Head of People’s Poten­tial Unlim­ited Records & Tapes, Andrew Mor­gan says some things on this inter­view (it includes an exclu­sive mix for Phon­ica Records which you can find also below). PPU’s mainly a re-issue label; qual­ity picks from rare disco, boo­gie and funk cuts. Do also take a look at their home­base: http://peoplespotential.com/.

1. Tri-Fire — Tri-City Con­nec­tion (unre­leased warped cas­sette mix)
2. Truth Is Light 010 — Mouth­piece
3. Flickk — Want You On The Floor
4. Cal­i­for­nia Flight Project — Hook With You (PPU-022)
5. Kur­tis Scott — Uncrowned Champ (cas­sette tape demo)
6. George Small­wood — Rock WIth Me (PPU-100 CD ONLY)
7. Vleet — Red Viola
8. MCP
9. Uku Kuut — Vision of Estonia

Laid Back… With Kyny­Nasty by Beat Jockey Dzei

With a cou­ple of rar­i­ties (Kerim Khan, Phil Steele), exclu­sive track (Top­less), essen­tials (Holy Ghost!, Ali Love) and all-time per­sonal favorites (Laid Back, Sey­mour Bits, Roy Davis Jr) I’m quite com­fort­able with this new live dj mix. Elec­tro soul sat­is­fac­tion guaranteed.

DOWNLOAD

(320 kbps)

Track­list
01. Laid Back — Bak­er­man
02. Toe­cut­ter — Best Party Ever (Fight Facil­i­ties Edit)
03. Roy Davis Jr. — Dance Shake
04. George Clin­ton – Erotic City (Sasso Re-Edit)
05. Mud­dy­loop — We Play, You Move
06. Sey­mour Bits — All Alone
07. 50 & 50 Broth­ers — Red­man
08. Top­less — Vamos A Bailar
09. Ali Love — Dimin­ish­ing Returns (Extended Ver­sion)
10. Kerim Khan – Sea­side Ren­dezvous (Seaside-Dub)
11. Holy Ghost! — I Will Come Back
12. Phil Steele — Video Love (12″ Remix)

Mix of the Week #15

Mesak — MIX AUS 20 10 — stream or down­load from http://soundcloud.com/mesak/mix-aus-20–10.

Top­pen! Skweee pro­ducer, other half of Mr Vel­cro Fas­tener, and also being one of the peo­ple behind the Har­mö­nia record label among other things, Mesak mixes here a lit­tle bit of this and that together: older down­tem­poish elec­tronic music, skweee, and some stuff I’d describe just as beats (all these new slow tempo-synthy-j dilla influenced-lazer beats-whatever). And yeah, BBC Radio­phonic workshop’s fame-dame Delia Der­byshire also included as is everyone’s favorite Omar Soley­man. So once again: toppen!

I also really do rec­om­mend you to grab Mesak’s lat­est album “School Of Mesak” (pic­tured above) out on Har­mö­nia. For exam­ple these shops can pro­vide — boomkat: digi/vinyl — bleep: digi/vinyl.

Track­list for the mix:

Sci­en­tist: Dance of the vam­pires
Night Thought: Buck teeth
Cabaret Voltaire: Haiti
Afrikan Simba: Pro­tect I ver­sion
DJ Ele­phant Power: MC Ideas
Recor­dah: But­ter­nut
Soom T: Doo­bie ver­sion
Eerie Johannes: Eläin
Speed Bike: El gal­lito
Meat Beat Man­i­festo: Repul­sion
Randy Bar­racuda: Duck but­ter
Fum­ble: Ter­rain
Tapes: C20 rid­dim
Mesak: Pas­sion of the geist
Black Chow: Pur­ple smoke
Coco Bryce: Ghetto freaks
V.C.: 30:00
Maffi: Ver­sion
Rigas Den Andre: Juicy Juice
Delia Der­byshire: The wiz­ards lab­o­ra­tory
Mikhail Chekalin: ?
Omar Soley­man: Tour al zeenah
Daniel Savio: Imposter remix
Hov­a­tron: Gold star radiation

Stickem — Let Skweee­dom Ring! mix. Get it here: http://skweee.com/let-skweeedom-ring

Skweee com­bines sim­ple synth leads and basslines with funk, r’n’b or soul-like rhythms, over­all ren­der­ing a stripped-down funky sound. The name Skweee was coined by Daniel Savio, one of the orig­i­na­tors of the emerg­ing sound. The name refers to the use of vin­tage syn­the­siz­ers in the pro­duc­tion process, where the aim is to “squeeze out” the most inter­est­ing sounds pos­si­ble.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skweee

Or slightly less prosaic:

Skweee, or “Scan­di­na­vian Con­flict R ‘n’ B” to give it it’s full title, is a genre and a move­ment that’s emerged around the (respec­tively Swedish and Finnish) labels Flogsta Dan­shall and Har­mo­nia. Sur­fac­ing mostly on 7” vinyl, the sound is a mis­match of booga­loo electro(nics) and mod­ern, Timbaland/Neptunes-style glitch/bling, seem­ingly cre­ated on equip­ment avail­able well before you’d ever heard of Timmy and Phar­rell. Fuzzy-felt 8-bit synths and crunchy, bit-crushed drum hits dry-hump your ears like Rod­ney Jerkins try­ing to craft Bey­once a hit with only an N.E.S. and a mini­disc to hand.

- http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/inside-skweee

This mix show­cases many faces of skweee, from its more synth-pop ori­ented styles to electro-funkin’ licks.

TRACKLIST
Mrs. Qeada (SWE) Dreama­tis Per­sonea
Melkeveien (NO) Fan­tôme
Claws Costeau (FIN) Cold Smokin’ Tofu
Boss Kite (UK) CMYK
V.C. (FIN) 30:00
Ricky Lemon (DEN) Copen­hagen
Belly­belle (USA) Super­cell Strut
LaZ­ER­crotch (USA) Neon Dude’s House Party
Spar­tan Lover (FIN) Zbieg
Wankers United (FRA) Super­fönky
Hybakusha (ESP) Lebannon79
Kid Logic (USA) Poly­ester Shirt
Miramichi (CA) Leggo My Ego
Limo­nious (SWE) Degen­er­ate
Beem (SWE) Automan
Easy and The Cen­ter of the Uni­verse (NO) Yazid
Daniel Savio (SWE) Peo­ple Die Love Don’t
Rigas (SWE) feat. Markis Sage (SWE/FIN) Love Over Gold
Stickem (USA) This Thing Is On – Beat­bully (NO) remix
Mesak (FIN) Sly Film­fes­ti­val (Sotchi Mon­tage)
Sprut­bass (NO) Hot Water Dirty Pits
Randy Bar­racuda (FIN/NL) Overnight Romancin’
Mack­aper (SWE) Tale of Tale of Tales – Joxaren (SWE) remix
Slow Hand Motëm (CA) feat. Pubs Panseno (USA) They Lied

Nice video.

Roskow & Dj Runex — 1983 (MP3 — 320kbps — 32:37min — 74,66Mb)

Finally got down and lis­tened this through, and oh boy, isn’t it just the way I like ‘em to be! Rap/electro/electro-funk with some boo­gie & freestyle cuts thrown in seam­lessly. All from the 80s — and to be exact from 1983. Expect drum machines, syn­the­siz­ers, and seri­ous grooves. Kudos to Ionik of Trav­eller Records & Kojak Giant Sounds blog who uploaded this gem orig­i­nally.

1983 in music
The year 1983
The very first iPhone — of course the year was 1983 and these were concepts…

Track­list
01. Ram­melzee — Beat Bop (Tar­town)
02. Mtume — Fuicy Fruit (Epic)
03. Fear­less Four — Got To Turn Out (Elek­tra)
04. Disco 3 — Real­ity (Sutra)
05. Fear­less Four — F-4000 (Elek­tra)
06. Who­dini — Under­ground (Jive)
07. Shango Zulu — Groove (Cel­lu­loid)
08. The B-Boys — 2–3 Break (Vin­ter­tain­ment)
09. SOS Band — Just The Way You Like It (Tabu)
10. Love­bug Starsky — Starsky Live At The Disco Fever (Fever)
11. Bernard Wright — Funky Beat (Arista)
12. Who­dini — Hounted House Of Rock (Jive)
13. Davy DMX — One For The Tre­ble (Tuff City)
14. Fresh 3 MC’s — Fresh (Pro­file)
15. SOS Band — Just Be Good To Me (Tabu)
16. Edgar Win­ter — Franken­stein 84 (Body Rock)
17. Cos­mic Touch — Noth­ing Ever Changes (Seri­ous Gold)
18. Funky Four — Feel It (Sug­arhill)
19. New­cleus — Jam On Revenge (Sun­nyview)
20. Mal­com Mclaren — Look­ing Like A Hobo (Vir­gin)
21. Pac­man — I’m A Pac­man Enjoy)
22. New Edi­tion — Candy Girl (Decca)
23. Who­dini — Rap Machine (Jive)
24. Stock­ing­cap — Wave Graze (Star­lit)
25. Love­bug Starsky — You’ve Gotta Believe (Fever)
26. Crash Crew — On The Radio (Sugarhill/Baycity)
27. Run DMC — Sucker MC’s (Pro­file)
28. Ingram — Dj Delight (Street­wave)
29. Mar­jorie Barnes — Point Blanc (Philips)
30. Art Of Noise — Beat Box (ZTT)
31. Bar­bara Mason — Another Man (West End)
32. Grand­mixer DST — Crazy Cuts (Celluloid/Island)
33. Indeep — When Boys Talk (Sound Of New York)
34. The B Boys — Cut­ting Herby (Vin­ter­tain­ment)
35. Her­bie Han­cock — Rock It (CBS)
36. Lit­tle Tony Marsh — Burn Out (Prism)
37. Two Sis­ters — B-Boys Beware (Sug­arscoop)
38. Tom Browne — Brighter Tomor­row (Arista)
39. Time Zone — Wild­style (Cel­lu­loid)
40. Her­bie Han­cock — Rough (CBS)
41. Globe & Whiz Kid — Play That Beat (Tommy Boy)
42. Tony Lee — Love So Deep (Radar)
43. Royal Clash — Radio Activ­ity (Sutra)
44. Cap­tain Rock — The Return Of Cap­tain Rock (Nia)
45. B Boys — Rock The House (Vin­ter­tain­ment)
46. Shan­non — Let The Music Play (Emer­gency)
47. C.O.D. — In The Bot­tle (Street­wise)
48. New Order — Con­fu­sion (Street­wise)
49. West Street Mob — Let Your Mind Be Free (Sug­arhill)
50. Warp 9 — Light Years (Prism)
51. Visual — The Music Got Me (Pre­lude)
52. Mid­night Star — Freak-A-Zoid (Solar)
53. Madonna — Lucky Star (Sire)