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Head is alive. Hence the sound of music.Archive for funk
What’s that funk in here?
Funk is where the richness of musical tapestry collides; it’s walking along your local urbanscape with iridescent antique-show rumblings that up and went in that space just above your head. The rhythm and the toot-toot, sparking off the sleek of the office steel and the shit on the sidewalk.
Grab a partner and get down to different shades of funk.
J Rocc - Cold Heat Funk Mix Pt. 1
Ike and Tina - Funkier Than A Mosquito’s Tweeter (m4a)
Jimmy Castor Bunch - It’s Just Begun
+ An essay on the funk.
Shake your love on this: J Davey baby
The possibilites were not endless two days ago. Today they stop at 4, which is good for me right now. Four’s a good number in the music world for up-and-comping artists. Less than four cuts is too little showcasing, more is too much for a free ride.
I was surprised to hear good music from unreliable intentions the other day. And I was prepared to hunt it down. However Filip came to the rescue, ripping and rolling along the way. Look, J Davey mp3s:
J Davey - Dirty Love mp3
(erm, you don’t have to ask me why they’re 96kbits/sec, do you..)
J Davey are Jack Davey (that’s the chick) and Brook D’Leau, they make music to do your head in as you try to label it. Influences are so wide as to include new wave and rock, jazz fusion and hip hop. Jack’s voice is an emphatic underscore roar - while it has been compared to the likes of Erykah Badu, I find Jack to grip less tightly to the strength of her voice and thus not superimpose herself over the music itself. I love Erykah, but she’s more traditional in her approach to soul so the comparison is probably not valid anyway.
There is no J Davey song that isn’t danceable. While indie rock has let me down this summer, too few choices for sunshine-chasing mornings there, J Davey is escapism for the night.
Five years in the making, they’re about to break loose.
Link Complication
Fallen in love this week with perpetrators of the J Davey kind. Can’t find the album here in Bucharest, don’t have a credit card to PayPal myself through ebay, but wherever it is I’ll hunt it down. Meanwhile soul-electro-clashsters do have a myspace (a tab is permanently open in my browser - the J Davey tab as it’s going down for posterity) and a site all of their own where you can stream music. Unfortunately no downloads. If you don’t have time for this you should quit your job. Pretty mesmerizing stuff here, but I suppose it’s more chick-oriented.
Next up is that young gun that requires a deluge of clever epithets to properly state what he’s about in case you haven’t heard of him yet. Jamie T, this modern-age Socrates-slash-Petronius but with a bass guitar to prod at, I say, Jamie T is material for BBC Collective’s feature this issue. You can stream live footage of Jamie, and watch an interview. The album’s getting done, but after all the tracks are done there’s nasty marketing issues to think of; however I trust Virgin Music know when to milk the cow.
I’m very glad I received some good shit in the mail, finally, so here it is: a remix by Jim Noir for Sebastien Tellier’s La Ritournelle. It strikes me as a dance track with feeling. I can already picture the masses after an anthem, wondering what moves to pull on this one. A bit of drum and bass, a bit of strings and you’ve scored the sun rising while you’re sipping on that last cocktail or a strong cuppa green tea (Coffee is so last season). As for Tellier, his first recording ever, Fantino, can be found on the soundtrack to Lost In Translation by Sofia Coppola. As you do.
Sebastien Tellier - La ritournelle (Jim Noir Mix) mp3
Here’s the dude’s myspace.
I’m still in my Poland retrospective phase, here are some pics from the Open’er Festival in Gdynia.
The Revolution will not be televised
I found a podcast and then I lost it. Yep, I mean it's still there, actually it's here (link), notwithstanding I can't find it on odeo and I can't remember where I got it from. This is first-rate funk and soul but I really need a tracklisting, I can't figure out who half these people are, some ring a bell… and I am now showing off my lack of knowledge. For shame.
One should listen to this amazing mix nonetheless.
Update, read all about it: I kept missing the five seconds where the radio DJ says this is DJ 3D, and on hiphopmusic.com some readers left tracklists. Also..
Quincy Jones - Summer In The City mp3
C-Mon and Kypski
Who are these crazy mothafuckers? If you like your DJ Shadow Private Press-era, C-Mon&Kypski are all that and bonus funk factor.
A couple of mixtapes are up on their site for download.
Here’s their blog. Carhartt’s their sponsor, so they are indeed cool.
Until I get their CD, could someone point me out an educational-purposes mp3, hey? 
