Spending hours in impossible positions with fingers thrawling through piles of old book smelling records. Skip tons of familiar shitty stuff with the obstinacy and fever of a gold digger to finally walk away with at least a back hurt and at most a small part of a never ending wantlist ... or unknown stuff looking so weird it just couldn't be left.
Listening & keeping what's worth, throwing the rest.
That's what i like, as many other records nerds do.
But i'm not a "collector", the type that keeps his music in a safe : records are meant to played and shared to death.
I'm mostly into Soul, Funk and R'n'B (where B stands for blues...) but i enjoy many sorts of music so i'll just try to cross things over a little bit...
Here you'll hear tracks rather than music styles, tracks i truly like at the moment i play them.
Nothing is spun for rarity's sake, nothing's avoided for being easy to get.
Nothing is played for it is an in-demand track, nothing's avoided for belonging to an akward music style.
The only frame is "sounds from the 50's to nowadays in the black / groove / swing / oddball fields delivered at the speed of 45 rotations per minute".
In this first Episode, you'll find many obvious yet fine tracks and a few oddities ranging from prehistoric soul jazz to futuristic reggae meets motown mash-up and even Nana Mouskouri (yet in a Gainsbourg penned number)...
Tracklisting :
-Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers "Blues March" (Rca)
-Ramsey Lewis Trio "The In Crowd" (Argo)
-Jimmy Smith "I Got My Mojo Workin" (Verve)
-Ray Charles "The Train" (Hmv)
-Sam & Dave "You Ain't No Big Thing" (King)
-The Five Royales "Not Going To Cry" (Home Of The Blues)
-Spartaco Sax "Guitarro Cha Cha" (Bel Air)
-Monguito Santamaria "Work Out" (Disc Jockey)
-Dee Dee Sharp "Standing In The Need Of Love" (Cameo)
-Lunar Funk "Mister Penguin" (Bell)
-BW Souls "Marvin's Groove" (Round)
-Lalo Schiffrin "Dirty Harry" (Verve)
-Jimmy Ruffin "I Wish It Would Rain" (Studio?)
-El Michel's Affair "Cream" (Shaolin)
-Nana Mouskouri "Les Yeux Pour Pleurer" (Fontana)
-R.I.P.
