RV Salters established the General Elektriks project just before he moved vom France to San Francisco. Since classifying the sound as a certain genre is really though here, at least I can say that you may hear influence both by France and by California in his sound. Join his group on facebook folks! [audio:http://www.chromemusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/06-Little-Lady.mp3|titles=General Elektriks – Little Lady]General Elektriks – Little Lady
After Djing two nights in a row and lots of booze involved these Soul tracks really made my day.Hope you enjoy them just as much Gwen McCrae – Let’s Straighten It Out [audio:http://www.chromemusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Gwen-McCrae-Lets-Straighten-It-Out.mp3] Nina Simone – Baltimore (Ex-Friendly Re-Edit) [audio:http://www.chromemusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Nina-Simone-Baltimore-Ex-Friendly-Re-Edit.mp3]
I heard about Lady Daisey coincidentally – the usual, meaning the information thats meant for you will definitely find you – and i instantly liked the sound of her and especially the “feel” of it. I just heard this one song “Soul Strut” and was on the human search engine aka Twitter requesting the tune to anyone out there and she herself…
Here are a few soul gems mostly known in their sampled form in hip hop songs [audio:http://www.chromemusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/wendy-rene-after-laughter.mp3] wendy rene – after laughter sampled by the wu tang clan / “tearz” [audio:http://www.chromemusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/the-supremes-its-time-to-breakdown.mp3] the supremes – its time to breakdown sampled by gangstarr / “JFK to LAX” [audio:http://www.chromemusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/bohannon-singing-a-song-for-my-mother.mp3] bohannon – singing a song for my mother sampled by ed o.g. & the bulldogs /”i…
i had one of the worst dj nights ever yesterday… (exaggerating) i was playing with a nice guy.. his sound wouldnt just fit in. but i wasnt there to just cut him off and do my normal arrogant approach of just taking the eff over – and even though the sound was nothing the party promised it to be, i guess at…
A real nice treat, (love the ice cube pic below – some real gangsta ish) Snoop-Dogg-Gangsta-Luv-Mayer-Hawthorne-Remix [audio:http://www.chromemusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Snoop-Dogg-Gangsta-Luv-Mayer-Hawthorne-Remix.mp3]