southlondonsoul

hey there. this month's mix is an eclectic selection of jazz funk, soul, deep house...kicking off with a lovely acoustic joe clausell tune, ultra nate's twisted, a wicked shawn phillips nugget backed by the headhunters, a great crazy p tune, and the brilliantly titled latinica witch. oh and some street corner symphony too. happy listening.

Hello there, welcome to the slow down selection. Some phat flavas for your ear this week...laidback hiphop and dusty rare grooves, mixed on a sunny, spring sunday morning. I can't remember all the tunes but here's an approximate tracklist:

the three pieces - backed up against the wall
joubert singers that's how the good lord works - hot coins mix
dusty - just an illusion
slow down
east harlem sounds - chocolate
anada and sergio - sunday morning - lark chillout mix
luv (sic)
common - used to love her
???
???
roy ayers - humming
kool and the gang - north, east, south and west
creative source - you can't hide love
jun lucien - would you believe in me?
apples - the power
automator - no one rocks harder
featurecast - recipe for the perfect afro
leo zero vs america - horse with no name edit
moodymann - hello 2moro

***If you'd like to drop in, I'm playing a 5 hour set at a club in Covent Garden on April 17th - email southlondonsoul@gmail.com for more details. You can also send mp3s or booking enquiries to the same address.***

Hello again. Some wicked vocal house this week...Spring has finally

arrived in London and it's good for the soul. Tracklist

peven everett - can't do without (peven's new mix)
maxwell - no one (house mix)
ralf gum ft monique bingham - kiss from a stranger

(feliciano mix)
black coffee - you turn me on
reel people - alibi
ritual drums
kem - heaven (this is such a baaaaad tune!!!)
seal - latest flame (joe clausell mix)
kerri chandler - sun is coming up
fred everything cdr
hardrive - jus' believe
sarah devine - special (vega mix)
alicia keys - me and you (ty quon do mix)
river ocean - love and happiness (sao benitez mix)

Greetings....We're back up to better audio quality this

week. The podcast people decided to lower everyone's

bandwith. I've now paid for hosting so can post at

128kbps - hopefully this mix should sound a lot less

muffled...

A roots and dub selection this week for all the

outernational reggae heads. All played from original

vinyl with versions and a little echo and fx in the

mix. Hope you enjoy, wherever in the world you're

listening. Peace.

Tracklist:

barry brown - jah never sleep black roots 7"
joe higgs - creation - pk 10"
black survivors come away jah jah children - ruby 7"
danny red - jah is here - aba jah noi 7"
tena stelin - warning - black legacy pro 7"
dennis brown - creation - moving and grooving 10"
gladstone anderson - peace pipe dub = seven leaves lp
freddie mcgregor - rastaman camp - roots garden 12"
hopetone lindo - don't cry 7"
willie stepper - homeward bound - tribesman 7"
ijahman levi - jah heavyload - jahmani 7"
yami bolo - glock war, gun war - yam euphony 7"
bunny lie lie - babylonians - backyard movements 7"
jah marnyah - stormy weather - roots garden 7"
chosen few - babylon - wackies 10"

Here's a fine selection of some of my favourite tunes from groundbreaking label Mo' Wax.

Way back in the early 90s I was at Gilles Peterson and James Lavelle's night, That's How It Is at London's Bar Rumba. It was on a Monday night which attracted a regular crowd of headz, students and Japanese expats. A lot og good music got played. GP dropped a tune by RPM called '2000'. I'd never heard anything like it and got really excited...'What the f*ck is this tune?' I said to mate Ellis. Turned out that a mate of his had made it and just signed it to Mo Wax, a label I more readily associated with soulful beats and acid jazz. After hearing that I was hooked. '2000' really did it for me as I was really into roots reggae, funk and hiphop at the time, and it was this incredible mix of dubbed out fx, a mashed up Studio 1 style bassline, tough breakbeats, and wicked stoner hiphop sensibilities. It's fair to say that it was probably the first triphop (don't like the term, but you know what I mean) thing I'd heard out at a club. Needless to say I waited another few months before the 12" saw the light of day, but by then I'd bought all the other Mo' Wax releases I could find.

I loved the bold artwork, the extra loud pressings, the attention to detail and the eclectic mix of all the musical genres I was into...As the 90s went on Mo' Wax would release tons of underground classics. This mix is a selection of some favourites - all from mad blunted vinyl, as they say. Hope you dig it...

Money mark - Insects
Sam Sever - What's that sound
Bubba Tunes - Just a dance / remix
DJ Krush - kemuri
Attica Blues - Blueprint
RPM - 2000
deep joy - take
raw stylus - many a way
palm skin productions - ? white
jeff brown - party at 33 & 1/3
blackalicious - a 40oz for breakfast
as one - soul soul soul
carl craig - bug in the bassbin 4 hero mix
dj shadow - entropy

it's been a long time...i shouldn't have left you, without a strong rhyme to step to

Feels like I haven't posted a podcast in ages and
that's coz I haven't.
I've been away in France for a bit, making tunes, working, writing, DJing at a couple of things and had a rubbish cold which has lasted three weeks. I've also been having a bit of reconstruction done on my house which has meant my
1210s have been unwired for a while...so this mix is a
first - no vinyl was used in its recording! Just a CDJ
and a laptop with some wicked software that acts like
vinyl. Clever stuff for a luddite like me, eh?
Anyhow...the mix sidles up with a couple of slow druggy
records, then goes all deep house before brightening up
at the end with a couple of soulful vocal tracks. There are so many great tunes about at the moment so I'll knock another eclectic selection together soon that ain't so house...Enjoy the autumn vibes.

Approximate tracklist (not necessarily in this order!)

love love love - low motion disco (aeroplane mix)
dolle jolle - balearic incantation (todd terje mix)
lovin u - anton zap
ride with me (dub) - roberto rodriguez
here i am - fred everything ft lisa shaw
someday (dub) - rocco
life in dub - pete dafeet
dance with me - soundstream
ruling - osbourne (shur-i-kan mix)
desire - ultra nate (maw mix)
erykah - andy ash
jill scott quentin harris mix
brothers vibe
soularis - don't change
headphone silence - ane brun (henrik schwarz mix)

A laidback summer roots and culture selection - strictly freestyle, a few forgotten classics, some nu-school tunes, all played from vinyl with a bit of echo and fx in the mix. enjoy.

happy love - down in the valley / version wackies 12"
johnny clarke - give thanks and praise ariwa lp
creole - jah creation / version - pressure sounds 7"
rasheda - hands of your works - riz lp
zap pow - river / version ims repress 7"
teamworks- rockfort rock / version - mr modo 12"
prince malachi - revolution / versions - dubsicarius 10"
dub from atlantis - sax dub - reng rang 10"
junior reid - thanks and praise / version - 12"
barry brown - from creation / version - jackpot 7"
sylford walker - africa - kingley sounds 12"

Digging deep into the golden era hiphop crate this month. Some dope beats from the late 80s and early-mid 90s for your delectation.

Mixed live, all from original vinyl coz I like to keep it real.

krs one - question (diamond d mix)
jeru the damaja - can't stop the prophet
brand nubian - slow down
black sheep - fever for the flava
ed og - love comes and goes
public enemy - shut 'em down (pete rock remix)
nas - halftime
lord finesse - funky technician
jvc force - strong island
n-tyce - hush hush tip
group home - supa star
triflicts - genuine
kool g rap - death wish
big daddy kane - raw
main source - peace is not a word to play
pete rock & cl smooth - t.r.o.y

I just got back from a wicked time in Bahia, my favourite state in Brazil. It's beautiful there. Like the country itself, Brazilan music is really diverse and every time I visit, I hear different styles of music I've never heard before. This selection is a mix of old and new music from, or inspired by, Brazil mixing some straight up samba, batucada, timeless classics from sergio mendes and milton nascimento with house from Joe Clausell, new school tunes from Zeep and Da Lata and a bit of drum of bass from DJ Marky...and me. You can get my Bahia Beats tune that's included towards the end of the mix on the newly released No 1 Drum and Bass Album through Demon Records. Enough plugging...hope you like the mix - oh, and email me for a tracklist if you want one coz I've forgotten some of the tune names for now.

Had a great time in Marrakech last week; particuarly good time at the Puro Desert music festival where I saw Gilles Peterson and Coldcut DJ - both on form. Back this week with a podcast that catches up with some stuff I've been listening to on the ipod whilst away. This episode is a bit more bass-heavy - particuarly feeling the first tune by Landslide feat. Ernesto. Heavy! Newish Moodyman tune also excellent and gotta love that rednoose Domu dub. A couple of tunes in the middle are a lament for the nights at Club Arun's - then finishing up with some worthy reggae mash-ups. All mixed live. As always, feel free to leave shouts and comments - makes it all worthwhile! Peace, Simon.

Tracklist - from what I can remember

Landslide ft Ernesto - Solitary
Moodymann - Technology stole my vynill
Fragile State - Jimpster remix
Home mad jams - so nice
Rednoose - domu dub(little bit of dizzee in the mix)
restless soul - and I know it (dub)
Jodely Watley - Beautiful (Ron Trent dub)
swell sessions vs seiji - prepared to go
MAW - Black roots
monassa - watercircles
alfingers - what's going on over truth and rights riddim
skream - sub island
unbreak my dub
african bros vs angie stone
ijahman levi - i'm a levi

I had a proper crate digging session for this one. A live mix of some of my favourite classic house tunes - plus a couple of new tunes chucked in coz they go with the flow. Approximate tracklist:

Underground solution - luv dancing - strictly rhythm
cover ups 1
earth people - dance - kerri chandler mix - champion
lectroluv - if we try - 8 ball
disco elements - good thing - azuli
freedom williams - let yourself go maw dub - columbia
7 grand housing - the question
john legend - heaven - karizma mix - white
unit 46 - don't go
hot toddy - diy
coming home - danny tenaglia mix - flying
alone in the dark with...
a new us 12" dubby thing that i can't remember the name of now
susuma yokata - sound of sky track
newish louie vega track with fierce vocal - the music - this sounds like it could have been made anytime in the last fifteen years
royal house - can you feel it - champion promo
deskee - let there be house - big one
xpress 2 - london xpress - junior boys own
jon cutler track on a yellow label us 12"

This week's live DJ mix of funk breaks, soul re-edits and lost classics.

artist unknown - white label
modaji - grass is greener
guaranteed
i don't believe in magic - jisco bootleg
you've been had by a hustler - ballistic bros
bad mama jama re-edit
little space odyssey - white
colonel abrams - trapped jazz mix
amp fiddler - faith (jazzanova mix)
amp fiddler - faith (original)
la funk mob - ravers suck our sound
jaziac sunflowers
cloud nine - real gone, turn it on
raphael sadiq - sky - yam who mix
roy ayers - we live in brooklyn baby re-edit
message from the soul sisters - re-edit
re-de-troit
brothers on the slide - dynamics re-edit