I left this 12″ behind the first time I came across it in a Bed Stuy record shop. On my next visit I decided to chance it and picked it up. From what I can tell, this is the sole release from Salaam Records out of Cambridge, MA. The Whizdom Kids bring a peculiar combination of down-tempo child R&B and Muslim proselytizing. The tracks are also rife with sax solos and searing guitar work. I especially love the spoken word sections of “My Imam”. Despite a lack of information on the group or label, the producers and engineer were pretty active in the MA scene. Producer Erik Nuri had an early political rap track on Tryon Park and worked alongside associate producer Victor LeComer and mixer James Nichols at Beantown Music. ENJOY.

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I bought an edit record from a thrift store in Miami this summer. The track was called “Genius at Work,” and across the pink label, the previous owner had used a ballpoint pen to scrawl “Mixed by a Columbian DJ.” From the wide open harmonica, and then inexplicable plinking dub section in the middle, I’ve played it to death since then, on just about every radio set or live show I’ve done. While doing some unrelated research on allmusic.com today, I got a hunch and tracked down the original. A cool track in its own right, here’s Area Code 615 doing “Stone Fox Chase” (1970). Enjoy!

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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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Bobby Nunn – Do You Look That Good In the Morning? 1983 Motown.

If you like the intro, hang out for the steel drum solo.

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REPOST from That Real Schitt. Breakbeat-laden mix of obscure rock records from The Soulman.

“… I just grabbed whatever rock records were laying around at the time and played whatever sounded half decent. Dollar bin to ultra rare psych… it’s all over the place.”

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Found this local early nineties Hip Hop EP at a Brooklyn record shop a few months back. Nice ensemble rap cuts featuring the talented but largely unknown MCs of Espionage Productions.

Espionage Productions Presents The EP Vol 1
Espionage Prod, Inc. (1991)

1. Slim Daddy – The Thin Man
2. Rock The M.C., The K & Saint Paul – Dark & Lovely
3. Tasha – I Need A Real Man
4. The K & Rock The M.C. – Brookyln Zone
5. Slim Daddy, Rush One, The K, Gab, Talk, Tasha & Rock The M.C. – ESP (Set It Off)
6. Smoke Flo, Pezaz & Riot The Villian – The Young Hoods

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers “Right on Time” (from Californication) with all of this stuff removed, and some other parts looped

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Hot jamz from George and Tom of Javelin, the freshest music coming out of Providence since Tavares.
Olneyville stand up!
Filmed in one afternoon on a crappy homemade greenscreen, edited by me in like 15 hours.

Archival footage from Archive.org, archiving the entire internet and enriching the public domain since 1996. Yo nerds, be sure to check out their fantastic collection of The Computer Chronicles TV show. Peace to Dan the Man for lending me the camera.

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