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This mix has a few flavours of modern dub. It starts of with a nice instrumental jazzy vibe and moves in electronic dub, some deep & minimal techno, ambient & psychedlic. Just tried to keep the dub influence there so bring up the bass a notch or two!

mp3 108mb - 224 Kbps VBR - ~85mins

 Tracks:

Otautahi Allstars - Shot
Unification - Guru
Dreadlock Tales - Herbivore Dub 1
Dreadzone - Once Upon A Time
Salmonella Dub - Slide
Easy Star All-Stars - Any Colour You Like
Studio - Life's A Beach
Salmonella Dub - Problems
OTT - Load Up At Nunnie Catch
Dreadlock Tales - Medubtative
Roots Manuva - Witness Dub
Swayzak - Illegal
Black Devil Disco Club - I Regret The Flower Power (Fragments Of Fear Version With Quiet Village)
Groove Armada - The Incredible Bongo Man
Trentemøller - Take Me Into Your Skin
Aes Dana - Opalin

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1. Happy Pills
2. All I Want
3. Elephant Machine
4. Your Friends Are Scary
5. I Am A Freak
6. Ribbon On A Branch
7. Sleepwalker Part 1
8. Sleepwalker Part 2
9. Psychic Gibbon

 Created by the psychedelic trance pioneer Simon Posford and Benji Vaughn...

... the mastermind behind Prometheus and The Egg. The pair team up once again to create their second album, a breathtaking album with stunning sound production, that takes listeners on an incredibly varied musical journey.

'The Last Days Of Gravity' is a unique melee of electronic, acoustic, and vocal music, running the gamut of beautiful, strange, catchy, psychedelic, melancholic, uplifting. Despite its consistently psychedelic tone, the album has a very human element to it, and you can sense the spirit and emotion that have gone into its creation.

The harmonic variety of 'Last Days' is particularly mesmerising. The bindingly riveting melodic lines provide echoes of Posford's earlier work in Shpongle and Celtic Cross, as well as of his more recent collaboration with the legendary Alan Parsons. This album is no retro piece of work, however, with Posford and Vaughn's legendary innovation resulting in a complex mix of styles that eludes genre-casting. Despite having no obvious dance numbers, 'The Last Days Of Gravity' provides enough levity to be the perfect soundtrack to the richness of daily experience.

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I've got some old tapes & minidiscs from years ago with lots of songs & samples of the radio.

Since recording them, I've managed to find most of the ones I liked, but there's still a handful I've never been able to identify, so I'm looking for your help & expertise to help me! 

A mix of styles from latin, funk to some kind of trance type stuff...

Please post a comment if you think you recognise any! 

I've included a track number & brief description. 

 

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01_funky-lick.mp3

 

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 02_slapbass-dance.mp3

 

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03_heavytrance.mp3

 

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04_hip-funk.mp3

(Identified as Whodini - Magic's Wand (Freestylers Mix) Thanks Ross Fitz)

 

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05_latin-groove.mp3

 

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06_mellow-deep.mp3

 

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07_nice-groove.mp3

 

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08_ella-scat.mp3

 

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09_funk-I_feel_good.mp3

(Sounds like the Isleys?) 

 

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10_funky-keys.mp3

 

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Two songs here, just catching the end of the first one which is Balanco - Netti Una Sera A Cena, love the bass line in the second, see if you recognise...

11_funk-latin-groove.mp3

 

I Started jamming with Maria back in Feb 07, her on drums & me on bass. We decided to get a band together. Aiming to play Soul, Jazz-Funk, Blues style music, based on a good groove.
So we went through a few months of auditions, looking for keys, guitar & vocals. After a pretty large amount of people we picked up new members gradually, giving us Tomasso on Keys, Michael on Geetar and Tam on vocals.

Once we had all the right people on board, we started picking a setlist and through trial & error came up with over 20 tunes we're happy with. Stuff from Sly & The Family Stone, The Meters, The Breakestra, Jamiroquai & more. Adding lots of our own uniqueness & improvisations. 

We're starting out with cover, not your run of the mill ones mind you. And once we have them down we'll start writing our own material as we gel more & more. We're available for all sorts of gigs from now, music bars, clubs, pubs, corporate, parties, weddings, 21st, bar mitzvahs...

We've been doing some serious practice over the last few months and we're ready to hit the road! So we've 5 gigs ready for the months of Oct & Nov so far & ready for more. 

The Name: Everyday People (Click here for our myspace) 

9 Oct 2007 21:00	Anseo	Camden St, Dublin
20 Oct 2007 21:00	Slattery's, Rathmines ( €5 )	Dublin 6
9 Nov 2007 21:00	The Mezz, Temple Bar	Dublin 2
24 Nov 2007 12:30	Gaiety Theatre late night club	Dublin 2

... and some outdoor charity gig off O'Connell St. somewhere  on 10th Nov!

 Here's a vid from the gig in Slatterys

 

Hope to see you at them!

 

 http://www.myspace.com/everydaypeoplesounds

Another mix, well overdue.

Here's one to show that real funk is still alive and kicking.

A longer one than usual gathering tunes that could be branded as Nu Funk, Funk Revival and some other third thing.

With a hint of Afrobeat and Soul too! 

All songs...I think.. are from the last 10 years or so.

mp3 99mb - 160 VBR - ~90mins

 Tracks:

01 - Tower Of Power - What Is Hip
02 - New Mastersounds - Vandenburg Suite
03 - Groove Collective - Dfu
04 - Breakestra - Stand Up
05 - Maceo Parker - My Baby Love You
06 - Liquid Soul - Stop By Monie's
07 - Clyde's Ride - Sounds Good
08 - Bah Samba - It Tastes Good
09 - Cro-Magnon - Electric Lady Dance
10 - Nuyorican Soul - Makes Ur Nature Rise
11 - Ozomatli - Cut Chemist Suite
12 - Freak Power - Rush
13 - The Mighty Imperials - The Matador
14 - Sir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul - Your Number Is Your Life
15 - Budos Band - Aynotchesh Yererfu
16 - Breakestra - Sexy Coffee Pot
17 - The Bamboos - Black Foot
18 - Beastie Boys - Sabrosa
19 - The Weet Vandals - Do It Right
20 - Courtney Pine - Sister Soul
21 - Stretch - Why Did You Do It
22 - The Link Quartet - Spider Baby

 Get it here - http://www.mediafire.com/?2hywwm1wmom

Mix No. 2.

About 8 years ago I was given some Blue Note compilations on vinyl, so I wiped the dust off the old pioneer stereo, and the record player was still in good nick.
I played these records for a few weeks and really started loving this sound that was new to me.
I gotta say not every song on them was great but each disc had a few gems that have been favourites of mine ever since.

Here's about an hours worth of some of those songs I love, picked from a few different blue note compilations. (The 'Capitol Rare' series, the 'Blue Break Beats' series, Blue Juice, Blue Funk etc.)

It's a pretty laid back mix so put yer feet up and enjoy.

mp3 61mb - 128kb - 65 mins

Margo Thunder - Expressway To Your Heart
Labi Siffre - The Vulture
Ben Sidran - About Love
Jeremy Steig - Howling For Judy
Richard Groove Holmes - Grooving With Mr. G
Gene Harris & The Three Sounds - Sitting Duck
100% Pure Poison - Windy C
Cannonball Adderley - Walk Tall
Howard Roberts - Dirty Old Bossa Nova
Bobby Hutcherson - Ummh
Ronnie Foster - Mystic Brew
Blue Mitchell - Flat Backing
Lou Rawls - You've Made Me So Very Happy
Camille Yarbrough - Take Yo Praise
Marlena Shaw - Woman Of The Ghetto

 

Edit: Link updated. Working again.

 Go Here: http://rapidshare.com/files/295082966/Mantekka_-_Blue.Note.Mix.mp3

Righto,

My first mix and here it is.

Actually made this one earlier on in the year for something else, but it still does the job

A pick of some of my favourite reggae style tunes, mostly oldies of the roots, ska, rocksteady nature.

Influenced mostly by studio one releases, trojan compilations and random songs I've come across.

mp3 46mb - 160kb (vbr) - 38 mins

01 - Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
02 - Cedric Im Brooks - Ethiopa
03 - Max Romeo & The Upsetters - I Chase The Devil
04 - Jackie Mitoo - The Sniper
05 - Dawn Penn - No, No, No
06 - The Heptones - Baby
07 - Delroy Wilson - Dancing Mood
08 - Norma Fraser - The First Cut Is The Deepest
09 - Max Romeo - Mr. Chatterbox
10 - Marcia Griffiths - Feel Like Jumping
11 - Symarip - Skinhead Moonstomp
10 - Wailiing Souls - Things And Time

Link updated & working again

http://rapidshare.com/files/245949205/Mantekka_-_Reggae.Ska.Rocksteady.Dancehall.Mix.mp3