I challenge anyone to try not to move your body with this song playing, loud.

Stonking old-school funk track from Brian Culbertson’s 2008 album, Bringin Back The Funk.

Featuring P-Funk’s veteran funkmaster, Bootsy Collins, no less!

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Modern jazz-manouche from French 4-piece Les Doigts de l’Homme.

Tags: francais, french, groupe francaise, gypsy jazz, jazz, jazz-manouche, les doigts de homme, les doigts de lhomme, manouche, metal hurlant
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Soul/Blues/Gospel song from the album “Don’t give up on me”.  Enjoy.

Tags: blues, Dont give up on me, gospel, Mann, None of us are free, Solomon Burke, soul, Weill
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Saw this tonight and had to share it with you.

Check out these two jazz piano masters duelling over the  unlikely backdrop of Legrande’s 1968 hit from The Thomas Crown Affair, Windmills Of Your Mind.

Enjoy!

Tags: claude bolling, french, jazz-funk, michel legrande, windmills of your mind
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I’ve just discovered Nerdcore. (Yes you read that right, NERD – core.)

MC Frontalot’s 2005 album “Nerdcore Rising” to be precise.

MC Frontalot is the stage-name of San-Francisco hip-hop musician Damien Hess.

The album is a breath of fresh air.

I heard this album for the first time last night and was immediately impressed with the kind of complex rap flows you would expect from the likes of Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and the Hieroglyphics crew or Jurassic 5, and it’s so refreshing hearing light-hearted humour in a genre saturated with oh-so-serious wannabe-prison-tenants.

The background music on the album is rich with all the vibrant textures you’d expect from a modern hip-hop artist, often with the kind of dark room-shaking synth-bass sounds and tight drums that will raise the eyebrows (and volume controls) of audiophiles everywhere.

Try this for size… (featuring Jesse Dangerously and M.C. Hawking)

And is it just me or does he sound a bit like an ironic Eminem at times…?

And this one’s my favourite one I’ve heard so far…

Anyway, just thought I should share this with you.

Not a classic album by any stretch of the imagination but it’s definitely an album worth owning, if only to reach for it when visited by friends who haven’t heard it… or to humiliate any gangsta rap fanbois that turn up at your party and ask if you have any Snoop Doggy Dogg.

You can buy MC Frontalot – Nerdcore Rising (2005) on mp3 from our Amazon Associate store… Click HERE!

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CLICK HERE to buy Faith No More’s music

on CD or mp3 from our Amazon Associate store!

A “hidden gem” from Faith No More… at the end of the “Live At Brixton Academy” album, there are a couple of bonus studio tracks.

I always thought that this song, The Cowboy Song, was up there with FNM’s best work, and yet somehow it remains relatively unknown…

And here’s the lyrics, as best we’re aware, for those that are looking for them…

Faith No More – The Cowboy Song

Tears fall, They scarred your innocent teens.
Love’s fool, The company you envy.
Leaves fall, The seasons pass you by.
And you think, that maybe you can fly.
Serious fool, Relate your mind to a girl.
Crowds form, But think, smiling, of his peril.
Buildings fold, The pavement isn’t there.
But whats the last thing that goes through your head?
You take the elevator to the top,
The next thing you know,
There you are standing on the edge.
And all the flashing lights and futile cries,
They’re left with you now,
Just close your eyes and take that final step.

Wasteful, They dampen your will to live.
Dice fall, Release pleasure that you give.
You fall, And take the whole world with you.
And will you even bother to look down?

You take the elevator to the top,
The next thing you know,
There you are standing on the edge.
The victors there to turn you inside out,
So recognise me,
Before you find out what’s inside your head!
(GUITAR SOLO)

You take the elevator to the top,
The next thing you know,
There you are standing on the edge.
Whats left is left and turns you inside out,
So recognise me,
Before you find out what’s inside your head.

And all the flashing lights and futile cries,
They’re left with you now,
Just close your eyes and take that final step,
Just close your eyes and take that final step…….

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