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Originally released in 1980 on short-lived Oregon label ‘Match Box Recordings’, ‘Burnin’’ is the only album recorded by Portland jazz/funk band Carl Smith And The Natural Gas Company.

At the time of the release of this album, Carl Smith’s band had already been performing for almost two decades, starting out as the ‘Carl Smith Orchestra’ in 1959, fusing 40s and 50s big band styles with rock’n’roll, before gradually morphing into the more compact jazz / funk influenced outfit you can hear on Burnin’.

“Carl had this bright red delivery van he bought from the natural gas company. He got a hold of that thing and that’s how we went on the road. When we’d roll up to the gig they’d see this big van full of musicians and on the outside it said “Natural Gas Co.” Then out comes Carl Smith and it’s all over.” – Lee Bradford (trumpet, flugelhorn)

The orchestra that Carl Smith founded was a Portland institution for about 50 years all-told, becoming an essential training ground for young musicians on the come-up; even the later Grammy-award winning trumpeter Chris Botti passed through at the age of 17 and Jefferson Airplane’s Signe Anderson was a long-time collaborator. It was “hard to find many jazz players around here who haven’t played with the band” said Smith in a 1980 interview with The Oregonian. They performed at festivals, universities, nightclubs, dance studios and even military bases from Portland to Seattle and everywhere in between, opening for Dave Brubeck, Buddy Miles and Johnny Ray among many others.

The story of this album’s recording has gone down in infamy among the remaining band members and Carl Smith’s daughter Carlee (who performed lead vocals on ‘Love Won’t Let Me Go’), all of whom recall a fraught, rushed recording process, led by a producer who had no musical experience and was nothing more than a puppet for the somewhat shady label owners. This led to the album being cut too fast and accidentally pitched up a key, so if you want to hear it as the band intended, pull the pitch control down a little on your turntable.

“Turns out the whole thing was backed by a bunch of farmers from central Oregon who were looking to take a loss… So here we were playing out and selling records. As soon as we were about to hit one thousand copies sold, their plan was to stop promotion so it would die…but we didn’t know that.” – Peter Piazza (trombone, electric violin, euphonium)

Upon its release, the album received airplay on several radio stations across Oregon and Washington, the band were invited to play live on local TV channel KGW, and copies sold out quickly within the local area. Despite the bitter-sweet circumstances around the record, Burnin’ remains a fantastic document of this well-drilled and talented group of players, showcasing original funk, jazz and soul compositions mostly arranged by Larry Dunlap, who went on to become musical director for the Pointer Sisters and write for Cleo Laine during a long and fruitful career in music.

The original label’s intentional sabotage of Burnin’ has made it a rare and sought-after album for vinyl collectors the World over, so we are delighted to reissue it for the first time ever, complete with its original artwork, accompanied by liner notes providing a detailed oral history of the band, as told by several of its original members.

Carl Smith And The Natural Gas Company - Burnin' (Album Sampler)

Lush new deep house with a touch of broken bass flavour from Terry Tester on Boogie Cafe Records.

No newcomer, this Danish producer initial shared his music as part of production duo The Works towards the end of the 2010s. Since then, he’s delivered a handful of admired EPs for Mixed Ape Music, Copenhagen Underground Posse and most recently, Creak Inc.

Coming into his own on his Boogie Café debut, the EP’s four original tracks bristle with hazy melodiousness, combining dusty musical motifs and deliciously deep sounds, with tried-and-tested dancefloor grooves. As a bonus, Boogie Café label partner Chezz provides a remix of "Hangover Jam". Available from Phonica now, on the link above. 


Terry's love of grimy old drum machines and weighty analogue basslines is thoroughly explored on "Nite Mood", a locked-in number that remains deep and alluring thanks to some spell-binding chords and musical flourishes. 

Boogie Cafe have established a strong series of 12" singles/EPs with releases from Lay-Far, Turbojazz and Aroop Roy.

Exclusive Premiere: "Terry Tester" Nite Mood (Boogie Cafe Records)

John Wilcox aka Cyclonix is a producer of electronic music based in Nottingham, England. DJ for 17 years and producer for 10. His taste for over 20 years has included funk, soul, hip hop, jungle/drum and bass, trip hop, “nu jazz”, jazz, acid jazz, world music, broken beat and deep house and techno. This wide variety is reflected in his DJ sets and his Future Beats Radio Show, and can be heard on this guest mix.

According to Wilcox, "This eclectic mix includes some dub, and dancehall vibes mixed with bassy raw broken beat and then into more classic and new techno infused beats and leftfield afro house and solid fresh deep house. The vibe in the mix is similar to the Metal Bass EP and Little Red Hand Label, deep, bassy, a bit ruff and raw, with soul, funk and sometimes a bit of leftfield quirkiness."

Lee Perry  - Zion in Dub [Studio 16]
Boozoo Bajou - Divers [Stero Deluxe]
Marc Mac - Uptown Posse [Omniverse]
Chaka Domu & Lady Yolanda  - Mash up (the Dancehall Mix) [Tru Thoughts]
Haze City -Come Selector [Casse]
Cyclonix - Metal Bass [Little Red Hand]
Cousion Cockroach - This Ain't Tom N' Jerry [Bitasweet]
Lady G  - Man a Bad man [Main Street]
Walton  - Bullet 2 [Tectonic]
Sentinel 793-  Brukwerks [Seagrave]
Nubian Minds - Forgotton Parts [Archive]
Domu and Volcov - Battech [Residuel]
Batu - Marius [Hessle Audio]
Africaine 808- Rhythm Is All You Can Dance [Golf Channel]
Unknown - Uganda [Waffles]
Cyclonix  - Chupsed [Little Red Hand]
 MEC! - Circé [Dope Tones]
Terry Tester - Dubby [Boogie Cafe]
Kaspar - Rectify [Percebes]
Cyclonix - Metal bass (Refix Dub) [Little Red Hand]

Find Cyclonix  at www.mixcloud.com/cyclonix/

MIMS Guest Mix: Cyclonix  (Nottingham, UK / Little Red Hand)

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Originally released in 1980 on short-lived Oregon label ‘Match Box Recordings’, ‘Burnin’’ is the only album recorded by Portland jazz/funk band Carl Smith And The Natural Gas Company.

At the time of the release of this album, Carl Smith’s band had already been performing for almost two decades, starting out as the ‘Carl Smith Orchestra’ in 1959, fusing 40s and 50s big band styles with rock’n’roll, before gradually morphing into the more compact jazz / funk influenced outfit you can hear on Burnin’.

“Carl had this bright red delivery van he bought from the natural gas company. He got a hold of that thing and that’s how we went on the road. When we’d roll up to the gig they’d see this big van full of musicians and on the outside it said “Natural Gas Co.” Then out comes Carl Smith and it’s all over.” – Lee Bradford (trumpet, flugelhorn)

The orchestra that Carl Smith founded was a Portland institution for about 50 years all-told, becoming an essential training ground for young musicians on the come-up; even the later Grammy-award winning trumpeter Chris Botti passed through at the age of 17 and Jefferson Airplane’s Signe Anderson was a long-time collaborator. It was “hard to find many jazz players around here who haven’t played with the band” said Smith in a 1980 interview with The Oregonian. They performed at festivals, universities, nightclubs, dance studios and even military bases from Portland to Seattle and everywhere in between, opening for Dave Brubeck, Buddy Miles and Johnny Ray among many others.

The story of this album’s recording has gone down in infamy among the remaining band members and Carl Smith’s daughter Carlee (who performed lead vocals on ‘Love Won’t Let Me Go’), all of whom recall a fraught, rushed recording process, led by a producer who had no musical experience and was nothing more than a puppet for the somewhat shady label owners. This led to the album being cut too fast and accidentally pitched up a key, so if you want to hear it as the band intended, pull the pitch control down a little on your turntable.

“Turns out the whole thing was backed by a bunch of farmers from central Oregon who were looking to take a loss… So here we were playing out and selling records. As soon as we were about to hit one thousand copies sold, their plan was to stop promotion so it would die…but we didn’t know that.” – Peter Piazza (trombone, electric violin, euphonium)

Upon its release, the album received airplay on several radio stations across Oregon and Washington, the band were invited to play live on local TV channel KGW, and copies sold out quickly within the local area. Despite the bitter-sweet circumstances around the record, Burnin’ remains a fantastic document of this well-drilled and talented group of players, showcasing original funk, jazz and soul compositions mostly arranged by Larry Dunlap, who went on to become musical director for the Pointer Sisters and write for Cleo Laine during a long and fruitful career in music.

The original label’s intentional sabotage of Burnin’ has made it a rare and sought-after album for vinyl collectors the World over, so we are delighted to reissue it for the first time ever, complete with its original artwork, accompanied by liner notes providing a detailed oral history of the band, as told by several of its original members. 
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In association with DJ Amir and 180 Proof Records, BBE Music presents ‘Strata Records – The Sound of Detroit – Volume 1’, a new compilation taking in just a few highlights from the short-lived but hugely influential jazz imprint.

With a raft of Strata material now entering entering the BBE Music catalogue for the first time, joining together with already-released gems such at the long-lost Charles Mingus live album ‘Jazz In Detroit’, we asked 180 Proof founder and Strata catalogue curator DJ Amir to compile a selection of tracks as an introduction to the uninitiated.

Over to DJ Amir to tell us more:

I carefully selected my top-choice select tracks that have not been already bootlegged or comp’d in the past; from the well-known fan favourites, to the obscure, to the previously unreleased cuts. This is by no means an exhaustive and comprehensive compilation, but these are the songs that truly represent the catalog and help to tell the story of Strata.

I thought it would be fitting to begin the compilation with one of my all-time favourites from the catalog, ‘Beyond the Dream’ by Kenny Cox, a spiritual groover, highlighted with the haunting mellotron strings and soulful vocals from Detroit legend Ursula Walker. And I absolutely love the ending, with the chanting of “Vamonos Que Ya Fiesta Se Acabo” (“It’s time to go because the party is coming to an end”)!

When I originally issued the previously unreleased album ‘Mirror, Mirror’ by Sam Sanders in 2013, the track ‘Face At My Window’ that features an unknown vocalist instantly became a fan favourite thanks to its hypnotising vocals and mellotron strings.

How could I not include my all-time track from Lyman Woodard, ‘Saturday Night Special’? This track represents the best of that lo-fi jazz funk organ groove and bass combined, again, with those mellotron strings. And after meeting Lyman in 2008, I became even more of a fan! His magnum opus that is ‘Saturday Night Special’ began my journey to re-introducing the world to the Strata label.

After a chance discovery of a Strata master with only the letters ‘TJ’ written on the front, I took a chance and digitally transferred the master. Unfortunately, the master was in awful shape, but what I discovered was truly a stunning recording! At first, I thought I was listening to a young Shuggie Otis but then I quickly realised that I was not. TJ, armed with a basic drum machine, guitar, and incredibly infectious vocals, was able to communicate the pain and joy in his soul so clearly in tracks like ‘Time Is Wasting’.

With further tracks from Kenny Cox featuring the Contemporary Jazz Quintet (CJQ), Larry Nozero (saxophone player on ‘What’s Goin’ On’ by Marvin Gaye), to the ever-elusive and spiritual deep Maulawi Nururidin, to a few previously unreleased gems from Ursula Walker, Mixed Bag, and the Soulmates, hopefully, you’ll be inspired to dive deeper into the Strata catalog!

Enjoy!

Amir Abdullah aka DJ Amir

All of the original albums from which these tracks were chosen are now available to download or stream wherever you find your music.

Release Date – May 25th 2021

DJ Amir Presents 'Strata Records-The Sound of Detroit' Volume 1 (Album Sampler)

Following on from the first "Rave Dreaming" mix, this one again moves progressively through lots of different styles. As always it’s a straight up no-frills DJ set using my technics 1200s, featuring stacks of oldskool underground classics with the occasional new tune thrown in. Links to the others in this mix series below.

TRACKLIST:

The Avalanches - Wherever You Go
The Orb - Outlands (LP version)
Renegade Soundwave - Renegade Soundwave (Leftfield Remix)
The Chemical Brothers - Leave Home 
Earth Leakage Trip - No Idea
The Future Sound Of London - Among Myselves
Aphex Twin - Green Calx
Kraftwerk - Der Telefon Anruf
Frits Wentink - Mouse
AFX - 19 Bradley Echoes
The Future Sound Of London - Omnipresence
Pete Lazonby - Sacred Cycles (Original Mix)
Armando - Confusion’s Revenge
Breaka - The Startup
AFX - .000900569
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
Special Request - Brainstorm
Pro Boy - Single Drums
Rebel MC - I Can’t Get No Sleep
AQXDM - Leisure Techno
Daniel Avery - Infinite Future
Squarepusher - Theme from Ernest Borgnine
Foul Play - Being With You (Van Kleef Remix)
Smokey Joe - Shining (Remix)
Phillip D Kick & Om Unit - Bleach
The Doc - I want You
DJ SS - Easymen (Remix 1)
Pablo Dread - Fyah Burnin’
Amazon II - Booyaa
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Rave Dreaming Vol.1
https://soundcloud.com/dj-madbeats/mdbts-rave-dreaming-vol1

Rave Dreaming Vol.3
https://soundcloud.com/dj-madbeats/mdbts-rave-dreaming-vol3

Rave Dreaming Vol.4
https://soundcloud.com/dj-madbeats/mdbts-rave-dreaming-vol4

MDBTS (RAVE DREAMING) Vol.2

Clouds (2/5/2021)

James Brown 45s Tribute Set at Motown on Mondays Los Angeles 03.05.2021

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James Brown 45s Tribute Set at Motown on Mondays Los Angeles

Recorded on a live stream, May 2021.

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Track list:
Delfonic & Kapote - Wanna Dance
Simon Grey - The Galactica Suite (Reel People Edit)
Dr Packer - Get Some Soul
Soul Clap - Manners, Mood & Attitude
Baltra - Sunset Jam
ABCDJ - If You Wanna Get Down
Jayda G - All I Need
Raf Rundell - Always Fly (Bruise Remix)
Dan Kye - Rainbow Road
Anomalie & Chromeo - Champ De Mars (Vikter Duplaix Remix)
The Silver Rider - Woman
Hot Since 82 feat. Miss Kittin - Naboo (Dance System Remix)
Jaden Thompson - Closer
Ninetoes - Let U Go
Dauwd - Idris
DAVIE - Testify (KDA Remix)
Sosa UK - Classy
Logic1000 - DJ Logic Please Forgive Me
Kerri Chandler - Coro (Kaoz 6:23" Dark Mix)
Isley Brothers - Sensuality (Terry Hunter ReFlip)
Lars Bartkuln - Dimensions
SG Lewis & Lucky Daye - Feed The Fire (A-Trak & The Brothers Macklovitch Remix)
WheelUP feat. Abacus - Rise Above
Future Underground Nation - It's The Way '99
Conducta ft. Abyss - Come & Go
Zed Bias - Neighbourhood (instrumental)
Tchami feat. Todd Edwards - Damaged Hearts (The Brothers Macklovitch Remix)
Dimitri From Paris & Fiorious - Music Saved My Life

The Brothers Macklovitch Spring 2021 DJ Set

Chic, Reuben Wilson, L.A.X., Marva Whitney, Light Of The World & more. Created live by DJ Rumor in New York City 5/7/21.

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18: Disco Funk Mix

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Over 2 decades since his last compilation on BBE Music, Jasper The Vinyl Junkie returns to the label with ‘Vinyl Junkie Thangs’ a bumper collection of effortlessly cool, eclectic grooves for heads and feet.

Vinyl collector, DJ and music writer, Jasper The Vinyl Junkie has been with BBE since the very beginning, curating our second ever label release, 1997’s ‘Stop & Listen Vol. II’. It seems only right for him to rejoin us in our 25th year with another stash of funk-filled, jazzy cuts and edits, many of which are almost impossibly hard to find.

“Even all the digital interference hasn’t stopped vinyl being a fantastic way to get your groove on. When I put together compilations like this back in the day, there were just 3 formats: Vinyl, CDs and Cassette Tapes. Now there’s a whole heap of ways to get your favourite tunes: downloads, streaming, youtube etc. etc… Even so, when I put an album together, I always do it with the analogue in mind, so it has a certain feel to it.” – Jasper The Vinyl Junkie.

Featuring sounds from all-time music heroes like Fred Wesley, The Fatback Band and DTrain’s Hubert Eaves alongside lesser known artists like Exile One, Ashantis and Funkshone, Jasper takes ‘Vinyl Junkie Thangs’ above and beyond the norm for this type of collection by also including a smattering of contemporary edits, remixes and new creations. Material by the likes of Basement Freaks, OPOLOPO, Jkriv & Free Magic and Mr Scruff, much of which has never been available on vinyl before, blends in perfectly with the classic material, giving this album extra depth and fresh dimensions.

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Streaming from Amsterdam's Radio Radio: this is RRFM.NL w/ @beauzwart & Sykes

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MIMS is excited to premiere a brilliant new remix from pioneering broken beat producer and Bugz in the attic founder, Daz-I-Kue, for Portuguese producer Fradingo. Featuring the brilliant vocals of another broken beat legend, Colonel Red. 

Daz should need little introduction to fans of broken beat and far beyond, thanks to his history as a pioneer of the broken beat sound, both solo and with Bugz in the attic, his residency at legendary broken beat party, Co-Op, the hugely successful DKD project with Dego and Kaidi Tatham and countless remixes, for the likes of Marcos Valle, Frank-N-Dank, El-B, Ty, Dele Sosimi & Medlar, Mark De Clive-Lowe, and 4Hero. Not forgetting his soul, boogie and funk orientated BB Boogie project.

A singer AND producer with esteemed pedigree in funk, soul and electronica, Colonel Red has worked alongside an impressive list of artists including Teddy Pendergrass, Anita Baker, Bugz In The Attic, Amp Fiddler, Alex Attias, Daz-I-Kue himself, and many more besides. Four albums now bear his name, among them his debut for legendary broken beat label, People, Tokyo Dawn Records, and recently Inkswel's Inner Tribe Records, in collaboration  with the very same producer. 

Hailing from and now back in Portugal after a long tenure in London, Fradinho is a DJ, producer and self-described broken beat fanatic, who has remixed the likes of  Glasgow's Nimbus Sextet, and Str4ta , a collaboration between Gilles Peterson and Incognito's Jean-Paul Maunick aka Bluey, inspired by 80s Brit Funk,

"Much We Have", with Colonel Red will be released on his own Eclectic Beats Music on July 30th, with further remixes by Inkswel and Born74.

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Fradinho Ft. Colonel Red "Much We Have" (Daz-I-Kue Remix) (Eclectic Beats Music)

"we are particularly proud of and to have a remix from the master Mark de Clive-Lowe is a kind of dream come true for us!"

The single Covered Bridges was produced just after the release of the first ep that introduced the world to Emile Londonien. Not content to rest on the success of their first release on Dope Tones Records, the band from Strasbourg continued their journey into the world of Nu-jazz and broken-beat by asking the master of the genre, Mark de Clive-Lowe, to produce a remix.

The original version of Covered Bridges is an optimistic ode, which cleverly blends a heady melody with a solid groove created by a persuasive syncopated rhythm. The track flows naturally and takes you on a 6 minute journey of virtuosic instruments, bass guitar solo and inspired keyboard jazz. The best thing about this track is that you can feel the strength of the instruments and their player, the track progresses, sails, gets carried away and comes back to a "laid back" vibe like Emile knows how to do.

The remix of Mark de Clive-Lowe put directly the "Kick" and this superb "deep jazz electronic" vibe which defines this artist. Mark de Clive-Lowe has created a kind of edit of the original track on which he has fixed a round and groovy bass line that takes the track directly to the dance floor. The superficiality is gone and the intrinsic groove of the track is grown and massive.

Exclusive Premiere: Emilie Londonien "Covered Bridges" (Mark De Clive-Lowe Remix)

Track taken from the release "Round Of Applause". 

Order from bandcamp - https://localtalk.bandcamp.com/album/round-of-applause-ep

Round Of Applause

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Founded in 1996 by Peter Adarkwah, Barely Breaking Even (BBE Music) started life as a London club night, taking its name from the eponymous Disco record by the Universal Robot Band.

The label grew from the vibrant early 90's club scene with its first release, Stop & Listen compiled by Dr Bob Jones in 1996, opening the door to iconic series' such as All Back To Mine & Late Nite Tales.

A tonne of releases followed, ranging from Disco to Funk, Jazz to House. In the year 2000, the label celebrated Masters at Work's 10th Anniversary with a mighty box set that featured near 80 tracks.

A year later BBE Music spawned the Beat Generation Series of artist albums, notably introducing J Dilla (Welcome 2 Detroit) & a young Will.I.Am's first solo outing, alongside DJ Jazzy Jeff, Madlib & DJ Spinna, all of whom contributed to this seminal set of long players.

A quarter of a century and well over 500 titles later, having worked with Mark Ronson, Roy Ayers, Questlove, Hugh Masekela, DJ Premier, Dimitri from Paris, Joey Negro, Kon, RZA, Laurent Garnier, Black Coffee, DJ Shadow, David Rodigan and John Morales among many others, BBE Music looks to the future, celebrating its rich heritage while continuing to release a bounty of fresh titles.

The label’s most recent projects include an expansive reissue series from pioneering Nigerian label Tabansi, new imprint ‘Batakari’ in association with Boddhi Satva and the critically acclaimed ‘J Jazz’ Japanese Jazz multi-album project, not to mention the recent landmark 500th label release: a brand new version of 'Barely Breaking Even', featuring Leroy Burgess, Patrick Adams and Louie Vega.

In 2021 BBE Music is celebrating its 25th anniversary. To mark this milestone, the label is offering up some special projects, from the 20th Anniversary edition of J Dilla’s ‘Welcome 2 Detroit’, through David Bowie tribute album ‘Modern Love’, to a special new ‘Worldwide’ compilation from old friend Gilles Peterson. BBE Music will also be looking to the future with more exciting original artist projects, plus merch collaborations events and more...

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