Chuck created a Soundcloud account for us so I decided to try and take advantage of its capabilities and create/post a mix-tape for you all. I chopped a few things up; hopefully no source material was harmed in the making of this mix. I have drank of the Cumbia Nueva Kool-aid... This is all thanks to San Francisco's excellent ~3 year old record label Bersa Discos . It all started when I happened across local NYC producer/DJ Uproot Andy 's Botellon in Poirer 's entry in Dusted [...]
Mophono's Halftone Society: " Sinicism (Natural Self Remix) " Available On: The Sinicism EP [Bastard Jazz 2010] I've been meaning to post on this heater of a 123 for going on like a month now, but as you can tell my post count, my attempts haven't really been cutting it of late. Shouts to Junior for getting me re-sorted out here. Happy to have a jam like this to share with with you though. I first crossed paths with Benji Illgen, aka DJ Centipede, aka Mophono at a Halloween house [...]
Billy Stewart: Sitting In The Park and I Do Love You Available on: I Do Love You [Chess, 1965] Ok, no breaks here today, no outrageous fuzzy funk or wild and crazy rap, just some plain old sublime and gorgeous soul music for your ears. I've been meaning to post up something about Billy Stewart for what seems like forever but, as with so many things I plan with the best intentions, it's sat collecting dust in the to do [...]
Mandingo: Black Rite and The Headhunter Available on: The Sound Gallery, Vol. 1 [Scamp, 1996] Most Brits around about my age and older will have encountered the sounds of Geoff Love at one time or another, even if they didn't realise it at the time. A talented musician who had some minor success with his own work, Geoff and his Orchestra spent most of the 60s, 70s and beyond recording disco approximations of hits of the day for BBC records [...]
Human Instinct: Stoned Guitar and Midnight Sun From: Stoned Guitar [Pye, 1970] Thanks to an in-depth post on RYM focusing on albums loaded with fuzz guitars, I have been slowly amassing quite the collection of fuzz-filled tracks to post here for your listening pleasure. Today I am featuring two songs from Human Instinct, a psychedelic blues band from New Zealand who released five albums between the years of 1969-1974. Obviously their 1970 album Stoned Guitar fell underneath my radar for so many years because it only had a limited pressing on a small indie label named Pye in 1970. [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. Axiom Funk - Tell The World (Featuring Maceo Parker, Bobby Byrd and Sly Stone) Bailin' Out on Posting Hi Earfuzzers! I apologize about not giving as much love to the blog side of the Earfuzz house. I seem to get stuck on posting on the Facebook fan page - http://facebook.com/earfuzz - which winds up syncin also to our twitter - http://twitter.com/earfuzz . I think [...]
Tonio Rubio: Bass In Action No 2 and Dead Slow From: Rhythms [Telemusic, 1973] Apologies for the break in posting, the ever more unlikely circus that has been the UK elections has made me take my eye off the ball a bit with updating the site. Add to this a certain weariness that occasionally crops up over finding new ways to describe a funky break, jazzy loop or bowel moving bass line means that I've enjoyed taking a slight backseat to the [...]
Cesar Ascarrunz: Descarga , See Saw Affair , Azucar From: Cesar 830 [ Flying Dutchmen , 1975] Back from the abyss with some Latin heat. Man oh man. My Cesar 830 post is long overdue and the summer weather happening here in Brooklyn requires that I get my ass in gear. An excellent lost Latin Funk album from the early 70s west coast scene - featuring a group led by Latin pianist and promoter Cesar Ascarrunz - and including some [...]
Raheem DeVaughn: Bulletproof and Revelations 2010 From: Love and War Masterpeace (Jive, 2010) This is a post I mean to have gotten up nearly a month ago. Raheem DeVaughn might be one of the most under appreciated soul musicians right now. His last album has a couple tracks which were absolutely outstanding. Although ultimately his last album and his newest one both have their share of filler. He really goes back not to the old school soul of the late 60s or the synthesized [...]
The Chequers: Get Up Stand Up and Check It Out From: Check Us Out [Creole Records, 1975] It's been a miserable week indeed with the untimely passing of Guru and the subsequent fallout that looks like becoming ever more unpleasant. We've put a few tributes up to the legendary MC on the facebook page but, with so many of my esteemed colleagues putting together definitive posts on the subject, I thought we'd move the focus away from the subject today [...]
Jerry Peters: White Shutters and If You Leave Me Now From: Blueprint For Discovery [Mercury, 1972] Grown up soul jazz moves for you today with some rare solo output from one of the great soul arrangers, Jerry Peters. Most famous for his string work, Peters was also no slouch on the percussion side of things and was the arranger behind many favourites from the Sylvers (both group and Foster) on Pride before taking his skills to Blue Note focusing on the [...]
SRC: Daystar , Paragon Council and Refugeve From: S/T [EMI Capitol, 1968] I realize that it might not be the smoothest segueway to go from northern soul to mind-bending psychedelia, but this post has been on the backburner for awhile. In fact, ever since Junior dropped that fantastic post on Index a month ago, I have been itching to get some more psych rock uploaded on Ear Fuzz. SRC was a fairly unknown 60's psychedelic garage band from Detroit who deserved to have a long and prosperous career, [...]
The Exciters: Movin' Too Slow and Give It All From: Caviar And Chitlins [RCA, 1969] Northern Soul is a strange old thing. I tend to reach saturation point with it on a relatively regular basis and decide that, a few bangers apart, I can live without much of the output. It doesn't help that I haven't really moved on from albums to 45s which means that a lot of the tracks I do have are only being played back on digital format [...]
Detroit Emeralds: I'll Never Sail The Seas Again and Take My Love From: You Want It You Got It [Westbound, 1971] You know, as much as I like to flaunt the rarity of many of the songs posted here, I'm as much a sucker for a well known hummable soul song as anyone else and Detroit Emerald's Baby Let Me Take You In My Arms falls firmly in that category, I seem to recall even posting up about it [...]
Mary McCreary: Soothe Me and Singing The Blues (Reggae) From: Jezebel [Shelter, 1974] Some outstanding seventies soul singer action for you today with a couple of tracks from Mary McCreary's second solo album, the 1974 release, Jezebel. As far as pedigrees go, McCreary has it in spades. Starting at the extremely tender age of 10, McCreary's vocal talents were featured on the 1961 album Through Children's Eye's and by her early teens she was recording songs with the Heavenly Tones. [...]
Kashmere Stage Band: Getting It Out of My System and Al\'s Thing From: Texas Thunder Soul 1968-1974 (Now and Again, 2006) Kashmere Stage Band just reunited this week in Austin for the premier of Thunder Soul, a documentary on the legendary school band down in Houston in the late 60's and seventies. Far and away the funkiest high schoolers ever. Some of their members played horns better than some of the best bands of their day. Not only did their film premier but [...]
The Blackfoot: Second Time and This Is My Time From: The Footsteps [Zambia, 197?] It's been a little while since we picked up on some more Zambian rock on the site but rest assured that I've still been hunting these beauties down in an effort to recreate the jaw drop that I got from Tembo and Amanaz . The good news is that I've found another very worth addition to the ranks with The Blackfoot's seventies release The Footsteps. Even [...]
Aloe Blacc - I Need a Dollar From: I Need a Dollar single Good Things LP (Stones Throw, 2010) quick note: the single on Itunes as it comes with an instrumental and 2 more tracks for 2 bucks. So you may have remembered Aloe Blacc from his debut a few years back on Stones Throw. Called Shine Through it had some interesting cuts but was a little scattershot. It still held some promise. His new album is supposed to feature the help of a few [...]
Index: Fire Eyes and Eight Miles High From: Index [DC records, 1967] Apologies for the break from posting for a little while, I've come into the possession of some fantastic soul and funk records and been busy going through them and picking out what I want to share with you the listener. Also, um, Modern Warfare 2 is really, really, addictive. While I put the final touches to my choices I thought that with the fantastic, rap, soul, funk and jazz we've [...]
So I've been thinking about doing a new feature showcasing the best of the best of mixtapes. This is the first one featuring tracks that popped up last February either on mixtapes or freestyles or what have you. I may not do a full fledged writeup on everything and I am debating on making this a monthly or weekly thing. I don't think there's enough quality material for a weekly post. I will not be posting leaks or album tracks howeve unless they are remixes. Also a billion mixtapes come out every month so I'm just trying to post some [...]
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