Funk!

2016 has been a great year musically already.  Here's my growing collection of tunes released so far, including several fine ones where I have been asked to join the fun.   Thanks to the extraordinary musicians and friends who have joined me - I owe so much to them to what they each bring to the party, for their creativity and their collaborative spirit:
Alpha Roots - guitar and djembe
Tom Adams - guitar
Julien Apelian - keyboards
BITs - keyboards
Joe Bongiovanni - guitar
Mirko Borach (Stringburner) - bass
Jörg Calaminus - keyboards
Dean Clark (Alex Rand) - keyboards and bass
Rients Draaisma - guitar
Simon Reich - keyboards
Giuliano Ghisi - guitar
Ms. King - vocals
Rey King - guitar
Stephan "Pinner" Lipinski - guitar
Mel Lopes - trumpet
Orlando "The Don" Lund - guitar, bass, congas
Michel Martineau - clarinet
Claus Maurice - guitar
Santi-Caballero Mendez - sax
Jeff Michaels - guitar
NayJ - vocals
David Nederland - keyboards
Scott Nelson - guitar
Mike Orzek - guitar
Marco Oversteegen - guitar
Tony "bluestone' Pappas - vocals
Aleck Rand - guitar, keyboards, bass
Luis Reniu - bass
David Rhind - trumpet
Dan Rosati - tenor sax
Hidefumi Suzuki - guitar
Ian Tait - guitar
Les Thomas - guitar
Justin Valente - guitar
Dan van den Berg - guitar
Milana Zilnik - una corda

And for those interested, I have just released Barcelona and I Believe, 2 CDs of my own music and a few jazz standards. SoundCloud's Dan van den Berg and Al Schulman wrote the liner notes for them. Here's a link if you are interested in checking them out - itunes.apple.com/us/album/barcelona/id1071251143

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and feedback and for your shares


BUY JAMIE'S MUSIC

2016 Releases and Collaborations

Thanks to so many extraordinary musicians and friends who have helped create some fantastic music in 2016....

Alpha Roots - guitar
Tom Adams - guitar
Tom Adams - guitar
Julien Apelian - keyboards
BITs - keyboards
Joe Bongiovanni - guitar
Mirko Borach - bass
Kenneth Bruce - bass
Jörg Calaminus - keyboards, guitar
Dean Clark - keyboards, guitar
Matt Criscolo - alto saxophone
Phil Currie - guitar
Rients Draaisma - guitar
Rikard From - keyboards
Giuliano Ghisi - guitar
Ian Greaves - vocals
Terry Harris - guitar
Steve Hart - guitar
Ms King - vocals
Rey King - guitar
Mel Lopes - trumpet
Orlando Lund - guitar, bass
Michel Martineau - clarinet
Claus Maurice - guitar
Santi-Caballero Mendez - saxes
Jeff Michaels - guitar
David Milzow - sax
NayJ - vocals
Scott Nelson - guitar, bass
Mike Orzek - guitar
Marco Oversteegen - guitar
Daniele P - bass
Stephen "Pinner" Lipinski - guitar
Paul "Pavliovante" Racle
Luis Reniu - bass
David Rhind - trumpet
Dan Rosati - tenor
Mike Spring - guitar, bass, vocals
Ian Tait - guitar
Les Thomas - guitar
Justin Valente - guitar
Dan van den Berg - guitar
Kyr van der Werf - guitar
Milana Zilnik - una corda

We thank you always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

2016 SoundCloud Collaborations

December

Please show support for these amazing artists! Enjoy this thrilling playlist!

So excited! about music - Thrilling 21

Feelings Of The Heart

art by kacper abolik - http://abolik.com

sampled song : https://soundcloud.com/vicktortaiwo/digitalkids

FRAGILE

It is no surprise to anybody that Laruche loves Funk Music, a complete style which includes in its influences Jazz, Rock and Blues and a genre that has gone on to have a major influence on hip-hop. 

The EP is made up not from computers or gadgets, but live instruments. The furious guitars punctuate a traditional funk rhythm strewed with notes of keyboards and warm basses.

Quattro is the duo's (who over time have become more of a collective of musicians) fourth project.

Now sit back and listen to The Mixtapers their talent and integrity are undeniable.

Artwork By Player Hidenori Koga

Quattro

The Mixtapers - BackSeat Heat

For those of you who haven't discovered Orlando "The Don" Lund, here's your opportunity.  Orlando is a serious pro, having built a career as a writer, multi instrumentalist and producer in London during the '90s Soul Funk era, leading and creating with some of the finest contemporary jazz and funk musicians in Europe.  You can hear many of their great tunes here at https://soundcloud.com/orlando-lund.  If you are into grooving music, almost no one does it better.

Orlando approached me about playing on a tune I had released here, What the Funk, quickly sending 5 tasty tracks to me - a solid grooving bass line, a congas line, two rhythm guitar tracks and a George Benson style guitar solo.  I've worked them all in here, adding them to all my keyboard parts, creating some sweet soul jazz for your listening pleasure.  Check out Orlando's wonderful Palma Groove Project recordings on his gallery - really special creations.  

We thank you as always for your generous listening time, for your comments and for your shares.

What The Funk - with Orlando "The Don" Lund

Here's a classic jazz standard A Foggy Day.  A Foggy Day was composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film A Damsel in Distress. Never saw the movie but the beautiful tune has stuck with me for a long time.  It was originally titled "A Foggy Day (In London Town)" in reference to the pollution-induced pea soup fogs that were common in London during that period, and is often still referred to by the full title.  So many greats have recorded this, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday, George Benson and even David Bowie.

This recording was all done on keyboards.

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for you comments and for your shares.

A Foggy Day  - George Gershwin

a 6 hands keyboard funk jam..
with; Jamie Rhind @jamie-rhind
An idea that came out with lot of energy, happy dance feelings and friendship. To share this huge fun with all of you, dear SC friends.
Thank you Jamie.!! 
8-)


BITe Funk (Jamie Rhind & BITs)

Here's an original reggae tune brought to life by three very fine musicians, Alpha Roots on guitar, Julien Apelian on keyboards and piano and Ian Greaves on vocals.  Alphio is so deeply rooted in serious reggae, and brought his great understanding and love to his riddim guitar work.  Julien as always has contributed sweet playing and ideas with two keyboard tracks and also the two fine synth solos.  And Milwaukee's Ian Greaves's sweet lyrics and vocals tell the story.    

Love how these guys each contribute to the overall sound and conception.   
Check out their extensive galleries here on SC:
Ian Greaves - vocals and lyrics https://soundcloud.com/ipg1
Alphio - guitar  https://soundcloud.com/alpha-roots
Julien Apelian - keyboards  https://soundcloud.com/jules-keys-1

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

All I Want Is A Little Love - with Alpha Roots/guitar, Julien Apelian/keys, and Ian Greaves/vocals

Let's go for a stroll in Madrid....  All recorded on keyboards.

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

A Walk in Madrid

Music and production: https://soundcloud.com/porceleno
Vocals, lyrics, vocals production, arrangement: Anne Wichmann

Precognition

The less I am involved, the more I feel for all
The more I step back, the clearer I see it all
But I won´t look for you

Precognition
I feel you coming along
Precognition
Until you come, until you come

I am here now, rocking all the dancefloors in town
But I won´t look for you
No, I won´t look for you

Over the moon and under the sea
Over the moon and under the sea so blue
Over the moon and under the radar
You sent your avatar


She´s excited! & Porceleno - Precognition

Here's a pretty one to get in that positive weekend frame of mind...

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

A Positive Mind

Nothing like the thrills of the '70s Muscle Cars.   How 'bout a '72 Camero...

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

'72 Camero

1971 was an important time in music, where electricity was changing the landscape and Rock, Funk, Soul and Jazz were all merging into psychedelic grooves.  Marshal stacks were often taller than the players, the players were higher than the Marshal stacks, Strats and Les Pauls were the axes of choice, Hammond B3 Organs and Fender Rhodes keyboards could compete for volume with the guitars, and the hair was even longer than the jams.   Woodstock was a recent memory, Jimi Hendrix had just passed but had moved into the funk and soul inspired Band of Gypsies period, Sly & The Family Stone was heating it up with heavy funk and soul inspired grooves, and Miles Davis had just released the seminal Bitches Brew fusion double album that literally changed music.  This was where it was at, with each of these musicians and bands being influenced by each other.  Great stuff that produced legendary sessions and recordings and pushed music forward with power, energy, groove and volume.  

1971 commemorates this time and mindset, and recreates the feel with friends from around the world who continuously exhibit this spirit, energy and hair in their playing:

Alpha Roots - djembe  Stuttgart, Germany  https://soundcloud.com/alpha-roots
Rikard From - Hammond B3 organ  Umea, Sweden  https://soundcloud.com/rikard-from
Stephen "Pinner" Lipinski - guitar  New Jersey, USA  https://soundcloud.com/pinner
Scott Nelson - guitar  Pennsylvania, USA  https://soundcloud.com/scott-nelson-364333064
Marco Oversteegen - guitar  Almere, Netherlands  https://soundcloud.com/marco-oversteegen
Justin Valente  - guitar  New Jersey, USA  https://soundcloud.com/justin-valente
Jorg Calaminus - Dusseldorf, Germany - mastering

A couple of words on each of the players:  ALPHA ROOTS - Alphio was the perfect choice to add his soulful African djembe percussion voice.  One of the most prolific and inclusive musicians here on SoundCloud, always speaking with a positive voice.  Check out his often reggae and dub inspired recordings.  RICKARD FROM - my favorite B3 player here on SoundCloud.  We haven't recorded before but wanted his beautiful sound and also wanted these other heavy cats to be introduced to his Jimmy Smith type playing.  STEPHEN "PINNER" LIPINSKI - one of the hottest jazz fusion guitarists on SoundCloud, bringing more modern Scofieldesque jazz lines and harmonies to 1971.  SCOTT NELSON - another burning jazz and fusion guitarist, Scott sound combines elements of the contemporary guitar masters - Scofield, Metheny and Martino - to create his extraordinary playing.  MARCO OVERSTEEGEN - no one on SC has a closer overall sound to Hendrix, and we needed Marco's fabulous rhythm playing and soloing to anchor this 1971 mood.  JUSTIN VALENTE - Justin's my favorite blues rock guitarist, and just had to be a part of this summit, bringing us that heavy electric sound of Jimi, The Allman Bros, Freddie King and Stevie Ray Vaughn.  

So here's 1971.  Again.

Thanks to these great players for joining me and contributing so much to 1971, and also to all the listener, for your generous time, your comments and your shares.  And a special thanks to Jorg Calaminus for taking the initiative to master the sound for us to give you this real fine mix.
  

1971 - Alpha Roots, Rikard From, Scott Nelson, Marco Oversteegen, Pinner, Justin Valente, Jamie

All songs written, arranged, and produced by Peter Bowles
Recorded and mixed by Ryan Eno at The Warehouse Studio
Mastered by Nick Middleton in The Funk Lab
Peter Bowles - Keys, Synths, Talkbox, Vocoder 
Keegan Scott - Bass, Guitar 
Steve Beddall - Guitar 
Mike Woods - Guitar 
Paul Clark - Drums 
Chris Couto - Percussion 
Cole Graham - Trumpet 
Mike Kayser - Trombone 
Chris (Smoothie) Robin - Saxophone
All female vocal cuts voice of Tonye Aganaba 


Spring Forward

Tom Adams is back with some really heavy playing....some of his very best ever.   This one's our tribute to the recent tragedies in Dallas.  

Check out Tom's fantastic playing and gallery at https://soundcloud.com/better-with-the-blues

Thanks as always for your generous listening, for your comments and for your shares.

Blues for Dallas - with Tom Adams / guitar

Tracklist:

01. Way Out West - Tuesday Maybe [Anjunadeep]
02. Silvina Romero - The Game [Pacha Rec.]
03. Silvio Carrano - How I Feel [Zulu Rec.]
04. My Digital Enemy - Wrong [Toolroom]

TRACK OF THE MONTH
05. Orkidea - Nana (Jerome Isma-Ae Remix) [Black Hole Rec.]

06. Josh Bailey - Forget Me Never [Cloudland Music]
07. Lange - Conspiracy [Create Music]
08. Las Salinas - San Antoni (Ali Wilson & Tristan Ingram Full Fire Remix) [Vandit Rec.]
09. Chris Bekker, Chris Montana & Paul van Dyk - Berlination (PvD Club Mix) [Vandit Rec.]
10. Alex Ryan - Connect [Go On Air]
11. Cyre & DJ T.H. - Ibiza Calling (Chris SX Remix) [Levitated Rec.]
12. Cristian Ketelaars - Reaper [Trance Army Rec.]
13. Frank Dueffel - Catalunya (Nick Callaghan Remix) [NTR Blue]
14. David Rust - Initialise [Critical State]
15. Zac Waters - Silent Cartographer [WAO138]
16. Johlin - Oblivion (Digital Energy Remix) [B-Sonic Rec]
17. Maratone feat. Dee Dee - Time Will Tell (Dub Mix) [Entrancing Music]

FLASHBACK [1997]
18. Chicane - Sunstroke (Disco Citizens On The Train Remix) [xtravaganza]

Frank Dueffel - Needful Things 012 - Ibiza Special

Silencieuse

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Track List:

01 - Monoverse - Avenoir (Intro Mix) [FSOE Excelsior] (Taken from FSOE 450 Compilation)
02 - Melih Kor - Nigh Rider [FSOE Excelsior] (Taken from FSOE 450 Compilation)
03 - Eximinds & Metroom - Clash [FSOE Excelsior](Taken from FSOE 450 Compilation)
04 - Alexandre Bergheau - There's Always A Way [FSOE Excelsior] (Taken from FSOE 450 Compilation)
05 - Skylane - Blueshift [Adrenalin Room]
06 - High Frequencies - Aether [Mondo]
07 - Gai Barone & Katty Heath - You Make It Hurt (Formal One Remix) [Sir Adrian] (Taken from FSOE 450 Compilation)
08 - Mohamed Ragab & Attila Syah - Crux [FSOE Excelsior] (Taken from FSOE 450 Compilation)
09 - Marcell Stone & Mohamed Hamdy - Behind The Echoes [FSOE Excelsior](Taken from FSOE 450 Compilation)
10 - PARITY - Kalahari [FSOE Excelsior](Taken from FSOE 450 Compilation)
11 - LTN & Flashtech - The Last Ride [FSOE Excelsior](Taken from FSOE 450 Compilation)
12 - Emerge - Godspeed [FSOE Excelsior] (Taken from FSOE 450 Compilation)
13 - TheRio - Laetitia [FSOE Excelsior] (Taken from FSOE 450 Compilation)
14 - Alex Ender - ARES [FSOE Excelsior] (Taken from FSOE 450 Compilation)
15 - Somna - Mystic [FSOE Excelsior] (Taken from FSOE 450 Compilation)
16 - Aimoon - Fusion [FSOE Excelsior] (Taken from FSOE 450 Compilation)

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Late June - Worthless

PACMAN*ft - Mr. DUI - The Flame Dances (Prod. SouL Muzick)
Vocals @pacman-mic-mastery
Vocals @mrdui305
Production & Mix @soulmuzick13
Cover Art @time2cclear
Lyrics:
*PACMAN*AKA*PAC*
[Verse 1]
Demons in my head while i lay in my bed,
sleep paralysis trying to make it out gun to my head.
All the problems situations while i'm hooked on medication 
pop the bottle keep on drinking will i make it see the flaming faces.

It's hard believing all these people in the matrix,
denominations accusations that i'll take it? I'm fighting everyday 
see the scars on my heart! I'm trying to make a change, my heads
a roller coaster!

They grab me by my throat walking through the
battlefield, they trying to take my soul but i will never let it go.
The heart of lions i'll keep trying, i pray of places, where there's 
love no hatred i can taste it motivation!

Grandma please now listen grab the tissue yea i miss you, dark times
i write rhymes i bleed pints i been too. Rock bottom now it's time to face
the storm. Yo... it's time to face the storm!

[Chorus 2X]

I let the candle burn wax dripping on the floor! 
Don't know if i can take it anymore! Gods got a 
plan for me but i don't seem to see the door
crack a bottle in my room by my self through 
the storm! I'm lost in my mind! Wishing for 
success! Trying to be a good person! All i see
is death! It's certain my pen squirting blood up 
on the curtains , i'm searching, anatomize my 
fragile eyes get blurry!

Mr. DUI
[Verse 2]
While they Sleep, I creep, in their Crib. If You Slip, Than I Grip, 
You See how Simple it is? or need I say it again??

So Many Thoughts in my Mind, I can't Sleep at Night.
Reach for the Pen and start to Write, What I seen on Signs!
Designed to see at night. Follow me; you wanna See the Light!
Jesus Christ, they think I'm Wrong for trynna be is Right??
But Their Opinion don't Count. It don't Mean Nothing.
Thought it so hard, I Started Mean Mugging! 
In The Middle of the Night, Tossing and turning, at 3 in the Morning
tho I'm stretching and Yawning, is like Chico gotta keep an eye open!
Fight it by Popping an Ambien, but it won't Close.
Co-workers like "Couldn't sleep?" No!
Sleep Disorders got my mind distorted.
...wonder, will I make it to 40??
God Knows the answer, I Don't know it! 
Listen Close to the Thoughts of a POET!
One whose lost in a Forrest. Sleep Walking and Talking.
Speaking a Foreign Language. 
Nothing More horrifying than Norvin's Anguish!
It wouldn't bother me to eat'em in a Sam'wich!

We appreciate you listening!

PACMAN*ft - Mr. DUI - The Flame Dances (Prod. SouL Muzick)

2018: https://soundcloud.com/samprock/2018-adamaudio-soundtrack
2017: https://soundcloud.com/samprock/synthphony
2016: https://soundcloud.com/samprock/the-droplet-groove
2015: https://soundcloud.com/samprock/sam-prock-the-groove-surfer-original-mix

Yearly ADAM Pro Audio FEST. 30 sec was a requirement and I love the idea to express your self in half a minute shot. Always great to review your prod growth and pay attention on imaging, distinction of the sound. Great way to sweep dust your studio monitors and make car system to sneeze :D 

My 2015 Adam track is here (... I know! 282K plays and 3.6K Likes. I'm so very grateful to your immersive support guys! The Groove Surfer surfed way up to number 1 spot in Top 50 SoundCloud charts :) soundcloud.com/samprock/sam-prock-the-groove-surfer-original-mix

Thank you ALL for the terrific support to this Droplet edit, which is also got into both Top 50 Played and New and Hot SoundCloud charts, so it gets multi-K plays and multi hundred likes :D  Appreciate! 

Played my Fender guitar and few dozens lines of Korg Gadget, MiniMoog, ARP2600, Jupiter, Prophet, Moog Modular. If you hear far too many elements compiling the symphony, your speakers are good and .... very clean :) 

Cover art photography by Gregory Crewdson gagosian.com/artists/gregory-crewdson

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Flower Power Released by Sam Prock and Silent Zen, 2016, 2019 ☮

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Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Flower Power

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The Droplet Groove

Been getting alot of requests for this remix i did of the mighty fine Infected Mushroom crews Now is Gold vibe some time ago for a BPM competition when our cosmic threads of psilocybin intertwined for the first time in this progressive psy electro phat dance clubfungus adventure into electronics time and space and extended for 2016! Peace & Celebrate life! :D 

@infectedmushroom

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🍄Infected Mushroom Now Is Gold Remix 🍄

So my little boy Aurélien told me it had been a long time I hadn't made an uplifting set for him.... Here it is! Here, and Now!

"Cease to hope and you will cease to fear" - Hecato

"The life of folly is empty of gratitude, full of anxiety: it is focused wholly on the future" - Seneca

"Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse. Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come. A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappiness to the present" - Seneca

Well peeps.. Here's my new place : the Present... ;^) Try it too!! ;^) <3

HERE & NOW (20.11.16)

A fresh funky collaboration with Jamie Rhind :)
Keys and electronic drums by https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind
Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars by me Cry Baby Wah included!
Photo: lower Manhattan NY 1976 / photographer unknown

Mid Town Funk

Mid Town Funk - Jamie Rhind & Mike Spring -

free download 🍌

KVN AUST⚡ - dead dog

Deluxe

Jump Back

Taken from the first album of Burning House (Walking into a Burning House), out Septembre 16. Burning House are : Chief Xcel (Blackalicious) & Hervé Salters (aka General Elektriks).

Turn Off The Robot (taken from the 3-track EP, out June 17)

Netherlands based singer-songwriter/guitarist/composer/sound engineer.
headphones recommended

Mid Town Funk - Jamie Rhind & Mike Spring -

MIKE SPRING