#78: Rain, Rain, Go Away.
Tracklist:
I’m like a Bird (Intro) – Mr Bird
Octopus Blues – Mr Bird [2010]
Super Stitch-Up (Ill advised Edit) – Mr Bird [2011]
Beautiful (Mr Bird Remix) – The Electric [unreleased]
The Best is yet to come (Mr Bird Remix) – Mr President [unreleased]
Since you’ve been gone – Mr Bird Feat. Greg Blackman [unreleased]
Tightening Up – Mr Bird & Dedy Dread [unreleased]
Funky Honey – Mr Bird [2010]
Here comes Judge Radio – Mr Bird [unreleased]
We got the Soul Limbo – Mr Bird [2009]
Dr B’s $ Bills (Steve’s Interlude Edit) – Mr Bird [2011]
Right this time – Mr Bird Feat. Greg Blackman [unreleased]
Soul Step (Mr Bird Remix – Edited) – Ewan Hoozami [unreleased]
Love on fire – Dedy Dread & Mr Bird
Goodnight Darling (Outro) – Mr Bird
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Seriously… It’s June,and it keeps raining. Not a big deal in the most part of Europe, but if you use to live in Italy, Southern Italy, it could be a little annoying.
Someone told me there’s only a solution: MIGRATION. Birds use to seasonally move from a place to another, in search of a better weather (and I hope that there’s no “scientists” among you…), so we started our personal research about the topic.
We tried to contact an expert of the discipline, but at the first contact we were able to gather just a few informations:
“Mr Bird AKA Steve Bird is an English music producer, Musician and DJ, based in sunny Lisbon, Portugal.
He likes music.
He likes music on vinyl.
He likes taking pictures, sometimes of vinyl.
He likes stencils and street art.”
Later we get in touch with him and he decided to help us with a mixtape, suggesting to play it LOUD, weather will be better and if not… You’ll be.
You can listen to more music on Soundcloud and if you like it, why don’t go for IT?
#77: Links.
Tracklist:
Funk Call Up – Pecoe [Unreleased]
Night – Pecoe [Unreleased]
Different Strokes – Pecoe [Unreleased]
Dirty Red – Pecoe [Unreleased]
Who’s That Girl (Juxtapose Remix) – Eurythmics [Unreleased]
What You Been Doing – Pecoe [Unreleased]
Shot Away – Pecoe [Unreleased]
Cranky Horns – Pecoe [Unreleased]
Get Up (Pecoes Funked Up Mix) – Stanton Warriors [Unreleased]
Transconinental linking with Perth (Australia), from where Mr Ross Miles sent us this breaks mixtape and if you check his site you’ll discover a lots of beats, your feet get freak and you won’t be able to say STOP.
.“Pecoe aka Ross Miles is the brainchild behind the breakbeat site Breakzlinkz. Based in Perth, Western Australia Pecoe is no stranger to electronic music. Growing up in his early teens listening to bootlegged mixtapes from Carl Cox, Nicky Blackmarket etc…. Pecoe soon found the much controversial Rave scene in the early 1990′s and soon became a constant visitor to all the local nightclubs. His love for music then turned to mixing early forms of breakbeat and the euro club house classics of the time.
Nowadays Pecoe concentrates more on Breakzlinkz and the constant update of information of everything Breakbeat related to the masses of people who frequent the Breakzlinkz site as well as some production of music and occasionally dropping a mix here and there.”
#76: Blue Island.
Tracklist:
Wang East – Lord Echo [2010]
Psycho Ape – D-Classic [2009]
PO Box – Dj Oil [Unreleased]
Unknown
The Pilgrim Part II – Buddy Sativa [2011]
Alice Russell VS Phil Ranelin (Mop Mop mashup) - Mop Mop [Unreleased]
Biddies – Mo Kolours [2011]
The Kalimba – Marc Rapson [2010]
“Mop Mop… a bastard performance of modern jazz based on riffs looped till monotony…” (from Nestor Ortiz Oderigo,Dictionary of Jazz-PBR 1961).
#75: Beat ‘N Scratch Vol.3
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Tracklist:
Turntable On (Hoozami remix) – Tosses & Varvez [unreleased]
Lando (Funkanomics remix) – Neighbour [2011]
Party People (Danny Massure vs Gopher remix) – Lebrosk [2011]
Zigga Zigga (Nick Thayer remix) – DJ Love feat. Geechi Suede of Camp Lo [2011]
Be with You – Phunktastike [2011]
D-Funk - Nick Fonkynson [2011]
Got Me Burnin’ (Lisa Realeyez re-edit) – Ohio Players [unreleased]
Ready Or Crunk (DC’s Finest edit) – Fort Knox Five vs Opiuo vs The Fugees [2011]
Drop The Bomb (Stickybuds vocal mix) – Santero feat. Credit To The Nation [2011]
Your Thing – BMD [201]
The Finding (Featurecast remix) – The CB’s [2011]
Rock The House (Marcus Dylan edit) – Tom Drummond & Philly Blunt [2011]
When I Left The Party (Telephunken remix) – Prosper [2011]
Get Down Pretty Ladies – Jiggy Joe [2011]
Soul Step (Tosses & Varvez remix) – Ewan Hoozami [unreleased]
#74: Disco Fever.
Tracklist:
Feel It Baby – Al Kent
Soul Man – Al Kent [2004]
Make You Happy – Al Kent [2002]
Come On Girl – Al Kent [2004]
Saturday Night – Al Kent [2002]
Come Back Home (Joey Negro Remix) – Al Kent [2005]
Keep The Faith – Al Kent [2002]
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Special mixtape compiled by the Funky Mosquito, showing all the love for the groove of Mr. Al Kent…
“Al Kent was born Ewan Kelly in late ’60s Glasgow where his introduction to music came early with gifts of kids’ albums from his record loving dad. He helped himself to piles of his dad’s records too, which were probably rubbish, but to his young ears they were ace; It was the vinyl as much as the music he loved. Soon he was taping stuff off the radio, making little compilations, and buying his own records. The weekly shopping trip to Tesco always meant a cheeky half hour in the record department while the rest of the family stocked up on washing powder and cat food.
On one such trip he found an album called “20 Mod Classics” on a label he didn’t know called “Tamla Motown”. It took a couple of listens, but he was soon in love with songs by the likes of Marvin Gaye, The Miracles, The Temptations and The Marvelettes. The fact that the coolest guy in school, the guy with the best records, gave it his seal of approval only made it more of a discovery. And so, his love affair with “black music” began.”
Al Kent is one of the greatest disco-diggers of all Europe, so in love with the disco affair that at one point he decided to put together an army of musicians whose sole mission was to complete a fully orchestrated DIsco LP,inspired by the lost sounds of classic ’70s material much in the vein of the Salsoul Orchestra or MFSB. The result was the Million Dollar Orchestra and if you are digging this mixtape,you can’t stay away from his music.
Thanks again to the Funky Mosquito, you can listen him serving heavy dose of funk,nufunk,soul,groove and boogie… Every Friday on Radio Nula @ 20:00 (CET).
