New Music: Deep Street Soul – Deep Street Soul

Discovered this one by accident while on Soundcloud. Good ish! Hit the jump for the background on this Melbourne, Australia throwback funk act as it’s kind of long-ish…


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Throwback Music: The Royal Five – Gonna Keep Lovin’ You

For mellow Sunday. No mp3 link, just great music for you to really listen to and appreciate. Dig it? Look it up somewhere and BUY it!

Thanks to my homegirl, DJ Anousheh, who had this in one of her live DJ mixes that we were playing at dinner last night, for the heads up.

HipHopisRead.com pres. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth’s Mecca and the Soul Brother (Sample Set #39)

From the homie, Ivan.

Download it and get the track-listing HERE.

Hit the jump to see a promo video for the Box Set reissue of Mecca and the Soul Brother although when I posted this on Facebook), I got an email from an irate Pete Rock saying thanks for posting it, cos he didn’t know who the f-ck Traffic Ent. (who did this reissue) was and that he siccing his lawyers on them. Yikes… (more…)

Throwback Music: Lyman Woodard Organization – Saturday Night Special (Alternate Take)

Beautiful soulful jazz instrumental. If you dig stuff like Bob James or the CTI records jazz catalogue this will be right up your alley. Amazingly cool throwback video too!

BUY the Lyman Woodard Organization album from the Wax Poetics Digital Store by clicking HERE. Also available via iTunes HERE.



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[MP3] The Wild Bunch vs. Soul II Soul – New Years Eve 1987 (Live DJ Mix)

MP3 download: Wild Bunch/Soul II Soul – Wild Bunch Vs Soul II Soul New Years Eve 1987 (Live DJ Mix)

Another re-post from the original Kitchen:

This is f-cking EPIC! For young uns’ benefit, here’s the background story: when The Wild Bunch broke up they became Soul II Soul (with Nellee Hooper joining Jazzie B‘s London crew and helping them produce “Back to Life” and “Keep On Movin'”) and Massive Attack (formed by WB members Daddy G, 3D and maybe Milo too, though not sure about that last one).

Test Pressing has more crucial UK sounds. Check them out HERE.

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