Vinyl Appreciation - 3/28, Indigo Arts Center

I'm rounding up a bunch of Savannah's coolest DJs to host an early evening session where we play all the awesome records that we never get to play at bars or parties because of the audience demands. Bring your sweater because it'll be cool. Deep cuts. Excellent selectors spanning genres and styles. Come hang out. Take it easy on a Sunday evening and check out some music you might not know.

It all goes March 28, 5pm at the Indigo Arts Center (703D Louisville Rd, Savannah GA). $3 at the door, with all proceeds benefitting the space (which is a non-profit dedicated to keeping a low-cost performance space open) and the Savannah Urban Arts Festival, which runs April 18-25, and will be chainless. SUAF still has a few days left for artist submissions, so if you're in the southeast and you make music, art, film/video or whatever, go to the website and fill out an application.

Facebook Event Page. 

Phays - The Excellent Adventure Vol. 1

A nice blend of breaks, jazz, garage, psych and a dash of reggae I just finished. No fancy DJ work, just a taste of some nicely selected music. There's 60+ cuts broken up into 4 tracks. I'd rather not take the time and space to post the contents here, but feel free to email me if you want the full tracklist.

This is the advance release prior to a new EP of original stuff in the works called Listening Habit that should be done in late spring.

Download.

Or listen first:

Here You Are - Phays


Lets Go to the Road House - Phays


Can You Feel It? - Phays


A Few Too Many Drinks With Friends - Phays

From the Crates - Dennis Coffey

Do you need to feel the funk? Guard your face, cuz here it comes!



Bam!

Dennis Coffey's "Some Like It Hot," off his 1975 record Finger Lickin' Good, which gets my vote for any list of great album covers:



Mr. Coffey was pretty heavily sampled during the Golden Era, particularly his earlier records. This is only a partial list:

Evolution: (Sussex 1971)
“Scorpio” (Drums)
Busy Bee’s “Old School”
Double D & Steinski’s “Lesson 3”
Geto Boys’s “Do it Like a G.O.”
LL Cool J’s “Jinglin' Baby”
Lord Finesse’s “Keep it Flowing”
Mos Def’s “Universal Magnetic”
Professor Griff’s “Bro Kemit Splitting Atoms in the Corporate War Zone”
Public Enemy’s “Night of the Living Baseheads”
Queen Latifah’s “Mama Gave Birth to the Soul Children”
Roni Size’s “Share the Fall”
Rage Against the Machine's "Renegades of Funk"
Young MC's "Bust a Move”

“Getting it On”
Beastie Boys’s “What Comes Around”
Ed OG’s “Dat Ain't Right”
Public Enemy’s “You're Gonna Get Yours”

“Whole Lot of Love”
Diamond D’s “No Wonduh (The Projects)”

Goin for Myself: (Sussex 1972)
“Ride Sally Ride”
LL Cool J’s “Big Ole Butt”
Ultramagnetic MCs’s “Feelin' It”
Ultramagnetic MCs’s “Kool Keith Housing Things”

Electric Coffey: (Sussex 1972)
“Son of Scorpio”
Busy Bee’s “Old School”

Black Belt Jones soundtrack: (Warner Bros 1974)
“Theme from Black Belt Jones”
Lakim Shabazz’s “Sample the Dope Noise”
LL Cool J’s “Jinglin' Baby”

From the Crates - Dorothy Ashby

I've been working on a new mix of groovy ephemera that spans decade and continent, and in the process have stumbled across some stuff that I either forgot I had or got but never fully appreciated. Enjoy.



The first installment is Dorothy Ashby's "Come Live With Me" off the lost classic Afro-Harping. You'll have to search far and wide to find a clean version of this on vinyl, but I think Verve recently released it on CD/Digital, so go find the whole album. It is fluid, visual music from one of the finest jazz harpists to ever grace the studio or stage. She played with Stevie Wonder and a host of greats.

Come Live With Me - Dorothy Ashby