R&B Revisited

Format: Vinyl LP, CD, Digital
Web: www.hopestreetrecordings.com/woodenboy

It’s soul music, baby, but not as we know it. The backbeat and the handclaps are still there and the horns still sound. The bass bumps, the organ screams and the guitars still twang, but the singer has left the room. Everything is shades of blue. This is soul music for the after hours. For the solitary dancers and the lonely hearts. The soundtrack to solitary headlights on a midnight highway. What to call it? Who cares! Can you dance to it? Just try not to. No one’s telling you to throw your hands up in the air, but no one would be surprised if you did. It’s dark here, so you can do your own thing.

Wooden Boy was recorded by The Cactus Channel -- a ten piece band from Melbourne, Australia -- all born in the 90s and raised on the internet. Yet somehow, this astonishing follow up to last year's rave-reviewed debut, Haptics, sounds like it could have been recorded in the 1970s, or possibly in the distant future. A timeless, placeless cinematic odyssey, Wooden Boy could have been an alternate soundtrack to Ghost Dog -- if Lalo Schifrin and the Meters were collaborating on the RZA's score. Or maybe Wooden Boy was what happened when Lars Von Trier got invited to direct an episode of Soul Train. What any of it may actually mean is left to the listener's imagination.

Funk aficionados will hear shades of New York on this record, echoes of El Michel’s taking on Wu Tang, the influence of Budos and Menehan et al. But this is the Generation Z version; both more tempestuous and more introverted. Recorded analog in the digital era, presented faceless in the celebrity era, inexplicably ambiguous in the soundbite era, is this the album the world needs right now? Undoubtedly yes. In a world where the NSA can read the text message that dumped you, what does a person need more than sad soul music from the future? Wooden Boy, baby, Wooden Boy.

PRAISE FOR HAPTICS by THE CACTUS CHANNEL (debut 2012 album):

•	"Hot-to-trot... an embryonic version of the Meters or the Dap Kings" - THE AUSTRALIAN (four stars)
•	"Tightly raw soul, rambling deep-funk jams and organ-driven party mash-ups" - THE AGE
•	"Infectiously funky sounds... a horn-fuelled, butt-shaking affair" - TRIPLE J HOME & HOSED
•	"Old-fashioned, gritty soul music – by a bunch of white teenagers from Melbourne" - THE MONTHLY
•	"Album Of The Week" - RTR PERTH, PBS-FM, SYN-FM, 2SER + EASTSIDE RADIO, RTR PERTH

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The Cactus Channel - Who Is Walt Druce?

"Moon" from the album "Painkillers & Parasites", released November 3, 2013. 

Free download: http://jenova7.com/album/painkillers-parasites

Album artwork by B0ilbUttzZ: www.facebook.com/b0ilbUttzzZ 
Featuring vocals by Bliss (tracks 2 and 8) - soundcloud.com/ascendedmasters 
Featuring production by Esbe (track 3) - soundcloud.com/esbe1988 
Featuring vocals by Elenika (track 5) - elenika.bandcamp.com 
Featuring production by Groove Cereal (tracks 8 and 21) - soundcloud.com/groove-cereal 
Featuring horns by Vicky Flint (5, 6 and 14) - soundcloud.com/vickyflint 
Mastering by VPD of Dusted Wax Kingdom (tracks 8 and 21) - dustedwax.org

Bandcamp

Moon

Before

Talking Steel and Singing Strings 
(1964)

Pete Drake - Blue Velvet

Otis Redding- Open The Door (kASPLATTY QUICKY)

A new edit on Al Geen's 1969 love anthem by DJSpector from Greece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqChhqstdiE&spfreload=10&hd=1

Al Green - The Letter (DJSpector Edit)

A rework that I started a long time ago that I've just managed to finish. Love this track. Love Marvin. 

Heard It [LNTG Rework]

this is all about Ai music and its apps 

This ain't no rumor, nah, this is the real deal,
AI in the music, lettin' everybody feel!
It's transformin' the game, from the clubs to the charts,
A digital revolution, playin' different parts.
Yeah, the rhythm's switchin', the sound's gettin' new,
AI on the rise, whatcha gon' do?
Watchin' it happen, a whole new frontier,
The future of sound, yeah, it's finally here!

This ain't no rumor, Ai is the Future ✨🙌

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we inhale we inhale
we exhale we exhale
tree inhales tree inhales
just just plant some trees
or otherwise you can't breath
just just plant some trees
and the soil gets nurtured like cum seeds
and your all our vegetables
are gone so be nutritios
like what now one orange 30 years ago
is like funny oranges funny oranges funny oranges
i don't even gotta say what I gotta say
but you you already know what im gonna say
so pack you packs go to mars while you dead
why do that why do that why do that
why you thing about doing that
you even gotta enough money to do that
so bitch plant a tree you gonna sleep well next night
its alright plant it right take the beste tree you can find
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you been in space seeing the word
get trees graced flaming the serve
liking around us like we should
enhancing others like the fuck what you do
you move like that
I move like that
its on a track
its on this track
tree tree exhales we inhale 
weed exhale tree inhales
sober jam sober trail so verities
so juice your vertalizers
why you are so stub
you just put some shit in your soil
shit in your soil

exhale inhale

Cosby Sweater_Final Mix

Jesus [LNTG Re-Edit]

audio came from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wKyXA_nMVQ



The undisputed truth - smiling faces sometimes - dizazter

Marvin Gaye - I Want You (Funkdamento Remix)

DJ DSK recently released this awesome funky version of classic track from Ol Dirty Bastard "Baby I Got Your Money" featuring Kelis.

Unfortunately the vocals are censored so I've trawled comedy films to put the missing words back in.

Purchase the original from DJ DSK - https://djdsk.bandcamp.com/album/dna-edits-vol-1

Ol Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money (DJ DSK - DNA Edit) WITH SWEARING PUT BACK IN

Buy / Stream here: 

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2FOFd16
Apple Music: https://apple.co/3iMq1A3
Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3hMd6N8
Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/35PQxFc
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Gitkin’s music exists somewhere between primal, rootsy memory and distant exotic yearning — A dusty bordertown where the familiar blends imperceptibly into the enchantingly foreign. 

After a long and fruitful run as a bandleader with relentlessly touring party-rockers Pimps Of Joytime and a Grammy-nominated country blues collaboration with Cedric Burnside, multi-instrumentalist Brian J set out to “explore tonalities I’d never messed with,” as he puts it. It was a release from “having to write lyrics or involve my voice,” he notes, and so the (mostly) instrumental sound of Gitkin came into being. 

Reviews of Gitkin’s first LP grappled with descriptors, tagging it vaguely as “cinematic” and comparing it favorably with Khruangbin. True, the music is largely wordless, emotionally evocative, and guitar driven. But it possesses an alluring alchemy all its own. 

Gitkin’s first release, 2018’s well-received Five Star Motel, amply demonstrated his ease with earthy funk and comfortably-cut rhythm. On his new full-length release Safe Passage, the itinerant guitar slinger broadens his already rich palette with melodies informed by Greek and Middle Eastern modalities, Peruvian Chicha and Tuareg Saharan guitar styles. No gimmick, this juxtaposition of gut-bucket blues and funk low-end with unexpectedly twisting lead phrases highlights the intense flavors found in each savory ingredient. 

Recorded at his home studio in New Orleans, Safe Passage showcases a new batch of immediately engaging, repeatedly satisfying cuts, ranging from surf exotica (“Cat Nip”) to raunchy roadhouse stompers (“Fools Gold” and “The Drive”) to dreamy vocal cuts “Foot Steps” and “Hold On” to the floating finale of “Safe Passage.” 

Gitkin’s production radiates character and warmth, leaning on soft-focus vintage mics, dubby spring reverbs and the quirks of an analog tape machine. Further enhancing the intimate vibe are distinguished guests like Carol C (of Si*Sé), who lends her striking voice to three tracks, including the strutting single “De La,” veteran Chauncey Yearwood (congas) and New Orleans local Clifton “Spug” Smith, who provides a sousaphone low-end on the cumbia-not-cumbia “Spug Life.” 

Safe Passage will be released by Wonderwheel on September 18th, 2020 and will be available on vinyl, CD and digitally.

Safe Passage

Gitkin - Fools Gold

SoulBrigada edit of a heavy colombian funk banger from 1975 (unmastered).

http://www.facebook.com/pages/SoulBrigada/117259573135

Otis Redding- Open The Door (kASPLATTY QUICKY)

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