Most Wanted
The handful of Monkey Radio tracks that have so far defeated every search — station exclusives, lost media, and ghosts with no album behind them.
Much of the rotation has been tracked down. These haven’t.
These are the tracks for which I only have a story: no label, no Discogs entry, no storefront, sometimes barely a confirmed name. They’re station exclusives, lost media, or both….and every lead I’ve chased has so far hit a wall.
If you recognize any of these - know the artist, remember the release, or (best of all) have a copy - please ping me on Reddit. Even a half-memory might be the thread that unravels one of these. Here’s everything I’ve managed to dig up so far.
LeBlioux of sacreBLIOUX — “Pimpin2k1 Soundtrack” (San Francisco)
A San Francisco? DJ, circa 2001, who turns up in old trip-hop forum threads but has no formal release data anywhere I’ve found. The track lived as a custom mix at monkeyradio.org/pimpin2k1/ for a bit.
As far as I can tell, this was never a commercial release at all. It appears to be a station-exclusive DJ mix (specifically, a recording of the DJ playing the station creator’s birthday party in 2001). For a while it was mirrored on the station creator’s personal website, badmotherfucker.org, but that’s long since gone. No album, no storefront, no sourcing path.
Samelico — “Pepper Sweet”
Tagged downtempo / dream on Last.fm, where “Pepper Sweet” is Samelico’s most-listened-to track (202 listeners) — but with zero album metadata attached to it.
Discogs is a dead end: a search for “samelico” returns 0 results, and “pepper sweet” only surfaces likely-unrelated drum-and-bass and tech-house tracks by other artists. If I had to guess, the artist name, track name, or both were mangled or incorrect. The station played it; the rest of the internet barely remembers it.
The only guess I’ve got right now is that Samelico might just be the scrobbler handle (this was the case for Pointers - Ooby, which turned out to be Plaid - Ooh be do, a former Most Wanted). For example, it could perhaps be Art Pepper - Sweet Love of Mine (1976)…but that’s straight jazz and slightly out-of-band for this station.
Asphaltmotherflame — “Breathing Over Kiss”
Not found anywhere. The Wayback Machine’s capture of mp3.com confirms the artist existed under that name (artist ID 37). Last.fm logs a grand total of 28 scrobbles (14 of them “Breathing Over Kiss,”) and most of those trace straight back to Monkey Radio listeners.
IUMA archived three of the artist’s tracks, pointing to an implied 2000 album called Shake Yourself Loose (on archive.org). But this particular track? It may simply be lost media.
Got something on any of these? Reach out on Reddit — I’ll update the hunt notes (and the station) the moment a lead pans out.
