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by Roddykat

Cupid’s Hunt 2012 – Downside

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[Editor's note: Yes. This is days late, but I have it on official authority to post this anyway]

Fun Fact: every year of my participation in the annual Cupid’s Hunt event, I end up putting together enough music for at least two different playlists. I only end up posting one (even with the threat of wanting to post multiple). The reason is irrelevant at the moment. Usually, my contributions tend to fall towards the happier sides of love, even though I know there is always yang to the yin. That being said, I’m coming at this one from the other side of the spectrum. After all, there are different phases to love and different levels of love. There is that uncertain part where you know something’s wrong which starts the downward spiral to the end of the relationship. There are as many people going through this part of the cycle as there are those past and beyond it. This too, is sadly part of the hunt. The torturous part of the love cycle that no one cares to be in. This list goes through(I hope) some of the feeling that might come up at this time. This goes out to those that are going into as well as coming out of this phase, to those that feel stuck there, and those who never believe they will ever get there.

I encourage you all to go check out the other entries into this year’s event by going here. Thank you to the One T. Grundy again for allowing me entry into this fine affair.

Cupid’s Hunt 2012 – Downside

Vivian Green – Emotional Rollercoaster
Brian McKnight – Is The Feeling Gone?
Tony Toni Tone – Pain
Corinne Bailey Rae – Til It Happens To You
Tisha Campbell – Broken Hearted
Chante Moore – As If We Never Met
Zhane – Piece It Together
Expose – Season’s Change
Gladys Knight and the Pips – Neither One Of Us(Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)
Blackgirl – Where Did We Go Wrong
Mint Condition – Nothing Left To Say
Vanessa Williams – What Will I tell My Heart

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by Roddykat

Cupid’s Hunt 2011 – All About You

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The Hunt is on once again. The Cupid’s Hunt, that is. That time when your favorite music podcast collective (and I) celebrate love in it’s many forms through song. Surely you know what is by now, don’t you? This marks my third year participating in the event and I can assure you I get as much pleasure out of doing it as listening to the goodness that comes out of it. So to get right down to it, this mix started between thinking about an old mix of mine (that I keep saying I’ll post) and an amalgamation of a couple of ideas I’d been thinking about lately. I will let you be the judge on how successful I was in bring them across. I would also invite you to partake of all mixes that have and will be thrown down for this occasion. I guarantee there is something for everyone…unless you don’t like good music. Oh, and if you care to follow the event, please check out and follow the Twitter and Facebook pages for the event. The only other thing to say is, while Valentine’s Day is set aside to celebrate love, please make sure you realize that love should be celebrated every day, not just one a year. And with that, here we go…

Cupid’s Hunt – All About You
  • Raphael Saadiq – Oh Girl
  • Linda Jones – Hypnotized
  • Enchantment – Silly Love Song
  • Lakeside – I Want To Hold Your Hand
  • Teddy Pendergrass – Your My Latest Greatest Inspiration
  • L.T.D. – We Both Deserve Each Other’s Love
  • Brandy – I’m Yours
  • Kem – I Can’t Stop Loving You
  • Corinne Bailey Rae – Breathless
  • Luther Vandross – It This World Were Mine
  • Wayman Tisdale – You
  • Tamia – You Put A Move On My Heart
  • Anita Baker – Whatever It Takes
  • Patti LaBelle – Somebody Love you (You Know Who It Is)

You can listen to the mix below, or you can download it here and check it out later. Which ever you do, please enjoy.

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by Roddykat

Cupid Hunt 2010 – Love and Hip-Hop

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Once again it’s here, the Cupid Hunt. The annual gathering of music lovers (podcasters and the like) to celebrate Valentine’s Day. This is my second year participating in the event masterminded by Todd Grundy and I’m more than happy to do so. You can find more info in the event here. And you can also follow the event on Facebook and Twitter. Now, let’s get to it.

When you think of Valentine’s Day or even love music in general, you rarely think of Hip-Hop. This is probably with good reason. You will definitely not find many, if any, rappers talking about love on the radio nowadays. They’re really not talking about anything these days, but that’s besides the point. There was a point in history where rappers were tacking the subject of love in forms and ways. The mix below only touches on the different ways and subjects. In addition, you really can’t speak on the entity that is the Hip-Hop love song without mentioning the two most notable figures, LL Cool J and The Prince of Darkness Big Daddy Kane. So it is with that honor they get an extra track as mini tribute to them. So without further ado…

De La Soul – Talkin’ Bout Hey Love
Gangstarr – Lovesick
Bahamadia – I Confess
The Pharcyde – Passing Me By
Common – Come Closer(remix)
The Fat Boys – Falling In Love (7 Inch Version)
Jean Grae – Love Thirst
Whodini – One Love
The Roots – You Got Me (feat. Erykah Badu)
Big Daddy Kane – The Day You’re Mine
Big Daddy Kane – I’m Not Ashamed ft. Alyson Williams
LL Cool J – You’re in My Heart
LL Cool J – I Need Love
Doc Box and B Fresh – Slow Love
World Class Wrecking Crew – Before You Turn Off The Lights

You can listen below or you can download it here.

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If you’ve enjoyed this mix(or even if not), please go check out the other mixes that are floating around the internet from bunch of great podcasters and music loving folks for this occasion. You can find the master list here.

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by Roddykat

How’s about that, it seems that it’s that time again

In the 365 days a year we have, there is only one set aside for love. I’m not here to debate how wrong that is(because it is), but what I am hear to tell you about is that during this time of joy, there is an event of monumental proportions happening. What is this event I’m speaking of? It is the annual Cupid Hunt Podcast Event sired by Mr. TGrundy aka “Mr. Brilliant”. Recall, if you will, my mentioning of it(pause for dream sequence). Done? Good, well now it’s that time again, and guess who’s joined in the fun? ME! Kind of makes sense, I speak on music occasionally. I’ve posted playlists in a couple of places on the net. Natural fit, right? Of course it is.

So I know you’re asking the question: “Roddy, where can these mixes be found?” Well, younglings, I will tell you. The Great List of mixes and also information on the Cupid Hunt can be found at TGrundy’s site, Rhythms In Black Satin.  I recommend you go there & have at all of the mixes available. You will NOT be disappointed! Now, if you are possibly saying to yourself, “Didn’t he just mention that he did a mix? Where is that?” Well, that was nice of you to notice. In addition to a link to my mix being found at TGrundy’s site, you can go directly there from here:

Cupid Hunt 2009: Lights, Camera, Slow Jams [Music inspired by the music inspired by Motion Picture love]*

More on that particular site next post. For now, enjoy the music. spacer

* I almost went with this as the title of my mix. Almost.


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by Roddykat

Cupid Hunt 2009 – Lights, camera, slow jams

It’s that time again. Once again, it’s time for the annual Cupid Hunt Podcast Event masterminded by the one TGrundy over at Rhythms In Black Satin(RIBS, for short). This is the event where a group of music podcasters & DJ’s all release mixes with the theme related to Valentine’s Day and the subject of love. Information about this annual affair can be found, here. This year, I decided to join the fun with a mix of my own.  It was no easy task even when knowing what I’ve wanted to do since last year’s Cupid Hunt. Needless to say, I encourage you to go check out every mix that’s being put out for this event. Most of the people in my Blogroll will be providing mixes for this event. The master list of mixes is being kept here. It will be updated as the weekend progresses. Here are some of the ones that I know are posted already:

DJ Grantlove Pt1, Pt2, & My love, my life, my wife

Soulrific

Todd Kelley

Anji Bee @ the Chillcast

DarrenKeith @ My love for music

Friday Night Dance Party

Fave @ the Friday Favecast

Anewlis

EJ Flavors

Calinative

DBassist

TGrundy

I would like to thank TGrundy for opportunity to take part in this event. That said:

I’ve always loved making slow tapes. You either had a mood setting mix, straight baby making music, or some combination of the two. I wish I hadn’t gotten out of doing them, or mixes period. That’s another story.  Right now, it’s about a soundtrack. As in from a movie. Back in the 90′s, it seemed like most every urban themed or starred movie had a great soundtrack with some notable slow songs attached to it. Sometimes, the soundtracks were better than the movies themselves. I thought I’d make a mix that incorporated some of those songs in my mix. So with out further ado, here it is.

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Cupid Hunt ’09 – Lights, camera, slow jams*
Cupid Hunt 2009 – Roddio Jukebox.mp3 (download here)

(For those folks with ipods(and probably iphones), you should be able to click a couple of times to see the track listings. SHOULD being the operative word)

Playlist:

  • Tony! Toni! Tone! – Just Me And You (Boyz N The Hood)
  • Allure – When The Shades Go Down (The Best Man)
  • Sandra St. Victor – Come Over (A Thin Line Between Love And Hate)
  • London Jones – I Lust 4 U (House Party II)
  • Johnny Gill – There U Go (Boomerang)
  • Faith Evans – Kissing You (Waiting To Exhale)
  • Keith Washington & Chante Moore – Candlelight & You (House Party II)
  • Luther Vandross & Cheryl Lynn – If This World Were Mine (The Wood)
  • Chaka Khan – My Funny Valentine (Waiting To Exhale)
  • Tears Away – Faith Evans (Hav Plenty)
  • Mint Condition – My Dear (Mo Money)
  • Me’shell N’degeocello – Let Me Have You (How Stella Got Her Groove Back)
  • For Real – Love will be waiting At Home (Waiting To Exhale)
  • Maxwell – Sumthin’ Sumthin’: Mellosmoothe(Cut) (Love Jones)

* – As with any other time, I’m taking a Badu stance on this. I’m sensitive about my stuff, so be nice.

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