Vintage Africa, part one

Something new. Lots of deep cuts from 1960s-70s.  Download the mix and unmixed versions here. 

Vintage Africa Mix, part one by Classyindividual on Mixcloud

Tracklist:

Hugh Masekela - Afro Beat Blues

Pierre Antoine - Alaca Noun Min

Lijado Sisters - Life’s Gone Down Low

Martial Droubly & L’Ivoiro Stars - You Dji N’indje

P.R.O. (People’s Rock Outfit) - Blacky Joe

Orchestral Baobab - Aduna Jaral Naawo

Charlotte Dada - Don’t Let Me Down

Royal Band de Thies - N’dongo Dara

Wali & The Afro Caravan - Hail the King

Le Diamono - M’diane Kandiourane

Bola Johnson - Lagos Sisi

Roger Damawuzan - Wait for Me

Keyboard - Tomorrow We Can’t Say

Ogyatanaa Show Band - Disco Africa 

The Hygrades - Rough Rider

Marijata - We Live in Peace

Segun Bucknor - Smoke

Merry Christmas

The funky side of Christmas.

Have Yourself a Funky Little Christmas by Classyindividual on Mixcloud

Tracklist:
James Brown - Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year
Carla Thomas - Gee Whiz It's Christmas
Otis Redding - Merry Christmas, Baby
Booker T & The MGs - Winter Wonderland
Charles Brown - Please Come Home for Christmas
Joe Tex - I'll Make Every Day Christmas (For My Woman)
Staples Singers - Who Took the Merry Out of Christmas?
Earl Grant - Silver Bells
Binky Griptite - Stone Soul Christmas
Dilinger - Hi Fashion Christmas
The Heptones - Christmas Time is Here
Soul Saint Orchestra - Santa's Got a Bag of Soul
James Brown - Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto
Clarence Carter - Backdoor Santa
Rufus Thomas - I'll Be Your Santa, Baby
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects
Otis & Carla - New Year's Resolution

Bunch of 45s, Volume 2

I've been working on digitizing my 45 collection, and it's been a wonderful opportunity for spontaneous curation. Here's a few gems from the last batch of recordings. 

Tracklist

Donnie Elbert - I Got to Get Myself Together

Ray Charles & His Band - Green Backs

Carter Bros. - Booze in a Bottle

Tony Clarke - Woman, Love a Man

Arthur Alexander - Black Knight

Hot Sauce - I'll Kill a Brick (About a Man)

Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can Can 

Funkadelic - Biological Speculation

Okieextremist Moondog - Reefer Blues

The Temptations - Cloud Nine

Paul Humphries & His Cool Chemists - Detroit

Aretha Franklin - Rocksteady

James Brown - I Got Ants in My Pants

Kool & The Gang - Funky Stuff

Brick - Push Push

Tony Camillo's Bazooka - Dynomite

Rick James - Hollywood

Lonnie Liston Smith - Space Lady

Windy City - Spank

Man Parrish - Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)

DL. 

A Bunch of 45s: Volume One

After going without records for a month or two during the process of moving to a new apartment, once we got settled, I had a renewed interest in digitizing my 45 collection. Here's a few gems I uncovered in the process. 

Tracklist:

Shirley & Lee - Let the Good Times Roll

39-21-46 - The Showmen

Little Junior Parker - In the Dark 

Toussaint McCall - Shimmy

Kasandra - Don't Pat me the Back and Call Me Brother

Undisputed Truth - Mama, I Got a Brand New Thing

The Emotions - Boss Love Maker

Louis Curry - I'll Try Again Tomorrow

Charles Brown - Just a Blessing

Candi Staton - Never in Public

Peggy Scott & JoJo Benson - Soulshake

Ronnie Dove - Cry

Teardrops - You Won't Be There

The Peppers - Pepper Box

Giorgio Moroder - Paul's Theme (Jogging Chase)

Billy Cobham - Bolinas

Yambu - Sonny

John Williams - Close Encounters Theme (Disco Version)

John & Ernest - Superfly Meets Shaft

DL

A brief history of sampling

well done
Eclectic Method - A Brief History of Sampling from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

Mostly 45s

Get weird. Get funky. Get this all-vinyl (and mostly 45s) mix from DJ Ray B. down in Savannah, GA. Shout out to everyone at Vinyl Appreciation. 

Beet Stew Volume 5

Oh yeah. This is how I like to get down. Funky with a dub backbone and a rhythm piano. 

Holiday Soul

Jon Doe finds time in his busy schedule to grace you with the only holiday music you need - the stone cold soul variety. 

Arzachel

Remember when DangerMouse flipped this for the DangerDoom record? That was cool.

Galactic x Mystikal & Mannie Fresh

Some Louisiana hot sauce right hurr. Funk jammers Galactic mix it up with Mystikal and Mannie Fresh. Too bad Mystikal is back in jail, because nobody comes close to his delivery.

via Fader 

J.Rocc's Quantic Mix

 Here's a good bet. Let J.Rocc take 10 years worth of Will Holland's musical output and turn it into a 40 minute mix. Go ahead and get down.
Best Of Quantic Mix by J.Rocc by Tru Thoughts

[via Hypetrack]

Vinyl Appreciation

Check out Kris' set of funky, psych-y goodness from January's Vinyl Appreciation event at Muse Arts.

01-30-11 Kris' Set - Vinyl Appr. by Vinylappreciationsav on Mixcloud

Vinyl Appreciation will celebrate it's one year anniversary in April as the closing night of the Savannah Urban Arts Festival - 8 days of film, music, dance, poetry, art and more. The call for entries to artists is open through early March, so if you're down in the Southeast and looking to come kick it and do your thing, here's a chance. Got an idea for something, but lack a venue to do it in? Hit us up.  Click here for info.

Pat's Jam by Seven Seas

I found a copy of this 45 at the SCAD Record Fair last weekend (although I wasn't the one who made this YouTube video).


It's one of several Glades label 45s I've turned up during recent digs, and all of them have been awesome, so I started doing a little research. Found out that Henry Stone worked Glade for a while. He also worked with King to sign James Brown for "Please, Please, Please" - put Jimmy Bo Horne and Betty Wright on Alston - and later introduced KC and the Sunshine Band on TK. He distributed some of the best disco in the South during 70s. Here's an excellent bio of Stone.

Start the weekend off with some funk

Just in case you needed either some serious funk, or a great drum sample, check out "Smokin' at Tiffany's" by Funk Inc.



Grab a copy here.

Because what do you do after you've had breakfast at Tiffany's, you start smokin' at Tiffany's...or at least you did in the 70s back when cigarettes weren't yet outed as major health risks.

Who's gonna start the party?

Oh, yeah. Candido's gonna start the party.



While you're listening, ponder who approved that cover art...His jewelry is straight off the set of the first Conan movie, a shirt might have been tasteful, and the red lighting lends the scene a hellish quality. It's probably a sin to be so funky...

Grab a copy here.

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