Sunday, November 07, 2010

Two Masters Reunite

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Elvin Jones - McCoy Tyner Quintet - Love & Peace [1982]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 80.3 MB

















1. Little Rock's Blues (4:35)
2. Hip Jones (7:27)
3. Korina (5:35)
4. For Tomorrow (7:08)
5. Sweet and Lovely (6:52)
6. Origin" (5:05)

90s Nostalgia

I don't normally post dance music, but I have a soft spot for this particular compilation. Most of the songs here are from the early-to-mid 1990s. This period represents when I was in college. This reminds me of the women I knew when I was much younger (and some women that I knew extremely well). A little bit of back-in-the-day.

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Various Artists - Pulse (1990s Dance Compilation) [2001]





















Disc 1
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 122.6 MB

1. Get Ready For This - 2 Unlimited
2. Rhythm Is A Dancer - Snap!
3. 100% Pure Love - Crystal Waters
4. Mr. Vain - Culture Beat
5. Show Me Love - Robin S.
6. Please Don't Go - KWS
7. I'm Gonna Get You - Bizarre Inc. featuring Angie Brown
8. Beautiful Life- Ace of Base
9. What's Up - DJ Miko
10. Move This - Technotronic
11. Tonight Is The Night - Le Click
12. You Only Have To Say You Love Me - Hannah Jones
13. Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) - Scatman John
14. Give It Up - The Goodmen
15. Set U Free - Planet Soul

Disc 2
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 114.9 MB

1. Another Night - Real McCoy
2. Finally - Ce Ce Peniston
3. Be My Lover - La Bouche
4. Boom Boom Boom - Outhere Brothers
5. More And More - Captain Hollywood Project
6. What Is Love? - Hadaway
7. Everbody's Free - Rozalla
8. Twilight Zone - 2 Unlimited
9. I Like To Move It - Reel 2 Real
10. Rhythm Of The Night - Corona
11. Feels So Good (Show Me Your Love) - Lina Santiago
12. Wiggle It - 2 in a Room
13. Power of Love - Deee-lite
14. Your Loving Arms - Billy Ray Martin
15. Something Good - Utah Saints

Saturday, October 30, 2010

The Greatest Entertainment Ever Made [re-post]

The Mercury Theater on the Air - H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds (October 30th, 1938)

Mp3, Stereo, 128 kbps, 50.6 MB















From the CD booklet:

The original, uncut dramatization!

On the foggy fall evening of October 30, 1938, America went to war with Mars!

Adapted for radio by Howard Koch and starring Orson Welles,
War of the Worlds was presented as a special Halloween thriller, or as Welles put it: "The Mercury Theater's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying 'boo!'" But for those who tuned in late, "normal" programming appeared to be interrupted with the startling news that there were "explosions occurring on the Planet Mars!" Reports followed stating that a "huge, flaming object" had fallen to Earth on a farm near Grover's Mill, New Jersey. More landings were soon reported and an anxious radio audience came to the frightening conclusion that Earth was the target of a full-scale invasion by aliens!

'...Some shape is rising out of the pit.
I can make out a small beam of light againt a mirror.
What's that...It's a jet of flames springing from that mirror and it's pointed right at the heads of the men.
It strikes them head-on! They're turning to flames!'


This is the program which terrified a nation. Thousands fled their homes in panic. In the town of Grover's Mill, the local water tower was pumped full of buckshot as frightened believers fired at what they thought was a giant Martian war machine. The true power of broadcast made itself known on this Halloween eve. And no one has forgotten the chilling fear and awesome force of this, radio's single most famous broadcast!"


Read the Wikipedia story here.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Kalimba Cookin'

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Earth, Wind & Fire - That's The Way Of The World: Alive in '75 [2002]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 108.2 MB

















1. Overture
2. Shining Star
3. Happy Feelin'
4. Yearnin' Learnin'
5. Sun Goddess
6. Interlude
7. Evil
8. Kalmimba Story
9. Reasons
10. Mighty Mighty
11. That's the Way of the World

Earth, Wind & Fire - Live in Rio 1980 [2002]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 123.9 MB

















1. Dialog
2. Rock That!
3. In The Stone
4. Serpentine Fire
5. Fantasy
6. Can't Let Go
7. Get Away
8. Brazilian Rhyme
9. Magic Mind
10. Runnin'
11. After The Love Is Gone
12. Rio After Dark
13. Got To Get You Into My Life
14. Boogie Wonderland
15. September

When keepin' it real goes righteously badass; Lenny Kravitz crashes the VOP choir in New Orleans. (5:23 / SFW)
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Saturday, September 18, 2010

The Man From Milwaukee

This one is a whopper download. Please say thanks and please report any broken links.

Al Jarreau - Best of Al Jarreau [1996]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 165.5 MB

















1. Compared to What
2. Goodhands Tonight
3. Agua de Beber
4. Take Five
5. Spain (I Can Recall)
6. Never Givin' Up
7. Roof Garden
8. We're in This Love Together
9. Mornin'
10. Boogie Down
11. Moonlighting
12. Since I Fell for You
13. After All
14. So Good
15. Heaven and Earth
16. Like a Lover

Chillin' with Pam

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Luchi DeJesus - Friday Foster (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [1975]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 44.7 MB
















1. Friday Foster (Main Title)
2. Friday/Getting Set
3. The Assassins/The Pidgeon/Hit
4. Mackin/Fancy Pants/Glad Rags
5. Skin City
6. Don't Drop the Soap/Final Solution
7. Hasty Exit/Wheels/Cat and Mouse/Spider and Fly
8. Be Gay
9. Position #69
10. Black Widow
11. Be Shait/Jericho/Super Man
12. WW III
13. Friday (End Titles)

A Comeback

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Duke Ellington - Ellington At Newport [1956]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 93.1 MB

















1. Festival Junction (10:08)
2. Blues to Be There (8:04)
3. Newport Up (5:33)
4. Jeep's Blues (5:12)
5. Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue (14:56)

Saturday, September 11, 2010

1978

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Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo! (LIVE) [1978]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 165 MB

















1. Just What The Doctor Ordered
2. Yank Me Crank Me
3. Gonzo
4. Baby, Please Don't Go
5. Great White Buffalo
6. Hibernation
7. Stormtroopin'
8. Stranglehold
9. Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
10. Cat Scratch Fever
11. Motor City Madhouse

Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Cornbread [1978]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 64.9 MB

















1. Soul Fire
2. Throw Some Water In
3. Evil Tongues
4. Curly Locks
5. Ghetto Sidewalk
6. Favorite Dish
7. Free Up The Weed
8. Big Neck Police
9. Yu Squeeze My Panhandle
10. Roast Fish & Cornbread

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Ragtime Master

Jelly Roll Morton - 1926 - 1930 [2000]

















Disc 1
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 125.05 MB





















1. Black Bottom Stomp
2. Smoke-House Blues
3. Chant
4. Sidewalk Blues
5. Dead Man Blues
6. Steamboat Stomp
7. Someday, Sweetheart
8. Grandpa's Spells
9. Original Jelly Roll Blues
10. Doctor Jazz
11. Cannonball Blues
12. Hyena Stomp
13. Billy Goat Stomp
14. Wild Man Blues
15. Jungle Blues
16. Beale Street Blues
17. Pearls
18. Wolverine Blues
19. Mr. Jelly Lord

Disc 2
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 131.07 MB





















1. Red Hot Pepper
2. Deep Creek Blues
3. Pep
4. Seattle Hunch
5. Frances [Fat Frances]
6. Freakish
7. Burnin' the Iceberg
8. Courthouse Bump
9. Pretty Lil
10. Sweet Anita Mine
11. New Orleans Bump [Monrovia]
12. Down My Way
13. Try Me Out
14. Tank Town Bump
15. Sweet Peter
16. Jersey Joe
17. Mississippi Mildred
18. Mint Julep
19. Smilin' the Blues Away
20. Turtle Twist
21. My Little Dixie Home
22. That's Like It Ought to Be

Disc 3
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 99.9 MB





















1. Each Day
2. If Someone Would Only Love Me
3. That'll Never Do
4. I'm Looking for a Little Bluebird
5. Little Lawrence
6. Harmony Blues
7. Fussy Mabel
8. Ponchartrain
9. Oil Well
10. Load of Coal
11. Crazy Chords
12. Primrose Stomp
13. Low Gravy
14. Strokin' Away
15. Blue Blood Blues
16. Mushmouth Shuffle
17. Gambling Jack
18. Fickle Fay Creep

Disc 4
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 129.34 MB





















1. Chant
2. Sidewalk Blues
3. Dead Man Blues
4. Someday, Sweetheart
5. Grandpa's Spells
6. Original Jelly Roll Blues
7. Cannonball Blues
8. Hyena Stomp
9. Billy Goat Stomp
10. Wild Man Blues
11. Jungle Blues
12. Beale Street Blues
13. Pearls
14. Wolverine Blues
15. Georgia Swing
16. Kansas City Stomp
17. Shoe Shiner's Drag
18. Boogaboo
19. Shreveport Stomp
20. Mournful Serenade

Disc 5
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 113.86 MB





















1. Shreveport Stomp
2. Seattle Hunch
3. Freakish
4. Burnin' the Iceberg
5. Courthouse Bump
6. Pretty Lil
7. Sweet Anita Mine
8. New Orleans Bump [Monrovia]
9. Tank Town Bump
10. Sweet Peter
11. Jersey Joe
12. Mississippi Mildred
13. Each Day
14. Oil Well
15. Load of Coal
16. Crazy Chords
17. Primrose Stomp
18. Strokin' Away
19. Blue Blood Blues
20. Gambling Jack

Saturday, January 09, 2010

Sharp Funk To Warm Up A Hard Winter

The Brothers Johnson are Los Angeles natives who cut their teeth in the early 1970s as a back-up band, but soon graduated to becoming session players for the one and only Quincy Jones. Jones decided to give them a shot as their own group, and they entered the funk scene in 1976. As producer, Jones gave the Brothers Johnson the immaculate production style he was always known for. As a result, the elegant, classy funk sounds that the Brothers Johnson embodied spawned a sub-genre that American black radio referred to as sophisi-funk. In terms or musicianship and performance, this is indeed sharper in style than even Earth, Wind & Fire. Amazing stuff, and truly representative of late 1970s funk.

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The Brothers Johnson - Right On Time [1977]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 45.4 MB





















1. Runnin' For Your Lovin'
2. Free Yourself, Be Yourself
3. "Q"
4. Right On Time
5. Strawberry Letter 23
6. Brother Man
7. Never Leave You Lonely
8. Love Is

The Brothers Johnson - Blam! [1978]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 72.8 MB





















1. Ain't We Funkin' Now
2. So Won't You Stay
3. Blam!!
4. Rocket Countdown/Blastoff
5. Ride-O-Rocket
6. Mista' Cool
7. It's You Girl
8. Streetwave

The Brothers Johnson - Light Up The Night [1980]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 86.3 MB





















1. Stomp!
2. Light Up The Night
3. You Make Me Wanna Wiggle
4. Treasure
5. This Had To Be
6. All About The Heaven
7. Smilin' On Ya
8. Closer To The One That You Love
9. Celebrations

This is what I'm talking about! Is this a party or what? (2:56 min. / SFW)