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Previous Top 5 Submissions

Week of December 27, 2010

This week’s Top 5 features Fusicology’s Top Releases of 2010. You can listen to the recorded podcast and check out the full listing here!

• Bilal – All Mater
• Zo! – Greatest Weapon of All Time f/Sy Smith
• Jose James – Warrior
• Black Milk – Deadly Meadly f/Royce Da 5’9 & Elzhi
• Kanye West – Runaway
• Blue Six – C’mon
• Peven Everett – Inspiration
• Nas & Damian Jr. Gong Marley – Patience
• Janelle Monae – Cold War
• Erykah Badu – Window Seat

Week of December 20, 2010

This week’s Top 5 features the first half of Nu-Soul Magazine’s Top 10 Albums of 2010

• Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
• Robyn – Body Talk
• Zo! – Sunstorm
• Black Milk – Album of the Year
• Afta-1 – Form

Week of December 13, 2010

This week’s Top 5 features the SoulTracks 2010 Reader’s Choice Awards Nominees Top 5

• Avery Sunshine - Avery Sunshine
• Mama’s Gun – Route to Riches
• Yahzarah – The Ballad of Purple St. James
• Angela Johnson – It’s Personal
• Janelle Monae – The Archandroid

Week of December 6, 2010

This week’s Top 5 features cornerSTORE Radio’s Frank(E) (Long Beach, CA)

• Glasser – Apply (True Panther Sounds)
• Shad – Yaa I Get It *Oddissee Remix (Fontana North)
• Bilal – All Matter (Plug Research)
• Mark Ronson & The Business International – Somebody To Love Me (Columbia)
• Hugh Masekela – In The Jungle (Casablanca)

This week’s Top 5 features Fusicology’s Thanksgiving Top 5.

• Thank You – BeBe Winans
• Thank You (Faletinme Be Mice Elf Agin) by Sly and The Family Stone
• Gratitude – India.Arie
• Thank God It’s Friday – Love and Kisses
• Dido – Thank You

This week’s Top 5 features Fusicology’s Featured Releases Top 5.

• N.E.R.D. – Nothing
• Cee Lo Green – The Lady Killer
• Jamiroquai – Rock Dust Light Star [Import]
• The Floacist presents Floetic Soul
• Fusicology’s What Is Good Music Compilation Part 1 & 2

This week’s Top 5 features DJ Asad (Wonder-Full 5, @footlongevents | LA) Top 5.

• DJ Center “In A Song” ft Middlechild (DJ Spinna Remix) Footlong/ PushTheFader
• Crown Royale “Down With The Crown” (feat El Da Sensei) A-Side/Fat Beats
• Bloodfire V LTD “Love To The World” Bloodfire
• Jesse Boykins III “B4 The Night Is Thru” Álala Records
• MassInfluence “Morning Breath Chasers” MassInflu

This week’s Top 5 features Fusicology’s DJ Jazznosis (CHI) Top 5.

• Hemlines – Alix Perez feat. Sabre
• Soul Sista – Mutt & Bilal
• Deep Burnt – Pépé Bradock
• Black Oceans EP – Larry Heard
• Tron Legacy 2 – Daft Punk

This week’s Top 5 features Fusicology’s DJ Tabone (ATL) Top 5.

• Milk and Honey – Goapele
• Special – MaddSlinky f. Omar
• Straight 2 Ur Head – Lil Kenny & The She Bangs
• One – HotHeavy&Bad f. Joi
• Inspiration (Timmy Regisford & Adam Rios Rmx) – Peven Everett

This week’s Top 5 features Fusicology’s CMJ Music Marathon Top 5.

• 15 Years of Duck Down
• The Foreign Exchange – Authenticity
• Tanya Morgan – Brooklynati
• Eric Roberson – Music Fan First
• Truth Universal – Guerrilla Business

This week’s Top 5 features
DJ DAN C.E. (Make It Happen Entertainment) (NYC). Listen to The ISB Radio Show every Saturday and Sunday, 12pm-2pm EST on RhythmAndSoulRadio.com, for the best in Soul/R&B Music that mainstream radio ignores.

• We Goin’/Con-Funk-Shun – Phase One & Asa Buchanon
• Got Me Leanin’ (Pour Another Shot) – P.O.
• Luv U 4 Life – Tess
• Baby Be Mine – Quadron
• I Heart – Black Spade feat. Vic Spenser & Simeon from Primeridian

This week’s Top 5 features DJ Butter (DET)

• Kanye West & Pusha T- Runaway
• Cee-Lo- Fuck You
• Drunken Master & Lola Damone – My Ex Girlfriend
• Black Milk, Royce Da 5’9, Elzhi – Deadley Medley
• Cam’Ron, Jim Jones, Snoop Dogg- Yo Momma On Ya

This week’s Top 5 features The Best of Aaron Carl (DET | Wallshaker Music) [RIP]

• Crucified
• My House
• Sky
• Down
• 21 Positions

This week’s Top 5 features DJ Jedi (LA | Digable Planets)

• Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Spottie (Choice Cuts)
• High Hopes – Onra (All City)
• Return Of The DST – De La Soul
• Fuck You – Cee-lo Green
• Sound Of The Police – Cut Chemist

This week’s Top 5 features Mr. Mixwell (NYC | Old House Channel)

• Aint No Mountain High Enough – Inner Life (feat Jocelyn Brown)
• Release the Tension – Colonel Abrams
• Crying – Instank Funk
• Love Fixation – Touch
• Love Honey, Love Heartache – Man Friday

This week’s Top 5 features DJ Tabone (ATL | The Soul Chamber)

Peace! The following 5 songs have created the most buzz, received the most requests/inquiries and spins this Summer on my radio show, The Soul Chamber – Wednesdays, 2PM-4PM on 89.3 FM WRFG Atlanta, which features independent/under the radar/future music & global soul.

• Twenty Feet Tall (Yoruba Soul Mix) – Badu vs. Osunlade
• High Hopes – Onra f. Reggie B
• OuterSpace – Byron The Aquarius
• Perfect – Natalie “The Floacist” Stewart (formerly of Floetry)
• Let Me In – Anthony David

This week’s Top 5 features North Coast Festival­ Fusicology Top 5

• Nas & Damian ‘Jr. Gong’ Marley – Distant Relatives
• Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
• Jay Electronica – Exhibit A (Transformations)
• The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – What’s Going On
• Mayer Hawthorne A Strange Arrangement
• De La Soul – All Releases

This week’s Top 5 features Rock the Bells ­ Fusicology Top 5 ­ 1st Album Edition (pt 2 of 2)

• Eric B. & Rakim: Paid In Full
• KRS-One: Boogie Down Productions – Criminal Minded
• The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick
• DJ Premier – Mass Appeal: Best of Gang Starr
• Murs & 9th Wonder – Fornever

This week’s Top 5 features Rock the Bells ­ Fusicology Top 5 ­ 1st Album Edition (pt 1 of 2)

• Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
• A Tribe Called Quest – People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
• Snoop Dogg ­ Doggystyle
• Immortal Technique – Revolutionary Vol. 1
• The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

+ BONUS:

• Lauryn Hill ­ Repercussions free download

This week’s Top 5 Erick Paredes (AGAPE / Sustainable Recordings) – Miami

• Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus – “Boma Yeah” (Rastafari Rare Groove – Naya Bingi)
• Tim Maia – “Racional” Volumes 1 & 2 (Father of Brasilian Funk-Soul)
• Hugh Mundell – “Africa Must Be Free By 1983″ (Classic Reggae Roots)
• Peven Everett – “Stuck”
• Sorrado 112 – “Eu Não Quero Ter Razão”

This week’s Top 5 features DJ DAN C.E. of ISB Radio. (NYC | Make It Happen Entertainment)

Listen to the ISB Radio Show every Saturday & Sunday at 12pm EST on RhythmAndSoulRadio.com for the best in Soul and R&B Music that mainstream radio ignores with host, DJ DAN C.E.!

• Anticipation (RMX) – Guilty Pleasures
• Me And The Devil – Gil Scott-Heron
• Hope – Rahel
• I need A Dollar – Aloe Blacc
• Back With You – Gloria Ry’ann

• Kem – Intimacy
• Anthony Hamilton – The Point Of It All
• Raheem DeVaughn – The Love & War Masterpiece
• Jaheim – Another Round
• Kem – Kemistry

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features Fusicology’s July picks.

• Slum Village – Villa Manifesto
• Zo! – Sunstorm
• Zero 7 – Record
• Kelis – Fleshtone
• Truth Universal – Guerrilla Business

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features Aphrosoul’s (Refuge Music | NYC) picks from REFUGE MUSIC and the monthly deep, soulful, ancestral journey “REFUGE.”

• Ela (Yoruba Soul Mix)/Nomumbah
• Circles 2009 (Boddhi Satva’s Ancestral Soul Mix)/Mustafa feat. Natalia
• God Is Love (Boddhi Satva’s Ancestral Soul Mix)/DJ Pippi vs. Danny Marquez feat. Marcel
• African Sisters Dance (Santos Mix)/Just Felix
• Tribute/Soul Ascendants

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features The Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival Top 5.

• De La Soul – Much More
• Masta Ace – Beautiful
• Smif-N-Wessun – Bucktown
• Black Milk – Reppin For You
• Curren$y – King Kong

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features Funke from Memphis, one of Fusicology’s newest cities!

• Look At – Donn T (Original Mix)
• 20 Feet Tall – Erykah Badu (Yoruba Soul Remix) Unreleased
• Can’t Hide It – Alton Miller (Original Mix)
• Yo Voy – Novalima (Daniel Haksman Remix)
• Webaba – Culoe De Song Feat. Busi Mhlongo (Black Coffee & Culoe De Song Remix)

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features Fusicology’s Top 10 Michael Jackson songs honoring the one year anniversary of his death. Ask us to make this list again and it would probably be different. There are too many classics to choose from. Rest In Peace MJ!

• Michael Jackson – Billie Jean Motown 25 Anniversary Performance
• Michael Jackson – Can’t Help It (Tangoterje Remix)
• Say, Say, Say. – Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson
• Michael Jackson – Human Nature
• Michael Jackson – Wanna Be Starting Something
• The Jacksons – Blame It On The Boogie
• Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
• Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson – Scream
• Michael Jackson – The Way You Make Me Feel
• Michael Jackson – Butterflies
• Michael Jackson – Lady In My Life

This week’s VJ Top 5 Features Ryan Leslie’s (NextSelection Lifestyle Group, NYC) Video Top 5

• Jimi Hendrix – Star spangled banner at woodstock 1969
• Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
• Stevie Ray Vaughan – Little Wing Cover
• Jimi Hendrix – All along the watchtower
• Stevie Wonder – You and I
• Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody live aid performance

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features DJ Spinna (Soul Slam | NYC)

• Lose It In The End – Mark Ronson feat Ghostface
• Message From The Stars – Sy Smith
• Just Begun – Reflection Eternal feat Jay Electronica, J. Cole and Mos Def
• Hard To Get – Akua Allrich
• Love Come Save The Day – Yahzarah

Aphrosoul (REFUGE MUSIC)

• Bittersweet (The Jay Sinister Mixes)/Jay “Sinister” & Louie Vega feat. Julie McKnight
• Uthando (Casamena Basement Mix)/Kentphonic feat. Mimi
• Superman (Club Mix)/Black Coffee feat. Bucie
• Love Ritual/Louie Vega vs. Cerrone
• See Line Woman (Casamena Basement Mix)

Previous Top 5 Submissions

May 31, 2010

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features Fusicology’s Detroit Movement Festival Features

• Larry Heard – Genesis
• Inner City – Good Life – The Best Of Inner City
• Model 500 – Deep Space
• Derrick May – Innovator
• Kirk Degiorgio presents As One – Elegant Systems
• Mr. Scruff – Mrs. Cruff
• Phat Kat & Guilty Simpson w/ Will Sessions – Success Feat./Guilty Simpson & Phat Kat
• Recloose – Hiatus On The Horizon
• Stacey Pullen – Stacey Pullen’s 2020Vision
• Theo Parrish – First Floor

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features Fusicology’s UCLA JazzReggae Fest Features

• Nneka – Concrete Jungle
• Nas/Damian Marley – Distant Relatives
• Raphael Saadiq – The Way I See It
• Georgia Anne Muldrow & Declaime – SomeOthaShip
• Foreign Exchange – Leave It All Behind

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features Fusicology’s Ladies of Soul

• Yahzarah – Cry Over You
• Erykah Badu – Turn Me Away (Get MuNNY)
• Corrine Bailey Rae – The Blackest Lily
• Yahzarah – Shadow
• Leela James – My Soul

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features Fusicology’s Top 5 May Releases

• Yahzarah: The Ballad Of Purple Saint James (5/4)
• Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense DVD (5/11)
• Reflection Eternal: Back Again (5/18)
• Nas & Damian Marley: Distant Relatives (5/18)
• Leela James: My Soul (5/25)

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features Gang Starr. We loved Jazzmatazz series but we felt that the projects with DJ Premier that Guru was on collectively as Gang Starr needed more light until the Moment of Truth has come to be. RIP Guru, you were the voice of 90s hip hop and beyond. We couldn’t pick a Top 5 so here it is, the entire Gang Starr catalogue.

• Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr
• Mass Appeal: Best of Gang Starr
• Moment of Truth
• Hard To Earn
• Daily Operation
• No More Mr. Nice Guy
• The Ownerz
• Step in the Arena

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features Fusicology’s Earth Day Top 5

• Michael Jackson – Earth Song
• Marvin Gaye – Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
• The Style Council – Promise Land
• Stevie Wonder – Earth’s Creation
• Madlib: Earth Sounds (off of ‘The Beat Conductor EP’ – Vinyl LP
  Record)

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features Fusicology Staff Picks for Coachella 2010

• Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3
• Little Dragon: Machine Dreams
• De La Soul: Are You In?
• Gil Scott-Heron: I’m New Here
• B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features DJ DAN C.E. (The ISB Radio, NYC)

• Make Up Your Mind – Andrea Capozzoli
• Soulclap (Nicolay RMX) – United Soul feat. Yahzarah & Phonte
• Hope – Rahel
• Skin – Sade
• Games You Can Win – RJD2 feat. Kenna

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features Fusicology’s WMC Picks. (Part 2) by DJ Sonny Daze

• Superman (Club Mix) – Black Coffee feat. Bucie
• Culoe De Song Feat Thandiswa – Gwebindlala
• Osunlade – Butterfly (Kiko Navarro Koki Dub)
• Ralf GUM feat Kafele- Complicated (DJ Christos Afro Deep Mix)
• Ezel feat Tamara Wellons – In My Lifetime
• Dennis Ferrer- Hey Hey – In My Lifetime
• Eman & Boddhi Satva – Brown Sugar (Dj Smash Mix)
• Michel Cleis – La Mezcla (Charles Webster mix)
• Djinji Brown- Jil’s Joint
• Culoe De Song – The Bright Forest

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features Fusicology’s WMC Picks. (Part 1) by Nina Morena

• Superman (Club Mix) – Black Coffee feat. Bucie
• Wade In The Water (Melchyor A’s Water Mix) – Melchyor A
• Turn Me On (Original Mix)- Blackcoffee feat. Bucie
• Bittersweet Love Affair Pt 2 (Dance Ritual Mix) – Jay ‘Sinister’ Sealee & Louie Vega starring Julie McKnight
• The Tea (Reel People Rework) – Choklate

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features Fusicology’s WMC Picks. (Part 1) by Nina Morena

• Superman (Club Mix) – Black Coffee feat. Bucie
• Wade In The Water (Melchyor A’s Water Mix) – Melchyor A
• Turn Me On (Original Mix)- Blackcoffee feat. Bucie
• Bittersweet Love Affair Pt 2 (Dance Ritual Mix) – Jay ‘Sinister’ Sealee & Louie Vega starring Julie McKnight
• The Tea (Reel People Rework) – Choklate

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features Fusicology’s SXSW Picks. (Part 2)

• Reflection Eternal: Back Again
• Tanya Morgan: Brooklynati
• Brittany Bosco: City of Nowhere
• Señor Kaos: Girls Rock Too
• 88 Keys: The Death of Adam

This week’s DJ Top 5 Features Fusicology’s SXSW Picks. (Part 1)

• Chico Mann: Manifest Tone Vol. 1
• Pac Div: Pacific Division (EP)
• Smog City’s Own with Diz Gibran (EP)
• The Beatards: Big Bad Beat
• Ocote Soul Sounds: La Reja

This week’s DJ Top 5 comes from DJ Center (NYC, Push The Fader)

• Oddisee – San Francisco
• Sade – Skin
• Bob Marley – Caution
• DJ Center – Center’s Groove
• Silhouette Brown – Constant Questions

This week’s is the Fusicology’s Brazilian Top 5 Celebrating the end of Carnaval Top 5

• Bebel Gilberto: All In One
• Seu Jorge: Carolina
• Madlib – Medicine Show No. 2: Flight To Brazil
• Brasilintime – Ammoncontact (Kinda On Some Funk Edit)
• Nomumbah – Love Moves

This week’s is the Fusicology’s Black History Part II Top 5

• Manifest Destiny – Jamiroquai
• Stronger Than Pride – Sade
• The Message – Grand Master Flash
• Brothers Gonna Work it Out – Willie Hutch
• Brothers Gonna Work It Out – Public Enemy

FUSICOLOGY’s J Dilla Top 5 Picks [Full Discography]:

• J Dilla ft. Common – E=MC2 (The Shining)
• Slum Village – Reunion ft. J Dilla (Detroit Deli – A Taste of Detroit)
• The Clapper ft. Blu (Welcome to Detroit)
• Slum Village – Raise It Up (Fantastic, Vol. 2.)
• Starz – Jaylib (Champion Sound)

This week’s is the Fusicology’s Black History Top 5

• I Have a Dream: A Musical Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• You Must Learn – BDP
• Word to the Mother (Land) – Big Daddy Kane
• Funkin’ Lesson – X-Clan
• African Rhythms – J Dilla

This week Fusicology chooses the Grammy Top 5. Congrats to all the nominees!

• Daykeeper – The Foreign Exchange ft. Muhsinah
• A Tale Of Two – Eric Roberson, Ben O’Neill & Michelle Thompson
• Word to the Mother (Land) – Big Daddy Kane
• All Matter – Robert Glasper & Bilal
• Pearls – India.Arie & Dobet Gnahore

This week’s Top 5 comes from J-Logic a.k.a. J-Wonder-Full (Soundlessons, LA

• Little Dragon – Looking Glass
• Dam-Funk Candy Dancin’ f/Mark De Clive-Lowe
• Chase & Status- SAXON- Against All Odds (f/Kano)
• Theo Parrish – Space Station / Going Through Changes
• Jose James – Made For Love (prod. by Flying Lotus

This week’s Top 5 comes from Garth Trinidad

• The Foreign Exchange – Take Off The Blues
• Little Dragon – Feather
• Nneka – Walking
• Alice Smith – Love Endeavor
• Quetzal Guerrero – Waterfalls

This week’s DJ Top 5 features Monalisa (Landmyne/KPL/Sugatreats, Los Angeles)

• Maria De Barros – Morabeza
• Jimetta Rose – The Barber’s Daughter
• Shafiq – Shafiq En’ A-Free-Ka
• Souls Of Mischief – Montezuma’s Revenge
• Healamonster & Tarsier – Cupcake Cave