The Positives

Full track list and commentary by Ed Motta at <a href="http://www.waxpoetics.com/music/dj-mix/the-aor-mix">Wax Poetics</a>.

Ed Motta AOR Mix

i'm actually very open to djing this stuff. lemme know if you have an event that might fit..

https://soundcloud.com/habibifunk

Listen to part 2 here:
https://soundcloud.com/jakarta-records/radio-jakarta-007

Thru the "Sawtuha" project and Blitz The Ambassador playing quite some shows in Morocco I've had the pleasure to travel North Africa quite frequently lately and whenever possible I did some record shopping. This is a selection of some of the finds, music from the 60s and 70s from Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. Some known some not yet. 

This is also a kick off to a new loose series of mixes by us, people we work with or people we are just friends with. Enjoy. 

UPDATE:

So here is the tracklist after the guys at ozart already deciphered a huge part of it. Sorry for the delay, I didn't have my hands on my records in the last days:

01. Assa'd Khoury - Al Gaba
02. Sabah – Dek El Kaff
03. Karim Shourhy & Andrea Rayder – Take Me Back To Cairo
04. Feddoul – (Reprise de Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag)
05. Ziad Rahbani – Intro Instrumental 2
06. Sharifa Fadel – Mawal El Ashak
07. Salah Ragab and The Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut
08. Golden Hands – Take Me Back 
09. Elias Rahbani & His Orchestra - Moonlight Melody
10. Mahmoud Megri - Tefham
11. Elias Rahbani – Dance of Maria 
12. Abdou El Omari - Rajaat Laayoun


"Habibi Funk 001 Mix" by Jannis of Jakarta Records (Mix of Arabic 60s & 70s vinyl)

With London's Notting Hill Carnival bringing Summer 2014 to a close this weekend, it seems an apt time to reflect on what has been a magical summer. Here's Gilles' Brazilian-themed Sonzeira Essential Mix from June, first broadcast as the World Cup kicked off in Sao Paul. A little slice of that carnival spirit for you, wherever you are! 

Gilles Peterson Sonzeira Essential Mix 
Airto – The Happy People (Warner Bros. Records)
Escola De Samba Da Cidade – Apito Na Batucada (Philips)
Libra Discotheque Meets Matti Caspi - Elohim Noten Hakol (White Label)
Ely Camargo - Taieira (RCA)
DJ Yoda feat Roots Manuva - U No Likey Like That (Get Involved)
Souleance – Mais Um (First Word Records)
Karol Conka – Boa Noite (Mr Bongo)
Arthur Verocai – Na Boca Do Sol (Luv N’ Haight)
Celia – Na Boca Do Sol (Continental)
José Prates – Nanã Imborô (Polydor)
Marcos Valle – Ele e Ela (Som Livre)
Jay Z – Thank You (RocNation)
Marcos Valle – Ele e Ela (Som Livre)
Moacir Santos - Off And On (Blue Note)
Flora Purim - Casa Forte (Milestone)
Dom Salvador - O Rio (CBS)
The Carnival – The Carnival – (World Pacific Records)
Par Ney De Castro – Batucada (Mr Bongo)
Sonzeira - Sambaio Dub (Talkin’ Loud/Virgin EMI)
Sonzeira - Sambaio (Talkin’ Loud/Virgin EMI)
Sonzeira – Bam Bam Bam Accapella (Talkin’ Loud/Virgin EMI)
Jao de Pife – Garoto Do Pife (Tropicana)
Pedro Santos - Ritual Negro (Polysom)
Bandinha De Pifano - Cavalinho Cavalao (CBS)
Mental Abstrato & DJ Tahaira  - Biaio (BR Music Exchange)
Rivastar Ft Elza Suarez - Samba Croela (White Label)
Stereotyp - First Off (Magabo Remix) (Ecco. Chamber)
Paulinho Da Costa - Ritmo Number One (Pablo Records, RCA)
Sonzeira - Xibaba (She-bá-ba) (Cosmic Dub)(Talkin’ Loud/Virgin EMI)
Gorgette - Kirie (Tapecar)
Sonzeira - Brasil Pandeiro (AtJazz Edit) (Talkin’ Loud/Virgin EMI)
Jackson & Almira - E So Balanco (Philips)
Os Cobras - Nana (RCA Victor)
Os Mutantes – A Minha Menina (Polydor)
Pinduca – Pai Xango (Beverly AMC)
Paul McCartney – Check My Machine (MPL)
DJ Nuts – Otto Atonito (White Label)
Caetano Veloso  - Nega Maluca /Billie Jean/Eleanor Rigby (Nonesuch)
Sonzeira - City of Saints (DJ Oil Remix) (Talkin’ Loud / Virgin EMI)
Sonzeira – Jingle (White Label)
Sonzeira - Aquarela do Brasil (Mark E Remix) (Talkin’ Loud / Virgin EMI)
Astrud Gilberto with Stanley Turrentine - Wanting Things (Hispavox, CTI Records)
Formula 7 – Ponteio (Parlophone)
Cláudia - Deixa Eu Dizer (Odeon)
Joao Diaz– Capoeira (Odeon)
Maga Bo (Featuring Rosangela Macedo)  - No Balanco Da Canoa (Mr Bongo)
Milton Nascimento – Tudo que você  podia ser (Aroop Roy Remix) (Far Out Recordings)
Mark De Clive-Lowe Ft. Contramestre Xingu – Nova Roda (Mashibeats)
Ibejy Miregum – Eparre Oia (Japoti)
Pandeiro Repique Duo – Um Boi Que Ja Vai Mugir (Tension Rod)
José Prates – Batucada Berimbao (M Records)
Ku Bo – Lem Lem (Man Recordings)
DJ Sandrinho – Berimbau (Man Recordings)
Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough (DJ Sandrinho Edit) (Man Recordings)
Lucas Santtana – Who Can Say Which Way (Joao Brasil’s Baile Funk Remix)(Vinyl Land, + Brasil Música)
MC Buiu – Balanca Mais Nao Para (Dennis DJ) (White Label)
Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfa  - Suadade Vem Correndo (Verve)
Pharcyde - Runnin’ (Delicious Vinyl)
Marcos Valle – Estrelar (Som Livre)
Sonzeira – Um Toque (Alternative Version) (Talkin’ Loud / Virgin EMI)


Sonzeira x Gilles Peterson Essential Mix

Mixed by Selvagem for Wax Poetics

For info and track list, please visit Wax Poetics:

http://www.waxpoetics.com/music/mixtape/balnearico-sunny-side-brazils-underground-pop-mixtape-selvagem

"Balnearico – The Sunny Side of Brazil's Underground Pop" mixed by Selvagem

See the track listing at Wax Poetics:
http://www.waxpoetics.com/music/mixtape/ed-motta-drops-aor-mix-2-support-u-s-tour

Ed Motta's AOR Mix 2

In between 2003 and 2007 or 2008 I used to travel to South East Asia pretty much whenever I had semester holidays. It was before the tons of Thai music reissues and finding records was actually tricky since finding stores proved to be a challenging task (at least for me). 

Some days ago I started listening to some of the vinyl I picked up back then (and one or two more recent trades) and figured it would be nice to make a little mix, in this case focussing on the "funky" stuff not the vital string band scene. All original vinyl for what its worth. 

I hope you guys enjoys the mix. Thanks for all the support in 2014, we're looking forward to 2015. 

Radio Jakarta 006: Jannis of Jakarta Records - "Funky Thai 70s Vinyl Mix"

i'm actually very open to djing this stuff. lemme know if you have an event that might fit..

https://soundcloud.com/habibifunk

check out part one of the mix here:
https://soundcloud.com/jakarta-records/jakarta-radio-001-jannis-of

i got to travel a lot in north africa in the last years thru touring with blitz the ambassador and the studio session with oddisee for sawtuha in tunisia. while being there i did some digging and found some incredible music from the 60s and 70s. some of the music in this mix has zero info on the net, was never sold on ebay and has not been "rediscovered" yet. others are somewhat classics in the field of „arabic groove“. the music in this mix comes from morocco, libya, eggpt, algeria, lebanon and syria. 

photo by robert winter.

"Habibi Funk 002 Mix" by Jannis of Jakarta Records (Mix of Arabic 60s & 70s vinyl)

pre-order: https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/azmanah-salb

taken off the forthcoming fadoul lp on habibi funk. more infos and pre-order coming soon.

fadaul is maybe our fav discovery from traveling north africa. his raw and energetic recordings are pretty stand alone in the arab world. we have invested quite some time into research but we were not able to find too much infos about this guy. a mystical figure.



Habibi Funk 002: Fadaul (Fadoul) - Sid Redad (Pre-Order link in the describtion)

Pre-Order: https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/releases

Habibi Funk will be a new sub label of Jakarta Records, dedicated to re-releasing arabic music from the 1970s and 1980s. It's a label and platform for funky/soulful and/or psych influenced music from the Arab world of the 70s and 80s.

https://www.facebook.com/habibifunk

Dalton was a band from Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. They came together as a band around 1968 when most of the members studied together at the University of Tunis. The band had five members. Faouzi Chekili on guitar, piano and vocals, Ridha Kouhen on bass guitar, Mustapha Rehouma and sax and percussion, Sadok Gharbi on trumpet and vocals and Skaner Alim on drums and vocals. They were active in the local scene, playing music that was heavily influenced by American soul and funk and at the same time regional musical traditions. In the early 70s the band got a regular gig at a beach hotel called Sahara Beach Resort on the coastline of Tunisia. They had six month contracts for a couple of years in the early 70s and during that time they would play every single night of the tourist season. While the hotel gig required the band to play sets leaning      towards tourist entertainment, the regular work helped put some money into the band's accounts. Using those funds the band was able to travel to Rome to record their one and only 7“ single release "Alech" around 1971/1972. The band eventually dismantled in the mid 70s and returned briefly as a new group with new members in the late 1970s under the name Carthago but that is a different story…… 

"That "Soul Brother" is my jam…. !!!!" 
Lefto 

The single itself impressed us heavily when we first stumbled upon it through French collector Victor Kiswell. While the b-side "Soul Brother“ sounds like a Tunisian version of modern soul / AOR with it’s English lyrics and lush arrangements, the title track "Alech“ is the one that will get every party started. An infectious 3/4 rhythm, a great horn arrangement and brillantly layered vocals that made us think of Brazillian music or the Georgian groove band Gaya. Luckily Faouzi Chekili, the former band leader and composer uses social media communication so he was easy to track down. He is still active as a renowned musician in the Tunisian jazz scene and remains active recording and playing concerts both in Tunisia and internationally.
credits

Edit: this is just a little "recorded straight from the wax" preview. The final release will be properly remastered by the homies from Audiomoto Berlin 


Habibi Funk 001: Dalton - Soul Brother (Tunisia, 1972 pre-order link in description)

Part 2 of a multipart series, Music To Board To: Surfing is a new mix to hit the beach with, froth, and generally have the best summer ever to. Compiled by Thes One and Double K of People Under The Stairs, this is a mix of our very favorite modern rock songs, tunes that keep us pumpin' on the road and inspire us to keep going. If you dig what you hear, please support the artists on this comp by buying their music!!!  ig: piecelock70

MTBT 2 – A Surfing Movie That Doesn’t Exist

1. King Krule Easy Easy
00:00 – 00:15	Black 
00:15 	fade in, credit role of surfers intermixed with flashes of random shots, synced to singing and guitar. 
00:42 – 1:08	slow fade in of 240 fps barrel ride intercut with other full speed shots, tropical crystal green water fading back to black at 1:08, flash
1:09 –  1:34	240fps Airs – noa deane, jjf, Kelly slater, felipe Toledo, water droplets flying off fins, one person shown lifting off and then quick cuts to all surfers in the same positions in the air, all in slow motion as the extend up and  out, cutting back and forth between the surfers
1:35 	Title – flashes, on black, more cuts  reg speed
2:01	Back to slow motion, deep rail carves on long running waves
2. Boxed In Foot Of The Hill
02:27	Entire cast, high performance surfing in exotic locations – rail work, airs, everything goes, nothing but progression.
3. Death Freakin Out
05:05	Groms, Kolohe showcase in different spots, Kanoa Igarashi at HB
4. Darwin Deez You Can’t Be My Girl
07:30	Showcase of girls that rip, Malia Manuel, Steph Gilmore, Sally Fitz, Johanne Defay, et al. 
10:11	Girls charging heavy situations, p-pass, Puerto etc
5. Toro y Moi Cola
10:57	Super exotic locales, overhead helicopter and drone shots of reef breaks, intercut with deep slo mo rail surfing and tubes. Focus on locations, exotic, island and remote intercut with shots on land, travel etc.
6. Vetiver Backwards Slowly
14:04	Chris burkard shit, super cold locations such as the fjords, surfing in storms, ice, snow, etc. Man vs The Elements, east coast surfing in the winter, Alex Gray in Alaska - intercut with shots of guys suiting up, braving the elements. Focus on what we are willing to do as surfers for waves.
7. Dan Croll Only Ghost
17:37 	Northern California focus – Surfing under the golden gate bridge, ocean beach,  shots of barney at santa cruz, 
18:29 	Mavericks from air, shots of mavericks legends, shapers delivering guns etc. those that have died.
19:07 	Huge Set wave at Mavericks in slow motion, man paddling in making drop
19:32 	More maveicks shots
19:59	Cortez Bank shots 
20:26 	JJF footage as a kid
8. Wavves King Of The Beach
20:39	JJF Super mega highlight reel starting from earliest age photage, semi chronological showing how he attained status as king of the beach
22:12 	Competition footage – rodeo flip in brazil, nines during 2014 trestles comp etc.
9. Foreign/National Paris
23:16	Travel sequence exposing new waves and first time rides, no locations listed
10. Los Joao Vamos A La Playa
27:04	Todos Santos’ greatest waves plus mex chargers. Homeboy on the skimboard
11.  Gang of Four Natural’s Not In It
28:47	Skateboarding section featuring local ripper Hayden Estrada and the Westernworld crew
12. Galkin Out To Lunch
31:28 	Jamie O’Brien on soft tops paddling Jaws, other ridiculousness intersected
13. Hippocampus Suicide Saturday
35:41 	Slow motion shots of The Right, Taj Burrows, Mark Mathews, etc.
14. Vetiver Current Carry
39:11	Kelly Slater retrospective
		


Surfing : Music To Board To Vol. 2

A little feel good music brought on by Vince in a durag when the tim boot symbol shines brightest

The Positives

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