Gilles’ American cousin: Bird Peterson

I dunno how you like your mixtapes, but I like mine fresh, funky and diverse. Here’s a mixtape by Bird Peterson that meets all three criteria. Hip hop, electro & disco delights. Memo to self: always trust the dopeness of Dilated Choonz. Quietly blazing a trail through the blogosphere. Speaking of which, my veal-style-collectivism commute to work today was quite a sensation thanks to Bird’s quit touchin’. I challenge you not to dance to this track.

Bird Peterson – One Day Later Special Guest Mix

Tracklist:

1. Boscoe – Introduction
2. Fat Freddy’s Drop – Flashback (Jazzanova Remix)
3. Chuck Chillout – I’m Large
4. Cerebral Vortex – Patrick Ewing (Bird Peterson Remix)
5. Peter Gabriel – My Head Sounds Like That (Royksopp Mix)
6. Grovesnor – Drive Your Car (Bird Peterson Remix)
7. Rocksteady Crew – My Part Of Town
8. Beck – Broken Train
9. Rae & Christian – Bacalau
10. Mint Royale – Kenny’s Last Dance
11. New Edition – The Kinda Girls We Like
12. Break Machine – Breakdance Party (Bird Peterson’s Friday Night Edit)
13. Midnight Star – Midas Touch
14. Faze Action – Moving Cities
15. Freeez – I O U
16. NIN – Capitol G (Bird Peterson Edit Of A Switch Remix)
17. Crookers – Jetso
18. Ricky Stone – Shangai Taxi
19. Beck – Get Real Paid
20. Steve Miller – Abracadabra (Boy 8 Bit Remix)
21. Shena – Electrosexual
22. Solid Groove – This Is Sick (Bird Pete Remix)

via whatsthegoodness.com.

Oh so funky cole medina

Amid the gloom of the financial crisis, here’s an upbeat remix of Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb aka The Bee Gees. Disco chic. Transgender cool. 70s outlandish. All that and then some. Cue LA-based DJ Cole Medina. This ain’t no jive talking, it’s an off-the-hook groovy re-edit of Love you inside out.

The Bee Gees – Love you inside out (The Pinches Re-edit) (unreleased)

Download on Cole Medina’s MySpace while you can. While you’re at it, check out Sunshine Jones’ re-edit. Remix culture. Gotta love it.

Ode to Gil’s Black Aesthetics*

Frustrated by the failure of the American Civil Rights Movement’s quest for racial and social progress but fueled by Black Power rhetoric, the Black Arts Repertory/Theater School was founded in Harlem, New York in 1965, an event marking the birth of the Black Arts Movement. Sharing a nationalist agenda with the Black Power Movement, the Black Arts Movement politicized African American literature, seeking to break free from European cultural standards and develop its own Black Aesthetic, one that would link an authentic African culture to an existing African American popular culture.

In defining a Black Aesthetic, proponents of the Black Arts Movement realized that their music and poetry could not be divorced. As cultural theorist Larry Neal (1968) wrote:

“Listen to James Brown scream. Ask yourself, then: Have you ever heard a Negro poet sing like that? Of course not, because we have been tied to the texts, like most white poets. … The key is in the music. … Our music has always been the most dominant manifestation of what we are and feel, literature was just an afterthought, the step taken by the Negro bourgeoisie who desired acceptance on the white man’s terms. And that is exactly why the literature has failed. … But our music is something else. The best of it has always operated at the core of our lives, forcing itself upon us as in a ritual. It has always, somehow, represented the collective psyche. … What this has all been leading us to say is that the poet must become a performer, the way James Brown is a performer –  loud, gaudy and racy.”

The Black Arts Movement failed to develop a method for its cultural analyses and by the mid-1970s, the Movement had all but died. Its performative art in tune with a Black Aesthetic did not though; it lived on in harmonious mixes of poignant poetry and strong beats. Enter Gil Scott-Heron.

Gil Scott-Heron – The bottle (Strata East Records, 1974)

[*based on a paper I wrote in 2001 to escape the encyclopedic horror of a literature course at university]

Neal, L. (1968) ‘And Shine Swam On. An Afterword’. IN: Napier, W. (ed.) (2000) African American Literary Theory. A Reader. New York: New York University Press, pp. 69-80.

Futurevintage.net

One of my favorite radio shows is Future Vintage. Future Vintage used to air on Lijn5, the Dutch version of BBC’s Radio 1, but as of Monday, 25 August, Future Vintage is going solo. To celebrate the occassion, hosts Tom Trago, Radna and Melodee are paying hommage to their favorite tracks from past shows. Nothing but flavor. Check the podcast and playlist:

Carlos Nino & Lil Sci – Freedom feat. Tifanny Paige
James Pants – She’s Out Of My Life
Yaw – Where Will You Be
Cody ChessnuTT – Magic In A Mortal Minute
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – War
Time and Space Machine – Amorous Ways
Shuggie Otis – XL-30
James Pants – We’re Trough
Hercules And The Love Affair – Athene
Rick James – Big Time
Howard Kennedy – Can’t Wait To Make You Mine
Rahaan – edit
Jamie Lidell – A Little Bit Of Feel Good (Dorian Concept remix)
Portishead – White Horses
Alela Diane – Pirate Gospel
Clark – Dew On The Mouth
Trus’ Me – Good God
Red Dragon Band – Let Me Be Your Radio
ESG – Party Music
Steel An Skin – Afro Punk Reggae Dub
Annie Whitehead – Rainy Daze
Talking Heads – This Must Be The Place
Milosh – You Fill Me
Larry Heard – Never No More Lonely
Linkwood Family – Piece Of Mind
Sun Ra – Nuclear War
Soil & Pimp Sessions – A Wheel Within A Wheel
Joy Division – Transmission

Ne kilo rauw gekapt. Make that two.

Lessons in hip hop breakbeats by DJ Mauz. Nutricious grooves in two parts: easy listening on Part 1 and head nodding funkiness on Part II. Courtesy of the always fresh LaidBack Radio blog. Big up.

Jazzy Jef (Neve)

Belgium’s premier jazz artist is playing in Het Depot on Sept. 20. Afterparty by Deelder. I’m down.

I bow before the master

O.W. is the name, blogging his game.  As always, his soul sides blog leads the way. Just check out his latest installment – a classy tribute to the musical genius of Isaac Hayes. Respect.

Isaac Hayes (courtesy: Da Nes)

Dego in the mix

Stumbled on this nice lil’ mix by 4Hero‘s Dego. Dig it.

Lefto rocks GP’s worldwide festival

Test that bandwidth

Subnav. Mixtapes. Spread. The. Word. Eclectic. Goodness. Musical. Bliss.