A selection of jazz, hip-hop, funk, disco, latin covers, poorly-mastered bootlegs and a few stunning re-edits this month - finishing off with some very tasty electronica. Plenty of new tunes here to get your teeth into, along with a few old favourites. Enjoy!
Tracklist:
Je$u$ - Begin
Rise - Messages Pt.1
Ramsey Lewis Trio - Slippin' Into Darkness
Bonnie Banane - Muscles
Bird feat. Little Brother & Notes To Self - Still Shine
Dexter - Once Back Again (Tune In)
LTJ Xperience - Get Down
Otis Redding x Big Boi - Shutterbug (Gummy Soul Remix)
Quantic & Anita Tijou - Doo Wop (That Thing)
Panama Cardoon - Summer Of A Fool
Pimp Rekker - Mission & 24th
The Sequence - Funk You Up (Leftside Wobble Edit)
Tom Central - Hillbrook Boogie
Janet Jackson - If (Kaytranada Remix)
Michael Jackson - Rock With You (The Reflex Revision)
Medline feat. Roni Alkekengi - Everybody Loves The Sunshine
Kraak & Smaak - Keep On Searching
Dynamicron - 2 Hot
Thomass Jackson - You Get My Motor Running
MonkeyRobot - YBMJ
ARP101 & Elliot Yorke - Electric Lemonade
Mount Kimbie feat. King Krule - You Took Your Time
Back from another amazing weekend on Worthy Farm (not sure how they keep improving it year after year, but they do!) and managed to put together a couple of hours of Glastonbury highlights, as well as getting in a selection of new faves too.
Best served with a proper cider and the smell of portaloos wafting in the air...
Tracklist:
Metabeats & Ed Boogie - Caviar Crackle Intro
J-Felix feat. Jake Jon - The Green Light
The Guts - Smile At The Wrong Time
Bonobo - Ten Tigers
Letherette - She Shines
Metabeats feat. Vanity Jay - Rush / Peace
Badbadnotgood - Fall In Love
Major Lazer - Get Free (feat. Amber of Dirty Projectors)
The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By
Nas - The World Is Yours
Laura Mvula - Green Garden
Mount Kimbie - Before I Move Off
Tythe - Let The Dance End
Niles Phillips feat. Tonkin - Nose Dive
Todd Terje - Strandbar (Disko)
Black Magic Disco - First Avenue (Black Magic Disco Remix)
Jill Scott - Golden (Grant Nelson Remix)
Fleetwood Mac - You Make Loving Fun
Rodriguez - I Wonder
I Am Kloot - Proof
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Chic - Soup For One
Frankie Knuckles - Your Love
Prince - Gett Off (Houstyle)
Blackstreet - No Diggity (Bondax Edit)
Sergio Mendes - Love For Sale
Rodriguez - Sugar Man
Bobby Womack - Please Forgive My Heart
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
Some disco, house, bassline, wonk-hop, electronica, soul and quality downtempo bizzle on this month's show - enjoy!
Tracklist:
Amalia - Welcome To Me
Curtis Hairston - I Want Your Loving (Just A Little Bit) (John Morales M&M Mix)
War - Galaxy (J-ski Stone St. XL Extended)
Tata Vega - Get It Up For Love
Rephrase - Boulevard
Me & You - Hoop Loop (Sola Moderna Mix)
!!! - Slyd
Bondax - Baby I Got That (Justin Martin Remix)
Christophe - The Force (Julio Bashmore Remix)
Shadow Child feat. Tymer - 23
Sirius Mo - Cuba
Romare - Taste Of Honey (From The City)
Wagon Christ - Manalyze This!
Amin Payne - Space Cadillac
Mochipet feat. Spaceheater - Fool
Archie Bell & The Drells - Strategy (Re-Edit)
Onra - Long Distance
Metabeats feat. Vanity Jay - Passport
Codebase - Falling Bricks (LTJ X-perience Remix)
Clayton & Fulcrum - Soul Fan
Ed Wizard & Disco Double Dee - Inner City (Jazz Dub)
DJ Day - Boots In The Pool
Around7 - Kick It
Green Butter - Stove Top Borealis
S3 - Don't Stop
The Jones Girls - This Feeling's Killing Me
The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
Romantic evening planned? Hoping to woo the lady/man of your dreams? Or are you simply looking to spend an evening thrapping your
bonk-partner into sexytime oblivion? If you've answered "yes" to any of
these questions, you should consider listening to...
Incarnations - Let Love Find You Darondo - Sure Know How to Love Me Dwilt Sharpp feat. Lorett Fleur - I Need You Close Sylvia - Sweet Stuff Plantlife - What A World (Babygirl) Mr Day - If I Can Love You US Aries - Are You Ready to Come? (With Me) Pt 1 Al Green - I'm Glad You're Mine Minnie Riperton - Baby, This Love I Have Freddie Cruger feat. Linn - Pretty Little Thing D'Influence - Waiting (Young Soul Mix) DJ Cam - Summermadness Scheckter - Some Kind of Moanin' Uno - Diploma Häzel + Slakah the Beatchild - This Kero One The Producer - Space Cadets Patrice Rushen - Remind Me Dexter Wansel - The Sweetest Pain Raphael Saadiq - Skyy, Can You Feel Me Grover Washington Jr & Bill Withers - Just The Two Of Us
Happy new year!* I hope you had a lovely festive break with your families and loved ones - now it's time to work off the turkey (or continue to wallow in year-round cheese-induced heartburn misery - some of us belief this shit is for life, not just for christmas)...
There's not too much on the tear-your-face-off front this month and much of the first half of the show is given over to funk, hip-hop, disco and re-edits. We also have a Record Of The Month from The Allergies in the form of "Seven Days" - more infectious than norovirus but certainly far more pleasant - check the Heartbreaker EP preview out here (it's chock-full of winners).
I'm also bowled over by that Yannah Valdevit record (Zed Bias on co-production). Then again I always had a soft spot for Sweet Female Attitude too, so maybe i'm just a sucker for a girly voice over a shuffling garage beat. There's also some arms-in-the-air classic dance rejigging going on from the ever reliable Groove Motion (you can't miss it).
My sister Laura was tuned in and assured me it's "good music to do coursework to", so if you're in the same study/revision-mire as her at the moment, get stuck in and: good luck to you!
This show is dedicated to Fontella Bass (July 3, 1940 – December 26, 2012) - RIP.
Tracklist:
Tensei - Space Colony
Amin PaYnE feat. Roughsoul - Cosmic Planets
Plantlife - Your Love
Oddisee feat. Oliver Daysoul - That Real
Ab-Soul - Bohemian Grove
George Jackson - You Can't Make It No Better (ScratchAndSniff Re-Rub)
Hot 8 Brass Band - Ghost Town
Beck - Where It's At
Jim Ford - I'm Gonna Make Her Love Me
Bo Diddley - Hit Or Miss
James Brown - The Boss (Manik's Jo-Boogie Re-Edit)
Tommy McCook - KT88
Lyn Collins - Mr Big Stuff
David Bowie - Golden Years (The Reflex Stems Re-Vision)
Capitan Futuro - Freak The Groove
Quantic & Alice Russell with the Combo Barbaro - Magdalena (Behling & Simpson Remix)
Dubble D & Rakim - Soul Squelch (GW Mash)
The Allergies - Seven Days
Thomass Jackson - First Party Shoes
Amin PaYnE - Infinite Horizon
Stereo 77 - Buscando El Ritmo
St Germain - Rose Rough (Leftside Wobble Hustle & Bump Edit)
Tatham, Mensah, Lord & Ranks - Mr Pickles
Groove Motion - Come On In (Where Dub Lives)
Karma Kid - Lust Love
Yannah Valdevit - Pick Flowers
Artful Dodger ft. Lifford Shillingford - Please Don't Turn Me On (Disclosure Remix)
DYP & Rekab - Gunman
The Cinematic Orchestra feat. Fontella Bass - All That You Give
* The eagle-eyed/OCD-afflicted among you will have probably noticed the
lack of a December show. I did broadcast Electric Vindaloo last month,
but unfortunately the "studio" was hit by a powercut halfway through
which meant a big gaping hole in the middle of proceedings. In the end I
decided to abandon salvaging the recording and move on to a new month,
and indeed new year...
Yes yes, time for another episode of Electric Vindaloo. I had to pre-record this month's show which is always a bit weird, but added to that my mic died about 20mins into the recording...so most of it is just music. "Hooray", I hear you all cheer.
Shame though 'cos more than anything I wanted to harp on about how brilliant some of the tunes are. What you're going to have to do now is download and listen to the show yourself to work out which ones (clue: all of them).
Tracklist:
Gaslamp Killer - Dead Vets
Herma Puma feat. The Gent$ - Royal Flush (Tall Black Guy Remix)
Kan Kick - C.D.P. Funk Farm
Debruit - Gros
Bent - I Remember Johnny
DJ Yoda feat. Michael Winslow - Sound FX Man
Ozomatli - Cut Chemist Suite
Jean Paul 'El Troglodita' - Everything's Gonna Change
The Fatback Band - Backstrokin'
Photek - Quadrant
Disclosure - Lividup
Justin Jay - Femme Fatale
FaltyDL - Hardcourage
HxDB - Up (Pasteman Remix)
Zed Bias feat. Fyza - Rogue Frequency
Disclosure - What's In Your Head
Fatboy Slim - First Down
A-Trak & Zinc feat. Natalie Storm - Like The Dancefloor (Shadow Child Remix)
Martyn - Popgun
Ezquiel Lodeiro - El Latinazo (Arni Kristjansson Broken Remix)
Breakage - The Promise
Compound One - Flingback
Wax Romeo - How To Stop Smoking
Epcot - Grav I Be (B Bravo Remix)
Flying Lotus feat. Erykah Badu - See Thru To U
Teru - Time To Reinvent
Herma Puma - Love Sweet Love (Tom Central Remix)
Freddie Joachim - That's What's Up
Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician - Long Now
Cro-Magnon - Garactic Mellow (Grooveman Spot Mountain Mix)
Sepalcure - See Me Feel Me
The Magic In Threes - Trinity Way
Form an orderly queue for this month's installment of Electric Vindaloo! I kept things a bit more funkboogiediscocentric for the first half of this show, then we get a bit nasty in the second half before finishing you off with a wet palmful of downtempo bliss.
There's loads of new and noteworthy current faves: I make no apologies for that Jamie Grind take on Professor Green, the Nas and Amy Winehouse tune is mesmerizing, a WORLD EXCLUSIVE from The Happy Finnish, and: Mike Delinquent Project AND Lady Leshurr AND Zed Bias??! Rude not to. Surely something for everyone though, and there's a few old faves for the ageing raver too.
Pour a beverage of choice and get stuck in. Napkin essential.
Tracklist:
The Barrino Brothers - Livin' High Off The Goodness Of Your Love
Lukk feat. Felicia Collins - On The One
Christian Gaubert - Sweet Maryline
Nas feat. Amy Winehouse - Cherry Wine
Professor Green feat. Sierra Kuterbeck - Avalon (Jamie Grind Remix)
Matthew Dear - Her Fantasy
krampfhaft - Makin' Magic
Art Of The Memory Palace - Sun-Blinded Capsule Memory Haze (The Happy Finnish Hot Rub)
Space Dimension Controller - Transatlantic Landing Bay
Chicken Lips - D.R.O.M.P. (Robi Insinna-Headman Remix)
Daphni - Yes, I Know
Souleance - Boobs
Lisa Lisa - Let The Beat Hit Em (GM's 321 Edit)
Luke Vibert - Breakbeat Metal Music
Azealia Banks - Van Vogue
Frank Rodas - Kick It VIP
John Dahlback - Sing That
Mike Delinquent Project feat. Lady Leshurr - Step In The Dance (Zed Bias Vocal Mix)
Damu - After Indigo
Deft - Crown Point
Africa Hitech - Out In The Streets (VIP)
Skeewiff - Husky
Amin Payne - Push Comes To Shove
DJ Frane - Space Convoy
RJD2 - Ghostwriter
Hidden Orchestra - Vorka
Submotion Orchestra - Blind Spot
Hello. It's been a while (again), but i'm pleased to say i'm back with more radio goodness. Or badness, depending on how you want to phrase it. I'm back on the internet airwaves on a monthly basis for the forseeable future, warm once more in the bosom of the outstanding Purple Radio.
The show, Electric Vindaloo, will cover all sorts musically, from electronica, hip-hop, breaks, house, funk, disco...the idea is to keep it electronic-based, but you know that can mean pretty much anything.
Here's a recording of the first show, as it went out live on Thurs 20th Sept. Thanks to everyone who listened in live and commented on the tunes.
Tracklist:
Beat Inc. - Just Remember (Om Unit Remix) Dreadsquad ft. Natalie Storm - Beat That Chest (J Star Remix) Wrongtom Meets Deemas J - Jump + Rock + Move Ta-Ku - Hey Kids Suff Daddy ft. Phat Kat & Elzhi - Det2bln Tanya Morgan ft. Piakhan - Alleye Need Metabeats ft. Action Bronson - Hookers Nas - The Don Eloq - Crotchkick Digi G'Alessio - ESX1 Routine (Black Suite) Darkhouse Fam - Tartan Paint King Knut - Ancient Drum Afternoons In Stereo - Blow Wagon Christ - Respectrum Onra - L.O.V.E. SebastiAn - Embody Freqnik & WDRE - Mama Said Knock You Out St Germain - Dub Experience Belleruche - 16 Minutes (Bam Bam Sound Remix) Koreless - Lost In Tokyo (Jacques Greene Remix) Arkist - Double Zero SBTRKT - Step In Shadows Monky - Baller Baller Sepalcure - Taking You Back Bwana - Sleeping In Damu - L.O.V.E Jessie Ware - Running (Disclosure Remix) Sin Plomo - Cubos Scrimshire - Ascension The Hackney Colliery Band - Under The Bridge
A very happy new year to you all. I probably should have posted news of this here sooner, but i've been busy enough setting up the whole thing and getting a mix done and ANYWAY...to be as brief as possible...
I've started a new project for 2012, where i'm attempting to put out a mixtape every week for the next year. It's called "52 Mixtapes" and you can read more about it here:
So add that to your readers and whatnot and hopefully it'll be some kind of fun. The good kind.
This place will hopefully remain as busy as ever (ARF) and yes i'm well aware I promised you a Best Albums of 2011 piece so I should do that at some point too.
Good look with your resolutions/revolutions. Speak soon.
Thought i'd better let you know what's been doing the business for me this year in the form of a list. Standard. Like a lot of people in this new age of online MP3 shopping, I find myself listening to less and less full albums and tend to opt more for EPs, singles or just a selection of tracks I buzz for from certain albums where the entire release doesn't inspire. I have of course been enjoying a fair few albums this year in their entirety, but i'll talk about those in a separate post. This is just a Top 20 Tunes thing. Oh, it's in no specific order either. Far too painful, all of that.
Still with me? Here goes...
SebastiAn - Embody
It's difficult not to love this track - electro don SebastiAn taking it down to a quality nu-funk chug beat and laying that great vocodered vocal over the top. It's almost what i'd what from a new Prince record, and there's certainly echoes of the diminutive sex-funkster here. Cracking video too, which always helps.
Joe Goddard - Gabriel (Seiji Remix)
It's been a busy year for Joe Goddard. His Two Bears collaborative project with Raf Daddy has lurched onto the scene with a distinctive brand of wonky, leftfield house and then this tune dropped to huge acclaim. As is often the case for me, the remix packages were where the real interest lay and this Seiji remix just blew me away. When doesn't a Seiji production blow you away?!
Hizatron - Von Glooperstein (Mr Scruff Remix)
One of the stealth tracks of the year for me - didn't seem to make a massive impact but I can't work out why - the legendary Mr Scruff absolutely rinsing the arse out of the dirty bass synths and that relentless driving percussive beat...quality. Nice bit of acid too. More tea, vicar?
Ta-Ku - Hey Kids
The opening salvo from the quite brilliant Brownswood Electric 2 compilation, this is another nu-funk winner from Aussie beatmaker Reggie Matthews. He may or may not also feature in the Best Albums of 2011 post too...
Julio Bashmore - Battle For Middle You
Do I really need to say anything about this one?? Absolutely massive, proven by it clocking in at no's 3 and 1 respectively in the Resident Advisor and Mixmag 2011 charts. Caught young Bashmore DJing at Cardiff's Buffalo Bar recently and it was one of the sets of the year - go and dance to his music if you ever get chance. Which you will, because he's gonna be here for a while yet.
Sepalcure - Taking You Back
I won't say too much about Sepalcure here because they're going to feature in the Best Albums post, but this track from the Hot Flush (*applause*) Back And 4th compilation is a real stirrer. Bonus points for pitch-shifting the old Lolleatta Holloway sample to good effect.
Bottin pres. Tinpong - New Religion (Marcus Marr Remix)
Stick with this one. Hypnotic, chugging, slightly NY punk nu-disco belter. It's all about that drop at 3:35. You'll know the one I mean... ;)
Hudson Mohawke - Thunder Bay
BOOM!! POW!! WHAMMY!! and other words of that nature. HudMo is back and he wants you to know it. From the frankly rude Satin Panthers EP this one tears your face off. There's no other way to describe it. Playlisted by Radio 1, too - the future's looking bright for HudMo. Nice work kidda.
I wish I knew more about this, but to be honest that doesn't really matter when a tune's this good. Lovely broken-up drums in that afro/funky/2-step style and a lovely smattering of vocal effects to punctuate it. Bassline is pure 90s flashback, which we've seen a lot of this year, but this nails it harder than most others.
Cardiff's own C.R.S.T. have been making huge strides into the current UK garage scene over the last couple of years, and seem to have really landed in 2011 with a ton of DJ gigs, some big-time remixes and this banging EP on Deep Thrills. Bigged up by none other than Rio Ferdinand. You can't win 'em all boys. ;)
Tall Black Guy - At Ease
I've been grabbing beats off Tall Black Guy for over a year now. He's been my secret weapon in many a DJ set but I'm afraid he's making a name for himself and he's not longer my little secret. Gah. Annoying for me, but brilliant - not to mention much deserved - for him. This is from the Hollyweird 2.0 release, which is worth a place in even the most discerning of record collections. Seek and enjoy.
Martyn - Popgun
Another fella that will be featuring in the Top Albums list, Martyn has been smashing it for a few years but really hit the nail on the head this year with his Ghost People album on Brainfeeder. It's difficult to pick a favourite tune from the album because it's rammed full of out-and-out quality. This is a strong contender though, and considering the amount i've been rinsing it this year it would be a crime not to include it in the Top Tunes list. The icing on the production cake here is that "ugh". And the way he messes with the percussion to keep it varied, but subtle.
GuGu - RockAByeBaby
Another tune that deserves a proper listen: you'd be fooled for thinking this is a standard afro-esque UK funky rhythm for the first minute or so, but it gets proper sexy and sleazy and dirtfunk when the synths kick in. Mine's a courvoisier, barman...
Eric B & Rakim - I Know U Got Soul (Leo Zero Rework)
Some of you are probably going to whine about this being in a Best of 2011 selection, but you'd be both wrong and an idiot. A) it's a classic being re-done to an exceptional standard and B) it WAS released this year so NERRR. As it says on the label: "a bespoke 118bpm number perfect for those Berlin mornings when daylight is poking through your converted power station / toilet / knocking shop and the horse drugs have taken their toll!".
Labrinth ft. Tinie Tempah - Earthquake
Stop laughing. Definitely a stand-out track in this year's largely uninspiring Guetta-dominated dirge pop releases, Labrinth drops the first single from his forthcoming, much anticipated debut album...and it WINS. I've got a lot of respect for a producer who chooses to turn down the likes of Beyonce and Lady Gaga because "i'm too busy working on my own album thanks". Especially when he then comes back with something as good as this. Those big snares could have been stolen from HudMo and Rustie's collections, and the screaming searing synths are as nasty as any you'd get on an IDM release. I'll be sick of it in a few months but for now i'm going to clutch it to my chest like an obsessed teenybopper. See you in the Union!
Onra - Fight Or Die
Easily the stand-out track from Onra's Chinoiseries Pt.2 (his return to Asiatic-influenced beatmaking). Much of the album could be a bunch of prospective Wu-Tang Clan beats, but this is the one that really takes the lessons learned from previous album Long Distance and ties them into the original Chinoiseries sound. Watch your neck when this one kicks in.
MJ Cole - TGV
Loads of producers get undeserved hype just for having been in the game a long time while all their decent stuff was actually years ago and now they're cruising on that first-album gravy train. I'm overjoyed that MJ Cole isn't one of them. Producer of some of my favourite UK garage tracks of all time, this is from his more forward-thinking Satellites EP. Emotional, stirring strings and stabs all underpinned by that wondrous driving beat. HE'S STILL GOT IT!!!
Canblaster - Triple Ring
This track contains several elements that float my boat: crunchy tight drums, intriguing synths, a half-time drop, lush samples and re-pitched female RnB vocal snippets. Sounds particularly good on your headphones, this one. It's all about the spacing. I challenge you to listen and NOT have that "what does she have that i don't" line stuck in your head for hours afterwards. Keeper.
Pangaea - Hex
Smashing and crashing its way to the front of the September releases pile was this absolute stormer on Hemlock Recordings. You've probably got the message with the kind of drums i'm buzzing for right now, and this doesn't disappoint on that front...but that vocal cutting and juggling is great. Unless you hate it - I realise it could be one of those Marmite love/hate things, but it's two thumbs-up from me. If I had a third thumb i'd put it up for a bassline that's reminiscent of Smith & Mighty's "B-Line Fi Blow".
Azealia Banks ft. LazyJay - 212
Jumped on and blogged by all the hipsters in the last few months, and yet the first person to give me the heads-up on this one was MY MOM. Honest - she's got her ear to the ground. She also doesn't mind a completely filthy lyric and hands-in-the-air big room dance beat. Remember Nicki Minaj? You won't after next year. This is Azealia's time. Oh, and someone get her and Missy to do something over a fresh Timbaland beat. And get me her number. Damn.
*****
And that, my friends, is that. Well done if you actually read this far - being concise was never a forte of mine. If i'd thought about it I might have set up a tea and cake table down here at the end as a reward to those who got this far. Maybe next year.
Keep an eye out for my Top Albums post, coming at some point in the next week or so, as well as some news on an exciting new project i'll be embarking on in 2012.
Until then, have a wonderfully festive Christmas break. A very merry one to you and your families. Take care, much love.
Here's another new mix on a horizontal tip. Recorded live/one-take for the excellent Deep Purple series on Purple Radio, this one takes you through ambient, trip-hop, jazz, dubstep, nu-soul, electronica and back out the other side. Seems to work well late at night, although it's also said to be "a top Sunday dinner mix". That might depend on who you have over for Sunday dinner.
Tracklist: Luke Vibert - Ambalek DJ Frane - The Day The Listeners Came Amon Tobin - Saboteur DJ Shadow - Fixed Income Flying Lotus ft. Thundercat - MmmHmm Tokimonsta - Fallen Arches Recloose - Insomnia In Dub AFTA-1 - The Time In Between Full Crate - Thursday Dr Who Dat - Pharoah's Dream Bugseed - Inner Crisis Fleetwood Mac - Tusk Wagon Christ - Oh, I'm Tired FS Green - Tycoon Thug Coldcut - Eine Kleine Hed Musick Jon Hopkins - Sleepwalker Rehash - Month Four J Rocc - Stop Trying Ta-Ku - Space Freddie Joachim - Winter Rainbows Nosaj Thing - Coat Of Arms FaltyDL - Metacognist Martyn - Pointing Fingers Don Leisure & Howard Marks - Kenfig Hill (Extended Version) Arkist - What Do I See Caper - Noir Burial - In McDonalds Clint Mansell - Welcome To Lunar Industries
Can't believe it's been a year since we started Hip To The Hop on Purple Radio. I took the opportunity of a new slew of dates to do a second mix for the series. It's always a pleasure (and challenge) to focus for an hour on one genre, and with the sheer breadth and choice of hip-hop that's no exception. Here i've gone for a blend of old and new, some underground and some fairly well known stuff. It starts pretty mellow but picks up pace.
As you'd expect with a hip-hop mix: there's quite a bit of bad language, so probably best not to put it on during a family supper.
Tracklist:
Letherette - In And Out John Robinson - Stop & Think Kan Kick - Live As It Gets J-Live - Be No Slave Sagat - Luvstuff (Slamm 1000 Flava Mix) The Freestyle Fellowship - Sunshine Men Dynamic Syncopation - 2 Tha Left Akil, Chali 2na, Lick The Super Latin, Zaakir - Lunch Time Shut Up & Dance - Blackmen United Hail Mary Mallon - Meter Feeder Interlude - Larry David vs. Krazee Eyez Killah Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise Dr Dre - Let's Get High Honey Claws - Digital Animal Onyx - Slam Ice Cube - Check Yo Self (Remix) Stezo - Bring The Horns Junk - 99c Strut EPMD - I'm Housin' DJ Format - 3 Feet Deep Nick Thayer - Ladies Love Cool Jams Luke Vibert - My Style / Big L - Married To Marijuana (acapella)
There's a BRAND NEW night coming to Cardiff's brilliant Arts Institute so I thought I'd better knock out a BRAND NEW mixtape in celebration.
Bemoaning the lack of a wholly dedicated funk/soul/disco/boogie/electro-funk night in Cardiff, myself and party-starter Kaptin decided we should take on the challenge ourselves, and attempt to inject a little (more) Saturday night fever into the city's nightlife.
More specific event details to follow, but for now here's what you need to know:
SLIPPED DISCO Cardiff Arts Institute Saturday 18th June 2011 10pm-4am
"A celebration of the finest in Philly disco grooves, dirty drum breaks, soaring NY strings, bass-driven electro-funk, and cheeky re-edits. Cardiff's one and only dedicated disco-funk extravaganza...leave that 9 to 5 up on the shelf and just enjoy yourself."
Third Saturday of every month.
oh, and here's that mixtape...
TRACKLIST:
The Gaff - Funky Penguin Goes To New Orleans
Claudja Barry - I Wanna Dance (Todd Terje Re-Edit)
Ed Wizard & Disco Double Dee - Bumper Funk
The Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park (Onur Engin Edit)
Pablo Sanchez - We Can Dub It
Cole Medina - Got My Mind Made Up
Rayko - Getting Down
Los Charly's Orchestra - Some Of The Things (Instr)
Stevie Wonder - Do I Do (U-Tern Edit)
Julia & Company - Breakin’ Down (Sugar Samba) (JM After-Session M&M Mix)
Automats - Pass Me By (Del Gazeebo & Omeron remix)
Zapp & Roger - It Doesn't Really Matter (Fingermanedit)
Simian Mobile Disco - Cruel Intentions (Greg Wilson Re-Edit)
Tiger & Woods - Love In Cambodgia
Chic - Lost In Music (The Revenge Re-Work)
Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up (Zhino + Crisko Extended Edit)
Just a quick post to let you know of two FREE London gigs you should be attending this weekend (and no, not just because i'm playing)...
First up it's the second monthly installment of the recently resurrected Aardvark to Zebra. This month it's myself, resident Ben Ketsbaia and Brighton's party-hard legend, Del Gazeebo. behold the shiny flyer!
The April gig was a total blast but be warned: the venue is VERY intimate so if you're hoping to get a decent spot on the dancefloor (!), get there early. Seriously.
If you've survived that, then the following night you can catch me and disco-king Mr Black at the Big Chill Bar for Purple Radio's bi-monthly party. It's always a pleasure to play on Brick Lane, and if you've never been to the BC Bar on a Sunday night before...you're doing the weekend wrong. Complete disregard for the conventional working week, every time - Mondays Don't Matter... *phew*
If I live through all of that then i'll post some recent radio shows/mixes up. Sorry it's been so long on that front.
Hopefully see you this weekend. Whatever you're up to - enjoy it!
It's the return of the fantastic Aardvark to Zebrathis month, and I'm chuffed to be playing at the re-launch alongside London noise-mongers Bam Bam Soundand the John Peel of real ale (as well as AtoZ head honcho), Ketsbaia.
I thought i'd take the opportunity to put out a little mixtape in honour of the event...and there hasn't been a mixtape for a few months now so it seemed like as good an excuse as any! It's a bunch of the kind of stuff you can expect to hear me playing at AtoZ: jazz, funk, latin, hip-hop, beaty breaky goodness, recorded in one take using two decks, a mixer, my hands, and occasionally my ears. I'll let you spot the warts for yourselves.
Tracklist:
Spark Arrester - Jazz Pearl Niles Philips - Whatcha Doin' Quantic - Bomb In A Trumpet Factory Greenwood Rhythm Coalition - Regresar A Cali Michael Jackson - Scream (Ed Smith Remix) Visioneers - Funkbox (Visioneers Remix) The Urban Allstars - It Began In Africa (Norman Cook Remix) Z-Trip - Listen To The DJ Afrodisiac Soundsystem - Dimples By The Lake Vernon Burch - Do It To Me (AJ's Funky Edit) Mr Bird - Dr B's $ Bills (Smoove Remix) DJ Day - Kossa Mexican Institute Of Sound - Educación Totalcult - Hardcore Cramp Quantic feat. Spanky Wilson - When You're Through Streaming & Download
Here is this weekend's installment of Saturday Soul, complete with Mr Black's outstanding monthly guest mix. I'm keeping the Postbocks account for just the BPK uploads, so i'm afraid there's no streaming on this one. Every track's a gem though, so you won't be sorry for downloading.
Full Crate & Mar - Surreal Moments Lee Fields & The Expressions - Honey Dove Ginuwine - Pony DJ Jazzy Jeff feat. ChinahBlac - Touch Me Wit Ur Handz Freddie Cruger feat. Linn - Pushing On Raphael Saadiq feat. Stevie Wonder & CJ Hilton - Never Give You Up Eddie Harris - It's All Right Now
*Mr Black's Guest Mix* Marvin Gaye ~ Funky Space Reincarnation Stevie Wonder ~ Too High Monica & Brandy ~ The Boy Is Mine The Brothers Johnson ~ Strawberry Letter 23 The Futures ~ No Time Fa Nothing Archie Bell & The Drells ~ Don't Let Love Get You Down Jean Carn ~ Got Some Catching Up To Do Bill Withers ~ Just The Two Of Us Creative Source ~ Can't Hide Love Doc Severinson ~ Be With You Van McCoy ~ Pick Up The Pieces Lee Dorsey ~ Night People Kool and The Gang ~ Funky Stuff
Red Astaire - Rollin' Stone Quantic Soul Orchestra - Feeling Good Beyonce - Work It Out (Maurices Nu Soul Mix) Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Freddie Joachim Remix) Mary J Blige - Just Fine DJ Shadow - This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way) DJ Mitsu The Beats - Everlasting (Remix) Cat Stevens - The First Cut Is The Deepest Bobby Byrd & Vicki Anderson - You're Welcome, Stop On By
Lovely to be back on the Purple Radio airwaves after a couple of weeks' "sabbatical" leave (read: I went raving). The usual mixed bag as ever this week, with some drum & bass, electronica, disco, garage and a few laidback numbers to finish us off. Special shouts-out to Monky for providing me with some amazing beats of his to play.
Tall Black Guy Productions - We Can Ride The Boogie Bassnectar - Kick It Complex (Citrus Remix) Natural Born Chillers - Rock The Funky Beat (Original Mix) The Wildlife Collective - Bad Bwoy Deekline & Ed Solo - Pass Out (Will Street Wise Mix) Cutty Ranks - Limb By Limb (DJ SS Remix) Darkhouse Family - Mein Atari Julio Bashmore - The Horn That Time Forgot Falty DL - Discoko K'Bonus - Kletsmariet Space Ranger - Shave Me, I'm Famous (Instrumental) Secondo - It's Any Late Time Domu - Dusk3 West Norwood Cassette Library - Blonde On Blonde Kraak & Smaak feat. Sebastian - Dynamite Orange Hill Productions pres. Chino & Richie - Dan Man (Main Mix) Julio Bashmore - Battle For Middle You Martyn & Mike Slott - All Nights Gsub - Hudu Ezequiel Lodeiro - El Latinazo (Arni Kristjansson Remix) Monky - Drunkerdz VIP West Norwood Cassette Library - What It Is Sepalcure - Fleur Alf Alpha - Only When I Dream NBC's The Office - Dunder Mifflin Infinity (Freddie Joachim Remix) Aim - The Force Souls Of Mishief - 93 Til Infinity Falty DL - Metacognist Freddie Joachim - Sexual Chocolate aBillion - Soldiers (Dub Mix)
Some hip-hop, funk, wonk, bass, disco and downright horizontal lushness to be had on this weeks' show. If there's one track you NEED to hear, it's the last one (hahaha, typical eh?). It's by a group called Incarnations (pictured above) and it's truly stunning. Early contender for Track of 2011?!
Enjoy!
Water Color - All Bundled Into One DJ Format feat. Sureshot La Rock - Mr DJ Mr Scruff feat. Roots Manuva - Nice Up The Function Metabeats feat. Pergyl & C-Minus - Live & Let Live Lunice feat. Troy Dunnit - The Name Dunnit Me & You - Last Night (Bassnectar Remix) Cut Chemist - (My 1st) Big Break Dexter - Practice Mantecao y Su Combo Gitano - Achili Funk (Danny Breaks Remix) Powell - Dimension X Blunt Instrument - Turtle Slap Grooveman Spot feat. PSS - Disc-O-Island (Space Africa) Craig Bratley - Birdshell (6th Borough Project Shell Toe mix) J*Star - Girl's Town DJ Format - Here Comes The Dope Pusher (B-boy Version) Brentford Allstars - Greedy G Kokolo - Soul Power (Lack Of Afro Rmx) DJ Day - Gone Bad Mooqee & Pimpsoul - Keep Pounding Neighbour - Body Slam Max Essa - Uptown Vibration Flying Lotus - Do The Astral Plane Mosca - Tilt Shift (Julio Bashmore Remix) Funkineven - Another Space Lunice - Fancy Forty Beem - The Famous Last Order - Summertime Grooveman Spot - Ponsonby Beat Down Hazel - Lightmares Jackhigh - Earth Changes B. Lewis - Frozen Incarnations - Let Love Find You Streaming & Download
Quite a bass-heavy one, this week - so hold onto your socks in places (and perhaps have an adult nappy at the ready). Plenty of future-garage-tunestep for all you hipsters, as well as the usual unashamed post-pub indulgences.
Palov & Mishkin - Brothers Spoek Mathambo - Mshini Wam Subvert - Pump Et Up Bestboygrip - Fonck Bias & Cole - Rampwiddem Sick Girls - V-Skank ReSketch - Fine Rain George Fitzgerald - Don't You Ramadanman - Don't Change For Me Whistla - Pillowtalk (Submerse Remix) Demos - The Dirty Way CJ Reign - Watch Out (Two Steppers Mix) Redlight feat. Roses Gabor - Stupid Bassnectar - Everybody (Freq. Nasty & Bassnectar Remix) Beat Assassins - Direct Hit VIP Orbital - Chime (Del Gazeebo Breaks Edit) Hint - School Bell Jose James - BLACKMAGIC (Joy Orbison Remix) Demos - Hibernate Sepalcure - Love Pressure Caper - Noir Kavsrave - Baggage Handler DJ Fresh - Gold Dust (Flux Pavillion Remix) I.N.T. - Raw Funk RJD2 - 2 More Dead Harmonic 33 - The Rain Song Brass Roots - Karma Police
A real mixture this week, from chuggy sluggers right up to bassy two-steppers. And back again.
Craig Bratley - Birdshell (6th Borough Project Shell Toe Mix) MustBeat Crew feat MC Columbo - Pigs On Fire Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack (Samples Remix) Crown City Rockers - Break D-Funk - The Boss The Revenge - Cadillac Grooveman Spot - Do The Dance Neighbour - Body Slam Mooqee & Pimpsoul - Keep Pounding Philly Blunt - The Jam Chic - Chip Off The Old Block (NELUE Re-Edit) Trotter - Back in Time (Kool Hertz Remix) Loin Brothers - Garden of Vargulf (Tornado Wallace Remix) Mosca - Tilt Shift (Julio Bashmore Remix) Neighbourhood Romeo - Westside Slide DJ Obese - The Pigs Bollox Neighbourhood Romeo vs Kastout - The Whole World Cubic Zirconia - Fuck Work (Dam Funk Remix) Malente&Dex - In Nightclubs (Camel Remix) Neighbour & Cal Bass feat. Kool Kieth) - Drugs TNT - Hot Gyal Randomer - Alize Meat Beat Manifesto - Return To Bass Jam Baxter - BarrelEyeSpookFish (Promo Dub) Raashan Ahmad feat. Dominic Lalli - My Imagination Common Market - Doors (Instrumental) BMB aka Space Kid - Likeubrowneyes Grooveman Spot - Take Back St Germain - Land Of...
