Those lovely people at the club night Shuffle invited me down to the Legion again to play some records last Saturday…
And this is what I played…
- Gang Do Tagarela – Melo Da Tagarela (Brazilian funk cover version of Rappers Delight by The Sugarhill Gang)
- Chic – Open Up (Norman Jay favourite, from his Good Times compilation)
- The TnT Boys – Musica Del Alma (Great Latin soul from the compilation of the same name)
- Googie Rene – Smokey Joe’s La La (Sampled by David Holmes on My Mate Paul)
- The Bamboos – Tighten Up (Cover of track by Archie Bell & The Drells)
- Marva Whitney – It’s My Thing (Sampled by Big Daddy Kane & Cappadonna)
- Breakestra – You Don’t Need To Dance (Modern funk on the fantastic Ubiquity Records)
- James Brown – Talkin’ Loud & Sayin’ Nothing (sampled by Run DMC on Beats to the Rhyme)
- A Hundred Birds – Blackwater (Cover version of classic house track by Kevin Saunderson’s Octave One)
- Incredible Bongo Band – Apache (Cover version of instrumental track by The Shadows)
- De La Soul – Ring Ring Ring (Party Line Mix by CJ Mackintosh)
- Michael Jackson vs Q-Tip – Breathe Don’t Stop (Mash-up of Q-Tip’s Breathe & Stop and Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough by Michael Jackson)
- Gnarls Barkley vs Beenie Man – Creezy Hype (Excellent hip-hop/dancehall mash-up by Heatwave)
- Deee Lite – Groove Is In The Heart (Samples Herbie Hancock’s Bring Out The Birds)
- Justin Timberlake – Like I Love You
- Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy (Samples Westchester Lady by Bob James)
- Aretha Franklin – Eleanor Rigby (Awesome soul cover of the song by The Beatles)
And once again the Hoxton kids seemed to like it!
This is now <a href=”http://open.spotify.com/user/ciaran/playlist/6VMHtYNzUB94S9vVNMOENw”>up (sort of) on Spotify</a>.