Monthly Archives: December 2014

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Yearly Contemplation

closing out the year with a collection of songs by jazz artists that represent their searching souls. a mix of heavy and uplifting to help get your head on straight for the upcoming challenges the new year will bring. here’s hoping we will all walk down freedom’s road together and drink from the plenty cup.
photo : Dated Soul
Tracklist
  1. Contemplation – Doug Carn ft. Jean Carn – Black Jazz Records (1973/1998)
  2. Won’t You Open Up Your Senses – Horace Silver Sextet ft. Andy Bey – Blue Note (1970) > buy link
  3. Freedom Death Dance – Eugene McDaniels – Atlantic (1970) > buy link
  4. Shape Your Mind To Die – Leon Thomas – Flying Dutchman (1972) > buy link
  5. Incognito – Oneness of JuJu – Black Fire (1975/1993) > buy link
  6. Root In 7/4 Plus – Maulawi – Strata Records, Inc. / Universal Sound (1974/2005)
  7. What We Need – Tribe – Tribe Records / Universal Sound (1973/1996)
  8. Black Maybe – Gary Bartz Ntu Troop – Prestige (1972)
  9. Brown Baby – Nina Simone – Colpix Records / DOXY (1962/2012) > buy link
  10. The Rain – Eddie Gale – Blue Note / 4 Men With Beards (1968/2003) > buy link
  11. The Man part c. Reach For A Star – Duke Edwards and The Young Ones – Prestige (1968)
  12. The Voyage – Hannibal and The Sunrise Orchestra – MPS (1975)
  13. Love Is Everywhere – Pharoah Sanders – Impulse! / ABC Records (1973) > buy link
  14. The Creator Has A Master Plan (Peace) – Louis Armstrong ft. Leon Thomas – Flying Dutchman / Irma (1970/2000) > buy link

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Wintor

the final mixtape of this year’s seasonal series is an aural journey through winter that will help us get through the coldest night of the year with dreams of flowers that will bloom again.
image : Elaina Grainey
Tracklist
  1. Winter Now – Broadcast – Warp (2003) > buy link
  2. excerpt from Winter – Walter Carlos – Columbia (1972)
  3. Father Christmas – Ryuichi Sakamoto – Virgin (1983) > buy link
  4. Little Drummer Boy/Silent Night/Auld Lang Syne – Jimi Hendrix – Experience Hendrix / Legacy (1969/2010) > buy link
  5. excerpt from Wind/Hail Storm from an Alpine Blizzard – Syntonic Research, Inc. (1979)
  6. Winter 2 – Vivaldi Recomposed by Max Richter – Deutsche Grammophon (2012) > buy link
  7. Winter Prayers – Iron and Wine – Nonesuch (2013) > buy link
  8. California Dreaming – George Benson – CTI Records (1971)
  9. Coldest Night Of The Year – Twice As Much and Vashti – Immesiate / Dicristina (1966/2007) > buy link
  10. Iced Cooly – Boards Of Canada – Music70 / Warp (1995/2002) > buy link
  11. Ice Capades (Moog Music ’67) – Van Dyke Parks – Bananastan (1967/2011) > buy link
  12. Skating – Vince Guaraldi Trio – Fantasy (1965) > buy link
  13. Winters Love – Animal Collective – FatCat Records (2004) > buy link
  14. Wintertime Love – The Doors – Elektra (1968) > buy link
  15. Hutchinson Jail – Lee Hazlewood – Reprise / 1972 (1966/2014) > buy link
  16. Snowbird – Anne Murray – Capitol (1970) > buy link

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The Dahling Limited

does your party have the blahs? for a quick remedy pop on the latest mixtape of swinging sixties sounds from sweet daddy luv. it’s a surefire way to light up your affair. you’re welcome dahling.
image : Francine Anjoux
Tracklist
  1. Soul Bossa Nova – Quincy Jones – Mercury / Wax Time (1962/2013) > buy link
  2. Jungle Beat (from The Man From U.N.C.L.E.) – Hugo Montenegro – RCA Victor (1966)
  3. Out Of Nowhere – Bob & Phil and the Orchestra – Project 3 Total Sound (1966)
  4. Operation Smash (from Hawaii Five-O) – Morton Stevens – Capitol (1969) > buy link
  5. Blues A-Go-Go – Lalo Schifrin – Verve (1965)
  6. It Ain’t Necessarily So – Doc Severinsen – Command Records / Sparton (1966)
  7. Holy Flypaper (from Batman) – Nelson Riddle – 20th Century Fox Records (1966) > buy link
  8. Sunshine Superman – Enoch Light’s Action – Project 3 Total Sound (1967)
  9. Bee’s Knees – The John Barry Seven – Parlophone / EMI (1958/1979) > buy link
  10. Big Noise From The Jungle – Sandy Nelson – Sunset Records (1967) > buy link
  11. Theme From ‘The Munsters’ – Jimmy Smith – Verve (1965)
  12. Sneaky Search (from The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.) – Teddy Randazzo – MGM Records (1967) > buy link
  13. What Now My Love – Urbie Green – Project 3 Total Sound (1967)
  14. The Tiber Twist (from The Pink Panther) – Henry Mancini – RCA Victor (1963) > buy link
  15. The Chelsea Memorandum – Lalo Schifrin – MCA Records (1967)

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Time Shard

a polyrhythmic techno journey into a time vortex that is both trance inducing and body moving.
Tracklist
  1. Kinetic (Orbital Remix) – The Golden Girls – R&S Records (1992) > buy link
  2. Breathe – The Wee Djs – Touchin’ Bass (2006) > buy link
  3. Real (Nathan Fake Remix) – Avus – Border Community (2003) > buy link
  4. Me and My Shadow – Cristian Vogel – Novamute (2000)
  5. Scattering Pulsars – Shifted Phases – Tresor (2002)
  6. Phase (Speedy J Remix) – Human Beings – Deviate (1996)
  7. Charged Up – Salt Tank – Internal (1994)
  8. We Have Explosive (King Roc Remix) – The Future Sound Of London – EMI (2006)
  9. Frame Out – Ken Ishii – R&S Records (1995) > buy link
  10. Left Turned – Petter – Border Community (2004) > buy link
  11. Dataromance – Ellen Allien – Bpitch Control (2000) > buy link
  12. Time & Space РFran̤ois K. РWave Music (1998) > buy link
  13. Mercurial (The Ernie & Bert Stone High Mix) – Euphoria – Guerilla Records (1992) > buy link
  14. About That – Pentatonik – Deviant Records (1994)
  15. Bio Diesel – Cold Fusion Mafia – Trigger Recordings (2003)
  16. Phaze Test (30 Beat Cycle) – Eon  – Electron Industries (1996)
  17. Jason Vorhees – LFO – Warp (1996) > buy link
  18. Koax (2003) – Apparat – Bpitch Control (2003) > buy link
  19. Walk about – Orbital – Internal (1993) > buy link
  20. More & More & More – Funkstörung – Studio !K7 (2005) > buy link
  21. Analogue Bubblebath 1 – The Aphex Twin – Mighty Force Records / R&S Records (1991/1995) > buy link