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, Nov 26, 2008

Episode #085 - Crawfish

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

On this week’s podcast: downtempo, re-edits, disco, psych

We start out with some chilled beats from Canada’s own Koushik, 40 Winks (Belgium), Veebeeo (US?), Hipster Wonkaz (AKA, Inverse Cinematics), and French duo Onra & Quetzal.

We then move onto a loungey-latin edit from the Bstrd Boots series and continue with a couple more re-edits: one from a track by “The King” himself, Elvis, updated by Pilooski. The other is a well-known classic from the legendary Marvin Gaye re-edited by the mysterious Beatstalkers.

Then we get into some Kraak & Smaak business, followed by some private press disco from Belle Farms Estate. King Most comes in after that with more ‘new’ disco before we hear a psych-rock track that absolutely slays. It all comes to a wrap with one of Jesse Futerman’s latest tracks: Platinum Dog, which is a filter-swept, deep and wobbly house track. It sounds like a dubstepper but with a danceable uptempo 4/4 beat. Wicked.

Enjoy!
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00::Sounding Out The City Intro
01::Koushik – Welcome
02::40 Winks – Come Back To Bed
03::Veebeeo – Birds
04::Hipster Wonkaz – Wonkado
05::Onra & Quetzal – Breton’s Revenge
06::Dub Traffik Control – Juana Tijuana
07::Elvis Presley – Crawfish (Pilooski Remix)
08::Beatstalkers – Heard It Through The Grapevine
09::Kraak & Smaak – Squeeze Me (Lack Of Afro remix)
10::Belle Farms Estate – Puddin’ (Kenny Dope remix)
11::King Most – Disco Royale
12::Hooterville Trolley – No Silver Bird
13::Jesse Futerman – Platinum Dog
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Big shout outs to Ira, Jesse, Kevin, Jason M, UK Richie, Cathy, and B in Watford.

To get in touch with requests, questions, comments, or to submit music, email:

soundingoutthecity@hotmail.com

Till next week, keep sounding out the city.
--Driftwood

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Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008

Episode #084 - First Class

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

On this week’s podcast: hiphop, brazilian, rare grooves, deep house

We start out with indie hiphop producer extraordinaire, Madlib, and another one of his crazy beats, then follow it up with more beats from a track off Moonstarr’s latest (and super dope) called ‘Break It Down’. After that, it’s a mashup that blends sweet soul from the legendary Marvin Gaye with a revivalist brass band that covered Gaye’s classic ‘Sexual Healing’ last year.

Then we move into some killer Brazilian heat, with grooves by the likes of Antonio Adolfo, Trio Mocoto, Claudette Soares, and Sergio Mendes. Next up, we hear one of my all-time favourite rare groovers by a group called Pamoja, which then sets up a track called ‘Sound & Vision’ that has been stuck in my head because of a Rhapsody commercial I keep catching.

We then come to a close with some great deep house—some old tracks, and some brand new.

Enjoy!
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00::Sounding Out The City Intro
01::Madlib – First Class
02::Moonstarr – Break It Down
03::Hot 8 BB vs Marvin Gaye – Sexual Healing
04::Antonio Adolfo – Transamazonica
05::Trio Mocoto– Swinga Sambaby
06::Claudette Soares– Adeus Maria Fulo
07::Sergio Mendes – Rhoda
08::Pamoja – Oooh Baby
09::Sea & Cake – Sound & Vision
10::Zaki Ibrahim – Money (King Britt remix)
11::Dusty – Tap Tap
12::Motor City Drum Ensemble – Raw Cut #4
13::Pepe Braddock – Deep Burnt
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Big shout outs to Kevin, Jesse, Nigel, ‘Sureshot’ Shane, Richie, and Cathy.

To get in touch with requests, questions, comments, or to submit music, email:

soundingoutthecity@hotmail.com

Till next week, keep sounding out the city.
--Driftwood

Posted by Driftwood at 12:01 PM |     

Wednesday, Nov 12, 2008

Episode #083 - Spaceport

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

On this week’s podcast: rare grooves, reggae, re-edits, 50s R&B, broken beats

We start out with a fairly new (2007-2008) ambient breaks track from the Landau Orchestra and an old and rare ambient track (1970) from the Toomorrow (sic) original soundtrack. Then it’s onto some hard beat downtempo courtesy of California’s DJ Day, followed by some beautiful and breezy sounds from Sweden’s 1970s cover band extraordinaire, “The Gimmicks”.

After that, we shift into some a re-edit of some dubby business from The Specials, and a rare funk tune from Steady Wailin’ Sid called “Spirit of ‘76”.
A brand new R&B track from newcomer Brittany Bosco is next, which deftly samples a nice Chakachas track. We then turn to some old R&B from the 50s, which must have been a big party track in the day and would do well even today.

We then get into some reggae from Leroy Sibbles before getting wild with the percussion in tracks from drummer Malcolm Catto, and a brand new one from Canada’s broken beat legend, Moonstarr.

Enjoy!
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00::Sounding Out The City Intro
01::Landau Orchestra – 1 2 3 Isn’t Easy
02::Hugo Montenegro – Spaceport
03::DJ Day – Sunday
04::Janko Nilovic – Chantelle’s Party
05::The Gimmicks – Ye-Me-Le
06::The Specials – Ghost Town (Raf Re-edit)
07::Steady Wailin’ Sid – Spirit Of ‘76
08::Brittany Bosco – 8-Track
09::King Coleman – Down In The Basement
10::Leroy Sibbles – Groove Me
11::MRR-ADD ft. Malcolm Catto – No. 4
12::Moonstarr – Broken Bossa
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To get in touch with requests, questions, comments, or to submit music, email:

soundingoutthecity@hotmail.com

Till next week, keep sounding out the city.
--Driftwood

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Wednesday, Nov 05, 2008

Episode #082 - Jelly

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

On this week’s podcast: vintage grooves, funky jazz, drum n bass, 2-step soul, and breaks.

We start out with a couple of dusty breaks from Gentle Rain and Karl Heinz Schafer before moving to some funky jazz from Steve Grossman. Then we get a Madlib remix of a Jazzanova classic, followed by a jazzy drum n bass tune.

It’s a bit of house after that from Trus’me, then modern northern soul before we hear a couple classics from amazing singers Salena Jones and Anita O’Day.
Some Latin jazzdance comes in next, and then we hear a couple of rare 2-step soul tracks.

We get back into some drum n bass with a track I’ve played a lot lately, then finish up with some genre-bending goodies from Graham Mushnik, and DJ me DJ you.

Enjoy!
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00::Sounding Out The City Intro
01::Gentle Rain – Jelly
02::Karl Heinz Schafer – Kidnapping
03::Steve Grossman – Inmate Man
04::Jazzanova – L.O.V.E. & You & I (Madlib rmx)
05::Kjell – Dunnshine
06::Trus’me – Working Nights
07::Kings Go Forth – You’re The One
08::Salena Jones – Am I The Same Girl
09::Anita O’Day – Old Devil Moon
10::Eddie Cano – Slip Slip
11::Mr. Flood’s Party – Compared To What?
12::US Warren – Hard Headed Woman
13::Ben Westbeech & DJ Die – Get Closer (Lovers rmx)
14::Graham Mushnik - untitled
15::DJ me DJ you - Spa
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To get in touch with requests, questions, comments, or to submit music, email:

soundingoutthecity@hotmail.com

Till next week, keep sounding out the city.
--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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