Party Crimes : Pilooski's Black Hole Drums

Did you miss the Donuts Party last Saturday night featuring the dirty disco edit wizard Pilooski? The French based deejay made his only West Coast appearance--clouded in the spring fog of San Francisco and smoke machines of 103 Harriet's handsome basement gutter--for a night of cosmic travelin and blapping disco percussion. So if you did sleep on dude on the local tip, then unless you travel to / live in Europe, it might be a minute til he drops in on our wavelength again. My solution: go comb through the internet waves to enjoy some of them flipped inside out, baring the internal flesh like a dog's stanky horse food tooth, jams.

Pilooski gained fitting acclaim on the blogosphere and in underground jams the world over for his grainy cosmic edits of disco classics and surprising choices from the ranks of Elvis and Franki Valli. After releasing Dirty Space Disco in 2007, the beat conducta released a series of 12 inches off the deep crate digging label, Dirty Sound System. The collective just finished sifting through the nebulous depths of France's psychedelic grooves for a new volume of dank mind expansion.

If you're unfamiliar with Pilooski, I wrote a Sound Lesson on him a year ago. There might be some free shit still linked to it.

On a side note: I was more impressed with opener Derrick Love's galactic gamma-ray picks. Lucky enough for us locals, he spins the far out disco jams that give the genre a bold ass name at the monthly shaker Gemini Disco.

Sanguine Sunday - Resolution (ep. 3)

We've been trying to orchestrate a podcast feed, but such a feat combined with the time consuming ventures in learning sound editing in logic, has postponed our new years mix so long that well, it's almost 2010 already. Granted it's only the middle of the month, what better day to throw out a mix on such a remarkable day that triumphs a call to action and resistance to petty delays and griping commitments to future goals (you know, making a legit podcast.)

Friends! I give you our resolution. Until the podcast comes, we shall harness the internet's maternal riches in its nourishing offer of zshare!



Let's get down to the program. In the spirit of the new horizon set forth by 2009, Honey Knuckles cuts up some soul collaborated proto-break tunes--putting emphasis on the afro-beat, disco, and krautrock sectors--with the resolution of improving his b-boy technique in the cypha'. And I (Z-Noooote) take the year of recession to reflect upon the magical quality of money. In resolving that it's time to either find a hustle or make some more cash money in recession times, or less ambitiously, just wondering about the poetics of the dollar bill, I find some inspiration in a collection of cross-genre dollar lamentations, on the grind motivations, and fuzzed out flows flipped up for my own purposes. Finally, Aisha rocks steady with some knowledge on the Oscar Grant protest in Oakland and the perennial abuse of police authority in the inner city. Let the chi flow!

Much resource is to be found in the rich history of music to help us make the resolute kind of resolution that will prove lasting. So peep that shit. And tell us about your transformations.

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Tracklist:

Honey Knuckles - Breakin' Breaks

Mark Ronson - God put a smile on your face feat. The Daptone Horns (Talk)
Lefties Soul Connection - Code 99 (Talk)
Dave Cortez with the Moon People - Happy Soul with a Hook
Sharon Jones - I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
The Pointer Sisters - Send him back (Piloosky Edit)
Ides of March - Aire of a good feeling
Gil Scott Heron - The bottle
Fela Kuti - Roforofo Fight
The Beginning of the End - Funky Nassau Pt. 1 & 2
Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa
Manu Dibango - Moni
Kraftwerk - The Robots
Holy Ghost - Hold On
Can - Vitamin C
Lowell Fulsom - Tramp
Eric B. & Rakim - Know the Ledge
The New Mastersounds - Land of Nod (Lack of Afro remix)
Maceo and the Macks - Soul Power 74
Red Astaire - Mambo El B-Boy
The Budos Band - The Proposition (Talk)
Cymande - Dove (Talk)

Z-Note - the Money Mix

Young-Holt Unlimited - Ain't There Something Money Can't Buy
Amral's Trinidad Cavaliers Steel Drum Orchestra - The World is a Ghetto
Bohannon - Save Their Souls
Demon Fuzz - I Put a Spell on You
Sly and the Family Stone - I Cannot Make It
Public Enemy - Shut 'Em Down (Pete Rock edit)
Common Sense - Soul by the Pound
Slum Village - Get Dis Money
Stevie Spacek - Let the Dollar Circulate
Billy Paul - Let the Dollar Circulate
The Sylvers - Stay Away From Me
Black Merda (w/ Linnie Walker) - People Let me Know
Eric B. and Rakim - Paid in Full (Coldcut edit)
Eddie Bo - The Thang (Part 2)
Eight Minutes - I Can't Get No Higher
Fatback Band - Goin' to See My Baby
James Brown - Give it Up or Turn it Loose (remix)
Run DMC - Hard Times
The Flying Lizards - Money



Big ups to Edgar at Words, Words, Words for providing a resonant response to the soul recession episode and kicking me to the Billie Paul's soulicious brain melter, Let the Dollar Circulate. Peep his bombastic, well versed journey through a rag-tag history of American soul recession music.

Endnote: to be improved in the beta stage --> mic levels, mixing skills, music knowledge, radio voice, suggestions?