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parents are always asking me for mix tapes for their children - for years i have answered this call and spun mixtapes for very short friends of ours. - i really enjoy creating child-friendly mixes that parents can enjoy as well.

i figured it’s time to share these with the rest of the world. so call your young nephews nieces, god children, daughters and sons into the room and crank up the volume! this is the first of many.

43 minutes.
cast of characters: michael jackson, rita moreno, mos def, shel silverstein, cookie monster, 3 bean stew, school house rock, king britt, the pointer sisters, panoptikum, charlie brown, alice coltrane, and the sesame street kids.

40 minutes of subtlety. find a park bench in an area partly dappled with sun, partly shaded, and breezy. open your eyes and click play. enjoy.

cast of characters: prince, koop, gnarls barkley, obi wan kenobi, de la soul, erykah badu and damian marley, hard candy, michael jackson, prince po with ammon contact, outkast, karl bradney. assembled and mixed by cousin pete.

photo by shadi ghadirian.

The Color Purple is one of those films/books that I own but dont watch often. It is powerful and beautiful, but at times painful. This mix is an attempt to honor what i see as the message of that film - love conquering though adversity and the triumph of the good in the human spirit. It’s a mix tape for Miss Celie: healing through dance.
Cast of characters: quincy jones, nitin sawhney, elsa, tortured soul, ammon contact, bobby mcferrin, koop, fertile ground, whoopie goldberg, oprah winfrey.

If Paul Robeson became a rasta after he was forced to leave the US it would have probably sounded like this.