4-10

A good one….this riddim is from this song, from Ethiopian Jazz artist, Mulatu Astatke.  Another good one from him, click here

3-14

3-6

2-28

I was feeling down on my luck yesterday until I saw THIS live mini-concert at NYC subway station:

Awesome

2-27

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lv_WqUHJa0

Hornsy number from UK band, “The Bees”.  What I like about them is their lead singer likes to take Ayahuasca with shamans in Peru.

2-26

NME’s 1997 Album of the Year, Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space by Spirtualized 

2-25

Neat song/video by a neat new band from LA/Michigan

2-22

Ahhhhhhhhhhh yeaaaaaaaaa

Produced by Curtis Mayfield, The Staple Singers can bring it.  I was first introduced to them from The Band’s Last Waltz and most recently saw Mavis Staples at the Izod Center for the Love for Levon tribute concert.  Good stuff

2-21

“Demon Days”, the title track from the Gorillaz 2005 album, well…”Demon Days” marks the conclusion of the album but the beginning of the internal thought process of, “holy mackerel, this is a heck of a record”.  The song’s stringy, echoing, tunneling, and purposely scratchy first 2 minutes gives way to the reggae chants of The London Community Gospel Choir to finish it up.  To the sun.

2-20

I don’t care that this is probably their most catchy and popular song, I still think its cool as heck, just like these dudes from Perth, Australia.  I dig em hard.  I also dig this trippy video, as well as these two others by Tame Impala: Elephant (sounds like a softer version of Wolfmother with eerily similar vocals to John Lennon) and Beverly Laurel (a snythy, head-bobbing hidden track on their latest release, Lonerism, which is pretty damn good)

2-19

This tune originates from, George Evelyn, a DJ from England, also known as Nightmares on Wax.  All instrumental and all groove, I came across this while walking to the train in Harlem, and while I’m sure I looked like an outcast, by listening to this song somehow I felt like I fit in.