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EARTH PROGRAM
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23 posts tagged soul
EL MICHELS AFFAIR - CAN IT ALL BE SO SIMPLE
On top is an image from Andrew Kuykendall, who’s got this wonderful eye for low contrast retro imagery. This mag that mag, he recently did a VICE shoot of “sporty girls turning bad”, and having a sweet spot for 80’s styled athletics, I checked out the whole set here. Below is the song I was listening to while carefully “examining” the photos. From the unexpected sounds of El Michels Affair comes what everyone is coining “cinematic soul”. Can It All Be So Simple comes from the Fat Beats’ “Enter the 37th Chamber” record, where El Michels tranforms the 93’ jeeps and land cruisers & good ol’ days sonnet into a retro instrumental sauce jam. A hand up for the oldies with the Wu-Tang throwback.
PHOTO - DUBTHAT DANCE
This is how we start our mornings and how we end out nights. The end is just like the beginning.
She must be listening to DUBTHAT
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MAYER HAWTHORNE - FREE REMIXES
The name itself..”Mayer Hawthorne”…just says soul. And soul, in fact, very beautiful and delicate soul, is what comes out of this man. And all the djs wanted a piece of the pie. Remix eps do not usually sit well in the “subtlety” category of beautiful records. But every so often, the selection of remixes is so vast and the pickings are done by the artist themselves that you get a nice record of nice subtle “edits”. Songs that highlight the original beauty of the track and never mask nuttin’.
We played this tune at a housewarming party the other week and people turned their boogie on.
Mayer Hawthorne - No Strings (RAC Remix)
All the tracks are download friendly and available from Mayer’s Soundcloud. The other track that stood out to me was this little trancey gem from the Bakaboyz. It never fails right.
Mayer Hawthorne - Henny & Gingerale (Bakaboyz B-Mix)
photo pileup… stylish black men edition
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FROM RUSSIA WITH FUNK
RBMA & Egon (from Now&Again, Stones Throw) put together a wonderful adventure tale for y’all. My description and hype is unnecessary here, as Egon goes into detail about his and Madlibs Russian tour, which inevitably led to a funky time. We love funky time, and we love our brothers & sisters in Russia, so this was a huge huge present for us.
Tease yoself with some of the tracks below and follow the Siberian tale at…
This took place back in July of 2011 at an event called “Live at the Loft”. Melo-X pulls a beautiful woman from the crowd and performs Don’t Heza (elbows included). The result is a magical and extremely sensual and musically erotic experience for all parties involved. Including us, the viewers.
Dip and Dub are strong supporters of Melo-X and his whole scene. Support the renaissance man at www.meloxtra.com
soul45: BELMONDO
soul45 has quickly become my shit. nicely designed site with the best freakin’ content on the internet available october 30th 2012. chak has an eye and and ear and probly a nose like no other.
“now move outta the way cabron, i have a dama waitin”
photo by: Ed / camera: Nikon Fm2 / location: St.Petersburg
“Fun City Shingaling” II Year Anniversary @ Druzhba, 2011
deep funk, rare soul, latin boogaloo (all 45s)
flyer side a / flyer side b (via soul45)
*wish i was there
CABLE STREET COLLECTIVE - WORTH FIGHTING FOR
Cable Street Collective is band from round East London. get to know. playing at Cafe 1001 end of the month, come n skank to they’re tropical sounds.
CALIFORNIA RAMBLERS - IT WAS ONLY A SUNSHOWER
am really digging the california ramblers.
another beautiful track that makes mi dance in mi undies round my room. gotta take these showers with a silver lining. heres a track that does that.

almost forgot bout this mix. grabbed an exclusive from discobelle from ages ago and just came to finally listenin’ to it. kids name is erick rincon, and he’s like 14. djing, wearing “beer” ad tshirts. doing big things in what’s known as “ tribal guarachero/3Ball MTY movement”. read the info, tracklist, n download after the jump.
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