Monthly Archives: January 2011

luv002a

hip hop

Dark Down

at the turn of the millennium hip hop was over 20 years old and main stream. luckily there was an underground alternative created by cats who made hip hop because they had to. whose free expression wasn’t concerned with Billboard and bling; only a passion for hip hop… and it shows.

photo : Derek Smith

* the darker side of a two part mix originally aired on Brave New Waves, CBC Radio, 2/21/02.

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Tracklist:
  1. Swollen Brain Fish – The Shape Shifters – Shape Shifters (1999)
  2. Digi Destruction – Projecto – Hiero Imperium (2001)
  3. Saboteur (Roots Manuva version) – Amon Tobin – Ninja Tune (2000)
  4. F*ck Rap – Antipop Consortium – 75 Ark (2000)
  5. Shock Therapy – Atmos – Vecta / Mo’ Wax (2001)
  6. Foxwood’s – Mike Ladd – Ozone Music (2001)
  7. Grey – cLOUDDEAD – Big Dada (2001)
  8. Instrumental 4U – Reachout – Oh-Eye Records (1999)
  9. Amethyst Rocks – Saul Williams – Immortal (1999)
  10. Will I Get Shot By A Dope Fiend? – Third Sight – Disgruntled Records (2001)
  11. Sneak Preview – Mr. Lif & Murs – Def Jux (2001)
  12. Put Your Quarter Up – Slug, Aesop Rock, MF Doom – Molemen Inc. (2001)
  13. Super Brooklyn (inst.) – Cocoa Brovas – Duck Down Records (2000)

luv073

beats 'n' pieces, funk 'n' soul, jazz, reggae, rock 'n' roll

What I Was Born Into

a small collection of sounds that were floating around our world when I came along in 1973.

image : The Longines Symphonette Society

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Tracklist:
  1. Keep Yourself Alive – Queen – Elektra (1973)
  2. intro from 1973 in Review – General Air Features – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  3. Richard Nixon soundbite from 1973 in Review – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  4. Over the Hills and Far Away – Led Zeppelin – Atlantic (1973)
  5. Richard Nixon soundbite from 1973 in Review – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  6. I’m So Green – Can – United Artists Records (1973)
  7. Richard Nixon soundbite from 1973 in Review – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  8. Dueling Banjos – Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel – Warner Bros. (1973)
  9. excerpt from Pagan Ritual – Mandingo – E.M.I. / Columbia (1973)
  10. excerpt from 1973 in Review – General Air Features – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  11. Apache – Incredible Bongo Band – Pride (1973)
  12. Don’t Bug Me – Cheech & Chong – Ode Records (1973)
  13. Parade Strut – J.J. Johnson – MCA (1973)
  14. excerpt from Hamhock’s Hall Was Big – Lightnin’ Rod – Celluloid (1973)
  15. 125th Street Congress – Weather Report – Columbia (1973)
  16. excerpt from The Shit Hits The Fan Again – Lightnin’ Rod – Celluloid (1973)
  17. radio promo ad for Coffy – XXX Black Label (1973)
  18. Coffy Is The Color – Roy Ayers – Polydor (1973)
  19. U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield soundbite from 1973 in Review – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  20. We Need Order – The Chi-Lites – Brunswick Records (1973)
  21. Richard Nixon soundbite from 1973 in Review – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  22. Commercialization – Jimmy Cliff – Reprise (1973)
  23. And Then There’s Maude – theme from tv show Maude – TVT (1972/1987)
  24. U.S. Senators Sam Ervin & Howard Baker soundbite from 1973 in Review – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  25. My Hero, Zero – Scholastic Rock, Inc. – Capitol (1973)
  26. Paris 1919 – John Cale – Reprise (1973)
  27. Harmonika – Kraftwerk – Vertigo (1972/1973)
  28. excerpt from Tubular Bells – Mike Oldfield- Virgin (1973)
  29. I Am The Sea – The Who – MCA (1973)
  30. Lost In The Flood – Bruce Springsteen – Columbia (1973)
  31. Money – Pink Floyd – Harvest (1973)
  32. U.S. Senators Ted Stevens & Mike Gravel soundbite from 1973 in Review – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  33. excerpt from What Is Money, Anyway? – The Standard Life Assurance Company (1973)
  34. He’s Misstra Know-It-All – Stevie Wonder – Tamla/Motown (1973)
  35. Henry Kissinger soundbite from 1973 in Review – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  36. Mamunia – Paul McCartney & Wings – Apple Records(1973)
  37. excerpt from the story of Robin Hood – Disneyland Records (1973)
  38. Out The Blue – John Lennon – Apple Records (1973)
  39. outro from 1973 in Review – General Air Features – The Longines Symphonette Society (1973)
  40. Stir It Up – Bob Marley and The Wailers – Island (1973)

luv086

beats 'n' pieces, jazz, trip hop

Leaps & Bounds

as the far out sounds of processed synths and unknown samples blend with live improvisation, the drum beat of human funk and the strict rhythm of electronic music we begin to map out the correlation between jazz, trip hop, 70’s movie themes & the almighty head nod.
photo : Melissa A. Phillips

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Tracklist:
  1. Make Your Own Temple — Cannonball Adderley with the Nat Adderley Sextet and Rick Holmes — Capitol (1972)
  2. Yesterdays Hero – O.H. Krill — DC Recordings (2000)
  3. Yo-Yo — DJ Vadim — Jazz Fudge Recordings (1995) > (searching for buy link)
  4. Distant Land — Donald Byrd / Madlib — Blue Note (2003)
  5. Death Wish (Main Title) — Herbie Hancock — Columbia (1974)
  6. Le dub du spleen — Ingrid de Lambre — Yellow Productions (1996) > (searching for buy link)
  7. Lo-beam — Red Snapper — Warp (1996)
  8. Ten et Medor — Alain Goraguer — DC Recordings (1973/2000)
  9. Blueprint (Richie Hawtin’s Slakked Plastik Remix) — Attica Blues – Mo’ Wax (1995) > (searching for buy link)
  10. Smurf — Aardvarck — Nod Navigators / Kindred Spirits (2008)
  11. Urban Blues — Marc Mac — Omniverse Records (2005) > (searching for buy link)
  12. Black Destiny (Beneath Autumn Sky remix) — Phil Ranelin — Hefty Records (2001)
  13. Cowboys — Runaways — Ultimate Dilema (1997) > (searching for buy link)
  14. Pull, Jubal, Pull — J.J. Johnson & Quincy Jones — Sussex Records (1971) > (searching for buy link)
  15. Gangsta Shit — DJ Cam — Street Jazz Records (1995)
  16. The Human Fly — Lalo Schifrin — Warner Bros. (1973)
  17. A Divine Image — Sound Directions — Stones Throw (2005)
  18. Obscure — The Mighty Bop — Yellow Productions (1994) > (searching for buy link)
  19. Sunrise Over Bklyn — EL-P featuring the Blue Series Continuum -Thirsty Ear (2003)

luv009

beats 'n' pieces, drum 'n' bass 'n' jungle, dub, post-punk

Rockers

all city rockers
photo : Stephen Lebovits

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Tracklist:
  1. 2010 – Lenky – Vecta / Mo Wax (2000)
  2. Killer – The Bug – Rephlex (2003)
  3. Up To Jah (inst.) – DJ Vadim – Ninja Tune (2002)
  4. Rockers – Digital – Reinforced (2000)
  5. ? – Krinjah – Krinjah (????)
  6. Mafia Man – Radic – Pharaoh (1995)
  7. Godsent (Deep In The Jungle) – Operator – D’Lux Drops (2003)
  8. E.V.A. – Animals On Wheels – iLL (1997)
  9. excerpt from Slope – Richard Thomas & Tom Jenkinson – Lo Recordings (1999)
  10. Generation X (Krush U) – Lemon D – Valve (2003)
  11. Mirror – The Rapture – Gravity (1998)
  12. Carousel – Twilight Circus Dub Sound System – M Records (1999)
  13. Private Armies (dub version) – Vivien Goldman – Select Cuts (1981/2003)
  14. Preacher Dub – Jah Shaka – Jah Shaka Music (1983)
  15. Give up the Bad Dub – The Revolutionaries – Jamaican Recordings (2001)
  16. Unitone Skank – Dr. Alimantado – Greensleeves (1978)

luv085

dubstep, heart of the bass

No Sleep

a blend of deep cuts from 2010 that dares you to push the boundaries in 2011. wake up, no time for sleeping.
photo : Stephen Lebovits

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    Tracklist:
  1. Stars — Starkey ft. Anneka — Planet Mu (2010)
  2. Phat Si — Cooly G — Hyperdub (2010)
  3. String Theory — Rafferite — Planet Mu (2010)
  4. Void 23 — Ramadanman & Appleblim — Aus Records (2010)
  5. Boingy — Africa HiTech — Warp (2010)
  6. Mukuba Special — Shackleton vs. Kasai Allstars — Congotronics (2010)
  7. Flexible — Untold — Brainmath (2009) > (searching for buy link)
  8. Move Down (VIP) — Grievous Angel ft. Rubi Dan — Soul Jazz (2010)
  9. No Sleep — Randomer & Fife — Soul Jazz (2010)
  10. This Year (Pro Plus) — Terror Danjah ft. Dok, Mz Bratt & Griminal — Hyperdub (2010)
  11. The Forest — Zomby — Ninja Tune (2010)
  12. Idée d’un tropique — Bowly — Berkane Soul (2010)
  13. Hylo — LV & Quarta 330 — Hyperdub — (2010)
  14. Bounce — Starkey — Stark Sound (2007)
  15. Dig — T++ – Honest Jon’s Records (2010)
  16. Boomslang — LV & Okmalumkoolkat — Hyperdub (2010)
  17. Better Ways Of Living — Peverelist — Punch Drunk Records (2010)
  18. Skeng (Autechre Remix) — The Bug ft. Killa P & Flowdan — Ninja Tune (2010)
  19. Tense (dBridge Remix) — Scuba — Hotshore (2010)
  20. Just Vybe (Soule Power mix) — DVA ft. Fatima — Hyperdub (2010)
  21. DCKHDBTCH — Ikonika — Planet Mu (2010)
  22. Paint, Straw & Bubbles (Zomby Remix) — Actress — Honest Jon’s Records (2010) > (searching for buy link)
  23. Heavy As Stone — Mark Pritchard — Deep Medi Music (2010) > (searching for buy link)