People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm - A Tribe Called Quest

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A Tribe Called Quest is an American hip hop group, formed in 1985, [1] and is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip (Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, formerly Jonathan Davis), rapper Phife Dawg aka Phife Diggy (Malik Taylor), and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad. A fourth member, rapper Jarobi White, left the group after their first album but rejoined in 1991. Along with De La Soul, the group was a central part of the Native Tongues Posse, and enjoyed the most commercial success out of all the groups to emerge from that collective.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm is the debut album by the alternative hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, released April 17, 1990 on Jive Records. Though the album was well-received critically, it had little mainstream appeal. The album did earn the band a devoted following, however, within the alternative hip hop community. People's Instinctive Travels was praised for its lyrical inventiveness and bizarre sense of humor, mixed with socially aware and literate message tracks. The record was given the perfect rating of 5 mics in The Source in 1990.

(source: wikipedia)

Tracklisting

1.   Push It Along

2.   Luck of Lucien

3.   After Hours

4.   Footprints

5.   I Left My Wallet in El Segundo

6.   Pubic Enemy

7.   Bonita Applebum

8.   Can I Kick It?

9.   Youthful Expression

10. Rhythm (Dedicated to the Art of Moving Butts)

11. Mr. Muhammad

12. Ham 'N' Eggs

13. Go Ahead In the Rain

14. Description of a Fool

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A.M.P. EP - Almyghty Myghty Pythons

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The Pharcyde and Souls of Mischief have collaborated to form a group called "Almyghty Myghty Pythons" and have since released a collaboration album titled Almyghty Myghty Pythons. Recently production from the group has died down, but it was said by Imani in an interview that it is to be an ongoing project.

Tracklisting:

1. AMP
2. Curb Your Nerve
3. Contact
4. AMP (Instrumental)
5. Curb Your Nerve (Instrumental)

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OK Fred - Errol Dunkley

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Dunkley's recording career began in 1965, when he was fourteen, with "Gypsy" (a duet with Roy Shirley) for Linden Pottinger's Gaydisc label, "My Queen" (with Junior English) for Prince Buster, and "Love Me Forever" on the Rio label.[1] Between 1967 and 1968 he recorded several singles for Joe Gibbs including "Please Stop Your Lying" (1967) and "Love Brother" (1968), before switching to Coxsone Dodd in 1969.

In the early 1970s, together with Gregory Isaacs he formed the African Museum record label, although Isaacs soon took sole control of the label, while Dunkley formed a new label, Silver Ring. In 1972 he teamed up with producer Jimmy Radway for two of his most popular singles, "Keep The Pressure On" and "Black Cinderella". The same year saw the release of Dunkley's Sonia Pottinger produced debut album, Presenting Errol Dunkley, which included the track "A Little Way Different".

Dunkley continued to record throughout the 1970s and towards the end of the decade his popularity in the UK grew, resulting in a breakthrough UK Singles Chart hit in 1979 with "OK Fred", a cover version of a John Holt-penned song, that reached number 11. He also avoided the one-hit wonder tag, by securing a minor chart placing with the 1980 follow-up release "Sit Down And Cry".

(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Dunkley)

Tracklisting:


1. OK Fred
2. True To Your Man
3. Show Off
4. Repatriation
5. A Love Like Mine
6. Rush Me No Badness
7. Come Natural
8. Nobody Else
9. Jah Guiding Star

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En Mana Kuoyo - Ayub Ogada

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Ayub Ogada is a musician from Kenya. A singer, he also performs on the traditional east African stringed instrument, the nyatiti. Of the Luo people, he was born in Mombasa.

Tracklisting:

1.    Obiero
2.    Dala
3.    Wa Winjigo Ero
4.    Thum Nyatiti
5.    Kronkrohinko
6.    Chiro
7.    10%
8.    Ondiek
9.    Kothbiro
10.  En Mana Kuoyo

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Last Sessions - Mississippi John Hurt

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John Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt (July 3, 1893 or March 8, 1892 — November 2, 1966) was an American county blues singer and guitarist

Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself how to play the guitar around age nine. Singing in a loud whisper, to a melodious finger-picked accompaniment, he began to play local dances and parties while working as a sharecropper. He first recorded for Okeh Records in 1928, but these were commercial failures, and Hurt drifted out of the recording scene, where he continued his work as a farmer. After a man discovered a copy of one of his recordings, "Avalon Blues", which gave the location of his hometown, there became increased interest in his whereabouts. Tom Hoskins, a blues enthusiast, would be the first to locate Hurt in 1963. He convinced Hurt to relocate to Washington, D.C.., where he was recorded by the Library of Congress in 1964. This rediscovery helped further the American folk music revival, which had led to the rediscovery of many other bluesmen of Hurt's era. Hurt entered the same university and coffeehouse concert circus as his contemporaries, as well as other Delta blues musicians brought out of retirement. As well as playing concerts, he recorded several studio albums for Vangaurd records.

He died in Grenada, Mississippi. Material recorded by Hurt has been re-released by many record labels over the years (see discography); and his influence has extended over many generations of guitarists.

(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_John_Hurt)

Tracklisting:

1. Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home
2. Boys You're Welcome
3. Joe Turner's Blues
4. First Shot Missed Him
5. Farther Along
6. Funky Butt
7. Spider Spider
8. Waiting For You
9. Shortnin' Bread
10. Trouble I've Had It All My Days
11. Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me
12. Good Morning Carrie
13. Nobody Cares For Me
14. All Night Long
15. Hey Honey Right Away
16. You've Got To Die
17. Goodnight Irene

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Armchair Boogie - Michael Hurley

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Michael Hurley is an American singer/guitarist, reportedly born December 20, 1941. He also plays the fiddle.

Hurley’s debut album, First Songs, was recorded for Folkways Records in 1965 on the same reel-to-reel machine that taped Leadbelly’s Last Sessions. He was “discovered” by blues and jazz historian Frederick Ramsey III, and subsequently championed by boyhood friend Jesse Colin Young, who released his 2nd & 3rd albums on The Youngbloods’ Warner Bros. imprint, Raccoon. In the late 70’s, Hurley made three albums for Rounder, all of which have since been reissued on CD.

Hurley has done much of the artwork for his own albums, and the two oft-featured cartoon werewolves, Jocko and Boone, have been something of a theme across Hurley's musical career, even appearing in their own comics. Both were based on real dogs that Hurley owned.


(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hurley_(musician))

Tracklisting:
1. Werewolf
2. Grand Canyon Line
3. English Nobleman
4. Be Kind To Me
5. Troubled Water
6. Red Ravager's Reel
7. Sweedeedee
8. Open Up
9. Jocko's Lament
10. Light Green Fellow
11. Get The Best Of Me
12. Bisciut Roller
13. When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano
14. Penguins

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Soul & Power - Wailing Souls

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In the early days of the Wailing Souls, the first name that the group came up with in the late 60's was The Renegades. This group consisted of Winston 'Pipe' Matthes on lead vocals, Lloyd 'Bread' McDonald and George 'Buddy' Haye. This line-up recorded backing vocals for an Ernest Ranglin abum before breaking up in 1968. 


Pipe and Bread teamed up with two other singers after that, Oswald Downes and Norman Davis, and recorded the single "Gold Digger" for producer Lloyd 'Matador' Daley. From there they went on to work with Coxsone Dodd's famous Studio One label: Soul & Power is a compilation released in the 80s of some of the great Wailing Souls material from this period of their career.

Tracklisting:

1.    Trouble Maker
2.    You Should Have Known
3.    Don't Fight
4.    Hot Road
5.    Run My People
6.    Soul & Power
7.    I've Got A Burning Fire
8.    Rock But Don't Fall
9.    Everybody Talking
10.  All Alone
11.  Stick Together

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Try and Love - Ofege

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The 1970s school boy musical band from St. Gregory’s College, Obalende, Ikoyi, Lagos. Nigeria’s most outstanding school boy band of all time! Largely influenced by the guitar solos of Carlos Santan, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Francis Rossi and the criss-cross rhythms of Osibisa. At home they were influenced by the music of ‘BLO’ (Berkley Jones, Laolu Akins and Mike Odumosu), ‘Monomono’ (led by Joni Haastrup), The Funkees, and Ofo the Black Company.

(source: http://www.last.fm/music/Ofege)

Tracklisting

1. Nobody Fails
2. Whizzy Ilabo
3. Gbe Mi Lo
4. Try and Love
5. It's Not Easy
6. Ofege
7. You Say No
8. Lead Me On

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Sensacional Soul Vol. 1 - Various Artists

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Soul “Music Made in USA” for Spanish clubs Fuel for igniting dance floors and parties: that’s what Spanish Soul was during the second half of the sixties. It was an eruption that filled the locals of major cities and touristy spots with sweat, dance, diversion and recognition. Soul didn’t explode in Spain until after 1965 (the first hit was The Four Tops’, “Reach Out I'll Be There”). Soul was approachable and had playful-vindicating references (messages in favor of civil rights didn’t fall on deaf ears in a country subjected to the Francoist Dictatorship) which made it an ideal style for all young audiences. But once they were adopted by Soul, other problems arose. The brass section is one example: it wasn’t easy finding musicians who knew how to play the trumpet, saxophone or the trombone. Despite this fact, the tourist phenomenon contributed to a great number of foreign musicians establishing themselves in Spain, enriching the sound of many groups dedicated to Black music. With all these ingredients Soul in Spain was possible –and with good groups too. Hundreds of bands from all over the country added to the new music paradigm and many managed to record. Some became success stories of Spanish Pop, others were known in smaller realms and disappeared into obscurity. For that reason Vampisoul is pleased to offer a selection of the best of Spanish Soul and Funk from the 60s and early 70s: music to dance to, from Benidorm to Tokyo... and back.

(source: http://www.vampisoul.com/detail_cd.asp?referencia=43)

Tony Ronald's Summertime is sampled by GUTS for his song And the Living is Easy!!! Find it here.

Tracklisting

Disc 1

01 - Los Buenos - Woovy Groovy

02 - Shelly Y La Nueva Generación - Vestido Azul

03 - Martes 13 - Espejo Roto

04 - Tony Ronald - Summertime

05 - Los Impala - Todo Gira

06 - Top Show - Escucha Niña

07 - Henri Vidal Y Su Grupo Pop - Black Bird

08 - Conjunto Don Pelegrín - Beat Gitano

09 - El Fín - Vagando En Las Tinieblas

10 - Conjunto Nueva Onda - Golden Soul

11 - Presidents - It's My Thing

12 - Els 5 Xics - Raising Your Hand

13 - Los Gritos - Tuset Street

14 - Los Huracanes - Algo Por Nada

15 - Los Jóvenes - Simpatia En Soul

16 - Los Dixies - Black Cat

17 - Los Grimm - Want My Love Again

18 - Z-66 - Trying To Get You

Disc 2

01 - Los Pequenikes - Tabasco

02 - Manuel Gas - I'm A Man

03 - Círculos - Respect

04 - Finder's - Ven Conmigo

05 - Henry & The Seven - You Love Me

06 - Salvajes - Corre Corre

07 - Eurogrup - ¿Pots Sentirme?

08 - Jesse & James - Change

09 - Grupo Anónimo - Imprevisto

10 - T.R. Selection - Kool & The Gang

11 - Las Cuatro Monedas Y Gregory - Trauma

12 - Augusto Algueró - Laugh Laugh

13 - Conexión - I Will Pray

14 - Koldo - Disc Man

15 - Frank Miller & Hispania Soul - Melenas Club

16 - Calibre 38 - I Felt For Your Love

17 - Dúo Inter - Beggin'

18 - Los Zinkos - Tu Mandas En Mi

19 - Jimmy Stone - Family Affair

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Mix It Up - Washboard Chaz Blues Trio

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Washboard Chaz's talents are becoming synonymous with New Orleans and he was recently featured in a 2005 New Orleans commercial.  He played a small part in the CBS movie titled "Just Like the Ones", about miraculous snow storms that hit all over the country, co-starring Mary Tylor Moore and Poppy Montgomery. Chaz's song Mother Died was just featured in Werner Hertzog's remake of The Bad Lieutenant starring Nicholas Cage.

Mix It Up is a real pleasant, toe-tappin',  easy listenin' kind of album, perfect for those warm and lazy summertime afternoons. 

Tracklisting
01. Busy Bootin
02. Sailor Blues
03. Don’t Leave me Here
04. Call it Love
05. Go Round and Round
06. Summers Gone
07. I'm So Glad
08. Insane and Crazy Blues
09. 1st Shot Got Him
10. Special Streamline
11. Mother Died
12. Falling Down Blues
13. Dodge
14. So Much Trouble
15. Oh Oh Oh

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En Linea - George Guzman

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George has become somewhat of an underground cult figure. His music can often be heard throughout hipster lounges around the world. A mind-boggling conga player, Guzman broke into the New York City boogaloo scene in 1968 with his debut “Introducing George Guzman”. That album quickly garnered the attention of the sophisticated music aficionado. Unlike, say Joe Cuba or Pete Rodriguez, George had a special knack for producing what’s been labeled as a softer-jazzier kind of boogaloo. Guzman’s classic track “Lazy Boogaloo” is one of those songs that showcase the mellower aspects of the genre. Chill and romantic, “Lazy Boogaloo” is a symbol of boogaloo’s wide range of tempos. This was not just party music; it was music for all occasions. 

His subsequent album, “In Line” took Guzman further into the realm of soulful boogaloo and Latin soul. His landmark, however, remains the “Introducing George Guzman”, an album that truly captured the free spirit of the late sixties. 

One of the best conga players of his generation, Guzman knew how to create the perfect lazy atmospheres and the frenetic highs that made boogaloo a swinging favourite.

(source: http://www.fania.com/content/george-guzman) 

Tracklisting

1. Misery

2. Really Bad Scene

3. Mozambique

4. No Te Olvidare

5. Y No Sabia Bailar

6. Diggin' Rice N' Beans

7. La Banda Ya Llego

8. Winter Love

9. Manteca

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Intoxica - The Revels

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The Revels were an American rock band, associated with the 1960s surf music craze. Their most famous song was "Church Key."

The group started in the mid- to late- 1950s as a high school band in San Luis Obispo, California called Gil Serna & The Rockets, before changing their name to The Revels in 1959. Although their instrumental style predated the 1961-65 era of surf music, their success came during that period.

They are usually considered a "pre-surf" band and were the original Central California coastal instrumental band. Other bands from the area later included the more popular groups named The Sentinels and The Impacts.

(source: wikipedia)

The Revels' sound is at its undeniable best in tracks such as Revellion or Comanche (which many will recognise from Tarantino's Pulp Fiction) where the rhythm section provides a solid, driving beat underneath bouncing guitar riffs and the growling, squealing saxaphone wails over the top of it all like a frenzied and deranged animal.

Tracklisting


1. Intoxica
2. Sano
3. The Monkey Bird
4. Church Key
5. Vesuvius
6. It's Party Time
7. Revellion
8. Comanche
9. Tough Soul
10. Soft Top
11. (Like) Tequila
12. Rampage
13. Good Grief
14. Six Pak
15. Longboard
16. Vesuvius
17. Church Key
18. Good Grief
19. Vesuvius

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Center of Attention - Pete Rock & InI

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INI was a hip-hop group composed of Rob-O, Grap Luva, I Love H.I.M., Marco Polo (not to be confused with the hip-hop producer of the same name), and DJ Boodakhan.

The group started working on their debut album together with producer Pete Rock in the mid-90s, and signed a deal with Rock's newfound imprint Soul Brother Records through Elektra. The record company eventually shelved the album, releasing only one 12" single in 1996. The track "Fakin' Jax", produced and featuring Pete Rock, became a minor underground hit. The album eventually became one of the most bootlegged unreleased albums in hip-hop's history, but in 2003 it saw an official release it was included on Lost & Found: Hip Hop Underground Soul Classics, a double LP of Pete Rock's mid-1990s production work, originally canceled by Elektra Records.

Despite the fact that Pete Rock is not an official member of the group, it is synonymous with his name, as he produced almost every track of Center of Attention, and Grap Luva is his younger brother. Rock also had verses on two of the songs albums with additional ad-libs and background vocals on basically every track.

(source: wikipedia)

Tracklisting:

1."Intro"

2. "No More Words"

3. "Step Up"

4. "Think Twice"

5. "Square One"

6. "The Life I Live"

7. "KrossRoads"

8. "To Each His Own" (feat. Q-Tip & Large Professor)

9. "Fakin Jax"

10. "What You Say"

11. "Props"

12. "Center Of Attention"

13. "Grown Man Sport"

14. "Mind Over Matter"

15. "Don't You Love It"

16. "Microphonist Wanderlust"

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Le Bienheureux - GUTS

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If anyone is guilty of Guts’ addiction to music, his mother is to be blamed. Instead of turning her son into an overweight and diabetic child, she preferred to give him a new vinyl each week, for his good manners. Bob Power (A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots) became his ‘Paul Bocuse’, the coach able to teach him to spice and keep his preparations edible! He gets his American guides recognition and De La Soul, Rahzel, Biz Markie and Common Sense are joining him at the table. Faster Jay is opening the Kif Record label and ‘Le Bienheureux’ becomes one of his’chefs’ and goes behind the ovens for French rappers like Passi, Big Red, Sages Poetes De La Rue, the Svinkels, Les Rieurs. Impossible to please, he travels to Senegal to learn about new recipes in Youssou N’Dour studios and works with some local ‘chefs’ in Jamaica (Anthony B, Michael Rose and Sacha) The actual MC’s generation didn’t know how to prepare toasts when Guts was using an ASR Ensoniq with one hand ! Now ‘four stars chef’, Guts Le Bienheureux is proposing his menu! Mainly inspired by his travels, a meal with the taste of Pete Rock, DJ Shadow, Dan The Automator, RJD2, DJ Premier, Jay-Dee, Danger Mouse, Wax Taylor only prepared on a MPC 4000! Bon appetit!

(Source: http://www.last.fm/music/GUTS/+wiki)

Tracklisting:

1		Intro
2		Good Morning
3		Everybody Know
4		You Know That Shit!!!
5		Escucha Me
6		Metis
7		Nightmare Of Paris
8		Take A Look Around You
9		Pura-Vida
10		Skunkfunk
11		Cry & Smile
12		And The Living Is Easy!!!
13		Sweet Love
14		Endless Night
15		Narco Trip
16		I Love You ("It's So Hard To Say")

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