Never thought that that the Black Eyed Peas made good music? Show 55 kicks off with a reminder that they could once make credible hip hop with some delightful nu-soul from frontman Will.I.Am. Such a shame about the ringtones and McMusic that pass for their current output! We continue on in a downtempo and mellow mood through an eclectic selection of hip hop, classic soul, columbian and disco records before finishing off where we began with a short medley of sublime nu-soul. Hope you like - get downloading!
Will.i.am - Lay Me Down
Lords of the Underground - No Pain
St Germain - Land of…
James Brown - You Can Have Watergate
Adriana Evans - Remember Love
Airto Mareira - The Happy People
The Latin Brothers - Las Calenas son como las Flores
Show 54 kicks off with some sublime soul from Terry Callier and Eddie Kendricks and then goes on to pick up the pace through a selection of choice disco numbers. We round off the hour with some dancefloor disturbing afro numbers, culminating in the modern classic by RSL - the awesome ‘Wesley Music’. Download it and Enjoy!
Terry Callier - You Goin’ Miss Your Candyman
Eddie Kendricks - Girl You Need a Change of Mind
Salsoul Orchestra - Take Some Time Out For Love
Melvin Sparks - Get Ya Some
The Fantastic Aleems - Hooked on Your Love
Clyde Alexander - Got to Have Your Love
Louise Freeman - I Can do it
In Search of Orchestra - Phenomena Theme (Inst)
The soul Jazz Orchestra - The Blind Leading the Blind
Gracious, it’s been a while since I’ve added a new podcast to this page. Promise I’ll be more regular from now on! Anyway, this time round it’s a bit of a technical treat as I’ve managed to cram 12 tunes into just over half an hour! We kick off with a selection of blues, starting with the mighty BB King and building up through an assortment of jazz, soul, disco, funk, dubstep and dub.
A belated merry new year to one and all and we kick off this year’s podcasts with an hour long mix for you to download containing some of my favourites from the last year. Starting off once again with the awesome cover of “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” we journey through reggae, afro, soul, breaks and beats. Also, look out for the cheeky cover version of Britney Spears’ “Toxic” near the end!
Prince Fatty - Shimmy Shimmy Ya
Lloyd Young - High Explosion
The Dynamics - Downtown Barkings (Afrobeat Edit)
Peter King - Shango
Spanky Wilson - Kissing My Love
Helene Smith - You Got to be a Man
The Five Corners Quintet - The Devil Kicks
Povo - Shibab’s Habit
Omar - It’s So
Nicole Willis - Holdin’ On (Afronaut Remix)
Eddy Meets Yannah - Shamed
Waleoyejide - Africa Hot!
Quantic - Blackstone Rock
Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra - Toxic
The Village Callers - I Heard it Through the Grapevine
It’s the last show before christmas so why not kick off with a funk cover of this year’s christmas number 1. Australian outfit, The Apples take on Rage Against the Machine in a satisfyingly brassy manner. We then start to up the tempo with a bit more funk and latin before concluding with one of my favourite tunes from the past couple of years - Zed Bias’ remix of the already masssive ‘Sahara’ by Soil & Pimp Sessions. Ho ho ho, and stuff…get downloading!
The Apples - Killing
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - Why Don’t we all Stop Paying Taxes?
Akwaaba - Aiff
All the People - Cramp Your Style
The Hi-Fly Orchestra - Roda de Samba
Negrocan - Brasil Nago
Up, Bustle & Out - Los Locos Cubanos (Snowboy remix)
Show 49 of the podcast is 30 minutes packed with almost-christmas crackers. We kick off with another killer from the Hot Coins ‘Valient Truth EP’ which featured in show 48. We then continue into some huge bass wobbling UK rap from Profisee & Eprom and follow on into a range of old favourites and rounding off with everyone’s favourite Bill Withers tune!
Crikey has it really been that long since the last show? to make up for it we’ve got another half an hour of crackers kicking off with a classic from Glen McCrae. We then take a short trip up soul lane via the epic ‘Girl Your Need a change of mind’ and the well known surefire dancefloor filler from the Jackson Sisters. We round things off with a fantastic mashup of Amerie, Massive Attack and the Rolling Stones!
Gwen McRae - 90% of me is you
Joey Gilmore - Somebody Done Took my Baby and Gone
I’ve knocked up a special show this time round with a 2 hour whopper! I’ve crammed as many styles and tunes as I could into this 120-ish min mix. Download it here or use the subscribe option at the bottom of this rather lengthy tracklist. So less chat and let’s get stuck in!
The Soul Vendors - Ringo Rock
Jacob Miller - I’m a Natty
Andrew tosh - The Original Man
Alan Glen - Stone Fox Chase
Mark Rae - Depth Charge
Mickey & the Soul Generation - Get Down Brother
Maya Azucena - Like No Other
Connie Price & the Keystones - The Badger
Speech Defect - I Could Just Sit Around
Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf - Gatha Round
Showbiz & AG - Catchin Wreck
Martin Brew - Drop the Beat
Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra - Jagger
Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson - I Want to Love You
Jo Ann Gerret - We Can Learn Together
The ARE ftp. Jehst & Tommy Evans - Nouveau Riche
The Houston Express - Houston Person
James Brown - You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme
Tony Allen, Res, Ray Lema, Baaba Maal, Positive Black Soul & Archie Shepp - No Agreement
Dom Salvador E Abolicao - Som, Sangue E Raca
Banda Black Rio - Mr Funky Samba
The Brothers Seven - Evil Ways
Gladys Knight & the Pips - Got Myself a Good Man
Pucho - Got Myself a Good Man
Idea 6 - Windly Coast (Gerardo Frisina Latin Mix)
Greg Wilson - Gotta Keep Workin’ it
Edwin Starr - I Just Wanna Do My Thing
Zzap - Dance Floor
The Fantastic Aleems ft. Leroy Burgess - Get Down Friday Night
Chaka Khan - Fate
Speedometer - Work it Out
Joseph Henry - Who’s the King (You Know That’s Me)
New Ghetto Express - Standing on the Verge of Getting it On
I did a post a few weeks back on some of the online record shops that I use. However, if you can’t be bothered with this old fashioned and boring way of satisfying your vinyl habit and prefer to actual walk somewhere to support your local independent record shop then here is the site for you:
Record Shop City is looking to track down all Manchester (and nearabouts) based record shops and seems to be doing a jolly nice job. Go and check them out as well as follow them on twitter.
Welcome one and all to the not so eagerly anticipated show 46 of my Jolly Podcast series. This time round we kick off with an absolute stormer in the form of Tod Terje’s massive tinkering of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Superstition’. As the old saying goes ‘if it ain’t broken don’t fix it’ but gosh if this just doesn’t work out brilliantly anyway. We then carry on for a funk and disco workout before concluding with a couple of cheeky reggae numbers from Johhny Clarke and the JJ Allstars. Hope you Enjoy!
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