The Budos Band – The Sticks
When The Budos Band put out a record, it’s always balls out. Their sound is recognizable immediately: African influenced horns with heavy drums that blow up every dance floor the […]
Tag Archives: Psychedelic
New Mix: Moving Sounds
It’s been a minute, but I had to come correct with a new mix of records I have been piling up from the beginning of the year. There have been […]
Spotlight On: Spoke Records
Being thankful has no relation to standing on line today to secure a TV, special edition record, or the newest video game. So while others are wasting their day to […]
African Holy Grail Reissued
One of the most sought after African records out there, Chapter One, by Blo, is being reissued by Mr. Bongo. Originally released by EMI in 1973, Mr. Bongo has given […]
Revisiting The Clutchy Hopkins Mystery
It’s funny how when you do a bit of cleaning you come up with stuff you haven’t seen in years. Case in point: a burned, hand written recording of The […]
Bo Diddley – I’m High Again
When Pat James Longo speaks, you listen. The guy is a walking encyclopedia on all kinds of music. So when he brought his sale box to one of my past […]
Soundtrack To An Illusion: A Live Mix
Throughout different periods of music, especially in the late 60’s and early 70’s, many different styles of music were inspired by psychedelia. The use of this music mostly facilitated the […]
Alpman – Tintm
A little while ago I spoke briefly about Alpman and his Instrumental Spychedelic Funk. He had dropped a teaser of a few tracks on for this release on Soundcloud. “Tintm” […]
Soul Sugar’s Organ Funk
Guillaume & Carneiro of Soul Sugar play live. What’s not to like about a band that takes its name from a Jimmy McGriff record and is calls Paris Montmartre their […]
Alpman: Instrumental Spychedelic Funk
The great collector/DJ/ music historian Pat James Longo said to me recently: “Young people always are in awe of older people’s record collections. Do you know why? Because we were […]
Flea Market Funk 