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)

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)

Originally mixed this back in February as a Follow up to Take Kerr - Dark Skies Starry Eyes  however I wasn't completely happy with the track selection so this weekend I thought I’d re-record it with some tweaks to the tracklist. I love mixing in the winter and usually find the darkness and bleakness of winter in Edinburgh influences what I mix and listen to. 
This mix starts out with one of favorite bands Little Dragon then Edinburgh’s own Barry Can’t Swim (if you've not heard of him check his first album - when will we land?. Other original tracks from the likes of Leftfield, Four Tet and Alexander Robotnick plus edits and remixes of 60’s garage band the Troggs,  The KLF, Lana Del Ray and Romy from The XX

Take Kerr - Starry Eyes Dark Skies (2nd Cut)

Little Dragon - Come Home
Barry Can’t Swim - I Won’t Let You Down
Eivør - Mín Móðir (Haugli Interpretation)
Leftfield - A Final Hit (Tuba Twooz From The Vein Remix)
Alt-J - Something Good (Mik Kartl Edit)
Lana Del Ray - Born to die (Rune Lindbæk edit)
The Troggs - Wild Thing (Reyneke Reinterpretation)
Phenomenal handclap Band - Baby (Clock Opera Remix)
Paula Tape - Panamericana
Alexander Robotnick - Love Supreme 
The KLF - Madrugada Eterna (Johan Agebjörn Acid House Edit)
Leftfield - Rino's Prayer
Four Tet - She Just Likes to Fight
Lana Del Ray - Video Games (Mojo Filter Swingin' Whoopin' Re-Love)
Renegade Soundwave - Thunder (Contepella edit)
SBTRKT - New Drop (Dave Harrington edit)
Jayda G - All I Need 
Barbara St. Clair - Teacherman (Hober Mallow No Fool Remix)
Chet Faker - Cigarettes & Chocolate (Animal Trainer Edit)
Cristobal Tapia de Veer - White Lotus (Nhii Remix)
Underworld - Born Slippy (Melokolektiv remix)
The Art of Trance - Madagascar (Gorkiz & Briccio Reinterpretacion) 
Carli - Lights & Strobes
Bonobo & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Heartbreak
Romy - Lifetime (Burnout Sumner's Imaginary 12'' Extended Mix)
Barry Can’t Swim and Laurence Guy - Can We Still Be Friends?

Starry Eyes Dark Skies (2nd Cut)

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)

To celebrate the release of BC004, Jimmy Twin & Laura Ingalls Get Up Ep we've got a little treat for our followers.  
   
This limited download is a remix by man of the moment and label artist Admin. It's a proper dance floor work out so Get UP ! Get on Up...  
  
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