October 2013

Billy Young - Suffering With A Hangover

Darrow Fletcher - My Judgment Day

The Deceptions - Of All the Hearts

The Dub Syndicate - Hi-Fi Gets a Pounding Pts. 1 & 2

Freedom Express - Get Down

The Inner Drive - Party Man

James K-Nine - Live It Up

Johnnie Taylor - I'm Trying // Poor Make Believer

King Tutt - You've Got Me Hung Up

Koushik - Be With

Lee Austin - Screwdriver

Little Janice - Since You've Been Gone

Luther Davis - You Can Be A Star

The New Birth - Oh, Baby, I Love the Way

Orchestra Harlow - Freak Off

Os Mutantes - Balada do Louco

The Poppy Family - There's No Blood in the Bone // You Took My Moonlight Away // Shadows on My Wall // Where Evil Grows

Sun Araw - Deep Cover

Swizzymack - Drip

Additionally:

Flying Lotus's FlyLoFM radio station for GTAV


Ego Trip: Have you ever thought about collaborating with more hip-hop artists outside the Beasties?  Ad Rock: Yeah, we’ve toured and been friends with rap groups and we’ve always been like, “Yeah, let’s do this or that together.” I wanted to start a group in ’92 with me, Q-Tip, B-Real and Busy Bee and call it the “Nasal Tongues.” I thought it was funny. I mentioned it to Busy Bee, but I don’t think he remembered me. But the other guys were into it.

Poor Bessie!

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August and September 2013

Needless to say, I've been busy.

Antonio Adolfo & A Brazuca - Transamazonica

Big Youth - Cool Breeze

Captive - The Fool

Chester Lewis - Precious Lord

Clarendonians - You Won't See Me

Danny Brown - Dubstep 

Devendra Banhart - Golden Girls

Disclosure - Latch // White Noise
 

Dr. Alimantado - I Am The Greatest Says Muhammed Ali

Hank Williams - Angel of Death (Undubbed Session Demo)

The Headhunters - Mugic

Jeremiah Jae - King Raid // Seventy 8

Joyce - Aldeia de Ogum

Juj - Mbira Spirit

Lennie Hibbert - Soul Shack // Village Soul // More Creation // Montego Rock

Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (Demo) // Billie Jean (Demo) // Beat It (Demo) // Want to Be Startin' Somethin' (Demo)

The Monks - Drugs in my Pocket

Piece of Peace - Pass it On, Part One

Robert Vanderbilt & the Foundation of Souls - A Message Especially from God

Scotty - Salvation Train

Sly & the Family Stone - Wishful Thinkin'

Stylle Band - If You Love Me
From the forthcoming Numero Group pre-Prince Minneapolis comp Purple Snow

Tesfa Maryam Kidané - Heywèté

Additionally:

Kathleen Hanna explains the story behind Smells Like Teen Spirit:


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July 2013

Brenda & the Big Dudes - Weekend Special
Straight out of 1986 Soweto.

Doris & Kelley - You Don't Have to Worry

Francis Bebey - Akwaaba

Fruko y sus Tesos - Bang Bang

Ken Boothe - Let's Get It On

Little Boy Blues - Dream Weaver
I've loved their song Seed of Love for years. I've only just discovered the song that immediately precedes it on their only album.

Outkast x A Tribe Called Quest - Relaxin' Jackson

The Raincoats - Lola

Additionally:

Richard Pryor & Sly Stone on the Mike Douglas Show, 1974


The Madvillainy samples mix.

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June 2013

Astrud Gilberto - Take it Easy My Brother Charlie

The Belles - Melvin

The Commands - Too Late to Cry

The Fabulous Denos - Once I Had A Love

Gary U.S. Bonds - I Wanna Holler

The Gaylads - I Love the Reggae

Holy Name of Mary Choral Family - He'll Give Us What We Really Need*

Laura Mvula - Green Garden [Demo] // Can't Live With the World


The Manish Boys - I Pity the Fool
Just David Bowie on vocals and Jimmy Page on guitar, no big deal.

Omega - Gyöngyhajú*

Parliament - The Motor-Booty Affair

Prince Buster - Whine & Grine

Sound Dimension - Ironside

Wee - Aeroplane (Reprise)*

*Yeezus samples

Additionally:

Beck covers Bowie's Sound and Vision with a 160-plus person band/orchestra:

May 2013

Al Green - Beware (Extended Version)
An unreleased, 15 minute jam of Al Green in his prime? Yes please! (Please note this will be the only time I ever refer to a jam as a positive).

Ballin' Jack - Found A Child
I picked up this album because it has the Beastie Boys' "never let 'em say that I don't love you" sample on it and was delighted to come across the Bust A Move sample too! In retrospect not surprising since Paul's Boutique contributor Matt Dike also worked with Young MC.

Broadcast - The Sacred Marriage
From the horror movie soundtrack they were working on when singer Trish Keenan took ill and died. The whole album is a wonderful Zombi-esque work.

Curtis Mayfield - Power to the People

Dorothy Ashby - Taboo // Autumn in Rome

Lee Moses - What You Don't Want Me to Be // Free at Last

Marconi Notaro - Symphony em Ré

Nina Simone - Come On Back, Jack

Rogério Duprat - Flying // Baby
The man behind the orchestrations for Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé and Gilberto Gil. The "George Martin" of Tropicalia" and the "Brian Wilson of Brazil."

Shuggie Otis - Special

The Undisputed Truth - Ball of Confusion

The Weeknd - Kiss Land

Additionally:

The infamous Jimmy Page score for Kenneth Anger's Lucifer Rising.

Jay-Z, Harlem, 1939.

This mix by Kaytranada.

Oh David!

April 2013

Al Green - Beware

Antonio Carlos E Jocafi - Glorioso Santo Antonio // Kabaluerê // Hipnose // Quem vem Lá

Bill Evans - Autumn Leaves // Nardis

Chet Baker - So Che Ti Perdero
Ennio Morricone collaboration.

Djalma Correa - Tudo Madeira

Don Cherry - Brown Rice

Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces

Ernie Clark - For the Grace of God

The first song on this great spiritual jazz mix

Family Plann - Do the Breakdown

Jai Paul - Genevieve // 100,000 // Magic // All Night [leaked versions]
I can't wait to buy the real record!

James Blake - Voyeur:


Jorge Ben - A Minha Menina

Kev Brown - Albany (Instrumental)

Libra Jones and Nicole Morris - 1-800-Cocaine/I Made a U-Turn
According to the internet this song does not exist. But Dam-Funk says it does.

Loleatta Holloway - Catch Me On The Rebound (Walter Gibbons 12" Mix)

Major Lazer - Jessica

Okay Temiz - Denizalti Rüzgarlan

The Pazant Brothers - A Gritty Nitty

Peter Ivers - Ain't That Peculiar ft. Asha Puthli

The Salsoul Orchestra - Seconds f. Loleatta Holloway

Smiley Culture - Shan-Ah-Shan

Stanley Cowell - Travelin' Man

Sun Ra - Enlightenment

The Sylvers - Wish That I Could Talk to You:


Unknown song from the Up There - A Spiritual Jazz Mixtape

Additionally:

March 2013

Al Green - Eli's Game

Apple and the Three Oranges - I'll Give You A Ring (When I Come, If I Come)
Someone commented on Apple's audacity about having his wife sing backing vocals on a song about his mistress. 

Assim Assado - Na Boca Da Estrada // Sol, Sal, Sol Tropical

Bobbie Gentry - He Made A Woman Out of Me

Bobby Bland - Care For Me
Wedding jam!

Broadcast - Echo's Answer // Interlude 2 (Black Session, Paris 5/4/2000)

Charles Mingus - Scenes In The City

Dave Bartholomew - Shrimp & Gumbo

Ernest Ranglin - Oh My

Faye Addams - The Hammer

Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
The song that inspired the Beatles' Sun King

Funky D.J. - Fried Chicken

Jermaine Jackson - You've Got To Hurry Girl

Marcia Griffiths - Here I Am Baby (Come and Take Me) // Don't Let Me Down

Marcos Valle - O Cafona // Com Mais de 30 (Versao Instrumental)

The Peacemakers - Don't Push Your Luck

Stiff Little Fingers - Kicking Up A Racket

Thomas East - Slippin' Around
Via the Madlib produced track for Captain Murphy

Tony Joe White - Studspider

The Upsetter - Bingo Kid
A great flip of Junior Murvin's Police and Thieves

Additionally:

Johnny Cash's acting debut:


Nick Drake's mum Molly.

Tom Gauld's book comes out April 16th:

February 2013

David Bowie - Rebel Rebel (US Single Version)

Donald Byrd - Ghana

Frank Minion - Watermelon // Introduction to Black Opium Street: Bongo Blues
I have been looking for Frank Minion's one album, The Soft Land of Make Believe forever and have finally resorted to ripping whatever crumbs are available on YouTube. The album is notable for featuring vocalese versions of Miles Davis' So What, Flamenco Sketches and All Blues and employing the Bill Evans Trio, fresh from working on Kind of Blue, to do so.

Hipnotic - Are You Lonely

James Blake - Retrograde

Joe Cuba Sextet - Pruebalo, OK?

Karen Dalton - Reason to Believe

Letta Mbulu - Mahlalela

Little Miss Cornshucks - Try A Little Tenderness

Margo's Kool Out Crew - Death Rap

Pamoja - Oooh, Baby

Family Of Percussion & Archie Shepp - Here Comes The Family
Archie Shepp was frequently outspoken in pointing out that jazz was moving to the white community, shirking its relevance to its culture and leaving the black youth behind—all the while insisting that "jazz" itself was an antiquated notion, that his responsibility was to the creation of a "black art music" with no limits to its sophistication and abstraction.

Prince Buster - Whine & Grine

Sweet Tea (The Black Angels & Heartless Bastards) - After Laughter (Comes Tears)

Twink - Fluid

And one more song I can't find any information on.

Additionally:

Prince on the Muppet Show:


A little girl hears Bad Brains for the first time:

January 2013

Bob Dylan - House of the Rising Sun (MacKenzie Home Tapes)
As far as I can tell, this is a recording that Dylan made while staying at his friends Eve and Mac MacKenzie's apartment (described in Chronicles Vol. 1) before recording his first album. It's interesting to hear the differences between this and the Dave Van Ronk version he infamously nicked for his debut.

Bobby Valentin - Funky Big Feet

Caetano Veloso - Empty Boat // Quem Me Dera

Cerrone - Love in C Minor
I remember looking for this Avalanches sample forever ago and finally just stumbled upon it!

Charlie Ace & Fay - Punanny

Duke Pearson - The Phantom

Eddie Encinas - Guantanamo Mambo // Mambo Oriental
Good mambo + vibraphone. What's not to like?

The Four Tops - Still Water (Peace)
I had never heard this flip of their hit!

Lee Perry & the Gaylets - How Come

Madam Mattie Wigley & Congregation - Power

Margherita - Massara

Melinda Slack & Lee Perry - Want A Grine

Quakers - RIP

Ramsey Lewis - Uhuru

Santigold - Look at these Hoes

Sly, Slick & Wicked - Sho' Nuff
The sample source for Justin Timberlake's new song (no offense JT) is so much better.

Tame Impala - Mind Mischief

December 2012

Alfonzo Jones - Your Booty Makes Me Moody

BJ the Chicago Kid feat. Kendrick Lamar - His Pain

Chris Farlowe & the Thunderbirds - Hey Hey Hey Hey

First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder

Goody Goody - It Looks Like Love

The Latin Blues Band - Take A Trip

Sampson & Delilah - There's a D.J. In Your Town

Shalamar - Right in the Socket

Vivien Goldman - Private Armies
The B-side to her excellent Launderette single.

Additionally:

This is Ska!


Another bugged video from Stones Throw:


Quentin Tarantino breaks down his soundtrack selections for Django Unchained:


The clothes on parade in this are amazing (thanks Paddy!):

November 2012

Kurt Cobain's handwritten list of his top 50 favorite albums. 

See also: Tom Waits' handwritten list of his favorite songs.

Esther Phillips - Use Me // You and Me Together

Grupo de Experimentación Sonora del ICAIC - Salgo de Casa

Helene Smith - Pain In My Heart

Jessica Pratt - Night Faces
Hard to believe this is a brand new song and not a forgotten Laurel Canyon songstress.

Joann Garrett - It's No Secret
Wait for the left turn freak out at 1:55.

Lee "Scratch" Perry - Bathroom Skank
This is what I'm going to sing to my kids at bath time. They're going to be so weird.

Limonada - Cambiar La Rosa

Michael E. White - One of These Days

Skip Spence - War in Peace
This sounds like Alan Sparhawk of Low being backed by the Grateful Dead.

The Stark Reality - Say Brother

Willie Bobo - Fried Neck Bones and Some Homefries

Additionally:



Captain Murphy's new hypnotizing (and very NSFW) video mixtape.

October 2012

Biggie after graduating from kindergarten

Art Blakey - The Feast

Buddy Miles - The Segment

Eddie Finley - Treat Me Right Or Leave Me Alone

Frank Cunimondo Trio feat. Lynn Marino - Feelin' Good

How To Dress Well - When I Was In Trouble // & It Was U // World I Need You, Won't Be Without You (Proem)

Janet Jackson - If (Kaytranada Remix)

Jimmy La Sane - Black Folks Love Country Music Too

Ruth Brown - I Don't Know

Shakey Graves - Word of Mouth

Symphonic Four - Who Do You Think You're Fooling

Terry Dunavan - Earthquake Boogie

TNGHT - Bugg'n

Trifle - New Religion

Additionally:

Kanye Wes

The story behind Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures cover: