Oh, Baby – I Like it Raw

Great dubby disco take on Queens b-boy classic from the one and only Began Cekic.

Common Sense - Another One Bites the Dust (Instrumental)

This has been out a couple of months now on the always reliable bootleg label Mindless Boogie but I guess that some of you aren’t that big vinyl consumers so I thought you might have missed it.

Amazing edit from Copenhagens Peter Visti and a perfect soundtrack for those late summer nights.

Loovin’ Spoonful - Summer In The City (Peter Visti edit) (320)

Bonus: Dolly Parton - Jolene (Peter Visti Edit) (320)

I’m the first to admit that I’ve been a little bit slow on this one. But what a track! Blk Jks is a group from south africa who sounds like the perfect mix of A Mountain of One, Vampire Weekend and Bad Brains when they’re not playing hardcore or something (ok, that wasn’t the best comparison I’m afraid but it was the best I could come up with at the moment).

But check it out. The music is superp and their wardrobe aswell.

One vice Swedish recorddealer once said that you never should trust people who doesn’t like reggae. I could agree on that and would like to add: never trust reggae people who doesn’t listen to lovers.

If Lorna Bennett’s beautiful ballad “Breakfast In Bed” doesn’t blow you away you’re probably deaf or something.

Big shout out to my friend Sweet Fred who introduced me to this nugget 8 years ago or something when I moved to malmö.

Lorna Bennett - Breakfast In Bed (320)

Some kind of weekend interubt my women-in-reggae-countdown. But here’s the two last post.

First the rudest rudegirl Lady Saw and her wicked tune on one of the greatest dancehal/reggae riddims of all - Dave Kelly’s “Joyride” from the mid 90s.

Lady Saw - Sycamore Tree (320)

One of the greatest producers and writers in music history passed this weekend. For younger generations Isaac Hayes is probably most known as the voice of chef in South Park but in the beginning in the late 60s and early 70s he pointed out totally new directions in the music world with his Blaxplotation soul.

Isaac Hayes was one of the main reasons that I started to dig back in time after the originals to all the hiphop tracks that I loved. Among his most classic recordings - “Walk On By”, “Theme from Shaft”, “The Look of Love” and “Hung Up On My Baby” etc - my favourite has always been “Ike’s Mood”. Probably because I couldn’t stop listening to Tragedy/Intelligent Hoodlum’s “Grand Groove” which borrowed a lot from it (they actually sampled it at the wrong speed).

Isaac Hayes - Ike’s Mood (320)

Intelligent Hoodlum - Grand Groove (320)

Been meaning to write this post for a while now. My favourite David Bowie song covered by one of my favourite techno producers, Matthew Dear, on “Life Beyond Mars - Bowie Covered”.

David Bowie - “Sound And Vision” (320)

Matthew Dear - “Sound And Vision” (VBR)

Jamaicas own queen of soul have a career that’s last for more than 40 years now. This is from her early work on Jamaicas Tamla Motown - Studion One. Jamaican soul at it’s best.

#3 Marcia Griffiths - Melody Life

I hope all of you have download the “Top Rankin” mixtape with Diplo and Brooklyn’s Santogold I posted earlier. If you don’t – do it right away. If you did you probably have shake your rumpa to Radioclit’s remix of “Get It Up” - one of the best tracks from the mix.

Just minutes ago I got this new version of the track in my mailbox directly from the Radioclit camp in London featuring the Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya. And it’s MASSIVE!

If you’re not familiar with his name already you’re gonna be pretty soon. Esau Mwamwaya’s Radioclit produced debut should be out next year. With guests like Vampire Weekend, M.I.A. and Marina Ribatski from Bonde Do Role it sounds promising to say the least.

For more of Esau Mwamwaya start with his making of the album video on you tube Here.

Esau Mwamwaya, M.I.A, Santogold & Radioclit - Get it Up (320)

Classic rocksteady in Jennifer Lara’s version of Delroy Wilsons mega hit “I Don’t Know Why” from the late 60s.

Jennifer Lara - Consider Me