✨CHARLES STEPNEY✨ “Step On Step” MIX LIVE @ @rustandwax IN WPB 09/09/22 Thanks for having me for the release of Stepney’s “Step On Step” records this Friday. Such a sick spot and a fun gig to prepare for. Stepney was a producer, writer and arranger for a lot of amazing artists like Earth Wind & Fire, Muddy Waters, Deniece Williams, Rotary Connection and more. Since his passing in the mid 70s, Stepney’s music has been sampled in hip hop and other genres from artists such as Madlib, DOOM, ATCQ, 9th Wonder and more. So for this hour long set I played the original tracks and then mixed in the sample track for the comparison of both worlds. Music is dope. Got the Dilla book too 📚📓🎶🥁✨💫❤️‍🔥🔥☄️🍾💯📍
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Matt Kelly- Charles Stepney "Step On Step" Tribute Mix Live @ Rust & Wax (West Palm Beach) (9.9.22)

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As a script drafts a book ‘Are you listening’ an introduction writes ‘The Book of Emma’. 
As a meditated state writes itself to parody a relationship between time and mind. 
As questions take a position to direct a conduit into a narratives derivative. 
As answers are received into a retrospective reasons come to fruition. 
As believing requires support to build around time being behind. 
As believing in oneself grow support with narratives script. 
Our words seek prescribed time as a metaphorical wall. 
The answer solution tell more about how a call is made. 
The one we pay attention to tell things we want to see. 
The other things we create to learn fall onto deaf ears. 
The ringing in our ear forms the sound effects denied. 
The challenges we accept defend the balances future. 
The science behind cannot describe existences thought. 
No more than a black holes singularity explains observation. 
Out of perceptible awareness life delivers orders to process chaos. 
I cannot perceive what is not no more than believing can create absolute. 
Faith is synonymous with religion as religion is required for faith to exist believer. 
I cannot subscribe in religion no more than God can subscribe killing as religious belief. 
I am here as you for sentient sacrifice to the powers that become powerful enough to become. 
I cannot change what happens and I cannot alter the chain of events that is already in play. 
I am along for a ride in space within a place that is able to understand my immersion. 
I am conscious perception within consequence to being witnessed perspective. 
I am mind as kind design to a perfect fit to accomplish any iterative task. 
I am conscious volume resounding resonating perceptible audible. 
I am written script translating expirations date in times tether. 
I am living journey in time willing a relative experience. 
I am here listening to hear as I am grateful to be. 
I am cathartic words feeling visceral form. 
I am abundant repetition in repetitive. 
These messages write life to discern.  
These parables understand parallels. 
These versus create feeling patterns.
I am discernible investigation affairs.   
I am a short attention spans company. 
I am a short retentions purpose process. 
As representative in friend takes times hand. 
As awareness creates more time for knowing to. 
As life process growth enablers time within creative. 
As retentive information creates thoughts life inclination. 
I cannot be a character narrator in my own character flaw. 
I have to choose a side to occupy before vacating other. 
I have to realize being before revealing can see signs. 
I have to be party to double edges sword for forge. 
I have to be appreciative time with acceptance. 
I have to accept failure supporting trials run. 
I have to deliver interest in requirements.
I have to be who I am to feel life time.

Book 2 of Emma (1-9)

Singing an all-time favorite of mine that was slept on.  

Take All The Time You Need

Alan Sugaya

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Overdub instrument at Home Recording - 11/24/2025
Performed on Yamaha DTXtreme III Drum Kit with a Yamaha M12 Percussion Drum Pad

Change of mind - Vocal n Drums.wav

Guilty: The Tap Recordings

Flying High

Denis Mpunga & Paul K - What (01:58)

Music From Memory © 2018

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Steve Beresford - Comfortable Gestures (3:27)

Ronald Langestraat - In The Middle Of The Night

Makaya McCraven, one of Chicago’s most versatile and in-demand drummers, performed at Le Guess Who? 2019 in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

About:
Makaya McCraven moves between genres like jazz, hip-hop and funk at lightning speed. Unquestionably respected as a jazz artist, he believes that a receptiveness to other styles is what truly makes a good jazz player. Ceaselessly inventive and productive, McCraven worked with an impressive array of world class musicians, including Archie Shepp, Yusef Lateef, Bernie Worrell, Soulive, Charles Neville, Marcus Strickland, and Shabaka Hutchings.

Performers: Makaya McCraven – drums; Junius Paul – bass; Greg Spero – piano; Marquis Hill – trumpet; Irvin Pierce – saxophone. 

In These Times composed by Makaya McCraven
Atlantic Black composed by Makaya McCraven, Junius Paul, Tomeka Reid, Shabaka Hutchings
Songs Of The Forest Bugaboo composed by Steve McCraven
This Place, That Place composed by Makaya McCraven
The Bounce composed by Makaya McCraven, Theon Cross, Joe-Armon Jones, Nubya Garcia

Captured on Saturday, 9 November 2019, at TivoliVredenburg's Grote Zaal during Le Guess Who? 2019.
Recorded and mixed by Marc Broer & Martijn van Waveren.

https://www.leguesswho.nl

Makaya McCraven - Atlantic Black

"PLEASURE, JOY and HAPPINESS," AVAILABLE FROM DAY END RECORDS (DE-002).

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Eddie Chacon experienced proper, peak-nineties acclaim in the soul duo Charles and Eddie: they scored a global No. 1 in 1992 with “Would I Lie To You,” appeared three times on Top of the Pops, and featured on soundtracks from True Romance to Super Mario Bros.. Their crooning style was clearly pop-ready, but undeniably reverent: the pair first met when Eddie noticed Charles carrying a vinyl copy of Marvin Gaye’s "Trouble Man” on a New York subway train.

By that time, Chacon had already been navigating music in interesting ways, all the way back to his teen garage rock band with the late Cliff Burton (Metallica) and Mike Bordin (Faith No More). In the late ’80s, he released a full-length on Uncle Luke from 2 Live Crew’s label and signed to Columbia as a solo act. He was a working artist, always popping up in unexpected places: through the course of his career, Chacon would write, sing, or produce ten Top 40 hits around the globe.

In the words of Mac DeMarco: “Eddie Chacon is planet earth’s number one musician. Yesterday, today, and forever.”

Years ago, Chacon retired from music for a second calling as a fashion photographer and creative director. In an interview at the time, he said, “I was fortunate to have a 35-year music career and felt that there wasn’t that much more for me to say or achieve.” Very thankfully, that’s no longer the case. Private experiments, far from the major-label center he once frequented, began to feel urgent and new. “There’s nothing more exciting for me than getting to start from the beginning again,” he says today.

“Pleasure, Joy and Happiness” will be available July of 2020 on the boutique Los Angeles-based label Day End Records. This is a thoughtfully considered album of quiet, confident R&B: it doesn’t jump out at you, but rather gets in you. Produced by John Carroll Kirby, the like-minded artist and collaborator with Frank Ocean and Solange Knowles, it features restrained percussion from Kanye West’s Sunday Service drummer Lamar Carter. Celestial soul as a break from chaos, these are quietly challenging songs as timeless as they are contemporary.

“What a rare and cool challenge it was for me to help Eddie re-emerge after a long hiatus,” says John Carroll Kirby. “I was excited to produce a record for him that captured the chill, laid-back wisdom and easy vocal mastery he has that you don’t see that much these days.”

Lead single “My Mind Is Out of Its Mind” finds a deep groove to try and contain spiraling heartbreak, while the sweet and wobbly “Trouble” balances the delightful near whisper of the title track “Pleasure, Joy and Happiness.” But even the project’s lightest moments feel sincere and mature. Altogether: a truly unifying release, coming from a man who’s earned the right to share such a regal, romantic sound.

“I used to think to myself,” Chacon says, “if I ever make a record again, I’d want it to be a record you’d have to be my age to make.”

Matt Kelly- Charles Stepney "Step On Step" Tribute Mix Live @ Rust & Wax (West Palm Beach) (9.9.22)

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