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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. Read more:Exclusive
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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... Read more:deadly
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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
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 Read more:Theme
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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 Read more:Weekly
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!
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!
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... Read more:Words
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 HelloSummer
! 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
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... Read more:Scotland
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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