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This edit of a Grateful Dead(!) track is fucking great. Very cool tune, killer groove.<br />
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Shakedown Street (Meaningless Re-Edit) - The Grateful Dead
Dismissed on its release in 1978 by Rolling Stone as " an artistic dead end” with “the disco tinges merely adding to the catastrop...
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This edit of a Grateful Dead(!) track is fucking great. Very cool tune, killer groove.<br />
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The intro made me think it was going to go to trippy places, but it's the same Dead white-man funk underneath. The original was probably the funkiest thing they ever did - which is why a lot of Deadheads don't like it - but I always liked it 'cos it had producer Lowell George (the late-great Little Feat frontman) as producer/engineer and his funky white-boy imprint is all over it. (Funkier than Disco Stu, George may well have been the funkiest white man ever.) Not a huge Dead fan, but one time I did get trapped on a road trip where I had to see them 4 times in a row. The music didn't always work for me, but being a regular touring band with a huge repertoire, I was amazed that they could play marathon sets every night with completely different set-lists, they'd take minutes between songs discussing what to play next. I wished more bands did the same. -
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Thriftshop, a bit late to this guy - great track.<br />
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That, is very cool.
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Thriftshop, a bit late to this guy - great track.<br />
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I can quite honestly say that is the only new release played on commercial radio in 2012 that I actually liked. Well played Paeks. I'm a 75 year old in a 35 year olds body. -
I've been rediscovering my love of 70s funk and soul via Spotify and got back into Lafayette - a US outfit that relocated to Paris and drew upon African influences there to build a sound that provided a fair few back beats for the later hip hop scene.<br />
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Anyway, in bringing this to you via YouTube I found this clip of their signature tune - Hihache - which I think effectively communicates the, ahem, primal urge of Lafayette's Afro-funk sound.<br />
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This is a killer edit of Rise by Herb Alpert. Dirty, dirty disco groove. Classic, well sampled bassline<br />
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Famously sampled on Hypnotize by The Notorious B.I.G and Fly By by Blue (and are we just imagining its presence on the legendary p...
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I've been listening the past year to heaps of Art Blakey (Jazz Messengers). I am particularly in love with his 1965 album "Indestructible." It's such a bad-ass title, and the pic of Art with the cigarette hanging off his lip is equally bad-ass. The record is seeped in blues and soul, is incredibly muscular and propulsive, and is harder than most of his 50s output and heavier than most rock acts from the same period. Here's one of my fave cuts from the record, showcasing Blakey's amazing percussion and Lee Morgan's trumpet (on fire).<br />
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I've been listening the past year to heaps of Art Blakey (Jazz Messengers). I am particularly in love with his 1965 album "Indestructible." It's such a bad-ass title, and the pic of Art with the cigarette hanging off his lip is equally bad-ass. The record is seeped in blues and soul, is incredibly muscular and propulsive, and is harder than most of his 50s output and heavier than most rock acts from the same period. Here's one of my fave cuts from the record, showcasing Blakey's amazing percussion and Lee Morgan's trumpet (on fire).<br />
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Was in on my own on Saturday night and flicking through the movie channels hit the start of Once Upon a Time in the West. Now this is one of my favourite movies of all time and arguably my most fave western too. Fonda, Bronson and Robards are epically cool but better still is the long, loving close ups of Claudia Cardinale as Jill. Plus, there's Ennio Morricone's sweeping score including the musical leitmotifs for each character, including Jill's theme, which is just beautiful as you can hear for yourselves.<br />
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Good track from the [i]Halloween III[/i] soundtrack:<br />
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One of my all-time fave movies. The soundtrack is extraordinary. The music was recorded before the film was shot, as an opera with four distinct themes. It's genius. -
The recent kiwi movie Mt Zion revolved around Bob Marley's tour to NZ in 1979. For those interested (looking at you RB), here is the full Dylan Taite doco on Marley made at the time including the footage of the Western springs soundchecks and Maori welcome.<br />
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Dylan Taite was a legend as well.<br />
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btw the youtube channel I found this has some amazingly rare old vids and clips from the late 70s early 80s NZ scene. I'm even in there (but I'm not telling where)
