Stone & Reg at The Lot Radio — twelve picks from the full setlist

Stone's May 17 MISC guest set on The Lot Radio — narrated from his show notes with twelve playable moments and the full timestamped setlist below.

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Tracklist

  1. Berimbau (Original Mix) — Elements Of Life
  2. Dangerous Vibes (Emmaculate Remix) — Ferry Ultra, Roy Ayers
  3. The Principles of Love — Incognito
  4. Darlin' Darlin' Baby (Sweet, Tender, Love) — The O'Jays
  5. Mystic Brew — Ronnie Foster
  6. Electric Relaxation — A Tribe Called Quest
  7. Doing It Too — Rochelle Jordan, X.A Preto
  8. Can We Make It Real? — Manny Norté & Äyanna
  9. Eternal Life (iLLHouse Edit) — The Clark Sisters
  10. Feelin You (C-Sick House Remix) — Alicia Keys
  11. Nights Like This (Remix) — Beverly Knight, Lemar, Donae'O, Omar

Transcript

Welcome to OffStereo

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Stone & Reg at The Lot

This is Stone and Reg's May seventeenth guest mix on The Lot Radio — MISC, live from a shipping container on Nassau Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Stone wrote up how he built the set in his own words. OffStereo is bringing that Lot session back here, record by record, using his show notes as the script.

The anchor song

At the beginning of the summer Stone always starts his mixes with an anchor song — a track he loves, something he builds the whole set around. The first one that came into his head was Berimbau (Original Mix) by Elements of Life. It's a cover of the Brazilian song of the same name. He first heard it on a radio show by Brooklyn-based artist Glowzi and fell for the way it blends Brazilian rhythms into the groove.

Roy Ayers midpoint

From there Stone started thinking about what could carry the same feeling forward. Roy Ayers came to mind first — those high-tempo vibraphone runs hit a similar note. He found Dangerous Vibes (Emmaculate Remix) by Ferry Ultra featuring Roy Ayers, and it felt like the exact midpoint between Berimbau's Brazilian bounce and Ayers' own vibraphone sound, dropped into a deep house pocket that still gave his voice room to float.

Incognito bridge

Tangential to that, Stone found The Principles of Love by Incognito — same mellow tempo as the Ferry Ultra and Ayers cut, the same warm keys and jazzy chord voicings, and a soulful vocal that sits in that laid-back pocket instead of pulling the energy anywhere. Incognito is a British acid jazz band out of London, started in nineteen seventy-nine by Jean-Paul Bluey Maunick as an offshoot of the funk group Light of the World. This track comes from their two thousand four record Adventures in Black Sunshine, decades into a catalog that's been sampled and remixed by everyone from Masters at Work to Jazzanova.

Old meets new

Then Stone hit a rut — how do you find something that complements these three tracks? He started building a vision around blending new and old, and when he landed on a remix of Harlem River Drive with some added drums, he knew he was onto something. He went back to an old mantra from his last Lot Radio set: how do you take something old and recognizable, and flip it?

Liv East flip

The first song he thought of was Liv East's flip of the O'Jays' Darlin' Darlin' Baby — just enough of a flip that the heads will pay attention. Here's the source: Darlin' Darlin' Baby (Sweet, Tender, Love) by The O'Jays. The original came out in nineteen seventy-six, written and produced by Gamble and Huff, and it went to number one on the R&B charts. Big Pun sampled that same loop for Not a Player in nineteen ninety-seven, so putting Liv East's version next to the original closes a nearly thirty-year loop of its own.

Gareth Donkin edit

One of Stone's favorite discoveries was Gareth Donkin's track, simply titled De La Soul. Donkin is a London-based singer-songwriter and producer whose sound leans nostalgic — soul and pop with a modern touch, drawing on influences like Stevie Wonder and Prince. It's a bouncy, groovy track that sets the right mood and carries a bit of that George Benson feel without directly interpolating him, but it has a pretty dramatic breakdown near the end that would've killed the momentum. Stone made a slight DJ edit, cutting that breakdown to keep the BPM and the vibe consistent through the transition. Benson's Give Me the Night is the reference point there — a nineteen eighty single written by Rod Temperton and produced by Quincy Jones, with Herbie Hancock on electric piano.

Mystic Brew

To keep building on that theme, Stone found tracks that sample Ronnie Foster's Mystic Brew and flip it in completely different directions. He loves playing hip-hop sample flips back to back like this, because it makes people's ears perk up mid-set. Foster is a jazz organist, and Mystic Brew first appeared on his nineteen seventy-two album Two Headed Freak for Blue Note. Most people know it now because A Tribe Called Quest looped it for Electric Relaxation in nineteen ninety-three, one of the most recognizable samples in hip-hop.

Sample flips

Stone keeps the sample thread going with Rochelle Jordan and X.A Preto on Doing It Too, and Manny Norté and Äyanna on Can We Make It Real? — two different flips on the same Mystic Brew chord bed, played back to back so the room catches the connection.

Stone's crate favorites

In between all of that, Stone dropped in a few more just to fill out the set — some perennial favorites from his digital crate that he comes back to no matter what the theme is.

Eternal Life

First up: Eternal Life (iLLHouse Edit) by The Clark Sisters — gospel harmonies pushed through a four-on-the-floor edit, only on SoundCloud in Stone's version.

Feelin You

Second: Feelin You (C-Sick House Remix) by Alicia Keys — another SoundCloud-only flip from the same late-set run.

Nights Like This

Stone calls Beverly Knight's Nights Like This remix a filler record that still works — the kind of track that keeps energy up without resetting the room.

The arc

That's the arc of this set: an anchor song, a chain of tracks that keep circling back to it, and a handful of old records getting flipped into something new. If you caught it live at The Lot Radio, thanks for being there. The full May seventeenth timestamped setlist — all thirty-six rows — lives in the setlist below. Watch the complete DJ set in the player above, or open the archive on The Lot Radio.