Brutuklumpus' volatile Encyclopedia of the Art of Interpretation, # 4.1:
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing), 1931 by Duke Ellington.
Best of 1931 - 2021 (ca. 200 variations).
Some more...:
Brut.4.2: Archive 1 (var. A - J / track 001 - 500):
https://soundcloud.com/user-553974716/sets/it-dont-mean-a-thing_2
...and moreover...:
Brut.4.3: Archive 2 (var. K - X,Y,Z / track 501 - 955):
https://soundcloud.com/user-553974716/sets/it-dont-mean-a-thing_3

Brut.4.1_ It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Best of 1931-2021 (ca. 200 var.)

Buy 7" and download "In The Dirt" free from: hopestreetrecordings.com/spanishharlem 

Stop what you’re doing. Lovers of soul, funk, and all the other good grease need to get on this 45 real quick. HopeStreet Recordings brings you a collaboration between Australia’s hottest soul voice, Nai Palm, and Australia’s heaviest rhythm section, The PutBacks, on that classic, classic joint Spanish Harlem. The Worm, a typically heavy PutBacks instrumental on the flip rounds out two smokin’ sides of Burn City soul.  

Jerry Leiber and Phil Spector wrote Spanish Harlem for Ben E King in 1960, but it was Aretha Franklin took it to number one in 1970. In 2013, The PutBacks and Nai put it down one more time on 8 tracks of tape with the production team at HopeStreet Recordings and you sure can take that sucker home on wax, but you’d better be quick. After all – this release has been 50 years in the making. 

The B side on this record is for the B boys. The Worm baby. Lots of songs fade out, but how many fade in? Yeah. That’s real. This kind of lowdown funky break is what the PutBacks really love to put the back in. Ouch. Will someone sample this already so it can go for longer than three and a half minutes?

This record is raucous and rich in the rawness. The drums, bass, and percussion gallop through Spanish Harlem and swagger through The Worm. The guitar and organ howl and huff. Simple production lets the musicians do the talking, and boy, Nai Palm can shout. Sweet layered harmonies over a dirty minimal rhythm track. It’s a new thing, it’s an old thing, it’s a limited pressing and it’s yours at www.hopestreetrecordings.com. 

Also, we do know what year it is so yes, the vinyl does come with a download code for both sides plus a digital version of another PutBacks instrumental – In The Dirt. Value added. Special funky bonus. Get yours. 

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The PutBacks - The Worm

Don't mean a thing

We are looking ahead to French Toast’s forthcoming India tour with a selection of tunes from Hamza’s Wind Horse Records imprint, pushing the electronic music scene in New Delhi & beyond for the last 5 years.
Frank also has Shivas Regal in the guestmix, known for his anaesthetising ‘Regal Remedies’. The pair met at ADE in Amsterdam last October and have been swapping tunes since.
Also in the French Toast bag we have fresh groovy, funky and sexy beats carefully picked to make this new show one for home as well as for the dancefloor. Bon appétit !!
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TRACKLIST:
Loz Goddard - Something Special
Rubber Band - Caoutchouc
Stevie Wonder - Do I Do (U-Tern Edit)
Sure Thing - Holding You Tight (extended DJ mix)
Robot 84 - Pump me up
Ben Gomori - Myth
Wagon Cookin' - I'm Gonna Make You Dance (Spirit Catcher remix)
Monsoon Season - You (Ghosts Of Venice remix)
Klaves - YYY
HAMZA’S WIND HORSE RECORDS
1. Audio Units - Pangu
2. Kartech - Larrisa
3. Hamza - Indigo Activation
4. Leon Russell - Reform
Space Jump Salute - Body
Rufus - Say A Prayer For Me (MK Dub Mix)
Kiwi - Shiba Inu
Marcus Marr & Chet Faker - Birthday Card
SHIVAS REGAL GUESTMIX
Lenny Fontana - Bump
Fatty Mombassa - Weak
Kidnap Kid - Birds That Fly
Sasha - Warewolf
Maitre Gims - J'me Tire
Light Of The World - London Town

French Toast Radio #66: Shivas Regal guestmix + Hamzas Wind Horse Records

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Joe Jackson pays tribute to Duke Ellington in his new album, The Duke, out June 26 via Razor & Tie.

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