DiB Playlist – 10 Mar 08

Life's Incredible Again – Michael Giacchino (The Incredibles OST)
Love Me For The Cool – Mark Sholtez (Real Street)
East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) – Johnny Nicol (High Tide Vol 1 – Live at the Brisbane Jazz Club)
California Dreaming – Jose Feliciano (Late Night Tales - Jamiroquai)
Like a Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited)
Blacks Without Soul PSA
Paying the Cost to be the Boss - B.B. King (Blues Guitar Heroes Vol 1)
Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters (Blues Guitar Heroes Vol 2)
Tip of My Tongue – Diesel & Strings (Live at the Vanguard)
Almost With You – The Church (El Momento Descuidado)
Tell Me – The Badloves (Get On Board)
Tell Me – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (100 Days 100 Nights)
I Changed My Mind – Quannum feat Lyrics Born & The Poets of Rhythm (Single)
Don't Leave Me This Way (Dim's re-edit) – Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes (After the Playboy Mansion)
I Feel For You – Chaka Khan (Epiphany)
Tequila – The Button Down Brass feat the funky trumpet of Ray Davies (Inflight Entertainment)
Ai No Corrida – Quincy Jones (Boogie Fever)
Don't Give Hate A Chance – Jamiroquai (High Times)
Some Kind of Wonderful – Joss Stone (The Soul Sessions)
Buena – Morphine (Cure For Pain)
Overjoyed – Mary J Blige (Conception)
Reach Out (I'll Be There) – Gerald Levert & The Funk Brothers (Standing in the Shadows of Motown OST)
Cool Jerk – Bootsy Collins & The Funk Brothers (Standing in the Shadows of Motown OST)
Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (Motown Classics Gold)
Home By Now – Mark Sholtez (Real Street)

The Necks at The Street Theatre

The Necks played The Street Theatre back in February and Jeremy and I went along (his take). Eric was also there and wrote an interesting review for the Canberra Jazz blog that I've just come across:

"haunting, mesmeric, hypnotic"

"Ambient and minimal; hypnotic and attractive; mysterious and tonally deceptive; beautiful and even refreshing."

I don't know that I'm with Eric on "refreshing" though, particularly regarding their first piece/set. I think I'm more with the guy who wanted to laugh in response to the sensory overload; at the time I think I described it as "the soundtrack from a nightmare" or somesuch, so if I had laughed it would have been more of a hyperventilated crazed cackle. I much preferred the second piece; it evoked a summer storm with rain on a tin roof for me.

"Ambient is not something I’d choose every night, but The Necks were engrossing and satisfying and much recommended."

Definitely engrossing, but I could only recommend The Necks to folk who're open to the unorthodox, or ambient soundscape performance veterans.

Next Show 10 Mar 08

March 10, 2008 8–10pm – Down in the Basement Lab– at Artsound - 92.7fm & 90.3fm in the Tuggeranong Valley

Jeremy & Dean serve blues, funk, soul and jazz.

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Down in the Basement - 11 Feb 08

Wilson Picket - Midnight Hour
John Lee Hooker - House Rent Boogie
Ray Charles & Bonnie Raitt - Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
Charles Brown - Driftin' Blues
Muddy Waters - I Got My Mojo Working
Beyonce Knowles - Fever
The O'Jays - Loves Me Like A Rock
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Heard It Through The Grapevine
Harry Connick Jr - Spoonful of Sugar
Ella Fitzgerald - Cheek to Cheek
Caxton St Jazz Band - Stevedore Stomp
Kool & The Gang - Get Down On It
Brand New Heavies - Got To Give
Jamiroquai - If I Like It, I Do It

Compare & Contrast - Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Stevie Wonder vs DJ Smash Essential Funk Mix (from the album Motown Remixed)

Cameo - Word Up
Patti LaBelle, Yolanda Adams & Fantasia Barino - I Wish
The Commodores - Brick House
Mystery Pacific - The Nuages
Mark Sholtez - Falling
Lightnin' Hopkins - I'm Wit' It
The Badloves - High on a Mountain
George Benson - Give Me The Night
Jamiroquai - Canned Heat
Brandy, Heavy D & Quincy Jones - Rock With You

Down in the Basement – 14 Jan 08

Wilson Picket – In The Midnight Hour
Wilson Picket – Can't Stop A Man In Love
Otis Redding – Mr Pitiful
Al Green – I Want To Hold Your Hand
B.B. King & Eric Clapton – Hold On, I'm Coming
Gladys Knight & The Pips – I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye – Ain't That Peculiar
Ray Charles & Diana Krall – You Don't Know Me
Frank Sinatra & Aretha Franklin – What Now My Love
Angie Stone – Wish I Didn't Miss You (Music sampled from The O'Jays 'Backstabber')
Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing)
Kool & The Gang – Ladies Night
Jamiroquai – Mr Moon
Earth, Wind & Fire (feat The Emotions) – Boogie Wonderland
Gil Scott Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Jamiroquai – The Kids
Funk Contrast Experiment: Signed, Sealed, Delivered – Stevie Wonder, then Carl Carlton (from The Wonder of Stevie: Melody Man – DJ Spinna & Bobbito)
Dinah Washington – Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby (Rae & Christian on Verve Remixed 1)
Chaka Khan & Me'shell Ndegeocello – Never Miss The Water
Macy Gray feat Angie Stone & Mos Def) – My Nutmeg Phantasy
Pink – Tell Me Something Good (from the Happy Feet soundtrack)
Mary J Blige – Overjoyed (from Conception: A Interpretation of Stevie Wonder Songs)
George Benson – Give Me The Night
Kid Confucius – All The Way Down
Stone Roses – Fools Gold

Down in the Basement - 04 Dec 07

Jeremy and I did a Tuesday night Down in the Basement on Artsound for a bit of a change:

1. Sam & Dave - Hold On
2. Aretha Franklin - RESPECT
3. Harry Connick Jr - Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead
4. Wilson Pickett - Midnight Hour
5. Phoebe Snow - Shakey Ground
6. Ronny Jordan - The Jackal
7. Prince - When You Were Mine
8. Boz Scaggs - Drowin' in the Sea of Love
9. Debbie Harry - Stormy Weather
10. Mark Sholtez - Home By Now
11. Madeleine Peyroux - The Summer Wind
12. Morphine - In Spite of Me
13. Badloves - High on a Mountain
14. India Arie - Wonderful
15. David Bowie - Young American
16. Happy Mondays - He's Gonna Step on You Again
17. Sam & Dave - Soothe Me
18. Kid Confucius - Sky is the Limit
19. Joss Stone - Some Kind of Wonderful
20. Joan Osborne - Heat Wave
21. Joan Osborne - What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
22. Phoebe Snow - At Last
23. Dianne Reeves - Pick Yourself Up
24. Ronny Jordan - Mr Walker
25. Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools
26. Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally
27. Ella Fitzgerald - When the Sun Comes Out
28. Dianne Reeves - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas