Forgotten Treasure: Mike Lundy “The Rhythm of Life” (1980)
Special Collaboration from: Roger Bong (Aloha Got Soul) If there has yet to be the perfect addition to MIMS’ Forgotten Treasures archive, let this be it. When I first approached Hawaiian funk-and-soul maven Mike Lundy about reissuing the music from his solo 1980 LP The Rhythm Of Life, one of …
Forgotten Treasure: Quintonal ”Quintonal” (1976)
Quebec has produced many vinyl gems in various musical genres that have, for the most part, significantly outshone the other provinces output. It seems, however, that when it come to Jazz, our province is not the best in the country. Well the Quintonal reissue (released this month by Jazzagression records) …
Forgotten Treasure: Azuquita Y Su Orquesta Melao “Pura Salsa” (1975)
This week’s choice was inspired by this past weekend. On Saturday I had the pleasure of playing with some of my favorite selectors in between live sets from La Mecanica Popular, Bixia 70 and The Frightnrs. Heavy tropical rhythms that had that converted mechanic shop in Brooklyn rocking lovely until …
Future Classic: Moon B “Ill Realms”
Back with the 1st Voyage Funktastique Show of 2015, and I had a good 5 weeks of compiling new material for the show; first, I have to thank my homie Temu (which I featured his latest track Temu’s Talkbox Groove to start the show) for his amazing performance at the …
Forgotten Treasure: Doug Randle “Songs For the New Industrial State” (1970)
For anyone out there who’s feeling the the cold-weather blues, the global-issues blues, the “how-did-I-already-break-my-New-Years-resolution?” blues or any other form of despondency, here is something that will hopefully produce (at the very least) a quick, distracting and delightful daydream. Warm In The Sunshine is a radiantly optimistic psych-pop tune by …
Forgotten Treasure: Mal Waldron “Spanish Bitch” (1970)
Mal Waldron‘s sound just grows on you. He was a hard-bop pianist and made his mark as an exceptional side-man for vocalists including Billie Holiday and was once the house pianist for Prestige Records. His approach draws comparaisons and inspirations from the likes of Horace Silver, Art Tatum and Thelonious Monk. …
Future Classic: Ticklah “Ya Llego” feat. Mayra Vega
I can be a bit reluctant to “edits” and “versions” of certain tracks, especially classics. More often then not the edits tend to strip the original soul and flavor of the track and replace it with a monotone breakbeat or an ill-fitting rhythm. Back in the early parts of last …
Forgotten Treasure: Junior Murvin (Junior Soul) “Rescue the children”
Junior Murvin is well known for the title track of his first album, the massive “Police & Thieves“. The song has been covered by The Clash in 1977 and most recently by Zara McFarlane who did her own beautiful smooth version of this classic. No other tune from him got even …
Forgotten Treasure: The Brooklyn Sounds “Libre:Free” (Salsa Records, 1973)
New York City birthed salsa. Back in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s when the first generation Nuyorican population was bridging Puerto Rico with Nueva York, the rhythms they gave life to, and equally gave them life, was salsa. It was an ill combination of various rhythms from Puerto Rico, …