I feel for you man.... There are some serious jammies in there. Hey, can you
tell me what Tower of Power record that track "What is Hip" appears on? I've
been looking for that one.
aRgo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dopejazz@webtv.net [mailto:dopejazz@webtv.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 12:35 PM
> To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> Subject: Do they still want Rare Groove?
>
>
> I've been djing for 8 years, everything from rare groove/ acid jazz/
> downtempo to house (deep, funky, tech) to drum &bass/ jungle to most
> recently Underground Garage (2 Step). Last night I played local night
> Wicka Wicka (an innovative hip hop night w/ live turntablism and
> freestyling from Morse Code crew) in Phoenix.
> They wanted rare groove, so I gave it to them. Here's the problem, not
> in my 8 years of my djing have I seen or felt a complete lack of
> understanding of the mighty groove from a crowd. There was about 125
> people there, and no one danced (huh? you say). I thought I was losing
> my touch. I play for crowds from 100-150 up to 750, at bigger "rave"
> parties, but mostly tech house or a few years back jungle. Here's the
> tracklisting, Is this funky and ecclectic enough for people around the
> world these days?
>
> Grover Washington Jr.- Black Frost
> Black Heat- Zimba Ku
> Odetta- Hit or miss
> Monk Higgins- Up on a hill
> Lighthouse- Love of a woman
> Ike & Tina Turner- Bold Soul Sister
> Mandrill- Fat City Strutt
> Cold Blood- I just wanna make love to you
> Blackbyrds- Do it fluid
> Marlena Shaw- Woman of the Ghetto
> IF- Play. Play, Play (sick hip hop beat in this rock fusion cut!!!)
> Donald Byrd- Dominoes
> Johnny Hammond- Shifing Gears
> Steve Miller Band- Shu ba da du mamamama
> Blackbyrds- Rock Creek Park
> Gary Bartz- Music is my Sanctuary
> Roy Ayers- Brother Green
> Tower of Power- What is hip?
> The Winstons- Amen Brother
> Manu Dibango- New Bell
> Hugh Masekela- Dyambo
> Black Blood- A.I.E.
> Donato- The Frog
> Candido- Serenade to a savage
> Joe Bataan- Latin Strut
> Joe Henderson- Tress- Cun- Deo-La
> Marcos Valle- Crickets Sing for Anamaria
> Marcos Valle- Garra
> Terry Callier- Ordinary Joe
> Steve Parks- Moving in the right direction
> Eighties Ladies- Turned on to you
> Nancy Wilson- Sunshine
> Lonnie Liston Smith- Expansions
> Manu Dibango- Soul Makossa
>
> Well there you go!!! If that isn't some funky, rare, and
> ecclectic shit.
>
> The hip hop heads from Morse Code & some of my friends
> enjoyed it. It's
> just the mass of people just sitting there for 45 minutes was
> horrible.
> Then an hour into it peeps started to leave, right around the Afro-
> Latin grooves. I remember when me & DJ Pari were doing the
> Hip Joint in
> '96. People were going nuts to it, and digging the eeclectic
> Afro- latin
> stuff ven more. Am I realising that I'm the only DJ in the Southwest
> still enjoying (playing) rare groove. I'm not counting Zach
> (Z-trip) he
> plays more
> of the more popular stuff Average White band, Kool & the Gang, Meters,
> Stevie Wonder, etc. (K-tel funk). No disrespect, it's just not as
> ecclectic.
>
> Sorry, for the long post. But, do they (you) still wanna hear RARE
> GROOVE/ I hope so.
>
> Essential
> (Phoenix, AZ.)
>
>
> UniverSoul/ Urbanite Recordings
> http://hipjoint.iscool.net (real audio mix @
> http://www.swell.net/reg/locals/essential/ )
>
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