last night
at the Loop Professor’s going away party:
| DJ Schedule | Thursdays | Madame X | 8pm-2am | 94 W. Houston Street @ Laguardia |
| Saturdays | Underground Awakening | 12pm-2pm | EastVillageRadio.com | |
| 1st & 3rd Saturdays (12/20) | Sip | 10pm-3am | 998 Amsterdam Ave (@110th) |
Archive for 2005
Mystique Blues
Three Children
Crusaders
1, 1971
I was going to announce this as Installment #2 of The Full-Album Hotness You Can’t Find In a CD Store but alas, I checked All Music and the damn thing has been reissued! Although upon further clicking, I found out it was reissued by MVP Japan, it costs $40.99 on Barnes and Noble and Amazon and it takes 2 weeks to arrive! So…my time photographing the album cover was a waste but I can still claim this album in the name of all that is good and wonderful about vinyl, right? Especially as I got it for $2.
I don’t remember what first put this album on my radar screen. It’s been sampled many times, some I knew about before I got it, others I put together later, but the excitement I had when I found it didn’t compare the subsequent joy I got from sitting through all four sides of this stellar double LP. Jazz/Funk never sound much an cross between actual jazz and actual funk.
>> songs are available for two weeks [6.5 MB]
>> songs are available for two weeks [7.2 MB]
pics from last night
thanks for the good time homies! (larger versions can be found here)
tonight!
the wonder years
aka my 29th birthday!
the music of 1990-1994 all night
wednesday 9/21 @ madame x
this thursday
ms. williamsburg last night
pictures from our dj collective hurricane katrina fundraiser @ miss williamsburg last night (proceeds went to aidnola.org):
LMani V drops “Shakara” by Fela
dj tabu and me
me, les boogie, needles, kingfish, lmani v, kosherkuts
We Are All God’s Children
The New Birth
Love Potion, 1976
Friendster/MySpace are more than worthless time-wasters! Here’s a great example: I listed New Birth as one of my favorite groups on my friendster profile last year and a DJ in Tokyo sent me a message telling me had recorded about 6 of their albums from vinyl would be happy to mail me copies of them. I have to say I was a little suspicious at first but I checked out his website and he had clips of New Birth lip-syncing on Soul Train and everything so I decided to send him my address. A few weeks later I got three CDRs in the mail and one of them had this song on it.
Now, I’m not a religious man but there is something really…redeeming about this song. It always struck me as a song about hardship even though its not directly in the lyrics. I’ve been listening to it off and on for months but it’s definitely moved back up my most-played list since the hurricane.
>> songs are available for two weeks [9.9 MB]
come down to last exit tonight!
Best Of v. Greatest Hits
Baby, This Love I Have
Minnie Riperton
Adventures In Paradise, 1975
Someone please start a Best Of series of soul artists for hip hop heads. There’s those “Best of Whoever” bootlegs at Beat Street for DJs but that’s not quite what I’m getting at. The A&R’s who put together the Best Of compilations are always targeting them at a nostalgic older generation. They don’t realize that there’s a whole army of younger folks looking for more gritty, layered sounds made familiar by hip hop and we don’t know or care what was on the radio, we actually just want the best songs.
Case in point: Capitol Gold: The Best of Minnie Riperton is a decent compilation but it lacks some of minnie hottest tracks. It, of course, features “Lovin’ You” (is easy cause you’re beautiful) but skips over “Reasons,” the opening track from the same album which features Stevie Wonder on drums and is probably the funkiest track she’s ever done. It also features “Inside My Love” and the title track from Adventures In Paradise but skips over the subtle, sexy (and prominently sampled) album opener “Baby, This Love I Have.” If you don’t already know this Minnie track, you’ll know it from Tribe’s “Check The Rhime” which, of course, led to Soul IV Real’s even bigger hit, “Candy Rain”. Then of course, there was Black Star’s “K.O.S. (Determination)” which flipped the beat around and used the first verse as the chorus.
Greatest hits and Best of are two different things, let’s get some truth in advertising!
>> songs are available for two weeks [5.6 MB]
The Indianesian Proximity
Damon Wayans
In Living Color - Season 1, 1990
Ok, so I made up the name. “United Negro College Fund Skit” is a lot less funny. I am pretty sure that this will be funny whether or not you remember this show, but if you do, you are in for a hand-over-mouth throwback. I still have the complete first season of this show on a VHS which I painstakingly recorded manually, week after week in the 9th grade. I recorded this audio from the recently released DVD.
It’s funny how times have changed, I used to clutch onto things (like cassette recordings of partial songs on the radio) thinking that if I didn’t get what I could then, it would be gone forever. Now, you can pretty much get anything you want with a few point-and-clicks, and more is getting converting to 1’s and 0’s everyday. This paragraph is very 1999 but don’t mind me.
>> mp3s are available for two weeks [1.4 MB]
Mystique Blues
Three Children
Crusaders
1, 1971
I was going to announce this as Installment #2 of The Full-Album Hotness You Can’t Find In a CD Store but alas, I checked All Music and the damn thing has been reissued! Although upon further clicking, I found out it was reissued by MVP Japan, it costs $40.99 on Barnes and Noble and Amazon and it takes 2 weeks to arrive! So…my time photographing the album cover was a waste but I can still claim this album in the name of all that is good and wonderful about vinyl, right? Especially as I got it for $2.
I don’t remember what first put this album on my radar screen. It’s been sampled many times, some I knew about before I got it, others I put together later, but the excitement I had when I found it didn’t compare the subsequent joy I got from sitting through all four sides of this stellar double LP. Jazz/Funk never sound much an cross between actual jazz and actual funk.
>> songs are available for two weeks [6.5 MB]
>> songs are available for two weeks [7.2 MB]
pics from last night
thanks for the good time homies! (larger versions can be found here)
tonight!
the wonder years
aka my 29th birthday!
the music of 1990-1994 all night
wednesday 9/21 @ madame x
aka my 29th birthday!
the music of 1990-1994 all night
wednesday 9/21 @ madame x
this thursday
ms. williamsburg last night
pictures from our dj collective hurricane katrina fundraiser @ miss williamsburg last night (proceeds went to aidnola.org):
LMani V drops “Shakara” by Fela
dj tabu and me
me, les boogie, needles, kingfish, lmani v, kosherkuts
We Are All God’s Children
The New Birth
Love Potion, 1976
Friendster/MySpace are more than worthless time-wasters! Here’s a great example: I listed New Birth as one of my favorite groups on my friendster profile last year and a DJ in Tokyo sent me a message telling me had recorded about 6 of their albums from vinyl would be happy to mail me copies of them. I have to say I was a little suspicious at first but I checked out his website and he had clips of New Birth lip-syncing on Soul Train and everything so I decided to send him my address. A few weeks later I got three CDRs in the mail and one of them had this song on it.
Now, I’m not a religious man but there is something really…redeeming about this song. It always struck me as a song about hardship even though its not directly in the lyrics. I’ve been listening to it off and on for months but it’s definitely moved back up my most-played list since the hurricane.
>> songs are available for two weeks [9.9 MB]
come down to last exit tonight!
Best Of v. Greatest Hits
Baby, This Love I Have
Minnie Riperton
Adventures In Paradise, 1975
Someone please start a Best Of series of soul artists for hip hop heads. There’s those “Best of Whoever” bootlegs at Beat Street for DJs but that’s not quite what I’m getting at. The A&R’s who put together the Best Of compilations are always targeting them at a nostalgic older generation. They don’t realize that there’s a whole army of younger folks looking for more gritty, layered sounds made familiar by hip hop and we don’t know or care what was on the radio, we actually just want the best songs.
Case in point: Capitol Gold: The Best of Minnie Riperton is a decent compilation but it lacks some of minnie hottest tracks. It, of course, features “Lovin’ You” (is easy cause you’re beautiful) but skips over “Reasons,” the opening track from the same album which features Stevie Wonder on drums and is probably the funkiest track she’s ever done. It also features “Inside My Love” and the title track from Adventures In Paradise but skips over the subtle, sexy (and prominently sampled) album opener “Baby, This Love I Have.” If you don’t already know this Minnie track, you’ll know it from Tribe’s “Check The Rhime” which, of course, led to Soul IV Real’s even bigger hit, “Candy Rain”. Then of course, there was Black Star’s “K.O.S. (Determination)” which flipped the beat around and used the first verse as the chorus.
Greatest hits and Best of are two different things, let’s get some truth in advertising!
>> songs are available for two weeks [5.6 MB]
The Indianesian Proximity
Damon Wayans
In Living Color - Season 1, 1990
Ok, so I made up the name. “United Negro College Fund Skit” is a lot less funny. I am pretty sure that this will be funny whether or not you remember this show, but if you do, you are in for a hand-over-mouth throwback. I still have the complete first season of this show on a VHS which I painstakingly recorded manually, week after week in the 9th grade. I recorded this audio from the recently released DVD.
It’s funny how times have changed, I used to clutch onto things (like cassette recordings of partial songs on the radio) thinking that if I didn’t get what I could then, it would be gone forever. Now, you can pretty much get anything you want with a few point-and-clicks, and more is getting converting to 1’s and 0’s everyday. This paragraph is very 1999 but don’t mind me.
>> mp3s are available for two weeks [1.4 MB]
