merry christmas :)

a new christmas compilation featuring funk, soul and jazz:

1. funk machine - soul santa
2. wild honey - angel's christmas
3. ike & tina turner - merry christmas baby
4. kim weston - wish you a merry christmas
5. soul stirrers - christmas means love
6. solomon burke - presents for christmas
7. lou rawls - christmas cocktails
8. ramsey lewis trio - here comes santa claus
9. the enchanters - mambo santa mambo
10. lena horne - jingle all the way
11. ella fitzgerald - sleigh ride
12. james brown - merry christmas, i love you
13. the supremes - my favorite things
14. stevie wonder - some day at christmas
15. smokey robinson & the miracles - it's christmas time
16. al green - feels like christmas
17. the mistletoe disco band - winter wonderland
18. ohio players - happy holidays

~60 MB, DL here (or you can click the pic of a lovely young tina turner!)

tis the season to think about the things that own

stevie wonder - ave maria

omg

ramsey lewis trio - egg nog

i love eggnog :)

Janko Nilovic - Black Swan Lake (1975)

the devil is loose

oh this is so wonderfully dramatic

Asha Puthli - There Is a Party Tonight (1978)

long heel, red bottoms

a slowed down version of trina's latest single, which is super 90s house as it is

slowed down, it's even more sensual and homoerotic

november mix

i've baked you a delicious treat

1. willie griffin - i love you
2. los rondels - la la te amo
3. the super supers - mama soul
4. don covay - daddy loves baby
5. valorie keys - listen here
6. clark erni - by the grace of god, am i
7. randa & the soul kingdom - feel it in your soul
8. the b-52s - song for a future generation
9. milkways - galactic reaction
10. kleenex/liliput - a silver key can open an iron lock somewhere
11. connie converse - how sad, how lovely
12. iguanas - this is what i was made for
13. beau brummels - she loves me [demo]
14. the cookies - don't say nothin bad about my baby
15. the bats - candidate
16. the 6ths - you you you you you
17. cortex - oh! lord
18. sunny ozuna - guess who
19. pussy cat - je te dirai
20. the sunrays - since my findin you
21. o.c. smith - baby i need your loving

101.69 MB, 1 hr >>DL here<<

sweeeeeet melodies that melt in your ears

i wanna take this mix on a date and kiss it all over. i hope you'll feel the same

cover is an illustration from harry clarke's fairy tales. acknowledgments for sources of songs in the "comments" of the info of some songs

the bats "candidate" lyrics

who is the candidate today?
and can you say it another way?
who will believe you now?
after all that you've said and done?

we need to know more than you can say
than it ever was
we need to show more than we know
now that it's back to you, back to you

back to you

now you can tell me
the time that will never be
i want to hear all
those tales of history

we've got to find our parting is bad
you've been hiding here
you've got to speak before you creep here
and it's back to you, back to you

back to you

who can help you now
that you've turned away
from things that you know
things that you've learned today

you need to go back to a place where
they're in time with you
you're the candidate
you work it out now
that it's back to you, back to you

back to you

--

i couldn't find the lyrics anywhere so i typed them up. corrections welcome!

dee dee sharp & billy preston - mashed potato time (1965)

firme tracks, vol 4

1. blackrock - yeah yeah
2. redman - tonight's da night
3. doris & kelley - you don't have to worry
4. pat clayton - i said no
5. danny cobb - my isabella
6. mickey & sylvia - bewildered
7. brenton wood - oogum boogum
8. mos def - life is real
9. galt macdermot - coffee cold
10. them - here comes the night
11. roy orbison - in dreams
12. jonathan richman - vampiresa mujer
13. cheryl williams - i'm your fool
14. gucci mane ft. trina - vampires
15. kick - lollie pop
16. earth wind fire - getaway
17. preacher - life is a gamble
18. frankie karl - don't be afraid
19. candy & the kisses - are you trying to get rid of me, baby
20. the limiñanas - i'm dead
21. the shanes - can i trust you?
22. the cookies - softly in the night
23. raphael saadiq - big easy
24. nick cave & the bad seeds - running scared
25. the four tops - still waters run deep

81MB, 1.2hrs >>DL here<<

spooky soul, 60s funk, 80s funk, hip-hop, jazz...all that firme goodness, with a touch of the macabre! also featured: a few songs with guitars that i couldn't resist.

(last year's october mix: 12 tracks of sleepy/spooky)

p.s. i apologize! i've used that doris & kelley song twice. but it's just that tight.

o.c. smith - baby, i need your loving

i love anything and everything that sounds like a marching band. uptempo, horn section, polyrhythms in the distance, glockenspiel in the chorus...!

especially surprising to hear because the majority of o.c. smith [that i sampled on youtube] is smooth near-easy-listening.

milkways - galactic reaction

french cosmic disco, italo synth

wonderful

perfect mix for a rainy morning

Modcast #89: Architecture in Helsinki

the boys in the band have made a 45min mix in anticipation of their european & american tours! and it's pretty friggin good! thanks to methsoradden for the link.

firme tracks, vol. 3

in time for the labor day weekend:

1. kmd - sweet premium wine
2. the ohio players - love rollercoaster
3. teena marie - i'm a sucker for your love
4. evelyn "champagne" king - i'm in love
5. lil rob - summer nights
6. miss lady pinks - summer breeze
7. arianna puello - hoy me siento bien
8. carla thomas - i'll never stop loving you
9. dale & grace - i'm leavin it all up to you
10. bobbie smith - walk on into my heart
11. the cookies - girls grow up faster than boys
12. wendy rene - bar-b-q
13. mary jane hooper - i've got reasons
14. fabulous souls - take me
15. hubert laws - no, you'd better not
16. della humphrey - don't make the good girls go bad
17. shades of brown - be my lady
18. edan ft. insight- funky voltron
19. old town gangsters - only in cali
20. eddie sky white - baby be mine
21. beyonce ft. andre 3000 & kanye west - party
22. the cool notes - i wanna dance
23. prince - when you were mine

1.3 hrs, 95mb, >> DL here <<


THIS IS AN ULTRA FIRME MIX

60s funk, 80s funk, g funk, sultry soul, pop...and all of it bright and posi enough to be played at a pool party or bbq !

last lazy weekends of summer

1. esg - it's alright
2. kleenex/liliput - might is right
3. the bangles - the real world
4. san ul lim - it was probably late summer
5. ariel pink's haunted graffiti - something isn't something
6. quasi - i never want to see you again
7. the sunrays - you don't phase me
8. helen shapiro - tell me what he said
9. the la's - feelin'
10. the easybeats - made my bed, gonna lie in it
11. marmoset - blooms
12. dump - when u were mine
13. buckethead - humans vanish
14. beach fossils - sometimes
15. guided by voices - the official ironmen rally song
16. close lobsters - just too bloody stupid
17. alex chilton - she might look my way
18. alan vega - ice drummer
19. frank huston - old man me
20. the founders - don't you leave me baby
21. phyllis dillon - midnight confessions
22. the walker brothers - stay with me baby

110 MB, 1hr, >>DL here<<

a mix for when you come home, and you're exhausted, and you just want to lie down on your bed for a bit

and a friend calls and asks if you're going to the party

and you exhale and say "sure" and you realize that you sound irritated, but you're not irritated. you're looking forward to going out and being social

but after the call, you continue to lie there, and you decide that if you're going to go at all, you're gonna take your sweet time to get ready

--

cover girl is pier angeli; thanks to matt, thisismyfavoritesong, suicidewatch and negativepleasure for a few of these

tomorrow is my turn (live) - nina simone

goddess! an absolute goddess.

shut the f up boy - nikki lynette

haha what a rabblerouser! sweeeet hook

note from nikki:
"Pirates & sailors used to wear eye patches so 1 eye could see in bright light while the covered eye would always be conditioned to see at a low light level. That way they were prepared for whatever came their way. In this industry its half flashing lights & half murky, shady situations. My eye patch is a symbol of me always being ready for the light & the dark that comes my way. I know it ain't pretty. I never claimed to be pretty. I claim to be be BAD ASS :o)"

give me a try - sizzla & rihanna

thanks to this week's episode of uyd

poeme electronique - the echoes fade

thanks kevindogwesley

got me gone (dirty platinum)

DJ Ayres f/ GLC - Got Me Gone (Dirty Platinum remix) by T&ARecords

damn dude

neneh cherry - manchild

get on our level

firme tracks vol. 2

pues--


FIRME TRACKS - VOL. 2

1. mike adame - chicanita
2. billy stewart - look back and smile
3. ms krazie - si hoy que nos amamos
4. jean p - time
5. the brothers johnson - strawberry letter 23
6. js - ice cream
7. paperroute gangstaz - woodgrain
8. johnson & johnson - wow!
9. honey cone - the want-ads
10. king floyd - groove me
11. fontella bass - hold on this time
12. allen toussaint - get out of my life woman
13. sunny & the sunliners - should i take you home
14. wah wah watson - bubbles
15. the mandells - think back
16. doris & kelley - you don't have to worry
17. quietfire - you make me wanna shout
18. young & company - i like what you're doing to me
19. the fentones - take five
20. el chicano - don't put me down if i'm brown

1HR - DOWNLOAD >>HERE<<

para los noches, saliendo con sus amigos, dando una vuelta en tu chevy

or just lean waaay back in your office chair and pretend

don't act surprised - charisma

such a smooth rola...but what a terrible protagonist :|

--
another jerk narrator in a rola: casino royals' "nobody loves you"

In 1980 Telex's manager asked the group to enter the Eurovision Song Contest. The group entered and were eventually sent to the finals, although it apparently hoped to come in last: "We had hoped to finish last, but Portugal decided otherwise. We got ten points from them and finished on the 19th spot." (Marc Moulin)^[3] The group's song "Euro-Vision" was a cheerful bleepy song with deliberately banal lyrics about the contest itself. The Eurovision audience seemed unsure how to react to the performance, and after the band stopped playing, there was mostly stunned silence, with scattered polite applause; Michel Moers took a photograph of the bewildered audience. The band walked off amid sounds of muttering.

FIRME TRACKS VOL 1

FIRME TRACKS - VOL. 1

1. africa - you take advantage of me
2. tommy neal - going to a happening
3. lighter shade of brown - on a sunday afternoon
4. war - don’t let no one get you down
5. s.o.u.l. - this time around
6. kelly rowland ft. lil wayne - motivation
7. love unlimited - i belong to you
8. manny corchado - pow wow
9. marsha hunt - oh no! not the beast day!
10. one way - cutie pie
11. t.i. ft. pharrell - freak though
12. mtume - juicy fruit
13. nathalie - my love won’t let you down
14. the wire - kidney bingos
15. missy elliot ft. special guest - love will freak us
16. 213 - so fly
17. mr. criminal - i know you like it
18. pete rock & cl smooth - lots of lovin
19. the delfonics - la-la (means i love you)
20. byrdie green - get a hold of yourself
21. the yum yums - gonna be a big thing
22. cannibal & the headhunters - follow the music
23. war - all day music

AN UNPRECEDENTED (well, nearly) MIX

DOWNLOAD HERE

perfect for sunday afternoons, riding down whittier blvd, checking out chicas, barbequeing at the park, early summer fun with loved ones.

this is absolutely my favorite kind of music (firme) so there will be at least one more volume! [this volume is the kind of stuff they play on hot 92.3 but i’m hoping that the next one will be more bilingual heh]

dumb names from the 1960s

remember my threat? ok you don't but i did!



tracklist:


(typing all that out would have been sick!)

about an hour long total, download here


what to expect: all 60s garage -- some of it more pop, some of it more psych, a bit of fuzz, a bit of acoustic. mostly not as stupid as the names of the bands/songs. i've been quietly collecting these for months heh heh

marva whitney - things got to get better

los saicos - demolicion

get it together

hey guys! back by popular demand: a mix

1. rock and roll has got to go
2. the feminine complex - movin
3. can - moonshake
4. sylk e. fyne - romeo & juliet
5. man friday - love honey, love heartache
6. new edition - mr. telephone man (chopped and screwed)
7. luniz - i got five on it
8. kleerup ft. lykke li - until we bleed
9. blackbird blackbird - pure
10. masta ace ft. jean grae - soda & soap
11. the three degrees - maybe
12. the gay poppers* - i wanna know
13. pigmeat markham - sock it to em, judge!
14. betty wright - i love the way you love
15. big boi ft. janelle monae - be still
16. charlotte dada - don't let me down
17. exuma - the vision

~1 hour, DL >> here <<

this one has no real theme, just stuff i've been listening to lately. and they fit together reeeal nice

(photo credit here; i can't take credit for that cute-ass dog. and if you wanna know where i got certain tracks, there's little notes in some of em in itunes)

*yes, that's really their name. and yes, lol.

"so over you"

(updated 3/2013:) this is one of my favorite mixes that i've ever done:

1. i don't wanna be friends with you - shop assistants
2. stop killing me - the primitives
3. no offense - slutever
4. why don't you kill yourself - the only ones
5. she lied (i know why) - jester iv
6. over it - dinosaur jr
7. it's ok - the sunglows
8. i've gotten over you - the sonnettes
9. i'm over you - jan bradley
10. ain't no big thing - the radiants
11. i wish i never met you - trina
12. i'm single - lil wayne
13. i'd do it all over you - doris duke
14. your key don't fit anymore - marie "queenie" lyons
15. i'm glad i got over you - jeanette jones
16. so gone - monica ft. missy elliot
17. up out my face - mariah carey & nicki minaj
18. you cheated - the shields
19. gonna get along without you now - trixies
20. don't mess with me - the teddy boys
21. does it hurt? - wipers
22. look back in anger - television personalities

it is wonderful for anyone who is trying to get over someone and it's really hard because you still like them but you're still really angry at them.

DL here, original post here.

anthems

carl bean - born this way


betty wright - i am woman


india.arie - video


salt n pepa - none of your business


to thine own self be true

existential disco

really slow jamz

i love chopped n screwed. there's a lot of kids out there who mess it up, but when it's on, it is on!

cunninlynguists ft. tonedeff - love ain't

sounds like lucas muecas to me!

an italian group attempting a disco song with latin flavor in 1979

(this is lucas you gringo)

about to head out

gonna go on vacation

1. amu - prism
2. charanjit singh - raga kalavati
3. the dovers - about me
4. generifus - and i tried
5. the beau brummels - no lonelier man
6. clockwork oranges - ready steady
7. the first four - empty heart
8. the dawnbreakers - alligator
9. harry toledo - busted chevrolet
10. 9th street market - you're gone
11. mavi isiklar - iyi dusun tasin
12. the bats - mad on you
13. jerry butler - never give you up
14. candyman - knockin boots
15. paula wayne - never less than yesterday
16. the mops - blind bird
17. rah digga - tight
18. the jet age of tomorrow - lunchbox
19. diddy & skylar gray - coming home
20. southern toads
21. c.o.b. - when he came home
22. dr john - mama roux
23. nina simone - don't let me be misunderstood

total run time ~1.1 hour; >> DL here <<

this one's a little big! more mellow than the last one, but there're still some rolas


there's no real theme -- just songs that i've been vibing on lately. if you've liked my other mixes then you'll like this one! sorry for the soft sell, i just have to prepare for the strange week ahead of me