Okie dokie, it's my blog on the interwebs
2007-06-28 11:01:00
And now for something completely different...... because goin' from salsa to techno is how I roll, suckaz!!! Ya know, I might get more readers if I just decided with one direction for the ol' blog musically, but screw that... because all kinds of music rule... even country... sometimes... sorta...... anyhoo, The Orb hold several special places in my memory... from seeing them live at the best electronic show that's ever taken place on American soil (hint: 1996, Snow Valley Ski Resort, an event called Organic... look it up and cry for three days because you weren't there)... to the fact that I got my first date with my awesome girlfriend when I sent her a text from an Orb show at the Disney Concert Hall in L.A. (at like 5 A.M. whilst rolling balls... hey, it worked... who knew?). So yeah, Dr. Alex and his rotating band of cronies are among my all-time favorites. And their most recent record here definitely gets the cliched "return to form" tag. Best thing they've put out in yea
That salsa's made in New York City?!?!?
2007-06-27 10:29:00
Remember those commercials? You know, for the cheapest, lamest salsa
ever? Pace was crap! At least that's how I remember it... and therefore it is truth. But today's blog is not about the food salsa, but the music salsa, which they make very well in New York
...... and with that I dare... DARE... any blogger to come up with a worse segue! Double dog dare! Cuz' it can't be done...Now, I can't claim to be an expert on the Salsa, but I sure does like it. A lot. I even took a Salsa dancing lesson one time... it was pretty fun, but damn, if they didn't go fast. In like 20 minutes they were expecting us to have this whole ridiculously long string of moves put together... apparently they didn't realize that I was white... anyhoo, here's an excellent Salsa jammy by one of the masters, Mr. Eddie Palmieri, straight-up Nuyorican style! It starts off a bit low-key, and just kind of keeps picking up intensity in the vocal harmonies and horn charts and ya know, I just can't get eno
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World Exclusive!!!!
2007-07-03 11:32:00
Okay, so I know how the other blogs pride themselves when they get exclusive tracks. "The band themselves just sent me this from their forthcoming split EP and OMG it the AWESOMEST SONG EVARRR!!!!"... and then follows hours of vigorous masturbation to the glowing comments of the adoring indie kids. And hey, I want some of that! So here is a WORLD EXCLUSIVE TRACK, found ONLY HERE on the Tonegents blog! I'm TOTALLY in with the artist man, they're my BFF and shit! So without further ado, the brand new -- unsoiled by human ears -- world exclusive (did i mention it was WORLD EXCLUSIVE?!?!?!) first ever listen to the new song by...(drumrollllllllll....)ME!!!!Tonegent - RespirasolAh, c'mon... don't act all disappointed! It's kinda good, I think! I just finished it yesterday... call it ambient breaks, I guess...Let me know how you like it... all comments will be greatly appreciated!Peace.
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More dating bloggers
2007-07-02 10:53:00
There's not much I can add to expound upon the meaning of this track, so I'll just let the lyrics tell you what you need to know ;)"No More Dating DJs"music by Nick Holder - spoken word by Jeminino more dating djs, mcs, producers, hiphop critics, radio hosts, etc..wanted: a girl to date a djmust have strong arms for heavy liftingincludes crates, and my ego.. hmlooks not important to meyou will never look as good as the girls on mybootlegswhitelablesand cd coversbut please try not to look uglier than any of my dj buddies' girlfriends.i really hate that.DONT TOUCH MY EQUIPMENT.i like music, long walks on any street that sells used records, music, being a hater, music, and i do like music.must be able to watch several hours of DMC world championship video footage.P.S. if youve never heard of dj rectangle, please do not apply.im done with dating rappers, mcs, djs...im lookin for nice Roger's cable guy who thinks a Technic is a way to make love to me!i was in love with your potential.
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Hello, Summer! (Part 3)
2007-07-01 13:25:00
We may just keep saying "Hello
" to Summer
until it's over... 'cuz then maybe we can talk it into stickin' around for a while longer... (Did that make sense? I mean, it sounded cool, but grammatically... does that work? I'd figure it out but I've had some ganja to get in the feeling for this one...)Tonegent presents "Jah Music Fi Jah People"(Continuous DJ Mix - 66:44 - 91.7 mb @ 192 kps)1) King Stitt - Dance Beat2) Desmond Dekker - Israelites3) Sister Nancy - Bam Bam4) Althea & Donna - Up Town Top Ranking5) Dawn Penn - No No No6) Studio One Rockers - Truth And Rights7) John Holt - Police N Helicopter8) Peter Tosh - Legalize It9) Cultural Roots - Age Of Creation10) Mad Professor - Operation Trident11) Augustus Pablo & King Tubby - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown12) Horance Andy - Must Be Jah13) Big Youth - Dread Is Best14) Linval Thompson - Dread Are The Contoller15) Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston16) Derrick Laro & Trinity - Don't Stop Till You Get Enough17) One Blood - Be
Quick but deadly today
2007-07-06 11:27:00
Ending the week with a heavyweight tune!British broken beat faves Da Lata are actually a team up of the dude from Smoke City, DJ Patrick Forge, and a rotating cast of buddies. They've put out 2 full lengths and a number of remixes, all really good stuff. This title track from their last album is on a seriously hot Afrobeat tip... dig it...Da Lata - Serious (ft. Mamani Keita) "Serious" is a few years old now... so hopefully the guys will have some more new goodness for us before long. Peace and have a great weekend...
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Ready or not, here I blog!
2007-07-05 14:52:00
Okay, so a bit of comedy yesterday... let's get back to the serious tunes...... hold on while I furrow my brow...... ah, serious doesn't really work for me. Anyhoo...Compilations like this one are crate-digging for cheaters... and I am SO okay with that! Because I loves me to find some sample sources... they make my DJ sets seem quite clever. So here is not the most obscure one in the world, but still a great one, from Philly Soul legends The Delfonics. It's kinda more famous for a cover version than a sample, but hey, don't sue me... I didn't produce the compilation...The Delfonics - Ready Or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide From Love)Now of course that was covered by the Fugees, but I'm not gonna be THAT obvious... instead, here's the awesome Drum & Bass remix of the Fugees' cover, courtesy of Aphrodite, who put out some of the best hip-hop/d&b remixes there were, back when that kind of thing was all the rage...Fugees - Ready Or Not (Aphrodite Dubplate VIP Mix)Good luck tryin
America, Fuck Yeah!
2007-07-04 12:59:00
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More of the week of weekly theme week!
2007-07-11 12:39:00
Well, I didn't have any songs with "Humpday" in the title, so this will have to do...The all time bass bumpa, Mr. Charles Mingus makes an appearance on the ol' bloggeroo today a) because of my increasing obsession with jazz and b) because he has a song with "Wednesday" in the title... how convenient! This is a brilliant song, too, a rollicking blues workout with voices in the background that really make the feel of the song live up to the title...Charles Mingus - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting I said testify!!!And now, here's the weird thing. As I was looking around on the official Mingus website (linked above), I found this! This is real! And incredibly bizarre! Click the pic if you don't believe me...A true genius in more ways than one, apparently!
It's Weekly Theme Week Week!
2007-07-10 11:55:00
I will start today by saying my "Tuesday" choices were very thin... but...... I'll take some David Bowie any day! You simply can't deny that the man is a straight-up genius... but still, I'm not quite on the same level of Bowie worship as some people I know. And this song here from his first-ever album is a bit... well... let's say whimsical. But not bad, and it fits the theme of the week, so without further ado...David Bowie - Love You Til Tuesday And how about a sorta creepy video from the same era?Yep... but he turned out okay, at least. :P
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Weekly theme week continues!
2007-07-09 09:34:00
I may have been drunk when I started it, but hey, I started my lame-ass theme week, and I'm gonna keep it goin'!So here we have another super-talented producer/team/act/whatever that has seemingly fallen off the face of the earth. But before he/they/whomever did, there were two very good albums dropped on Tim "Love" Lee's ace Tummy Touch label. Rock out...Organic Audio - Organic MondayI'm gonna go get drunk again now :P
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Weekly theme week begins!
2007-07-08 14:52:00
Okay, so... I'm out on my bike ride today and I'm thinkin', "Hmmm... the letting the shuffle of my iTunes pick the day's song is kinda cool and all, but I'm getting a little bit over it... maybe I should come up with a theme for the week or something, just to mix it up." And then, apparently, my next thought was "Hmmm... what's the gayest idea I can come up with for a theme?" And well, you'll figure it out, I'm sure...Weekender, were (are? dunno, they have no active website...) a Manchester producing crew, who with "Kneel Before Zod" put out maybe the most perfect Deep House artist album that has ever been produced (the 2 other top candidates I can think of would be Inland Knights' "Creative Spaces" and the Street Corner Symphony record... which I promise I'll hook you up with some lovin' from soon). I mean, this thing is just so funky yet lush with the production that it's hard to imagine how some pasty buncha chain smoking blokes could even birth it in their litttle l
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Weekly theme week: The Big Finish!
2007-07-14 12:41:00
De La Soul - A Rollerskating Jam Called Saturdays
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Weekly theme week: TGIF!
2007-07-13 10:39:00
Bloody good thing Mercury's finally out of retrograde... and that's all I'm gonna say about that.Streetlife Originals was a production alias of one Bryan Robson (who also put out a few great house records as Solaris Heights), who put out this full length on the once mighty but now unfortunately defunct Paper Recordings. And this is probably my all time favorite release by the label... it's kind of like a run through every style Gilles Peterson spins, all on one record! This track will give you a little taste. It's a mellow broken-beat style number that served as the album's opener...Streetlife Originals - Friday At Ronnie'sNow, good luck trying to find this CD... but here's something neato. Despite the fact that they went out of business, Paper still runs an online store where they are offering their entire back catalogue in digital form. If you are at all into house music, you need to check that out, because all the stuff is ace.Have a great weekend... weekly theme week e
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Weekly theme week: Porn mustache alert!
2007-07-12 11:08:00
Yikes!What exactly was the tenor of the time in which someone thought this album cover was a good idea? I wasn't alive yet, so I guess I will never understand. Luckily, though, the music is far less scary. Today we visit oft-sampled composer and scary looking motherfucker David Axelrod, who is definitely the king of funky yet orchestral, soundtracky type musica. This is an amazing track, sampled by UNKLE for the equally amazing "Rabbit In Your Headlights"... and many others.David Axelrod - Holy ThursdayDefinitely a guy you need to know about, and obviously be quite afraid of...And since I mentioned it, and since it has one of the best videos ever, here's your YouTubes lovin' for the day...Powerfull stuff, that. Peace.
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Mr. Smith and his huge organ
2007-07-17 12:01:00
Epic jazz/funk track for you today...A stunning live take from the master of the Hammond B3 organ
, the man, the myth, Mr. Jimmy Smith
. How about that for a rhyme?! I don't have a whole lot to say about it, other than get ready for 12 minutes of hot funk full of blistering solos. Time to get down...Jimmy Smith - Root Down (And Get It)So good it hurts!
Time for a classic!
2007-07-16 13:39:00
Okay, so I promised you this one last week, and I am a blogger of my word.Street Corner Symphony's "No Running, No Bombing, No Petting" is simply one of the greatest one-off deep house albums ever released, and a copy of it is practically impossible to find unless you're willing to shell out the huge bucks. But if you got the bucks, it's well worth it. Simply amazing disco house madness. Reminds me of a friend who used to rent this house in the suburbs, and once a month, he'd clear out his living room, put black drapes over all the windows, and we'd bump house music out of cabinets way to big for the room until 8 A.M... good times! And this track here was one of the staples at "Club Septo"...Street Corner Symphony - Symphonic TonicTUNE!!!!!!!!!!!
Lavaggio
2007-07-15 14:39:00
How about a little ambient soundscape for a Sunday afternoon?Tonegent - LavaggioAs always I would appreciate any feedback from anyone who likes it! And if you're into this kind of music, be sure to check out the record label Spekk. Really good stuff...Peace.
It's not so hard out here for a pimp...
2007-07-19 13:22:00
... not when you're good, anyway...So this Darondo dude seems like an interesting story. If you read between the lines of his bio over at Ubiquity, you can pretty easily figure out that this guy was "Hustle & Flow" for real... a pimp who between his time slappin' hoes was laying down tracks, but just for shits and giggles. He never really struck it big as more than a Bay Area act, which was just fine with him 'cuz a brother was rollin' on the '70s equivalent of dubs anyways from his main business. But then who comes along? Gilles Peterson, of course. Picks one of his tracks for a comp, Ubiquity puts out a re-issue album of like, all 9 songs he ever recorded and now he's back and hipper than hip. Of course, all this happened because the tracks were really freakin' good as it turns out...Darondo - Let My People Go Fuck Terrence Howard, eh? :P
Hope for a generation
2007-07-18 11:05:00
And here is one of my favorite bands of the last couple years, courtesy the best DJ selecta in the world...Fat Freddy's Drop are a reggae/dub band from New Zealand, of all places, made up mostly (I believe) of mostly native Maori dudes, and led by singer Joe Dukie, whose vocals have appeared on a bunch of cool tracks by other folks as well. Seeing their full-length, "Based On A True Story" won the Worldwide Winners Album of the Year a couple years back, it's no surprise that this track comes courtesy of one of Gilles' many compilations for Trust The DJ (always good advice by the way... in that respect, we're like doctors and stuff... so, girls, you know it's totally cool if we see you naked :P ). Tried to but had no luck on details for this version though, which I say because it is almost completely different than the album song of the same name. I think it may be live, but no matter... because it's fantastic...Fat Freddy's Drop - HopeKiwis feel da jah vibe too!
A big ol' pile of Compost
2007-07-20 10:59:00
A track that seemingly never makes it's way far out of my bag today...From the mighty Compost
Records 100th release comes a super slick breakbeat number from Fauna Flash, whom you may have heard of and Wei Chi, whom you may have not. But no matter. As a DJ, this is one of my "go to" tracks... as in go to that track because I'm getting all indecisive and I've got like 30 seconds to make up my damn mind before I trainwreck... because it just goes good mixed with anything. Kinda like vodka... mmmmmm, vodka.Fauna Flash vs. Wei Chi - Don't Know 2001If you like that, I highly recommend that you stop arsing about here and get you way over to Compost's site and check out their download section. About a dozen MP3's available, quality stuff from their latest releases... if you're a music whore like me, you don't wanna miss out on that...
Words from the R
2007-07-24 13:54:00
Classic hip-hop, call Dr. Dre and Ed Lover!Very short on time today, so I'll just say, if you don't know Eric B. & Rakim, you don't know hip-hop, foo! :PEric B. & Rakim - Casualties Of War See, that's how I keep it real... and... um... stuff...
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Let's just get right into it, shall we?
2007-07-23 10:28:00
I'm not going to ease you into the week... Monday already slaps you upside the head like you said something nasty about it's momma anyway, so what's the point? The Fabric label, run by the London superclub, sure is prolific... but I guess you can throw down to license all the tracks you want when you charge $30+ a head for admission. Between the Fabric Series and the Fabriclive Series, we must be up close to 70 freakin' volumes from every good DJ under the sun. And I really haven't heard a bad one yet - but choice DJs tend to play choice tracks, eh? On their turn, the Stanton Warriors throw down the breaks biznezz in very lovely fashion, and this track, their remix of German artist Wahoo, gets top prize from me... especially with the lyrics exhorting the geeky punters nodding their heads around the edge of the dance floor to wake the hell up and get and get a girl to dance with, for Pete's sake!!Wahoo - Make 'Em Shake It (Stanton Warriors Mix)Wahoo have their first full-leng
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Time for Trane-ing Camp!
2007-07-26 11:46:00
Get it? "Trane"-ing camp. Because his name ends with Trane, like train, get it... like, I bet nobody ever thought of that before, huh? I kill me!!!Anyhoo, it's about time we got some John Coltrane going around here. You may not have heard of him, but he's very good at playing the saxophone, or as Homer Simpson more properly put it, the sax-amaphone. This one's pretty interesting, 'cuz it don't seem that Trane played with an orchestra this big (17 pieces) very often, so it's a cool sound. And of course, it's an all-star orchestra, with the likes of McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones, Eric Dolphy and a grip of others...John Coltrane - The Damned Don't Cry Not quite as bleak as the title suggests, eh? Good stuff... and here's some YouTubes lovin' for ya...Can't beat that. Word.
Where'd all the weed go?
2007-07-25 10:34:00
Oh, Tricky smoked it...Yes, the man who could single-handedly cause a marijuana shortage on the Eastern Seaboard during a two-week club tour blows in with a track today from his absolutely essential and classic first album, "Maxinquaye". Say what you will about what he's done since... it's been very hit and miss... but you can't fuck with this one. Pure genious filtered through enough ganja smoke to choke a hundred Rastas. Seriously, listen to the dude's voice sometime. On this one though, we get to hear the voice of Martina Topley-Bird, which is much nicer...Tricky - Ponderosa Seriously, though, this is a spy photo of Tricky's tour van...No joke!
Hello Summer! (Part 4)
2007-07-28 11:53:00
I told you we weren't done yet... I gotta say I'm pretty amazed at how well the Hello
Summer
! mixes have gone over. Parts 1-3 have been downloaded over 1100 times now, which really blows my mind. The interweb tubes are all clogged up with my stuffs! But that's not why I do it... I do it for the love, people! Anyhoo, here's the latest. A couple of the songs are kinda cliche, I know, but screw it... they're freakin' good...Tonegent presents "Cali Funk Shine"(Continous DJ Mix - 72:16 - 99.3 mb @ 192 kps)1) Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves The Sunshine2) Marlena Shaw - California Soul3) Latin Breed - I Turn You On4) Mandrill - Fence Walk5) Bernard Purdie - Soul Drums6) The Cabildos - Cross Fire7) Roy Porter - Party Time8) Oliver Sain - California Sunset9) Black Heat - The Jungle10) James Reese & The Progressions - Let's Go (It's Summertime)11) Sisters Love - Give Me Your Love12) Harlem River Drive - Seeds Of Life13) Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers - Bustin' Loose14) Lonnie Liston
Two that got soul
2007-07-27 16:06:00
First day at a new job today, so I gotta get this in quick. Let's just say if all R&B music was this good, R&B music wouldn't suck so much. Wow, you should have to pay for insight like that... :PFor the ladies...Shaun Escoffery - Days Like This... and for the fellas...Amel Larrieux - Get UpExtra goodies coming this weekend... stay tuned!
Acieeeeeeed!
2007-07-31 12:52:00
Music from one of my all-time favorite wackos today...So an artist puts out an album or a single and its' cool, but if someone puts out a "series", it becomes a must-have for me. Must be some kinda Virgo thing. Anyhoo, Mr. Richard D. James, aka Aphex Twin, aka AFX aka about 25 other aliases put out the Analord series a little while back... 11 12"ers of old school analogue acid... and it's the best work he's done in years if you ask me... Sure, he's a total nutbag, but you can't fuck with a dude who owns a tank and a submarine...AFX - SteppingFilter 101There's a CD version of a selection of the tracks called Chosen Lords, but that's for suckas. Get the whole collection.And there is simply no way I can post about Aphex Twin without posting this...Word.
A rainy day in Scotland
2007-07-30 13:27:00
Gettin' cinematic on yer ass...Composer Craig Armstrong is a pretty cool dude... probably the first you heard of him was from his work with Massive Attack, doing orchestrations on Blue Lines, but he has since really made a name for himself as a film composer, scoring such flicks as Moulin Rouge and Ray, and winning Golden Globes and Grammys and shit. This track, off his first solo album definitely shows that cinematic is how this dude rolls...Craig Armstrong - GlasgowYou almost feel like you're there, huh? Or maybe not. Never been myself. So... um... nevermind...
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Baba-boom
2007-08-03 12:53:00
TGIF and all that Jazz...Here's Bay Area percussion pimp Babatunde Lea, a cat who has played with all the big names... McCoy Tyner, Bobby Hutcherson, Lonnie Liston Smith, Pharaoh Sanders... and on this joint put out by Ubiquity (yep, them again!) he's covering probably Pharaoh's most amazing tune...Babatunde Lea - The Creator Has A Master PlanYep, can't beat that... have a great weekend!
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