back to the early Nineties when WBLS was hip-hop, and many other from Kiss FM and Hot 97. Cassettes were the only thing we had to record on. Maxells and TDKs were our leading go-to brands, sometimes Recoton and Sony, even having to buy the low-quality drugstore brands if we had nothing else. Tapes were iconic in hip-hop and always used in boomboxes, breakdancing, and for homemade mixtapes before sidewalk CDr’s and downloads were the norm of the new millennium. Let’s not forget those stickers, too, where we tagged our shells with markers for that real-deal hip-hop look. I have plenty of these Nineties moments as they happened, now sitting on the shelf waiting to be digitized. You can certainly put your money down that hip-hop made me and my formative years.

Before the turn of the millennium, I came across hip-hop not played on commerical radio on my FM dial. It was that moment that I re-discovered WUSB, the station I select for. Ghetto Radio played Jay-Z’s “Feelin’ It” and some other unknowns that had me see more than what those other stations were peddling us. For a late-night slot, they were throwing up a lot of fuck- and shit-bombs on the air. And that was from the dee-jays themselves. Luckily, no one got fined. Of all the hip-hop shows we had, Ghetto Radio was the grimiest. The others were Eminent Audio, Street FM, and The Basement; full of graffiti heads, backpackers, and those who preached the real hip-hop and its culture. I was sold on all four of them.

The next summer, Asmar of The Basement played Lonnie Liston Smith’s “Expansions” and it forever changed where I was heading. I felt something from “Expansions” that I haven’t felt in a long time. It was a time long gone with no going back, survived only by the discourse of other music, sitcoms, game shows, board games, video games, and other things I experienced when I was living as Brooklyn kid. That very cut made me a jazz / fusion fan, and Smith would be the first on my list of favorite artists from that genre. Asmar then flipped “Aspirations” and “Colors Of The Rainbow” and hit me like unlike anything else. All three of Smith’s tracks aren’t known to be heavily sampled but they’re part of a genre that is inseperable from hip-hop as it samples from it.

That same summer, Eminent Audio and Ghetto Radio held sample sets which I recorded off the radio as it happened. It was their own sample appreciation night. They flipped one record after another, playing anywhere from 10 seconds to a minute of each original. Those sessions became a part of me. My enthusiasm for jazz, fusion, R&B, and soul started to grow, and “Expansions” to me would be forever credited for my fascination with samples and crate-digging. The samples they used ranged from the mid-Sixties to everything Seventies. Jazz, fusion, blue, funk, soul, vocal, R&B, theatrical, and more. Nothing but vinyl. They way hip-hop and original sampling was meant to be. Complete with static and pops but no skips. You know how authentic those sounds were because, back then, vinly records was the only thing your folks’ generation had. It’s not ephemera, it’s document of an era. The soul, the experience, the events and feelings were all written on wax as it happened. There’s nothing like traveling back in time just by hearing some of these classics.

As time went on, the discourse traveled further. My affinity for jazz, fusion, and everything Seventies bolstered because of these sampled sets I archived. Because of The Breaks, Youtube, and now WhoSampled, I now have a sizeable vinyl collection of originals and still going. Just by visiting those sites, a whole new world opened up and continues so. It’s very interesting the twists and turns an original sample leads on its own by comparing itself to the final newer product. New favorite artists and producers were introduced. Madlib, J Dilla, Buckwild, DJ Premier, MF Doom. Even on that very rare occasion, sampling had identified some impossibly elusive holes that for years I couldn’t identify. Now, some of our bonus Omega WUSB broadcasts feature our own sample and crate-digging sets, as a payback to the very station and our dee-jays that got me into sampling archaeology in the first place.

Now, here it is. From my personal collection. Found below is the tracklisting to this very sampling mixtape, made from other tapes in my collection. How ironic. That’s how hip-hop started. You’ll hear our dee-jays shout them out on air, and even some legends shouting us out. See if you can find them. As with mixtapes, there’s some unlisted artists and track names. That’s because our dee-jay’s never i.d.’ed them, adding to the elusiveness and nature of crate-digging, finding sampling gold, and possessive spinners who don’t want others biting their style. Now you know what we go through. Don’t let these blanks keep you from discovering something new. I know I did. Enjoy.

WUSB hip-hop sampling sets, 2000-2001:

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Olympic Runners “Don’t Let Up”

O.V. Wright “Let’s Straighten It Out”

Blue Magic “Born On Halloween”

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Roy Ayers Ubiquity “Ain’t Got Time”

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Ahmad Jamal “I Say A Little Prayer”

Weather Report “Young And Fine”

Slum Village “Climax (Girl Shit)”

Steve Miller Band “Fly Like An Eagle”

Soft Machine “Carol Ann”

Group Home “Supa Star”  

Isaac Hayes “Hung Up on My Baby”  

Willie Mitchell “Groovin’”

Isaac Hayes “Buns O'Plenty”

O'Jays, The “For The Love Of Money”

Staple Singers, The “Let’s Do It Again”

Lonnie Liston Smith “Expansions”  

Marvin Gaye “After The Dance” (INS)

Grover Washington Jr. “Knucklehead”  

Isaac Hayes “A Few More Kisses to Go”

Mtume “Juicy”

Brick “Fun”

Ray, Goodman, & Brown “Another Day”

Andrea McArdle “It’s The Hard Knock Life”

Kool & The Gang “Summer Madness”

New Birth, The “You Are What I’m All About”  

Steely Dan “Black Cow”

Maynard Ferguson “Mister Mellow”

Zapp & Roger “More Bounce To The Ounce”

Jerry Butler “I’m Your Mechanical Man”

Seals & Croft “Sweet Green Fields”

Minnie Riperton “Baby This Love I Have”

Weather Report “Young And Fine”

Billy Joel “Stiletto”  

Jack Wild, Shani Wallis, Sheila White, Kathe Green & Ron Moody “I’d Do Anything”

Betty Wright “You’re Just What I Need”

Norman Connors “The Creator Has A Master Plan”

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Hamilton Bohannon “Singing a Song for My Mother”  

Cissy Houston “Nothing Can Stop Me”

Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson “Vidgolia”

Grover Washington, Jr. “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)”

Grand Puba “Don’t Waste My Time”

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Gang Starr “The Planet”

Steve Davis “It’s All Because She’s Gone”

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Galt MacDermot’s First Natural Hair Band “Ripped Open By Metal Explosions”

Nas “It Ain’t Hard to Tell”

Michael Jackson “Human Nature”

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Les McCann “Vallarta”

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Randy Crawford “Street Life”  

Earth, Wind & Fire “Brazilian Rhyme (Beijo Interlude)”

Dilated Peoples “Work The Angles” RMX

Mahavishnu Orchestra “Resolution”

Maynard Ferguson “Mister Mellow”  

Richard “Groove” Holmes “Onsaya Joy”  

Bob James “Carribean Nights”

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Leon Haywood “I Want’a Do Something Freaky to You”

Mikey Dread “Saturday Night Style”

Rick James “Mary Jane”  

Keni Burke “Rising to the Top”

Mary Jane Girls “All Night Long”

Gap Band “Outstanding”  

Incredible Bongo Band, The “Apache”

Whole Darn Family, The “Seven Minutes Of Funk”

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Beginning of the End, The “When She Made Me Promise”

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David Axelrod “The Warnings Pt. II”

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Busta Rhymes “Show Me What You Got”

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Slum Village “Players”

Singers Unlimited, The “Clair”  

Jean-Jacques Perrey “E.V.A.”

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Parliament “Do That Stuff”

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Zulema “American Fruit, African Roots”

Guru & Bilal “Certified”

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Foster Sylvers “Misdemeanor”

Omega Radio for July 18, 2026; #445.

Rabit: "Meet The Devil"

Antwon: "1 Million Limos" (ft. Cities Aviv)

King Vision Ultra: "Below"

Ommed Norouzi: "Fountain For Memory"

Soren Roi: "Camm"

Video Blue: "Iron Crucifix"

Peacetime Death: "Barytt" + "Cyrxce"

Somali Extract: "Tribal Debt" + "Locked"

Nick Klein: "Guy Combo"

Blue Krishna: "Scorpio Rising"

Lower Tar: "Lacquer And Dust"

Deep Pill: "Hard Extrct"

Cienfuegos: "Contros Occultos"

Foreplay: Vicarious

Appetite: "Anxiety" (Dust)

Jock Club: "Morphose"

Granite Mask: "7th / Black Market"

Lust For Youth: "Perfect View"

Boy Harsher: "Country Boy"

Andrew Flores: "Sesto San Giovanni A1"

Kali Malone: "Fifth Worship"

Horoscope: "Common Ground"

Varg2: "Suede And Velvet Combination"

Helm: "Dakhma"

Sorrowing Christ: "Dissolve"

Puce Mary: "Obedient Grounds"

Ligature: "Finally Letting Them In"

Dealing: "'83 A2"

Sublimation: "Brain Ded"

Shredded Nerve: "First, Second, And Third Exposure"

Marshstepper: The Transgression Continues (excerpt)

Boys Of Paradise: Death Is An Imposition... (excerpt)

JS Aurelius: Hallucinognosis Loops (excerpt)

Maurizio Bianchi: "Menstrual Bleeding"(excerpt)

Otro Mundo: "Midnight Oil Burner"

Tempe SS: "Heroin Heaven" + "I'll Kill You Pt. 1 & 3"

Destruction Unit: "Do Drugs"

Ukiah Drag, The: "Nina Came Knockin'"

Avon Ladies: "2 For $15"

Acid Dawgz: "Play The Oboe And Bagpipes Merrily! etc."

Pigeon Religion: "Warm Insides"

Psychic Blood: "Burning Wave"