This is Volume 4 of 4 from Rap Production wizard Jake One released in 2005 (when modern soul was still virgin territory). Nothing but the ill 80s modern soul and funk.

Jake One - AR-4 (2005)

Jazz, funk and soul mix from master collectors Kon & Amir.

On Track 5- Kon & Amir(4)

Inside Body

day 5 of #OCFLOWBER25

In association with Planet Rock Graphics, Village Live are proud to announce the release of the first in a series of Mixtapes by Donnie Propa. After the success of The Ace Tape with Masta Ace and the J Dilla Tribute tape, now comes Straight From The Crate Cave - The Pete Rock Edition!

Limited Cassette Tape available from www.villageliverecords.com

DONNIE PROPA -STRAIGHT FROM THE CRATE CAVE - THE PETE ROCK EDITION (SIDE B)

Had to take a break from the podcast this past month - there's so many more important things happening now that deserved, and continue to deserve, everyone's focus. As I come back to the records, I want to make clear a few things for all the listeners of this podcast and my mixes, if it wasn't clear before: BLACK LIVES MATTER - and have ALWAYS mattered - to me, and I am forever in debt to the role that Black people, and Black art, music, and culture have played in my life. As a white DJ playing majority Black music, I have never felt I could sit back and somehow separate music from the people, politics and issues contained within. In fact, my attraction to hip-hop music was much in part because of the political and social education I received from the Black people creating it.

And as a white person, I am a guest and a visitor in many places and spaces, and I will never know what it means to be Black or be able to understand the full power or meaning behind much of the music I play. That doesn't mean Black music and art hasn't had profound effects on who I am and my music and politics. The records that I collect and play have furthered my dedication to fighting white supremacy on all levels - individual to systematic - which includes being self-critical and hearing criticism from others in how I might perpetuate white supremacy in my own work or music. I FULLY support the ongoing efforts to ABOLISH POLICE AND PRISONS, as well as calls for REPARATIONS for Black people. If you are white and you listen to my podcasts, and you don't understand why I stand for these things, or have questions, I recommend checking out http://m4bl.org (Movement for Black Lives) for more information, and also feel free to reach out. I'd rather build on anti-racism and anti-white supremacy with folks who are open than immediately shun anyone. If you don't want to build and are white and just think the records I play are "cool" or "ethnic" or "raer" then, generally, fuck you. 

BLACK LIVES MATTER. This should be plainly evident, especially to us DJs and record nerds, but unfortunately that's not always true. 

This episode contains music from several records created by Black artists that had incredibly important impacts on who I am as a DJ and person.

TRACKLIST:
Ramsey Lewis - "Opus #5"
Charles Mingus - "Haitian Fight Song"
Alice Coltrane - "Stopover Bombay"
Curtis Mayfield - "I Plan to Stay a Believer"
Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles - "Spirit in the Dark (Live at Fillmore West)"
John Coltrane - "Trane's Slo Blues"
Eric B. and Rakim - "In the Ghetto (Drums-only Mix)"
Jungle Brothers - "Beeds on a String"
Blackalicious - "Lyric Fathom"
Digable Planets - "May 4th Movement"
Boogie Down Productions - "Ya Slippin"
A Tribe Called Quest - "Excursions"

June 26 2020

Pullin from the Stacks Episode 135 (Dedicated to Black Artists Who Inspire, Educate & Shaped Me)

After Breonna Taylor again saw no justice this past week, I felt compelled to break from Pullin from the Stacks and put together something about abolition - abolition of the police, of prisons, of the systems of repression operating throughout this country. Took a few days but here is a mix in the vein of my "Zinnstrumentals" tapes, featuring some interview excerpts of brilliant people talking abolition over a blend of hip-hop instrumentals from the crates. I urge everyone to take a listen, especially if you're not sure about abolition yourself. And I also urge everyone listen to the full interviews and recordings, which I've linked to below. Thanks so much to all the amazing people pushing for abolition and social change right now. 

Interviews used (in no order):
Andrea Ritchie and Derecka Purnell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eii5WqeOHlA
Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Democracy Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HWqYANmWLY&t=226s
Angela Davis on Democracy Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ebWFnGWOaA&t=54s
Marc Lamont Hill and others at Riverside Church: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCJt2pLP_s
Peter Murkuria on Prison Radio: https://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/peter-mukuria/meaning-abolition-220-peter-mukuria
Mumia Abu-Jamal on Prison Radio: https://www.prisonradio.org/audio-listings
Walidah Imarisha on the Activist Files podcast: https://soundcloud.com/activist-files-center-for-constitutional-rights/episode-11-walidah-imarisha-and-gabriel-teodros-talk-science-fiction-as-social-justice-strategy

ABOLISHtrumentals

Abolish the Police!

DJ Raj Mahal is back with a tribute to one of his favorite beat digging mixes from back in the day,  Diplo and Tripledoubles' AEIOU 2.  Check it as he geeks out and spins his favorite tracks from the original 2003 mix that caused shockwaves through the beat digging community. Expect lots of funky psych rock and dusty breaks / loops from all over the globe.  It's all vinyl and all live!

OG Live Stream: https://youtu.be/9YGmK56HZsU

Track List:

Intro - DJ Raj Mahal
Sarandi - Los Grillos 
Karnaval	- Howard Wales
The Other Song - Spirit
Sakura - Odetta
No Morira Jamas - Los Angeles Negros
Occapella - Lee Dorsey
Been So Long - Motherlode
Our Ship	- Southern Contemporary Rock Assembly 
Take Me, Break Me - Underground Sunshine
Alibi Annie - Trifle
Christine - J. K. &  Co.
Troubled People - The Heads Of The Family
The Electric Liturgy-Recessional	-Mind Garage
You've Come This Way Before - Nancy Priddy
Dreamworld -	The End
Stoned Is -	Cynara
Acka Raga -	Shocking Blue
Mushroom -	Can
Elegy	- Colosseum
Toe Jam	- Mount Rushmore
Patch Of Grass - Jeff Cooper And The Stoned Wings
Hush now - Jimi Hendrix
Lunar Invasion - The Silhouettes
THEME MUSIC (SAD) - Dharmatma
Dance of Maria - Elias Rahbani
THEME MUSIC (Happy) - Dharmatma
The Bump - George Freeman
Police woman - 	Henry Mancini
Straight Up - Exit 9

www.soulstrut.com

AEIOU Beat Digger Mix - All Vinyl Live Funk DJ Set - Solitary Selections Ep. 23

VECT (@vectson) Intro
01.BRANDY - ERYKAH BADU - TEYANA TAYLOR - H.E.R. - Represent In Their 2020 Cypher
02.JGRREY - Doubt nothing
03.MAIZ - Forty 7
04.MARIA ISABEL - Distance
05.TKAY MAIDZA - 24k
06.BAGGE - Everytime
07.DAHLIA ELLIOTT - Heroine
08.AKEMIFOXX - fallin
09.JAYDONCLOVER - Pieces of me feat RADA
10.MAETA - Payback
11.NIA NICOLE - Streets
12.BINA - Dark cloud
13.KARI FAUX - McGrady
14.JUCEE FROOT - Sidewalk
15.JEAN DEAUX - Work 4 me
16.CHRXSTAL SHAPE - Shape
17.JADE EMPEROR - Better
18.CHI VIRGO - On to the next level
19.BONNIE BANANE - Bluff
20.ERICA BANKS - Toot That
21.TYLER LANGLEY - Don't
22.HOPE TALA - Crazy
23.MAMII - Jamie

French Manucure 1 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado
https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 2 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado
https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-2-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 3 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado
https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-3-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 4 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado
https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-4-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 5 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado
https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-5

Bundle Limited Edition / CD - T Shirt available : frmanucure.bandcamp.com/releases

French Manucure 6 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado
https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-6

French Manucure 7 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado
https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-7-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

@vectson

www.concupourdurer.com

French Manucure 8

French Manucure 8 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado

Back at it, direct from the crates to your ears! Eclectic sounds from vinyl new and old. Many thanks for listening!

Tracklist: Sylvia Telles, Nucleus, Mekbuda, Greg Foat, Paul Bley Quartet, Freddie Hubbard, El Chicano

November 25 2020

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Pullin from the Stacks - Episode 148

Much appreciation to everyone who's tuned in the last six years! We made it to 150 episodes, way farther than I ever anticipated. Couldn't have gotten here without so many folks tuning in. Special shouts to Pipomixes and everyone else who's reposted episodes on the internets! Also big thanks to all the guest selectors the last fifty - DadBodRapPod, J. Rawls, Bruce Phillips, Evolve-One, DO77 and Waffles Hidalgo. So - I feel like every fifty episodes is a good time to pull the hip-hop rarities and b-sides out the crates. Here's another short stack of a few favorites of mine! Dig it.

Tracklist: 
Dirty Treats ft. Praverb the Wyse
Makeba Mooncycle ft. J. Sands
K-Otix
Mad Fanatic ft. RagChyld
Rascalz
Konceptual Dominance 
Sly Da Brown Hornet ft. Jumbo, Libretto, Dubb Flex and Vursatyl
Grouch and Eligh ft. Abstract Rude and Asop
Wisdom ft. Breezly Brewin and Adagio
Jean Grae
A-Butta and L-Swift
Damu the Fudgemunk

December 9 2020

Pullin from the Stacks - Episode 150 (Another Hip-Hop Episode)

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.

Pullin from the Stacks - Episode 150 (Another Hip-Hop Episode)

DJ Ian Head