Take Five 1961 style

If you know more about "Jazz Casual" let us know the backstory, very curious to know what that show is all about.

Playjazzloud goes House Vol 3

This is an old mix of ours dating back to our first trip to Miami for the winter music conference 2003. The most surreal moment of the conference was watching with everyone at the hotel as the US invade Iraq. The joint most enjoyable moments were listening to GP on the Giant Step rooftop party and checking Theo, Moodymann & Co. at some dirty download joint! The mix was done just before we left for Miami and a selection of tracks we thought would be big. Listen below or download here.

1. Sarah Vaughan "Just a little loving"
2. RSL "Wesley Music"
3. Unknown "Unknown"
4. Los Amigos Invisibles "Ease your mind" (Main Mix)
5. Solid Groove "Flookin"
6. Unknown "Unknown"
7. Unknown "Unknown"
8. Unknown "Unknown"
9. Susumu Yokota "King Of Darkness" (Swell Session Remix)
10. Seiji vs Q-Tip "Loose Tips"
11. Unknown "Unknown"
12. Unknown "Unknown"
13. St. Germain "Too Deep"
14. Gotan Project "Triptico" (Peter Kruder's Trip De Luxe)
15. Unknown "Unknown"
16. Le Tigre "Hot in here"

runtime: 1:20 mins

This week's graphic is grabbed from the walls at the Cans Festival in London.

Illustration awesomeness #1

Find out more about Michael Wandelmaier here.

Jazz Sessions Vol 9

Another week and another set of tunes to keep you keepin on. Some great new albums have been coming out in the 2nd half of 2008 and we feature tracks from the new Jazzanova, Baby Charles, Jose James, and Jimmy Abney along side oldies but goodies from Lorez Alexandra and Gato Barbieri. Dig deep and enjoy. Listen below or download here.

1. Yasuko Agawa "Send one your love" Nicola Conte New Perspective Rework"
2. Nicola Conte "I see all shades of you"
3. Lorez Alexandra "All or nothing at all"
4. Gato Barbieri "Yo le canto a la luna"
5. Kellee Paterson "Mister Magic"
6. Johnny Bristol "Lusty Lady"
7. Jimmy Abney "Then she went away"
8. Vocal Jazz Quintet "Cercuri"
9. Milton Nascimento & the Jobim Trio "Medo de Amar"
10. Fudge Fingas "Getting together"
11. Jazzanova "Let me show ya" (Henrik Schwarz Mix)
12. Jose James "Desire" (Moodymann Mix)
13. Darondo "Diddn't I"
14. Marc Mac "Tell me now"
15. Baby Charles "I bet you look good on the dancefloor"
16. Gil-Scott Heron "Home is where the hatred is"

runtime: just over an hour

Motion Graphics Awesomeness #1

Hillside Ninja Tuna!

Following on from our post about Paul "Moose" Curtis and his reverse graffiti we got a nice note about a new project he collaborated with Mr. Scruff on. Check out the youtube video. Be sure to dig up the new Mr. Scruff release Ninja Tuna especially look out for the great track with Alice Russel "Music takes me up," find it on his myspace. It's an instant classic!

Crossroads Los Angeles

We were asked a little while back to put together a mix inspired by Los Angeles for a blog that's now sadly defunct. Well we still went ahead and put one together. A few of these tracks were spinning on repeat in our mental world long before we moved out here and they've taken on much more meaning since. We have some beautiful rare grooves and jazz from Irene Kral to Leon Ware. We hit the LA hip hop scene old and new from The Pharcyde to Madlib. We've made room for some Bowie, Red Hot Chillie Peppers and no LA mix would be complete without a few notes from Jane's Addiction. Hope you enjoy. There's so much great music from LA that there'll be another volume. Listen below or download here.

1. David Bowie "Changes" (Live in Santa Monica)
2. Irene Kral "Going to California"
3. Leon Ware "That's why I came to California"
4. Quasimoto "Blitz"
5. The Pharcyde "Groupie Therapy"
6. James Pants "Good Things"
7. Outlaw Blues Band "Deep Guilty"
8. Fela Kuti "Witchcraft" (Recorded live in Los Angeles)
9. Red Hot Chillie Peppers "Give it away"
10. Jane's Addiction "Then she did"
11. Darondo "Such a night"
12. Eddie Hazel "California Dreaming"
13. Yasuko Agawa "LA Nights"
14. Jose Feliciano "California Dreaming"

runtime: 54 mins

You have any favourite LA tracks? Let us know.

A dub plate of food

This little double 10 inch pressure from 1995 has been sitting on our record shelves for quite a few years, so long that we'd almost forgotten it was there. This release was a sampler for the DJ Food album "A Recipe for Disaster" with the choice cut being "Mr. Quickie Cuts The Cheese." This release is a slight departure from the DJ Food Jazz Breaks series that came before and sees a couple of hip hop/trip hop cut up tracks sit side by side with some proper jungle (not drum 'n bass) business.

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Here's a quick history lesson from Ninja Tune Records.

DJ Food has been many persons, of who we will come to in a moment. DJ FOOD is best described as Food for DJs, simple as that, just flip it around and it begins to mean something entirely different.

Originally produced by Coldcut the DJ Food project started in 1990 with the release of Jazz Brakes. Jazz Brakes Volume 3 being the label's most successful early album. Not only are they effective collections of breaks, loops and samples ideal for mixing, remixing and producing - but also fine collections of funky jazz & hip hop tunes, that cut it just as well on the discerning dancefloor as in the safety of your own home... Since the growth of the abstract hip hop scene recent years the Jazz Brakes albums have proved to be ahead of their time Jazz Brakes Volumes 4 & 5, co-created with DJ/producer PC, are collections of finely crafted tunes that transcend the breakbeat compilation format to stand as artist albums in their own right. These latter DJ Food albums have developed with shades of latin, dub, techno, ambient, tribal, african and jungle flavouring the funk. The October '95 album entitled 'A Recipe For Disaster' was a conscious break from the five Jazz Brakes volumes to form more of an identity as an artist, and a remix album of tracks from all 6 LPs 'Refried Food' was released Feb '96. A new Studio album is being prepared by PC and Strictly Kev in various top secret kitchens across London as you read this. They are collaborating with various guests on this including Bundy K. Brown (ex-Tortoise, Directions in Music, Pullman) and Ken Nordine (60's word jazz poet).

For more info check the ninja site and their myspace. Download the tracks here.

Reaction from US?

Are these pictures of Americans in the US celebrating Obama's win? Nope, it's the rest of the world's reaction.

Enviornmental Graffiti

Otherwise known as REVERSE GRAFFITI. It took us a second to get this when we saw the first pictures but once the "reverse" part made sense it was mind blowing. Technically we all did this as kids when we wrote "clean me" into a dirty car in the neighbourhood. Now it's just a whole different level. Great stuff. Props to Paul "Moose" Curtis as the originator of the concept. Find out more at Reverse Graffiti Project and at Environmental Graffiti. Thanks to DK for giving us the heads up on this.

Thanks to DK for giving us the heads up on this.