Firstf th 5 of the year

A quick top 5'er of new, unmentioned songs I've bumped into lately.

Joy Orbison - Hypn Mngo (Andreas Saag Remix) If you need the wav, holla at me. I know where Andreas is offering it for DL
Marvin Belton - Bleed to be free
Marvin Gaye - Heavy Love Affair (The Revenge Rework)
Voices Of Life feat. Sharon Pass - Word Is Love (Mercury Edit)
Lempijoe - Lemmen viemää (A Finnish rap cover of this, how cool)

Keepin' that good music flowing.
- P-Funk

A few dope mixes

We are continuing on our glorious tradition of having way more good ideas than accomplishments that we actually see through. So no new mixes or edits, yet.

But here's a few good mixes I've really been feeling. Definitely quite revolutionary in regards to my musical tastes.

Eddie C: Dangerous mix

1. (intro) Theo
2. Philippe Cam - I Want A Car Like Yours (Karat)
3. Eddie C - Wonderful Loop (Karat)
4. 6th Borough Project - Do It To The Max (Instruments of Rapture)
5. Mark E - Deja Vu (Running Back)
6. The Revenge - Heavy Love (Instruments of Rapture)
7. Mark E - Freakin' and Shriekin' (Under the Shade)
8. KRL - Recession Beat (Wolf Music)
9. Motor City Drum Ensemble - Raw Cuts #5 (MCDE)
10. Detroit Experiment - Think Twice (original mix) (Juno)
11. Rainer Trueby - Ayers Rock (white)
12. Omar S - For Us All (FXHE)
13. Mike Dunn - A Groove (Desire)
14. Moodymann - ??? (KDJ)
15. Terrence Parker - Your Love (Seventh Sign)
16. Andres - Change My Mind (Mahogani Music)
17. Chicago Connection - Dancin' (Cajual)

The first one is by Eddie C. I must have blogged about him earlier, I definitely should have. This mix is full-on soulful stuff à la Moodymann, Theo Parrish or Mark E. It's full of newly found soulful disco edits from England mixed with deep techno/house from Detroit. And it's not only about good tunes, it's also about saying something with your music with this world where music functions mostly as a soundtrack to overconsumption.

Strangefruit @ Beats in Space

1. Zero Db – Anything`s Possible (XRabit Remix)
2. Primal Scream – Screamadelica
3. Patrick Watson – The Storm-Allsgood Edit
4. Sunburst Band – Delicious
5. Marianne Faithful – Sex With Strangers(Sly`n`Robbie Dub Mix)
6. Mungolian Jetset/Mari Boine – Suiovean Mamadoo
7. Projections – Set It Up
8. Mugwump – Boutade(Miseridub)
9. Jose Gonzalez – Killing For Love (Todd Terje Mix)
10. Simon Baker – Plastik (Todd Terje`s Turkatech)
11. Birth Control – Gamma Ray(MJnFTs Half Life Edit)
12. The Tubes – Slipped My Disco
13. Gene Hunt – Inspire (Abicah Soul Rmx)
14. Nina Simnone – Black Is The Color (Abicah Soul Rmx)
15. Igor Savin – Folk Sinteza
16. Joanna Newsom – The Book Of Right On (Pocketknife`s Scrowling Own Remix)
17. Tron Scott`s Freaks In Space – Moon Jocks And Prog Rocks
18. Shock – Dream Games

This one comes from a one-half of the crazy Mungolian Jetset. It's one of the most open, humorous, atmospheric mixes I've heard in ages. He takes all kinds of weird and wonderful records from all ages and genres and makes them all work together. Well worth the listen.

And yeah, good new week for y'all!!

- P-Funk

Disco overdose

Here's a little confession: I've been overdosing on music since I was 18 or something. I've never really kept the thing under control since, listening music nearly all the time I've been awake. Of course, for me, music genres have come and go. Last year or so, I've been drawn more and more to disco - which seems to be the trend in modern dance music in general, as well.

And what is really strange: suddenly this music, a music that is nowhere near to being recognized as something other than a funny fad that your parents went through before settling down, seems like an endless well of good tracks. Every week I discover a few amazingly constructed, rhythmically sound and incredibly humorous/touching songs. It was a weird era, all the amazing jazz and soul players coming together to make extremely functional and liberating music. Of course, a lot of campy watered down pop with a disco beat was produced too, but you really can't play crappy stuff like that to a dancefloor. Maybe a dancefloor didn't make the distinctions between where the music came from, but it certainly did regarding to how good and danceable it was - if you feel it then you dance, simple as that, no excuses, no reasoning how respectable the artist was. People think doing disco gave a free pass to do crappy stuff with a monotonous beat, but that's faaar from the truth.

Here's a little rundown of late disco-veries:





And this last I just had to include here, for all the haters:



Have a good and productive week everyone!

- P-Funk