Attic from Da Grassroots”, Seven said, chiming in quickly. The gentleman introduced himself as Attic. He was joined shortly by an unassuming cat with a bag full of records.
Filling in for him that week was a dude who introduced himself as Seven. One week I turned up and Jeremy wasn’t there. It wasn’t long before pestering Jeremy on the phone every 5 mins for song titles turned into hanging out at the station and pestering him in person. Show creator Jeremy “Beatdawg” Weisfeld would blow my mind every week with source material for my favourite Pete Rock, Tribe and Large Professor songs with a level of insider knowledge I hadn’t encountered up until that point. One of my favourite shows was called “Soul by the Pound” – a program dedicated to playing the soul, jazz, funk and rock songs that inspired the hip-hop songs of the era.
It was my first year attending York and my favourite pastime had quickly become loitering around the campus/community radio station before, between and after classes. Attic at York University’s 105.5 FM in ’95.
