I hope this podcast finds u well. I like the graphic chosen for this week’s podcast. It describes how the past few days have been, lots of rain, overcast skies, and a blustery day or two. Frankly, I enjoyed, and still am enjoying every bit of it. It definitely causes me to appreciate the sunny days as well. Days like the ones of recent do provide for some good inspiration, some introspection, etc…so I have an appreciation for them as well.
Glad to inform you that I finally came across some new tracks for the podcast, ones that reflect this weekend as well. Kicking off the podcast is none other than British soul giants, 4Hero. I love their arrangements, big drums, lush big strings, and soulful lyrics. It’s a pleasure, as a musician and listener, to hear musical compositions in this genre that has been missed stateside. Carina Andersson brings that vocal magic to every thing she touches.
I discovered Capsula, Pineapple Corner, J. Boogie’s Dubtronic Science, and Afterlife’s (Smooch) tracks on Groove Salad this week. I think my favorite track on this podcast is Alive (Instrumental). Of course, one can never go wrong with Blackfish or the chill out artist of the century, Afterlife.
That being said, without further adieu, I bring u the play list:
1. Morning Child f/Carina Andersson – 4hero
2. Easy Fly – Pineapple Corner/Pineapple Corner
3. California Sunrise – Blank & Jones/Relax Edition 3 (Sun) – EP
4. Circular Motion – Nuspirit Helsinki
5. Alive (Instrumental) – J-Boogie’s Dubtronic Science/Mushroom Jazz 6
6. Bay of Islands – Blackfish/Pole Navigation
7. Illusion Hill – Capsula/Sense of a Drop
8. Clear Blue Sky – Afterlife/The St. Regis Chill & Groove
9. Smooch – Afterlife/Speck of Gold
10. Gutenmorgenduft – dZihan & Kamien & The Brut Imperial Quintet/Fakes
Thanks to my new listeners, Celeste, Belinda, and Audrey. Big up to Philip Clark for the podcast drop!
I’m gonna relax tomorrow….knowing me, probably in the studio most of the day, catching up on creating!
peace and blessings…
F!
[Edit: Please forgive me for omitting my standard intro voiceover. How I forgot to include it, is beyond me…duh!]
10:15pm, Friday night. The day part was long, and busy, so I am definitely appreciative of this part. I’m sitting in the studio…really chillin’. As usual, I’m thinking of projects that need to continue, get finished, or get started, but tonite…I’m relaxing, and catching up on blogging (*yawn*).
They say when it rains, it pours. It’s been doing that figuratively and literally (more figuratively then literally). For the longest time, I, and my biz partner, Dan McCollum, have been working on our CD project….the longest time is a time I care not to divulge, but hey…life get’s in the way. The CD is entitled “What Love Is”. We are known as After Six Productions. It started out, and still is, a labor of love project, as opposed to one created to get a record deal. We have a record company established under which A6P falls, Hall Effect Records. While we are now down to pretty much nearing completion of the project, we’re really seeing how much work it entails. Our only desire, be it lofty or not, is to put out songs that can stand the test of time. A bit ambitious…maybe…but in light of what the urban music industry is offering, we feel it’s high time for a change….we’ll see. We’re coming.
I won’t bore ya with my humble beginnings, but just let you know what the journey has been like over the last year. I’ve had the studio running for quite some time. This year there have been other projects like recording a four-voice ensemble to a welcome song written for our church mass choir. The result of that demo CD drew similar artists in, with songs of their own from time to time (I have three in the queue currently). Having *clientele* like this is not something I expected at this point, but it gives me an idea what it really takes to produce and learn the recording hardware and software I have.
Over the last few months, I’ve begun a remote collaboration project with two other very talented musicians AND friends I have on twitter: @fave (in Houston) and @toddkelley (in Cali). Fave and Todd have been doing collaboration songs back and forth that I’ve been fortunate to hear. These tracks, everyone, have been slammin’. Down the line, we all started talking about collaborating to some extent. Fave came around and seem to set the wheels in motion, farming out some incomplete tracks to Todd and I to work on, Todd doing the same to Fave, and Fave feeding what Todd and he did to me, for the guitar work. So far, tracks done, and released to the public to hear, have been met with great enthusiasm. The name of the project is called C3 or deeper still, “contempojazzsoulhop”, a name that describes the flow of all three of us combined as one. Here’s Fave talking about the origin and development of the project (yeah, man…we both owe u inputs! LOL):
I’ve been working on my own tracks for years, under a project entitled Songs From The Future (SFTF). While I won’t get into my whole workflow, inspirations and such, songs come to me in many different ways, different times and are often built from a little as something like this. My plan is to get under way with my CD in 2010, as soon as we drop “What Love Is”
Within the last, what, almost two months, I got the grand opportunity (again via Twitter) to be asked to do remixes (seemingly a life long dream), for one VERY funky and soulful artist by the name of Philip Clark. Via some tweets read about the development of “contempojazzsoulhop”, he got wind of the fact that I produce my own music and was always interested in doing a remix. After a little discussion, he approached me and asked if I wanted to do some remixes of tracks from his debut album. Of course I jumped at the chance to do so and picked the track “Granted”. Happy to say that after hearing the rough version, he is pleased with it….but not more pleased that I to know he’s diggin’ it. I plan two other remixes of the track. He’s a pleasure to work with and has displayed a great mind for the business as well. I like what he has in store for the remix project as a whole. I applaud that, as well as his musical flow. Definitely check out his tracks. His official site is here. Much thanks to the shout for my podcast.
As far as live music, I’ve been playing in my church’s music ministry with all the various choirs since 1994 as well as with a band, 150East for a few years now. Here’s a short vid of the band:
Since 150East, I’ve started teaching guitar, as well as studying jazz guitar under a Washington DC guitar instructor and recording artist, Dave Mosick. The latest project about to kick off is with a local sax player and good friend, Kelvin Wilson.
So, needless to say….busy for sure. Just tryna make it happen, and that always starts in ‘The Lab.
I won’t say what time it is now…but, I will say…thank for reading….The weekend is here…let’s go…
I trust this post finds u well and that your weekend, so far, is great. Earlier in the week, while on Facebook, I was doing my customary video add to my profile and came across a video of Sade from the Lover’s Live DVD (which I proudly own…. 🙂 ) That video post drew a comment from my brother-in-podcasting Darrenkeith, about that particular video, but moreso about the music, the flow, the aura of Ms Helen Folosade Adu. I won’t bore u with the contents of the chat DK and I had (heh), however, I, as well as he, have been long time tremendous fans of Sade. I wont attempt to even describe how much of a fan I am, but it’s like an A-to-Z thing with ALL of her music, as well as the presentation. Watching Lovers Live is like a special event for me LOL… I have literrally daydreamed, on occasion, about what it would be like to be part of her touring band.
Some of you know the word is out that she is planning to release a new CD, with her core musicians from back in the day. I, like many, are eagerly anticipating when this CD will drop. At the same time, I’m wondering just how much of the magic will be released as well. In principle, it’s a little bit like Whitney’s current release, as it’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything new. Sade and Whitney are in two different classes altogether, IMHO, so…we shall see what comes forth. For more info on Sade’s upcoming release, you can visit her new website.
In staying consistent with the overall vibe of The Sunday Soundtrack, I chose (and it was difficult) to feature some of Sade’s more mellow tracks. In addition, I also included, as a bonus, a three song remix of her track, Cherish The Day, as well. I hope you enjoy this virtual mini concert. That being said, I bring to you the playlist.
1. Your Love Is King – Sade/The Best Of Sade
2. The Sweetest Taboo -Sade/The Best Of Sade
3. Never As Good As The First Time – Sade/The Best Of Sade
4. Love Is Stronger Than Pride – Sade/The Best Of Sade
5. Nothing Can Come Between Us- Sade/The Best Of Sade
6. No Ordinary Love – Sade/The Best Of Sade
7. Like A Tattoo – Sade/The Best Of Sade
8. Cherish The Day – Sade/Lovers Live (Live)
9. Somebody Already Broke My Heart – Sade/Lovers Live (Live)
10. Kiss Of Life – Sade/Lovers Live (Live)
11. Flow – Sade/Lovers Live (Live)
I hope this blog post finds you well. Welcome to the autumnal equinox, we’re into it officially and I’m lovin’ it. Being a four seasons man, I welcome the variety that all four bring, weatherwise. We’ve had a good mix of rainy days and gorgeously sunny days in the area thus far.
Thanks for hangin’ with me through last week’s SSP recast. I’ve got four music projects I’m juggling and have started teaching guitar recently to two students, and have an ongoing fifth project, if you will, recording demos for some of the welcome songs used for our adult church choir (stay tuned for a future blog post on this), so as u can see life is busy…just in THAT area of things.
Today’s flow will be pretty jazzy. My workflow in producing my podcasts is to assemble the tracks in iTunes, record the entire podcast, record the voiceovers, insert the promo drops do the blog post along the way. I extract the playlist from the iTunes view, cut and paste it into the post and GB file. Well, I lost the original iTunes playlist for this week early in the game and had go through over 1000 songs to see what I chose …LOL. Luckily I was able to recall most of them, but…..was too lazy with everything else this weekend, to do strict QA on the list so…forgive if something may be amiss with the flow vs the playlist. I think I got it all right!
That being said…I bring to you this week’s tracklist:
1. Searchin’ – Little Big Bee (The AtJazz Remix)/Sunset Nights
2. Not Just Anybody – Rae and Christian (The AtJazz Flugelhorn Remix)/Sleepwalking
3. Bondi Beach – Blackfish/Hidden Shore
4. Wooter – RDM
5. Optymistic – Tom Middleton/Life Tracks
6. Soon – ORG Lounge/Has It Come To This?
7. Cross That Line – Sine/Cross That Line
8. Falling Man – Espresso del Lago/Yeki
The following videos present AtJazz version of Rae and Christian’s “Not Just Anybody” (track 2 in the playlist), an excellent remix in my opinion, all the way around. The second video is the original version. I like the original as well, *very* chilled.
Glad u stopped by today, I hope the balance of it is to your liking and all your positive endeavors are realized.
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I’m glad you’ve tuned into another editio of the SSP. It’s been an extremely busy week (my eyes want to close, but it’s only 7:58pm Sunday evening). I had an new SSP to post tonite, but some how have deleted the playlist and frankly feel too lazy to listen through the audio file to see what I put together last week…ugh. With that being said, instead of leaving you musicless this weekend again, I bring u….The Best of Chill. These are the tracks in my collection that I feel, in under an hour, represents the best of what could possibly transform you into a state of relaxed of mind….that is my hope anyway.
Now, the tracklisting, enjoy it to the fullest and remember, multitasking is NOT aloud (wink)
No Use (Beanfield Remix ) – Jazzanova/Jazzanova Remixed [Disc 1]
Sa Trincha – Espresso Del Lago/Yeki
If You Don’t Love Me, Understand Me – Vision
Optymystic – Tom Middleton/Life Tracks
Return to Margin (Afterlife Mix) – Afterlife/The Afterlife Lounge
Sonar – Blackfish/Pole Navigation
Gaze – Sweetback/Sweetback
Speck of Gold – Afterlife/The St. Regis Chill & GrooveChill
Bomberclad Joint – Knowtoryous – Kruder & Dorfmeister/The K & D Session
Like A Tattoo – Sade/The Best Of Sade
Third Sky – Groove 7/SFTFÂ
Miracles – Afterlife
Get Back to Serenity (Beach Mix) – Vargo/Beauty
Dreaming Of You – Chevalier
Though suggested no multitasking above, I think it’d be best that I do some…while u hopefully enjoy the music.
Until next time…keep it chilled. Wishing u peaceful vibes…
How are you? Welcome back to another edition of The Sunday Soundtrack. Always glad you can partake of the music I bring forth. It’s definitely a labor of love and I appreciate the comments left here and abroad. As summer begins to wind down, there is a time that is ending and, as the photo depicts above, a time ahead. Being a four seasons man, I always anticipate the vibrant colors and crisp, cool weather of the autumnal equinox, better known as Fall. While summer is always known to be more care free and lazy, Fall has it’s own goodness to me, and in that…bring it on.
The tracks I bring to you for this podcast are mainly new. As usual, the pics come my favorite source, Soma FM. Incidentally, 60% of the tracks this time came within 3 hours of off and on listening this Friday night.
Inner Shade brings us Little Sunflower, a well made remake of the classic Freddie Hubbard tune, with a twist of drum and bass influence as the foundation of track. I also particularly enjoy the tune because Inner Shade is a spinoff group of Incognito. The CD, 4 Corners, is their solo release, which I think is becoming more difficult to come by. If you happen to find it, definitely add it to your collection. It features the jazz guitar work of Mark Whitfield and the soulfully vocal goodness of Maysa Leak (the primary female lead vocalist Incognito is known for).
In honor of Vikter Duplaix’s new CD and single release entitled “Electric Love”, I bring you an old favorite of mine and a track perfect for the Sunday Soundtrack musical palette, “Another Love Gone By” featuring Esthero.
Another artist I’m happy to feature is Philip Clark…the NEW definition of blue eyed soul. I became acquainted with PC via Twitter after we crossed paths via some musical collaborationwork I am doing with fellow brothers in podcasting Fave and The Big La Todd Kelley, now known as “C3”. After checkin’ out PC’s tracks on Myspace…I was DEFINITELY feelin’ his musical flow. Per further discussion, he “Granted” me (pun intended) the great opportunity to do a remix of a track of my choice from his last CD. Needless to say, after being a remix fan for YEARS, I hopped on it. He knows what track it is, but P, if you are reading this…I’ve got three remixes I am working on of said track…three different genres…I hope you like them!
As for some “smooth jazz” goodness, I was led to include a track, dedicated to a person on Twitter who continually tweets inspirational, resourceful, and heart warming messages everytime I notice them. The track “Monica” is for you, Monica, better known on Twitter as Deltavogue…thanks for the very nice complements you gave the Sunday Soundtrack last week. I greatly appreciate it!
With that being said, the playlist for this weekend is as follows:
1. Little Sunflower – Inner Shade/4 Corners
2. Monica – Fattburger/The Best Of Fattburger
3. Granted – Philip Clark/The State Of Blue-Eyed Soul
4. Sanso Sheep – Jens Buchert/Ice Lounge
5. Sands of Time – Ten Madison/Grounded
6. IMG.00.37 – Akotcha/Sound Burger
7. Elephant (Dub Mix) – Spiral System & Lottie Child/Here We Are – EP
8. Another Great Love Gone By Featuring Esthero – Vikter Duplaix/Bold & Beautiful
9. Reflections – Jens Buchert/Sunrider
10. Billy Bibbit – Moss/East Coast Chip Shop
I hope you’ve enjoyed this edition of the Sunday Soundtrack. Kudos to all my podcasting massive, bring good musical vibes all week long: Darrenkeith (My Love For Music), Fave (The Friday Favecast), Todd Kelley (Flowink), Macedonia (BSOTS), EJ Flavors (OSW), T. Grundy (Rhythms In Black Satin), DJ Diva (The Monday Mixtape), Honeysoul (Honeysoul), Anjibee (The Chillcast), Nikki (Soulrific) and a host of others. Check all their podcasts out under my category Music Podcasts, over there to the right!
I hope all is well. It was a pretty long work week that just past, and while chillin’ in studio Friday night, I get this alert on my phone:
From: SomaFM
To: Doug R
ReplyTo: dj@somafm.com
Subject: Live Space Shuttle coverage tonight on Mission Control
Sent: Aug 28, 2009 10:26 PM
Dear Doug R:
Sorry for the late notice, hope you get this in time:
After 2 aborted attempts earlier this week, Space Shuttle Mission
STS-128 is set to launch tonight (in just a couple hours) at 9pm
pacific, midnight Eastern time (04:00 GMT) on a flight to the
international space station.
We’ll be mixing ambient music and the live mission audio from NASA on
our new Mission Control channel. You can tune in at http://somafm.com
Best of luck to Commander Rick Sturckow and the crew of STS-128
At that time I was still trying to decide on the tracks for this weekend’s podcast, then……the light bulb went off. I had never done a pure ambient show before….at least before now ;-). So, I present to u, The Sunday Soundtrack STS-128 Mission Control Flow. I know that I have a few ambient fans out there, as well as a few Twitter followers that express keen NASA interest, either as an employee or enthusiast (some of you know I supported NASA as a systems engineer for 8 years, and began my career in satellite communications in 1988). I had the good fortune of visiting Cape Canaveral to view a launch of satellite that was one of ten that got put into orbit, part of a Dept of Navy program I worked on. If you ever have a chance to view a launch, take advantage of it…it still excites me.
That being said, I present to you this week’s playlist:
Space Shuttle Discovery Launch audio. The STS-128 mission to the International Space Station.
♫ Yuminale – On The Eve Of Loxic Streams
♫ Velocette – Space Q
♫ Steve Roach, Erik Wollo – Stream Of Thought 19
♫ Disturbed Earth – Temple
♫ Spice Barons – Voyager (And What Did You Think Of The First Episode)
♫ Anthony Rother – Elixir Of Life Part I
♫ Gas – Zauberberg V
♫ Alpha Wave Movement – Silent Promise
♫ Natural Frequencies Aka Andreas Leifeld – Timeless
♫ Harold Budd – The Room Alight
♫ William Edge – Not Returning Home
I hope you’ve enjoyed the ambient flow this weekend. As I’ve said previously, you can find tracks like these, as well as other excellent chillout and electronica tracks at Soma FM as well as follow them on Twitter
For getting excellent launch and mission coverage, follow Space Launch News on Twitter.
Special shout out to Hidden Place and Steph, my ambient expert and NASA bud.
Hope all of u are well. This is Fresh’s secretary once again. I’m presenting to you, on behalf of him, a recast of an earlier Sunday Souundtrack for your listening pleasure. He’ll be back next weekend with brand new tracks.
The assembly of tracks for the podcast follow in hopes that the combination thereof is fitting for some mellowness…
Circular Motion – Nuspirit Helsinki/Nuspirit Helsinki
Journey Into Day – Seek/Journey Into Day
LIke Wind To Rain – Shang/Beautiful
The Raw Perspective – Vision
1000 Islands – Monte la Rue/Interludia (Disque Deluxe)
Lean On Me (f/Colein) – Sounds From The Ground/Ultra Chilled [Disc 2]
Alternate Thursday – Platonic/Sound In Color/Mu.sicÂ
Flit – The Solid Doctor/Beats Means Highs
Afterlife – Jon Hopkins/Opalescent
Wishing u a great Sunday, or any day you are listening to this. As mentioned a few podcasts ago, I’ll looking to do some new things to present in the Sunday Soundtrack, in terms of features. Feel free to leave a comment if you have any ideas, I just might use a few.
Welcome back to the Sunday Soundtrack for 16 Aug 09. I trust all is well with you. Here we are in the month of August. I want a do-over (as we used to say as kids) for the summer. It’s flying by waaaaay to fast, but, I’m enjoying it anyway. It’s been especially a good time for new musical endeavors, discoveries, and connecting with new artists that allow me, as well as request for me, to feature their tracks on this podcast – that’s always a good thing.
Speaking of connecting with new musical endeavors and connecting with new artists, the last month has afforded me the opportunity to do something I’ve wanted to do for quite sometime: working on remixes. Just over the last week, I was asked, and got the chance to, lay some guitar tracks for a remake of a Stevie Wonder classic, Rocket Love. The artist who did the arrangement and recording is none other than Fave of the world famous Friday Favecast. Fave sent me his initial track, I laid my track, sent it back, he worked it and sent it to the third party on the flow on in LA, Todd Kelley of Flowink, for the drum programming. I love the fact that we are leveraging the net, as well as Logic Studio to make this track nice. Gotta be truthful about it, it’s already a winner. Stay tuned.
Similarly, while this is all going on, another NICE artist we both follow on Twitter, Philip Clark approaches Todd and I to do remixes for his previous album. While Todd has mad flow in this area, I am very excited to get the chance to a remix for an artist with such mad flow. I received his vocal stems today and will start work on it soon, something I’m defnitely looking forward to. Stay tuned to the Sunday Soundtrack for featured tracks by Philip Clark.
That being said, this edition of the podcast features a number of tracks that are remixes, three speicifically of a track entitled “Janeiro” by Soul Sessions. I’m liking the flow of the playlist. I hope you do as well. With that being said: the playlist.
The Sunday Soundtrack (XM Summer Driveby: Vol 1) – 16 Aug 09
1. L.O.V.E. And You & I (Dr. Ghe Mix) – Jazzanova/Jazzanova Remixed [Disc 1]
2. Janeiro (Lounge Conjunction Remix) – SolidSessions/Real Ibiza Chill Out, Vol.
3. Love Garden (dedicated to Ildiko) – Gabor Deutsch/Contrast [remastered]
4. Downtown – Chris Zippel a.k.a. Genuine/Nu Ambient Grooves
5. Where’s Vicky (Quantic Mix) – Bathysphere/DWEP001
6. Quantum – Beanfield/Human Patterns
7. El Cid – Leftfield/Rhythm and Stealth
8. Handsome – Bathysphere/Bathysphere’s Daylight Shrubbery EP
9. Janeiro (Chiller Twist Blue Line Remix) – Solid Sessions/Armada Lounge
10. Janeiro (Nibiru Remix) – Solid Sessions/Chill Department
Thanks for listening, as always I appreciated. Special thanks to Kim for the photo above. She was driving a few days ago, snapping and posting everything she found interesting to Twitter and this one (as well as another for next week) caught my eye! Good job (your BB seems to take great pics!)
For the Twitter fans and Facebook crew, please feel free to follow and join me there in both places, respectively.
It’s nice to return to presenting you another edition of The Sunday Soundtrack. Last weekend I revisited (against my will) some slight technical difficulties that eventually I’ll have to address and fix…I will get to that before the end of August. In any event, welcome back.
This edition of The Sunday Soundtrack brings more of an eclectic mix of the genres I like, but focuses on an artist feature again. This artist is one I connected with on Twitter, after seeing his request to find podcasters to feature his music on their shows (I love Twitter’s ability to network so easily). His artist name is Inner Light Spectrum, his actual name is Joe Pacheco. I enjoyed the tracks he sent me for consideration, as well as the email exchanges in the process. That being said, I decided to feature four tracks of his and hope that you enjoy them as much as I do. They provide a nice offering of some great electronica. Here’s a little bit about Inner Light Spectrum:
Inner Light Spectrum  Montreal’s Inner Light Spectrum is on the way to being one of the leading purveyors of ambient-based electronica. With talent like this, the top of the heap is the obvious destination. Inner Light Spectrum crafts aural treats that conjure some serious atmosphere, thick enough to carry the viewer away. The ambiance of Inner Light Spectrum’s alluring, absorbing creations is one-of-a-kind.Â
The Artist at Work Â
Music is always flowing, unstoppable, unquenchable, according to Inner Light Spectrum. “It just happens on its own.†Inner Light Spectrum has prepared an album’s worth of material, so listeners can anticipate some top shelf electronica. Inner Light Spectrum is also looking to work with other artists. “I’m always looking for talented artists and bands to work with. Â
Without further adieu, here is the remainder of the playlist. Special thanks to Madeline for calling The Sunday Soundtrack Hotline and helping me build the playlist, by choosing the lead off track….Spirit. Also featured is a little collaboration between myself and Todd Kelley, remixer, music composer, and host of the many great podcasts of Flowink (World Wide Soul). This is my ID4 edit of his mix, entitled I am Lov….check it.
The Sunday Soundtrack – 08 Aug 09 (f/Inner Light Spectrum)
1 – Spirit – Monet/The Groove Boutique: Volume One
2 – Flex – Pitch Black Ape to Angel
3 – Algiers Dream – Ke Fez/Bar de Lune Presents: Arabic Beats
4 – Loose Tune – Skipless/Jazzamentals EP
5 – I am Lov (Fresh’s ID4 Edit) – Big La vs. Todd
6 – Cocktails in Paris – Inner Light Spectrum/The Path to Reality
7 – Flowing Divinity (ft. Garen and Iris) – Inner Light Spectrum/The Path to Reality
8 – Afternoon in the Park (Orbiting Dream) Ft. Dan Prudian – Inner Light Spectrum/The Path to Reality
9 – Forms – Inner Light Spectrum/The Path to Reality
10 – Snake Ranger – Fila Brazillia/Black Market Gardening
The music of Inner Light Spectrum can be found via the following links:
