Anatomy of A Sample: The New Vaudeville Band and The Beatnuts
I remember digging with my man Mfasis and pulling this record out of a pile of crap. He was like, “Yo that’s a Beatnuts joint”. I was like, really? I […]
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Update: Mystery of the Mardi Gras Bells Solved
Photo Courtesy of Supreme La Rock Ok people, the truth and long running debate over the Bob James “Take Me To the Mardi Gras” with no bells has been verified. […]
Alice Clark – Don’t You Care
When you’re out in the field digging, sometimes you just get a feeling. Not the feeling when you pick up a copy of Peter Brown’s ‘Do You want To Get […]
Smile Orange OST
We all know of the great Reggae movies: Rockers, The Harder They Come, and Country Boy, as well as their respective soundtracks, which are equally impressive. I have yet to […]
Big Ups with Case Bloom
Philly DJ Case Bloom talks tacos, deep diggin’, and more Continue Reading
Add A Little Sugar(man 3)
Way back when I had this before it’s time clothing/skate/ store that eventually started to sell records. Because of the name, Soul Sauce, I got all kinds of crazy visitors. […]
Press Cuttings (The Private Press Compacted)
It’s hard to believe that DJ Shadow’s Private Press was released 10 years ago. Time flies so quickly, really. In that time he has toured in an orb, made Hyphy […]
Mardi Gras Without the Bells Visualized
When I wrote about the Diabolical last month and his collecting, I touched briefly upon the Bob James classic “Take Me To The Mardi Gras” record and the fact that […]
Leroy Smart – Sugar My Coffee
I was introduced to Leroy Smart about 20 years ago by my then room mate Rich, aka Prime Mundo. He had a stash of really good Jamaican pressed LPs in […]
Willie West – Cold In the Storm
A record label like Timmion Records out of Helsinki, Finland is like finding a needle in a haystack. What are the chances that a Soul label, in Finland, no less […]
Flea Market Funk 