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[00:01:08]>> And yes, yes, you are tuned in to Morning Becomes Eclectic. I'm Novina Carmel, your friend in frequency for 89.9 KCRW. We are also live right now on YouTube, YouTube.comkrsw for the next hour. and everywhere all the way until noon. And we're going to kick things off with a moody number that uh you may recognize as being called age of Aquarius. But uh in this situation, it's called Era de G Aquario. And uh you may have heard this one though if you watch the show Plurabus. It's featured there and sung by two incredible Portuguese singers, Maro and Anamura.

[00:01:49]Check this version out.

[00:02:13]They shall fall.

[00:02:16]They shall fall.

[00:02:29]said he should be there.

[00:02:45]your moon.

[00:02:49]She go a I'm Empathy we call He should be dead planet.

[00:04:17]You are more you.

[00:04:36]You won't be so You thly this Orange you soul shall soul shing your soul.

[00:05:38]your salation.

[00:05:41]Your salvation.

[00:06:09]That's how you make me feel for real.

[00:06:11][ __ ] Let me be specific. I want to have a real thing. Real thing with you all my life.

[00:06:22]>> I found out the hard way. The hard way.

[00:06:26]Took my love with a crab cake on the side.

[00:06:30]I don't want to break your heart. I'm going to find sweetness >> in the deepest parts of you.

[00:06:41]Oh God, >> I want you forever and all you have to do is stay.

[00:06:52]>> All you got to do is if I got you, you got me.

[00:07:04]If I got you, you got me.

[00:07:15]>> Just as you are.

[00:07:20]>> as you are. and justice.

[00:07:23]>> Justice, justice, >> justice.

[00:07:25]>> I am all together and in perfect >> perfect harmony.

[00:07:35]>> I'll sing your song >> in the morning.

[00:07:39]>> in the morning. Play the melody across your skin.

[00:07:44]>> Oh, cuz I want you. I want you the right way. The right way. Yeah. Oh, all you got to do is stay with me. Cuz if I got you, you got me. You got me. Yeah.

[00:08:05]Got me. Yeah. If I have you, you know you have me, too. Oh, you got me. Yeah.

[00:08:16]As long as me, I'll be there. As long as you want me, I'll be right there. As long as I need you, you will be there.

[00:08:23]As long as I want you. As long as I need you. As long as I want you, you will be there. As long as you need me, I'll be right there. As long as you want me, I'll be right there. As long as you want me. As long as you want me, baby, you got me. You got me.

[00:08:41]Maybe it was the style of your style of your >> very soulful artist that goes by the name of Mike, but it's spelled MM YKK into Dante Elephante, who will be taking the school night train to the airliner this week, May 14th. He's performing live as a part of school night. You can go to kcrw.com/events to check out more info. This one's called Call Me on the Phone. It's Morning Becomes Eclectic on KCRW.

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[00:09:38]I'm going out tonight.

[00:09:43]I'm feeling myself.

[00:09:47]Come drink some wine.

[00:09:51]God bless my hell.

[00:10:00]Let's change but not no more.

[00:10:12]Call me on the phone cuz you know what it does. Cuz I have to be someone I know and call me on the phone cuz you know what it does. I have been so strong.

[00:10:51]Hey, what's your sign?

[00:10:55]I believe in those things.

[00:10:59]Let's go outside.

[00:11:03]I ain't going out like this.

[00:11:07]I ain't going out like this.

[00:11:11]Who the hell you think he is?

[00:11:16]Iin't going out like this.

[00:11:20]Call me on the phone cuz you know what it does. It says I have to be someone I'm not. Call me on the phone cuz you know what it does. It says I have to be so much stronger. Call me on the phone cuz you know what it does. It says I have to be someone and call me on the phone cuz you know what it does. This is I have to be so much stronger and I have to be so much stronger. I Call me on the phone.

[00:12:36]Call me on the phone.

[00:12:41]Call me on the call on the call on the phone cuz you know what it does. I have to be someone I'm not call It's taking time away at the start of something new.

[00:13:40]I'm wide awake but all my faith in your religion.

[00:13:48]It's a sure fight to lose the way.

[00:13:52]And still I saw it all day cuz it's moving and the chaos and this working on days off. There's a method to the madness I see dancing and the sadness. It's the fever. It's the medicine. I see strangers and the best of friends. I will late night again. Now it's morning and it never ends.

[00:14:20]>> No point in letting go. We navigate to the edge of it all. Yes. You know it's going to fade.

[00:14:32]And we move in the cold. It's sometimes unfamiliar.

[00:14:38]But we've been here before it seems to the four left right here. Now you're next to me. There's a moment and the chaos and this working on that days.

[00:14:52]There's a method to the madness. I see dancing and the sadness. It's the feeling. It's the medicine. I see strangers and the best of friends night again. I was falling and it never don't me Don't think Don't for Don't for the chaos.

[00:15:53]And this working on the days off.

[00:15:56]There's a benefit to the madness. I see dancing and it's the fear. It's the blessing. I see strangers and friends.

[00:16:30]One more improve.

[00:16:39]Improve dust.

[00:17:04]It's the slump inside your jaw. It's the glass under a brick. It's the tail that wags a dog.

[00:17:12]You know it's the same. Yeah, you know it's the same. Yeah, you know it's the same. Yeah, you know.

[00:17:20]Can you really watch your back while you're sitting on your knees? Be the one who wears the bags. Rather be wearing the sheets. You know it's sitting on your hands. Can you really tell the difference between a pistol and a man?

[00:17:52]You know it's the same. Yeah. You know it's the same. Yeah. You know it's the same. Yeah, you know.

[00:18:00]Can you really see the night when you're sitting on your drops when holding the pen? You know it's the same. Yeah, you know it's the same.

[00:18:11]Yeah, you know it's the same. Yeah, you know it's the same. Yeah, you know.

[00:18:44]Hey, hey, hey.

[00:19:57]What you going to do with the ens Going to get out the car.

[00:20:16]You don't see baby on fire.

[00:20:26]Going to lay my head down your soul.

[00:20:33]All right.

[00:20:39]So I get away find myself searching for a different time Now heat.

[00:21:45]I see the window.

[00:21:55]you fall Must go.

[00:22:06]Want to go build a little house.

[00:22:30]Find myself searching for a different town.

[00:22:46]I'll come down.

[00:25:04]Stepping into a brand new spring day here on Morning Becomes Eclectic. I'm Novina Carmemell here with you.

[00:25:14]This is a group called Cinema Royal.

[00:25:18]Most if not all of their music instrumental, beautiful like this. This one's called April's Velvet Dress.

[00:25:27]And I found myself fascinated by the duo we heard before. They're called Lots of Hands and they have sort of like a lowfi folky ambient sound.

[00:25:40]Somewhat shoe gaze lowfi. And then the end definitely some folk and a group from Southern California known as Integra Pink also mixing up various genres.

[00:26:01]That's their latest single Curb Stomp.

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[00:27:10]And up next, the latest single from Ju Guu Rogers with which I'm really digging and I hope you do, too.

[00:27:18]It's about falling in love with yourself.

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[00:29:14]All right.

[00:29:32]I'm falling, falling, falling in love with myself again.

[00:29:39]I hear the calling, the calling, calling.

[00:29:44]I feel it deep within. And it feels so good, good, good. It feels so right.

[00:29:55]It feels so good. Yeah. Yeah. I can't disguise tears running like you saying B falling in love. This is beautiful. What did I do before?

[00:30:15]My only inspiration is to see your free me. I put my phone cut. I want that all fixed. I want to shape. I want to mold.

[00:30:25]I want to feel that. Build that all from scratch. Nothing to match. Come on, baby. Light my fire. I vibrate higher. See, I'm falling, falling, falling.

[00:30:40]In love with myself again.

[00:30:43]I hear the calling, the calling, calling.

[00:30:48]I feel it deep within. And it feels so good. Good. Good. It feels so right.

[00:30:58]Yeah. It feels so good. Yeah. Yeah. I can't describe Heat. Heat. Heat.

[00:31:34]Yeah.

[00:32:05]I'm falling.

[00:32:08]I'm falling.

[00:32:50]Here we are still together.

[00:33:09]We are one.

[00:33:14]So much time wasted.

[00:33:20]playing games with love.

[00:33:25]So many tears, so much pain inside.

[00:33:31]But baby, it ain't over till it's over.

[00:33:37]So many years we try to keep, but baby, it ain't over till it's over.

[00:33:50]How many times did we give up?

[00:33:55]But we always work things out.

[00:34:01]And all my doubts and fears kept me wondering. Yeah. If I always always be in love.

[00:34:13]So many tears I had. So much pain inside.

[00:34:19]But baby, it ain't over till it's over.

[00:34:25]So many years we've tried and kept another cuz baby it ain't over till it's over.

[00:35:04]So many tears and crack.

[00:35:07]So much pain inside.

[00:35:10]Baby, it ain't over till it's over.

[00:35:16]So many years we've tried and kept another life.

[00:35:22]Cuz baby, it ain't over till it's over.

[00:35:28]So many tears I had, so much pain inside.

[00:35:34]Baby, it ain't over till it's over.

[00:35:40]So many years we try to keep our love alive.

[00:35:46]Cuz baby, it ain't over till it's over.

[00:35:51]over. So many tears we crack, so much pain inside.

[00:35:58]But baby, it ain't over till it's over.

[00:36:04]So many years we tried to keep a little cuz baby it ain't over till it's over.

[00:36:16]So many tears we so much pain inside baby.

[00:36:34]your warm embrace.

[00:36:37]I'm water so no one around us where no one has gone before.

[00:36:50]Walking on the moon.

[00:36:58]So sparkly stardust in your eyes in your tractor beam.

[00:37:06]Took me by surprise. I'm coming and light walking on the moon.

[00:37:22]up to the sun.

[00:37:24]We're lost in orbit.

[00:37:28]We've traveled far as love can take us where no one has gone before.

[00:37:38]Walking on the moon.

[00:37:46]No gravity.

[00:37:47]>> No gravity.

[00:37:49]>> Love is expanding.

[00:37:52]We're on an island.

[00:37:54]>> On an island.

[00:37:54]>> Time disappearing.

[00:37:57]We got all of the time in the world.

[00:38:02]Walking on the moon.

[00:38:10]I'm Barbella.

[00:38:12]You're my Aora.

[00:38:15]I'm your starship trooper.

[00:38:19]Even horizon where time is standing still.

[00:38:26]Walking on the moon.

[00:38:40]Your love is like outer space.

[00:38:52]You take me to a higher place and disappear without a trace.

[00:39:10]in the sky. I see your face surrounded by your embrace.

[00:39:28]Your love is like outer space.

[00:39:33]Heat.

[00:39:48]Heat.

[00:41:20]This is morning becomes eclectic on 89.9 KCRW. Thundercat talking about walking on the moon and then you can almost picture yourself continuing to do that with this one called Stars Without Light. It's from Blarf.

[00:41:38]Blarf is Eric Andre's project and this is from the new album Film Scores for Films That Don't Exist.

[00:41:47]I went to the live show of this and um this moment was one of my favorites from the live show.

[00:41:57]Eric Andre, actor, comedian and musician with Blarf and always a classic, Lenny Kravitz. It ain't over till it's over. I think this is one of the albums that I was turned on to by my older cousins who had all, you know, the cool tapes. Maybe it was tapes, cassette tapes at the time in their car.

[00:42:20]And Juju Rogers at the top with the new song Fallen.

[00:42:26]I'm your friend in frequency, Nova Carmel, here with you for Morning Becomes Eclectic on 89.9 KCRW. We're also live on YouTube, youtube.com/kcrw.

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[00:44:22]>> This track called Switch Up marks the first new music by any member of Beasty Boys since 2011's Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. Mike D has unveiled Switch Up.

[00:44:33]Let's check it out together on Morning Becomes Eclectic for KCRW.

[00:44:59]It's man connection switch up switch up switch up switch Where's it go?

[00:45:46]Where's it going to go? Where's it going to go?

[00:45:50]When my mind when I'm focusing getting it back and we go back to jail.

[00:46:20]on the phone. Get your get your book connection. It's not always there. Need some introspection. Then you check the connection.

[00:46:29]Then I check my connection. Switch out.

[00:46:33]Go to a different section. Do some selfrelection. Try to take a message. Somebody teach you something.

[00:46:40]Somebody teach me a lesson. I went for impression. Oh wow. Switch up.

[00:46:48]Switch up.

[00:47:05]Stand back. I always lose track. I test my stack just cuz I lack. I try to spin I win. You tried to risk me. You won't convince me and wait for summer. I get all my problems back. I need an answer now. I need ASAP. I need to switch up to control again. Time for a know.

[00:47:42]My mind getting me back.

[00:48:01]That's brand new from Mike D of Beasty Boys. And I keep getting requests for a particular song from Beasty Boy. So I felt like this was the right time, especially since Sam Sanders just walked in.

[00:48:13]This morning becomes eclectic.

[00:48:42]Well, now don't you tell me to smile.

[00:48:45]You stick around. I'll make you put your numbers beyond what you can so versatile style profile. I said it always brings me back when I hear from the 100 out to the now. I run the marathon to the very last mile. Well, if you battle on me, I feel people always my you got you got to me.

[00:49:10]If you want to go into moving from your 80s to check my goss to exile that's the party dis I like my sugar with coffee and green I got to keep it going keep it going full Sweet to be sour, too nice to be on the top style. I'm not too trying to change the world. I'm a plot scheme.

[00:49:46]>> Mario likes to keep it clean. Going to shine like that's my dream for sticking to when it comes to green. Jealous of the routine.

[00:50:00]Another dimension galaxy intergalactic planetary.

[00:50:25]from the family. You most hip hop seems relax just like a box with the music loud like an electric shot.

[00:50:34]>> I am known to do the So known for the flint block on the crop boys known to let the beat drop when I grad.

[00:50:54]If you try to knock me you'll get I'll stir fry you in my you need to stop shaking and your fingers pop like a [ __ ] in the neck miss.

[00:51:06]I can't you hey I can't you remember you Go by the name of the king and rock.

[00:52:01]You see it in my face. I'm a bad guy.

[00:52:04]Too many hearts in my bones. Maybe that's why I preach spike like a cacti.

[00:52:09]I live my lives a cactus time. What about time waking up five drive pulling that stick shift like I might die with a S on my chest. I'm just a man. If what you're seeing is a god will guess again they burn that bridge weed in. But one thing about life is it just keeps going.

[00:52:47]>> One thing about life is it just keeps going.

[00:52:52]One thing about life is it just keeps going.

[00:53:01]Oh, you got a new style. Must have missed it. Only go one life better. Oh yeah. Punk ride your punk ride down the shery.

[00:53:29]This is downy.

[00:53:32]Life is such a beautiful time. Such a funny number. One thing about life is just keeps going.

[00:53:40]>> What is this? What is this?

[00:53:44]>> Just keeps going.

[00:53:46]>> What is this?

[00:53:49]>> Just keeps going.

[00:53:53]One thing about love is just kid.

[00:53:58]One thing about life is it just One thing about life is it just keeps going.

[00:54:07]One thing about life is it just keeps going.

[00:54:11]In the face of death, I smile. I'm alive. I see God's eyes. I'm a child through hell. I strive. I'm alive.

[00:54:22]Yeah. In the face of death, I smile. I'm alive. I sing God's eyes. I'm a child through hell. I strive. I'm alive.

[00:54:33]Yeah.

[00:54:36]>> Just keeps going.

[00:54:41]>> Just keeps going.

[00:54:44]>> Yeah. Beast. I am nothing more. Nothing less. You can never take my neck. I'mma die when I'm dead. Heat my body while I crawl on my chest. If I must split the planet from the core to the crust. I beat my chest till I turn in a dust. A beast I am. I can feel it in my tusk.

[00:55:01]Gold play the copper underneath still rust. The stench of a we must never heal to a bastard. The cracks in my heels look like wounds. Don't interpret them as cracks in my steel. I'm immune from the womb to the end. Never know it. One thing about life is just >> just keeps going.

[00:55:48]This morning becomes eclectic right here on 89.9 KCRW. We heard that BC boys track Intergalactic. And there's a part where it goes drop. And I wanted to hear this Far Side song in full, but then I realized in the moment I don't have the clean version, and we are on radio right now. But here's the instrumental for those of you that love some Far Side.

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[00:56:47]>> We continue. Morning becomes eclectic on the KCRW app and on the airwaves and on the website. News headlines from NPR are up next. I'm Novina Carmel here with you. After those headlines, more music until noon. Thanks for tuning in. Drop.