Classic Time!

Dionne - "Come Get My Lovin'", absolute classic. About half a decade before my first forays into the UK club scene, but what a bomb! They certainly don't make 'em like this anymore...

December Radioplayer

This month's selection of tunes on the tune player in the motor...



Download at: http://www.divshare.com/download/9715583-a2d

Tracklisting as follows:

1) Isaac Hayes – Ike’s Rap II
2) Zoom – Love Seasons (B.Cause Slow Hands Edit)
3) The Mary Jane Girls – All Night Long
4) Gary Davis – One Lifetime To Live (Greg Wilson Edit)
5) Main Source – Live At The BBQ
6) Leena Conquest Feat. Hip Hop – Boundaries
7) Beatfanatic – Let It Happen (Beatfanatic’s Balearic Boogie Remix)
8) Jocelyn Brown – Love’s Gonna Get You (12” Dance Mix)
9) Lillo Thomas – Your Loves Got A Hold On Me (Ooft Edit)
10) Nu Shooz – I Can’t Wait
11) Stevie Wonder – Love Light In Flight
12) The Neville Brothers – Fly Like An Eagle (Bass Like An Eagle)
13) Fleetwood Mac – Dreams (Far Away Edit)

November Radioplayer

Download at: http://www.divshare.com/download/9270685-52e

Tracklisting as follow:

1) Jill Scott – Getting In The Way
2) Anthony Hamilton & Latoiya Williams – My First Love
3) Lucy Pearl – Without You (Jay Dee Remix)
4) De La Soul – Much More (Pure P Edit)
5) Woods Empire – Universal Love
6) Pure P – Baby Be Without You (Vocal Mix)
7) Jamiroquai – Blow Your Mind
8) Kenny Loggins – This Is It (Mad Mat’s Rework)
9) Yacht – Psychic City (Classixx Remix)
10) Rah Band – Messages From The Stars (Long Wave Mix)
11) Phlash & Friends – Runnin’ (Club Mix)
12) Phoenix – If I Ever Feel Better
13) 7 Samurai – Modernization
14) Marc Evans – Am I Crazy (Original Mix)
15) Michael Jackson – Get On The Floor (Holy Ghost Remix)

Hmmm... Kenny Loggins!

Been enjoying this 1979 dope track by Kenny Loggins. Recently re-edited by Mad Mat and out on GAMM records at the end of last month. This is the original:

I Get Deep Yo Mix

Download at: http://soundcloud.com/david-saker/david-saker-i-get-deep-yo-mix

Everyone knows that I come into my prime when it's 4am and I'm bouncing off the walls with my eyes rolling in the back of my head. Either that, or doing my Stevie Wonder impression with my eyes chemically bonded shut with my nugget rolling and nodding... vaguely in time with the music. The reason why... obviously... is coz "I get deep yo!". So... here's my little mix for when I'm in that deep zone... tracklisting as follows:

1) Isolee – Les Andalouses (Original Mix) (Mule)
2) Floating Points – Vacuum Boogie (Original Mix) (Eglo Records)
3) STL – Silent State (Original Mix) (Smallville)
4) Hammouda & Julius Steinhoff – Touch Feat. Dionne (Original Mix) (Smallville)
5) DJ Sprinkles – Grand Central Part1 (MCDE Remix Dub) (Endless Flight)
6) River Ocean - Love & Happiness (Junior Boys Own Super Dub) (Junior Boys Own)
7) Steve Mac – After Sundown (Original Mix) (Tronic)
8) Late Night Tuff Guy – I Get Deeper (Original Mix) (Lightspeed Records)
9) Franck Roger – Don’t Leave Me (Original Mix) (Earthrumental Music)
10) Steve Rachmad – Rond (Original Mix) (Delsin)
11) Omar Feat. Stevie Wonder – Feeling You (Henrik Schwarz New Mix) (Unreleased)
12) Glenn Underground – Ambient Jaz One (Muzic Vision Records)

October Radioplayer

Download at: http://www.divshare.com/download/8903457-7e3

Tracklisting as follows:

1) Joe Cocker – You Are So Beautiful

2) Vikter Duplaix – Make A Baby (Vocal Mix)

3) Floating Points – Shangri-La

4) Lee Fields – Honey Dove

5) Dexter Wansel – The Sweetest Pain

6) Common Sense – Just Can’t Help Myself

7) Renee Geyer – Be There In The Morning

8) Claudja Barry – I Wanna Dance (Tangoterje Remix)

9) Padded Cell – Unknown Signal

10) Tensnake – Holding Back My Love

11) Chris Isaak – Wicked Games (Trentemoller Dub)

12) Sally Shapiro – I’ll Be By Your Side (Tensnake Remix)

13) Florence & The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Leo Zero Remix)

14) Theo Vaness – I’m A Bad Bad Boy (Ray Mang Re-Edit)

Lovebox 2009 (Sunday) - Balloon Bouncing Session

A little bit windy... but everyone was making an effort for the balloon bouncing.

September Chillout Radioplayer

Nothing fancy... just what it say's on the tin. A selection of mostly electronic chill out tunes that are eternal favourites, and I always enjoy listening to.



Download from here:

http://www.divshare.com/download/8546954-20e

Tracklisting as follows:

1) Leftfield – Melt
2) Phil Hartnoll – Lie Down
3) Orbital – Belfast
4) Leftfield – Fanfare Of Life
5) Dual Control – Spring Again
6) Plaid – Ralome
7) Shiloh – Bleed
8) Audio Lotion – Jacuzzi Jazz
9) Sade – Cherish The Day
10) Fila Brazillia – A Zed And Two L’s
11) Global Communication – The Biosphere
12) Spooky – Belong (Open Version)
13) Terry Callier – Love Theme From Spartacus (4 Hero Remix)

Theo Parrish @ some dirthole in Stoke Newington (of all places?)

I was in the UK at the end of July and we went to see Theo Parrish in Stoke Newington on a Saturday evening. I can't remeber the name of the venue... maybe Bar-A-Bar... but it was a nice little intimate affair. I was still trashed from a 7am finish the previous night following escapades at Plastic People in Shoreditch but Theo started nice and slow and towards the end started tearing it up. Here's a clip I took from my favourite tune of the night... an unknown (to me anyway) re-edit of James Brown's Body Heat. It's not great quality, but you get the substance of the record, and it's a WINNER!



Here's also a little picture of the man himself from that night... (typically smoking some shit!)

Loving them there "Laser Strings"

Southport Weekenders... I've never made it to one, and by all accounts they are the mutts nuts. Here's a clip from the recent event in April this year. Kerri Chandler - awesome DJ & producer, playing "Laser Strings" like a muther fucker!

Greg Wilson On The Tube (1983)

Great little snippet of Greg Wilson teaching the masses what "mixing" is... (oh! and check out his headphones!!! what a bag of shite!)

September Radioplayer

http://www.divshare.com/download/8368946-e40

Tracklisting as follows:

1) Dam-Funk – Sidewayz

2) Wally Badarou – Chief Inspector (Tiaz Extended Edit)
3) Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (Shhhhh Reconstruction)
4) Social Disco Club & Maia – The Way You Move (Greg Wilson Version)
5) Kano – Can’t Hold Back (Your Loving)
6) Real To Reel – Love Me Like This
7) Rene & Angela Feat. Kurtis Blow – Save Your Love (For No. 1)
8) The The – Giant (Pilooski Edit)
9) Thompson Twins – Love On Your Side (12 Inch Mix)
10) James Brown – Body Heat
11) Bobby Womack – I Can’t Understand It
12) Discognosis – Step By Step (Tangoterje Re-Edit)
13) Jon Lucien – Would You Believe In Me
14) Raashan Ahmad – If I
15) Raphael Saadiq – 100 Yard Dash

Dam-Funk - Sidewayz

I came across this Youtube featuring Dam-Funk DJ'ing at a Stones Throw party for the WMC back in 2008. First tune playing is his own... "Sidewayz". FUNKY ASS SHIT!! Expect it on September's Radioplayer. No doubt!



Buy it here on the Stones Throw site... http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/various/b-ball-zombie-war... it's only $0.99 for fukks sake!

August Radioplayer

A website I like to check in on every now and again belongs to DJ Deep - http://djdeep.com/. He has a section called "Deep Library" in which there's numerous podcasts featuring music that he just likes. Some tunes mixed, and some not. I like the concept, and as my day job also takes up such a significant chunk of my life, not mixing records enables me to get cd's ready for the car drive to work on a regular basis. So I came up with my version... the "Radioplayer" series. I started it back in July 2008 for music I like. It's not mixed and it's barely sequenced using Adobe Audition. Here's one made recently, August 2009, and there's more to follow...



http://www.divshare.com/download/8286437-fc1

Tracklisting as follows:

1) Yaw – Where Would You Be
2) James Brown – People Get Up & Drive Your Funky Soul
3) Roy Ayers – The Memory
4) Lionel Richie – Serves You Right
5) Boz Scaggs – Lowdown
6) Patti Jo – Ain’t No Love Lost
7) The Jackson 5 – I Am Love
8) Hamilton Bohannon – Let’s Start The Dance
9) Walter Jones – Living Without You Love (Original Mix)
10) Zodiac – Pacific (Pete Herbert Remix)
11) Shit Robot – Simple Things (Work It Out (Todd Terje Version)
12) Orbital – The Girl With The Sun In Her Head

Downtempo mix... 5th year anniversary

This is a mix I did back in August 2004. During that summer I had been tapping up Fat City Records in Manchester (where a lot of the vinyl here came from), and really wanted to lay down a mix featuring a rather nice blend of soul, funk, disco & hip hop... totally eclectic. Seeing as it's almost the 5th anniversary of the mix... here it is again... still totally relevant, and having never been far from the stereo in all this time.

Anyway, here's the link:

http://soundcloud.com/david-saker/david-saker-downtempo-mix-august-2004

Tracklisting as follows:

1) Antonio Pinto & Ed Cortes – Meu Nome E Ze
2) Ambelique – Talk Like That
3) Blendcrafters – Lola
4) Master Ace – Music Man
5) The Fort Knox Five – The Brazilian Hipster
6) Little Brother – Whatever You Say (DJ Hoop Re-Max)
7) Freddie Cruger – The Hustle (B-Boy Disco Edit)
8) Aretha Franklin – Rock Steady
9) Razzy Bailey – I Hate Hate
10) The Soul Disciple – Boom Bangin’
11) Quantic Feat. Spanky Wilson – Don’t Joke With A Hungry Man
12) Beatfanatic – R.A.W. (Discolick Remix)
13) Madlib – 1980’s Saturday Morning Sample
14) Lono Brazil – Ooh! Love Is (Mr. K Edit)
15) Gladys Knight & The Pips – Bougie Bougie
16) Mekon – What’s Going On Mekon (Deckwreckaz Remix)
17) Bobby Humphries – Young Warrior (Madlib Remix)

Michael Jackson tribute (of sorts...)

Ok... I think the guy was a complete tool, of dubious morality/sanity/maturity (delete as appropriate). But, he did make some really good music and the boy could dance. I thought his early stuff, and his time in the Jackson 5, was head and shoulders over anything he did in the 90's and beyond.

So as a tribute to his recent passing... here's a great video for the Jackson 5's "I Am Love". Some hilarious dance moves!!

In my thirties and still dancing like a gooner...

Just before christmas 2008 I decided to do a new mix... dedicated to being in my thirties. No real purpose behind the track selection, other than just good tunes that keep me grooving despite me getting ever closer to the grave. All house music, on a deep tip,with a sort of old school vibe thrown in for good measure...

Anyway, here's the link:

http://soundcloud.com/david-saker/david-saker-in-my-thirties-but-still-dancin-like-a-gooner-mix-12-04-08

Tracklisting as follows:

1) Mark E – Human (Original Mix) (Runnin Back)
2) Shur-I-Kan – 287 (Original Mix) (Dark Energy Recordings)
3) Ron Trent – Journeyn2u (Original Mix) (Futurevision Records)
4) Wipe The Needle – The Rhythm, The Drum (Vinyl Edit) (Deeply Rooted House)
5) Brothers’ Vibe – Like It Used 2 B (Altered Vibe Mix) (Mixx Records)
6) Franck Roger – Mind Illusions (Original Mix) (Earthrumental Music)
7) Dominic Martin & Hiro – Dom In Tha Groove (Original Mix) (Tronicsole)
8) X-Press 2 – Muzik X-Press (Original Mix) (Skint Records)
9) Franck Roger – Passages (Original Mix) (FR Productions)
10) Jack Coleman – Relax (LilRoj Remix) (Sub Sensory Recordings)
11) David Alvarado – Aurora (Original Mix) (Bomb Records)
12) Chez Damier – I Never Knew Love (Made In Detroit Mix) (KMS Records)

Rollerboogietastic!

I hadn’t heard this one in ages, in fact… I can only recall ever hearing the early ‘90s Cathy Dennis cover. This is the Fonda Rae original from 1984. I was listening to an OOFT Music mix over the weekend – Live In Soul City – and they had the “touch me baby all night long” sample wedged into their Q-Tip, Breathe & Stop rework. Very nice boys… very nice indeed.

Introduction...

This be my first blog site. An outlet for my frustrated DJ inclinations, since I arrived in Bermuda in October 2005. Soul, funk and disco, let alone house music, is dead on this island. The usual shit US pop/rap music is an unrelenting assault on my aural senses. Let the headucation begin...