tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90263802015-08-06T01:12:18.744+01:00Every 14 days, a music mixtape audioblog based on the masses of soul, jazz, funk, reggae, latin, blue eyed soul, pop & rock vinyl in my loft space that has sat there unplayed but not unloved for too many years. It will sit there no longer as it's time to share. Please note mixes stay up for 14 days after that they're gone.Gladstone Minzienoreply@blogger.comBlogger137125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026380.post-1156363840539649762006-08-23T21:07:00.000+01:002006-08-23T21:14:40.286+01:00

Maya Azucena my favourite indie singer has a video on You Tube and she's singing my favourite song 'Hallelujah', which is well worth watching and listening to.

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People people it seems that I have slipped up on the mix front as I have been a little lax of late. Well, I have been jugling a coouple of new jobs, closing a business, setting up a new business. In addition I have been to the beautiful city of Barcelona, which I fell in love with last year and now would like to live there at some point in the future, Catalonia is the place to be. Anyway a mix

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To those of us in the UK, we are usually at least 6 months behind new shows in the US but the power of the internet levels the playing field and also rids us of the adverts (aaah!). 'Everybody hates Chris' is based on Chris Rock's upbringing in Bed-Stuy and for me it's damn funny and the music well it's mainstream stuff but it's funky all the same Stevie, EWF, Grandmaster Flash, you know the rest

Gladstone Minzienoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026380.post-1143908927920338342006-04-01T17:28:00.000+01:002006-04-01T19:09:05.003+01:00

Another mix another groove, this one folks is heavily laden with some very tasty jazz funk/fusion, while we start off with soulful funky grooves the theme is jazz, you have been funkily warned. Trivia - Check the badword bleep on the Calender track 'Hypertension', which despite hearing the song many times have never heard it before until I played this UK 7".1. L. A. Boppers - Is This The Best (

Gladstone Minzienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026380.post-1143047657656344822006-03-22T17:11:00.000+00:002006-03-23T11:11:29.460+00:00

Yep folks, things are a little bit awry at MFMLoft and I've lost all my pics that were on my server and doubt if I'll get them back but will try and sort it out. The main mix is still available but a couple of the podcasts are having problems, so if it's affecting you let me know. Sorry about that folks.Update:The Podcasts and the main mix are now avaialable.

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Cunnie Williams CD Love Starved Heart - Yo Mama Records (1996)Here We GoTake You HigherYoYo Honey CD Voodoo Soul - Zomba/Jive Records (1992)Get It OnLynden David HallCD Single Track -One Hundred Heart Attacks (Live At Cafe De Paris) (1999)WaynaCD Moments of Clarity - 2004Desperation DaysGroove TheoryCD Groove Theory - Epic Records (1995)Hello It's Me

Gladstone Minzienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026380.post-1142682166885266202006-03-18T11:33:00.001+00:002006-03-18T14:51:11.263+00:00

I have read today that Brit pop whiner James Blunt (sings like a girl!) is in dispute with a producer chappy called Lukas Burton and his royalties are being put on hold until the matter has been sorted out. Poor Lukas feels that he should be getting a slice of the pie especially after Blunt has sold over 2m copies of his album as well as topping the US singles chart ( watch out Chico is coming!).

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Ahem, not that I am one to bask in my own minscule glory but I have to inform you that I had a hand (ok it was purely motivational) in 'Feel It' the newest soul/funk/jazz (?) vinyl blog . Well Mr Darcy (couldn't resist it!) opens up with two tracks courtesy of Ms Candi Staton, who's back in the UK charts again with 'You Got The Love' (for the 2nd time). He's provided two deep soul tracks with

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Film Director, Painter, Poet, Author, Musician, Composer and award winning photographer Gordon Parks died yesterday aged 93 from cancer. I have to admit he did not look 93, no way but in those 93 years he sure squeezed in a lot of life along with 3 marriages. I knew him originally as a photographer as I had seen some of his work when he documented a black low income family in Harlem in the 60's.

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You know you just can't pick up on everything that's happening soulwise but luckily I was browsing over at Underground-Soul, when I came across this review for a young lady called Nessa Morgan. I gave the samples a good listen and you know what I was hooked, she's got a touch of the Martha Redbone about her, which is good in my book. Anyway you can check her website here and listen to the

Gladstone Minzienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026380.post-1141476549588877802006-03-04T12:45:00.000+00:002006-03-04T12:49:09.590+00:00

There seemed to be a problem with the free file storage area I was using (mysharebox was crap), I have moved the file to Sendspace so hopefully it should be ok, if not please let me know.

Gladstone Minzienoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026380.post-1141397796437138032006-03-03T14:55:00.000+00:002006-03-18T01:34:00.583+00:00

Vol. 22 at the ready, this should get your body movin', some jazz fusion in the latter half of the mix as I love fusion and I am hoping it makes a come back real soon. So enjoy as it's available here and in the right-hand side links.1. Ashford & Simpson - Bourgie BourgieLP Send It - Warner Bros Records (US) - 19772. Tata Vega - Love Your NeighbourLP Givin' All My Love - Motown Records (UK) 19813.

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She's been off my radar for at least a good 12 months but it seems like she tried to make a comeback at the Turin Winter Olympics and I can honestly say I didn't watch any of it. Well it seems that it was pretty much a fiasco, so I am glad I missed it. The poor girl needs serious rehab to get over that drug addiction of hers crack or just cocaine or whatever she's on she needs help. The voice

Gladstone Minzienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026380.post-1141311672303903072006-03-02T14:52:00.000+00:002006-03-02T15:08:50.540+00:00

I came across this movie link to Stevie Wonder singing 'For Once in my Life' in some TV studio somewhere in the USA. The short movie made me laugh out loud, no, not at Stevie as he's just fine as per usual (love that sharp suit!) but it's the dancers in the background, who obviously cannot dance to save their lives and have never heard of rehearsals, so here's the link here but please let me know

Gladstone Minzienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026380.post-1141180060542585072006-03-01T01:13:00.000+00:002006-03-01T23:11:40.510+00:00

He will be missed!You raise very good point re: success of Black British artists in the UK.Channel 4 news did a segment last week on this very issue. The general view is that the emphasis right now is either on Brit Pop/Indie - guitar playing white males or reality TV contest winners (XFactor etc).One of the commentators noted that though shows like Xfactor are supposed to bring to the fore

Gladstone Minzienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026380.post-1140812274462198412006-02-24T20:17:00.000+00:002006-02-25T14:14:59.983+00:00

The second podcast is ready and this week it's a more current selection with a more up to date jazz focus, from some recommended acts. so I hope you enjoy the show, which is available here (it's wrapped in a zip file).Dwight Tribble & The Lifeforce TrioTry Love from the album Love is the Answer (CD and Vinyl Formats) on Ninja Tunes RecordsAvailable for online UK purchase here US hereNinja Tunes

Gladstone Minzienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026380.post-1140050727840119192006-02-16T00:34:00.000+00:002006-02-16T23:55:01.296+00:00

It was only earlier today that I was looking at his 2005 album, which came out on I assumed to be an independent label. I was shocked to read this a few minutes ago on the BBC website, but I knew he was fighting cancer but as I hadn't heard much of him I was under the assumption he was getting better. Alas it was not to be as Lynden David Hall has died after a two year fight with cancer. He was

Gladstone Minzienoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026380.post-1138483040914861842006-01-28T21:06:00.000+00:002006-01-29T15:17:05.806+00:00

Well after getting my grubby paws on Apples' new iLife'06 software, I thought it was time to get a podcast out as the facilities to produce it within Garageband were just too easy. So you finally get to hear my dulcet tones, well I hope you can understand what I am saying, if not then just listen to the music. I haven't put any RSS thingy around it as I haven't figured that out yet but in the

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Billy Paul - The Whole Town's TalkingBilly Paul and that song 'Me and Mrs Jones', which has been covered by others but never ever bettered as it's his song, a bit like Frank Sinatra with 'My Way'. However when it comes to a piece of 'The Philly Sound' then this track is it for me. From the horns at the intro it just rocks along with the whole orchestra doing their thing and doing it well; the

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So I've been digging in my boxes of scratchy 7" records again and hopefully put together a nice little mix. It's all on a soulful side with just some slightly obscure B sides and the like from well known acts. Plenty more where this came from so enjoy. The Billy Paul I did originally play it as 7" but it was way too short so I dug the LP out of the loft and played the much longer LP cut, which is

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As some of you may or not know I have a cheery cynicism for some of todays so called mainstream R&B divas, who in my book are just R&B wannabees. However there's not many of todays bright and shiny young things that I could use the word soul to describe their singing. The only name, I can pick with any certainty would be Mary J Blige as she's the new Aretha (not that Aretha isn't making some

Gladstone Minzienoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026380.post-1137152803245319892006-01-13T11:31:00.000+00:002006-01-13T12:52:50.983+00:00

After the disco mix of vol 19, I came across an article on the death of disco and other musings at the fairly new Disco Delivery blog whilst checking out my links at Technorati (I am so vain!). I love the type used for the heading as it's got a very funky 70's feel abaout it. Anyway, it's worth a read and he (Tommy) has got a few tracks for download, however it's on rapidshare so it's not that

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Well, another 12 months have flown by and where did it all go I have to ask myself. 2005 was full of musical suprises for me mainly in the indie soul/R&B scene, so I thought I'd share a few delights with you folks who've taken the time to download my mixes and drop the odd comment. So here are my favourite artists of 2005 in no particular order. Maya Azucena - missed her fleeting visit to these

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Lil Louis - I Called UI was never a big house/techno music lover but the sound of Lil Louis managed to turn my head and get the old foot a tapping. This was the track that did it for me and listening to it the beat actually comes from the keyboard changes coupled with the background beat or is it a bass. The monologue he delivers is neat and the scary stalker girl voice gives it an edge but

Gladstone Minzienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026380.post-1135690744778456692005-12-27T13:38:00.000+00:002005-12-28T00:09:58.826+00:00

Well I didn't think I'd make it but the 20th Mix is here for all and sundry and I hope you like it. Things kick off with some funky/jazzy house music but it's got a nicely flavoured jazz groove running through it from a slightly eclectic selection, which I think works but it depends on your musical view point.Lil Louis - I Called U12" Epic Records (US) 1989Lil Louis - French Kiss (Jazz Mix)12"

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