Compiling digital versions of various records in my collection expressing radical, brilliant, revolutionary thoughts on various issues and in various forms.

Rebellious Knowledge Archives

This is a record that was produced to promote Nina Simone's album "Black Gold." It is mostly an "open ended" interview with Nina Simone, where a radio DJ could read questions from a script on their show, and then Simone would "answer" them via playing the record. Because of this, when you listen you'll only hear Simone's answers. There are also musical snippets throughout the record from the album.

Nina Simone Radio Special

Nina Simone Interview And Music

This record contains statements and interviews with Angela Davis, as well as interviews with her lawyer Margaret Burnham, journalist Gil Noble and Charlene Mitchell, a member of the New York Committee to free Angela Davis.

Folkways Records, 1971.

Angela Davis Speaks

Hard to find interview by journalist and radio host Art Seigner of Lester Jackson, the father of Black political prisoner, prison organizer and author George Jackson, who was murdered by prison guards in 1971. As written, in part, in the liner notes: "The over-all concern and emphasis is on the point of current prison conditions, where the climate seems unfavorable for the lives of Black controversial prisoners. Every American should hear this discussion, and face the unhappy fact - that this happened in an enlightened, democratic America." 

Part of the ongoing Rebellious Knowledge Archives playlist. Please share! - DJ Ian Head

Thoughts and Theories - George Jackson

Knowledge Archives

Thoughts and Theories on Soledad Brother George Jackson (Archival Interview)

Latest addition to the Rebellious Knowledge Archives. A rare interview with John Coltrane, included in a 1970s era box set of his work released in Japan. He's asked various questions by the Japanese interviewer, including his thoughts on the Vietnam war and how he views the music he plays. Coltrane rarely gave interviews so it's a real treat to hear him speak, even if it's brief.

Part of the ongoing Rebellious Knowledge Archives playlist. Please share! - DJ Ian Head

John Coltrane Interview 1966

In celebration of Hip Hop's 50th year, we've teamed up with London based ‘Classic Material’ to present a chronologically themed series of mixtapes celebrating the history of recorded Rap music, mixed by Chris Read. Alongside the Hip Hop series, this companion Breaks series takes our re-cap of Rap History a level deeper, this time reconstructing the classics of the Hip Hop canon from their constituent sample material. Arranged chronologically of course, this sixth volume pieces together popular Hip Hop tunes from the year of 1991, utilising only the Funk, Soul, Rock, Jazz and Disco tracks from which they were originally constructed - over 100 breaks in the mix! Artwork pays homage to Paul Winley's iconic 'Super Disco Brakes' compilation series.

Track list:

1. Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies (sampled by DJ Quik - Born and Raised in Compton)
2. George McCrae - Get Lifted [Loop] (sampled by Compton's Most Wanted - They Still Gafflin)
3. Funkadelic - Good Old Music [Loop] (sampled by Compton's Most Wanted - They Still Gafflin)
4. Isaac Hayes - Do Your Thing (sampled by Compton's Most Wanted - They Still Gafflin)
5. Compton's Most Wanted - One Time Gaffled Em Up [Extract] (sampled by Compton's Most Wanted - They Still Gafflin)
6. King Tee - Act a Fool (Compton Mix) [Extract] (sampled by Compton's Most Wanted - They Still Gafflin)
7. The Gap Band - Burn Rubber On Me [Extract] (sampled by Compton's Most Wanted - They Still Gafflin)
8. Smokey Robinson - Do Like I Do (sampled by Scarface - Good Girl Gone Bad)
9. The Three Sounds - Repeat After Me (sampled by Main Source - Vamos a Rapiar)
10. Myra Barnes - Message from the Soul Sisters [Extract] (sampled in Main Source - Vamos a Rapiar)
11. Skull Snaps - I Turn My Back on Love [Loop] (sampled in Main Source - Just Hangin Out)
12. Vanessa Kendrick - 90% of Me Is you (sampled in Main Source - Just Hangin Out)
13. Sister Nancy - Bam Bam (sampled in Main Source - Just Hangin Out)
14. Average White Band - Your Love Is a Miracle (sampled in Del the Funky Homosapien - Hoodz Come In Dozens)
15. The Meters - Cissy Strut [Extract] (sampled in Del the Funky Homosapien - Same Ol' Thing)
16. The Meters - Rigor Mortis (sampled in Del the Funky Homosapien - Same Ol' Thing)
17. The Meters - Same Old Thing (sampled in Del the Funky Homosapien - Same Ol' Thing)
18. Mouth & MacNeal - A.B.C (sampled in Black Sheep - The Menage)
19. The Meters - Pungee (sampled in Ice Cube - Color Blind)
20. The Blackbyrds - Wilford's Gone (sampled in Compton's Most Wanted - Def Wish)
21. Extract from the movie Young Guns II (sampled in Compton's Most Wanted - Def Wish)
22. Zapp - Be Alright (sampled in Big Daddy Kane - Prince of Darkness)
23. Joe Tex - Papa Was Too [Loop] (sampled in Ed OG & Da Bulldogs - Dedicated to the Right Wingers)
24. Parliament - Dr. Funkenstein (sampled in Ed OG & Da Bulldogs - Dedicated to the Right Wingers)
25. The Bar Kays - Let's Have Some Fun [Extract] (sampled in Ed OG & Da Bulldogs - Dedicated to the Right Wingers)
26. Roy Ayers - Searching (sampled in Ed OG & Da Bulldogs - Be a Father To Your Child)
27. Brother Jack McDuff - Hunk of Funk [Loop] (sampled in Black Sheep - Hoes We Knows)
28. Iron Butterfly - Her Favourite Style (sampled in Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours)
29. The Bar Kays - In the Whole (sampled in Fu Schnickens - Ring the Alarm)
30. Tenor Saw - Ring the Alarm (sampled in Fu Schnickens - Ring the Alarm)
31. Just Ice - Going Way Back [Loop] (sampled in Fu Schnickens - Ring the Alarm)
32. Jackie Jackson - Is It Him or Me [Loop] (sampled in A Tribe Called Quest - The Infamous Date Rape)
33. Heatwave - The Star of a Story (sampled in A Tribe Called Quest - Verse from the Abstract)
34. Doug E Fresh. feat Slick Rick - La Di Da Di [Extract] (sampled in De La Soul - Talkin Bout Hey Love)
35. Stevie Wonder - Hey Love (sampled in De La Soul - Talkin Bout Hey Love)
36. Shades of Brown - The Soil I Tilled for You [Loop] (sampled in A Tribe Called Quest - Excursions)

Continued...

#HIPHOP50: Classic Material The Breaks #6 (1991) mixed by Chris Read

RIP the legendary Nikki Giovanni. Here is a great album of her poetry from the 1970s. An excerpt from her liner notes on the back of the cover:

"The reason I like chocolate is when I was in 5th grade 5 cents would buy a Sugar Daddy which would last all day long. It always seemed to me that happy occasions brought forth a chunk of chocolate. I have a fondness also for peppermint but for a different reason.

Some of these poems aren't strictly children's poems but that's because I don't believe children can be strictly categorized. I once gave a birthday party for my son, Tommy, where I served caviar, black bread, salad, and assorted cold meats with a ginger ale punch. 'You know, Nikki,' (all Tommy's friends call me Nikki) a little girl said, 'the reason I like to come to your house is we get grown up food." Maybe. Or maybe she was just saying that the reason she likes chocolate is that it's good."

Nikki Giovanni - the reason I like chocolate (Poetry LP)

Been a couple weeks - I had to replace my old desktop that was starting to crash too frequently and move all the music files etc to the new machine. Back up now with an episode I recorded a week or so ago! Just a few longer tracks from recent records found and purchased. Hope to be back on schedule soon! Enjoy.

Tracklist: Keifer Trio, Pete Jolly, Chris Barber, Les DeMerle, Airmen of Note

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Across 110th Street 4/12/25

Mixed live by QSTN at Devil’s Pie on April 20, 2011. For more music and mixes from QSTN, check out @analoguestudies.

TRACKLIST:
1. Stan Getz & Maria Toledo “Saudade Vem Correndo”
2. Herbie Mann “Today”
3. Stan Getz “Samba Triste”
4. Sylvia Telles “Corcovado”
5. Sergio Mendes “Muito A Vontade”
6. Som Tres “Amazonas”
7. Sergio Mendes “Aquarius”
8. João Donato “So Se For Agora”
9. O Trio “Nao Passo Esquecer”
10. Stan Getz “Doralice”
11. Stan Getz “One Note Samba”
12. Astrud Gilberto “It Might As Well Be Spring”
13. João Donato “Muito A Vontade”
14. Stan Getz “Samba De Uma Nota Só”
15. Astrud Gilberto “Canto De Ossanha”
16. João Gilberto “Saudade Fez Um Samba”
17. Lalo Schifrin “The Man From THRUSH”
18. Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 “The Frog”
19. Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 “Mas Que Nada”
20. Herbie Mann “One Note Samba”
21. Sergio Mendes “Favela”
22. Luiz Bonfá “Bonfá Nova”
23. Brazil ’66 “Berimbau”
24. Lalo Schifrin “Samba De Uma Nota So”
25. Luis Carlos Winhas “Batucada Surgio”
26. Brazil ’66 “Roda”
27. Sergio Mendes “Berimbau”

Devil's Pie Bossa Tribute by QSTN (Originally released May 2011)

"Stepping Stones" is a dedication the the classics. These are the albums we tend to find out in the field, regardless of how dry the creek is. All tracks remixed, arranged, and sewn together by myself.

Stepping Stones

Mix by John Gómez for Be With Records and Wax Poetics.

More info and track listing here:

http://www.waxpoetics.com/blog/music/mixtape/be-with-soul-mixtape/

'Be With' Mixtape

Preceding Kentaro's excellent Tuff Cuts mix (https://soundcloud.com/selectabwoy/dj-kentaro-tuff-cuts-mix-2008) - here's the earlier, highly acclaimed meeting of roots reggae and turntablism from DJ Shortkut. A tremendous mix in it's own right, old skool jungle sample-spotters will also have a field day with this :D

Tracklist:

King Tubby - King Tubby's Dub Explosion
The Observers - Dubbing With The Observers
The Aggrovators - Jah Jah Dub 
Augustus Pablo - The Big Rip Off 
Scotty - Draw Your Brakes
Charlie Chaplin - Entertainer 
John Wayne - You Too Greedy 
The Aggrovators - A Crabbit Version 
Los Carlos - Laser Beam
Poppa Tollo - Nuff Stylee
George McKay - Money Money 
King Tubby - I Trim The Barber
John Holt - Ali Baba 
King Tubby & The Aggrovators - Straight To Jackson's Head 	
Matumbi - Law Of The Land 
Roy Dr. - Phibbs 
The Observers - Water Boiling 
Lloyd Parks - Stop The War Now 	
Soul Messengers - Do It (Till You're Satisfied) 
Dennis Alcapone - The Funky Tang 
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Soul Almighty 
Augustus Pablo - East Of The River Nile
The Pioneers - Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye) 
Barrington Levy - Collie Weed 
John Holt - Police In Helicopter 
Eek-A-Mouse - Sensee Party
Frankie Paul - Pass The Tu-Sheng Peng 
Tristan Palma, Jah Thomas & Toyan - Entertainment 
Jah Thomas - Friday Night Jamboree
Clint Eastwood And General Saint - Another One Bites The Dust 	
Neville Brown - The Right Time
Purpleman - King Of The Way 
Bob Marley - Sun Is Shining 
Jah Thomas - Dancehall Connection 
Errol Dunkley - A Little Different Way 
Dennis Brown - Here I Come

DJ Shortkut: Blunted With A Beat Junkie (2004)

Rev. Shines – Today’s Good News Vol. 4

Tracklist available here: https://blog.discogs.com/en/crate-diggers-mix-009-rev-shines/

Fulfill your soul and free with your mind with the latest installment of Today’s Good News, crafted specifically for Crate Diggers, in support of Crate Diggers Portland 2017. Inspired by records bought and people met from a recent trip around the world, Rev. Shines takes you on a journey of samples and discovery. This is an all-vinyl mixtape, using records found while on the road this past year.

Rev. Shines is a crate digger in its truest sense; Questlove once announced at a show in Portland, “Rev. Shines built my record collection.” Shines has performed in over 15 countries, is 1/3 of the Hip Hop group Lifesavas whom Rolling Stone Magazine touted as a “Top Band to Watch” in 2007, and DJs the most popular Hip Hop dance party in Portland, “Live and Direct”. His mixtape series, Today’s Good News has a cult following and sells out immediately online and at record stores like Turntable Lab.

While working at the Portland landmark record store, Jump Jump, Shines met and sold records to music legends like the aforementioned Questlove, J.Dilla, and Easy Mo Bee. Most importantly, he met the proverbial king of House music production, Kenny Dope, whom invited him on a world tour, DJing and digging in countries like Japan and Australia.

What does Rev. Shines sound like? A decade crossing beat visionary, inspired by golden era Hip Hop, Southern Gospel singers, and funky Brasilians from the 1970’s. His dynamic live sets simultaneously put smiles on faces, get heads nodding, and suggest feelings of an ever-present coolness.

https://soundcloud.com/revshines
https://revshines.com/
https://www.facebook.com/revshines
https://www.instagram.com/revshines76/
https://twitter.com/revshines76
https://www.discogs.com/artist/360439-Rev-Shines
http://cratediggers.com/
http://cratediggers.com/events/portland2017/

Catch Rev. Shines spinning at the after party to Discogs sponsored record fair, Crate Diggers Portland, on August 26th, 2017 at White Owl Social Club. The day begins with the record fair featuring 30+ vendors and 6 of Portland’s best local DJs, then moves into the all-night after-party, featuring Soul Clap, Supreme La Rock, and Rev. Shines!

Crate Diggers Mix 009 - Today's Good News Vol. 4

Crate Diggers Mix 009 - Rev. Shines

Recorded at The Do-Over Detroit (May 27, 2018)
more info: www.thedoover.net

www.thedoover.net

J.Rocc & Benji B at The Do-Over Detroit (May 27, 2018) (Part 2)

A mixed Medley of 100% Stevie Wonder Compositions, Covers & Cookies created in 2001. Originally released as a double mix cd with Bobbito aka Kool Bob Love and was the pre curser to the infamous Wonder-FULL tribute parties. Everything in the mix is written, produced or performed by Stevie Wonder.

Wonder Wrote It Vol. one (Dj Spinna Mix)

I bought this for a few dollars, sealed, out of a crate on Franklin Avenue in Brooklyn.

From the liner notes:
"A few weeks before he was struck down by an assassin's bullet in Memphis where he was aiding sanitation workers in their fight for the right to have a union, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. visited with us at Local 1199. He came to address our annual Salute to Freedom rally at Hunter College and in his opening remarks, he said: "I don't consider myself a stranger at Local 1199...I consider myself a fellow 1199er."

"Martin Luther King, Jr. belonged to us, to our members, to the poor, to the ghetto-dweller, to the black people, the Puerto Rican people and poor whites. He spoke to us at our meetings. He walked with us in our demonstrations and picket lines. He encouraged us and guided us. He was proud of his honorary membership in our union and he identified with our struggles just as we did with his."

"The bullet that took his life was aimed at all Americans who work to put an end to injustice in our society. We will build no stone monuments to commemorate him. We will pass to pious resolutions. But we will build our  union in his image. We will raise high the banner of struggle in the fight against poverty, discrimination, ignorance, hatred and war."

"Martin Luther King, Jr. will live as long as we, and others like us, dedicate ourselves to carry out his ideals. It is in that spirit that we are making these recorded highlights from some of his speeches available to our members." - Leon J. Davis, President, Local 1199

Tracklist:

I've Been to the Mountain Top - April 3, 1968
Dr. King Talks About Local 1199 - March 10, 1968
Song: Everybody's Got a Right to Live
Labor and the War in Vietnam - November 11, 1967
Dr. King's Own Eulogy - February 4, 1968
Leon Davis Speaks
Address to Local 1199 Freedom Salture - March 10, 1968
I've Been to the Mountain  Top - April 3, 1968

"All proceeds will go to the Local 1199 Brotherhood Fund to promote those causes to which Dr. King devoted his life."

MLK at Local 1199

Martin Luther King, Jt. at Local 1199

When I'm not at the dayjob, I'm probably at a record store. Pullin from the Stacks podcast most Wednesdays, available here, Apple Pods (please subscribe!) and elsewhere.

Martin Luther King, Jt. at Local 1199

DJ Ian Head

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