Thursday, November 22, 2007

Joe McDuphrey Experience - Experience EP

This is just what the doctor ordered. After watching some Brasil in Time the other day I learned about this album and boy are you in for a treat.This album is Madlib in the style of 70's jazz fusion artist Azymuth. This is about as laid back as it gets. Tasty grooves in the Stones Throw tradition. The set's got all the best feel of recent Stones Throw instrumental work, kind of a stripped-down take on 70s funky jazz styles. Joe McDuphrey plays some monster keys on the set jamming in a mellow way over laid back bass, drums, and sample loops. Produced by Madlib, the whole thing's very much in the feel of work by Yesterday's New Quintet.


1. Experience
2. Fifty Eight
3. Solar Waves
4. Song for Airto
5. Parallel Worlds
6. Tomorrow, Yesterday
7. Flower of Life


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Kruder and Dorfmeister - Satellite Of Love

This mix is awesome because its not only K and D but its them doing a Drum and Bass Set from somewhere in Germany at a big party.This is not the quintessential Kruder, it dabbles way more into Jungle and Drum n' Bass than their usual down tempo You can also stream this set or you can download it.


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Mandrill - Composite Truth

How about some Thanksgiving funk. Composite Truth is Mandrill's most successful album, commercially as well as artistically. Although the band's sense of freewheeling experimentation had been tempered, its gradual transition to a straight-ahead funk band was made perfect with two of the biggest hits of its career: "Hang Loose" and "Fencewalk." "Hang Loose" is all over the place (in a good way), moving from a grooving funk jam to mid-tempo guitar skronk and back, all part of an impassioned call to peace. "Fencewalk" also had several transitions, with a crooning chorus and an extended middle section powered by heavy brass and a screaming guitar solo. Elsewhere, Mandrill turns in a very convincing impression of a salsa band ("Hágalo"), breaks into killer loose-groove funk ("Don't Mess With People," with a splendidly undecipherable vocal), and stumbles only with the long, rasta-fied San Francisco tribute "Polk Street Carnival," featuring a bass part that would make even a student smirk.
1 Hang Loose
2 Fencewalk
3 Hagalo
4 Don't Mess With People
5 Polk Street Carnival
6 Golden Stone
7 Out With the Boys
8 Moroccan Nights


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Monday, November 19, 2007

DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Brain Freeze / Product Placement

Brainfreeze was recorded by DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist as a practice session for a show in February 1999 at the Future Primitive Soundsession (San Francisco) mixing funk and soul 45's. Initially 1000 copies were made and sold at the shows, and a further 1000 copies were made and distributed to local records stores in California and sold out very quickly. A cease-and-desist letter from 7-11 Convenience stores—the whole artwork and styling was based on their logos and uniforms—meant that they stopped and moved on. The album was then bootlegged and it can now be found in popular record shops.

Side 1
  • Lamont Johson Quartet - "Thunder Fist"
  • The Jules Shattner Group - 2001 - "A Soul Odyssey"
  • Fried Chicken - "Funky DJ"
  • The Mohawks - "The Champ"
  • Reuben Bell - "Superjock"
  • Albert King - "Cold Feet"
  • Ultimate Force - "I'm Not Playing"
  • Eddie Bo and Inez Cheatham - "Lover And A Friend"
  • Mack Rice - "Three People In Love"
  • The Nu People - "I'd Be Nowhere Today"
  • Nu-Sound Express Ltd - "Ain't It Good Enough"
  • Mystic Moods - "Cosmic Sea"
  • American Gypsy - "Inside Out"
  • Odetta - Hit Or Miss
  • The Mar-Keys - "Grab This Thing"
  • Rusty Bryant - "FireEater"
  • Simtec and Wylie - "Bootleggin'" (Part 2)
  • Wilbur Bascomb and The Zodiac - "Just A Groove In 'G'"
  • Eddie Bo and The Soul Finders - "We're Doin' It (Thang)"
  • Rufus Thomas - Sophisticated Sissy
  • The Showmen Inc. - "The Tramp (From Funky Broadway)"
  • The Original Soul Senders - "Soul Brother Testify "
  • Rufus Thomas - "Itch and Scratch"
  • Alvin Cash - "Keep On Dancing (Instrumental")
  • Lou Courtney - "Hey Joyce"
  • Bummer radio spot
Side 2
  • The Singing Principal - "Women's Lib"
  • Salt - "Hung Up"
  • The Soul Lifters - "Hot, Funky, and Sweaty"
  • Frankie Seay and The Soul Riders - "Soul Food"
  • The Interpretations - "Jason Pew Mosso"
  • Thunder and Lightning - "Bumpin' Bus Stop"
  • Billy Garner - "I Got Some"
  • Pleasure Web - "Music Man"
  • Gary Byrd - "Soul Travelin' (The G.B.E.)"
  • Clifton Chenier and Grandpa Gee Gee - "Just Keep On Scratching"
  • "W" radio spot
  • Marlena Shaw - "California Soul"
  • The Vibrettes- "Humpty Dump"
  • Eddie Bo - "From This Day On"
  • 7-Eleven - "Dance The Slurp"
  • Kraftwerk - "Numbers"
  • Flash and The Five - "Flash It To The Beat"
  • Pearly Queen - "Quit Jivin'"
  • Tony Alvon and The Belairs - Sexy Coffee Pot
  • Chuck Mangione - "Hill Where The Lord Hides"
  • Funka Fize - "No Words"
  • Schooly D - "Gucci Time"
  • Jurassic 5 - "Unified Rebelution"
  • Third Guitar - "Baby Don't Cry"
  • Don Pierce - "This Funky Thing"
  • Funka Fize - "Because You're Funky"
  • The Troubleneck Brothers - "Back To The Hip Hop"
  • Stu Gardner - "Devil In A Man"
  • Samson and Delilah - "There's A DJ In Your Town"
  • Giorgio Moroder - "Tears"
  • Tim and Bill - "Someone"


Product Placement is the follow up to Brain Freeze and in my opinion is equally good. I think both albums stand out on there own and both need a thorough listen to appreciate.



First Set

Sesame Street (Oscar The Grouch) - "I Got Two"
Little Grady Lewis & Soul Smokers - "Smokin' Soul"
Dennis Coffey - "A Whole Lot Of Love"
LL Cool J - "I Need Love"
Eddie Simpson - "Big Black Funky Slave"
Harold Alexander - "Mama Soul"
Charlie Whitehead - "Let's Do It Again"
Cold Grits - "It's Your Thing"
Backyard Heavies - "Expo '83"
Timmy Thomas - "Sexy Woman"
Kool & The Gang - "N.T."
Freddy Scott - "(You) Got What I Need"
Bobby & James Purify - "I'm Your Puppet"
The Oceanliners - "Funky Pants"
Thunder, Lightning & Rain - "Super Funky Part 1"
James Brown - "Talkin' Loud And Sayin' Nothin'"
??? - "Superstition"
National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation - "Rappin' With Gas"


Second Set

Lifeforce - "The Freeze"
Earnest Jackson - "Funky Black Man"
Little Buck - "Little Boy Blue"
Dandelion Wine - "Hot Dog"
Nu-Sound Express - "One More Time You All"
The Commodores - "Keep On Dancing"
Gerald Wilson Orchestra - "California Soul"
The Messengers - "California Soul"
The Poets - "Fun Buggy"
Union - "Strike"
The New Seekers - "It's The Real Thing"
Ivor Raymonde Orchestra - "It's The Real Thing"
American Dietary Association Of Mississippi - "The Basic"
Cookie Crew - "Born This Way"
Larry Sanders - "Story Of My Love"
Jessie James - "Move On Out Of My Way"
Yellow Sunshine - "Yellow Sunshine"
Rodney O & Joe Cooley - "Cooley High"
Nairobi And The Awesome Foursome - "Funky Soul Makossa"
Logic Circuit - "Motorcross"
The Outcasts - "Loving You Sometimes"
Gran Am - "Get High"
David McCallum - "House Of Mirrors"






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Sunday, November 18, 2007

LTJ Bukem - Journey Inwards

Definitely, the most progressive and the most various work by Bukem. I'm a huge jazz fan, so I was glad do discover such cuts as 'Journey Inwards', 'Sunrain' and 'Inner Guidance. LTJ Bukem is undoubtedly one of the founding fathers of Drum & Bass, and it shows on his new album, "Journey Inwards". He digresses from the style we are all accustomed to, his flowing intelligent jungle sets, choosing to make a more melodic and soulful album. Every track on "Journey Inwards" has a message of sorts, and his producing abilities are evident with every track. Beats are layered on top of one another and the occasional break in the beat reminds you to come back from the jazzy world he creates. Be warned...this album is VERY chill. If you want hard, intelligent jungle, then get a progression sessions CD, because this is some true ambience.



Disc 1
1. Journey Inwards
2. Watercolours
3. Rhodes To Freedom
4. Our World
5. Undress Your Mind
6. Point Of View
7. Viewpoint

Disc 2
1. Sunrain
2. Deserted Vaults
3. Inner Guidance
4. Close To The Source
5. Suspended Space
6. Unconditional Love
7. Feel What You Feel


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Gotan Project - La Revancha Del Tango

Released in Europe in 2001, La Revancha Del Tango’s sexy combination of chillout programming and authentic tango music became a lounge favorite and led to massive sales. Lightning struck twice when it was released two years later in the States--the domestic debut attracted the attention of electronic music hipsters, tango freaks, and world music geeks. And rightfully so. The Gotan trio of Philippe Cohen Solal, Christoph H. Müller, and Eduardo Makaroff write the album's strongest material themselves, but their imaginative incorporation of Frank Zappa's "Chunga's Revenge," Gato Barbieri's theme from the movie Last Tango In Paris and, not surprisingly, Astor Piazzolla's "Vuelvo Al Sur" into the Gotan world shows just how broad and inclusive their tastes really are.


01 Queremos Paz
02 Época
03 Chunga's revenge
04 Tríptico
05 Santa María (del Buen Ayre)
06 Una música brutal
07 El capitalismo foráneo
08 Last tango in Paris
09 La del ruso
10 Vuelvo al sur


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