Sounding Out The City

Where the sounds are "light on the attitude, heavy on the beat." You'll hear rare grooves, hard jazz, heavy funk, broken beats, library grooves, house, deep soul, Latin flavours, Brazilian vibes, left-field hiphop, rock, drum n bass, afro-beats--all these sounds and more, hand picked and blended fresh into 30-minute mixes, Wednesdays at noon.

Wednesday, Mar 26, 2008

Episode #052 - Up and Out

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Welcome to another episode of Sounding Out The City...

This week’s mix gets started off with some deep, ambient, cinematic sounds from Italy (Piero Piccioni), the U.S. (Al Hirt), the U.K. (Roger Webb) and Germany (the Vampires). Then the 5th track is a sick violin and drum break workout that I suspect is from France—it’s an absolute killer!

Stark Reality is next with a mind-melter called “Dreams”. It’s rock. It’s jazz. It has a deep groove, wicked bass, and heavy drum breaks. It’s an amazing track that would appeal to open-minded rock lovers, B-boys, and jazz aficionados…it’s just wicked. After that, you’ll hear something by Free Design remixed by hiphop god Madlib, which is then followed by some heavy nujazz, then an old school hiphop classic by A Tribe Called Quest.

Next is a cut ‘n’ paste break from Greece by a b-boy named Thanos from the Palov & Mishkin camp, then some really nice but obscure soul by Delia Gartrell, and some funkrock from Crystal Mansion. The Jazzinvaders are heard after that, and then a couple of nu-latin breaks that will appeal to lovers of the “Los Hermanos Latinos” sound. It all comes to a wrap with a track that slipped under the radar in 2007 called “Fairchild” by the Scottish dub and breaks maestro, Pablo, of Redhook records.

Enjoy!
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00::Sounding Out The City Intro
01::Piero Piccioni – Kintabu
02::Al Hirt – Harlem Hendoo
03::The Roger Webb Sound – Grey Sigh
04::The Vampires of Dartmoore – Dance of the Vampires
05::Q – String Break
06::Stark Reality – Dreams
07::The Free Design – Where Do I Go? (Madlib remix)
08::The Houdinis – Emergendizer (Aiff remix)
09::A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick It? (Phase 5 mix)
10::Thanos – Logical Discussion
11::Delia Gartrell – Fight Fire With Fire
12::The Jazzinvaders – Up & Out (Tim Wood remix)
13::Sono Rhizmo – Mambocito Mio
14::K54 – Cuba
15::Pablo – Fairchild (Live at the Lab)
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Shout outs to my listeners in Canada, the U.S., Japan and the U.K. Shout outs also to Nicole N, Quinn, Cat, Nigel, Nick, and that crazy girl I met in a class I took last Sunday who kept making me laugh.

Til next week, peace and best wishes.
--Driftwood--

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Wednesday, Mar 19, 2008

Episode #051 - Be True

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Welcome to another episode of Sounding Out The City...

There were some glitches in the podcast site that prevented me from getting this episode up on time, but the problems are fixed now. This week gets going with some downtempo jazzy breaks from TM Juke, then some sweet sounds from Q with ‘String Break’ and a lost classic flipped by DJ Day.

Drum ‘n’ Bass is the order of the day for the next five tracks from Dusty, Kid Gusto, Rory More, Commix, and the Hai Karate Allstars. I snuck in one of my favourite hiphop tracks by Devil McDoom, and then veered off into electro-disco territory with Justice v Simian, and Bis.

An 80s classic is blended in next, then a straight up disco track is given the Dmitri From Paris treatment to close out the mix.

Enjoy!
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00::Sounding Out The City Intro
01::TM Juke – Lady Garden
02::Q – String Break
03::DJ Day – ?
04::Dusty – Think Twice
05::Kid Gusto – Claps On
06::Rory More – You Do Something To Me
07::Commix – Be True
08::Hai Karate – Hit The Road Jack (DJ Czech remix)
09::Devil McDoom – Cafone Going
10::Justice vs Simian – We Are Your Friends (S & P edit)
11::Bis – Shack Up
12::The Human League – Don’t You Want Me
13:: Delilah – Are You Ready? (DFP edit)
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Shout outs to Julia, Thu, and Becky. Shout outs also to Helder, Richie, Tan and Cathy.

If you need to get in touch, you can do so at

soundingoutthecity@hotmail.com

Til next week, peace and best wishes.
--Driftwood--

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Wednesday, Mar 12, 2008

Episode #050 - Dreams

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Welcome to another episode of Sounding Out The City...

This week’s mix gets started off with a spacey downtempo beat courtesy of Brenk off the Melting Pot Label, which puts out some amazing music by dudes like DJ Day, Devil McDoom, and A-ko. Check the MySpace pages of those guys to hear what I’m talking about.

Anyway, I mixed in a track by Phat Kev after that, and I have to thank my man Richie in the UK for sorting that one out. Sweet tune! The Free Design is next with a jazzy folk-funk track I recently discovered, and then it’s a rare groove boogie-ish classic from 1979 by 9th Creation.

Some amazing late 60s obscure soul is next by the Dynamic Tints off the Twinights Lunar compilation, then it’s the old school hiphop classic by the legendary Eric B & Rakim “Don’t Sweat The Technique”, followed by the humourous and stylish Ugly Duckling. A hot funk track is next by Billy Garner, which was sampled by DJ Day for his incredible “Gone Bad” back in late 2005 (December, I think).

After that, I threw in a deep and kind of crazy African disco tune by The Coffins before mixing in an edit of the Rick James party classic “Give It To Me”. The transition was quite shabby as it was done without a monitor—not a wise move on my part, but I’m not prefect.

Justice’s well-known and well-played techno-disco track came in after that, then it was a couple of deep house joints by the Motor City Drum Ensemble.

Enjoy!
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00::Sounding Out The City Intro
01::Brenk – Orbitus (skit)
02::Phat Kev – Dreams
03::The Free Design – Bubbles
04::9th Creation – Much Too Much
05::Dynamics Tints – Rosemarie
06::Eric B & Rakim – Don’t Sweat The Technique
07::Ugly Duckling – Andy Vs Dizzy
08::Billy Garner – Brand New Girl
09::The Coffins – E Te Die
10::Rick James – Give It To Me (edit)
11::Justice – D.A.N.C.E
12::Motor City Drum Ensemble – Get Slapped Up
13::Motor City Drum Ensemble – Raw Cuts #1
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Shout outs to Richie, Nigel P, and all listeners near and far.

Til next week, peace and best wishes.
--Driftwood--

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Wednesday, Mar 05, 2008

Episode #049 - Spacing Out

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Welcome to another episode of Sounding Out The City...

This week’s mix gets started off with a NEW Sounding Out The City intro. I felt it was time to change it up, and I hope you all enjoy it. After the intro, I get into a nice library track by Keith Mansfield from the KPM 1068 sound book called “Gold Medal” and transition to a tune by Jonny Trunk (a mad library collector who put out a book on the genre).

A re-edit of the Free Design’s rendition of the Door’s classic “Light My Fire” comes next, then it’s off to Mars with a sick, fuzzy funk track by the Invaders, and Sheeba’s funky version of “Jungle Fever”. We hear a bit of Brazilian heat from Trio Mocoto before getting into some beat-heavy and bizarre electro-synth disco (?!), then Kid Kanevil’s “Ill Connoisseur” gets thrown in.

After that, I get into some disco with Two Man Sound, followed by Stringfield Family’s “Sound of Disco Rock”, then a B’more-ish joint that tears up a James Brown classic before getting into one of my favourites from Beck. The mix ends off on a house music classic by Steve Poindexter, and finally, Joe Bataan’s amazing “Latin Strut”

Enjoy!
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00::Sounding Out The City Intro
01::Keith Mansfield – Gold Medal (Middle Section)
02::Jonny Trunk – Sister Woo
03::The Free Design – Light My Fire (edit)
04::The Invaders – Spacing Out
05::Sheeba – Jungle Fever
06::Trio Mocoto – O Xamago Da Ina
07::Mr. Flash – Mr. Sexe (excerpt)
08::Kid Kanevil – Ill Connoisseur
09::Two Man Sound – Que Tal America
10::Stringfield Family – The Sound of Disco Rock
11::DJ Eli – Papa
12::Beck – Clap Hands
13::Steve Poindexter – Work That Motha Fucker
14::Joe Bataan – Latin Strut
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Shout out to all listeners near and far.

Til next week, peace and best wishes.
--Driftwood--

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I started out making mixes for myself to listen to during drives and subway rides. Somewhere along the way, I thought other people might enjoy the music in the mixes as much as I do, so I began posting them. My wish is simply to share what I consider to be really good yet seldom heard music with others.

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