Hi all!!!

"Tonight we welcome to the studio a first in what is sure to be a riveting series of guest mixes. Sista Stroke (Revolutionary Music, Rebel Crew, D'Lectable, Chi/Fi, Knockin' Boots, DustTraxx, Hook-up Tunes, et. al.) is just one of those people that does it and the people involved with this podcast right. A truly inspiring lass in the Chicago house tradition, it's our pleasure to give her a big smooch and welcome her to the studio for a solid mix that is sure to keep you movin' wherever you at."

This is just a little something I did for DJ Blackliquid's Radio show, here in Los Angeles, called "L.A. Nights".  And I wanted to share it with you, plus anyone else that you think may need some Grit in their lives ....
You can click on the link or the pic to listen:


 | Sista Stroke | "Put Some Grit In It" 
(right-click on link, select Save Target As, and give a home so you can listen!)

Sending you nothing but love.... Hope you enjoy the mix ... I had too much fun making it!!!!!

Get your House on - With love ...
Sista Stroke


"Put Some Grit In It" Track listing:
1)    Talk About It (Sista's Backseat Banger) – Backseat Bingo
2)    Knee Deep Funk – Mr. Patron
3)    Hipshaka' (Chuck Love Bidness Class Dub) - Slater Hogan & John Larner
4)    Reach - Christian Malloni
5)    Freak … Rock tha' Disco Nights (Sista's "Freak" boot) – GQ
6)    In and Out (BHQ TV Track) - Home & Garden with Chez Damier
7)    Don't Stop The Music – Bugz In The Attic
8)    Unknown Track
9)    I Heart Bougie (Ken ECB Flip No Flop Mix) - Ken ECB
10)  Gimme Luv - OFS & Oh Dee
11)  The Word – Steve "Silk" Hurley
12)  Dancing Moves (Giom) – Smart Dog
13)  Pump Dance (Sista's Chi-town Hustle rmx) – OGC
14)  Unknown Track
15)  Golden Life (Sista's Golden boot) – Jill Scott

--
Sista Stroke | Strokin' since '72
www.ReverbNation.com/sistastroke
www.myspace.com/sistastroke
www.RevolutionaryMusic.com

-
"It's your life .. how do you WANT to live it? How do you SEE yourself living it? Then focus on that ..."

I made this music player at MyFlashFetish.com.

..




Marvin Gaye once said, "I felt the strong urge to write music and to write lyrics that would touch the souls of men".

April 1st, 2008, marked the 24 yr. anniversary since the world lost one of the greatest soul singers it had ever heard. As I was sitting here reading about the latest on the insurgents in Iraq, the loss of more lives in a war that’s not just senseless but unnecessary, the possibility of a first black president-elect, Obama, and thoughts on what Martin Luther King Jr. would think of the state of our world today had he lived, I can’t help but wonder what Marvin’s take on all of it would be. How would he write about it lyrically? What sort of music and rhythms would accompany these carefully written lyrics, to ensure that what was being said was not only being heard - but felt as well? It’s not like he hadn’t done it before when he produced and wrote the critically acclaimed album, "What’s Going On".
And this is the part where we remember just how great a man, Marvin Gaye, truly was:

Through his music, Marvin, expressed his fundamental human traits with unabashed shame ... his message of love, understanding, hope, human kindness, joy, the celebration of sexuality, and courage was delivered to masses that needed that "something" at that moment. In 1971, at a time when most of the Motown artists were still singing about love and crushes, Marvin went against the Motown formula and took an 180-degree turn with the album, "What’s Going On". This politically charged album threw the frustrations of racial brutality, suffering, and injustice back OUT to the citizens of a country that was not only torn by the loss of lives in the Vietnam war, but broken-down from fighting brutal racial brutality, suffering, and injustice in THEIR OWN backyard, schools, diners, and, well, the list goes on really.
Marvin’s vision of this album wasn’t what Barry Gordy was accustomed to; it was too "new" in it’s ambition, and the concept went against a "sound" that had been carefully crafted and honed for years. In other words, it threw hopes of "commercial success" to a side that Barry Gordy just wasn’t willing to put Motown’s name on the line for. But Gordy eventually came to give in, and what came next was not only ground-breaking in style, but ground-breaking in introducing a whole new sound of music that was not only playable, but gave the listener something to think about as well. After "What’s Going On" immediate success as the fastest-selling single, artists like The Temptations and The Four Tops would soon start experimenting with the same jazz and classical music sounds they’d heard in "What’s Going On". Do your homework: go back and listen to these groups BEFORE that album, and then take a real close listen to how they sounded AFTER that same album. You can’t deny that [singer/producer/songwriter] Marvin Gaye had brought something new to the table .... and that’s without even mentioning what was going on in the streets.
If you had a radio, skin of color, and any sense of awareness, then you were tuning into a new state-of Conscious F.M. that was coming over the frequency of a new horizon ... People everywhere were waking-up; music was seeping in politically charged "we’re not gonna take it anymore" and "lets just have a good-time" anthems, and awareness levels - on MANY levels - everywhere were rising. And it’s not like people everywhere weren’t awake already, but more like they had just been sorta "groggy" and walking in a daze. The hippie era of "tune-in-and-tune-out", "Stop the War", and "free love" had come and gone leaving a residue of restlessness and a false-sense of "everythings going to be OK now’. If you look around in the news, in our presidential hopefuls, and in your own communities you can literally see that nothing much has really changed. We’re still restless and we’re still under the blind assumtion that everything’s going to be ok. Sad, isn’t it? We must aspire to be a world who no longer confuses mature hope with naive audacity, and until we can be selfless instead of selfish - as a whole - we won’t see the change we’re so longing.


So with this tribute to Marvin, I choose to remember him for the consciousness he brought to a public that needed it right at that moment. He opened the minds and ears of so many people. He opened many doors for people of all walks of life! People that went on to make large strides in life, people that are still influencing the world we’re [trying to live] in today. He taught us that, "war is not the answer .. For only love can conquer hate", and with his lyrics of, "Talk to me, So you can see, What’s going on ..." he taught us that through communication came a better understanding of each other as humans - not statistics, not numbers, and not what you read or hear about in the news.
But at the end of the day, the single most important teaching of Marvin’s for me was that it all came down to one option, one action, that would signify all it would take to make a change. And that was, "Find a way".

Here’s to you Marvin .... R.I.P. ... and "In the mean time..." it’s a huge, "Right on, baby...". Right on.

• I've got my health
• I'm about to have a beautiful baby
• I'm having a healthy baby
• I already have a beautiful and healthy son
  
• I have friends who love me
• I have friends who understand me and accept me for who i am (good and bad!)
• I have loads of support from my loved ones
• I've learned the lesson of "doing for one's self" (even though this one was a tough one this time around)
• I know better than to take another go at something that didn't work the first time
• I will have my own roof over my head sooner than I thought
• My blood pressure is low
• I'm not gaining out-of-control weight during my pregnancy (yet *wince)
• I'm able to afford a lifestyle befitting of a single mother raising a child
• I've lessons well learned
  
• I have more money than I know what to do with
• I have a successful career doing something I love - music
• For all the places and sceneries I've witnessed with my own eyes
• For being able to see this different places in far-off area's of our world
• The Universe is providing me with everything I need
• I know which to choose when it comes to choosing between material wealth and the wealth of love
• I have a beautiful home
• I've become such a strong woman
• God has seen to it that I know how to hold-it-down
• Soon I'll be looking into the eyes of my new child
• One day soon she'll be looking back smiling at me
• I will once again know love

Thank you for reading, friends ... I'll keep this up as much as I can.

Peace and Blessings,
Sista

Vibrations Abundant (continueous mix)

-
Sista Stroke | 2005

Soulquarian (continueous mix)
 
  
Sista Stroke - 2001 (for Uniform Recordings)

  

On MySpace?? Add Sista Stroke as your friend << MORE >>