Dreas is part of crew of talented DJs and diggers out of the Chicago area.  He is host of Grand Rapids Soul Club, a DJ night that focuses on lost 70s and 80s modern soul groovers.

This mix was given out at those gigs chock full of Soul, Disco, 2-step, and Boogie mix from Summer 2008. 

Originally posted on soul strut.com Monday, June 13, 2011

Dreas - Summer Breeze (2011)

Another 3 hours, 49 minutes and 51 seconds compilation tape, with and from Kaidi Tatham.

Also at M I X C L O U D ------ ► https://www.mixcloud.com/upload/Peeano/in-the-spotlight-volume-9-with-kaidi-tatham-part-iv-compiled-by-me/complete/

'In The Spotlight' Volume 9 with Kaidi Tatham (Part IV)

1. DJ Jazzy Jeff - Ludesfordays Interlude (Keyboards – Kaidi Tatham)
2. Kaidi Tatham - Night With Jude Live @ jazz re:freshed
3. MIDTGAARD - Sommerfugl (Kaidi Tatham Remix) 
4. Nubya Garcia - La cumbia me está llamando ft. La Perla (Kaidi Tatham Remix)
5. Blacks & Blues - You Know The Feeling
6. Badge and Talkalot - The Situation feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow (Kaidi Tatham Remix)
7. MF Robots - Happy Song (Kaidi Tatham & Daz​-​I​-​Kue Remix Instrumental)
8. Andrew Ashong & Kaidi Tatham - Sankofa Song 
9. Brasstooth - Smiling (Kaidi Tatham Funky Remix) 
10. Spree - Move (Kaidi Tatham Remix)
11. Boxcutter & Defcon - Skylights (feat. Kaidi Tatham)
12. Ruth Koleva - Tokyo (Kaidi Tatham Remix) 
13. Marcos Valle - Gotta Love Again (Kaidi Tatham Remix)
14. Selah Sue - Pills (Kaidi Tatham Remix)
15. Gin Tonic Orchestra - Hands On The Drums (Kaidi Tatham Remix)
16. Down To The Bone - Brooklyn Heights (The Kaidi Tatham Reinterpretation) 
17. The Naked Bongo Band - The Bust Up - Kaidi Tatham Remix 
18. Kaidi Tatham - Tell Me (What Yo Feeling)
19. Lord & Kaidi - Find Another Way
20. Quentin Kane - The Blue Room (Kaidi Tatham's Shokazuku Remix)
21. Allysha Joy - Better (Kaidi Tatham Remix)
22. Rosie Frater-Taylor - Better Days (Kaidi Tatham Remix) 	
23. Henry Wu - Just Negotiate (Kaidi Tatham Remix)
24. Modaji - Things U Do 4 Me (Kaidi Tatham Instrumental Remix)
25. Next Set A Rockers - Lost It 
26. Ty - Somewhow, Somewhere, Someway (Kaidi Tatham Remix Instrumental) 
27. Roselien ft. Amoachille - Loving (remix Kaidi Tatham)
28. KAIDI TATHAM - THERE IS SOMETHING IN THE WATER [EUREKA!]
29. Vicky Flint - One More Chance (Kaidi Tatham Remix)
30. FaltyDL - Drugs feat Rosie Lowe (Kaidi Tatham remix)
31. Contours - North West (Kaidi Tatham Remix)
32. Mr Holmes - Something Wicked (Agent K Remix)
33. Lord & Kaidi - Frequency Range
34. Darkhouse Family - The Accession (Kaidi Tatham Remix) 
35. K15 - Bordeaux (Kaidi Tatham Remix) 
36. Tatham, Mensa, Lord & Ranks - Two Way Here One Way Go
37. Jitwam - Sun After Rain (Kaidi Tatham's After the Sun Remix) 
38. Takuya Kuroda - Dead End Dance (Kaidi Tatham Remix)
39. The PLAYlist featuring Glenn Lewis - Good Time
40. Tatham, Mensah, Lord, and Ranks - No Facetime (errors)
41. Resolution 88 - Broken Beat (Smokin' Feet) (Kaidi Tatham Remix)
42. Summer Pearl - outmysystem (outro) by Kaidi Tatham

'In The Spotlight' Volume 9 with Kaidi Tatham (Part IV) compiled by Peeano

Timeless music that I'll never tire of hearing, thank you for the vibes.

Tracklist
Everybody Dubs The Sunshine
RAMP - Come Into Knowledge
Roy Ayers & Wayne Henderson - For Real
Ethel Beatty - It's Your Love
Ubiquity - Simple and Sweet
Roy Ayers - Reaching For The Highest Pleasure
David Newman with Roy Ayers - Foxy Brown
Roy Ayers - I Just Want To Give It Up
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Baby You Give Me A Feeling
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - The Boogie Back
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Life Is Just A Moment Pt. 2
Roy Ayers - Funk in the Hole 
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - We Live In Brooklyn Baby
RAMP - The Old One-Two 
Roy Ayers - Brawling Broads
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - It's So Sweet
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - It Ain't Your Sign It's Your Mind 
Roy Ayers - Everybody
Roy Ayers - Oh What A Lonely Feeling
Roy Ayers - Sugar (The Reflex Revision)
Roy Ayers - Baby Doll (Instrumental)
Roy Ayers - Liquid Love
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - The Memory
Sylvia Striplin - You Can't Turn Me Away
RAMP - Daylight
Roy Ayers & Wayne Henderson - Thank You, Thank You
Buster Williams featuring Roy Ayers - Vibrations
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Sweet Tears

Vibrations - Roy Ayers Tribute Mix

Spacewalker's back in the driver's seat with the first Balance of 2025!

Featuring music from Sholto, Butcher Brown, Igor Jadranin, Pau Roca, Eternal Love, and a whole lot more. Also taking a moment to pay tribute to a few legends we lost — Roy Ayers, Yam Who?, and Angie Stone. 

Buckle up!

Show 579 > https://soundcloud.com/musicismysanctuary/balance-579-hosted-by-spacewalker

BALANCE #580 (Hosted by Spacewalker)

Ep. 35 – Soul of Ayers

A belated but imperative tribute and celebration to one of the greatest to ever do it, the master of vibes, Roy Ayers. A major inspiration to a several generations of producers, jazz & soul music lovers alike, with his original blend of consciousness, funk, Afrocentricity, and that Ayers brand of sunshine spirituality. The one many of us crown as the godfather of neo-soul. 

I’ll never forget discovering “Daylight” on DJ Muro’s King of Diggin mixtape in 1996, connecting the dots as the original to Tribe’s “Bonita Applebum”. Or digging up Everybody Loves the Sunshine in a bargain bin at Streetlight Records, hyped to be able to play it next to Erule’s “Listen Up” in a set. 

Interspersed throughout the show are excerpts from two interviews. One from 2017 on Questlove Supreme where he tells his life story, meeting Fela Kuti, and recites a poem inspired by his trips to Africa. A second with a young Sonya Saul on MTV UK circa mid-90s when he was touring out there in the midst of jazz fusion meeting hip hop. Roy’s catalog is immense, so two hours barely scratches the surface. 

– EB
@earlbiggers
@tribejazz

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Tracklist: 
Roy Ayers - I Did It In Seattle 
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - The Third Eye
RAMP - Come Into Knowledge
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Searching
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Vibrations
Roy Ayers - 2000 Black
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Mystic Voyage
Roy Ayers - Land of Fruit and Honey
Roy Ayers - Sometimes Believe in Yourself
Roy Ayers - Love Will Bring Us Back Together
Cro-Magnon - Midnight Magic ft. Roy Ayers
A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum 
The Roots - Proceed II ft. Roy Ayers
RAMP - Everybody Loves the Sunshine
Roy Ayers & Wayne Henderson - Thank You Thank You
Roy Ayers - Liquid Love ft. Sylvia Cox
Ethel Beatty - It’s Your Love
Roy Ayers - Brand New Feeling ft. Merry Clayton & Sylvia Cox
Masters at Work ft. Roy Ayers (Jazzanova Guestlist Mix)
Ferry Ultra - Dangerous Vibes (Original Dangerous Jazz Mix)
Roy Ayers - Programmed For Love 
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Thoughts (Live at The Montreaux Jazz Festival 1972)
Roy Ayers - You Send Me feat. Carla Vaughn

Soul of Ayers w/ Tribe Jazz | Live on HydeFM | 03/31/25

I was late to the library game, and only own a short stack of these gems, but for folks unaware, some amazing studio musicians (especially in Europe) recorded some of the funkiest and weirdest music on "library" records, that were available to radio and tv producers to use on their shows or elsewhere. Recently I discovered that one of the iconic sound effects associated with the early days of Portland Trailblazers broadcasts that I used to hear all the time as a kid actually came from a 1970s KPM record. 

No tracklist on this one! Dig in.

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Pullin from the Stacks - The Road Forward (Library Selections)

Hard to believe I started this series 12 years ago. Time moves so fast, doesn’t it?

At first, it was a project meant to celebrate the indescribable feeling of making it through another lonnnng Montreal winter. Then, it became a form of catharsis for me to grieve the memory of my mom, who passed away a few years ago now. I’ve thought a few times that this project might have run its course, but as I got a lot of very kind feedback from listeners, I think it has come to mean something for them too. Hopefully, it does to you too.

So here we are with another selection of songs to heal, uplift, cry, love and laugh.

Dedicated to all our loved ones. Dedicated to my mom.
Peace with every step.

TRACKLIST

The Roots - A Peace of Light
Wu-Lu - Young Swimmer
Asha Puthli and Sven Wunder - Spring Has Sprung
Marina Herlop - Collige Virgo Gladium
Joy Guidry - Day by Day
Loukeman - Gorgeous Stuff
Equiknoxx - Was Not Initially Called Make iT Stop
Donal Leace - Today Won't Come Again
Gil Scott-Heron - I Think I'll Call It Morning
Stevie Wonder - Bird of Beauty
Nina Simone - Cosi Ti Amo
Milton Nascimento - Catavento
Gabriel de Rosa - Cafuné
Claudete Soares - Conselho A Quem Quiser Voltar
France Gall - Pense à moi
Miss K-Jah & Gappy Ranks - Ain't That Loving You
Judy & Lynda - Heavenly Day
Dennis Bovell & Janet Kay - Games of Dubs
Goya Gumbani - Chase The Sunrise
Dreamcastmoe - Flowers
Larry June - Life is beautiful
Ra - Highway
Johnny Mathis - Spring is here
Monica Zetterlung - Spring is here
Doug Carn - Little B's Poem
Jimetta Rose - Let The Sunshine In
Ezra Collective - God Gave Me Feet For Dancing
Womack & Womack - Life's Just A Ballgame
Leon Ware - For the rainbow
Close Counters - Freedom we're needing
Dublon - Evolution
Gil sm & Reek0 - Saturday Morning
Roy Ayers - For the sun
Dee-Lite - Mind Melt
Raf Reza - Mirror of Love
Kampinos - Good Looking Pepe
Linda Williams - Elevate Our Minds
Chris Montez - The More I See You
Gabor Szabo - A Day In The Life
Broadcast - Follow The Light
Rafa Aslan - NYC ID U+I
Work Money Death - We Are The People
Ezra Collective - Everybody

SPRINGTIME SPIRITUAL 2025 🌅 Selected and Mixed by Lexis

🇬🇧 ENG VERSION
This mix is a celebration of Black music’s richness, rhythm and emotion — from jazz to bruk, funk, deep house and soul-infused electronics.
A spiritual, global and deeply personal selection, including several unreleased tracks by Jay himself.

🎧 Listen & feel.
Vinyl-only.
Curated with care.

🔗 Artist links:
IG: www.instagram.com/_jaysound
Bandcamp: jaysound.bandcamp.com/

🎵 TRACKLIST:

Ananda Project feat. Gaelle - Cascades of Colour (Kuniyuki's Sugar Love Mix)

El Payo - Dawnlands

WheelUp - Infinity Feat Abacus

Alma Negra - Endless Summer

Henrik Schwarz - Forbidden (Club Mix)

Colm K - Beginnings (K15 Remix)

Unique - What I Got Is What You Need

The Rah Band - Messages From The Stars (Long Wave Mix)

Beat Spacek - Alone In Da Sun

Jay Sound - Autumn

Con Funk Shun - Indian Summer Love (Instrumental)

Joe Armon-Jones - Lifetones

Moodymann - Downtown

Reggie Dokes - After Dark We Play

Merle - Mimi Likes 2 Dance

Jay Sound - Unreleased

2000Black - Green Woods

Larry Heard - Just One Minute

Julion DeAngelo - Part One

Jay Sound - Rhythmic Liberation

Ideeyah - Align



CUCINA WAX SERIES 002 — JAY SOUND

All original tracks, this work dates back all the way up until 2016. This album is my life's work up to this point, some unfinished tracks and some finished, I've decided to put it all out there for the world to see and everything is going to be alright now. 

Thinking and thinking and thinking

As My Friend Dario's last album Senza Estate soundtracks another summer, Hell Yeah return to it for a new package featuring the single 'Marittimo' in original form, as an album mix, and with a remix from Eddie C.

'Marittimo' is named after the monthly summer party Dario hosts at Pazmaya in Focallo. It's a loose and exotic rhythm built on elastic drums and peppered with toms, hits, bird calls and shakers. Subtle chords dance up top and fleshy bass is offset by freeform wooden melodies that bring a perfectly organic and sun-baked sound.

The remix comes from Canadian disco master and Red Motorbike label boss Eddie C, who turns up the heat and builds the tempo. His loopy mix is heavier, with chord stabs and big drum energy serving up a steamy main dish to get the dance floor full up.

This is another delicious taste of My Friend Dario's irresistible full length.

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My Friend Dario - Marittimo (Album Version)

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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 - The Road Forward (Library Selections)

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