Another one of my favorite Soul Strut exclusive mixes from the site’s golden era. Sadly, the audio bit rate is not so hot and efforts to get a high quality version have stalled. Shook mix is a blend of funky psychedelic rock tunes peppered with west coast rap over tones. Strange but groovy. Props to MyLatency.
A Collection of Various Latin Records from all over.
(Balada,Salsa,Rock,Psych,Chicano Anthems,etc)
Originally posted in 2009.
Age is a Bay area beat digger widely know for having “the heat”. This mix best exemplifies his knack for finding beats and grooves on Latin records, Psych records, Local records, Barry Manilow’s closet.
Originally added to Soul Strut Thursday, March 13, 2008
1) Silhouettes: Fonky First
2) Quinn Harris and The Masterminds: All In The Soul
3) Los Barbarians: Es Muy Facil
4) Arp Life: Bu-Bu
5) Andy Loore: Enfre Et Marijuana
6) Orquesta Hnos Flores: Estoy En Onda
7) Keith Roberts With Barbara Moore: Sort of Soul
8) Interlude: Are You Being Programmed?
9) John Cameron: Swamp Fever
10) Leon's Creation: Sightless
11) Larry Norman: Sigrid Jane
12) Interlude 2: Double the Fun with Wade
13) Ulysses Crockett Magic: Resurgence
14) Dudley Moore: Bedazzled
15) La Crema: Cisco Kid
16) Geino Yamashirogumi: Ososrezan
17) Aposento Alto: Goodbye Old Friends
Duey FM & Tripledouble’s - AEIOU Warmups…the Iron Chef Mix.
When visitors come to Philly, we try to give them a slice of life. Not just a taste of album covers and rotating wax, but the type of everyday culture that inspires our love for music. So on a whirlwind Spring afternoon, we trooped some out of town guests through crack-a-dawn fleas, street scapes, dusty shops, greasy Italian lunch counters and our home record sanctuaries.
This mix showcases the random assortment of records that crossed our path during that sunny day in Philadelphia. Its also a small taste of the madness to come as ...Duey FM, Master Sinh, and Tripledouble polish up AEIOU 2000.
DJ Raj Mahal is back with a tribute to one of his favorite beat digging mixes from back in the day, Diplo and Tripledoubles' AEIOU 2. Check it as he geeks out and spins his favorite tracks from the original 2003 mix that caused shockwaves through the beat digging community. Expect lots of funky psych rock and dusty breaks / loops from all over the globe. It's all vinyl and all live!
Intro - DJ Raj Mahal Sarandi - Los Grillos Karnaval - Howard Wales The Other Song - Spirit Sakura - Odetta No Morira Jamas - Los Angeles Negros Occapella - Lee Dorsey Been So Long - Motherlode Our Ship - Southern Contemporary Rock Assembly Take Me, Break Me - Underground Sunshine Alibi Annie - Trifle Christine - J. K. & Co. Troubled People - The Heads Of The Family The Electric Liturgy-Recessional -Mind Garage You've Come This Way Before - Nancy Priddy Dreamworld - The End Stoned Is - Cynara Acka Raga - Shocking Blue Mushroom - Can Elegy - Colosseum Toe Jam - Mount Rushmore Patch Of Grass - Jeff Cooper And The Stoned Wings Hush now - Jimi Hendrix Lunar Invasion - The Silhouettes THEME MUSIC (SAD) - Dharmatma Dance of Maria - Elias Rahbani THEME MUSIC (Happy) - Dharmatma The Bump - George Freeman Police woman - Henry Mancini Straight Up - Exit 9
Aaron Anderson aka Breakself was renowned in the soul 45 circles as a man of knowledge and one with deep crates… especially when it came to his native Detroit area. Breakself was active in Soul Strut circles and was known to all as generous and chill. Unfortunately he lost his battle with brain cancer a few years a go, but his spirit lives on in a series of quality, deep mixes. No beat juggling or blends here, just the presentation of raer.
Aaron Anderson was an extremely DEEP soul and funk 45 collector out of the Grand Rapids / Detroit who was a friend of ours for years. Unfortunately he passed from cancer a few years ago, but this Jazzman mix lives on as one of his finest. RIP Aaron!
The days before Soundcloud and other mix hosting services, DJs would upload their mix to random file sharing sites and send us a link to host for the world to hear. Sometimes with the volume of mixes that comes in, you lose track of who’s mix, is who’s. This was a mystery mix that was sent in around 2007 that is one of our favorites. It’s an eclectic blend of jazz funk, afrobeat, Burt Reynold’s mustache. Update as of March 2019… the mystery DJ has been identified!
Rare carioca funk, samba fusion & brasilian boogie joints.
Posted on Soul Strut Thursday, March 25, 2010
Cruzeiro Airlines- Intro
Bong Penera - Samba Madruga
Pino Daniele- Sotto O Sole
Celeste - Amor A Tres
Sergio Bore - Adivinhacao
Cezar De Mercedes - Grande / Pequeno
Brasil Show - Lagrimas
Golden Boys - Segura Na Cintura Dela
Teca & Ricardo - Minoria
Piero Umiliani - Fuma
Wando - Bendedito E Julieta
Tom & Dito - Resolucao
Fafa De Belem - Nao
Milena - Sudoeste
Sinto - Afro Lypso
Baden Powell - Iemanja
Os Devaneios - Embalo Diferente
Os Orginais Do Samba - La Vem Salgueiro
Norambe - Xoiodo
Eduardo Conde - Eduardo Conde: Minha Chegada
Georgette - Kyrie
Chico Batera - La Rumba
Paulo Ramos - Gusto Amargo
Mariama - Maramar
Antonio Adolfo - Valsa Para Yolanda
The livestream is back in 2022 with an explosive hour of all funk 45 bangers spun by the one DJ Raj Mahal.
Intro - DJ Raj Mahal
Gossip - Cyril Neville
Hot Dog - Dandelion Wine
Rap It Together - The Detroit Sex Machines
let me come within - renaldo domino
Pull my coat - The Eddy Jacobs exchange
Upstairs On Boston Road (Part 1) - Sammy Gordon & The Hiphuggers
Laventille Road March - The Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band
House Of Rising Funk - The Chubukos
Funny thing - Willie Joe
My Thing Is Your Thing - Bobby Patterson
You’ve Got to Have Rhythm - John Ellison
You Did It - Ann Robinson
Kick Back - The Buena Vistas
Slums of the City - New Establishment
Giving up on love - Marva Whitney
Allah Wakbarr - Ofo & the Black Company
Blackwater Gold - The African Music Machine
Can I be your squeeze - Chuck Carbo
Different Strokes - Geno Washington
Little Miss Funky Soul - Ricky Thomas
Theme From “Black Belt Jones” - Hoctor Band
Fever - Joe Sherman
Cars - The Katzenjammers
Africa Gone Funky Screamin’ - Jay Hawkins
Spin It Jug - Smokey Brooks
Franticdiagnosis - George Freeman
I Hate, Hate - Razzy
For the better part of the 2000s, Iowa native Nash Wiley (aka A-Ko) spent most of his young adulthood combing the Soul Strut forums for obscure rock records with upbeat drum breaks and 60s lounge records a la Free Design. Along with a crew of other Soul Struttters, A-Ko would post amazing DJ Shadow / RJ-D2 inspired b-boy hip hop instrumentals that eventually got the attention of German label MPM (Melting Pot Music) Records. The same label that released the Soul Strut EP in 2004 and others by Soul Strutters like DJ Day.
This 12” features A-Ko’s knack for marrying head-banging b-boy breaks with melodic pianos (“Chicago”), moog samples with slowed down, time-stretched funk 45s (“Fire”), and another version of his debut 45 on MPM, the lo-fi b-boy instrumental classic “Soul’69”.
Nash can be found today on Instagram @TrashWiley posting his love for fixing up 70s vans and dropping the occasionall funk 45 gem. It’s a shame A-Ko never went on to more mainstream recognition, but if and when the downtempo genre makes it’s comeback, this will be a grail.
Big Stacks has been a fixture on the Strut for many moons. He’s a producer with mucho experience raiding closets and back rooms of record shops looking for that lost gem. This is by far one of the most popular sets on the strut containing, you guessed it, “slow and funky” soul music from the late 60s and early 70s.
Originally released on Soulstrut.com Sunday, May 30, 2010
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