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Pick Your Tunes #16

05/03/2018
Pick Your Tunes
80's Boogie, 80's Funk, 80's Soul, California funk, Modern Funk, Record reviews, Spectrum Records

 

 

LA. based Parisian Producer/Turntablist Ghost, continues his journey into the L.A. underground music scene.
He has played alongside various artists such as Harvey Mason, Jurassic 5, J-Rocc, Mark de Clive-Lowe and more recently The Egyptian Lover.
Ghost is also known for his collaboration as keyboardist for MoFunk records.
As owner of Spectrum Records, Ghost released his first 45 with L.A funk artist XL Middleton.
Ghost recently released his debut E.P entitled “Snapshot”.

 

1. What’s your favorite tune to cruise at night?

 

 Henry Mancini  – “Butterfly” (1975)

 

Crusing at night is a very relaxing experience for me. It’s a time where I like to let my mind travel as I take in the L.A backdrop.This beautiful symphonic rendition of Herbie Hancock’s “Butterfly” with its spacious strings and laid-back electric piano is the perfect soundtrack.

 

2.  What’s your favorite tune to chill?

 

 Delegation – “Oh Honey” (1977)

 

When stress gets the best of me and it’s time to chill, this tune from British band Delegation has a special place in my heart.
Sit back, relax, turn up the volume and let this groove take you on a journey!

 

3.What’s your favorite tune for a romantic evening?

 

Patrice Rushen – “Remind Me‘” (1982)

 

“I can recall a certain magic in your eyes
I’m under your spell each time that you appear
A kiss so passionate that has me mesmerized
I fall more in love each time that you are near…
This track always brings warm feelings to my heart everytime I play it.

 

4. What’s your favorite tune to shake your body down to the ground?

 

D-Train- “Music” (1983)

 

D-Train’s “Music” is a timeless dancefloor classic which defines what funk is all about: to make people dance and have a good time.
Definitely one of the finest funk tracks ever made. What would we do without our music??

 

5. What’s the tune that gives you instant nostalgia?

 

Art Of Noise – “Moments In Love” (1984)

 

Some songs just speak directly to your soul when you first hear them. I was 7 years old the first time I heard it. I remember feeling emotions I didn’t really understand at that age. “Moments in Love” is one of those magic tracks that triggers nostalgia
and brings back memories.

 

Follow Ghost:

Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/davidzylberman3

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/david.zylberman.3

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidzylberman/?hl=fr

Spectrum Records: http://spectrumrecordsmusic.com

Pick Your Tunes #15

04/24/2018
Pick Your Tunes
80's Boogie, 80's Funk, 80's Soul, California funk, DJ Lady C, Dublab, Modern Funk, Record reviews

 

Christina - DJ Lady C

 

Christina Gubala, perhaps better known as DJ Lady C, is a record selector and radio personality from Los Angeles. She has been involved with various radio stations including KCHUNGradio.org, where she hosted a basketball talk show called Slam Dunx From The Free Throw Line, and dublab, where she currently hosts a music program entitled Rare Air. She is a contributing writer for LA Record, through which has had the privilege of conducting a series of interviews with legends like Martin Rev, Harold Budd, Yeofi Andoh and more. When not flipping through dusty record bins and procrastinating on writing record reviews, she can be caught DJing around Los Angeles at various bars, art galleries, museums, and when lucky, weddings and proms. She is a Libra who loves 808s, philodendrons, ceramics, old Jamaican vinyl, and the color green.

 

1. What’s your favorite tune to cruise at night?

 

 Loose Ends  – “Nights Of Pleasure” (1986)

 

This track is blessed with an unflappable, invincible air of pacific romance. Its lush swirls and sparkles sound like fireflies on an early summer evening and its circular melody creates an illusion of eternity, without any pressure except to keep the groove going (which is why I recommend cross fading it directly into Suga Free’s “DoeDoe & Da Skunk”, an equally serene 90’s west coast floater that samples the elegant synth of “Nights of Pleasure”).

 

2.  What’s your favorite tune to chill?

 

 A Vision Of Panorama – “Cloud Two” (2017)

 

 Any Vision of Panorama song can chill me right out regardless of the turntable speed at which it is played, but there is something particularly relaxing about the aptly named “Cloud Two” of their 2017 self titled release on Chit Chat. V.O.P. is an antidote to the modern information inundation that feels increasingly difficult to escape, somehow confident in the peace it conveys through a seamless cocktail of synths and distinctly without edge.

 

3.What’s your favorite tune for a romantic evening?

 

Luther Vandross – “The Night I Fell In Love‘” (1985)

 

Skip the wine, the candles, the satin sheets. This track is the entire package in and of itself. There’s probably not much I can say about Luther that hasn’t already been sung to the heavens in the decades since which he has finally become appreciated, but is it ever enough? Lord knows it’s never too much. It is tender romance distilled into a slinky, sultry memoir of the very first night, a smokey tryst and its glowing embers, and it’s perfect (true to Luther’s exacting form).

 

 

4. What’s your favorite tune to shake your body down to the ground?

 

Change- “The Glow Of Love” (1980)

 

Luther’s second appearance on this list, and in his own words, “the most beautiful song he ever heard.” It’s familiar yet fresh, a classic disco banger with a vocal performance so soulful it feels like every positive emotion at once, a celebration of all that’s “new and true and gay.” The way Luther cries “Honey, I LOVE you” has come to define the way love feels to me – vibrating with pitch-perfect abandon on a warm summer breeze. This track is why god invented dancing.

 

5. What’s the tune that gives you instant nostalgia?

 

Rick James – “Dance Wit’ Me” (1982)

 

Courtesy of MTV and early 90’s radio, the berets and mom jeans, a cross pendant or earring and Lisa’s rouge alto are the sketches of womanhood I cobbled together from a distance. She was profoundly more understandable, more achievable to me than the supermodels of George Michael videos and the vamping ubiquity of Madonna. Her patient way of walking through the the track’s chorus, “We just got to let it ouuuuuut” seemed so mature to me in an era where pop stardom allowed for grown ass people to sound like grown ass people. In our current age where even in adulthood I feel trapped with my peers in an endless ennui of millennial arrested development, “You Can’t Deny It” transports me back to an era where adulthood seemed to carry a sexy dignity.

 

Follow Christina:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ladycslamdunx/?hl=fr

Pick Your Tunes #14

04/17/2018
Pick Your Tunes
80's Boogie, 80's Funk, 80's Soul, California funk, Lazer Funk, Love Cryme, Modern Funk, Record reviews, Synth

 

Todd Shima

 

Todd Shima aka Boogalicious comes from California’s State Capital, Sacramento, and is one half of the deejaying duo along with DJ Ben Johnson (Love Cryme, Delta Breeze Records). Ben and Todd have an all-vinyl, monthly spot called Lazer Funk, established by Ben, that has been running for over 6 years. Todd has been amassing records all his life and has been an active “crate digger” for over 20 years. Having grown up during the 80s’, his early musical influences include Lakeside, Ozone, Dynasty, and The Reddings. You can listen to some of Todd’s mixes, as he has guested on Brooklyn Radio, Star Creature Radio, and the Voyage Funktastique Show, to name a few. Feel free to check out his Mixcloud and Soundcloud pages.

 

1. What’s your favorite tune to cruise at night?

 Anne G  – “Love At Dawn” (1989)

 

If you were going ask me my favorite tune to cruise in the day, it would probably be more on the uptempo tip. That said, I always equate cruising at night to something slower in tempo. Circa 1989, I would always go cruising with the homies and this was a popular one regularly in the cassette rotation because it hit so hard.

 

2.  What’s your favorite tune to chill?

 Howard Johnson – “Keepin’ Love New” (1982)

 

More that anything, this one comes from emotion- pure feel good music. It doesn’t get as much consideration as “So Fine” and “Say You Wanna” yet garners every bit of attention it surely deserves. Plus, I mean. It’s HoJo and Kashif. Enough said.

 

3.What’s your favorite tune for a romantic evening?

Wynd Chymes – “Love Has Come Again‘” (1982)

 

Man, when you say, “romantic evening,” I like to take it way down. Who needs Netflix when you have the Wynd Chymes. Add this one to your slow jam mix and trust you’ll make it past first base. Definitely a sax offender.

 

 

4. What’s your favorite tune to shake your body down to the ground?

Gwen McCrae – “Keep The Fire Burning” (1982)

 

The second that bassline kicks in, you know I’m headed straight to the dance floor! Every time I deejay this 12”, the reaction is instant. Hands in the air and grins from ear to ear is a prerequisite. And the catchy chorus keeps your head nodding all night long. This one is too worthy to ever take out of your crate.

 

5. What’s the tune that gives you instant nostalgia?

Rick James – “Dance Wit’ Me” (1982)

 

The “Throwin’ Down” album was the first Rick James record I bought back in 1982 at the now defunct Tower Records (RIP Russ Solomon). Really, this whole record is heavy top to bottom. This track reminds me of my cousin, whose boyfriend had a ’77 Monte Carlo and one time, took me on the classic Franklin Boulevard Cruise in Sacramento and I just remember the 6×9’s and the hissing of the highs. Funk never sounded so sweet.

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