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Plays seven inches 15 Aug 2012 | 04:08 am
This Friday I'm playing at the 45 Sessions, an all-45 monthly hosted by some friends from the Oakland Faders crew, DJ Platurn, E Da Boss & DJ Enki. (Also playing with us, the homie stromie Joe Quixx! ...
Ready 3 Aug 2012 | 05:44 am
James Pane: "Are You Ready (Matthew Africa edit)" (GSP, 1975) I'm obsessed with this song. It has a hard sound to characterize. It's funky and soulful obviously but there's also a strangely psychede...
Hai guys, please listen to my awesome "mash-ups"! 28 Jul 2012 | 01:27 am
[Editor's note: this post was recently found among a cache of lost I Wish You Would posts that appear to have been written in 2005. As a result, the content may seem very slightly dated. Moreover, dis...
More ecstasy 27 Jul 2012 | 04:05 am
Recently I realized that when I DJ I don't play the Ohio Players' "Ecstasy" nearly enough. Although it's one of the most joyous records I know, it's not really a prime time sort of record and yet at 2...
Deep space 26 Jul 2012 | 08:27 am
I've been meaning to write something about Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984 for a while now. At first I held off until the vinyl came out and then I decided to bag it altogether because someo...
Stay Hatin' x J-Zone 25 Jul 2012 | 04:51 am
Last week J-Zone was in town to play DJ Platurn's 45 Sessions party and me and the Stay Hatin' gang were lucky enough to lure him into the studio to tape an episode of the podcast with us. It seemed l...
Summertime 1 Jul 2012 | 01:55 am
Day two of sadly-less-than-timely posts, this was supposed to be geared to last Wednesday's solstice but I didn't have either of these records handy. According to this, there are over 33,000 recorded...
Daddy 30 Jun 2012 | 12:54 am
So this is weeks late and kind of a jumbled mess but I meant to post this on or around Father's Day. Unfortunately, after looking around the house for a few days I figured out that I probably didn't a...
His and hers and his: Don't Let Your Love Fade Away 1 Jun 2012 | 06:18 am
I first heard Gene Williams's sublime "Don't Let Your Love Fade Away" years ago via Chicago collector/DJ/writer Dante Carfagna (who, incidentally, just compiled a great set of drum machine soul songs ...
His and hers: Almost 31 May 2012 | 09:41 am
If you follow rap music from the past 10 years or reggae from any era, you're probably used to hearing multiple vocalists make numerous different songs over a single track. In older soul and funk mus...
