...Information is not Knowledge, Knowledge is not Wisdom, Wisdom is not Truth, Truth is not Beauty, Beauty is not Love, Love is not Music, and Music is not Mojo; Mojo is the Best...
...IT'S XMASSSSS! and it's nearly NEW YEAR!!! so it's time here at the rfsLounge to hand the reigns over to Bob Dylan for a final flight through the best tunes of the holiday in an Old Timey New Year HOOTENANNY!!!...
...featuring - clarence carter - the lewis family - henry fonda - sister rosetta tharpe - huey piano smith and the clowns - the electric prunes - tim dinkins - johnny paycheck - les paul - leadbelly - seasick steve - phil ochs - john peel - sonny boy williamson - debbie reynolds - bill cosby - cliff robertson - the goons - johnny cash - herbert from family guy - henry winkler - jack white - spike jones and his city slickers - asylum street spankers - gene simmons - phil spector - u.s. air force - johnny otis and his orchestra - mae west - mr t - jenny mcarthy and all of us at the lodge...
...it's XMASSS!!! here at 'da filter, and what a treat we have for you as we re-unite Bing and Bob in a christmas command performance with a host of special guests from the rat pack to the war department, produced by enrique for rfs, let the drums roll...
...roll call intro - bob hope bing crosby - snow peggy lee - i like a sleighride dean martin - rudolph the red nosed reindeer brenda lee - marshmallow world ray conniff - white christmas frank sinatra - i believe steve lawrence and edie gorme - happy holidays bing crosby and family burl ives - holly jolly christmas harry belafonte - christmas is coming sammy davis jr - christmas time all over the world bing and the andrews sisters - mele kilikimaka nat king cole - the christmas song bing and family ella fitzgerald - have yourself a merry little christmas louis armstrong - zat you santa claus? eartha kitt - santa baby doris day - ol' saint nick bing and the andrews sisters - here comes santa claus loretta lynn - to heck with ol' santa claus bela fleck - white christmas glenn miller orchestra - in the christmas mood roland kirk - we free kings
...IT'S XMASSSS!!! still at the rfsLounge, so come one and come all and join quiet riot, earl hickey, dennis wilson, jan and dean, anna nicole-smith, red hot chili peppers, nirvana and a whole host of christmas crackers, this bud's for you, LET'S ROCK!... ...twisted sister - lemmy - lynyrd skynyrd - canned heat - timbuk 3 - beach boys - the hives and cyndi lauper - dio - boxcar willie - snoop dogg - the ramones - the charms - rancid - phantom planet - gene autry - alice cooper - nirvana - stone temple pilots - tortured co - the shout...
YouTube and 2dopeboyz got in bed with each other to give us a free album stream of Common’s ninth album. Holy moly, ninth albums?! And the guy comes out with a few movies a year as well. Thanks for making me feel like a lazy asshole. Well I gave this a once-over and its real enjoyable. The album also predictably leaked today as well, buy it for reals December 20th. Grab a few free song downloads on your way out:
......join the party with the many guises of old saint nick, confused in the psychiatrists chair, worried by his historical schizophrenia and his insincere pretenders, as we get a potted bio of the one and only shaman in the xmass sky, sit back and learn how to fly with the reindeers...
Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (a Shrift remix)
Bing Crosby - Winter Wonderland (Bent remix)
Jimmy McGriff - The Christmas Song (Tonal remix)
Joe Williams - Jingle Bells (Bombay Dub Orchestra remix)
Count Basie - Good Morning Blues (Real Tuesday Weld Clerkenwell remix)
Woody Guthrie! Pete Seeger! Sam Cooke! Bob Dylan! Odetta! The Kinks! Sly & The Family Stone! The Doors! The Rolling Stones! Nina Simone! MC5! Gil Scott-Heron! John Lennon! Marvin Gaye! Black Sabbath! War! Stevie Wonder! Schoolhouse Rock! Bob Marley! Patti Smith! Funkadelic! Sex Pistols! The Clash! X-Ray Spex! Peter Tosh! Gang Of Four! Poison Girls! Dead Kennedys! U2! Fela! XTC! Public Enemy! Sinead O'Connor! Fugazi! Bikini Kill! L7! Neil Young! Le Tigre! Tom Waits! The Coup! Spoon! Billy Bragg! Black Rebel Motorcycle Club!
And hosted by V and Charlie Chaplin!
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...join us down andy's sh'been in the recently occupied holy headland of the original world breaking pirate bay for more vibrations in solidarity with the 99% - Occupy Everything...
...join us again down andy's sh'been in the recently saved holy headland of the original, world record breaking pirate bay for more of that JamDownKernow vibration...
Funky Lakes Breaks by Burts (Twolegs) funk makes the sun SHINE !!!
Re-do of a mix I did for my mate's birthday party out in the Lake District. Loved playing these records out to a wicked bunch of people in a beautiful part of the world. Big thanks goes to Jarrod and to everybody that was dancing in the woods : )
Vinyl only
enjoy x
Memo From Turner - Mick Jagger
I Walk On Guilded Splinters - Johnny Jenkins
Jump Into The FIre - Harry Nilsson
Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
A hard rain is gonna fall - Bryan Ferry
She's Gone - Hall & Oates
Paris 1919 - John Cale
International Heroes - Kim Fowley
The Joker - Steve Miller Band
International Feel - Todd Rundgren
I'll Come Running - Brian Eno
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Jack Nitzsche
Mixed Up, Shook Up - Mink Deville
No Regrets - Scott Walker
Coney Island Baby - Lou Reed
River Song - Dennis Wilson
Heroes - David Bowie
Werewolves Of London - Warren Zevon
Lettre à Monsieur le Chef de gare de la Tour de Carol - Brigitte Fontaine
Tom Traubert's Blues - Tom Waits
This album is a birthday gift for Dandelion Radio listeners. Dandelion Radio, the internet radio station inspired by John Peel, celebrates five years on the air in June, and 'Five Years' features a selection of the bands our DJs have particularly enjoyed during those years, and will remain available only until the end of July.
All artists have donated their tracks free of charge in the spirit of their release, and both Unwashed Territories and Dandelion Radio would love it it if you checked out their other releases.
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released 01 June 2011 All artwork by Alisia Casper
...News of the World - OST is a multi-media mashup inspired by Murdoch's Epic Media Fail, and the Cyber Information War that continues between the Shame-Stream Media and the Alternative Press fuelled by that pesky group of hacktivists labelled anonymous...
...starring anonops, the Temptations, Doug Stanhope, Deek Jackson, atomictraveller, Adam Curtis, Soul Rebels, Edwin Starr, Marvin Gaye, Dr Doggerel, KRS-ONE, Robert DeNiro, Samuel Jackson and Brad Pitt...
Ghostfunk is a remix project by Max Tannone. It pairs Wu-Tang member Ghostface Killah with vintage African funk, high-life, and psychedelic rock music. Check out the official site: http://ghostfunk.com
...it's that time again, the sun is high and so are we so join us down andy's sh'been in the recently saved holy headland of the original pirate bay for a bumper summer session with JamDownKernow...
New Life by Burts (Twolegs) After a top night out last weekend checkin out the My Love Is Underground crew tearin up Back2Basics, I had to get back on the decks as soon as I got my head together ; ) Here's some upfront vinyl pressure, with a few from earlier this year,and inc an exclusive CDR unmastered track from my old mate Jason Shaw (Hard Times). Track list to come . . . enjoy x
...in honour of Putney Swope, and in tribute to the late Gil-Scott-Heron, this message to the messengers just gots-to-have-Soul! with Joe Strummer and Martin Luther King, raise your fists sisters and brothers and sing, because Harmony, is the Key...
...Rong Radio - Benjamin Zephaniah.. ..My People, Hold On - Eddie Kendricks... ..We Are Winning - Flobots.. ...There is a Way - MosDef ...Message to the Messengers - Gil Scott-Heron ...My Letter to Hip-Hop - Bridget Gray (feat. the Fonkees)... ...Do Yourself a Favour - Stevie Wonder ...This is Radio Clash (Dunproofin' Mix) - the Clash ...People Like People - Riz MC. ...Smilin' Faces - Undisputed Truth.. ...Motives and Thoughts (rfs Mix) - Lauryn Hill.. ...Stop the War, NOW - Edwinn Starr ...Right On - Sons of Slum ...Armagideon Time - the Clash... Shut Em Down - Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson ...Ungena Za - Undisputed Truth...
...anotherQUATILYproduct...
"The changes I'm going to make will be minimal. I'm not gonna rock the boat. Rockin' the boat's a drag. What you do is sink the boat! And there's no sense sinkin' nothin' unless you can salvage with productive alternatives. And brothers, you can't change nothin' with rhetoric and slogans. Because if a man's really got the truth in his pocket, he doesn't talk about it. He hangs it out on a shingle where people can see it. So from now on, the name of this agency is TRUTH and SOUL."
Music and activism have always gone together. And the Civil Rights era is a perfect example of this. Sometimes I get into a particular musician or song and highlight it and its political context...Woodie Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen and Israel 'IZ' Kamakawiwo'ole are among my previous musicians to focus on. All of them activists and progressives in their own ways.
Perhaps surprisingly I had never heard of Nina Simone until I hung out for awhile in a rather odd wine bar near the downtown NYU campus called the Bourgeois Pig where I found some good wine and music that included a fair amount of one of my favorites--Tom Waits. But there was also a powerful woman singer that was also featured on their musical tracks...someone I discovered was Nina Simone. I used to hang out there reading scientific papers over some wine and enjoying the music in the background. The sound of her voice was powerful, almost overwhelming. And the pairing with Tom Waits as the main background music for the place was amazing.
Nina Simone, born in 1933, wanted to be the first black woman concert pianist. THAT was the level of her ambition. Needless to say, back in the first 2/3 of the 20th century the chances of that were about nil. America in those days couldn't recognize a black woman as even remotely fitting the image of a concert pianist. But of course America was willing to recognize a black woman as a blues or jazz singer. So that is the path Nina Simone took. One of her early successes was "I Love you Porgy" from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess:
Young and with a voice that blows you away, she was perfect for this kind of song (not my favorite style but I like it when delivered so well...similar with Janis Joplin's version of Summertime). She could have followed a massively successful career as a black singer following this style of music, but she was to strong for that. She saw what was going on around her in America and she could not silence her voice calling for change.
The murder of Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi and the white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church on 15 September 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama got Nina Simone pissed off, and she turned her powerful voice towards civil rights. In response to the murder of Medgar Evers and the bombing of the Baptist church she brought out the very harsh song "Mississippi Goddamn". Here is an early version of it:
A somewhat later version which I like because you can really see her emotions:
She regretted this song later in life because it hurt her career, but at the time, it was a raw emotional reaction to the violent attack at the time to the demand of blacks to be equal. I find it sad that she regretted it. It was important that strong voices like hers challenged the KKK killings that were all too common at the time, and it is BECAUSE people like her publicly challenged them that things started to change.
Nina Simone sang in many Civil Rights era events, perhaps a more sophisticated version of Woodie Guthrie's role in the early union movement.
"How it Feels to be Free":
Here she is singing an older song about lynchings in the South called "Strange Fruit": (warning: video includes disturbing pictures of lynchings)
A disturbing reminder of what America has represented. We have gotten beyond this in many ways, but we cannot deny its disgusting place in our history. And we cannot forget that this kind of violence, whether perpetrated against blacks, immigrants, or gays, still continues in America. I remember in my college days in San Diego, CA, there were beheadings of undocumented immigrants by the local KKK...the images and the idea is disturbing, but we cannot forget them because they are not so far from us.
Here's an interesting (and in my mind slightly incongruous) version of Nina Simone singing "Don't Let me be Misunderstood" in the context of key images from the Civil Rights movement:
And here is Nina Simone singing "Young Gifted and Black," a song which which Aretha Franklin popularized:
She has a song that reaches deep into the psyche of black women, a song called "Four Women" which describes four stereotypes of black women:
And let me just say, almost as an aside, that this is quite a turn around on the "House of the Rising Sun":
Nina Simone left the US because of the hostile environment (settling in Barbados where, in keeping with her strong and interesting personality, she had a lengthy affair with the Prime Minister!). It seems later in life she became disillusioned both with activism and with the United States. I wish I could have the video, but all I can do is link to it here, where she discusses, with some cynicism, her career and the state of the American Civil Rights movement in 1985.
Eventually she settled in France, where she died of breast cancer in 2003.
And let me end with a song that, by the end of her life, she may not have believed in, but I do..."The Times They Are A'Changing". To me, with all my study of history, I believe that change is often very, very slow, but it is still happening, moving, progressing. And you and I are a part of it.
Deep House mix. respect to all the lables that still press up, and to the producers, dj's and collectors that still buy and spin the wax LONG LIVE THE VINYL ! ! ! ! enjoy x
Outer Limits Intro
13 to 41 - Kerri Chandler -Ozone EP - Madhouse Records Inc
Once Again (Morning Factory remix) - Reggie Dokes - Clone Royal Oak
Ron & Chez D's Kms54 - Brawther Remixes
Deepest America (Moodymann Remix) - Sascha Drive - Ornaments
Life's Track 2 - Life's Track - Bosconi Records
Next - Koi - Traveller Records
Let Me Show You Love (quick dub) - Romanthony - I Play Vinyl
Holdin' On - Zoo Look - Tenth Circle
Untitled - Midnight Hours EP - Midnight Hours
Bloom - Eric Kupper - Wave Music
Haiti - Reggie Dokes - Clone Royal Oak
2000 And When - Mr.G - Up Hill Battle E.P.- Phoenix G
Doin' Ya Thang - Oliver $ - Play It Down
Daily Prayer - Mr.G - Up Hill Battle E.P.- Phoenix G
Body Body - Joy of Sound Productions - Mahogani Music
Asteroids & Stardust, The Classic Revamp - Brawther Remixes
Image Fades Away (Deep House Cut) - Joy of Sound Productions - Mahogani Music
...fresh from their hugely successful beach party at the recently saved holy headland of the original pirate bay, Jam Down Kernow are broadcasting from Puzzle's Pad in the heart of town due to technical difficulties down andy's sh'been...
Hot Sauce Committee Part Two by Beastie Boys Good people, unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control, the "clean" version of our new album, The Hot Sauce Committee pt 2 has leaked. So as a hostile and retaliatory measure with great hubris we are making the full explicit aka filthy dirty nasty version available for streaming here on rfsMojofilter. We hope this brings much happiness, hugs, and harmony. Enjoy Kikoos for life!
Even More Funky 45's by Burts (Twolegs) another vinyl only Funk 45 mix just using 7inch singles Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes - A Chance For Peace - Flying Dutchman Produtions 1975 Spaghetti Head - Funky Axe - Private Stock Records - 1975 AIM - Tunnel Rat - Media Expo - 1974 Yellow Sunshine - Yellow Sunshine - The Sound Of Philadelphia - 1973 Mighty Tom Cats - Soul Makossa - Paul Winley Records - African Music Machine - Black Water Gold (Pearl) - Soul Power The Beginning of The End - Funky Nassau (Part 1+2) - Alston Melvin Sparks - Thank You (Part 1+2) - Prestige Records Backyard Heavies - Expo 83 & Soul Junction - Scepter Records Charlie Whitehead & The Swamp Dogg Band - Let's Do It Agian PT. 3 1/2 - Fungus - 1973 Joe Tex - You Said A Bad Word - Dial - 1972 Milk - The Basic - Jazzman reissue The Soul Toranodoes - Hot Pants Break Down & Boot's Grove - Magic City Records Marva Whitney - Get Out Of My Life - King Records The Fantastic Souls - Aftershower Funk (Part 1+2) - Kay-Dee Records - 2011 Johnny Hammond - Rock Steady (Part 1+2) - Kudu Records Soul Searchers - If It Ain't Funky - Sussex Records - 1974 Jack Ashford & The New Sound Of Detroit - "Do The Choo-Choo" - Blaze - 1975 The Crusaders - "Put It Where You Want It" - Blue Thumb Records - 1972 Tito Puente - Hit The Bongo - Jazzman reissue Esther Phillips - Home Is Where The Hatred Is - Kudu Records enjoy : ) Burts x
More Funky 45's by Burts (Twolegs) More 60's/70's Funk n Soul.Just using original 45's again for this mix, an then a couple of edits on soundforge * James Brown - I Got A Bag Of My Own - Polydor 1972 The JB's - Gimme Some More - People 1971 James Brown - Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved - King Records 1970 The JB's - The Rabbit Got The Gun - People 1971 Skullsnaps - Al's Razor Blade - Grill Records 1975 Olympic Runners - Drag It Over Here - London Records 1975 Herbie Mann - Hijack - Atlantic 1974 Johnnie Tayor - Dont You Fool With My Soul (Part 1+2*) - Stax Records 1973 Ann Sexton - You're Losing Me - Seventy Seven Records 1973 The Emotions - Got To Be The Man - Volt 1969 Jean Knight - What One Man Wont Do Another Man Will - Open Records 1976 James And Bobby Purify - Do Your Thing - Casablanca Records 1974 American Gypsy - Inside Out - Chess 1975 The Kay-Gess - Who's The Man ? (With The Master Plan) - Gang Records 1974 Bobby Rush - I Wanna Do The Do - Philadelphia Int Records 1979 The Gap Band - I-Yike-It - Shelter Recording 1974 Rufus Thomas - Do The Funky Penguin - Stax Records 1971 Joe Tex - I Gotcha - Mercury 1971 The Village Callers - Hector - Rampart Records 1968 Dyke And The Blazers - Funky Walk Part 1 (East) - Original Sound 1968 Kool And The Gang - Love The Life You Live (Part 1+2*) - De-light Records 1972 Harvey Mason - Marching In The Street - Arista Records 1975 Pretty Purdie - Funky Donkey - Date 1968 Bill Withers - Kissing My Love - Sussex Records 1973 enjoy x
...starring Prince Charles, Dame Judi Dench, Jello Biafra, George Carlin and a supporting cast of thousands in the KSG group's Space-Dub-Exploration of Cyclical Processes...
...Rex Stetson presents - the KSG group in the SHAPE of JAAMZ to COME - a Sci-Fi-Jazz-Funk-Odyssey starring Clif High and George Ure...
...the Woo-Jo is not for wimps or weak-minded individuals of any description - only real pie-eaters need apply...
...Universe rewards thinking - try to avoid group-thimk though, it is a poor substitute for the real thing, and has proven to be fattening, filled with empty calories, of no nutritional value, and causes much stinky gas to vent from the mouth...
...we're back down andy's sh'been in the holy headland of the original pirate bay in solidarity with freedom fighters at home and abroad, the whole world is watching...
Ramp FM Black Belt Jams Guest Mix - Twolegs by Burts (Twolegs) Persuasion - JR & PH7 Too Cool For Schooly - ILL ADVISED Done It Again - SPACE INVADAS Hurry Up - Soul Revolution Soul Strut - LADY DAISEY Bossa Flow - Funkyloco What'cha Doing - Niles Philips Akama - Tom Central & Kaitain Calling The Shot - The Mighty Mocambos Superchamp - Kid Cholesterol Tequila Boom - Shaika Ninja Breakbeat Junkie - Nick Pride & Pimptones Remix - Breakbeat Junkie What've I Got To Do? - Max Sedgley
......from beats to rock'n'roll - a selection of the finest music to grace the carpmeisters speakers this last twelve months...
Chase the Tear - Portishead Shutterbug - Big Boi Monster - Kanye West Little Freak - Usher Tightrope - Janelle Monae I'm Back - T.I. Odessa - Caribou the Blues - Primary 1 Sprawl II - Arcade Fire While We're Young - Dept of Eagles Facelove - PS I Love You Excuses - the Morning Benders Collector - He We Go Magic Solitude is Bliss - Tame Impala Revival - Deerhunter Angela Surf City - the Walkmen 81' - Joanna Newsom Bloodbuzz Ohio - the National
...featuring - clarence carter - the lewis family - henry fonda - sister rosetta tharpe - huey piano smith and the clowns - the electric prunes - tim dinkins - johnny paycheck - les paul - leadbelly - seasick steve - phil ochs - john peel - sonny boy williamson - debbie reynolds - bill cosby - cliff robertson - the goons - johnny cash - herbert from family guy - henry winkler - jack white - spike jones and his city slickers - asylum street spankers - gene simmons - phil spector - u.s. air force - johnny otis and his orchestra - mae west - mr t - jenny mcarthy and all of us at the lodge...
