Mixes
December 13, 2007
Over the years I have made mixtapes for different people around the world. Sometimes I sent them out without even keeping a copy for myself, which was pretty dumb.
But those I can find I hope to upload here, as a little thank you to you all for dropping by.
This first mix I found this morning was something I made a few years back and just handed out to friends. It was before I knew much about blogs and stuff.
Soulful Slowness 2004?
Tracklisting:
Earl Zero - Righteous Works
Jack McDuff - The Night
Louis Armstrong & Leon Thomas - The Creator Has Master Plan
Yusef Lateef - Love Theme From ‘Spartacus’
Lewis Taylor - Lucky (K&D Session).
Love Unlimited - Yes! We Finally Made It! (Instr.)
Henry Mancini - The Waltz
Miriam Makeba - Reza
Jill Scott w/ Common - High Balls Brotha
Johnny Osbourne - Truth & Rights
Oliver Nelson - Stolen Moments
Sergio Mendes Trio - Consolacao
Vivian Jackson - Walls Of Jerusalem
Jez Proctor - Soulful Slowness
The Fine Line Between Hyper & Stupid
I just found this mix I did a few years ago. Someone on an internet forum was talking about The Golden Era of Hip Hop. I’ve been loving this mix again recently, and I hope you dig it too.
It was loosely based around the Golden Era, but I wouldn’t be me if I wasn’t blurring the edges and colouring outside the lines. To be honest, I can’t believe I spent so much effort to work some accapellas and instrumentals together! I mean seriously… I must have had too much free-time or something…Back in the days when all I had to do at home was work with vinyl and get to know my records back to front.
I gave this out to friends with a tracklist of only dates. Good luck pinning the tunes down. Here’s that tracklist for the freakazoids & robots, answers on a postcard, enjoy…
1989
1989
1986
1992
(Aca) 1995 / (Inst.) 1995
1997
1994
1988
2000
2001
(Aca) 2003 / (Inst.) 1996
2001
1999
1994
1992
1990
1994
1992
1986
1980
Jez Proctor - The Fine Line Between Hyper & Stupid
The Sounds of the Canyons - WKLA late 2006?
I put this mix together for my friend’s blog Horse Latitudes and at the time I wrote:
I’ve had my head in books about the late 60s and early 70s recently. I fully recommend Trips by Ellen Sander if you can get hold of a copy. She was there…with Joni & Graham at Lookout Mountain…in the room when Stills belittled Young…at Altamont when the bad wine and bad acid was going around and started to create the bad vibes. She floated around the Laurel and later Topanga Canyon sets, and her book is real analysis from the inside.
I’m With The Band by the Grandmother of all modern groupies - Pamela Des Barres - talks more about the scenes and rock stars in general. She was over in a different part of LA with Jimmy Page and his special suitcase, and was a big part of Gram Parsons life until his OD. Pamela was also a founder member of Frank Zappa’s GTOs…
Finally, I recommend Barney Hoskyn’s Hotel California. Looking down the barrel of history at a time we all now know was doomed to consume itself, Hoskyns tells the story cleanly, giving air to the dreams of dreamers - of how it could have been.
Reading about all this music I needed to get in and listen to some of it. So I tracked down as much as I could. Trying to piece together the fractured stories and backgrounds of the musicians and bands I was reading about with an aural map. It led me to discover some beautiful music which I felt compelled to put together and share with my friends. So here it is…put your headphones on and sit back - imagine that wherever you are is actually a veranda in Laurel Canyon late 1975, and you are flicking around the radio until you find Miss Lorelei on WKLA…
Jez Proctor - Sounds of the Canyons WKLA
Innersounds Rising 2006/7(?)
Found a big pile of CDRs under the stairs this weekend. One of them was a mix I put together about three years ago, when the blog relaunched after a period offline while I changed servers.
I remember it being kind of deep with some Ron Trent and Theo Parrish in there, the first track is from Mantis Records (R.I.P.)…enjoy…