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Welcome to Episode #30 of the 90s State of Mind podcast - a collaborative project between 4ever in Electric Dreams and Blue-in-Green:RADIO. This podcast series sees Imran (London, UK) and Rhonda (California, USA) delve into some of their favourite releases from the 90s and for this episode, the pair celebrate the second full-length album from Usher, 'My Way'.

Released on 16th September, 1997, through LaFace Records, Usher's sophomore release saw him follow-up on his self-titled debut from 1994 earning him mammoth breakthrough and international recognition.  Spearheaded by the singles 'You Make Me Wanna', 'Nice and Slow' and 'My Way', the album achieved a seven-times platinum certification, and has sold over seven million copies worldwide.  'You Make Me Wanna' earned Usher a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance while 'My Way' also received a Male Album of the Year nomination at the 1998 Billboard Music Awards. To further promote the album, Usher served as an opening act for Mary J. Blige on her Share My World Tour and for Janet Jackson on The Velvet Rope Tour. 

Imran & Rhonda delve deep into the album's make-up exploring the singles and collaborations plus discussion veers into Usher's debut release, the difficulty of teenage artists finding their identity and breaking through plus we discuss the transition of Usher's work with Sean Combs to Jermaine Dupri and ponder the what if of a Babyface-helmed Usher album.

Welcome to Episode #29 of the 90s State of Mind podcast - a collaborative project between 4ever in Electric Dreams and Blue-in-Green:RADIO. This podcast series sees Imran (London, UK) and Rhonda (California, USA) delve into some of their favourite releases from the 90s and for this episode, the pair celebrate the third full-length album from Whitney Houston, 'I'm Your Baby Tonight'.

Released on 6th November, 1990, on Arista Records, Houston's third album saw her take a decided shift towards more R&B and swing beat stylings following the mammoth pop success of her previous album 'Whitney'.  Working alongside Babyface & LA Reid, Stevie Wonder and Luther Vandross, the album became a global commercial success reaching number three on the Billboard 200, whilst staying inside the top ten of that chart for 22 weeks.  The same album topped the Top R&B Albums chart accumulating eight cumulative weeks atop the chart, outperforming the six-week run from her debut. The album spawned six single releases and would top the year-end 1991 lists of Billboard and Cashbox magazine as the top selling R&B album of the year. 

Imran & Rhonda delve deep into the album's make-up exploring the singles and collaborations and the shift in Whitney's music from the commercial smash that was her second album.  Conversation also veers to Houston's incredible successes of the 90s including movies 'The Bodyguard', 'Waiting to Exhale' and 'The Preacher's Wife'.

Welcome to Episode #16 of the 4ever in Electric Dreams & CONFESSIONS OF A CURLY MIND co-production - Supple & Lean | A Geekcast.

Presented by Imran Mirza from London, UK, and Vahé Vishapakagh Koshayan from Melbourne, Australia, for this episode we delve into the classic 90s series, Due South. Created by the esteemed Paul Haggis (screenwriter for the Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Crash (2005), along with the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008)), the show followed the adventures of Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Benton Fraser, who first comes to Chicago on the trail of the killers of his father, and has remained, attached as liaison with the Canadian Consulate while also working alongside a detective of the Chicago Police Department to solve crimes. The show ran between 1994-1999 and spawned four seasons.

Part 2 of our Due South deep dive finds Vahé and Imran exploring the 18-part season 2.  As part of this episode's discussion, we reference an excellent article about the show which you can find on Canadian History Ehx (https://canadaehx.com/2022/12/13/due-south/) which provides fascinating insight and behind the scenes news that we touch on for this episode.

Today's episode features an original song from Supple & Lean to commemorate the departure of Ray Vecchio (David Marciano) 'Thank You Kindly, Ray'.

Welcome to Episode #15 of the 4ever in Electric Dreams & CONFESSIONS OF A CURLY MIND co-production - Supple & Lean | A Geekcast.

Presented by Imran Mirza from London, UK, and Vahé Vishapakagh Koshayan from Melbourne, Australia, for this episode we delve into the classic 90s series, Due South.  Created by the esteemed Paul Haggis (screenwriter for the Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Crash (2005), along with the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008)), the show followed the adventures of Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Benton Fraser, who first comes to Chicago on the trail of the killers of his father, and has remained, attached as liaison with the Canadian Consulate while also working alongside a detective of the Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.  The show ran between 1994-1999 and spawned four seasons.

Part 1 of our Due South deep dive finds Vahé and Imran exploring the 22-part season 1 as they unpack the dynamics between its two incredible leads in Paul Gross and David Marciano, the show's fantastic music along with its excellent balance of comedy, drama and tinges of fantasy.  Today's episode features an original song from Supple & Lean featuring Franklin Rayzer for 'A Mountie's Lament'.

Welcome to Episode #28 of the 90s State of Mind podcast - a collaborative project between 4ever in Electric Dreams and Blue-in-Green:RADIO. This podcast series sees Imran (London, UK) and Rhonda (California, USA) delve into some of their favourite releases from the 90s and for this episode, the pair celebrate the fifth and final album by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, 'Code Red'.

Released on October 12, 1993, on Jive Records, the album peaked at number sixty-four on the Billboard 200 and number thirty-nine on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. On January 14, 1994, the Recording Industry Association of America certified the album gold. Four singles reached the Billboard charts; "Boom! Shake the Room", "I'm Looking for the One (To Be with Me)", "I Wanna Rock", and "Can't Wait to Be with You".  

Imran & Rhonda delve deep into the album's make-up exploring the singles, collaborators, and discuss the notion of positive feel-good hip-hop versus the burgeoning edgier sounds that would ultimately captivate audiences and dominate chart success in the 90s.

Welcome to an extra special episode of the 90s State of Mind podcast - a collaborative project between 4ever in Electric Dreams and Blue-in-Green:RADIO. Typically, this podcast series sees Imran (London, UK) and Rhonda (California, USA) delve into some of their favourite releases from the 90s through long-form explorations into the albums and artists... 

For a minor change in proceedings, we thought we'd pay homage to the albums that have been showcased across all episodes thus far by featuring our first mixtape boasting a selection of tracks across all albums.  It's a delicious slice of 90s nostalgia as we navigate the realms of 90s R&B, soul, neo-soul and hip-hop with music from #GrooveTheory #LaurynHill #DigablePlanets #NotoriousBIG #Brandy #LutherVandross #Kelis #Aaliyah #DAngelo + more...

With more podcast episodes in the works, we hope you'll enjoy the mix and feel free to catch-up on past episodes as well.

Welcome to Episode #26 of the 90s State of Mind podcast - a collaborative project between 4ever in Electric Dreams and Blue-in-Green:RADIO. This podcast series sees Imran (London, UK) and Rhonda (California, USA) delve into some of their favourite releases from the 90s and for this episode, the pair celebrate the sophomore album release of Erykah Badu's 'Mama's Gun'.

Released on November 18, 2000, by Motown Records, the album was largely recorded at the Electric Lady Studios in New York City with the Soulquarians at the project's helm.  Spearheaded by the singles 'Bag Lady', 'Didn't Cha Know' and 'Cleva', Badu explored themes of love, self-worth and social equity across the album's 14 tracks.  The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America four weeks after release, denoting shipments of one million units in the US. 'Mama's Gun' became Badu's first top-10 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 by peaking at number six, and earned two nominations at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards (2001).

Imran & Rhonda delve deep into the album's make-up exploring the singles, collaborators and Badu's growth from 'Baduizm'.

In support of the team's typical alphabetical foray into 90's hip-hop nostalgia, the A-Z til Infinity series will now be introducing a series of bonus episodes affording us the platform to speak more broadly on specific topics.  

With upcoming episodes that will see us delve into hip-hop's range of 90s music videos that saw the full range of do-it-yourself productions eventually scaling all the way up to the infamous Hype Williams era of $1million epics; we also have upcoming discussions that will find us delve deeper into a selection of our favourite hip-hop DJs and producers that painted the golden era's very canvas.

Before then however, let's we're turning our attention to two of the decade's most divisive icons in MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice.  At the height of their respective popularity, a transition to the silver screen seemed the logical way to capitalise upon their success so we were eventually treated to MC Hammer's 'Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em' in 1990 and 'Cool as Ice' in 1991.

A lengthy discussion unfolds within the team as we unpack the pair's popularity, view and discuss both films and consider whether history has been kind to each's contributions to hip-hop.

​Welcome to Episode #14 of the 4ever in Electric Dreams & CONFESSIONS OF A CURLY MIND co-production - Supple & Lean | A Geekcast.

Presented by Imran Mirza from London, UK, and Vahé Vishapakagh Koshayan from Melbourne, Australia, for this episode we continue our run of two-movie reviews, this time delving into 'Gentlemen Broncos' (2009) and 'Stretch' (2014). Written by Jared and Jerusha Hess, the film stars Michael Angarano, Jermaine Clement, Jennifer Coolidge and Sam Rockwell and focuses on an aspiring teenage author whose fantasy story is plagiarized. Written and directed by Joe Carnahan, 'Stretch' stars Patrick Wilson, Ed Helms, James Badge Dale, Brooklyn Decker, Jessica Alba and Chris Pine. The film focuses on Wilson's aspiring actor and limo driver whose night unravels into a series of madcap adventures when he picks up an eccentric millionaire.

The show today features two original songs from Supple & Lean featuring Steelfoot Lucius for 'Mah NADS!' and Klayford Moseley who guests on 'Survive Another Day'.