higherminded: February 2010

Saturday, 27 February 2010

Monday, 22 February 2010

DEGO BTS RADIO MIX

This mix from Dego of 4Hero & 2000Black is bananas. A mix of contemporary underground soul and hip hop music. A definite download.

http://www.btsradio.com/html/dego-2000black-bts-radio-mix.html

ZAPP & ROGER - THE STORY OF...

Part 3 of a dope documentary about Zapp & Roger, godfathers of Funk. Watch the whole thing here. It's got Snoop Dogg in it!

OUTERSPACE

Best enjoyed out of loud speakers or in Plastic People...

The Soulquarians is a group of musicians from throughout the US who recorded music together from the mid 90's til the early 2000's. Individuals in this group have come to define genre and many now have tremendous following and are very successful. This group consisted of J Dilla, Questlove, James Poyser, Bilal, Q-Tip,D'Angelo, Jeff Lee & Pino Palladino. Many of the members had are an Aquarius on the Greek Zodiac or had Birthdays near that time, the term Soulquarian also represents a love, appreciation & understanding of soul music and related genres.

Erykah Badu, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Raphael Siddiq & Common all rolled with the Soulquarian click. The music came fast and strong. D'Angelo's 'Voodoo' is a definition of the Soulquarian sound, with Jaydee, Questlove, Posyer and a host of other musicians killing it off.

Other Soulquarian work includes Common's 'Like Water For Chocolate' as well as Erykah Badu's 'Mamas Gun'. All these albums have gone gold or platinum.

If you want to hear some incredibly dope Soulquarian ish you need to check out Queslove's Swift FM account, where he posts up songs, and some of the tracks are some ridiculous archive, rare gem, soulquarian, dilla, crazy ish. Here is the link: http://www.swift.fm/questlove/

UNWIND

PLASTIC PEOPLE - CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP

Wow it seems very strange that I'm putting these photos up and there is the possibility that Plastic People might close.
It can't close. Or if it does, build a better club with an even better soundsystem somewhere else. HELP KEEP PLASTIC PEOPLE ALIVE

Wednesday, 17 February 2010

THE BEST RAPPER IN BROWNSVILLE - SEAN PRICE

When it comes to watery flows & ridiculously effortless multi-syllable rhymes look no further than Sean Price Superstar.

If you look carefully one of the locations is some kind of Prince Hall Mason lodge room!

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

AHU

This young lady's voice most certainly does it for me. The combo of her voice over some funk/space beats gets me through the day. Download these tracks from the Spine TV Blog, for a little musical astral here: http://www.spinetv.net/blog/2010/Jan/22/ahu/

ANALOG RENAISSANCE

I can't wait to hear more from these very talented young musicians . The first video is a preview some of the stuff they've been working on. Throwback, analog synth business.

The video below is Analog Renaissance performing at Jazz Refreshed last June. Ridiculous.

Sunday, 14 February 2010

WE FORM LIKE PYRAMIDS IN DESERT STORMS

FunkinEven & Fatima performing live at the Spine TV and Kleer EP launch party. The Kleer EP is available to download on iTunes.

FunkinEven playing a DJ set at the Crooked Tongues BBQ last year. Family Affairs.

RED THE G FUNK PHENOMENON

This guy doesn't use any instruments. Phenomenal. The Dam -Funk Remix is bananas.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

Sam Shepherd, AKA Floating Points - Love Me Like This , i don't know what type of music this is. To me it sounds like some house, new electro, synth, dub space ish. Lets do away with genre and categorization and appreciate good music for what it is. This sh*t right here is the future. I can't wait to see what comes next.