
Put The Needle On The Record with Billy Jam | WFMU
WFMU
Hip-hop and rap, that's where my heart's at. But I'll play anything so long as it ain't crap!
Location:
East Orange, NJ
Genres:
Music Podcasts
Networks:
WFMU
Description:
Hip-hop and rap, that's where my heart's at. But I'll play anything so long as it ain't crap!
Twitter:
@billyjam
Language:
English
Contact:
WFMU P.O. Box 2011 Jersey City, NJ 07303-2011 201-200-9368
Website:
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/BJ
Episodes
PUT THE NEEDLE ON THE START OF THE LONG HOT SUMMER from Jun 20, 2025
6/20/2025
DJ Low Cut - "Cultura Callejera edit" [edit of new track from Paris France artist] [0:00:00]
Music behind DJ:
intro over DJ Low Cut - "over DJ Low Cut" - --- [0:00:45]
Aesop Rock - "EWR Terminal A Gate 20" - Black Hole Superette [0:00:56]
Tha Alkaholiks - "Da Liks" - Daaam! [they're back......Da Liks baby, Tha Alkaholiks] [0:04:44]
Asaru - "All Praises Due" [0:08:26]
Priest da Nomad - "Before You Go (feat. J Hill)" - Out Da House [0:10:09]
LS Camp - "Back Jack (Do It Again)" [0:14:23]
A&E ( Ed O.G. & Masta Ace) - "Little Young" [0:18:33]
Napoleon Da Legend & Clypto - "Andare Via" [0:21:37]
Robert Glasper - "Black Superhero (feat. Killer Mike, BJ the Chicago Kid & Big K.R.I.T.)" [0:24:40]
Blu & Exile - "African Dream (feat. Gappy Ranks & Aloe Blacc)" - Miles [0:28:55]
Flavor Flav - "Answering Machine Message" [0:32:54]
John The Bap - "Hip-Hop" - Testify [best homage / remake of Common (Sense's) 1994 classic "I Used to Love H.E.R."] [0:33:23]
Ol' Dirty Bastard - "Brooklyn Zoo" - Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version [RIP ODB 1968 - 2004] [0:37:31]
Sonnyjim & The Purist - "Does Shrooms Once (feat Madlib)" - White Girl Wasted [0:40:38]
Dysfunkshunal Familee - "Bazarro 4 President (feat. Juxx Diamondz & Hastyle Rhymes)" - Bazarro 4 President EP [0:42:34]
Chill Rob G - "One Minute (Krohme Remix) (DJ Kuts by DJ MROK)" - Shots Fired EP [New Jersey's Chill Rob G was a founding member of the original Flavor Unit collective, which included Lakim Shabazz, The 45 King, and Queen Latifah, among others. In 1987 he released his debut album, Ride the Rhythm, on Wild Pitch records. Ride The Rhythm was chosen by The Source magazine as one of the 100 Greatest Rap Albums] [0:46:22]
Errol Eats Everything - "Be Out" - Errol Eats Everything [0:50:24]
DJ Goce - "Bring The Rock Y'all" [0:52:38]
Mic Mountain - "Mofongo" [0:56:01]
Music behind DJ:
outro mic - "mic outro" - over Souls of Mischief 93 til inst [0:59:12] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153156
Duration:01:07:48
Put The Transpacific Sound Paradise Record On The Turntable from Jun 14, 2025
6/14/2025
Delphine "sick n phelmy" Blue - "out sick remote Sly set intro" [0:00:00]
Sly and the Family Stone - "Babies Making Babies" [0:03:58]
Sly and the Family Stone - "Just Like A Baby" [0:04:09]
Sly and the Family Stone - "Underdog" [0:09:00]
UB40 - "King" [0:12:42]
King Tubby - "Natty Dub" [0:17:28]
Quinie - "Generations of Change" - Forefowk, Mind Me [0:26:24]
Lagartijeando - "Cholula" - 7 caminos [0:29:14]
GELBART - "I.M." - Liquids & Flesh [0:38:52]
Mamehy - "Je mitsiko ro mokotse (“Those who talk dirty behind your back tire themselves out for nothing”)" - Tsapiky! Modern Music From Southwest Madagascar [various artists] [0:38:56]
Joesph Nemnom - "Rasputin (excpert)" - egypt & lebanon: Cosmic arabic disco & searing dance floor bangers 1974-1985 [0:44:32]
Sly and Robbie Meet Dubmatix - "Dictionary" - Overdubbed [0:51:26]
Sly and the Revolutionaries with Jah Thomas - "mariquna" - Black Ash Dub [0:56:10]
King Sunny Ade - "Kita Kita Ko M'ola" - Synchro Series [0:59:12]
Sabah Habas Mustapha - "Bandung" [1:09:24]
Music behind DJ:
Wheeler Antabanez - "----" - Polaroids from the North Jersey Underground i [1:17:48]
Wheeler Antabanez - "reading live from his 2019 book" - "13 from the swamp: Passaic River Lore" [1:22:27]
Laura Lee & The Jettes - "Unsolicited Advice" [1:27:29]
Harlem Youth Percussion Group - "Welcome To The Party"
DJ Goce - "Bring The Rock Y'all" [1:33:20]
Judy Mowatt - "June 1984 interview by your DJ at Wolfgang's club in SF" [1:39:30]
Judy Mowatt - "Black Woman" [1:42:37]
Jah Wobble feat Sinead o Conner - "Visions of you" [1:45:40]
Bobby J From Rockaway - "Where I'm From" [1:50:01]
Гребенщиков - ""Город Золотой"" [1:56:43]
Czarface & MF DOOM - "Doom Unto Others (Prxspect Remix)" [1:58:55]
Alias Molombo feat. KRS-One, A-F-R-O, Ciphurphace & The Nicewun JM - "Boom bap 3:16" [2:02:20]
Lead Belly - "Good Morning Blues" [2:04:52]
Tall Black Guy - "She Passin By" [2:09:35]
Sonny Boy Williamson - "Bring It On Home" [2:12:53]
Wheeler Antabanez - "reading live from his 2019 book Pt 2" - 13 from the swamp [2:13:25]
Kioea - "Orca" - Electric Surf [2:20:21]
Horslips - "bim istigh ag ol" - Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part [2:24:10]
Tuff Sunshine - "Vanity Matrix" [2:27:20]
Ela Minus - "ONWARDS" [2:29:02]
Fontaines DC - "Boys In The Band (darklands vrs)" [2:31:06]
Augustus Pablo - "King Tubby's Meets Rockers Uptown" [2:35:03]
Dillinger - "Cokane In My Brain" [2:37:35]
Judy Mowatt - "Slave Queen" [2:40:46]
[2:43:59]
Wheeler Antabanez - "READS "THE PASSAIC RIVER WILL TRIUMPH"" - "13 from the swamp: Passaic River Lore" [2:45:54]
Boards of Canada - "an eagle in your mind" [2:49:41]
Wayne Smith - "Under Mi Sleng Teng" [2:50:55] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153095
Duration:03:08:17
Put The Needle On The Rockaway Beach (feat Bobby J from Rockaway) from Jun 13, 2025
6/13/2025
Stylistic Murder - "Uptown (feat Blu)" - + Boss Tootie welcome to the Summer Series 2025 WFMU drop [0:00:00]
Aesop Rock - "1010WINS (feat. Armand Hammer)" - Black Hole Superette [0:02:54]
Bobby J From Rockaway - "McSorleys (feat Little Vic)" [0:06:46]
Bobby J From Rockaway - "house of pain jump around freestyle (+ WFMU drop)" [0:09:22]
Bobby J from Rockaway & Dom Dirtee - "Once Again" - Higher [0:10:42]
Daru Jones & Bobby J From Rockaway - "Lullaby" - One Mic & Drum [0:27:39]
Mic Mountain - "Born 2 Fly feat. Oba Olff" [0:32:56]
Bobby J From Rockaway - "My People (Produced by Nef)" - Endless Summer [0:37:13]
Homeboy Sandman - "wade in the water" - White Sands [0:41:30] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153067
Duration:01:08:44
Put The Needle On The Final Show of the 2024/2025 Season: Episode 40 from Jun 6, 2025
6/6/2025
Music behind DJ:
Billy + GiGio - "over Souls of Mischief 93 til Infinity instrumental" - image from MARIN county
Aesop Rock - "Costco" - Black Hole Superette [0:04:47]
Book$ & Tillz - "Immigrant Babies" - BIM TAPE [0:07:26]
Aesop Rock - "Bird School" - Black Hole Superette [0:11:18]
Cam Be - "EyeWonder (feat. Neak & Skyzoo)" [new from Brooklyn artist] [0:14:34]
Kurious - "Open (feat Homeboy Sandman) (exec prod DOOM & prod Mono En Stereo)" - Majician [0:18:52]
Music behind DJ:
- "over Boss Tootie/Macktivity inst. 2022" [0:21:25]
Boss Tootie - "Gater Gator" [0:28:36]
Boss Tootie - "Put The Needle On The 80's/90's Femcees intro" - Put The Needle On The 80's/90's Femcees - Marathon 2025 Premium CD [0:31:09]
Music behind DJ:
over Boss Tootie gator gator inst - "gator gator inst" - HAPPENINGS [0:32:08]
Señor Gigio x Kristen Cardiasmenos - "Man of the hOUR" - (2025 produced by 1 A.M.) [0:39:31]
Prime Minister Pete Nice - "on his & DJ Klark Kent's mid 80s WKCR radio sho" [0:42:36]
Jeffrey Cobb - "Biz Markie acoustic answering machine message" ["The BIZ" acoustic answerin machine message from fellow KALX/WFMU DJ and fellow Biz Markie fan - JEFFREY M COBB - who was a fellow DJ on KALX Berkeley - and later WFMU DJ -from early 2000's - in fact the last show Jeffrey Cobb did on WFMU was a fill in for me back in September 2008 -] [0:44:46]
Chuck D - "New Gens feat. Daddy-O" - Radio Armageddon [0:46:17]
Headnodic + Jazz Mafia - "Rise (feat. Genra & Ozay Moore)" [0:49:21]
Stan Ipcus - "Funky Rhyme" [0:52:54] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152802
Duration:01:08:23
Put The Needle On Looking Forward, Not Back from May 30, 2025
5/30/2025
Music behind DJ:
DJ Billy Jam - "Engineer James" - Board-op David [the time is now - now is the time to look forward, not back] [0:00:00]
billy woods - "Counterclockwise" - GOLLIWOG [0:02:12]
Aesop Rock - "Snail Zero" - Black Hole Superette [0:04:26]
Murs - "Silverlake Rec League" - Love & Rockets 3:16 (The Emancipation) [0:07:22]
KLIM Beats - "Through The Jazz" [0:10:07]
Music behind DJ:
----- - "HAPPENINGS around and about" - 000000 [0:14:04]
Tone Chop & Frost Gamble - "Beats So Loud" [0:18:21]
7X3=21 + DJ Freddy Fresh - "True Simulation (Freddy's 90's Flava)" [0:20:34]
* BoFaatBeatz - "You Betta Know (feat. Smif-N-Wessun)" - Here For The Rap Killin' [0:23:19]
Tudakay - "Proud New Yorker feat. Wordsworth & Jay Barney" [0:26:23]
Pat Van Dyke - "Gratitude" [0:28:27]
John Doe of 1200 Hobos - "gimme some elbow room Pt 2" - gimme some elbow room [0:33:00]
[0:48:56]
Homeboy Sandman & yeyts - "My Fans" - Manners (cassette version) [note this track only appears on the cassette tape version of Homeboy Sandman and producer yeyts new EP "Manners"] [0:50:15]
MC G.L.O.B.E. - "The Beat Don't Stop (Jim's radio mix)" - The Beat Don't Stop EP [0:51:53]
[0:55:00]
Chuck D presents Enemy Radio - "What Rock Is" - Radio Armageddon [0:56:20] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152457
Duration:01:08:28