14.12

First Choice - Baby, Baby Baby, Aw Shucks [Buy]

27.5

West African Cosmos - Emeraude (1976) [Buy]

Hip To The Hop Part 4

Couple of random tracks I've been enjoying. Some old, some new

Tracklisting
01 Jay Electronica - Exhibit C
02 Vandalyzm & Finale - Watch Niggas (Dear Moleskine Freestyle)
03 The Sa-Ra Creative Partners (Featuring Jay Electronica & Ta'Raach) - Love Czars II
04 Strong Arm Steady & Madlib - Money Right
05 Obba Supa - Escapade Escaping
06 Obba Supa VS Floating Points - Part 1
07 Obba Supa VS Floating Points - Part 2
08 Obba Supa VS Floating Points - Part 3
09 Brotherhood - You Gotta Life
10 Skinnyman - Council Estate Of Mind
11 Shur-I-Khan - Mystik (feat Ty Babs Hkb Finn)
12 Shur-I-Khan - Survival Of The Fittest (feat Lotek Hkb Finn Rawality)
13 Selfsays - Real Life Pt. 1
14 Selfsays - Real Life Pt. 2
15 Common Sense - Nag Champa (Orchestral Remix)
16 The Raah Project - All Of Your Things

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12.11

Been having a bit of a random Larry Heard revival on the headphones recently. These are sounding particularly good again

Larry Heard - Deja Vu (Buy)

Larry Heard (aka Mr. Fingers) - Closer (Buy)

Larry Heard (aka The It) - Brazilian Love Dance (Buy)

Larry Heard (aka Mr. Fingers) - Ammnesia (Buy)

Club Ice - Looking For Someone (Larry Heard Mix) (Buy)

4.11 (b)

Michael Olatuja - Hold On (Feat. Lynden David Hall & Andrew Roachford)
Buy

4.11 (a)

The Robert Glasper Experiment - All Matter (Feat. Bilal)
Buy

2.11

(Buy)

Bei Bei & Shawn Lee - Make Me Stronger Feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow (Floating Points Remix) (Buy)

The producer/remixer/artist of '09

30.10

Jens Lekman - Sipping On The Sweet Nectar (Bogdan Irkük's Love Nectar Mix) (Buy)

The Love Supreme - Sugar (Social Disco Club Remix) (Buy)

Junior Boys - Work (Prins Thomas Remix) (Buy)

Veedon Fleece

Van Morrsion - You Don't Pull No Punches, But You Don't Push The River (1974)

Can't stop playing this again. The whole LP in fact. Timeless emotive music

Sun (day)

Woolfy - Two Far Gone (Carlos Hernandez Remix)

DJ Kaos - Love The Night Away (Tiedye Mix)

Band Aid - A Tour In Italy (Dub)

Wally Badarou - Mambo

Singing Statues - Summer Smile

R.I.P

The Jacksons - (This Place Hotel) Heartbreak Hotel (Sasso Re-Edit)

Michael Jackson - I Can't Help It (Tangoterje Version)

The Jacksons - Living Together (Tribute to Ron & Bill Hardy Version)

Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough (Tim & Tim Edit)

Michael Jackson - Pretty Young Thing (Demo) (U-Tern Edit)

Michael Jackson - Get On The Floor (Holy Ghost! Edit)

The Jacksons - Shake Your Body (Jon Averill Shock Edit)

Michael Jackson - Liberian Girl (Giuliodj Edit)

The Jacksons - Get It Together (4 Hero Remix)

Shinehead - Billie Jean

Michael Jackson - Were Almost There (DJ Spinna Remix)

Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (Whoop Dat Ass Bootleg)

The Jacksons - Ain't No Sunshine (SSY Remix)

Michael Jackson - Rock With You (Frankie Knuckles Remix)

Michael Jackson - Thriller (OOFT Music Phazed Edit)

Michael Jackson - Remember The Time (Siik Remix)

Banzai Republic - Loungin With Jacko

Caetano Veloso - Billie Jean

Bukem House Mix (1994)

LTJ Bukem - [BUK13] Yaman Studio Mix - 'Fusion Chill Out II' - Chill Out - No 2 - House Injection March 1994

Been loving this mix recently, no tracklisting unfortunately

Lynwood Rose

Tracklisting
01 Q-Tip, D’Angelo & Raphael Saadiq - Lynwood Rose Intro
02 D’Angelo & Q-Tip - Believe
03 Raphael Saadiq & Q-Tip - We Fight/Love
04 Q-Tip & Raphael Saadiq - Get Involved
05 Q-Tip - Shine All Day
06 D’Angelo & Raphael Saadiq - Be Here
07 D’Angelo - Found My Smile Again
08 Q-Tip - Dance On Glass
09 Raphael Saadiq - Still Ray
10 D’Angelo - Really Love
11 Raphael Saadiq - Make My Day
12 Q-Tip - Lyrics From The Abstract (TDMG Mix)
13 D’Angelo - The Line
14 Raphael Saadiq - Lift The People
15 D’Angelo - A Capella Interlude
16 Q-Tip - Sand Castle Disco
17 Raphael Saadiq- - We Get Down
18 Q-Tip - Midnight Marauders 2008
19 D’Angelo - So Far To Go
20 Raphael Saadiq - A Capella Intermission
21 D’Angelo - Bullshit
22 Q-Tip - Request
23 Raphael Saadiq - Just A Man
24 D’Angelo - Imagine
25 Q-Tip & Raphael Saadiq - Stressed Out
(SaaDiq Mix)
26 D’Angelo - Devil’s Pie
27 Raphael Saadiq - AOL Freestyle
28 D’Angelo - Tell Me
29 Raphael Saadiq & D’Angelo - Exclusive Outro
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Nothing that new in this 'warm up mixtape' but still sounding pretty nice on the stereo today. Hopefully the forthcoming LP collaboration between the three of them will live up to the hype.

Hip To The Hop Part 3

Apologies for the lack of posts recently but other things have taken priority. Cheers for all the emails & messages have been getting recently too, glad people are enjoying the music. Noticed I hadn't posted any hip hop stuff for a while so here's some random bit's & pieces been feeling recently, some a bit older but most 'new-ish' I believe.

Tracklisting
01 Mos Def - Casa Bey
02 Kanye West & Malik Yusef - Magic Man Feat. Common & John Legend
03 Slum Village - Cloud 9 Feat. Marsha Ambrosius
04 Pacific Division - On Off Switch Feat. Dom Kennedy & Mykel
05 Dom Kennedy - It Was Beautiful
06 Phat Kat - Lovely (Mr. Beatnik Edit)
07 Daru & Rena - Lonely Nights (The Roots Dilla Spirit Mix)
08 Daru & Rena - You There Part 4 (Dilla Tribute)
09 Theophilus London - Aquamilitia
10 Elucid - Birthright Feat. Che Grand
11 New Look - Everything
12 Santogold - Anne (King Britt Moody Mix)
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Sun+House

Here's three which have been sounding big on the office stereo + put me in a good mood for the forthcoming (hopefully sunny) weekend here in London town. Hope everyone has a good one planned.

Downtown Party Network - Days Like These (Radio Edit) (Buy)

Tony Lionni - Found A Place (Buy)

The Detroit Experiment - Think Twice (Henrik Schwarz Remix) (Buy)

Saskamodie

Mocky - Birds Of A Feather (2009)
Buy

Minimal Banger

Benny Rodrigues - I Like

Another heard on Deviation recently, not gonna be for everyone this one but I really like it. In the right setting + on the right system = massive tune in my humble opinion.

Born Like This

Doom - Absolutely (2009)
Buy

On A Sunny Day....

Bit of a quick post since not many decent records laying around the office today. This rare groove classic is sounding particularly good again though, especially in this weather. Sampled numerous times over the years but the original is still where it's at...


Michael Wycoff - Looking Up To You (1982)

Friday Tip

Tuff Crew - Bound To Ike (1988)