And here’s another one. Thank you for all the kind words, and downloads (from Groningen to Venray to London, Milan and even San Jose). After the first Future Vintage at home podcast, Boye from Kindred Spirits decided to get his records and drop by for a part 2. The setup is still not what it should be, but we enjoyed selecting some music - see this as an experiment we will continue.

Because we both went to see the beautiful and delicate voiced Mia Doi Todd performing in Paradiso last sunday, the show contains her song River Of Life and more folk related music, by Gaby Hernandez and Terry Callier. But Boye is also a boogie fan, and couldn’t resist to play uplifting tracks like Bite The Apple. Update: we finally discovered the title of the last song, since Deluge’s iPhone recognized it was sampled by Rae and Christian. Oh well, just listen! Stream below or download here.

Playlist:

Brief Encounter – Get A Good Feeling
Mia Doi Todd – River of Life
Hudson Mohawke – Star Crackout
Dorian Concept – Be Tween
John Robinson – Touch Me
Terry Callier – Can’t Catch The Trane
Gaby Hernandez – When Love
Doug Carn / Abdul Rahim Ibrahim – Tropic Sons
Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face
O’zone – Giggolette
Kleeer - Tonight’s The Night
Rainbow Team - Bite The Apple
The Gathurs feat. Willie Tee – Concentrate

Cellist, composer, singer and disco artist Arthur Russell created in his short life a great diversity of music. You might know the Paradise Garage classic ‘Is it all over my face’, but apart from producing innovative disco music, Arthur Russell also played cello to accompany the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, performed with David Byrne and worked with avant-garde composer Philip Glass.

That’s quite amazing, and more than enough reasons to see the documentary Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, that got released earlier this year. See the trailer here. I haven’t seen it myself, but hope to change that this week. It’s out on DVD, but if you prefer a bigger screen, Wild Combination is now on show at SMART Project Space.

Have a dance on ‘Go Bang’ by Dinosaur L (produced by Arthur Russell) from 1982:

Tom Trago made it to the finals of de Grote Prijs, the main music talent contest in the Netherlands. Ok, maybe Tom is not such a ‘new’ talent, but you know he’ll spend the price money well and invest it in good music. So just vote! Go to the website, dance/producers category. The finals will be on the 13th of december in de Melkweg, Amsterdam.

Long live garageband. After a nice talk this morning with Michel Mol, director new media for Dutch public broadcasting, who advised not to wait for oldfashioned radio, but do it yourself, I started a little experiment: Future Vintage at home.

It’s a very simple, but effective way to share music Future Vintage style. The show is made with just my laptop and a turntable (next time I’ll borrow some more equipment). Stream below or download the podcast over here and enjoy!

PS: We now also have an RSS feed to stay up to date, more shows will follow.

Playlist:

Undisputed Truth - Smiling Faces
Mayer Hawthorne & The County - Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Baby, Baby Don’t Cry
Q Tip - Shaka
MGMT - The Youth
Caetano Veloso - Nine Out Of Ten
Co-Real Artists - Bound By The Blood
Bilal & Georgia Anne Muldrow - Master Teacher
Carlos Y Gaby - Hot Heavy Heat (Dimlite remix)
Phase II - The Roxy
Fab 5 Freddy - Change The Beat
James Pants - Rhythm Trax
Galactic Fun - Dam Funk
Gary Davis - Remember Me (Kenny Dope remix)

This thursday live in Paradiso, Amsterdam: Raphael Saadiq. Mister Saadiq is the kind of artist that seems missing in action for a while, but then suddenly pops up with strictly quality music. While I still enjoy some songs from Instant Vintage, his latest solo project The Way I See It is all about the retro soul sound that seems very popular lately. Think vintage Motown and Stax, some horns, handclaps and even doo wop…soul with a rough edge that also influenced Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson.

There’s something about it that makes me itch, why copy a style so much instead of creating something completely new? But then again, Raphael mastered it - listen to 100 Yard Dash and watch him wear his slim fitted suit with swagger.

Stones Throw also jumps on the soul bandwagon, with a new artist that reminded me vaguely of Smokey Robinson: Mayer Hawtorne. The biography of this 29th year old singer and producer from Ann Arbor actually mentions the question about new/old soul music: “It’s not just throwback music anymore – this revival is all about progression.”

Mayer Hawtorne just released his first single Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out (on a beautiful limited edition heartshaped 45!), so decide for yourself and listen:

While the prices of solid gold are still on the rise, it felt like the perfect time to repost a mix Bullion did earlier this year for RMBA Radio. M**k sent it to me and thought it was a bit silly, but with all the news about the financial crisis the ‘Sometimes Silver, Moretimes Gold‘ mix is quite uplifting.

You might have heard of Bullion before: his Get Familiar 7″ was played a lot on different radioshows and last year he did a remix project where he combined music of J Dilla and the Beach Boys (!). With this in mind it doesn’t need to be said that Bullion’s record selection is without borders - well there’s only one. Stay Gold.

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