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Billy Edwall - Trumpet
Michael Armstrong - Trombone
Joe Harrison - Tenor Sax/Percussion
Jesse Audelo - Baritone Sax
Tim Felten - Electric Piano/Farfisa Organ
Dillon Casey - Guitar
Louis Valenzuela - Guitar
Tim McNalley - Bass
Jeff Wilson - Drums/Shekere
 David Castañeda - Congas

Produced and mixed by Tim Felten & Joe Harrison at the Kitchen in San Diego, CA.

Additional mixing by Parker McAnnally.

Mastered by Gil Tamazyan at Capsule Labs.

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Sebastian Sturm & Exile Airline - Day Tripper [HEMP! Tributo Reggae A The Beatles Vol. II - 2013]

From upcoming LP "Soundbwoy Soul," available soon.

A Land Far Away (feat. The Mighty Pope)

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"The Offering" is the lead-off track on Ikebe Shakedown's much anticipated sophomore album "Stone By Stone". With their limited press 45 "The Beast b/w Road Song" selling out a few months after release and the Tujunga Remixes single with Brennan Green continuing to be a hot seller, the release of the new record could not come at a better time.

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Ikebe Shakedown "The Offering"

VA Let's BOOGALOO vol.6 Deep funk, Northern soul and Dancefloor jazz en El Barrio. OUT now on  LP + 45, CD, digital. GET IT on it Bandcamp http://bit.ly/boogaloo6

http://recordkicks.bandcamp.com/album/va-let-s-boogaloo-vol-6-explosive-northern-soul-deep-funk-and-dancefloor-jazz-en-el-barrio

After 4 years in the making finally a new chapter of RK's premier collection Let's BOOGALOO sees the light. This time legendary compiler Dean Rudland, who is responsible of dozens of wicked compilations on BGP, Kent and Blue Note, digs deep into - mythical NYC latin boogaloo producer - Bobby Marin's catalogue to bring you an explosive collection of (northern) soul, deep funk and latin jazz tunes from Spanish Harlem aka El Barrio. Bobby Marin has been one of the main contributors and a leading figure behind the latin Boogaloo movement in the mid 60s in New York producing and working close together with stars such us Joe Cuba, Eddie Palmieri, Machito, Riccardo Marrero, not to mention his own combo the legendary Latin Blues Band, recently sampled by DJ Premier as the hook to Christina Aguilera's 'Ain't No Other Man'. "

As Rudland reckons "Bobby is part of a crowd that have sometimes been overlooked because they weren't central to the Fania Records story, but the music they produced told a truer story of what was going on on the streets of New York than the internationalist world view that was propagated by that label's owner Jerry Massuci" So expect to find here the real stuff,an all killers no fillers selection of rare and impossible to find latin boogaloo singles from Bobby's vaults, including some previously unreleased tracks taken directly from master tapes such us Richie's Theme byRichie & the PS 54 Schooly. A bright sampler of the golden age of the one of the most Infectious music genre ever recorded. Compilation comes with extensive liner notes by Mr.Rudland, for instance did you know that's Bobby's older brother Richie is the responsible for producing Manny Corchado's boogaloo stormer Pow Wow? ... essential collection, play it loud!

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Richie & The PS 54 Schoolyard - How I Feel | VA - Let's Boogaloo vol.6

Up, Bustle And Out - Rio De Almeria

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PillowTalk's warm jazzed out reimagining of "If This World Were Mine" works on so many levels. Taking just a vocal outro harmony sung by Marvin Gaye and Tami Terrell, they have created a future soul classic.  Complete with live instrumentation and key arrangement, these fellas just have a way of putting a new stamp on these timeless compositions. This is really something special and comes just in time for the holidays. Everyone could use some "Good Lovin'" this time of the year and this is just the tune to deliver.

Good Lovin'

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PillowTalk - Good Lovin'

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Emma Baloka - Funky Down

Long overdue for a vinyl pressing, Kenny Dope’s extended mix of “Shy As A Butterfly” by The Mighty Sceptres is now available on a proper 7in. The B-side features a killer dance floor-ready cumbia rework of “Nothing Seems To Work Right” by Spark Arrester.

With a well-received debut album under their belt and notable song placements in shows such as Ray Donovan on Showtime,   The Mighty Sceptres drop a new 7in single featuring Kenny Dope’s extended mix of “Shy As A Butterfly”, previously only available as a bonus on their digital album. With collectors, record shops, and fans alike clamoring for a vinyl version, the 7in was hands down the preferred format of choice. Hailing from Blacksburg VA where he’s been a mainstay of the local music scene and purveyor of all things funky, Spark Arrester’s cumbia rework is a perfect fit on the B-side rounding out a single that’s sure to keep bodies moving on the dance floor all summer long and beyond.

The Mighty Sceptres: Shy As A Butterfly b/w Nothing Seems To Work Right 7"

Queen Of Soul

Queen Of Soul - Cold Diamond & Mink

Black Flower  - Almaz

Fred Wesley - Funk for your Ass

Grant Phabao agreed to put his magic hands on the Mr Blue piece. The result is astounding as always, Versus are immediately transported to Jamaican coasts and you'll be breakin' to hip hop while bouncing to reggae at the same time with a big smile on your face!!!

Free Download on the excellent Paris Djs website (http://www.parisdjs.com/index.php/post/Versus-Mr-Blue-Grant-Phabao-Remix)

Mr Blue (Grant Phabao Remix)

Marva Josie - He does it better

Production heavyweight Rhys Adams returns with his second LP under the ‘YesKing’ moniker and his debut for the BBE label. Produced entirely by Adams, ‘Re-Record Not Fade Away’, marks a coming of age for the seasoned studio head and a sonic departure from the outfit’s 2008 debut ‘Rock This World’ (co-produced by Mark Rae of Rae & Christian fame). 

Borrowing it’s name from the strap line appearing in Scotch Video Tape’s 1980s TV adverts, ‘Re-Record Not Fade Away’ is both a metaphorical reference to the longevity of music produced with passion and a literal reference to Adams’ studio techniques - in particular his preference for recording live to a 1960s 1/4 inch ferrograph tape machine, a process which Adams describes as ‘integral’ to the album’s sound providing a ‘unique and authentic’ feel with a firm nod to the Dub and Reggae traditions which permeate the album. 

Featured artists provide a wealth of variety to the album’s underlying themes: Guitarist for The Soothsayers and Jerry Dammers’ Spatial aka Orchestra, Patrick Hatchett plays on much of the album also co-writing several tracks becoming, in Adams’ words, ‘central to the Yesking sound’. Togo born singer Kodjovi Kush adds afrobeat flavour to ‘One More Time’ with a vocal performance which displays his musical journey to East London via Ghana, Israel and ‘90s Central London cultural hotspot, the Africa Centre. ‘Rock This World’ collaborators make a welcome return in the form of Kenny Knotts, a UK dancehall vocalist with a string of top ten hits to his name and rapper Mystro, a seasoned veteran with a list of collaborations under his belt that reads like a who’s who of the UK scene. Representing the new generation of UK dancehall artists is Toddla T and Sticky collaborator Lady Chann providing unique sound system swag on ‘Secret King’. Decca signing Annie Bea adds a sweet summer feel to ‘Just Like Me’ and new voices Mel Uye Parker, Rioghnach Connolly offer accomplished vocals to lead single ‘Hardground’, a track which Adams is happy to describe as one of his proudest productions.  All in all a rich mix thrown in to the sonic melting pot via that all important tape machine mixdown! 

[The very tape machine to which the album owes so much is central to the album’s cover art produced by Adams together with artist Paul Curtis.]

 


Re-Record Not Fade Away - Instrumentals

Devil Inside

Yesking Devil Inside

Here we are again, the third volume in a series set to outstrip my “Legendary Deep Funk” comps. We do hope so, as we much prefer the music on these. The funk and soul thing seems much too serious nowadays. Whereas rockin tunes are all about fun. Not to detract from the quality of music on these tunes, but you can clearly here the fun they had recording them.
The majority of the tunes on volume 2 were ultra-rare rockabilly classics. This time we’ve gone for pure fun with a few deeper sounding rarities thrown in to add a hint of diversity.  Dj’ing is also much more fun for us now as this music generates happiness in the crowd too.  The old northern soul days of “drowning in a sea of my own despair” have been replaced with “having a ball”. That seems the condition we left the UK in too, with lots of younger club goers having a ball to the likes of Johnny Burnette or Charlie Feathers. 
Japan is already in the grip of Rockabilly fever, but we have our work cut out in other countries over here in South East Asia. Noel Coward once said “funny how powerful cheap music is”, and Joseph Goebbels would have been proud of the way that mass marketing of shite works here. Still give us a few years and we will save them from a life of pish music. Already little pockets of resistance are breaking out. A bit like the UK ten years ago then ?? 

Onto the tunes.
1. Charles Chick Ganimian was an Armenian American who played his oud at belly dancing clubs in Manhattan through the fifties whilst training to be a butcher. He didn’t have great success in the music business, but did have an album of the same title released on Acto.
2. Angie Bokeko and her band had a wail of a time playing live gigs around the Pennsylvania coal region. They had a few releases, “dance her by me” and “I wanna dance” becoming local hits. An obvious live dance band who’s highlights must have been opening for both the Byrds, and Beach Boys at the Lakewood ballroom.
3. Birmingham, Alabama born Baker Knight wrote the delicate ballad “wolfman”, and is supposedly (not known for sure), the vocalist too. Surprising when you realize he was a prolific song writer for the likes of Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney, and Elvis. He also recorded a few good rockers for Decca records in the late fifties. “Bring my Cadillac back” being a regular spin for us in the early days of “Lost & Found” at Madame Jo Jo’s. 
4. Gene Maltais from New Hampshire recorded a few good rockers during 1957 and 59 whilst touring the country in his old 49 Chevy doing odd jobs and looking to break into the music industry. The first “Crazy Baby” on Decca is great rockabilly which the label didn’t bother to market properly. In 1958 he recorded an OK double sider “Lovemaking” and “The Bug” for Regal records. Then in 1959 having been disappointed with the way a certain group on Aladdin records had recorded  his song  “Raging Sea” he formed his own label in order to record and release his own version. 
5. Johnny Knight recorded “Rock and Roll Guitar” for California’s tiny Morocco label in 1958. The flip is a slightly twee yet fun dancer titled “Snake Shake”.   The label did produce at least one more tune that I know of, Buddy & the Fads “Won’t you love me”, but apart from that I know nothing.
6. “Young Long John” a tremendous rockabilly tune was Phil Barclay’s first recording for the Tennessee based Doke label in 1958. Later that year he recorded “Short Fat Ben” and the flip “I Love ‘em All”. Both sides would fit easily into my top fifty records of all time.  There is just so much life in these two songs. Towards the end of the year he went a bit downhill with “Hey Gang”.  His final release for the label in 1959 “Lovin Baby” restored some of his honor, but nowhere near the level of his first two singles.
7. The line “Her knees began to tremble” makes me smile every time. Especially when you realize that Tony and Jackie Lamie were a father and son outfit. “Wore to a Frazzle” and this the flip side were custom pressed in Virginia for them in April 58. No label would sign them so they put the money up themselves. A marathon of a tune by rockabilly standards at almost 3 minutes.  Believe it or not the flip is over 15 seconds longer.
8. How did a thumping rockabilly style instro get onto a Detroit label like Amon in 1963. I only knew the label for a few northern soul tunes. A couple from the American Gino Washington, and the $2,000+ Johnny Rogers – “Make a Change”. That was until I found out that the Atlantics, Gino’s backing band at the time were all white boys with an ear on the South.
9. “Thunder” and “Taylors Rock” by Bob Taylor and the Counts were written and recorded by Bob in October 1958 for the Yucca label from New Mexico. Both featured a young Bobby Fuller on guitar, and both became rockabilly classics decades later.  Jump forward a few years, move up to California, give it a more surf influenced sound, add “Reef” to the title, add Bobby Fuller to the writing credits, and we get what is for me a slightly stronger version.
10. Joe Smith the drummer on “Geraldine” created a wonderfully exotic jungle rhythm on this in September 1961. Some sources mix the group up with an eight piece band from Memphis, and give the tune a 1965 recording date. The label is from Memphis, but the band hail from Oxford, MS. I got this from the drummers’ brother.
11. “Whiphash” I’m sure is a typo for this Ohio custom pressed rocker recorded in January 1961. I’m pretty sure the band set up the label just to get this pressed, and then to wait for the call from the big label boys. Sadly they are probably still waiting as I only know of this one record by them, and only this one release on the label. The flip is a pretty good strolling instro.
12. Marlon “Madman” Mitchell cut this much covered rockabilly anthem in September 1957 in Alabama. Seven months later Billy Hogan cut the rocker “Shake it over Sputnik”, and that seems to be your lot from Vena records. 
13. I put the flip of this Johnny Powers on an old comp I did with that lovely Cut Chemist chap. Both sides fit into my all-time top 20 very easily. Johnny from Detroit recorded under various guises from the Motor City to Australia.  He was one of the major brains behind the Motown sound of the sixties. As with most of the sharper people at the label in the mid-sixties he fell out with Berry Gordy. He left Motown, and founded his own Sound, Drew, and Sidra labels to give us some northern soul classics. He was the only artist to have recorded for probably the two most influential labels in musical history, Motown and Sun. He should have been a household name, but never got the recognition he deserved.
14. Eddie Gaines recorded this in April 1958 in Kentucky. Exactly a year later he cut the not so instant “She captured this heart of mine” for the same label, and that was that. I don’t know if it’s Eddie playing lead guitar on this, but whoever it is does a sterling job. 
15. “Connie Lou” and the as good flip “My Hamtramck Baby” were recorded in April 1959 for the tiny Michigan based Clix label. Ray originally from Tennessee moved to Alabama at the age of five where he no doubt met the “Pals”.  The label gave us a handful of rockabilly/hillbilly blues records including another favorite of mine by Ford Nix & the Moonshiners called “Nine Times out of Ten”.
16. Staying with young men from Alabama, Everett Carpenter (who actually worked as a carpenter), moved up to Chicago to record “Run, Run Mabel”, and this in 1960. Frank Lewis (an African-American), ran the Square Deal label, and it was just that. Any artist could pay for their session, and all Frank wanted was a demo, and the pleasure of helping struggling musicians. Everett wrote this after watching the struggle some girls had with hair disorders at a local dance. The flip was written after he witnessed a man chasing his cheating wife down the street, and heard someone shouting “Run Mabel” to her.
17. The king of what Daddy Bones named “Tittyshakers” back in the late nineties, “Crawlin” just oozes sleaze.  I know nothing about the record or label at all. I do know that some people grumble at the use of the term “tittyshaker”, but that’s exactly what the young girls do at the clubs I play at when tunes like this come on. Indeed a lot of the tunes so grouped were obviously designed to garner such a reaction.
18. “Barricuda” was recorded in 1958 for a subsidiary of Dot records which was in turn part of the Paramount pictures group. I wonder if it made it into a movie, and if so what the scene was like. I assume that Ernie Fields the writer is the same man that played piano for the Hollywood based Aladdin, Modern, and Specialty labels. 
19. Let it be known that I hate Jazz. I don’t mind a bit of swing but the rest all sounds too smug, and “look at me, look how clever I am”. Having said that the next couple of records are a tad jazz tinged. Joe Lee recorded two records of interest for the Memphis based Fernwood label. Of more interest is the fact that they were both produced by Scotty Moore, the man behind the guitar sound on Elvis’s Sun recordings. Therefore one of the main men behind the birth of rockabilly. 
20. The Rebel Rousers, not the British group by the same name these Rebel Rousers must have been heavily inspired by Duane Eddy. They took the title of one of his tunes as the name for their group, and this is a cover of one of his hits. Apart from that all I know is that this is probably the rarest version of the tune to turn up so far
21. As before, a haunting, melancholy number sung by Clay Allen of The Country Dudes to finish. Until relatively recently this tune was unknown in the rockin world. Then one of my heroes, Barney Koumis of No Hit Records bought a copy blind on E-bay. The tune was soon filling dance floors, and shooting up in price. Recorded in September 1959 for the Houston based Azalea label which gave us a few interesting records, but none as good as this. After a few listens it will be stuck in your head.

Keb Darge and Little Edith 2013.


01 Come With Me To The Casbah

In Motion Collective delivers a powerful and eclectic blend of afro-funk and soul. With attention to authenticity, the group pulls from a myriad of sounds, drawing influence from afrobeat pioneers Fela Kuti and Tony Allen, ethiojazz legend Mulatu Astatke and soul icons such as Isaac Hayes and Roy Ayers.

Formed as a trio in 2010, the group is now comprised of a 10-piece, horn-heavy powerhouse that is guaranteed to excite the dancefloor. The groups anticipated debut 7" single is due out October 2013 on Ohio-based indie label, Colemine Records. A follow up full length LP is in the works.

IMC has been asked to share the stage with heavyweights such as the Budos Band, Lee Fields, Sierra Leone's Refugee Allstars and Toubab Krewe. The group is currently nominated for 'Best Jazz Artist' for the 2013 San Diego Music Awards.

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In Motion Collective

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