Tom Glide & The Luv All Stars are doing it for me right now. Quality tracks coming out of Paris. These guys do it all, from Deep House to Up Tempo 70's style dance music. In The Name Of Love album is diverse, funky and Dance floor friendly. Check out Toms Glide's SOUND CLOUD PAGE and support good music.
Katalyst is the Sydney based producer Ashley Anderson of international acclaim. All of his solo releases have been nominated for ARIA Awards in Australia and there's a strong fan base established for his work worldwide. He also runs the Invada label in Australia with with Portishead's Geoff Barrow
Steve Spacek originates form London landed in Sydney via and LA. He has worked with the likes of J Dilla, Mos Def, Slum Village, Common and many more. He is likened to classic soul singers Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye and has been championed by everyone from Entertainment Weekly to Mos Def.
Entitled Soul:Fi the album features an impressive cameo cast of guest talent, including the likes of Detroit rappers Dank (Frank & Dank) and Buff 1, Australian soul divas Jade MacRae and Fantine and Australian Jamican RuCL. On Soul:Fi Space Invadas successfully create an innovative, unique, futuristic sound by fusing bonafide Soul and laid back Hip Hop.
The record industry is in dire straights, its true. Jack White, who seems cryogenically preserved from vinyl's heyday, is fully aware of this sad fact and has gone to great lengths to preserve the dying culture. His most recent effort was uncovered today in a video posted on the Third Man Records website and begins with the somberly delivered PSA, "97% of high school aged kids have NEVER been to a standalone record store."
Over the course of the next minute or so, Jack White unveils his plan to remedy this injustice, and it takes the form of one of his most awesome inventions yet. The latest from Third Man labs is the Rolling Record Store: a truck well stocked with a range of limited edition Third Man vinyl, shirts, tote bags, and other fun merch.
The store operates in a manner not unlike a food cart. It is a fully functional vehicle and will travel from Nashville, Tennessee to Austin, Texas to make its debut at SXSW, March 16-20. To top it all off the truck is equipped with microphones and turntables for DJs to spin records as well as a killer soundsystem for bands to plug in and play outside. White worked with a custom auto shop to design and build the Rolling Record Store from scratch.
After Austin, the bright yellow truck will travel ("Like A Rolling Store?") to other shows and festivals, and hopefully a city near you
This is what the work place emails me every morning. Who can out do the next with Youtube video's. I love my Job. This takes the cake for the week. Oh wait Check the one below from Yung Humma Ft Flynt Flossy - Lemme Smang It! This was sent to me on Wednesday.
Oh no they didn't! Flipping "Vicky D - This Beat Is Mine" - to "This Weed is Mine... I Love it. Produced by Snoop Deville - Modern G Funk.. Hold on to your 12", its about to go up in value.
As you all ready know, I'm very picky when it comes to new music. It seems we're going through a musical revolution / golden era of music. Really... It's a great time in music, plus it's acceptable to listen to multiple genres compared to previous years. Not mad at all.
In this case Snoop did it again with this Knuckle head Kid Wiz Khalifa. Not feeling his verse but it will do, Snoop should of took this one on himself with DPG or Nate Dogg (R.I.P). No matter what I say, I'm feeling this track.
My Good friends George is running his annual "Bombs United" car event going down on April 9th 2011 in San Jose. Log on to Facebook and check out this event. I cant wait to go for my ride...
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Congratulations to my boy Fluxx who now runs one of the hottest underground Funk & Soul night in France. If you're ever in Paris make sure you stop by and check out this night dedicated to the music we love all on wax. Fluxx has been a regular at Sweater Funk prior to moving, and the Kid has heat.
Big Ups Sir...
Paris based DJ crew Sweatshop (Fluxxx & Brez Dillinger) is now presenting to you the only weekly night dedicated to boogie, modern soul and soulful steppers on original vinyl starting now in Paris France.
Inspired by Dam-Funk’s Funkmosphere night in Los Angeles, Jon Blunck and DJ Guillermo decided to recreate the Funkmosphere vibe in their new digs, San Francisco, in 2008. Using their own soundsystem, they took over a basement in Li Po Cocktails, every Sunday with the goal of throwing a free party that presents this sound on original vinyl strictly for the dancers. After going to a lot of Sweaterfunk party in SF, Fluxxx, dj, musician, producer, dance music fan, decided to bring back that californian vibes to Paris under the name of sweatshop and collaborate with international funk scene dj and musician.
The Stepkids are three singer/songwriters. “A lot of what excites us about this band is this band itself,” says bassist and keyboardist Dan Edinberg. “It’s not either of us; it’s about creating an entity where the entity itself is what’s important.” As a result, every song on the Stepkids self-titled debut album is written with equal input from each member.
“All three of us write and all three of us sing,” says Jeff Gitelman, who resigned from touring as Alicia Keys' guitarist to concentrate full-time on recording the Stepkids self-titled debut album. Drummer Tim Walsh continues, “There's an equal split in the creative process. Any lyric, any melody, any idea could have been done by any of us.”
This approach comes from more than a decade of musical experimentation and experience. Raised on the East Coast jazz and R&B circuit, individual band members went on to share stages with 50 Cent and Lauryn Hill, tour internationally with indie punk band Zox, score movies and commercials and produce solo albums.
The Stepkids groove is a fusion of punk and jazz, West African and 1960s folk, neo and classic soul, classic funk and 20th century classical. The band produce, engineer and record themselves on a reel-to-reel.
There’s no singular icon, no singular sound, and no singular way of making it happen for the Stepkids. It’s psychedelia for the 21st century, where the focus is on the whole.
The Roy Ayers Project (twitter @RoyAyersProject) is first and foremost a documentary, produced by digital media professionals, telling the life, music, and philosophy of the great Roy Ayers. It is also art, talented artists who use their gifts to express themselves through canvas, murals, and other mediums capturing the spirit of Roy Ayers. It is also performance, bringing together Roy Ayers himself with talented musicians to perform live at venues across the country. The Roy Ayers Project is about sharing the essence and legacy of one of the greatest musicians ever to live. Okayplayer and Revivalist are proud to be have partnered with The Roy Ayers Project to premiere trailers and information on the project until it’s released in the Spring of 2012. Today, we give you the very first look featuring none other than ?uestlove.
This April, Rizzoli and the Swiss publisher Nieves are set to release Ari Marcopoulos: Directory, a monumental limited edition phone-book-sized volume of photographs featuring 1200 of Marcopoulos’ most recent images. Each copy includes a print signed by Ari Marcopoulos.
Art critic Neville Wakefield provided the companion commentary.
Rizzoli writes, "Marcopoulos has amassed a highly respected body of work documenting subcultures such as skateboarders and graffiti artists, as well as landscapes and images of his own family and friends. His unique style has made him one of the most influential and important contemporary photographers."
Something to look forward to in the world of Ari Marcopoulos: he will have an exhibition at Ratio 3 Gallery in San Francisco this September, 2011.
WOW Baby, Get your tickets for this show in Oakland Sunday April 3rd.. Stanley Clarke is a legend and this is the one show you shouldn't miss. Below is a little history on Stanley Clarke.
Exploding into the jazz world in 1971, Stanley was a lanky teenager from the Philadelphia Academy of Music. He arrived in New York City and immediately landed jobs with famous bandleaders such as: Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Pharaoh Saunders, Gil Evans, Stan Getz, and a budding young pianist composer named Chick Corea.
All of these musicians recognized immediately the ferocious dexterity and complete musicality the young Clarke possessed on the acoustic bass. Not only was he expert at crafting bass lines and functioning as a timekeeper in the bass’ traditional role, Stanley also possessed a sense of lyricism and melody gained from his bass heroes Charles Mingus, Scott LaFaro, and others, including non-bass players like John Coltrane. Clarke recognized the opportunity to propel the bass into a viable melodic soloist role and was uniquely qualified to do just that.
The opportunity to state melody and to propel the bass to the front of the concert stage came to fruition when Clarke and Corea formed the seminal electric jazz/fusion band Return to Forever. RTF was a showcase for each of the quartet’s strong musical personalities, composing prowess, and instrumental voices. Clarke surmised, “we really didn’t realize how much of an impact we were having on people at the time. We were touring so much then, we would just make a record and go back on the road.” The band recorded eight albums, two of which were certified gold (the wildly successful Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy and the classic Romantic Warrior), won a Grammy award (No Mystery) and received numerous nominations while touring incessantly. And this was a jazz band!
Then Stanley, his now famous Alembic bass in hand, fired the shot heard ‘round the world’. He single-handedly started the 1970s “bass revolution,” paving the way for all bassist/soloist/bandleaders to follow. In 1974 he released his eponymous Stanley Clarke album, which featured a hit 45rpm “single” (we’re still talking about jazz here,) titled “Lopsy Lu.” In 1976 Stanley released School Days, of which the title track is now a bona fide bass anthem.
He acknowledges, quite unboastfully: “Anyone who seriously wants to learn to play the bass has to buy that record and learn to play that song.” Aspiring bassists must also master the percussive slap funk technique that Stanley pioneered as well. Stanley saw Larry Graham’s technique (Sly and the Family Stone) and seized upon the idea. He built his facility to a frightening speed, and then adapted it to complex jazz harmonies. Says Stanley, “Larry started it, but he had only one lick. I saw him do it, and I took it from there.” Stanley was the first musician to pop over chord changes. “A lot of guys could jam all day in E, but couldn’t play it over changes.”
Stanley Clarke became the first bassist in history to headline tours, selling out shows worldwide, and have his albums certified gold. The word “legend” was used to describe Stanley by the time he was 25 years old. In 1997 Epic/Sony released: By this tender young age, Stanley was already a celebrated pioneer in fusion jazz music. He was also the first bassist in history to double on acoustic and electric bass with equal virtuosity, power, and fire. He had also invented two new instruments: the piccolo bass and the tenor bass. The piccolo bass, built to his specifications by New York luthier Carl Thompson, is tuned one octave higher than the traditional electric bass guitar. The tenor bass is a standard Alembic bass tuned up one fourth higher than standard. With both of these instruments, Stanley’s melodic range is extended for playing in higher registers as he sees orchestrationally fit.
Alembic honored Stanley by offering a signature model Stanley Clarke bass, the first time in the company’s history of making only custom built instruments to do so. Whatever the instrument: acoustic bass viol, electric bass guitar, tenor bass, piccolo bass, acoustic bass guitar, electric upright, or any of the hundreds of axes in his arsenal, Stanley’s musicality and command of these instruments clearly define him as the greatest living bass virtuoso in the world, second to none, hands down, end of discussion.
Now king of the acoustic and electric jazz worlds, in 1981 Stanley teamed with George Duke to form the Clarke/Duke Project. Together they scored a top-twenty pop hit with “Sweet Baby,” recorded three albums and still tour to this day. Stanley’s involvement in additional projects as leader or active member include: Jeff Beck (tour of Japan and Europe, 1978-1979), Ronnie Wood's & Keith Richards’ New Barbarians (North American tour, 1979), Animal Logic (with Stewart Copeland, two albums and tours, 1989), The "Superband”(with Larry Carlton, Billy Cobham, Najee, and Deron Johnson, 1993-94), The Rite of Strings (with Jean Luc Ponty and Al Dimeola, 1995), Vertu’ (with Lenny White, 1999). A much more detailed listing of Stanley Clarke’s bands can be found in Discography. Clarke has won literally every major award available to a bass player: Grammys, Emmys, every readers’ poll out there, all the critics’ polls, gold and platinum records, walks of fame- you name it. He was Rolling Stone’s very first Jazzman of the Year, and bassist winner of Playboy’s Music Award for ten straight years.
Ever seeking new challenges, in 1985 Stanley turned his boundless creative energy to film and television scoring. Starting on the small screen with an Emmy nominated score for Pee Wee’s Playhouse, he progressed onto the silver screen as composer, orchestrator, conductor and performer of scores for such blockbuster films as: Boys N the Hood, What’s Love Got to Do With It (the Tina Turner Story), Passenger 57, Higher Learning, Poetic Justice, Panther, The Five Heartbeats, Little Big League, and Romeo Must Die. He has even scored a Michael Jackson video release directed by Jon Singleton entitled Remember the Time. Currently his scoring may be heard on the number one rated show for the Showtime Network: Soul Food. Stanley has become one of the elite in-demand composers in Hollywood.
Stanley says that: “film has given me the opportunity to compose large orchestral scores and to compose music not normally associated with myself. It’s given me the chance to conduct orchestras and arrange music for various types of ensembles. It’s been a diverse experience for me musically, made me a more complete musician, and utilized my skills completely.”
His artistry has spanned classical, jazz, R&B and pop idioms. He has already succeeded in a multitude of diverse careers, any one of which would be satisfactory to anyone else. Yet he still pushes on, as invigorated and as passionate about music as that teenage prodigy from Philadelphia with a dream.
Loleatta Holloway has died aged 64 following a short period of ill health. Her manager Ron Richardson broke the news last night.
Holloway was perhaps best known for her 1980 disco hit Love Sensation, which was later sampled by Black Box for their 1989 club smash Ride On Time. Her vocals were originally used without credit, but she successfully sued the band and received an undisclosed share of the royalties.
This is just one of many occasions on which Holloway's vocals have been sampled, while she also a sang on Dan Hartman's original version of Relight My Fire, which was later covered by Take That. Salsoul Orchestra classic Runaway features her vocals, too.
I love this collaboration - Tettory BLK (Grooveman Spot) and East London’s Simbad who together make up TettoryBad. Back to the Soulful Boom Bap flavor we all love from Jazzy Sport Camp. I smell a Winner folks. You should be familiar with both artist's and Label who've been around for long time and continue putting out great music. Google that shit!
Most people play the A Side "I Could Of Loved You" but for me I ride for the "B" side. A smoothed out mellow number with deep, grooving bass line. I hope you don't mind some sexy guitar with your soul. very different from the dance floor friendly A side which is also a great tune.
MY good friends Tommy Siquiero hooked me up with this bad ass bay area 45 from "Cold Fire" out of San Francisco. I don't have much information on this tune, but I can assure you that this modern soul funk record definitely has the Groove. Love the Horns on this cut... Please share your knowledge if you have information on this band.
Some people aren’t satisfied with the seating options at Muni stations. They’re taking the matter into their own hands. Check out this photo of a guy with his own seat at the Van Ness station…
Thanks again to every one who made it out to my birthday party on friday. I can t tell you how much it meant to me to have all my friends gather in one space to enjoy the music we love.
Before I thank everyone who came out, a special shout goes to my girl Cara for hooking up the party. With out her none of this would of happened. She hooked me up, including an adult Pinata filled with liquor, money, and candy. I love you :)
Second I would like to thank all the Homeys from San Jose, including Dulce Dee Lady, and All the crew from Street Low magazine including Richard Gypsy for taking pictures. I would also like to shout out The Pachuco Car Club SF, The Bombs Car Club, Street Low Magazine, Allen Thayer (wax poetics magazine), E Da Boss (Myron & E), Jesse Nason, Kerry and his wife Yoko, FTC, all the Sweater Funk Crew, and all my friends and family who came out in full force... You know who you are.
