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NEW DOWNLOAD LINK: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mhmxsn2np43h075/GOTCHA%20COVERED%20VOL%201%20%28FULL%20WEB%20VERSION%20-%2091%20MIN%29.aif?dl=0

Philadelphia DJs lil'dave (Illvibe Collective) and Personify (Little Big Things) have joined forces to bring you Gotcha Covered - a genre bending mega-mix of covers songs from the mid-60s to the present. With more than 35 years of DJing and music collecting between them, these fellas dug deep in their collections to pull tracks for Gotcha Covered and spent months mixing, cutting and blending together more than 90 covers spanning Funk, Soul, Jazz, Afrobeat, Latin, Bossa Nova, Boogaloo, Reggae, Steel-Drum Band, Brass Band, R&B and Hip-Hop, to name a few. From the super rare to the under-appreciated and forgotten to the more common cover versions, Gotcha Covered offers up something for the serious digger and the casual listener alike. If you love good music, stop what you're doing, grab a copy of the mix, and prepare to be taken on a tour of some of funkiest and most soulful covers ever laid down. And sorry - no track listing...gotta do your own homework for this one!

Gotcha Covered is available for free download here (@soundcloud.com/lildave-personify/gotcha-covered), but if you're the collector type or prefer physical media, you can purchase a limited edition Gotcha Covered digipak CD for $10 or sleeved CD for $6 + shipping by clicking on the "Buy Limited Edition CD" link on their SoundCloud page, or browsing to http://lildave-personify.bandcamp.com/. CDs ship within 10 days of ordering. And stay tuned...lil'dave and Personify will be releasing some exclusive edits of tracks used on Gotcha Covered in the coming weeks. Follow their SoundCloud page (@soundcloud.com/lildave-personify) for updates on the Gotcha Covered edits as they are released as well as info on other upcoming projects.

For solo mixes and production by lil'dave and Personify, you can also check the following links:
lil'dave SoundCloud: @soundcloud.com/lildave
Personify SoundCloud: @soundcloud.com/personify

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lil'dave & Personify present Gotcha Covered (NEW Download Link in Description)

This is The Vinyl Exam! The weekly music podcast about the vinyl record.

Your hosts Keith Foster and Columbo Ahmed will take you through a tour of the not-so-dead vinyl record. Keith will cover all things LP while Columbo takes charge of the 45. We are going to talk to record collectors, aficionados, addicts, old heads, and young bucks. In the podcast, we'll also have exclusive mixes, found sound, album reviews, and short-form radio stories. It's gonna be a trip! 

The LP, short for "Long Play Record", is your tried and tested vinyl format for music. With it, you get a warm sound that you simply can't find elsewhere. In our podcast, Keith will dig deep into the minds of those who collect these records to find out what drives them.   
What the hell is a 45? Columbo collects these little guys (they have a 7inch diameter compared to the 12inch LP) because, above all else, he loves individual songs. Singles. One hit wonders. And he's not alone. There's a lot of people out there who exclusively collect 45s and you will hear about every single one of them in our podcast. 

Our plan is to release something new every Monday. Make sure you subscribe on iTunes. To help us grow the show, make sure to give us a rating or review! And find us on twitter and facebook - we would love to hear what you have to say.

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00: The Vinyl Exam (Launch Episode)

To jump off the LP portion of the Vinyl Exam, Keith talked with Junior, the head of Recordbreakin Music. The topics ranged from World Cup to TED talks to (of course) Junior’s favorite digging city.  Junior couldn’t choose one album to talk about so we talked about two – albeit two with a commonality - production by the Mizell Brothers.  

Listen to the audio to hear Junior’s thoughts on all the above things plus some conversation on Junior’s label (which, full disclosure, Keith's band 'Big Pimp Jones' has released some music on). 

TVE: Episode 02 - http://www.thevinylexam.com/season-one/episode-02/

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02: Junior talks World Cup and the Mizell Brothers

DJ Forty Fivan (San Francisco) talks about his favorite 45. 

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DJ Forty Fivan - Purple Snow: Down by the River

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On Episode 08, Matt Nelkin of Liquid Beat Radio and Liquid Beat Records hangs out with us to talk about growing up with hip-hop in the Pacific Northwest and record label's releases, which leads into a discussion of a hip-hop classic.

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TVE: Episode 08 - www.thevinylexam.com/#/episode-08/

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08: Liquid Beats with Matt Nelkin

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Skeme reviews 5 of his favorite soul and funk 45s and goes into what makes soul music so good. 

1. Deep Heat - Do It Again 
2. Brothers of Soul - Cant Get You Off Of My Mind 
3. El Rego Et Ses Commandos - Achuta
4. Sounds of Dawn - How Many Times
5. Disciples of Soul - Together

Make sure to check out Keith’s kickstarter for his giant-monster graphic novel, Kodoja.  

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TVE: Episode 11 - http://www.thevinylexam.com/#/episode-11/

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11: The Skeme Richards Review

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On this episode, Keith talks with Roger 'Aloha Got Soul' Bong about his blog, the upcoming launch of his Aloha Got Soul label, digging for records and a Hawaii record story that yielded a digger's dream.

Check out Roger's blog here: http://alohagotsoul.com/

Pre-order the release here: http://alohagotsoul.bigcartel.com/product/mike-lundy-the-rhythm-of-life-tropic-lightning-ags-7001

Listen to both sides of Aloha Got Soul's first 45 release here:

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29: Aloha Got Soul

A quick mix showcasing Al Lover's Hot Grease, an all 45 R&B dance party every Tuesday night at Stay Gold in Austin, TX 10pm-2am....

The sounds of a leather motorcycle boot pushing your face into the whiskey soaked carpet of a smoke filled strip club in Las Vegas in 1962.

Hot Grease Quick Mix

Here's another mixtape of stoned out, head nodding, smooth and funky ass jazz.  

Tracklist

Shirley Scott: Mystical Lady
Bohannon: Singing a Song For My Mother
Roy Ayers: Everybody Loves The Sunshine
Catalyst: New Found Truths
Hal Galper: This Moment
Stanley Cowell Trio: Maimoun
George Benson: No Sooner Said Than Done
Eric Gale: Tonsue Corte
Bob James: Feel Like Making Love
Hank Crawford: Good Morning Heartache
Gabor Szabo: Thirteen
Leon Spencer: Where I'm Coming From

Evening Weed Jazz 6

The "Street Player" EP covers and reimagines the Disco song originally made famous by Chicago, and later sampled and turned into a House classic by Kenny Dope & The Bucketheads. 

With the help of the UK’s Colonel Red on all leading vocals, Liquid Beat’s crew of in-house producers each recreated unique covers of “Street Player” in their own signature styles.

Street Player

Matt Nelkin - Street Player (Drumappella)

Sama and Joyce, two bay-area graduate students discuss their experience as people of color in academia

s2e3 - Black Students Have Gone Extinct

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Listen to Pt. 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/needletothegroove/dj-platurn-breaking-the-ice-pt-2

Double disc all vinyl DJ mix packaged in 16 page high quality digibook with extensive liner notes, rare photos, & free download code. Limited to 1000 copies worldwide.

Breaking the Ice is an extended mix of rare—mostly never before heard—Icelandic tracks that are heavily underscored with psych, funk, soul, disco, and in-the-pocket rhythms, all of which are expertly mixed by renowned DJ and turntablist, DJ Platurn. 

The music presented has been compiled through a lifetime of collecting, while others have been passed down through Platurn’s familial, musical roots. 

The packaging includes rare photos, via Platurn's father Magnus Thordarson, and other ephemera from Iceland's small yet vibrant music scene during the late 1960s thru the early 1980s. The release also features extensive liner notes by longtime music journalist David Ma, couching the music’s history as well and the region’s bygone era in which it arose.

DJ Platurn - Breaking The Ice Pt. 1

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A rare groove mix anthology featuring (in alphabetical order) Cinturón Negro https://soundcloud.com/barbatruco-producciones, Curtis Metcalf https://soundcloud.com/youngblood-8791, Erotnas https://soundcloud.com/erotnas and ZEROSYSTEM https://soundcloud.com/zero_system  
Each individual mix is about 10 to 12 minutes long and for added mystic for these projects I will not be posting the mix order or start and stop times for each mix.  The reason for this is that I was curious if the audience would be able to pick up on the different styles and personalities.

S.Z.P. #01 [Rare Groove Anthology] feat. Cinturón Negro, Curtis Metcalf, Erotnas and ZEROSYSTEM

The weekly podcast about vinyl records and the people who collect them. 

Hosted by Columbo "Sama" Ahmed and Keith Foster. Based out of Los Angeles and San Francisco. 

NOTE: Episodes containing DJ mixes are NOT uploaded to Soundcloud. Instead, check our website and our iTunes.

New episodes every Monday.

08: Liquid Beats with Matt Nelkin

The Vinyl Exam

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