Little mini-mix I made last night when I was bored... (6 songs, 8 minutes)
Tracklist:
Jimmy Norman- Gangster Of Love Das EFX- Real Hip Hop Suff Daddy- Next Level Refill (The Alkaholics feat. Diamond D) Suff Daddy- Psycho Refill (D3CCPT feat. Guilty Simpson) Black Nasty- Party On 4th Street (pt.1) Beastie Boys- Sure Shot
EXCLUSIVE FREE DOWNLOAD! 4 exclusive mash-ups made by me, Mr Twist, in 2010 (with exception of 'Intergalactic Freak Out Skank, made in 2009).
Tracklist: A1: Bigger Better Baby Love (Daft Punk vs Aurra) A2: Funk 'Em In Fun (Nhtyjar vs Del the Funkee Homosapien) B1: Intergalactic Freak Out (Beastie Boys vs the Upsetters) B2: Poppa Large Is Happening (Ultramagnetic MC's vs Peter Richard)
It's been a long time..... But here's part 9 in the series of my favourite funktracks!
Tracklist:
01. Little Milton- Grits Ain't Groceries (All Around The World) 02. Dee Edwards- Why Can't There Be Love (Abe Twist Edit) 03. Curley Moore- Don't Pity Me 04. Junior Parker- Taxman 05. Howard Tate- Stop 06. J. Hines And The Fellows- Camelot Time 07. Senor Soul- The Mouse 08. Sugar Billy- Super Duper Love Pt 1 09. The Staple Singers- For What It's Worth 10. Akiko Wada- Doshaburino Ameno Nakade (In The Pouring Rain) 11. Eddie Bo- Getting To The Middle pt. 1 12. The Mighty Flea- Ode to Billy Joe 13. Lee Dorsey- Rain Rain Go Away 14. Booker T and the MG's- Slim Jenkin's Place 15. Pat Hunt- Super Cool
I've been busy, and I'm sorry to've let you down. Therefor I made you a special 30 minute podcast. It's the first one about break-ups. I'll do another one soon. Next one will be the about sadness and heartbreak, this one is about the anger one can feel after breaking up.
Tracklist:
1. Johnny Cash- Don't Think Twice (Dylan cover) "...Now I'm not saying that you treaded me unkind. You could've done a lot better, but I don't mind. You just sorta wasted my precious time... But don't think twice it's alright..."
2. The Black Keys- Next Girl "...My next girl, will be nothing like my ex girl. I made mistakes back then, I'll never do it again..."
3. Gangstarr- Ex Girl To The Next Girl "...Don't give me no long face, just exit with grace. You and I had a past, c'est la vie, much respect girl, but now you're my ex girl 'cause I'm on with the next girl... next.... next..."
4. Joe Torres- Get Out Of My Way (Ugly Woman) ...You've been cheating on me baby, and you've been used to having your way. I'm gonna count from 1 to 3 babe, when I say 2 get out of my way...
5. Gas Company- Get Out Of My Life Title says it all...
6. The Rare Breed- Beg, Borrow and Steal "...I'd rather beg, borrow and steal than go back to you..."
7. Ben Folds Five- Song For The Dumped "...So you wanted to take break... Slow it down some, and have some space... FUCK YOU TOO! Give me money back, you bitch..."
8. The Magnetic Fields- You Must Be Out Of Your Mind "...You can't go 'round just saying stuff, because it's pretty. And I no longer drink enough to think you're witty. If you think you can leave the past behind you must be out of your mind. If you think you can simply press rewind you must be out of your mind..."
9. Solomon Burke- Get Out My Life Woman ... Classic!
10. Lily Allen- Not Big "...I never wanted it to end up this way, You've only got yourself to blame, I'm gonna tell the world you're rubbish in bed now And that you're small in the game..."
While we're at it, let's just post number two as well!
Tracklist:
001. Alvin robinson- Down Home Girl 002. Smokey Rogers- Dimples or Dumplins 003. Lord Creator- Big Bamboo 004. Randy Van Horne and the Tigers- Get A Load Of That Walk 005. Roland Johnson- Cincinatti Dancing Pig 006. Chuck Jackson- I Keep Forgettin' 007. Charlie Palmieri- Fat Papa 008. Charles Sheffield- It's Your Voodoo Workin' 009. Charlotte Leslie- Les Filles C'est Fait 010. Cornell blakely- I want my share 011. Clancy Eccles New Beat- Feel The Rhythm 012. Clarence Paul- Baby Don't You Leave Poor Me 013. Marsha Hunt- Hot Rod Poppa 014. Wanda Jackson- Tunnel of love 015. The Salt- Lucifer 016. Charles Chalmers- Chess 017. Contributors Of Soul- Look What You Done For Me 018. Dick Curless- Juke Box Man 019. Third Wave- Eleanor Rigby 020. Ramblin' Jack Elliot- Cigarettes & Whiskey
It's been a while but I'm back with a nice collection of some of my favourite rare gems, ranging from (freak)beat to reggea, from Northern Soul to Boogaloo....
Tracklist:
001. Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes- Like, I Love You 002. Gillian Hills- Tut Tut Tut Tut 003. Toots and the Maytals- Louie Louie 004. Little Willie John- My Nerves 005. Willie Mitchell- Take Five 006. Devotions- Devils Gotten Into My Baby 007. Little Johnny Taylor- Sweet Soul Woman 008. Bobby Darin- Me & Mr. Hohner 009. Show Stoppers- Houseparty 010. George Guzman- Lazy Boogaloo 011. Wilson Pickett- Mini Skirt Minnie 012. Steve Aldo- You're Absolutely Right 013. Bob McFadden and Dor- The Mummy 014. The Johnny Otis Show- Willie Did The Cha Cha 015. Chapparal Trio- Roxanne 016. Lynne Randell- Wasn't It You 017. Loot- Baby Come Closer 018. Anna Karina- Roller Girl 019. Epics- Louie Louie, Come Home 020. The Rare Breed- Beg, Borrow and Steal
Another 30 minute podcast, all about voodoo this time...
Tracklist:
01. Martin Denny- Voodoo Dreams 02. Screamin' Jay Hawkins- I Put A Spell On You 03. Charles Sheffield- It's Your Voodoo Workin' 04. Dr John- Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya 05. Robert Drasnin- Voodoo 06. African Pop Session- African Voodoo 07. Little Willie John- My Nerves 08. The Naughty Ones - I Dig Your Voodoo 09. Koko Taylor- Voodoo Woman 10. Tim Buckley- Mexicali Voodoo
I've been owning this record for quite some time now, picked it up at a secondhand-recordstore called "Tommy" (which unfortunately does not excist anymore) in Tilburg about 13 years ago. It's got lots of great tracks on it, and one song in particular. A nice cinametic Italian piece, that I've been playing on a regular basis ever since I bought the record, and has been a big "hit" at parties of me and my friends. The only problem was, I never knew who the artist was. As you can see, at the back of the sleeve, only the composers are mentioned, which strikes me as odd, since the album is titled "All The Hits With All The Stars". On the front cover only the titles of the songs are mentioned.
I recently found out that the singer is Nicola Arigliano, and the title of the song is "20 KM Al Giorno". It was released as a single in 1964. I love how the title is misspelled on both the front- and backcover as well as on the record itself! (Tweenty KM instead of Twenty KM)
I tried to find information about this "All The Hits With All The Stars"-compilation, but it's nowhere to be found on the internet. So I searched for information about the label on which it was released, "Schok Records" but again no information about the label anywhere on the net.
I tried to rip the LP to mp3 but for some reason my equipment let me down, but I'll have that fixed soon. Wait for the update. For now you can listen to the song, which I took from the Youtube clip that is available. (I could not find the song on any site, blog or on Soulseek or Direct Connect++ .... and ofcourse I won't buy it on cd since I already own it on vinyl).
LISTEN:
Nicola Arigliano- 20 KM Al Giorno
What I found out as well, when searching for the artist, is that one of my personal heroes, Mike Patton, did a version of the song with his project Mondo Cane! I was amazed as, to me, this was kind of an obscure track... Listen to Patton's version of the song, recorded live in Paradiso, Amsterdam in the Netherlands.... Mike Patton and the Metropole Orchestra- 20 KM Al Giorno
And watch the video here:
I will highlite some more of the songs on the album, probably rip the whole record for you guys, 'cause this compilation is a goldmine of brilliant tracks.
Oh, and if someone has any information about this Italian "Schok"-label, please let me know!
"Uptight (Everything's Alright)" is ofcourse the 1966 hitsingle recorded by Stevie Wonder for the Motown label (it was then still called Tamla Motown). One of his most popular early singles, "Uptight" was the first Stevie Wonder single to be co-written by the artist.
One year later, 1967, Bill Cosby recorded and released his single "Little Ole Man", off his musical comedy album "Bill Cosby Sings" (Warner Bros). He basically took the Wonder song and put new words to it.
In 1969 reggea-singer Delroy Wilson released a record called "Good All Over" (Coxsone/Studio 1) with a song on it called "Funky Broadway" (not to be confused with another song called Funky Broadway, by Bobby Powell, released in the same year), which is obviously a re-work of the Uptight-song by Stevie Wonder with some different words. It's hard to describe the style of the song. As someone mentioned on Youtube: "Is it reggea? Or is it Northern Soul?" Anyways, it just kicks ass if you ask me.
Give all three songs a listen!
Stevie Wonder- Uptight (Everything Is Alright) (1966)
I can't help it... I love Batman and therefor I love songs about Batman....
Tracklist:
01. Intro 02. Jean & Dean- The Joker Is Wild 03. Adam West- The Story Of Batman 04. Nelson Riddler- Batman Riddles The Riddler 05. Gate Wesley And Band- Do The Batman 06. 60's Batman Radio Spot 07. Sonora Dinamita- La Cumbia De Batman 08. Nelson Riddler- Batgirl (Recorded from VHS) 09. Bobby Valentin- Batman Boogaloo
Here's a 30 minute podcast/streaming-medley, with some great songs about sex, drugs and alcohol, to start off your weekend!
From country about LSD (?!) to reggea about pussy, from RnB about getting wasted to 60's pop about marijuana.
I think this is something I'll do more often, probably once every two weeks.
Have a good one ;)
(Don't do drugs though, drugs are bad...)
Tracklist:
01. Intro 02. Rosco Gordon- Let's Get High 03. Wendell Austin- LSD 04. Mighty Tom Cats- Cheeba Cheeba (Abe Twist Edit) 05. Mike Clifford- Mary Jane 06. Max Romeo- Play With Your Pussy 07. Sugar Billy Garner- I Got Some (Satisfaction) 08. Ramblin’ Jack Elliott- Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women 09. Soul Bros- Chicken and Booze (Abe Twist Edit) 10. Tom Waits- Jockey Full Of Bourbon 11. The Cramps- New Kind Of Kick 12. Johnny Cash- Cocaine Blues 13. Slyde- Sex & Drugs (feat. Chaz G & Lady Posh & Mr. Colin Owens)
I recently discovered "Heart Trouble" by the Welsh band "Eyes of Blue" on this fantastic compilation of rare 60's beat, freakbeat, RnB, psych & soul, called "Go Gear! vol.5" (released on a label called "13th Dimension"). When I heard it for the first time I immediately fell in love with the song.
The original single was released in 1967. Sadly there's not a whole lot of information to be found on the internet about this group.
As I first listened to the tune I noticed that the lyrics sounded familiar to me, and not much later it came to me: Funkadelic's "You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure" from the band's "Cosmic Slop"-album (released in '73) has taken a good bit of the lyrics of this song.
After some more searching I found out that the original tune was written by the Parliaments and released in 1965, two years before the release of Eyes Of Blues' version.
The Parliaments, who's style at that time would be best described as Northern Soul, would later on turn into Parliament and Funkadelic; two bands consisting of the same members, recording for different labels, and as we all know, were the main performers of the soul- and funk subgenre known as P-Funk. So that's were it all comes together...
Have a listen to all three tunes, they are equally great:
Eyes Of Blue- Heart Trouble:
The Parliaments- Heart Trouble:
Funkadelic- You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure:
PS. Later on George Clinton did another solo version of "Heart Trouble" which is just too awful to post here...
01. Bettye Lavelle- Do Your Duty 02. Cyril Neville- Gossip 03. Black Nasty- Party On 4th Street (pt.1) 04. Sugar Billy Garner- I Got Some 05. Sugarpie Desanto- The Woo-Pee 06. African Pop Session- African Voodoo 07. Tony Camillo's Bazuka- Dynomite 08. Baby Huey- Hard Times 09. Fuzzy Huskins- The Fuzz and da Boog 10. Howart Tate- I'm Your Servant 11. Marsha Hunt- Oh No! Not The Beast Day 12. Keith Mansfield- Loot's The Root 14. Sugarpie Desanto & Etta James- In The Basement, Part One 15. The Jimmy Castor Bunch- The Bertha Butt Boogie Pt.1
A very goodlooking blog about the love for blaxploitationgenre; the films and the music that comes with it. So very much to see, learn, listen and do in here.
The blog has no less than 27 Contributors, an extensive library of downloadable OST's, excellent and clear lay-out, loads of information about the films as well as screenshots from every single movie, a beautiful movie photo-album and they've even put a resource-roll on there.
Another 15 funky tracks in the Abe Twist series :) Tracklist:
01. Spanky Wilson- Sunshine Of Your Love 02. Guy Morris & Band- Cool It 03. Sly & The Family Stone- Underdog 04. Timebox- Beggin' 05. Sugar Pie DeSanto- Soulful Dress 06. Bo Diddley- I'm High Again 07. Brian Auger- Tiger 08. Underground Express- I Never Found A Girl (to love me the way you do) 09. Dum Dum- Art The Grass 10. Ernie Hawks- Soulful Trip Part 2 11. Lulu- Feeling Alright 12. Kris Peterson- Mama's Little Baby (Is A Big Girl Now) 13. Esther Marrow - Chains of Love 14. Ground Hog- Bumpin (Vocal) 15. Placebo- Humpty Dumpty
