Author Archives: Ash El Gamal

Music Ninja Radio is a weekly podcast recorded and broadcast live on San Francisco’s BFF.fm  from 4-6PM PST every Friday. 

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To celebrate our 100th episode, I got all nostalgic listening back to clips from TMN Radio shows past with a couple surprise guests. Clips from:
–Episode 7: Ash’s Post Burning Man aka “Music to Massage the Mind”
–Episode 52: History of The Music Ninja as told by Blas & Clayton
–Episode 50: Baseer’s Summer Jams
–Episode 51: Tyler Hawkins Live Freestyle
–Episode 38: Mosaics Perform “Freedom” Live
–Episode 37: Green Ova South Live Freestyle
–Episode 77: Still Woozy Premieres “Vacation”
–Episode 98: Cosmic Amanda on the History of BFF.fm
–Episode 60: Thoughts on the Election
–Episode 46: Dom’s Soul / Hip-Hop Segment
Huge thanks to all the friends/contributors, listeners and BFF.fm for making this possible. I can’t express how grateful I am to be able to do this every week and I hope you’ll all stay tuned in for the next hundo! – Ash

Music Ninja Radio is a weekly podcast recorded and broadcast live on San Francisco’s BFF.fm  from 4-6PM PST every Friday. 

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We had a couple firsts on this episode with Brian, half of DJ duo Cosmic Crates, in the studio for a live mixing sesh. Before we got into that that, I opened up playing catch up on some of my favorite new indie rock/pop releases from Jay Som, The Sufis, Frankie Cosmos, Slenderbodies and more. When Brian joins for the second half, we chop it up about the Cosmic Crates project, his experience growing up in Detroit and thoughts on the state of electronic music today. For the final hour, we had a fun live b2b mixing session sharing some deep and hazy house cuts.

Music Ninja Radio is a weekly podcast recorded and broadcast live on San Francisco’s BFF.fm  from 4-6PM PST every Friday. 

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Soundcloud || Spotify Playlist  || BFF.fm Archive & Tracklist

On the eve of our Space Disco / BFF.fm Benefit, we were joined by BFF.fm’s founder Cosmic Amanda and the legendary DJ Chad. But before we got into the disco sesh, I kicked off the show with some hazy, spacey cuts from MGMT, Vivian Fantasy, Nabihah Iqbal and Akasha System. Vindata‘s new mixtape was so good that I had to squeeze in a lil sampler (4 songs!) of its soultronic magic. Before sharing some phenomenal disco cuts, Amanda and I chopped it up about BFF history, Victorian submarines and our mutual love of disco. DJ Chad closed the show out with some wiggly space bumps. – Ash

Listen to the playlist on Spotify // Apple Music.

Nite Jewel‘s Real High, full of lush instrumentation and flawless percussion, is meant for late night listening–“Obsession” captivates with its sensual atmosphere.

Gabriel Garzón-Montano‘s unique take on soul made for one of the most captivating albums of the year. “Fruitflies” is an earworm of a track that tells a heartbreaking, deeply human story that needed to be heard in 2017.

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“Baybee” captures everything I love so much about Jay Som‘s 2017 debut Everybody Works–dreamy, expansive and larger-than-life.

Slowdive‘s first album back in over 2 decades is a transformative masterpiece and “Star Roving” exemplifies its beautiful vastness.

We might be a bit biased since we premiered his first track on TMN Radio earlier this year, but Still Woozy may be the artist I’m most excited for in 2017. “Cooks” displays just how much emotion and soul he pack into a quirky, playful tune.