Sep 1, 2008, 9:23pm
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Best K-Tel ever? I'm thinkin' yeah .... about five more great ones on here that I passed up cause they're more well known (Lyn Collins "Think," Curtis "Future Shock" etc etc). Enjoy the late-summer funk while I enjoy a week at the beach. And remember to catch DEADHEAT this Thursday 9/4 at Bowery Electric with Grotto of Miracles + special guest(s). Joe Simon feat. The Mainstreeters - "Theme From 'Cleopatra Jones'" Mandrill - "Fence Walk" [...]
Album: Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em (Capitol; 1990) Songwriters: Barbara Acklin, MC Hammer and Eugene Record R&B Peak Position: #4 "She's a thought and a vision in my memory/ I haven't met her, but tell me where could she be?" While The Chi-Lites ' 1971 album, (For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People , found the group dabbling in the then-hot trend of socially conscious soul, it was a record that centered in the creamy romantic balladry they were mainly known for that ended up the [...]
Forty years ago this last Friday, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. How might this world be a better place if he was still with us? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Birmingham 1962 -- Keep Moving : Every Tone A Testimony : An African American Aural History Nina Simone - Why (The King Of Love Is Dead) : The Very Best Nina Simone: Sugar In My Bowl (Disc 1) The Chi-Lites [...]
On tap: All they wanted to do was to socialize, the Memphis Group , Chi'town's own , the oft covered tale of a henpecked husband and Ms. Arulpragasam's lingua franca pop. Enjoy Spring break! Faces: Too Bad - 5.23MB Booker T. & the MG's: Hip Hug-Her - 2.55MB The Chi-Lites: Stoned Out Of My Mind - 5.85MB The Maytals: Monkey Man - 5.58MB M.I.A.: Hussel - 7.21MB
After a hiatus of a few weeks, we return to the age of the Afro, the glorious times of sunny soul which talked about love and preached social-consciousness. The Blackbyrds - Walking In Rhythm.mp3 If I were to set my alarm clock to wake me up with a song to start my day on a high, this might be it. "Walking In Rhythm", which was released in 1975, exudes just the right measure of confident
By 1974, The Chi-Lites (pronounced Shy-Lights) were two years removed from their No. 1 single, Oh Girl, and starting to splinter. The Chicago-based harmony group had peaked commercially but they were still producing some magnificent records, like this one. There Will Never Be Any Peace (Until God is Seated at the Conference Table) was written by Chi-Lites main man Eugene Record and his semi-regular collaborator (and first wife) Barbara Acklin, a partnership previously responsible for the group's Have You Seen Her (top-5 in 1971) and Stoned Out Of My Mind (top-30 in 1973), as well as Acklin's 1969 [...]
I was going through some old records today and thought I'd post a few... It's a bit of a pain to get these babies converted from flat licorice pizzas into fancy bundles of 1's & 0's so I hope ya can appreciate some of them... Prince has a new disc out, but I ain't got it yet... I do have this one he produced back in 1985 though... Andre Cymone was Prince's childhood pal, and both their fathers were musicians, so naturally they started a band together in high school. Andre continued [...]
C'est à votre tour de briller, DJ de salons, amateurs de covers, champions du blind-test, ce morceau est taillé sur mesure. Pour ne rien vous cacher, j'ai longuement hésité, avant de mettre ce morceau en ligne, et ce, pour de multiples raisons : - d'abord, c'est un disque qui se mérite, car il ne vous tombe dans les mains par hasard, il faut être attentif, payer de son corps en buvant de la
First of all, I'd like to give a big shout to Knitting Factory NY for hooking us up with passes to the Slick Rick concert a couple weeks back. The Skull Snaps (as in the folks responsible for one of the most popular breaks ever, "It's A New Day") opened for MC Ricky D and killed it. One of the band members only utilized a tambourine and the occasional cooler than cool funk legend remark, and still managed to be 80 jillion times more entertaining than the average contemporary rapper. Slick Rick of course, was bananas. He frequently [...]
Jay-Z: December 4th From The Black Album (Def Jam, 2003) Chi-Lites: That's How Long From Toby (Brunswick, 1974) Goodbye to the game/all the spoils/the adreneline rush. Your blood boils/you in a spot knowing cops could rush. And you in a drop/you so easy to touch, No two days are alike/except the first and fifteenth pretty much. And "trust" is a word/you seldom hear from us. Hustlers we don't sleep/we rest one eye up. And [...]
photo from d-i-r-t-y.com so i'm finally forcing myself to make a proper dj mix, now faced with the problem of how to kick it off. here's what i'm kicking around right now: sunn o))) - orthodox caveman t. raumschmiere - radio blackout brian jones - take me with you my darling, take me with you (dinimaak a habibi [...]
Mixtape Maestro Presents: 90's R&B Junkie
Mainstream Isnt So Bad...Is It
snuhthing/anything
Any Major Dude With Half A Heart
Bongo Jazz A Speciality
Lil Mike's Last Known Thoughts & Random Revelations
la case de l'affreux thom
Palms Out Sounds
soul sides
disco-not-disco
J-Ax Meglio Live Tour 2012: la scaletta della data zero a Rovereto con l'omaggio ai Beastie Boys
The National - The Rains Of Castamere [Game of Thrones Soundtrack]
Sound of Summer (v. 3.1)
