The Funktathlon

Summer, bitches! Time for grilled meats, cold beers and funky tunes. And here's a shitload of 'em. I'm bringing back the 2-CD set (CD's? CDeez Nutz!) with this 2+ hour badboy. If you can't shake your shit to this, you are probably deceased. You'll hear a few old chestnuts in there that you've heard many times before... but this one is a party rocker, not a chin stroker. Have a listen and a download and lemme know how ya like it...

The Funktathlon - Side A - The Soul Brother by Tonegent on Mixcloud

The Funktathlon - Side B - The Pimp Daddy by Tonegent on Mixcloud

And here's a random track from the set, offered separately so this post will show up on Hype Machine. I'm such a bitch like that...

The Whole Darn Family - Seven Minutes Of Funk (ysi)

Get down!

Killing Productivity Since 2007

And here's a band I had no idea existed when I woke up this morning...



But I got hipped to the live stream of the Primavera Sound festival from Spain and when I flipped it on, these guys were absolutely keeeeeeeling eeeeeeet. They're called Delorean, they are also from Spain and they are about as close to Animal Collective as I can tolerate. I know that doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement, but I'm giving them some shine because did I mention they were keeeeeeeling eeeeeeet live?

Delorean - Real Love (ysi)

That webcast continues tomorrow and Saturday, with some great acts in the lineup (T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou!). Prepare to get nothing done the next couple days...

Monday Marvin

Nothing wrong with a little Marvin on a Monday...



Here in the form of a sweet little edit by a couple of guys who call themselves 7 Samurai. That's all I know, so enough of my yakkin'...

7 Samurai - Marvin (ysi)

Baby-makin' music fo' sho...

Bollywood Always Up To No Good

And now for something completely different...



I'm not going to pretend to be any kind of expert on the Indian/Bollywood thing. I'm still just getting into it. But one thing I've figured out is that R.D. Burman is a good place to start. I have nothing to back this statement up with, but I'll just go ahead and say he was the John Williams of Bollywood. Again, I have no idea if that is even remotely accurate, but I'm sticking with it. ACCEPT IT AS GOSPEL, BITCHES!

Lata Mangeshkar & Mukesh - Kahin Karti Hogi (ysi)

But whatever with the "facts"... the point is, it's good stuff, yet another musical rabbit hole to fall down. So get to fallin'...

The One-Joke Wonder

Dubstep is practically a dirty word these days as far as I'm concerned, thanks to what the American EDM scene has done to it.



This 2009 track by Subscape is a nice example of the sound that the Skrillexes of the world took and ran with. Ran with right off a cliff into a pool of Drakkar Noir and Rohypnol. Sigh...

Subscape - Nothing's Wrong (ysi)

That's joke's pretty much all I got today. So, um, see ya...

A Not-So-Amazing Review of An Amazing Show

For a low-to-mid level music blogger, I go out to surprisingly few shows. Chalk it up to the fact that I'm old and spend most of my time TELLING THOSE GODDAMN KIDS TO GET OFF MY LAWN! But I actually made it out last Saturday a couple weeks ago, and it was a good one...





Yeah, fucking Bonobo. Holy shit. An act that's basically one dude plus vocalists in the studio throws down live with a something like 12 piece band including a horn section, string section, live drummer... all of which were, let's just say, fucking good at music. It's taken so long to get this post up that I won't try to give you a detailed review. It was just a mesmerising display of stellar musicianship. Let's just say that if you have the chance to see this show and miss it, YOU ARE BAD AT LIFE!

Bonobo - Emkay (ysi)

I wanted to take some video of my own, but I was way too out-of-my-mind stoned from this teeeeny-tiiiiny little pot brownie my friend gave me.


"It's waffer theen!"

I actually forgot it was possible to get that high off the weed. And of course after I tell you about the huge band I'm gonna post a vid of the one song that he plays practically by himself. You're used to that kind of thing from this blog by now, I'd imagine... But anyhoo... Holy moly. Good times. And apparently everyone else there was too fucked up to shoot anything as well, because I can't find a damn thing from the L.A. show on YouTube. So here's a clip from Boston, where it seems that their lighting rig was a little less LED-riffic, but still...



So basically, my entire review of the concert is "It was very good". You're welcome, world.

Fat Ridim De Best Ridim!

Not a particularly meaty post today... the artist is meaty enough himself...



Fat Man Ridim Section may be the best named studio backing band ever. The Fat Man himself was a dude named Roger Lewis... which is all the information I got about him. But Reggae legends Sly & Robbie were also members, so yeah... they were pretty good, too.

Fat Man Ridim Section - Joshua A Loaf (ysi)

Have a good weekend. I'll be seeing the amazing Bonobo tomorrow night, so expect a full report Monday...