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list: List of plays
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GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=600
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This song also sampled the vocals from Impetigo's 1992 \"Defiling the Grave\" from their album \"Horror of the Zombies.\" (Perfect for Halloween!)\n--\n“Bash in your head with 10 full cans of Campbell’s soup / I’m on the roof and I let the pigeons out the chicken coop.”", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571866, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571866/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-30T15:15:23-07:00", "show": 64976, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64976/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/162df6cb-83b8-4fc2-b1df-311b8283ec06/35837859169-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/162df6cb-83b8-4fc2-b1df-311b8283ec06/35837859169-250.jpg", "song": "Shack Up", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "08d2c7f4-8214-491e-a1c9-236d724a2618", "artist": "A Certain Ratio", "artist_ids": [ "73577e86-4da8-4d76-949d-34c757e053be" ], "album": "Do the Du", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "ef21dbd7-dbc6-310f-9ad3-1fc13083f5c2", "labels": [ "Factory America" ], "label_ids": [ "b7561f44-a134-4e5a-a600-515dfd24becf" ], "release_date": "1981-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This was A Certain Ratio's 1980 cover of the original 1975 original from Banbarra.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571865, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571865/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-30T15:13:42-07:00", "show": 64976, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64976/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Shack Up", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "f106cb62-1bba-4bdc-807e-a61f940af942", "artist": "Banbarra", "artist_ids": [ "043f7a48-a53e-4394-af4e-e2de2b21356d" ], "album": "Blue Break Beats, Volume 4", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "928186ce-df8c-3eea-9a8c-d20937731689", "labels": [ "Blue Note" ], "label_ids": [ "713c4a95-6616-442b-9cf6-14e1ddfd5946" ], "release_date": "1999-02-09", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Based in Washington D.C., Banbarra was essentially two men – co-writers Moe Daniels and Joe “Bunny” Carter – and some uncredited session musicians.\n--\nCo-writers Moe Daniels and Joe “Bunny” Carter, the only credited artists on the 7-inch label, built “Shack Up” from Carter’s lyrics and a Daniels instrumental then titled “Boogie on the Other Side of Town.” And the pieces that made the song a DJ favorite – John Cannon’s extended, slippery-on-the-one drum break and Steve Moody’s grease-gun bassline – were largely assembled and put to tape in one day.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571864, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571864/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-30T15:08:58-07:00", "show": 64976, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64976/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://www.kexp.org/filer/canonical/1588181844/22496/", "thumbnail_uri": "https://www.kexp.org/filer/canonical/1588181847/22497/", "song": "Shook Ones, Pt.II", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "11dcebfd-4faa-4c8c-a405-fe73c3f094b3", "artist": "Mobb Deep", "artist_ids": [ "d75d1f08-bbb8-4eae-9877-399ca9121197" ], "album": "Live on KEXP", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "KEXP" ], "label_ids": [ "89e0503e-96f0-41b4-835f-2c542b7fcb44" ], "release_date": "2014-04-22", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Larry was the host when MobbDeep performed this one live in our studio in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifhrSc5Ke5g\n--\nThis song was profiled on our 50 Years of Hip-Hop podcast: https://www.kexp.org/podcasts/50-years-of-hip-hop/2023/9/20/1995-shook-ones-pt-ii-by-mobb-deep/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571863, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571863/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-30T15:05:57-07:00", "show": 64976, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64976/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Kitty With the Bent Frame", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "0c08d315-f2bc-48ee-87c1-d5479817b0ce", "artist": "Quincy Jones", "artist_ids": [ "5803c81e-739a-4057-9a5c-cf84e55db630" ], "album": "$ (Music From the Original Motion Picture Sound Track)", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "a227c354-705e-31ab-8da9-4fc9962c0d09", "labels": [ "Rhino" ], "label_ids": [ "c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4" ], "release_date": "1972-03-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Kitty With the Bent Frame\" is a piece from the 1971 film score Dollar$, composed by Quincy Jones. It is famous for being used in the song \"Shook Ones, Part II\" by Mobb Deep on their album \"The Infamous.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571862, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571862/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-30T15:01:40-07:00", "show": 64976, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64976/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Girl Let Me Touch You", "track_id": "8e1b869b-32f6-3de0-a850-1c91fff41611", "recording_id": "8c33ce1f-0b80-4751-aa2f-26f5e6848e61", "artist": "Dr. Octagon", "artist_ids": [ "3eba5e02-780b-4acd-befb-d23a0c6708dd" ], "album": "Instrumentalyst: Octagon Beats", "release_id": "bbef909f-9016-4e4a-9024-d2609a0549fb", "release_group_id": "76bfe713-ca0a-313b-b4cc-80b150514070", "labels": [ "DreamWorks Records" ], "label_ids": [ "d4751e8e-aa7f-4670-b8a3-4a861bcffa0d" ], "release_date": "1997-04-29", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "It's difficult to post many samples of the lyrics here, but you can read them, if you wish: https://genius.com/Dr-octagon-girl-let-me-touch-you-lyrics\n--\n\"Girl Let Me Touch You\" contains samples of \"Kitty With the Bent Frame\" by Quincy Jones, \"Strictly for the Ladies\" by Lord Finesse and DJ Mike Smooth and \"(Don''t Want No) Woman\" by Lee Michaels.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571861, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571861/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-30T14:58:21-07:00", "show": 64976, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64976/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The Creeper", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "bc323367-bfbd-4d11-a66c-e0e3780c5f66", "artist": "Young-Holt Unlimited", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Mellow Dreamin'", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "629b8de7-3dfc-317a-b4d0-f0ee21a6da7a", "labels": [ "Cotillion" ], "label_ids": [ "d97da6f0-c0ba-4a60-8fd5-fb8edab24d32" ], "release_date": "1970-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "That's piano player Ken Chaney here on \"The Creeper.\"\n--\nMultiple elements of this song were sampled for the previous song, \"Dr. Octagon.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571860, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571860/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-30T14:53:05-07:00", "show": 64976, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64976/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601904.us.archive.org/29/items/mbid-cddbf21f-9cd8-4665-a015-3cdc50cdcc72/mbid-cddbf21f-9cd8-4665-a015-3cdc50cdcc72-2925311149_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801904.us.archive.org/29/items/mbid-cddbf21f-9cd8-4665-a015-3cdc50cdcc72/mbid-cddbf21f-9cd8-4665-a015-3cdc50cdcc72-2925311149_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Dr. Octagon", "track_id": "04c3151d-30d4-325e-ac9b-e2aafc333280", "recording_id": "ac752c17-8ca8-4f40-83d0-4e65bedba153", "artist": "Dr. Octagon", "artist_ids": [ "3eba5e02-780b-4acd-befb-d23a0c6708dd" ], "album": "Dr. Octagonecologyst", "release_id": "cddbf21f-9cd8-4665-a015-3cdc50cdcc72", "release_group_id": "b38e21f6-8f76-3f87-a021-e91afad9e7e5", "labels": [ "DreamWorks Records" ], "label_ids": [ "d4751e8e-aa7f-4670-b8a3-4a861bcffa0d" ], "release_date": "1997-04-29", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Phillip Collington, Jr. is an American rapper from Manhattan, New York. He is known by a variety of stage names, with the most notable of which being Sir Menelik, Scaramanga, and Cyclops 4000.\n--\nEnjoy both his and Kool Keith's raps on Dr. Octagon: https://genius.com/Dr-octagon-dr-octagon-lyrics", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571859, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571859/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-30T14:48:59-07:00", "show": 64976, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64976/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801905.us.archive.org/16/items/mbid-33d5ef96-7e45-49e6-9c87-cfdbe4738c91/mbid-33d5ef96-7e45-49e6-9c87-cfdbe4738c91-4438613558_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601905.us.archive.org/16/items/mbid-33d5ef96-7e45-49e6-9c87-cfdbe4738c91/mbid-33d5ef96-7e45-49e6-9c87-cfdbe4738c91-4438613558_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II)", "track_id": "1c2c2266-313f-3ee3-bba2-fe4d76148924", "recording_id": "0f037237-8d31-4f58-8660-c83f611362d6", "artist": "Handsome Boy Modeling School feat. DJ Shadow & DJ Quest", "artist_ids": [ "c3f99319-52c7-47f2-9631-10bc7cc8c589", "efa2c11a-1a35-4b60-bc1b-66d37de88511", "62c6c34f-0098-48d4-9396-a1cd503023c6" ], "album": "So… How’s Your Girl?", "release_id": "33d5ef96-7e45-49e6-9c87-cfdbe4738c91", "release_group_id": "a8483d23-8a58-343b-9b0d-53119254c174", "labels": [ "Tommy Boy Music" ], "label_ids": [ "25782561-07e5-453b-b2e9-6a7c39f86a3e" ], "release_date": "1999-10-19", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This is the second in a four-part series based on the Dan the Automator production of \"Bear Witness.\" \n--\n“Bear Witness III,” unfortunately, got lost in a label-merging between MCA and Geffen and never made it onto an official album (besides the original soundtrack for snowboarding game SSX 3) and therefore can only be scavenged from YouTube.\n\nAutomator fittingly concluded the series with “Bear Witness IV” being found on Dr. Octagon’s final album in 2018, \"Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571858, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571858/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-30T14:45:59-07:00", "show": 64976, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64976/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801904.us.archive.org/29/items/mbid-cddbf21f-9cd8-4665-a015-3cdc50cdcc72/mbid-cddbf21f-9cd8-4665-a015-3cdc50cdcc72-2925311149_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601904.us.archive.org/29/items/mbid-cddbf21f-9cd8-4665-a015-3cdc50cdcc72/mbid-cddbf21f-9cd8-4665-a015-3cdc50cdcc72-2925311149_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Bear Witness", "track_id": "217d3631-c884-3d98-a2c1-78c38e55d065", "recording_id": "8511e556-6abc-48d5-b9d9-54c34d496e77", "artist": "Dr. Octagon", "artist_ids": [ "3eba5e02-780b-4acd-befb-d23a0c6708dd" ], "album": "Dr. Octagonecologyst", "release_id": "cddbf21f-9cd8-4665-a015-3cdc50cdcc72", "release_group_id": "b38e21f6-8f76-3f87-a021-e91afad9e7e5", "labels": [ "DreamWorks Records" ], "label_ids": [ "d4751e8e-aa7f-4670-b8a3-4a861bcffa0d" ], "release_date": "1997-04-29", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Bear Witness\" sampled the hook from Eddie Harris's \"Turbulence.\" The song also sampled the vocals from \"Funky\" from the Ultramagnetic MC's. \n--\nOn “Bear Witness,” Dan The Automator blacks out with the turntables, showing off his technique.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571857, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571857/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-30T14:43:00-07:00", "show": 64976, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64976/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Turbulence", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "e68a2d0d-85a5-47e1-95dc-09f3b176ac44", "artist": "Eddie Harris", "artist_ids": [ "f9ba6d40-60f3-4c85-ac23-0bf67c3247e4" ], "album": "Excursions", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "560a1ab8-9f71-376b-a743-0e5c7aed8bff", "labels": [ "Atlantic" ], "label_ids": [ "50c384a2-0b44-401b-b893-8181173339c7" ], "release_date": "1973-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"They’re killin’ it. [The band here includes pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, Ronald Muldrow, bassist Rufus Reid, and drummer Billy James. —Ed.] When I hear “Turbulence,” I feel him with me all the time. The other thing is how fluid they are; they go from high-quality free to high-quality swinging, then to the funk, back to free. I like the statement he made; it was like, anti-box. That’s the kind of music I make. Crazy.\" --Georgia Anne Muldrow talking about this song, \"Turbulence\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571856, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571856/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-30T14:39:06-07:00", "show": 64976, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64976/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801904.us.archive.org/29/items/mbid-cddbf21f-9cd8-4665-a015-3cdc50cdcc72/mbid-cddbf21f-9cd8-4665-a015-3cdc50cdcc72-2925311149_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801904.us.archive.org/29/items/mbid-cddbf21f-9cd8-4665-a015-3cdc50cdcc72/mbid-cddbf21f-9cd8-4665-a015-3cdc50cdcc72-2925311149_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Technical Difficulties", "track_id": "6770aa34-c6de-3937-bb64-5c5b055b561b", "recording_id": "2a039adb-a066-46c6-af06-12bbddfea99a", "artist": "Dr. Octagon", "artist_ids": [ "3eba5e02-780b-4acd-befb-d23a0c6708dd" ], "album": "Dr. Octagonecologyst", "release_id": "cddbf21f-9cd8-4665-a015-3cdc50cdcc72", "release_group_id": "b38e21f6-8f76-3f87-a021-e91afad9e7e5", "labels": [ "DreamWorks Records" ], "label_ids": [ "d4751e8e-aa7f-4670-b8a3-4a861bcffa0d" ], "release_date": "1997-04-29", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Dr. Octagon began when Kool Keith and KutMasta Kurt recorded two songs, “Dr. Octagon” and “Technical Difficulties”, in 1996 These songs were sent to radio stations as a teaser, as well as to Bay Area legend, Dan “The Automator” Nakamura. This sparked Dan’s attention, which ultimately led to the formation of Dr. Octagon and the recording of their first album, \"Dr. Octagonecologyst.\"\n--\nSampling the drums from Love's \"Doggone.\" It also samples the vocals (\"Please Stand By\") by renowned announcer Don Pardo.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571855, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571855/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-30T14:32:43-07:00", "show": 64976, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64976/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/f33794dc-f641-4d0d-92ed-d4355d34566b/14561549809-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/f33794dc-f641-4d0d-92ed-d4355d34566b/14561549809-250.jpg", "song": "Doggone", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "6a06603d-1bf1-4d0d-a86c-eb3818610aef", "artist": "Love", "artist_ids": [ "34ec9a8d-c65b-48fd-bcdd-aad2f72fdb47" ], "album": "Out Here", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "6502790c-8d9e-3f68-82e6-8a451bf983a8", "labels": [ "MCA Records" ], "label_ids": [ "46a3941a-c810-47a1-974f-955effec4d09" ], "release_date": "1969-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This wonderful tune was written and sung by Arthur Lee. 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