Going to handle posting this mix a little bit differently. No download, instead just limited physical copies in handmade packaging. Send an email to NewFunOnTheWater [at] GMAIL [dot] COM with an address and I’ll put a copy in the mail. In the meantime, a streaming sample is below.

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Mike and I decided to put together a little bundle of tracks for Valentine’s Day. Most of the songs played each week on A Downtown Affair are love songs in one way or another, but this is a chance for a us to slow it down a touch and show off the tender side of Let’s Get Serious. Enjoy!

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We put this promotional mix together one Saturday for WNYU management to hand out while down at SXSW. I’m excited with how it turned out, and it’s quite appropriate for the onset of warm weather. We burned about 80 total. Half got cover designs by Julie Cameron and were sent to TX. The other half got an entirely different cover which we’ll be handing out around town. Hope you enjoy it.

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Here are some scans of my favorites from the SXSW copies.

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Happy Valentine’s Day Y’all! Here’s a mix I put together almost a year ago for the Waxidermy mix swap. Well, actually, this is a revised version that shares a few of the more pivotal tracks. Much of the inspiration comes from my trips to Birdell’s in Bed Stuy where I’d uncover single after single of falsetto-laden R&B. I couldn’t help but imagine Fulton Street 30 years ago where songs like these would blare from car stereos. Consider this the hot spiced counterpart to Bennett4$enate’s Wine Coolers. Snuggle up and enjoy.

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Track List:

Dr. York “Let Me Be The One On Christmas” (Intro)
Robert J. Riggins “You Can Love Her (If You Try)”
The Conservatives “Happiness (Take Your Time)”
Leon Ware “Rockin’ You Eternally”
Prince Phillip Mitchell “Make It Good”
Rocket “Love Chain”
Gene Van Buren “I Give Good Love”
Amuzement Park “So Inspired”
Gene Chandler “I’ll Make The Living If You Make The Loving Worth While”
High Fashion “I Want To Be Your Everything”
Terry Huff “Come On Around”
C# Sharp “My Turn To Shine”
Larry Nevilles “This Time It’s Real”
Victor “Lonely Girl”

All of the guys, they think I’m crazy, but you’re all I keep dreaming of – Victor

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I just posted my annual XMIX over on the F.A.T. blog. Its a year-end wrap up highlighting tracks that were favorites for me this year – not necessarily ’09 releases but all tunes that were powerful music for me.
Also includes a very special YouTube audio mix – 40 mins of weird YouTube audio, complete with links for sharing.

Listen online and download at http://fffff.at/bennett4senate-xmix-09-youtube-mix-09/

Here’s to big things in 2010!!!

-b4s

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When looking in the bins for early 80s boogie, you wade through a lot of heavy r&b from the same era while looking for something to play to the dance floor. For every uptempo, drum and synth driven heater, there is a syrupy, quiet storm B side or album cut. Even if you’re only looking for the former, you’ll end up hearing some slow records because its like everybody had their shirts unbuttoned and was rocking blue leather pants in ’83. If you don’t recognize the names on the labels, you’ve got to throw it on to find out if its gonna sound like Kano or Peabo.
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Mike McGill and Tackleberry present Hope For Love, a selection of records touching upon anecdotes of courtship and infidelity while keeping in mind those lonely nights of mid-tempo dancing and fast romancing. A digest of music resolved to stimulate bodies, helping them move like fluids across desolate dance floors from decades past.

Let the sleazy serenades play while hearts and drums break; all for love’s sake.

Hope for Love.

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“Intro”
Donna McGhee “You Should Have Told Me”
Barbara Mason “Another Man”
Sinnamon “Thanks To You”
Brenda Taylor “You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It Too”
Krystal Davis “So Smooth”
De De “S&M (Sexy Music)”
Suzy Q “Get On Up And Do It Again”
SOS Band “Take Your Time (Do It Right)”
Legacy “Word Up”
Brenda Watts “You’re My Chance”
Fantastic Aleems “Get Down Friday Night”
Wandra Rawlins “Love Attack”
Rafael Cameron “Boogie’s Gonna Get Ya”
Kim Tolliver “Party Lights”
Fonda Rae “Over Like A Fat Rat”
Wickett “Can’t Get Enough Of You”
Lemelle “You Got Something Special”
Weeks & Co. “Rock Your World”
Goldie Alexander “Show You My Love”
Bon Rock “It’s Alright”
Attitude “Love Me Tonight”
Michelle “Rush Hour Traffic”
Kreamcicle feat. Paula Anderson “No News Is News”
Gino Soccio “What You Feel Is Real (Hold Tight)”

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The synthesizer has been back in a big way since all the kids got into electroclash a few years back, but Bennett seems stuck staring farther back in the calendar, somewhere around 77-88. A time of strange bedfellows, when funk bands were trying to make rap records, disco got cross pollinated with everything and vocoders ruled the land. The beats were funky enough that one would ’set it off’ only to find that they had been ‘just chillin’out’ the whole time. Jams bit too thoughtful (and a bit too slow) for the dance floor, this mix is a child of careful reading of producer credits on 12″ records, and maintaining a solid Oink ratio. A few slow jams at the end for your lady, who’s gonna be like “who does this song?”

2woThos&$3vn<– download .zip (70 MB, 13 tracks)

feat. Roy Ayers, Baron Zen, Charlie, Gucci Crew, ‘Nard, Jazzy Jay, Javelin, and Moondog.

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74 minutes, 102 mb.
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Mixed live on a Sunday afternoon by B3nn3tt4$enat3 and Mike McGill. Boogie, disco, r&b, electro and freestyle jams, dedicated to your mama. No samples cleared, 100% bump, low carbs and a few white boys, sleazy synthesizers and packed dancefloors. Body2Body2Africa and back to the space station; anticipation, triumph, lessons learned.

(this is a little something Mike and I have been working on since he moved to my block earlier in the summer. Catch Mike every Friday from 10:30pm-1am on his show “A Downtown Affair” on WNYU 89.1FM in New York City, or at wnyu.org, and keep an ear to the FAT for more collabo-jawns to come. And always stay tuned to the music page for the FATtest jams 24/7.)

Like what you hear? Trying to have these fresh DJs play your party/bar/function? contact bennett@fffff.at

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