Summer Beets w Undercover

A huge slew of summer goodness right here. We got mellow beets, folky beets, soul beets, r&b beets, hip hop beets, wobbly beets, jazzy beets, latin beets, afro beets, dance beets finally some funk beets. Enjoy. Part 1. Part 2.

Lack Of Afro - A Time For (feat Wayne Gidden)

GUTS -Laisser Lucie Faire

The Revelations f/ Tre Williams - Let's Straighten It Out

The Devil Makes Three - Old Number Seven

Amy Winehouse - Between The Cheats

Yakoto - Diamonds

Baby Sol - No No

Flower Fairy - Sunny Daze

Nneka - Lucifer (No Doubt)

Amy Winehouse f/ Nas - Like Smoke

Betty Wright & The Roots - So Long, So Wrong

The Roots - The OtherSide (feat. Bilal & Greg Porn)

Rodney P f/ The Peoples Army - Live Up (remix)

Union - Time Leak

Grap Luva - Rocking With Elegance (One For Damu)

Black Star - You Already Knew

Common - Blue Sky

Torae - For The Record

The Roots - Kool On (feat. Greg Porn & Truck North)

Joker - On My Mind f/ William Cartwright

Jazmine Sullivan - Fly & Sexy

Freddie Joachim - Looking Back

Somepling - Eightbars Kaffra

Jesse Futerman - Dawn Wawn

Chris Turner - Liquid Love

Patchworks - RIP With John Coltrane

45 - I Remember Ramsey

Funkommunity - Liquifaction

Very Tall Stories - Thinking of You

Chris Read - Sons D'Afrique

Jungle By Night - Great Wide Open

Colman Brothers - The Chief

J Roc and the Gaff - Mr Bigstuff

Chiddy Bang - Ray Charles

The FreeStyle MellowShip - Dancing Skulls

Sly & The Family Stone - If You Want Me To Stay (Funk Ferret Edit)

Livingstone & Canosis - Peg Leg

Gecko Turner - Amame, Mímame (Blundetto Remix)

Funkommunity - What You Give

Nick Pride And The Pimptones - Lay It on the Line (Danny Massure Rmx)

Sharon Jones and the Dapkings - I'm Not Gonna Cry

Deep Street Soul - Masterpiece f/ Shirley Davis

Sono Rhizmo' - Forever And A Day

Charles Bradley - Heart of Gold

Bobby Bland - Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City (scratchandsniff re-rub)

Betty Wright & The Roots - Grapes On A Vine (Feat. Lil Wayne)

J. Period - Q Tip The Abstract Best Vol 1

Dont sleep...

Jazzy Beets w/ Undercover

I've always loved the jazzy hip-hop sound, with Blue Note (among others) samples forming the basis of a lot of 90's hip hop. Here is a little set of fresh music dropped recently full of jazz samples, breaks and loopy beats. We have a few on here from the J. Period mix of Wake Up, some of that lush sounding interpretation of Pete Rocks classic 'They Reminisce Over You' from the album I just posted below. Booker T James get in the studio again, not just any studio - the Daptone one! DJ 2-Tone Jones brings us the Wu meets Blue Note stuff. Dj Vadim, Blu and Slum Village start to get nice and loopy before we pick it up with some heavy hip hop vocals and remixes from Aloe Blacc, Pharoahe Monch, Styles P, Dela and Ghostpoet. DJ Jazzy Jeff gives us a Roller Boogie remix of Mayer, Romanowski, The Root Source and Mo Horizons give up some uptempo samba and funk, before we jazz it out again. SwinG!

DJ Mitsu The Beats & Fat Loop - They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y)

Booker T. Jones - The Bronx (Feat. Lou Reed)

DJ 2-Tone Jones - How Sly

Aloe Blacc - 99 Problems (Jay-Z x Kanye West Cover)

J.Period, John Legend & The Roots - Dillanor Rigby (J.Period Remix) f. Blu, Porn, Black Thought

Pharoahe Monch - Black Hand Side Ft. Styles P And Phonte

Dela featuring Blu - WhatUWanna

Ghostpoet - Finished I Ain't

DJ Vadim Presents The Electric - I'm All In

Swiff D - Inspired

Slum Village - Players (Willy Sunshine remix)

Mayer Hawthorne - No Strings (JD Jazzy Jeff Roller Boogie Remix)

Ben Sollee - A Change Is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke cover)

Bashiri Asad - All In My Head

J.Period, John Legend & The Roots - People Get Ready (J.Period Remix) f. Aretha Franklin

Raphael Saadiq - Heart Attack

Romanowski - The Instigator

Mayer Hawthorne - Mr Blue Sky

The Root Source - Soul Space

Mo'Horizons And The Banana Soundsystem - Jungle Affair

Mo'Horizons And The Banana Soundsystem - In Love With An Old Man feat. Denise M'Baye

Dedy Dread & DJ Rebel - Swing Masterizado

Substantial & Marcus D - Chillaxation

DJ 2-Tone Jones - Cream Team's Return

The Jazzy Rhythmer - Lady Lee f/ Just J

Blend aka Mishkin ft Elephant Phinix - Press Forward (djtzinas jazzy flirt)

Grant Green - Blues in Maude's Flat

DJ Mitsu The Beats & Fat Loop - 93 Till Infinity

Shaolin Jazz: The 37th Chamber (2011)

Killer re-workings of the Wu Tang crew over legendary Blue Note jazz recordings...dope.

J. Period mixes John Legend and The Roots – Wake Up! Radio

J. Period the man when it comes to remix projects (The Isley Brothers, Bob Marley, Fela Kuti, Nneka and Bob Dylan), here he takes the soul and funk laden era of Wake Up Radio and does his biz. Best mix inna while for me, just check that lineup. Boom.

01. Prologue: Inner City Blues feat. Black Thought & John Legend

02. Rise & Shine feat. Black Thought, Blu & John Legend

03. Wake Up! Radio (Interlude) feat. Black Thought

04. Hard Times (J.Period Remix) feat. Black Thought, John Legend & Dead Prez

05. Dolla Out A Dime (Interlude) feat. James Brown

06. In The Ghetto (Wake Up!) feat. Black Thought, Rakin & John Legend

07. Little Ghetto Boy (J.Period Remix) feat. Q-Tip, Black Thought, John Legend

08. We Love Roll Call (Interlude) feat. Nina Simone

09. Misunderstood feat. Common

10. Message In Our Music (Interlude) feat. Common & Mary J. Blige

11. Eleanor Ridgby (Interlude)

12. Dillanor Ridby (J.Period Remix) feat. Blu, Porn, Black Thought & John Legend

13. The Wake Up! Players Band (Interlude) feat. Questlove

14. Compared To What (Interlude) feat. Roberta Flack

15. Comapred To What (J.Period Remix) feat. John Legend

16. Pain & Inspiration (Interlude) feat. John Legend & Nina Simone

17. Strange Fruit (Remix) feat. Common, John Legend & Nina Simone

18. Who’s Gonna Take The Weight (Interlude)

19. Walk On (J.Period Remix) feat. Black Thought & Isaac Hayes

20. Could The Drumme Have Some (Interlude)

21. In The Park (J.Period Remix) feat. Black Thought

22. Our Generation (Interlude) feat. Ernie Hines

23. Our Generation (J.Period Remix) feat. John Legend, Pete Rock & CL Smooth

24. Give Me That Message (Interlude) feat. Sam Cooke

25. Hang On In There (J.Period Remix) feat. Black Thought & John Legend

26. The Love Doctor (Interlude) feat. Jimmy Fallon

27. Love The Way It Should Be (J.Period Remix) feat. Nneka

28. Hey Love (Interlude) feat. Psdnuos, Jimmy Fallon, Kanye West & K’Naan

29. Ease My Troubling Min (Interlude) feat. Sam Cooke

30. People Get Ready (J.Period Remix) feat. Aretha Franklin

31. Wake Up! Radio Sign-Off (Outtro)

32. Epilogue Wake Up, Everybody! feat. Mayda Del Valle

The Root Source – Fire Walker (2010)

Amazing hammond organ deep jazz, funk, samba beets from this London based septet. Late night dancers beware...

DJ Mitsu The Beats & Fat Loop – Loop Amplitude (2011)

Damn this shit is dope, fresh instrumental re-workings of 90s golden era hip hop classics. Cop It.

01. C’mon Wit Da Git Down

02. I’ll Street Blues

03. Big Poppa

04. Da Bichez

05. They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)

06. Props Over Here

07. Word is Bond

08. One Love

09. Fine Tune Da Mic

10. Award Tour

11. Electric Relaxation

12. Step To Me

13. Don’t Sweat The Technique

14. Soul Clap

15. A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays”

16. 93 ‘Till Infinity

17. Street Life

18. Return Of The Crooklyn Dodgers

Take 5 Riddim w/ Undercover (1961)

In 1959 The Dave Brubeck Quartet released their swingin' jazz album 'Time Out' and on it is one of my favourite songs of all-time - Take 5. Come 1968 Val Bennett with Bunny Lee take the controls and turn out a stomping ska tune "Russians are Coming". The versions continue inna reggae, roots and dub style through the 70's and 80's, sampling that distinctive sax lick and driving 5/4 bass-line. Enjoy.

***Inna Jazz Style***

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take 5 (1959)

Carmen McRae and Dave Brubeck - Take 5 (1984)

Quincy Jones - Take Five (1983)

***Inna Reggae Style***

Val Bennett - Russians Are Coming (1968)

Al Campbell - Bad Boy

Augustus Pablo & King Tubby - The Big Rip Off

Barrington Levy - Captivity

Barry Brown - Two House Apartment

Barry Brown - Natty Roots Man

Bobby Kalphat - Cunter Punch

Bobby Kalphat - Cunter Dub

Dillinger - Jah Love

Don Carlos - Mr. Big Man

Eric Bubble - Younger Generation

Jah Devon - To Take It All

Jah Devon - 5 Of Them

King Tubby - Take Five

Little Pepe - Junto Al Lion

Lone Ranger - Step It Inna Africa

Sugar Minott - Have You Ever Found A Love

Tommy McCook & The Agrovators - Jah Love Rockers Dub

Tony Tuff - Round The World

U Brown - Blow Mr Hornsman

Version - Take Five Riddim

Welton Irie - Mr Hornsman

Willie Williams - Jah Righteous Reign

High Rotation w/ Undercover

Not much blogging (sorry) = lots of actual music listening and these favourite have been on high rotation of late. A bit of a mixed bag in the jazz, funk, soul and hip hop corridor of love with amazing new tunes from Suff Daddy, Aloe Blacc, The Apples, Buddy Sativa and Codt ChesnuTT. Cchheecckk it out!

Buddy Sativa - Una Peripecia

Grooveman Spot - Ponsonby Beat Down

Big Boi - Shutterbugg (Ft. Cutty)

Felu Kuti - You Better Ask Yourself (Bost & Bim Remix)

Suff Daddy - Konnopke

El Michel Affair - Synthetic Substitution

The Apples - In The Air

Aloe Blacc - Good Things

Kev Brown - I'll Be Around (Miles Bonny Trumpet Refix)

The Roots - Walk Alone (Feat. Truck North, P.O.R.N., Dice Raw)

The Black Keys - Ten Cent Pistol

Cody ChesnuTT - Do Better

Jay-Z ft. Lil Wayne - Summer in Brooklyn (Quincy Jones Cookin Soul Remix)

Suff Daddy - Jimmy Jazz Feat. Jim Dunloop

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Spottie

Blundetto - My One Girl (with Lateef the Truthspeaker)

Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno - Good Enuff (Cash Flow Dub)

Courtney John - Love Is

Little Willie John - My Nerves

Lee Dorsey - A Lover Was Born

Third Coast Kings - Give Me Your Love

The Transatlantics - On Fire

Nathan Haines - Heaven and Earth

Nas & Damian Marley - Friends

Jeremy Taylor - Reggae Interpretation Of Kind Of Blue (2009)

Check this little gem out! Respect to the OG uploader, been looking for this fo' ages!

"In the spring of 1981 a group of reggae studio musicians from Jamaica gathered in New York City under the direction of Jeremy Taylor, a music professor at NYU at that time. The result was this Reggae Interpretation of the Miles Davis classic Kind of Blue. Though he was primarily regarded as a world-class Jazz musician and educator, Taylor had taken several trips to Jamaica to study reggae music with some of the best performers in the world."

So What

Freddie Freeloader

Blue In Green

All Blues

Flamenco Sketches

So What (Dub)

Freddie Freeloader (Dub)

Blue in Green (Dub)

All Blues (Dub)

Flamenco Sketches (Dub)

Updated LInk 2014

Bibi Tanga & the Selenites - Dunya (2010)

Wow, really really digging this outta Paris...just can't stop listening to it!

01. The Moon [03:29]

02. Red Wine [04:53]

03. Swing Swing [03:10]

04. Dunya [04:02]

05. Pasi [04:16]

06. Let Them Run [05:57]

07. Gospel Singers [02:52]

08. Be Africa [04:21]

09. Shine [05:33]

10. Bonjour Mon Ami Jean [04:46]

11. Goodbye [04:02]

12. It`s the Earth That Moves [05:28]

VA - Next Stop... Soweto Vol.2 (2010)

01. J.K. Mayengar/The Singwedzi Sisters - Khubani

02. Mahotella Queens - Wozani Mahipi

03. The Heroes - Come With Me

04. The Monks - Blockhead

05. Bra Sello & His Band - Soul Time Nzimande Go

06. The Toreadors - Gwinyitshe

07. The Heroes - Funky Message

08. The Klooks - Nkuli's Shuffle

09. The Soul Prophets - Soul "Imbaq"

10. Philip Malela - Intandane (Part 1)

11. Bazali Bam - Bazali Bam

12. Mgababa Queens - Akulalwa Soweto

13. Down Tones - Short Man's Soul

14. The S.A. Move - Skophom

15. Heshoo Beshoo - Wait and See

16. Philip Malela - Tiba Kamo

17. The Grasshoppers - I Am There

18. Electric Six - Lovey-Wami

19. The Anchors - Last Time

20. Flaming Souls - Mosquito

21. Soul Throbs - Little Girl

22. Gibson Kente - Saduva

Check It!

J Rawls Present:The Liquid Crystal Project 2

J Rawls is always recommended, perhaps for you My Cheeseman? The little 7"s that came out where always on high rotation!

01. The Lead

02. A Tribute To The Beatnuts

03. Digital Funky

04. Rob's Gem

05. Loran's Dance Redux (Pushitalong)

06. A Tribute To Da Beatminerz

07. Joshy's Gem (Interlude)

08. Me & Cousin

09. Capricorn's Reprise

10. Charlie Chop's Gem

11. Retreat At Turnberry

12. Bongosss

13. Hebejeebees

14. B's Gem

15. We Fall Down

16. Ynde's Gem (Interlude)

17. The 6th Minute

18. Bonus Track

Cop It.

De La Soul - I Be Blown' (1989)

This is one of the tunes we used to have crazy hot-boxes to back in the day. Marvin, Dylan, Pauly, Karl, Ed-g and I packed into my Ford Cortina Mk1 that we more often than not parked down South Titirangi Rd, rolled the windows up and had a big smoke! Brings me joy everytime I listen it. Check the ol' girl herself having a bit of fun above.