Soul Mix 8

Does anyone needs some new soul music?  Sorry for the long absence, cliche, cliche, blahbiddy blah.  You know the deal.  Before we get to official business I would like to highlight the awesomness of the picture to the left.  It's called, "The Find" and it's by Christopher David Ryan a graphic designer with an incredible style.  I have been drooling over his stuff for the last couple of weeks.  Go check out his blog here, he kind of rules.

Ok let's get into it.  One highlight from this mix is a pretty blatant rip off of the, Temptaion's, "My Girl."  This re-worked tune is called, "It's My Baby," and it's sung by Paul Kelly who was on this mix.

Compare the lyrics:

The Temptations- My Girl 

I've got sunshine
On a cloudy day.
When it's cold outside,
I've got the month of May.
 

Well, I guess you'll say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl. (My girl, my girl)
Talkin' 'bout my girl. (My girl)  

Paul Kelly- It's My Baby

when the sun don't shine to me it don't mean a thing 

what is it that I have that makes me feel no pain 

I hear my friends whisper when I walk by 

what is it that makes me keep my head up high, 

it's my baby that keeps me satisfied, it's my baby. Talkin bout my baby.

Also just listen to the music.  It's a total swagger jack, but personally I am not that upset.  I rip off people's entire discographies as my own.  I don't even bother to re-interpret the lyrics or the music, so Paul has more effort than me.

Sample and Download link behind the jump.

Mayer Goodness

Damn you Stones Throw, you really know how to hype a beast up don't you?  Behold the etched 12 inch collectible vinyl with a new Mayer track.  Brought to you courtesy of Stones Throw and Mayer Hawthorne.  Produced by Nottz and illustrated by Freegums.  One side of the vinyl has Mayer's cover of Otis Leavill's, "I Need You."  Mmmm...Mayeeeer..vinyl...etched...collectible...

Mayer on how the song came to be.  "The song is a cover of a cat named Otis Leavill which is one of my all time fav soul sides, but relatively unknown 45. I don't think Nottz even knew it. I actually even made up some of the words because no one could make out what he said in the original. ha!

When Nottz sent me that batch - that particular beat stood out. It had the same chord progression as the Otis Leville, so I just went with it.”

Purchase it in the Stones Throw store here and have a listen below.

Mayer Hawthorne- I Need You



The generosity of Mayer does not stop there.  Here is some more free music from him. He just dropped a reggae version of, "Maybe So, Maybe No." Perfect, since I have been on a reggae kick lately.  Now everyone in unison, "Thaaank yooou Misterr Mayerrr."

Mayer Hawthorne- Maybe So, Maybe No (Reggae remix)

DJ Greybush Presents: Jams Fo Yo Grams

I see you Gertrude, shaking dat azz!!  *Points at old lady in a chair gumming her boiled carrots.*  These right here are "Jams Fo Yo Grams," or lullabies for teenagers.  They have a little bit of oomph for old people music, they might get your false hip a swaying.  Make your blue permed hair stand on edge.  Just don't try and spin this mix for the 8th graders, they like stuff like the Real McCoy, songs sung by Germans about Tawk Tawking and running away to "Another Night."  At least that's how it was in my day, minus the liking German's part, we sort of had issues with them in my day, but that's a story for another day.
Seriously?  This was popular?  The 90's were gross.

The Real McCoy


That was like showing you the 3 so you consider sleeping with the 5 at the bar.  I apologize for that, as a child of that exact type of catastrophe, I can say that it doesn't end well for anyone.  But hey, now anything you listen to will sound that much better, it's only through the bitter that we can appreciate the sweet.  This track from the mix is a 10 no matter what though so that whole exercise was pretty pointless.  I just wanted to take you back to that awkward cafeteria of segregated genders awkwardly gyrating in a stand off, the smell of fake smoke and puberty wafting through the air.

Songs and the mix after the jump.

The Goods

Dilla Dounts goodies.  Might have to cop that vinyl, I am a sucker for clean packaging...plus it's Dilla. 

"Serato and Stones Throw have teamed with the J Dilla Estate for the official J Dilla Serato release, Donut Shop. This is 2 discs with six J Dilla tracks, 2 sides with Serato Control Tone (for use with Serato Scratch Live DJ software), and 2 donut slipmats in a package designed by Studio No.1. This will be released May 10th (the day after Mother’s day–what’s up Ma Dukes?). Pre-order is available now.

The J Dilla tracks consist of three previously unreleased instrumentals selected by J.Rocc from the Dilla archives – “Safety Dance”, “Sycamore”, “Bars & Twists” – and three unreleased instrumental versions of Dilla’s production for Mos Def, Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes, each remastered by Elysian Masters who mixed and mastered J Dilla’s Donuts, The Shining and Ruff Draft albums."





 
This is a nice little package of Hiero/Souls goodies from Carhartt in the UK.  That shirt is pretty clean.

"Introducing the Souls of Mischief x Carhartt Limited Edition Box-set. The package includes a copy of their 2010 album ‘Montezuma’s Revenge’ repackaged in a special black foil embossed housing & 8 page booklet, a Spring / Summer 2010 Master Shirt in Leather with breast embroidery, a Chenille Varsity Patch in Carhartt Duck Brown and a selection of A6 size foil stickers.
This Box-set is an edition of only 200 worldwide which we are officially dropping Monday 15th March at The Carhartt Store, Neal Street. Souls of Mischief themselves will be in attendance for a signing session from 7pm. See you there!"
 http://www.thecarharttstore.co.uk/

I just got an email for the preview of the BarnStormers Group show at Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York.  "The Barnstormers are a collective of New York/Tokyo-based artists who create large-scale collaborative paintings, films and performances."   

The Barnstormers are:
Chulo, Che Jen, Daikon, David Ellis, Doze Green, Maya Hayuk, Kenji Hirata, Mike Houston, Che Jen, Kami, KR, Alex Lebedev, Madsaki, Martin Mazorra, Christian Mendoza, Mike Ming, Blust One, West One, Jose Parla, Stephen Powers, Rostarr, Sasu, Yuri Shimojo, South, Swoon, Chuck Webster, Kiku Yamaguchi, and documentarians Joey Garfield, Miyuki Pai Hirai, and Gion Yukio

It is a super legit collective of some really high ranking figures in the art world.  My favorites are Doze Green, David Ellis, Stephen Powers, Swoon, and Parla.

David Ellis does these dope ass "Sound Sculptures" in addition to his paintings.  One of them is featured on the cover of Verve remixed  vol 3 and can be seen at  his actual show in the picture below.  I thought that he did the one for volume 4 but I think that it might have been done by Mikal Hameed, based on the pieces he has in the group show.  I would totally cop that one from Verve 3, it's amazing, I would settle for a turntable tree though, I am not picky.  Some of the tracks from Verve remixed will be on the next old person mix and one will be on an upcoming soul mix, check out that series though if you haven't heard of them.  They get contemporary people to remix the old verve catalog, so if you ever wanted to hear a Postal Service remix of Billie Holiday, your wish has been granted.  The RJD2 remix of Astrud Gilberto's "Gentle Rain" is a head nodder, maybe I will post it later.

If you have a couple g's and need a new sound system why not go all out?  Here are the pieces from the current show.

























Barnstormers
Mikal Hameed - Bossanova
Fully functional sound sculpture
2010
$6,000

Mikal Hameed - Bon Vivant Soul
Fully functional sound sculpture
2010
$8,000

Not sure about the chair ones, I don't really agree with taking away the functionality of the object, chairs you can't sit in isn't really my thing but it's pretty I guess.

All of the show can be viewed here Barnstormers Group Show

And some concert news.


Maxwell and Jill Scott will embark on an arena tour starting in Cleveland on May 21. Announced today (Feb. 26), the tour will bring the neo-soul artists to 20 cities including New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, and Washington DC, with more dates to be announced through June.

Date and venue information for the LiveNation / Haymon Events tour will be released shortly. Currently, the tour is scheduled to stop in Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Seattle, Oakland, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Miami, Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York.

Who's coming with me?