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)
As a tribute to Rage Against the Machine releasing Simon Cowell’s stranglehold on the christmas number one (and helping to make a big fat pile of cash for charity in the process) here’s a take on “Killing in the Name of” you may not know of. “So why haven’t you played it in the podcast?” I hear you ask. Well it just so happens I’ve given it a spin in the mildly festive Show 50!
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!
Fellow manchester music blogger’s and night putter-onners, Northern Comfort graciously allowed me to knock together an hour long mix for their smashing website. It’s a mix of mellow moments building up into a quirky funk crescendo, some of which you pay have noticed getting a spin in previous podcasts. Check out the mix here and look out for their night down the Salutation Pub. Next saturday sounds like it will be huge…
Here we are again the usual eclectic 30 minute mix of jazzy moments and cheeky tunes. Show 45 kicks off with an unreleased tune by my good self (which I’m hoping to make available at some point!) and then delves into a selection of latin moments including 2 awesome remixes by the legend that is Snowboy. We round things off with a little nu-disco from the rather smashing Los Charly’s Orchestra!
Widdy - Crossanova
Banda Black rio - Mr Funky Samba
Fruko y Sus Tesos - A La Memoria Del Muerto
Shawn Lee & His Ping Pong Orchestra - 26
Sarah Webster Fabio - Sweet Songs
Roy Hargrove’s Crisol - Afrodisia (Snowboy Remix)
Up, Bustle & Out - Los Locos Cubanos (Snowboy Mix)
I happened to be walking through Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester on Friday night to find a crowd of people watching this excellent Caribbean steel band playing a bunch of cover versions. As I turned up they were playing an instrumental version of ‘Patience’ by Take That which was actually superb. Anyway I managed to video some bits and bobs of the rest of their set:
Here’s half a minute or so of them covering Jimmy Cliff’s ‘I Can See Clearly Now’. This works so nicely with steel drums!
Next up they did a cheeky version of ‘Tainted Love’ by soft cell:
Their final tune (before the encore) of the evening was their version of Bob Marley’s ‘no Woman No Cry’. I’m really pleased I managed to video the whole tune complete with crowd singalong. Excuse my shakey dancey camera!
But that wasn’t it! For an encore they only went and did a blistering steel version of the Lambada! Again I managed to video the full thing. Wonderful stuff!
I think the band was called Hi-Tech Caribbean Systems (at least that’s what their t-shirts read!). I was chatting to one of the band members afterwards and it seems they don’t have a CD of their tunes or a website! Such a shame as I’d happily play any of their tunes and I bet lots of others would too.
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