DJ Nova Jade's Hodgepodge Consortium Show - 9.11.08*

*Sorry it's posted a day late, I guess I decided to...

"Take a break"

When I was 17, I found myself traveling in Costa Rica by myself. The friends I was to meet up with were out of contact somewhere in that vast land; so there I was, speaking Spanish, hosteling and doing some soul searching throughout all of C.R.

Little did I know that one day I would wake up on that trip around lunchtime and want to find a place with good vegetarian food, only to walk into that place (a Chinese food restaurant), sit down and hear on the tele something about "Los Estados Unidos". It was September 11, 2001. I stopped eating my veggie meal when I watched in silence as the towers fell for the second time, the third time, the fourth... listening to and picking up as much as I could on that Spanish news channel, as the newscasters reported, playing the terrible tragedy over and over again... Trying to figure out what the next steps were as far as getting in some kind of contact with my family back at home... Going back to my memory of when I was a young girl and my father took me to the one with the needle on it... So many thoughts.

I took a picture of a lone stick on the shore of the ocean that night as I drank a cold beer outside of my private hostel quarters. Someone had placed that stick there... I'd found it, all while contemplating and trying to stay calm knowing that serious things were happening abroad - abroad in my homeland.

7 years later, that memory still is in my mind; of being alone, of crossing into the next phase of my life experience. Of learning to grow up in a rapidly-changing world. I sure hope the next 7, 17, 117 years are brighter for us all.

Here's a chill mix. Enjoy it. Take a break.

PS: While you're in a chilled-out mood, come by to the FREE Jazz/Acoustic evening that's planned at Sabor Lounge (847 S. Union, Los Angeles, CA 90017) on Sept. 12th (TONIGHT). I'll be spinning.
See also: myspace.com/oylaproductions or myspace.com/cyndapoet

Nova*
djnovajade@gmail.com

Tracks:

1. Dusk - You and Me
2. Jill Scott - Only You
3. DJ Cam - Come with a String
4. Lisa Stansfield - Time to Make You Mine (in my dreams mix)
5. DJ Cam - Ghetto Superstar
6. Blue Boy - Remember Me (Mark Farina)
7. Sublime - April 29, 1992 (Miami) - contains explicit lyrics
8. Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves the Sunshine (9th Wonder Verve Remix)
9. Weekend Players - Higher Ground
10. Populous - Maqam Saba
11. ???
12. Populous - Clap Like Breeze (feat. Matilde Davoli)
13. L.A.M.B - Transfatty Acid
14. Micatone - Nomad

EMAIL: djnovajade@gmail.com

NOTE: THIS EPISODE'S MEDIA HAS BEEN DELETED TO CONSERVE UPLOAD SPACE. TO REQUEST A COPY, PLEASE CONTACT ME AT THE EMAIL ADDRESS ABOVE. ~NJ*