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, Jan 28, 2009

Episode #093 - Movement 1

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

Lots of good dusty tracks this week including some jazz, soul, library, afrobeat, latin, and disco.

We start out with some modal jazz from Carla Bley and get into some uplifting jazz from Open Sky Unit. Then we hear a fantastic soul classic from Dusty Springfield, a library groove from Flowers & Morgan, and a jazzfunk stormer from Gene Ammons.

After that, it’s a couple of Afrobeat tracks followed by a couple of Latin tracks. Then it’s some house music from Moonstarr and rock (?) from Whitest Boy Alive’s latest album. From there, it’s a killer disco track from Panache, which is heavy on piano and sounds amazing. We then finish up with a rare latin-tinged dancefloor jazz track from Marius Cultier.

Enjoy!
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00::Sounding Out The City Intro
01::Carla Bley – Song Sung Long
02::Open Sky Unit – Sunshine Star
03::Dusty Springfield – Love Power
04::Herbie Flowers & Barry Morgan – Movement 1
05::Gene Ammons – Jungle Strut
06::African Brothers – Sakatumbe
07::Sumo – Munia
08::Juam Formel Y Los Van Van – A Ver Que Sale
09::Louie Ramirez – Rush Hour In Hong Kong
10::Moonstarr – Get Outside
11::Whitest Boy Alive – High On The Heels
12::Panache – Sweet Jazz Music
13::Marius Cultier – Diamant
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Shout outs to Jake, Kevin, Migs, J Miller, Cathy, Ira and Richie.

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, Jan 21, 2009

Episode #092 - Shades of Time

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

This week start out with a little known Stevie Wonder track sampled by Madlib and follow up with some nice reggae sounds from Jackie Mitoo (in Sound Dimension), GRC, and a reggae re-edit of an 80s hiphop classic.

We then shift to some afro funk with Polyversal Souls, some great jazz from Klaus Lenz and Allen Toussaint, and some disco from Alfredo De La Fe. From there we get Kid Gusto re-working an Eddie Drennon disco track, and a nice retro boogie track from the Jalapeno label.

Then it’s onto some heavy afro jazzrock sounds from the Asiko Rock Group followed by a latin classic from Roberto Roena, and we end off on a nice disco track off the very rare Guinness label—not related to the world’s finest ale, but probably go good together!


Enjoy!
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00::Sounding Out The City Intro
01::Stevie Wonder – How Can You Believe
02::Sound Dimension – Real Rock
03::Greenwood Rhythm Coalition – Honey
04::Audio Two – Top Billin’ (Maker remix)
05::Polyversal Souls – Sad Nile
06::Orchester Klaus Lenz – Zottos
07::Allen Toussaint – Tequila
08::Alfredo De La Fe – Hot To Trot
09::Kid Gusto – Do It
10::Calagad 13 – Get On Down
11::Asiko Rock Group – Lagos City
12::Roberto Roena – Shades Of Time
13::Madcliff – Goin To The Disco
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Shout outs to Sam, Johnny, Richie, Ira, Cathy, Chris & Nicole.

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, Jan 14, 2009

Episode #091 - The House That Jack Built

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

On this week’s podcast: Funk!

I just got back from a nice vacation in Mexico and had a great time!

It’s been a while since I’ve laid down some funk, and so it’s all warm funky goodness in this 30-minute set.

I hope you had a great holiday season!

Enjoy!
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00::Sounding Out The City Intro
01::El Michels Affair – Behind The Blue Curtain
02::Chuck Brooks – Behind Closed Doors
03::Brothers of Soul – I’d Be Grateful
04::Thelma Jones – The House That Jack Built
05::The Young Senators – Jungle
06::Cummings Electric Sounds – Electric Sounds
07::Communicators Band – Is It Funky Enough
08::Patti Jo – Hard To Handle
09::James Young – Barking Up The Wrong Tree
10::General Crook – Do It For Me
11::Angela Jefferson – I Can Feel Myself (Slipping Away)
12::Tommy McCook – Bubble Strut
13::The Zodiacs – Rough Nut
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Shout outs to Cathy, Richie, Eric, Sarah and Mike.

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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