Matthew Africa & DJ B. Cause

Soul Boulders 2 (2012)

Matthew Africa you will truly be missed. Sending my condolences to his friends and loved ones. For those who aren’t familiar with Soul Boulders, here’s the story. Back in 2005, San Francisco’s DJ B.Cause posted a mind-blowing 10-minute mini-mix on the SoulStrut message board. The songs were exquisite but hard to pigeonhole—soulful and funky, but not purely funk or soul, slow, psychedelic, moody, maybe a little haunted. In other words, exactly my sound. DJ Matthew Africa sent him a message urging him either to finish the mix or to let Matthew hop on and collaborate with him on turning his ten minutes into something CD length. Matthew grabbed a dozen or so of his favorite records, figured out their sequence and recorded his half at B.Cause’s house one rainy afternoon. Once B.Cause fleshed out his half and massaged the whole thing a bit, we released it in the spring of 2006. It was his first commercial mix CD.

Originally posted on Soul Strut Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Track List

1    Muscle Shoals Horns, The*    A-cted To Your Love
2    Greg Perry    Love Is Magic    2:23
3    Lijadu Sisters, The*    Life's Gone Down Low    3:51
4    Water Color    Love's Prayer    4:29
5    Smithsonian    Mississippi Mud    2:30
6    Clarence Coulter    Ride On    1:30
7    Mitch Mitchell (3) / Gene King (2)    Never Walk Out On You    2:40
8    Symphonic Four, The*    Who Do You Think You're Fooling    5:46
9    Montereys, The    Get Down    1:44
10    Hodges, James, Smith & Crawford    Nobody    2:44
11    Darondo    Let My People Go    2:40
12    Apaches, The    Pull Together    1:46
13    Ethereal*    Who Put The Funk In My Trunk    1:00
14    James Wagner (4)    Sophisticated Gravy    0:31
15    Sounds Of Black, The    Sounds Of Black    2:22
16    Lee Fields    Honey Dove    2:47
17    Muchos Plus    Love Misunderstood    3:03
18    Diplomats*    I've Got The Kind Of Love    1:25
19    Juice    Walk On By    2:14
20    Johnson, Hawkins Tatum & Durr*    You Can't Blame Me    2:53
21    Carol Jones (4)    Don't Destroy Me    2:34
22    Erma Franklin    I'm Just Not Ready For Love    1:06
23    Al Wilson    Falling (In Love With You)    1:19
24    Original Black Sheep, The*    In The Forest    2:45
25    Robbie Hill's Family Affair    All In The Family    0:39
26    Floyd Dixon    Queen Of Sheeba    1:55
27    Atlantic Ocean (2)    Jaws    0:54
28    Johnny Scotton    I'm Not Tired Yet    1:30
29    James Gadson    Let The Feeling Belong    1:18
30    Al Johnson    I'm Back For More    1:19
31    Ted Taylor    Somebody's Gettin' It    1:29
32    Fabulous Souls, The*    Deep In The Night    2:30
33    Fats Gaines Orch.*    Close The Door