Those crazy French!

DiscFunktional Sundays

Every last Sunday of the month my man the Boogiman hosts an excellent funk and soul night down at the Founders Brewery

Boogiman was walking that line between neo soul, funk and disco at one point in the evening, which reminded me of the whole disco conversation. Last night he had a couple of guests who were super sweet

One was Aaron Anderson. Download his super dope mix at Jazzman Records. If you liked Beezy’s 7 inch Radio you really should get amongst this mix.

and Dreas who does some sweet down tempo production work in addition to bringing the funk.

So don’t sleep next month!

So all you jheri curl suckers wearing high heel boots…

A couple of days ago, Beezy, Local DJ, and Mister Squid recorded our next podcast, but I’m currently in the middle of mixing it down, cleaning everything up, etc.  Since I don’t want to leave you hanging, I thought that I’d throw up some songs for you to listen to…

I recently had a discussion with an old friend of mine (and mentor) from No Soul Robot.  We got to talking about the influx of new “80′s sounding” music that has been coming out–mostly the newer electro/synth-pop sounding stuff.  This inspired me to do a post…

But I want to go a different route here.  I thought that I’d highlight some of the more “soulful/R&B-ish” sounding 80′s stuff that I’ve been listening to over the last couple of years…  Songs galore after jump!

The Flints

My Nephew, Sister-In-Law and Childhood Clock are on MTV!

So, I’m not a huge fan of the song but I have to say this is pretty fucking rad (for me anyway).  At the 3:20 mark my nephew Emery and sister-in-law Jody are in this video.  Also at the :18 mark is the clock that I grew up with in my parent’s house and now it and these people I love are on MTV.  Weird and awesome.  Apparently Every Avenue filmed at the houses of their friends and family to put together this video and since Jody is friends with the guitarist of the band they are a part of it.  Crazy for me, probably so-so for you.

Protect Ya Neck

I know  many of you have already seen this… but it is too good not to post.

-Beezy

Commercial Break: Liquor Edition

Way before Billie Dee…

Wait…

Wait for it…

OK, now for the pay off!

In the year 2000…

The Lockers…

Lionel Richie ain’t been black since the Commodores, man!

The Platters vs. Kool & The Gang

And from my high school years… Bolt 45!

Fuck You

I can’t tell you how excited I am for the new CeeLo album.  Okay I can: stupid-crazy-excited.  Now there is this little perfect neo-soul gem with a super simple message: “Fuck You.”  Hilarious and honest with a great video this what we’ve come to expect from Cee Lo. It’s truthful, funny, catchy soul carried by a voice that will not quit.  Hot damn.

Caspa at the Intersection!?!?!?!?!

Seriously? Seriously!

His remix of TC’s Where’s My Money got me into Dubstep in the first place and now he will be in GR.  I honestly could never have guessed how big Dubstep would get when I was listening to that track in Beezy’s basement so long ago… (I think it was a year and a half…)  So yeah, I am excited to see Caspa in person, but I’m definitely not excited to see the persons in the audience.  It’s gonna get WEIRD.

The illest kid on the net

Heard about this from Grooverider.  He mentioned it during his previous show.  This has got to be the illest kid on the net!

The dad writes, “Not to worry.. the music was not too loud.. i have super imposed a small fraction of the original audio back into the file… the car isn’t fitted with any big audio systems or anything it’s just a standard car system… (two door panel speakers) with the airbags TURNED OFF!!!!! also the term “RAVER” is used lightly because of the way he is dancing.. this does not mean we are pushing him into any walk of life.. and just one last one.. i have had people saying he’s not dancing he’s having a seizure??? eerrm ok.. please check the fred dancing to dubstep video.. you can clearly see this is how he dances all the time to this music… thank you “

The dad is affiliated with the Drumstep group Dub Foundation:

You can hear Grooverider talkin’ at the beginning of this next Dub Foundation track (i.e., it’s a radio rip).  Groove always gets songs 5-6 months before they’re actually released (lucky!).  I can’t wait for this one to finally come out!  SICK!!!!