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Its no secret that we’re big fans of the 80s and 90s, so its a real treat to be able to present a rare second part of DJ Inkognito’s podcast.  This is the man truly in his element, playing tons of classic material (and personal favorites) like Mantronix, Loose Ends and R&B remixes from Steve “Silk” Hurley.  Its really amazing how timeless some music can be.  It makes me wonder which songs from today will still be around 20 years into the future!

Episode 41b: Inkognito’s BET Video Vibration
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Gasp!  Now THIS is how you make a music video for electronic music.  It takes me to a magical place where its O.K. to hallucinate colorful creatures squashing cherries over their own heads with baseball bats

Tracklist
Ame – Sun Sugar
Dubble D – Rope Trick
Ben Westbeech – So Good Today (Yoruba Soul Remix)
Omar S – The Further You Look The Less You Will See
Timmy Regisford – Asante
Marvin Gaye – Music (Karizma Mix)
Mountain People – Mountain005.1
Leroy Styles – Seabird (Dub)
Steve Bug ft. Cassy – Loverboy (Re-Work)
Lil’ Tony ft. Boola – Basement Tracks (Raw Version)
Drivetrain – Bye Bye
Motor City Drum Ensemble – Raw Cuts #3
Ricardo Villalobos & Jay Haze – Mellow Dee
E-Culture – Unification (Unification Mix)
Christian Prommer’s Drum Lesson – Dirty Drums
Kreon & Lemos ft. Feeboy – Fola
Kenny Dope – Frenzy Beats
Macida Yayo – Sleepless Night (Miss Fitz Remix)
Joystick – Toys 1
Silky Sunday – Friend (Ripperton & Alex Attias Remix)
Jon Cutler ft. Vanessa Freeman – Focus (Lifted Up) Dub
Linkwood – R.I.P. Extended Edit
Mathias Kaden – Perclue

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Our post Midweek Techno guest action continued on the radio show last week when Connie touched down and played a funky set with some of our old vinyl. Thanks Conster!

Tracklist

***Soul Clap in the mix***
Mike & Charlie – I Get Live (The Bears Mix)
24Hour Experience – Together
Phunkie Souls – Tha Music (Ric-Hard-F Beats)
Mousse T. – More I Get
Willie Graff & Tucillo – Bang
Sascha Braemer & Philip Bader – Thrill
Elbee Bad – The Story Of House Music
Lee Curtis – And Counting – Wolf + Lamb Records 01
Jona – Blackened
Minilogue – Snake Charmer
DJ Sneak – All Over (My Face)
Womack & Womack – Concious (Gator Boots Edit)

***CONNIE IN THE MIX***
Moodymann – Dem Young Sconies
Kevin Yost – Bongo Madness
Anthony Collins – Reeves?
Falko Brocksieper – River Orange
Fuzinelli – Bass – Forthcoming AirDrop
Marc Romboy Vs. Blake Baxter – Fly Away (Version 2)
Soul Clap – die Ente (Tanner Ross Remix) – AirDrop002
Mochico – Mochico C (Tribal Mix)

***Cnyce closes it out***
House Of Gypsies – Sume Sigh Sey (Tee’s Remix)
Sebo K – Far Out (DJ Sneak Remix)
Fuzinelli – Deep – Forthcoming AirDrop
Pheek – Where’s The Butt (Lol Sexy Mix)
Vanessa Williams – The Right Stuff (Rex’s Mix) (L.A. Style)

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I’m guessing that most of you probably don’t know about George “DJ Inkognito” Cherry, and you know what, we’re O.K. with that. Being a primarily Hip-Hop focused DJ, to much of the world of electronic music he is a stranger and this is precisely why we’re giving him his Adventures of Soul Clap debut!

Inkognito has been doing his thing for way more than a decade bouncing back and forth between Boston, Providence and NYC. For years he was the go to guy at Skippy Whites record store (Rhode Island alongside local rave legend DJ Osheen) until one day the RIAA raided it for selling unlicensed mix CDs, an extremely popular item. During his time at the store he established an enormous collection of vinyl spanning the decades. When we asked Inkognito if we was interested in doing a mix that showed his connection to dance music, he jumped and turned out a solid deep house mix, laced with familiar vocals and the perfect energy for macking and relaxing!

Episode 41a: Inkognito Puts The Cherry On Top
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It’s not often that we review new music here on the Soul Clap blog, but it’s also not often that a label/party/”music community” as important as Wolf + Lamb drops their first vinyl release, which is what they’re doing this month in the form of Lee Curtiss‘ “Sexy Dancer EP”. We went to our first Wolf + Lamb party during minitek, and let me tell you, if you haven’t been to one of their underground events at the Marcy Hotel you’re missing out. Besides throwing some of the best parties in NYC, Wolf + Lamb founders Zev Eisenberg and Gadi Mizrahi have been running a digital label since 2004, which features over 50 releases from many of US techno’s rising stars like Seth Troxler, Ryan Crosson, Shaun Reeves and of course Lee Curtiss who clearly has been carefully selected to launch Wolf + Lamb Records in grand fashion.

And launch the label Curtiss does… If by launch you mean to dive deep into the throbbing womb of a dark afterhours dancefloor. With “Sexy Dancer EP” Curtiss has truly captured that afterhours sound of 2008 in one tight package. The uneasily repetitive floating vocal snippets, the raw dark-funk bassline, the chopped up jitterly swung house beats, the winding and seemingly structureless sequencing and all delivered in a slow shuffled sway. However, while all these elements run through the entire four track EP, each cut still manages to distinguish itself with a distinct flavor all it’s own. Take our favorite for example: for “And Counting” Curtiss combines a mysterious Ghost In The Shell-esque vocal, with swinging garage beats and warm house chords to create a deep throbbing late-night masterpiece. The title track, “Sexy Dancer”, relies less on vocals (while still managing to include incompreshensible snippets) and more on 80’s influences, with Princian funk stabs running from begining to end and a dark ripping bassline combing to create a heavy dancefloor workout. Closing out the EP is Curtiss’ remix of Wolf + Lamb staple Smirk’s “Start A Fire”, which goes even darker than the previous cuts with an evil, repetitive bassline and more unnervingly chopped male vocals driving the track forward with a true sense of emptiness and despair that could only only be inspired by the sweat covered walls and contorted bodies crammed into the impossibly small Marcy Hotel dancefloor at another Wolf + Lamb party.

To help promote the release the W+L guys have been kind enough to giveaway some teaser material from the digital label for a limited time

Zev – Feelin’ DOWNLOAD

Zev – Blade Runner Blues (Remix of Vangelis) DOWNLOAD

Another wonderful month of midweek techno with a little house for flavor. Also, please join us in welcoming our fabulous new designer Delfina on the team!

Continuing in our recent tradition of bringing New York City’s finest techno artists up 95. This Wednesday (10/15) we’d like to welcome good friend and fellow AirDrop family member Connie to the Midweek Techno decks, yo. Connie is known around the world as one of the finest selectors and her energy behind the decks is up there with the best around, so of course she holds a residency at ReSolute, one of NYC’s top underground dance events. But did you know that Connie also plays the drums in bands in and around NYC, and did we mention her first original production as conSTAR is set to be released on AirDrop’s forthcoming Extraction USA compilation (which also features MWT resident Pat Fontes’ “Ill Lillies” & Soul Clap’s “Astroturfing)? To really understand Connie though, you have to be on a dancefloor that she is beating, or at least hear one of her mixes, luckily AirDrop has featured her twice on their AirPod and she kindly sent us 2 recent mixes to post, so without further ado we present the one and only Conster in the mix!

Connie – Runaway Runaway Mix DOWNLOAD

Connie – High Hummer Mix DOWNLOAD

P.S. if you’re not near the Boston area or can’t make it out, Connie will be performing live on Soul Clap Radio on Thursday (10/16) from 12-2pm. TUNE IN HERE.

So, completely unrelated to anything, last night I found myself unveiling a web of nerdo music information that had me rather astonished.  It all started thanks to Paul Foley’s “Groove To Dis Biatch” ghetto ass mix cd from ages ago I found knocking around the car.  The mix starts out with Kraftwerk’s “The Man Machine” which alone is incredibly dope, however, my journey begins a few tracks later into the mix.

Toto’s EPIC sensitive anthem “Georgy Porgy” is where I totally lost it.  This song is so amazing, I mean its one of those jams where you’re can’t even help singing along (not backup either, just like belting shit out while crying hysterically inside).  PLUS, what a tune to get so down to on the dance floor, ultimate swagger.  Ridiculous harmony, the syncopation between the vocal and the piano, that disco shuffle and Cheryll Lynn (her myspace page is myspace.com/butterflygong1, I kid you NOT) + wood block on the chorus! I dunno, maybe its just me, but it brings out everything that’s ever gone right or wrong in a relationship.  Believe, if you’re still sensitive in 2008, you know what I’m talking about.  This is truely the work of a tortured man.  Like damn bro, shoulda told the girl you were a player, its the LOVE that leaves you exposed like a sandcastle at high tide.  Oh, honorable mention to Eric Benet & Faith Evans for the R&B cover, but they clearly come in second place to the O.G.

Toto feat. Cheryl Lynn – Georgy Porgy DOWNLOAD

OK, so here’s where it gets interesting tho… So I’m like, who the hell are TOTO really?  Right, like of course they blesed the rains down in Africa, but like, who are these dudes, so WHITE and like why name the band Toto?  And I dont know the answer, BUT I do know after some DISCOGS research that they are a group of STUDIO MUSICIANS that together really made it happen.  The amazing thing here is that individually these dudes are SO PROLIFIC.  Especially the synthesizer players Steve Porcaro (thats homeboy at the top), Greg Phillinganes and David Paich.  Ok, so clearly from the size of the synth Pocaro’s patching on the top, he’s is absolutely ridiculous.  He’s got the late 70’s / early 80’s thing down, big ass hair, track pants (why not) and that hint of old school sleaze, not like greasy but like innate and powerful.  Phillinganes and Paich, I couldn’t find many pics from back in the day, but I’m sure they’re amazing.  BUT, its not the looks that peaked my interest, just ATTEMPT to fathom the volume of records, these guys have appeared on as a studio musicians, they are MASTER synthesizer men.  Here are some of the highlights:

• The Hues Corporation – Love Corporation (1975) – Keys by Paich
• Stevie Wonder – Songs In The Key Of Life (1976) – Phillinganes on “Contusion”, “Isnt She Lovely”, “Joy Inside My Tears” and “Saturn“
• Boz Scaggs – Lowdown (1976) – Arrangement by Paich. (Credited on King Britts remake from Ovum Recordings)
• Michael Jackson – Blame It On The Boogie (1978) – Keyboard arrangement by Phillinganes
• Donald Byrd – Thank You… For F.U.M.L. (Funking Up My Life) (1978) Phillinganes on piano
• Cheryl Lynn – Got To Be Real (1978) – Written by Paich
• Michael Jackson – Off The Wall (1979) - Porcaro programming synths, Phillinganes playing on every tune.  Also “Dont Stop Til You Get Enough” written by Phillinganes.
• Adrian Gurvitz – The Way I Feel (1979) – String arrangement by Porcaro and Paich.  Get Physical Records stole this album cover to make their logo!
• The Brothers Johnson – LIght Up The Night (1980) – Porcaro programming synths, Phillinganes plays on “Stomp!”.
• Herb Albert – Magic Man (1981) – Porcaro on synths
• Donna Summer – Donna Summer (1982) – Porcaro and Paich synth arrangement and programming, Phillinganes on almost every tune
• Michael Jackson – Thriller (1982) – “Human Nature” WRITTEN by Porcaro, apperances by Paich
• Chaka Khan – I Feel For You LP – Porcaro makes appearence on “Hold Her”

SORRY, JUST A SIDE NOTE.  Chaka Khan “I Feel For You” was actually written by Prince, with raps by Grandmaster Melle Mel and Stevie Wonder on Harmonica!  Ultimate.

• The Jacksons – Victory (1984) – Produced by Paich and Porcaro
• Lionel Richie – Dancing On The Ceiling (1986) – Phillinganes on five out of nine tunes.
• Michael Jackson – Bad (1987) – Porcaro synth programming and Paich synth performance on “Liberian Girl” and “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You”. Phillinganes on “Bad”, “Speed Demon”, “Just Good Friends” and “Smooth Criminal”
• Michael Jackson – Heal The World (1991) – Porcaro and Paich play synths
• Kenny Loggins – Return to Pooh Corner (1994) – Phillinganes on “Rainbow Connection” BWAAAHHAHA, i’m sure it paid
• Quincy Jones – Q’s Juke Joint (1995) – Brief appearances by Porcaro, Phillinganes on almost every tune.

This list goes on and on, including Pointer Sisters, Earth Wind & Fire, Jefferson Airplane, George Benson, Dolly Parton, Earl Klugh, Eric Clapton, Olivia Newton John, Anita Baker, Bette Midler, Paul Simon, Christina Aguilera.

Whew, ok enough for now.  Go do some research of your own.  Take any major album or song from your past and get digging, it’ll blow your MIND.  Shout out to Koochievision.