Hello ANNT lovers.
There is an all new podcast available now from me.
Featuring bits from Four Tet, Subeena, Greymatter, Tammie Terrell and even a recipe for Chocolate Truffles, it is not to be missed.
This coming Thursday (the 7th) both halves of the Aint No New Thing team will be DJing at the ever-excellent Wah Wah Live at Favela Chic night. It’s the annual January Servini Birthday Special event and to help celebrate, the man himself will also be behind the decks (and on the mic, no doubt), so you can expect some celebratory shenanigans. Tarrbaby are live on stage at about 9pm but the night starts at 8pm and goes on until 1am. It’s called starting the year with a bang!
Well, it should be with any luck. We’ve still got quite a lot to do at ANNT Towers, such as out end-of-year review (which might just include a few Awards this year!) and our annual list of thank-you’s as well as all the eating and drinking that goes along with this time of year, but before all that really kicks off in earnest I thought I would just confirm the Aint No New Thing dates for the first part of 2010.
So, they are:
Friday 15th January, which will be a Residents Special;
Friday 19th February, with special guests Simon S (Futuristica Music) and Martin Gordon (Jazz Chronicles); and
Friday 19th March, which might just be a One-Handed Music special with any luck, although that is still to be confirmed so don’t hold me to that!
Very possibly the best Christmas movie of all time and we are going to be showing it in full (but on mute) if we can this coming Friday at the ANNT Christmas Special. Who knows what other festive treats we might be able to sort out as well…?
In what I hope will become a regular series where we recommend an album that we think is worthy of attention. It could be something new, something old, it could be something mind-numbingly obscure, or something blindingly obvious. A series that is part review, part digging the crates for gems, part simple recommendation. A series in which I am going to start with something possibly not very well known and something which I think deserves a higher profile – the Harold Ousley LP ‘Sweet Double Hipness’. Released in 1972 on the ever excellent Muse label, this is just straight ahead funky jazz. No pretensions. No gimmicks. It’s head-nodding from the get-go and just never lets up.
Saxophonist Harold Ousley is joined by Norman Simmons and Neal Creque on piano, Victor Sproles and Jay Leonhart on bass, Steve Butler and Jim Young on drums, Ralph Dorsey on congas, Steve Kroon and Danny Barrajanos on percussion, Bob Rose on guitar and Holly Hamilton & Edna Holt on vocals. Obviously, the cover is going to grab your attention if you stumble across the LP when digging (well, you don’t often see mesh pants these days..), but luckily the music is also just as attention-grabbing. ‘Unkle Funky’ starts us off with a hypnotic bass groove and that is followed by a killer cover version – something I always love. It is hard to better the Freddie Hubbard version, obviously, but Ousely and gang have a pretty good go with their take on ‘Return Of The Prodigal Son’ and while it might not reach the Hubbard heights it was good enough for me to use on my August mix for this site!
‘Come Get It, I Got It’, whose drums, bass and barking(!) start need to be sampled by Paul White or some other industrious beat-maker – it is just begging to be used. From that funky intro it just grows and grows with the organ adding another dimension. Superb. As is the title track, which has the female vocalists joining in with Ousley’s sax line to great affect. It’s Bop with added percussion and voices and while it won’t get the jazz dancers sweaty it is – as it should be in this series – recommended.
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Including Paul White, Matthew Halsall, Mount Kimbie, Joy Orbison, Instra:mental, Mr Beatnick, Slum Village and more…
I’ve only got my ass in gear and got another mix together for the site! It is obviously meant to give you a better idea of the sort of thing you can expect to hear at our night, but this one kind of went off in a few new directions! Actually, I think I have only played one of these tracks out at ANNT and that would be the Marie Lyons. I don’t really go to DJ without that album in the bag. It’s just too good to leave behind.
It’s a pretty broad brush I am painting with, here, to be honest. I go from Krautrock to Brit post-punk funk, to Brazil, via some yet-to-released London pysched out hip-hop, allied to a little slice of Macedonian funky jazz-rock (why not?), before stopping in the Caribbean en route to the States. Some new. Some old. Some jazz. Some soul. Some funk. Some hip-hop and a whole lot of fun. Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.
Aint No New Thing 2
Neu! - Hallogallo
Can - Moonshake
A Certain Ratio - Si Fermir O Grido (Touch Cassette)
Banda Black Rio - Vidigal
Edu Lobo - Vento Bravo
Milt Jackson - The Metal Mether
Baricentro - Afka
Paul White - Ultra Violet
Koushik featuring Percee P - Cold Beats
Caribbean Gay Torpedoes - Tropical Fever
Slim And The Soulful Saints - Fish Head
Les DeMerle - Moondial
Kim Band - Ne Zna Se Ko Si
Jon Lucien - The Ghetto Song
Marie ‘Queenie’ Lyons - I Don’t Want Nobody To Have It But You
The Impressions - Mighty Mighty (Space & Whitey)
Feel free to share, download and pass on to anyone you want. Oh, and then, obviously, if you like any of the tunes you hear, track them down for yourself and buy buy buy.
