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A while ago I did a mix for Quincys Essential Music blog and about that time we got talking about doing a sort of collaboration – Jazz Chess if you like. Here is the fruit of that labour and it just doesn’t get any better than this… Covers Soul, Funk, Jazz, Disco, Boogie, Proto Hip Hop, Breaks... I promise you this will be the best thing you hear all year

Tracklist:

Meshell Ndegeocello - Haditha
Crass - Bloody Revolutions
Barama - Got Soul
Mtume - Phase I (40 Seconds Dedicated To All Conga Players)
Archie Shepp - Attica Blues (Invocation)
Weldon Irvine - I Am
Black Spirits - Notes from a Guerilla Diary
Ursula Rucker - Spiri-Chant
Shelly Manne - Birth
Chateau Flight - Antipodes (Instrumental)
Quasimoto - Astronaut
Owusu & Hannibal - Outro
Build an Ark - When Ancestors Speak
King Britt Presents Sylk - Funky Fresh
Amira Baraka - Coward
Steve Miller Band - Space Intro
George Duke - Statement
Eddie Henderson - Spiritual Awakening
Archie Shepp - Attica Blues Invocation 3
Freddy Hubbard - Threnody For Sharon Tate
Ramsey Lewis - Dreams (Electric Relaxation)
John Klemmer - Blood Of The Sun: Primary Pulse
Joey Negro Presents The Sunburst Band - Love Trouble
Hawaii Five-O - The Long Wait
Mtume - Theme (For The People) (Opening)
Philip Cohran And The Artistic Heritage - Black Beauty
Sarah Webster Fabio - Black Is
[Uncredited] - Cathedral
Amira Baraka - DOPE!
Carlos Nino & Friends - Ants And Elephants
Cymande - For Baby Oh
Moodymann - Untitled
Birthright - Do You Know Where You’re Children Are
Amira Baraka - In Walked Bud
Nathan Davis - Narration 1
George Russell Sextet - Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature 1980 - Pt. 01
Shelly Manne - Mask Skit
Build An Ark - Sunshine
Moondog - Lament 1, “Bird’s Lament”
George Duke - Nigerian Numberuma
Ursula Rucker - Church
Jason Moran - Planet Rock
Build an Ark - You yourself are the key to the Universe
Black Classical - Prolongation du Meme (Yep thats me)
Doug Carn - Tropic Sons

There are also a few more bits in there too and it runs for just over an hour. Thanks to all involved in this project QEM and to Monohub (you know what for). We should do this more often!

Hope you enjoy it and please comment either way...

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mdztmrwyyqd


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BC : the gift that keeps on giving ! Thx ! on the DL.

splendid stuff, Greg.

any mix that goes from Crass to Build An Ark has to be listened to.

on the d/l now.

Thanks fellas!

Alan; Heard you mix is giving everyone some wierd type of flu its so infectious...

Weegee; should have added a postscript to that statement ... "Until the next mix i do that is" lol! but seriously 160 views, 112 dloads from this ip 2 comments lol! Maybe too much for most people that visit this board :/

Ah - I thought you were retiring - again.

Nah not me having too mich fun!

BC, you are spoiling us. Respect.

Soon-come

: )

D

LOL. nice one Weeg!

: )

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LOL! awesome Logic would dictate that if she took that choccie the whole pyramid would collapse kerplunk!

exactly what the ambassador and his lackey are thinking to themselves, while wearing the classic "diplomat sneer".

Listening to your mix for the third time now 'cause it's just so damn fine. It doesn't get any better? Well, at least I hope you can keep that stellar level!

Cheers!

Thanks arkadin, ill try

Thanks arkadin, ill try

nice mix black classical - loving all the spoken word stuff.

ace

High praise indeed Beane, thanks a million

And... Check out an amazing new guest mix at my blog:

http://blackclassical.wordpress.com/2009/0...-strikes-again/

heavy educational piece of by gone music and points of view:

NASA – Jupiter Sounds [reversed, and played in loop through entire recording]
Brother Ah – Beyond Yourself (The Midnight Confession) Midnight Confession – Sound Awareness
Bobby Hutcherson – Prints Tie – San Fransisco
Primal Scream – Wiseblood – Echo Dek
Brother Ah – Beyond Yourself (The Midnight Confession) Midnight Confession – Sound Awareness
Last Poets feat. Pahroah Sanders
Imamu Amiri Baraka – Who Will Survive – It’s Nation Time
Nancy Dupree – Introduction – Sweet Thunder
Sunny Murray – Flower Trane – Sunshine
Griot Galaxy – Necrophilia - Opus Krampus [poem exert]
Dollar Brand – Ishmael – Africa, Tears and Laughter
Mtume – Sais Intro – Rebirth Cycle
Brother Ah – Spirits in the Night – Move Ever Onward
Mtume – Sais – Rebirth Cycle
Brother Ah – Beyond Yourself (The Midnight Confession) Fear – Sound Awareness
Sonny Murray – Black Art (W / LeRoy Jones, reading) – Sonny ‘Stime Now
Brother Ah – Beyond Yourself (The Midnight Confession) Demons – Sound Awareness
William S. Burroughs – Recalling all Active Agents – Break Through in Grey Room
24 Carat Black – Mother’s Day – Ghetto: Misfortune’s Wealth

It's not a big secret that I like all your mixes, but some are just a touch better, much more than the sum of their parts. Well, Celestial Collab is such an uber-outstanding mix in long row of outstandig mixes. Respect!