Forgotten Treasure : Diane Tell “En pleurer ou en rire” (1977)
Producers of soulful and funky musique Québecoise during the late 70s and early 80s weren’t so numerous. I’m thinking of the duo JF William & Serge Laporte known as Bill, Georges Thurston also known as Boule Noire who ran the Magique record label around that time. As for female singers/composers, …
Forgotten Treasure: Gloria Gaynor “Real Good People” (1975)
If you’re like me, you may have a decent chunk of records in your collection that, for one reason or another, have yet to be discovered. When it comes to music I tend to bite off more than I can chew, but somewhere deep in my subconscious I know that …
Future Classic: Freddie Joachim “The Joachim Remixes Vol. 5”
As always the boys at Moovmnt are on point when it comes to digging out the fuego! This is a new remix package from Freddie Joachim, a producer from San Francisco who we love here at MIMS. The 19 track remix project tackles classics like Little Dragon, Q-Tip, Corrine Bailey …
Future Classic: Modlee & VLooper “Sunwalk EP”
Another piece of great news. Just in time for our documentary on the Montreal Beat Scene called “Piu Piu” another one of our homegrown heavyweights, VLooper & Modlee are dropping a wonderful project and this time it’s a release through the good people of Soulection from Cali. V&M are pretty …
Forgotten Treasure: Spontaneous Overthrow “All About Money” (1984)
Pretty much the definition of what a forgotten treasure is right here! Very odd yet beautiful slice of synthesized experimental soul music from a group called Spontaneous Overthrow. Nathaniel Woolridge and Anthony Freeman, two friends from Newark, New Jersey decided to press this LP on their start up label called …
Forgotten Treasure: David Benoit “Life is like a Samba” (1979)
Once again, we walk away for another edition of our 24 Hours of Vinyl event having discovered sooo many good music. Each DJ from the 4th edition introduced us to some gems that we probably would have missed and will now beat on regular rotation for years to come. Each …
Kenny Dope’s Five Favorite (Priceless) 45’s
Just to get us in the vinyl mood in time for the 4th edition of our 24 Hours of Vinyl event (this friday). Here is a 7″ rundown from one of our favorite producer / DJ’s mister Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez from KayDee Records and part of the legendary Masters At …
Future Classic: Jeb Loy Nichols “Hard Times”
I’ve been sitting on this one for a little while now, I’ve been meaning to include it in a MIMS Radio Show but everytime it slipped my mind. And then today I was writing about the sad state of affairs right now in Montreal and I was thinking about a …
MOOVMNT “Glimmering Fractions : Mix 04 Diamond”
via the homies at Moovmnt.com: “Eventhough it’s a national holiday over here, we’re still keeping up our end of the bargain. Already the 4th installment of our monthly “Glimmering Fractions” mix series. This time the focuss is more on recent music, but I’m sure you guys are going to like …
Chris Dave (Drums) x Fela Kuti
“Chris Dave is probably the most dangerous drummer alive. He is totally reinventing just what you can do with drums.” – ?uestlove And in case you haven’t seen some of his other videos, here are absolutely mind blowing covers of tracks from Portishead, Bob James, Kanye, ATCQ, … Chris Dave …
Forgotten Treasure: WAR “Flying Machine” (1973)
This is one of the ultimate forgotten jams from California’s premier funk/jazz/latin fusion band WAR; one of the biggest selling groups of the 70’s. 50 million records son! The track is from a 70’s Blaxsploitation era movie soundtrack called “Youngblood”. In all honesty, I’ve never seen it but if it’s …
Bobby Womack – The Making of “The Bravest Man In The Universe”
I’m a huge fan of music documentaries, no matter who the artist of group it’s focused on. I can watch countless hours of documentaries, even bands I don’t event like… There’s just something about sitting in on the creation of a record that’s really fascinating. “With co-production from Damon Albarn …