Something must have been in the air back then.

“A short-lived but legendary supergroup comprised of some of the biggest names in ’60s soul, the Soul Clan’s proper recording career amounted to a mere two songs, but the act’s lineup was enough to make any R&B aficionado take notice: Solomon Burke, Arthur Conley, Don Covay, Ben E. King, and Joe Tex.”

quote from Solomon Burke, Mojo Magazine, Jan 2007:

Soul Meeting came about because Wilson Pickett, Don Covay, Ben E King, Otis Redding, Joe Tex and myself had organised ourselves as a group originally called the Solid Gold Soul Clan. We had already been getting together as a group for about two years before the 45 came out in 1968. We would meet, go to restaurants and eat, talk and put our plans and our monies together to try to do things we believed in. We wanted to start a scholarship fund for our children and help other people.

I thought we had enough strength between us to get a loan from our record company for a million dollars to purchase a great deal of land in Alabama. It was up for sale and could have been turned immediately into development. We really believed Atlantic would support us because of the status we had record-wise. But they shot us down and cancelled out LP. But they released Soul Meeting, from which the funds were supposed to go to the Sould Clan foundation for scholarships and endowment plans.

Don put the track down, and we went in and individually put our voices on. We were waiting for Otis to do his part, because he was having a throat problem, but after surgery had cured it he went on tour. I talked to him two days into the tour and he was telling me “The weather’s crazy but I’m going on to Madison, Wisconsin.” He said: “Man, I’ve got a new plane: it’s incredible! You should have come with me,” To this moment in time his passing still takes my breath away.

Otis’s protégé, Arthur Conley, took Otis’s place on the record. I don’t think we should have ever done that, but we did. When Soul Meeting came out, Atlantic didn’t promote it whatsoever. In those days, Atlantic records could get a record played overnight. That was the power they had. But they didn’t believe in us. That’s why I left Atlantic. I was heartbroken. I felt that they had let us down. Also the family atmosphere had changed into a corporate atmosphere. Atlantic did put an LP out of songs we did as individuals, but the 45 is not just special, it’s a classic. To me it’s worth more than gold.

Soulback: Side A: The Soul Clan – Soul Meeting (don lowed)

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Soulback: Side B: The Soul Clan – That’s How It Feels (don lowed)

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Tunawax is the 2010 Intercontinental Dryhump Champions. But rather than hold it over your heads, we’re giving back…Finely picked dance tracks to go cotton to cotton with.

Debut Ep from DJ Beware + Motorpitch remind us that “Pororoca” is the tidal wave that rushes up the Amazon river, and much like this song, is nothing to be fucked with. Buy the rest of the El Toro EP here.

Dryhump Champion: Beware + Motorpitch – Pororoca (Original Mix) (don lowed)

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El Toro

Beware+Motorpitch “El Toro” from Man Recordings

Rumspringa is channeling the spirits of real rock n roll right through their aural vortex, and it sounds so intensely beautiful that they may in fact be the next modern vice. Double it up with a cover from The Seeds, and you might as well lay me down. I’m done.

Fingerbanger 1: Rumspringa – Cant Seem To Make You Mine (don lowed)

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Straight from the bastards at Bastard Jazz is some of those dirty dirty but yet so clean breaks we rikey arot around here. Remixed into a fluid dubby horny (almost wobbly even) thumper, you can check the rest of the Monophono’s Halftone Society @ Bastard Jazz Here

Fingerbanger 2: Mophono’s Halftone Society – Sinicism (Natural Self Remix) (don lowed)

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Want more proof of the concept? Here’s the original with the hard ass drum breaks for the hard halftone lover… check the ill stomp at 1:55… (listen to the rest of the EP @ Bastard Jazz Here.)

Fingerbanger 2.2: Mophono’s Halftone Society – Sinicism

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I should start liquidating some of these records. It’s hard getting rid of anything that took a long time to acquire. Stand up for something. Lick A Shot.

Fingerbanger 3: Dead Poetz Society – Lick A Shot (Remix) (don lowed)

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Next time i escape this continent…

Fingerbanger 4: Moussa Dombia – Keleya (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 5: Archie Bleyer – Hernando’s Hideaway (don lowed)

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Over.End.Out.P.tone

Throwback: Junior Mance – Dont Cha Hear Me Calling To Ya (don lowed)

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Throwback: Kurious – Baby Bust It (don lowed)

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Tunawax is the 2010 Intercontinental Dryhump Champions. But rather than hold it over your heads, we’re giving back…Finely picked dance tracks to go cotton to cotton with.

One of those wompy house jams that bounce along like ass cheeks in short shorts… girls only.

Dryhump: Bird Peterson – Actin’ Up At Zenobias (don lowed)

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I’m often amazed that any two people ever agree on anything. At least that is once absolved of the notion that we all should play the dutiful role that has been socially permeated throughout our conditioning societal structure. Not that I personally prescribe to anarchy, cynicism, or even laissez faire acceptance of grotesque self-interest, I don’t. Only that once the bottom falls out of those injected rules of inhibition there isn’t much left that holds us together aside from personal responsibility for our thoughts, feelings and actions, and even with those I’m making broad assumptions that any two people can come to the same conclusions without first accepting some general guidelines. Dr. Moreau anyone? There are infinite variables; too many to think that common ground is in fact common. Understanding only happens with parties that are willing and able to take it on, for better or worse, if that doesn’t happen communications will be, not only in separate languages, but separate universes… although seemingly the same dimension, the outcome can be maddening.

PB&J need no introduction, unless you’ve got an aversion to delicious sandwiches that are conducive to hiking and camping and days out on a sailboat… or YACHT.

Fingerbanger 1: Peter Bjorn & John – Lay It Down (The Golden Filter Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 2: YACHT – Psychic City (Classixx Remix) (don lowed)

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Soulful baddassery in female vocals, The Mynabirds crested acoustics (courtesy of producer & collaborator Richard Swift (feat here before)) and rousing driven drums have a decadent  form that fits in nicely with my predilection for dusty road gospel sounds.

Fingerbanger 3: The Mynabirds – Let The Record Go (don lowed)

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The Snugs (feat here before also) get the royal treatment from Mr. Klein… erm… I mean remix treatment. From Freestyle records comp ‘Fresh Out the Box’. Listen to more & Buy dem shits here.

Fingerbanger 4: The Snugs – Trying (Tal M. Klein Remix) (don lowed)

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Lazy drippingsoul hiphop for the impending Lazy drippingsoul summer. Jazzy Jeff dropped The Magnificent in 2002, a damn fine album that got criminally slept on. Wake up kids. You can litterally pick up the whole thing for a few duckkets Here.

Fingerbanger 5: DJ Jazzy Jeff Ft. Oddisee – Musik Lounge (don lowed)

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OverENDOut-p.tone

Not that long ago, it was acceptable to be dissident angry. Not at your girlfriend, or at your broken heart. Angry at the status quo of indifference or at least acceptance of the banality of the American Dream. The call to arms was against anything that had the slightest smell of corruption, oppression or false authenticity. Yes, old school punk would have lifted weights all day , kicked you coddled little punk fashionistas right in your zumiez lovin face, and then wrote a highly articulate article for the school paper on the many faces of power abuse in your local social structure. Alright, well not all punkers were so socially conscious. Some of them were angry and didn’t really know why, and it lead to people like GG Allin, and all related fuckwits including the ones downtown living off social security still thinking that they are “raging against the machine” when their first concert was Green Day. Punk not Punk.

It takes courage to stand up against something that is so accepted that it becomes just “what you’re suppose to do”, but it doesn’t relieve anyone of personal responsibility. This is where punk turned in on itself, and Alternative took over… its much easier to be a victim than go out and make a difference.

Throwback: Dead Kennedys – Jock-O-Rama (don lowed)

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Throwback: Dead Kennedys – Holiday In Cambodia (don lowed)

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Jaw Line sent me an incoherent rambling email much like we write here, leading me to believe that I might be producing house music in my sleep and sending to myself. I doubt it though because I’m too busy making Solar panel sandwiches in my overactive imagination featuring guest appearances by overjoyed monkeys and intellectuals from the dark ages. I imagine intellectuals were a lot more tolerable back then because hidden egotistical agendas weren’t masked as unfortunate disdain, and hip in-the-know cynicism. Did I myself just cross that barrier by even recognizing it? I’m probably not smart enough to know. Overjoyed monkeys are always welcome as I insight into sillyness is more that just a good reason to dress up. All seriousness aside, have you even listened to the songs yet? Good shit.

Jaw Line is the oft forgotten ninja druid wizard, who by defeating the evil lords of Doom Mountain was able to breathe life into dreary musically theatre and save modern culture from imploding into re-runs of “Oops TV”

His music draws influence from cultural phenomenon that is Jazz Hands, dried apricots & the rise and fall of the humble pitta bread

He is currently preparing a new EP which showcases his love of chips, cheese and doner kebabs. Keep an eye out for new music soon. – Jawline Soundcloud

Dryhump Champion: Jaw Line – What You Wanna Play? (don lowed)

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Dryhump Champion: Jaw Line – It Makes You (don lowed)

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Skulking through the library on a rainy day is a throbbing ritualistic experience, perfectly swaddled in by Hrdvsion’s Nathan Johnson and Childe Grangier’s heavy petting sampling project Starting Teeth; a nod to the earlier days of loops, while tugging the glitched dub future we live in today. Real ‘techno’ Easily accessible through iTunes Here.

Titties: Starting Teeth – xxDone (don lowed)

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Here’s a request from The BFC, a humdinger mix that will put peas in your pot all summer long. Not for the average La Soul duck saucer, this one is for those that want to pontificate on the music behind the music aka you trainspotters (who the fuck says trainspotters anymore…) done in kind by Dj Platurn of the Oakland Padres Faders… cuz I’m hiiiiigh on suuunshine….

Mixtape: DJ Paturn – So This Is De La Heaven (don lowed)

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