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Comments Off on The Sugar Mixtape by DJ Kozi
Tasty “Sugar” themed mix by DJ Kozi from France. This eclectic selection of tunes came to our attention via the Egotripland.com website. DJ Kozi blends together different genres of music in the mix. The Rolling Stones rock out to Brown...
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1960s, Music •
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Comments Off on Smashed Blocked – The Who versus John’s Children
In April 1967 The Who embarked on a tour of Germany to promote their new single ‘Pictures of Lily’. They took with them two English ‘mod’ bands as support acts – John’s Children and The Action. The result was chaos...
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Comments Off on The First Book of Jazz
J is for Jazz – some cool illustrations from the childrens book The First Book of Jazz by Langston Hughes. The Artwork was created by Animator and Cartoonist Cliff Roberts. His pictures appeared in magazines such as the New Yorker and Playboy. He...
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1960s, 1970s, Documentary, Film, Music •
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Comments Off on Thunder Soul – The Kashmere Stage Band
This is the story of the Kashmere Stage Band, a bunch of school kids from Houston, Texas who between 1968 and 1977 created some of the dirtiest, nastiest funk music to come out of the southern states. This is also a story that is so good you couldn’t better...
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1960s, Music, Unexpected Gems •
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Comments Off on Unexpected Gems – Toni Basil Breakaway
Mention the name Toni Basil to people of a certain age and they will reply with another name – ‘Mickey’. Her 1982 worldwide hit of the same name was a cover of a song called ‘Kitty’ released three years earlier by Racey and gave...
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1990s, DJ mix, Music •
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Comments Off on Midnight in a Perfect World – Mo Wax Mix
Back in 1998 Mo Wax Trip Hop Duo The Psychonauts mixed-up some of the record labels back catalogue and named it – Time Machine. Blended together are all the Mo Wax favourites from the Beastie Boys Keyboard player Money Mark to French duo La Funk Mob,...
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1970s, Music •
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Comments Off on Mike James Kirkland – Hang on in There
Sometimes all it takes is a knowing reference, sometimes a sample and on certain occasions a cover version to bring an old name out of obscurity and into the limelight once more. When John Legend and The Roots covered Mike James Kirkland’s ‘Hang...
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Comments Off on Pablo Lobato Illustrations
Pablo Lobato is a Graphic Designer and illustrator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. His Portfolio includes work for New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, LA Times Magazine, LA Magazine, The New Republic, Boston Globe, Texas Monthly, Cosmopolitan Germany,...
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Comments Off on We Like It Like That – The Story of Latin Boogaloo
In New York City from 1965 to 1970, musicians blended English and Spanish lyrics with Afro-Cuban, jazz, rock and R&B rhythms to create Latin boogaloo. We Like it like that is a project by New York Filmmaker and Writer Mathew Ramirez Warren, who has...
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Comments Off on Lee Ferrell – His son is kind of a big deal
Cannonball!! Comedy actor Will Ferrell may have played a mean Jazz flute as Ron Burgundy in the film Anchorman, but back in 1967 his father Lee Ferrell was blowing saxophone and tinkling the ivories for The Righteous Brothers Band...
