Classic Northern Soul from the 1972 Album, "Nolan".

Noland Porter- If I Could Only Be Sure (Jack Frost Edit)

Houston's poet-in-residence for 35 years, Hopkins recorded more albums than any other bluesman.  His New York Times obituary named him as one of the great country blues musicians and perhaps the greatest single influence on rock guitar players.

Hopkins' style was born from spending many hours playing informally without a backing band. His distinctive fingerstyle playing often included playing, in effect, bass, rhythm, lead, percussion, and vocals, all at the same time. He played both "alternating" and "monotonic" bass styles incorporating imaginative, often chromatic turnarounds and single-note lead lines. Tapping or slapping the body of his guitar added rhythmic accompaniment.

Much of Hopkins' music follows the standard 12-bar blues template but his phrasing was very free and loose. Many of his songs were in the talking blues style, but he was a powerful and confident singer. Lyrically his songs chronicled the problems of life in the segregated south, bad luck in love and other usual subjects of the blues idiom. He did however deal with these subjects with humor and good nature. Many of his songs are filled with double entendres and he was known for his humorous introductions


Lightnin' Hopkins- Where Did You Stay Last Night? (Jack Frost's Extended Blues Edit)

So this is my first mix of 2023. A fair bit of thought went into it. Personally this year has been very difficult, losing a parent, recovering from a nasty injury and contracting covid again! 

Music and DJing have always been one of my ways of dealing with things when my own mental health has dipped, losing myself for a couple of hours behind the decks makes me smile again.

With this mix, I wanted to reference some of the DJs, Artists and Records that have influenced what I play and why. The mix starts with an homage to John Peel with Joy Division and Soft Cell featuring. Then I move into my record collection with EBTG and Chicane’s chilled drum and bass mix before more soulful sounds from Alabama Shakes. 

Bootman - To the Hip is one of my all time favorite tracks. I first heard it on a Justin Robertson mixtape that inspired me that I wanted to DJ aged 15.  Moving on I was keen to include recent finds. Felix Tapes’ remix of Washington Square’s been on a few driving to work mixtapes and I absolutely love it. I was keen also to reference some quality 90’s Hip-hop midway before Gil Scott Heron’s political Soul Casbah 73 mix - So Nice!  Into the second half of the mix I’ve always been inspired by Optimo and the style of tunes they play.  Liquid Liquid and Q Lazzarus get dropped from Optimos 250 list!
The 3 pieces - Backed Up Against The Wall sums up how I was feeling for most of March so it had to feature.  To finish - again one of my favorite records -  Mercury Rev’s Holes into Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla Lost Colours remix rounds up a mix where I tried to leave a fair bit of myself on the sleeve. 
Hope you enjoy it!

Take Kerr  - Music is the Answer

The Avalanches - Park Music
Al Wilson - The Snake (Senior Citizens Mix)
Soft Cell - Tainted Love (DiCE EDiT)
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Chris Massey Remix )
Everything but the Girl - Before Today [Chicane Remix]
Sixto Rodriguez - Cause (Antonis Kanakis Remix)
Alabama Shakes - This Feeling (Yule edit)
Max Romeo - Chase The Devil (Frenks Dub Mix)
Suicide - Dream Baby Dream (JHИϟMF 5am Dub)
Joy Division - Transmission (Interstitial Remix)
Bootman - To the Hip
El Michels Affair - Shimmy Shimmy Ya (Guss Edit)
James Last - Washington Square (Felix Tapes & Kurlz727 Remix)
Foxall & Deaf Can Dance - Zorba The Greek (-Thank You- Edit)
Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina (E_Rock Edit)
Naughty By Nature - O.P.P.
Grand Puba - 360 Degrees (What Goes Around)
Lumidee - Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)
Gil Scott-Heron - Angola, Louisiana (Casbah 73 Tribute Edit)
Undisputed Truth - Brother Louie (FF Edits)
Astrud Gilberto - Black Magic Part II (Petko Turner Edit)
Joubert Singers - Stand On The Word (7 Samuraï Electro Dub Version)
The XX - VCR (Matthew Dear Remix)
The Avalanches - Wherever You Go (feat. Jamie xx, Neneh Cherry & CLYPSO)
Walter Murphy -a Fifth Of Beethoven  (Call me Classic Rework)
Liquid Liquid - Cavern (Judge Funk Edit)
Dinosaur L - Go Bang! (Dot 40 3am edit)
Nato - Bamba
Shina Williams & His African Percussionists - Agboju Logun (JH Edit)
The 3 Pieces - Backed-up Against the Wall (Funkee sounds edit)
Daft Punk - Teachers
Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses (Barticus Disco Drums Edit)
Mos Def - "Umi Says" (DJ Spivey's Sage Mix)
LCD Soundsystem - Home
Mercury Rev - Holes
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla (Lost Colours Jumping for Joy Club Edit)

Music is the Answer (DJ mix)

Richard Arnold "Groove" Holmes (Camden, New Jersey, May 2, 1931 – St. Louis, Missouri, June 29, 1991) was an American jazz organist who performed in the hard bop and soul jazz genre. He is best known for his 1965 recording of "Misty" which is considered a precursor of acid jazz.

His sound was immediately recognizable in the upper register, but even more so because of his virtuosity in creating, undoubtedly, the most rapid, punctuating, and pulsating basslines of all the jazz organists.

Though he died at the age of 60, he established a recognition within the community of jazz organ giants including Jimmy Smith, Brother Jack McDuff, and Jimmy McGriff.




Richard "Groove" Holmes- Red Onion (Jack Frost Edit)

Hamilton Frederick Bohannon (born March 7, 1942), often credited and known professionally simply as Bohannon, is an American percussionist, band leader, songwriter and record producer, who was one of the leading figures in 1970s disco music.

He was born in Newnan, Georgia, and learned the drums at school. He began playing in local bands, one of which featured guitarist Jimi Hendrix, before graduating from Clark College, Atlanta with a degree in music and secondary education. After a brief period as a schoolteacher, he was recruited in 1964 as drummer in 13-year-old Stevie Wonder's touring band. He moved to Detroit in 1967, where he was employed by Motown as the leader and arranger of Bohannon & The Motown Sound, who provided backing for many of the label's top acts on tour, including Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Diana Ross and the Supremes, The Four Tops and others.

When Motown moved from Detroit to Los Angeles, Bohannon stayed behind to form his own ensemble, featuring members of local band, The Fabulous Counts and including such musicians as Ray Parker Jr. and Dennis Coffey. He signed in 1972 with the Dakar label run by producer Carl Davis, and released his debut album Stop & Go in early 1973. This was followed by five more albums for the label over the next two years, on which he "perfected his formula of heavy, thudding bass accents and aggressive rhythms". Although several of his tracks were club hits, he had limited chart success. His first hit single, in 1974, was "South African Man", which reached no.78 on the Billboard R&B chart but had more success in the UK, where it reached no.22 on the pop chart. This was followed up in 1975 by "Foot Stompin Music" - his only record to reach the US Hot 100 - and "Disco Stomp", his biggest hit in the UK where it reached number 6.

In 1976, Bohannon signed to Mercury Records and two years later had one of his biggest successes with "Let’s Start The Dance," which reached no.9 on the R&B chart and no.7 on the disco chart. "Let's Start the Dance" featured singer Carolyn Crawford, whose subsequent albums Bohannon went on to produce. In 1981, a new mix of "Let's Start the Dance" was successful on the dance charts. In 1980 he established Phase II Records and continued to have minor hits on the R&B chart for the next three years, using new vocalists Liz Lands and Altrinna Grayson.He signed with MCA Records in 1984 and released several more albums. His last album, It's Time To Jam, was issued on the South Bound label in 1990.



Bohannon- Save Their Souls (Jack Frost Remix)

Ann Peebles (born April 27, 1947) is a singer and songwriter who gained celebrity for her Memphis soul albums of the 1970s for Hi Records. Two of her most popular songs are "I Can't Stand the Rain", which she wrote with her husband Don Bryant and radio broadcaster Bernie Miller, and "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down". In 2014, Ann Peebles was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.

Ann Peebles- Breaking Up Somebody's Home (Jack Frost Edit)

“Southern agricultural penitentiaries were in many respects replicas of nineteenth-century plantations, where groups of slaves did arduous work by hand, supervised by white men with guns and constant threat of awful physical punishment. It is hardly surprising that the music of plantation culture — the work songs — went to the prisons as well.”

Parchman Farm(CPC's Midnight Special)

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