Q Tip
Tammi Terrel – All I do is Think about you
Nina Simone – Funkier than a Mosquito’s Tweeter
John Lee – I Want to Ramble
Sleigh Bells – Ronnettes
Beggin’ – Time Box
On the Road Again – Canned Heat
Say it Loud James Brown & Friends – James Brown
The Holiday Song – The Pixies
The Concept – Teenage Fan Club
DJ J Rocc
Miles Davis – So What
From the 1959 album Kind of Blue
A Love Bizarre – Sheila E
Written by Prince for his protegé Sheila E . The song is a duet between Sheila E. and Prince and it appears on her 1985 album Romance 1600. It reached number 11 in the US charts when released. Incidentally its my favourite song EVER and its featured in the movie Krush Groove which is my favourite film EVER!
Charles Bradley and Menehan Street Band – This World
Happy Mondays – Kinky Afro
Red The Man Without The Machine – I Should Tell Ya Mamma on You
Pete Rock & CL Smooth – Take You There
From the album The Main Ingredient 1994
Quincey Jones – Summer in the City
Jackson 5 – I want you back (Z-Trip Re edit)
Shade of Blue (Madlib) – Slims Return
Nick Cave – Rock of Gibralter
*** We were meant to play this out but then people started to text into the show about Sir Henry’s in Cork. The great Mr. Cave will be played we promise but the Q Tip has now changed to …
Romanthony – Make this Love Right (The Ball n’ Chain)
Screamin Jay Hawkins – I Put a Spell on You
Althea and Donna – Uptown Top Ranking
Art Ensemble of Chicago – Theme De Yogo
From the soundtrack to Les Stances De Sophie
John Coltrane – My Favourite Things
John Coltranes’ 1961 album My Favourite Things features hypnotic exploratory instrumental reworking of big vocal show tunes. The recording kicks of with a 13 minute take on the Richard Rodgers penned title track before tackling Cole Porter’s Every time We Say Goodbye and the Gershwin classics Summertime and But Not for Me. A love supreme.
Larry Heard – Can you Feel It
Chicago’s Larry Heard has been producing his jazz influenced house music for over 20 years. He released the classic ‘Can You Feel It’ in 1986 as part of the trio Fingers Inc. inadvertently providing a blueprint for the genres early years.
Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come
The Harder They Come is from the 1972 Perry Henzell film of the same name. The song is one of many classics penned by the legendary Jimmy Cliff. Others include ‘Many Rivers to Cross’ and ‘You Can Get it if You Really Want it’. But the Harder They Come remains the quintessential Jimmy Cliff recordings.
The Bands of Canada – In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Scottish brothers Michael & Marcus Eoin Sandison began creating their own colourful childlike take on electronica in the early 90’s. Among many influences on the band were the films of The National Film Board of Canada providing the band with its name. The duo has thus far released 2 albums and 2 EP’s which with their layers of scratchy analogue nostalgia have garnered a surprisingly large following.
Mary Jane Girls – All Night Long
Toots and The Maytals – Pressure Drop
Cymande – Brothers on the Slide
From their 1974 album Promised Heights.
Erykah Badu – On and On
From 1997 debut Baduizm
De La Soul – A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturday
“A Roller Skating Jam named Saturday” is from De La Souls 2nd album “De La Soul is dead”. The title is in reaction to the band being labeled hippes after their classic debut kick started the D.A.I.S.Y Age of Hip Hop. The record was again produced by Prince Paul and was slightly edgier that its predecessor and also featured “The Curiosity killed the cat sampling Ring -Ring- Ring!”
Crystal Castles – Reckless
Shouty, Disco, Detroit Techho, Human League, Super Mario, Hope, Despair, Jean Michel Jarre, 80’s synths,Georgio Moroder, Tom Tom club, your annoying neighbours, Punk, Dub, The velvet underground, Metal, Rave- good times. An amazing debut.
The Ronettes – Be my Baby
Girl group “The Ronettes” first sang together in the late 50’s while still teenagers. In 1963 after releasing some early singles on the coolpix label they came to the attention of the notorious producer Phil ‘wall of sound” spector. Over the next three years they released a clutch of classic singles, an album, and toured with The Beatles, shortly after which the girls split up.
Bob Dylan- Everything is broken
Having recorded hundreds of tracks on alternative versions of tracks that never saw the light of day, Bob Dylan has taken to releasing collections of these “outtakes” in the form of “official bootlegs”. Now at number 8 in the series- “Tell Tale Signs” deals with the period from 1989-2006, Bobs creative renaissance. Many of the recordings are raw and unfinished but despite this the collection works as an album reaching a level of depth and honesty sometimes lost in the original productions.
Johnny Cash – Get Rhythm
A true legend. Over a career spanning 50 years the man in black crafted a sound which transcended genre and became simply…Cash. Besides a Dylan like mid career lull Johnny boasts and expansive recording history most of which is worth investigating…he walks the line.
