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In 2006, I moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles and at the time, the spot my wife and I moved into didn’t have enough space for me to unbox my rap records so I just left them in the garage and ever since then, that’s where they’ve stayed: completely boxed.
In moving to the new spot, I have enough shelving to absorb much of the rap collection but not everything. More to the point though, the fact that 90% of my hip-hop collection could stay boxed for four years meant that I clearly wasn’t [...]
Continue reading THE GREAT RAP PURGE, PT 1 OF ?
Sad news but Melvin Bliss, creator of the incomparable “Synthetic Substitution,” has passed.
Read our original post from last Sep. about the single. (Thanks to Simon for the link to that mini-doc above)
I was really happy to be able to do this – I helped program for one of my favorite podcasts: Coverville, hosted by Brian Ibbott. Every week, Brian puts together a podcast focused on cover songs which, as you all know, is one of my favorite themes. It just seemed natural for us to team up and after me putting it on the back burner for way too long, we finally made it happen last week.
Here was the tracklisting, including which recording each is riffing on):
1. Asha Puthli: Ain’t That Peculiar (Marvin Gaye)
2. Nancy [...]
Continue reading COVERVILLE + SOUL SIDES: UNITED!
Lou Bond: To the Establishment
Why Must Our Eyes Always Be Turned Backwards
From Lou Bond (We Produce, 1974)
Ok, I admit it – I blew it by forgetting to write about this when the reissue first dropped, earlier in the year. Kind of ironic given that when Bond’s album first appeared, it too fell under many people’s radars despite it being really incredible. Bond was signed to We Produce, the Stax subsidiary that also released albums by the Tempress and Ernie Hines, but as the liner notes (and an earlier Wax Poetics [...]
Continue reading LOU BOND: IGNORED BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Ghostface Killah feat. Raekwon, RZA and Slick Rick: The Sun
Deleted from Bulletproof Wallets (Epic, 200*)
(Editor’s note: Ever since he worked at the original Sound LIbrary in the East Village, Jared Boxx has become one of the city’s favorite merchants of grooves, as celebrated for his record knowledge as he is for a disposition a gazillion times sunnier than what you’ll find at some other boutiques. Outside of his new store – Big City – Boxx stays busy as part of the Bump Shop crew, guesting on radio and dropping his own killer soul mixes. [...]
Continue reading SUMMER SONGS 2010: JARED BOXX
The Flirtations: Nothing But a Heartache
From 7″ (Deram, 1969). Also on S/T.
Betty Moorer: Speed Up
From 7″ (Wand, 1967)
Viola Wills: Sweetback
From 7″ (Supreme, 1971)
Full Speed: It Must Be Love
From 7″ (Real Thing, 197x)
In just the last few weeks, I’ve been able to knock down a few singles that I’ve been hankering after for a while and coincidentally, all of them are by female artists.
The Flirtations’ incredible “Nothing But a Heartache” was introduced to me by Murphy’s Law and I was completely blown [...]
Continue reading HEY LADIES
Michael Barnes, who hosts the new Melting Pot show on KPFK here in Los Angeles, was gracious enough to invite me to program a monthly, 20 minute segment on his show that we’re calling “Side Dishes” (yeah, I used the same name for my now defunct Vibe.com column but hey, it’s defunct!). The theme of the segment is on new releases (though not necessarily “new” music”) and it’ll reflect the kind of tunes you’ll always find here on Soul Sides.
Side Dishes airs live, every 3rd Sunday, and then we’ll post it up as a [...]
Continue reading THE NEW MONTHLY SIDE DISHES SEGMENT ON THE MELTING POT
I’m by no means “a producer” but I know enough basic (and I do mean basic) audio editing to be able to do small little edits of stuff on the fly. Here’s two recent examples of songs I liked but just though I could improve on a bit for my purposes (i.e. DJing).
Zambrano: La Cocona (Original)
La Cocona (Edit)
Originally from 7″
In the case of the Zambrano, the OG was perfectly fine for what it was but you compare with how the song opens to that unexpectedly funky bridge and I [...]
Continue reading MI CANCIÓN EDICIONES
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