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Happy Friday "Drivers"! Lots of goodies in store for you all in this week’s episode! Digging into the much neglected drives for today’s episode with a heavier than usual emphasis on the Heavenly Sweetness label who are celebrating their 15th Birthday with the release of three fantastic retrospective compilations encompassing some of the amazing releases showcasing their Jazz, Tropical & Electronic catalogue. All that alongside new releases from AO8 formerly known as Africaine 808, Lagos Thugs, samplings from MELO-T & Rise Ashen’s "Music Is A Journey" and Fred Everything s latest to name a few! Also wanted to again thank the 69 "Drivers" who contributed to this year s CKCU funding drive helping achieve, what I believe is a Friday Drive funding drive record of $4865.69 of my $5000 goal! A few additions to the donor list that came in after last week s show: -Pedro Diaz (The Groove Bunker) For cheap records by appointment you can email thegroo
Heavy Friends entered society in June 2012 with Lady Mary joined by Heavy Friend Bijon. In August 2013, B-Roy (aka. Oddball ) brought me in as a heavy friend. 10 years later, it s still fun to pack a bag of records and make my way to the CKCU studio. First off, thanks to you - "the listeners" - who appreciated, endured, commented, donated, and inspired us to get on the radio every Saturday night. Thanks to Bijon and Chris I for encouraging me to get on the air and for the production training, to CKCU staff for their support across Heavy Friends and the other shows I contribute(d) to, fellow Heavy Friends / hosts current (Jas Nasty, Lina), and past (Pink Veil, Mike, Regis, Memetic, Bill, Diane), frequent heavy friends (DJ Phooknüticus, Napalm Dan, Glory Hull, Tarek, Steve, Mel & Rob, DJ Spy ). and of course to Mary for getting this thing started! Pictured: a red 10" record that was mailed to my grandfather s office in 1950. Postage was $0.14 from New York City to
Happy Friday Drivers! Welcome to this week’s offering and kickoff of “Friday Drive” payback for the 2023 broadcast season! I have to first of all thank all my donors and all the donors who contributed to this year’s funding drive campaign TOTAL: $2654.19 | 33 donors? Sitting at $97,000 of our goal of $190,000! Back here this week with regular programming and start paying you all back for your support with another year of Friday Drive! Although the drive is officially over we are still accepting donations so don’t worry you can still support Hit that website “www.ckcufm.com” or hit up the “Friday Drive” interactive page where I’ve included the link to donate directly to this program! Today’s show will be kind of a grab and go as well as a bit of a warm up for this weekend’s shenanigans! I’ll get into more detail at the top of the clock in hour two. Pulled some nice new and old music to groove to and I’m hoping to create a bit of a festive atmosphere to cele