Perspiring bouquets of sweet smelling fragrances and gallons of instrument-tanged thrust are shown on eight more boogie spins with razors-edge funk. Set your auditory tongues wagging and put some STANK on it! MANDRILL – Fat City Strut OHIO PLAYERS – Skin Tight EARTH, WIND & FIRE – Mighty Mighty THE T.S.U. TORONADOES – Getting The Corners POSITIVE FORCE – We've Got The Funk THE JIMMY CASTOR [...]
Rolling Stone reports that Jimmy Castor, the great '70s hard-funk bandleader, died of unknown causes in Las Vegas yesterday. He was 64. As the main behind the Jimmy Castor bunch, Castor perfected a form of nasty, uncompromising dance-funk, perhaps best exemplified by the utterly crushing 1973 hit "Troglodyte." (Chuck Eddy, the great iconoclastic rock critic, ranked the Jimmy Castor Bunch's Phase Two as one of the 10 greatest metal albums of all time in his book Stairway To Hell, which ought to give some idea how heavy this stuff sounded.) Castor's songs have [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Gilles Petard, Redferns Jimmy Castor, an acclaimed disco-funk saxophonist whose classic horn lines have been sampled by such hip-hop artists as Kanye West , N.W.A. and Eric B. and Rakim , died Monday, Jan. 16 in Las Vegas of unknown causes, Prefix reports . He was 64. Born in New York City in 1947, Castor is best known for leading the disco-era group the [...]
R.I.P. Jimmy Castor (1947-2012) Jimmy Castor Bunch Performing It's Just Begun Live @ Long Beach Funk Festival 8/7/10 Nativity
See, the problem with working Sundays for the past three years is that I'm not too familiar with what's going on in the National Football League. So when someone offers me the chance to make a couple high-dollar bets with no vig I should know better than to take the offer. Inevitably my three years [...]
LES JEUX DE L(A ROUTE DU ROCK D)'HIVER C'est bientôt la Route du Rock d'hiver , on y va, cela nous met en joie, réveille notre côté joueur et nous donne envie de proposer des pitits jeux plus ou moins (plutôt moins) élaborés... Ça doit faire une bonne année qu'un « Les deux font lapeyre » n'a pas été proposé ici. Le concept évolue un peu mais pas de révolution pour autant (la preuve ci-dessous)... Pour résumer, Les 2 font lapeyre = sur les 4 morceaux [...]
Happy New Year Blind I Faithful. I feel like it has been a while since I've posted an Innervisions mix. If you're new to this thing, these compilations usually have a smooth vibe with lots of old soul music which is one of my favorite things to play when I unwind. And they took time on these songs back in the day so don't rush through the intros of George Duke and Jimmy Castro. The switch up is worth the wait. Tracks and links after the jump. [...]
Levan on the remix of this b-boy, dance-off classic. Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun (Larry Levan Remix) Thanks go to Beat Electric
People say that they look like monkeys. Monkeys make you smile, but a bigfoot strikes you with horror Russian writer Ivan Turgenev met someone that looked like a troglodyte. The horror of the encounter remained in his mind throughout his whole life. It happened, when Turgenev was a young man. Years after, he told the story to his French friends. Here is what Guy de Maupassant wrote about it: "I remember a story that Turgenev told us. He was [...]
All the B-Boy's will know the origins of this one, but less known is that in 1983 Larry Levan made a remix of this Jimmy Castor Bunch dance battle classic. I picked up a clean copy for a few euros when I was traveling through Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago on the classic dutch Ramshorn re-release label. I love Ramshorn, it was so well curated, whoever picked out the tracks that that label re-pressed during the 80's for the european market deserves a blog entry all to themselves, if only I knew who that person was. [...]
Two of my favorite breaks, washed clean and hung out on the line to dry. The Breaks : Jackie Robinson - Pussyfooter (download) The Breaks : Jimmy Castor Bunch - Its Just Begun (download)
The soundtrack to our daily grind, all in a nice & neat format. You know what it is © Cliff Harris. It's Crew Love . Corey Bloom C-Rayz Walz & Swave Sev - "The Family Crest" This has to be one of the iller tribute songs I've heard, done by one of favorite MC's for one my favorite duos. C-Rayz and Swave Sev pay homage to Gangstarr with cleverly worded web of the albums, songs, productions and musical significance that built the legacy. More than [...]
Jimmy Castor Bunch - Troglodyte (Cave Man)
99% of what I watch is online now. Be it movies, videos, or the few tv shows of quality, so I laugh when I hear the craziness over digital converters how people aren't ready to switch over. The senate is trying to delay the switch over till June 17th so that people can get their coupons. As if the masses can't go without their reality idol crack! The funny thing is, is who bought the airwaves TV once filled? Any guesses? The fuckin cell phone companys yep just so we can sit in traffic without roaming that much longer. Oh [...]
So, don't ask why, but we were watching the 1983 movie Flashdance the other night and this scene stuck out: probably for no reason other than the fact that we recently posted about David Elsewhere . The breaking in here is arguably not on the same level as Elsewhere's talent, but you can't deny its authenticity. Unalbe to show flash video Just in case you were wondering, the track is by Jimmy Castor Bunch, and is entitled "It's Just Begun."
This was originally posted on the Bladerunners blog . It goes without saying, but this is a pretty legit list. It's also a fun "name who sampled it" exercise. One of the best sources for looking up sample sources is The Breaks . Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun (Larry Levan Mix) Sample source for: 2 Live Crew - "Get Loose Now" Antoinette - "Here She Comes" [...]
You know what's better than Monday? Everything... So, last Friday we had some sample-source fun and today the shuffle gives us another very heavily sampled, certified funk classic, courtesy The Jimmy Castor Bunch ... The Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun (ysi) You may also remember this jam as being the only good song in Flashdance (dodges chair thrown at him by the [...]
Funk is where the richness of musical tapestry collides; it's walking along your local urbanscape with iridescent antique-show rumblings that up and went in that space just above your head. The rhythm and the toot-toot, sparking off the sleek of the office steel and the shit on the sidewalk. Grab a partner and get down to [...]
Here I am again, cat-sitting. Madison (the cat) is laying on my lap between me and my computer. He is purring incessantly and kicking my arms away from the keyboard with his paws. Also, he's biting my forearms. I have to work tomorrow, Friday and Saturday. I shouldn't be here. I should be on the road. Matt's driving from Tucson back to the East Coast and all I want right now in life is a nice, long roadtrip through a part of the country I'm not familiar with. Actually, it's a toss up. All I want right now in life [...]
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