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, Dec 31, 2008

Episode #090 - The Best of 2008

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

On this week’s podcast: The best of 2008!

These were some of the musical highlights of the past year. There were many other amazing tracks that came out this past year that are not included in this list but can be heard in earlier episodes.

Enjoy!
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00::Sounding Out The City Intro
01::Jose James and Flying Lotus – Visions of Violet
02::Veebeeo – Birds
03::Noza – Dear Old Budapest
04::Presto – Part of Greatness ft. CL Smooth
05::Tom Central – Donde Lopez
06::Unconventional Science – Enojo
07::Linkwood – R.I.P.
08::Elvis Presley – Crawfish (Pilooski Edit)
09::Beatstalkers – Heard It Through The Grapevine
10::DCastillo – Bob James vs Destiny’s Child vs Wu Tang
11::Erykah Badu – Honey (Seiji Remix)
12::Jesse Futerman – Platinum Dog
13::Scottie B – Request Line
14::BDI – Cherry Cherry Cherry
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Happy New Year to all listeners!

Shout outs to Kevin, Jesse, Sarah, Tyler W, Richie, Ira, and all artists that sent in some great music over the past year!

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 12:02 PM |     

Wednesday, Dec 24, 2008

Episode #089 - Step 1

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

We start out with some mellow (?) dubstep from Bass Clef and an uptempo electronic genre-bender from young and talented Canadian Jesse Futerman. Then it’s more genre-defying business from The Long Lost with LA’s Flying Lotus on remix duty—wicked tune!

Hot Coins comes in next with some nice electro before we hear Erykah Badu flipped by Captain Planet. A couple of DJ Day productions come after that before we catch one of Japan’s deadliest beat-makers in “Eternal Reflection”
From there, we hear some sweet RnB from Wayna, beautiful Brazilian music from Trio Esperanca, and a nice bossa-fused broken beat goody from Tal M Klein.

It all comes to a wrap with a couple of old grooves, including Gino Dentie’s take on Brass Construction’s classic “Movin’ On”

Enjoy!
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00::Sounding Out The City Intro
01::Bass Clef – Music Will Fade Yr Poisons
02::Jesse Futerman – Step 1
03::The Long Lost – Woebegone (Flying Lotus remix)
04::Hot Coins – Dance Valet
05::Captain Planet – Cleva
06::Daily Bread – How Do You Do (Instrumental)
07::Glue – Making A Mess (DJ Day instrumental remix)
08::Bulljun – Eternal Reflection
09::Wayna – Stalking Horse
10::Trio Esperanca – Nao Aguento Voce
11::Tal M Klein – Emmy Lou’s Underwater Petting Zoo (remix)
12::Living Funk – Silver Black Summer Day
13::Gino Dentie & The Family – Movin’ On
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Big shout outs to all listeners near and far!

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 12:02 PM |     

Wednesday, Dec 17, 2008

Episode #088 - I Feel Electric

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

On this week’s podcast: Funk, Disco, Breaks, Boogie, House

I let the songs play a bit longer than usual this week, and I’m not sure if it’s because I was lazy or if I was especially feeling these tracks…

Anyway, we get going with some classic funk from Deep Heat and the legendary Bernard Purdie before hearing some new Jazzanova material. We then go back in time for a few minutes to hear “People” by Ellipsis, which is such an amazing song and feels right for these times.

After that, we hear a sick little disco edit of Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown”, then a fantastic nudisco gem complete with some good synth and Feist supplying the vocals. Then it’s onto a really nice breaks track from the Funk Weapons label—perfect for the dancefloor. We keep the boogie sound going with The Snapp, then return to some music released earlier this year by Clyde.

It all comes to a wrap with a sick and wobbly house track from Sinden, and a nice collaboration featuring Santogold, Julian Casablancas (from the Strokes) and Pharell called “My Drivethru”.

Enjoy!
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00::Sounding Out The City Intro
01::Deep Heat – Do It Again
02::Bernard Purdie – Whatcha See…
03::Jazzanova – I Can See (Kaushik Edit)
04::Ellipsis – People
05::Kanye West – Love Lockdown (B. Cause Edit)
06::Rubies (ft Feist) – I Feel Electric
07::Calagad 13 – Get On Down
08::The Snapp – You Knock Me Out
09::Clyde – Broken Slang
10::Sinden – Tamborzuda
11::N*E*R*D – My Drivethru
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Big shout outs to all listeners near and far!

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 12:03 PM |     

Wednesday, Dec 10, 2008

Episode #087 - Go & See

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

On this week’s podcast: Downtempo, Hard Funk, Hiphop, Soul, Breaks

Don’t know what the weather is like in your area, but it is colder than a witch’s tit in my town. I’ve thrown in some tracks that will make you move and warm up, but we start it off nice and easy with some downtempo from Crackpot, Tipsy and Presto. From there, we heat up some greasy funk from the Grits and some fuzzy afrobeat goodness from Chico Mann (of Antibalas).

Next up, it’s ODB of Wu Tang over some jazzy reggae rhythms. After that, it’s more hiphop from CL Smooth and Presto, then it’s two of the best soul tracks I’ve ever heard from Bobby Reed and Alice Clark. We finish up with a fantastic disco track from Cindy Rodriguez, a flipped Bob Marley track, and a nice break from Sunny Face.

Enjoy!
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00::Sounding Out The City Intro
01::Crackpot – Tippy Tippy Toe
02::Tipsy – Nude On The Moon
03::Presto – Presto’s Groove #1
04::The Grits – Chicken Pi
05::Chico Mann – Go & See
06::Dooza – Baby, I Like It Raw
07::Presto – Part Of Greatness ft CL Smooth
08::Bobby Reed – The Time Is Right For Love
09::Alice Clark – Don’t You Care
10::Cindy Rodriguez – What You Need Is My Love
11::Bob Marley & The Wailers – Soul Shakedown (remix)
12::Sunny Face – Horny Cha Cha Cha
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Big shout outs to all listeners near and far!

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 12:03 PM |     

Wednesday, Dec 03, 2008

Episode #086 - Stand By To Dive

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

On this week’s podcast: downtempo, rare grooves, funk, underground disco, weird shit.

We start out with some ambience from dubstep maestro Bass Clef and follow up with 2 beautifully layered beatscapes from MPM heroes A-Ko and DJ Day.
We then move onto some raregrooves and funk by Gene Chandler, The Rimshots, and Standard Of Living.

After that, we turn up the tempo with some underground disco from Mellow Madness and Sparkle. Then it’s onto some classic 1980s videogame sounds with breakbeats behind it courtesy of John Arnold. A trippy electronic ‘sound collage’ by trip-hop duo “Tipsy” comes in next, and we wrap it all up with a track from Chin Chin, and Sonara Casino.

Enjoy!
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00::Sounding Out The City Intro
01::Bass Clef – Stand By To Dive
02::A-Ko – Untitled (McDoom’d)
03::DJ Day – 4 Hills (DJ Day Remix)
04::Gene Chandler – In My Body’s House
05::The Rimshots – Dance Girl
06::Standard Of Living – Cut Up Mr. Cool
07::Mellow Madness – Save The Youth
08::Sparkle – Let Yourself Go
09::John Arnold – 2-Bit Classics
10::Tipsy – XXXmas
11::Chin Chin – Appetite
12::Sonara Casino – Astronautas A Mercurio
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Big shout outs to Ira (my digging mate), Cathy, and James--and a special shout out to the man Kevin C who celebrated a birthday last week. Happy Birthday Kevin!

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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