Funky Friday Under The Influence

Today SIART celebrates the work of Dave Wrangler, remixer and mashup master. He has been sending me his stuff for a couple of years now, and has been a regular part of funky Fridays. He has just compiled 18 tracks of original remixes and mashups of acts such as The xx, Daft Punk, The Whitest Boy Alive, Beastie Boys, Slim Thug, Ghostland Observatory, Notorious B.I.G., Kim Zolciak, YACHT and more. He has made the whole lot available for you to enjoy - you can download tracks from his website or from his Soundcloud or nab the whole thing as a zip file. Here are a few of my personal Wrangler favorites...

Animal Collective - My Girls (Dave Wrangler Remix)
Outkast vs. Royksopp - Rosa Parks Eple (Dave Wrangler Remix)
Deeelite - Groove Is In The Heart (Dave Wrangler Remix)
M.I.A. - Paper Planes (Dave Wrangler Remix)
Lil Mama - Lipgloss (Dave Wrangler Remix)
TV On The Radio - Staring At The Sun (Dave Wrangler Remix)
Herbie Hancock - Rockit (Dave Wrangler Remix)
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Follow Dave Wrangler on Twitter / listen to Dave Wrangler on Hypem

Inventory

Kraftwerk - NumbersToday was inventory day at work. That meant there were seemingly endless stacks of stuff, all needing counting and computing. Suffice it to say that this little ditty by the Teutonic math nerds fits the bill perfectly, and gives you, the reader, a bit of insight into what the inside of my head sounds like today.

Random/ Slappin' Some Bass

Freeez - Southern Freeez

Funky Friday/ Straight Outta The Inbox

Time to clear out a bunch of e-mails. There is some tasty African stuff from a couple of Strut Records compilations, some new Poirier and Bonobo from NinjaTune, a couple of remixes by SirBilly and Decalicious, and an oldie from Killing Joke from a new compilation. Then there are a couple of tasty items from the personal collection to round off the funk for your Friday...

DJ Cam - Success
Poirier - Marathon
Steele Beauttah - Africa
Q-Tip - Breathe And Stop
Killing Joke - Almost Red
Happy Mondays - Loose Fix
Bran Van 3000 - Supermodel
S. Piliso & His Super Seven - Kuya Hanjwa
Bonobo - The Keeper (Grasscut Bitter Peace Remix)
Late of the Pier - The Enemy Are The Future (Decalicious Edit)
B.E.F. feat. Billy MacKenzie - The Secret Life Of Arabia (SirBilly Dub Edit)

Random

I love me some Sergio Mendes. I like the '60s stuff and the '70s stuff - the '80s saw him lose the Brazilian plot and turn to boring MOR schlock. Now don't get me wrong - I do occasionally enjoy some MOR schlock - just not Sergio's. Now if we're talking about some bass slapping, funky goodness like Mozambique I'm all over it. Groovy beats + funktastic bass + chanting = delicious!

Sergio Mendes & The New Brasil '77 - Mozambique

Funky Friday

SIART has been slacking so far this year. There's nothing like a good Funky Friday to rectify and reboot the old blog. Today's selection includes some oldies of all ages and some slightly fresher material. All of it is guaranteed to get your head nodding and your toes tapping - maybe even a bit of booty shaking. Happy weekend!

Sly & Robbie feat. Shinehead - Boops (Here To Go) (Twelve Inch)
St. Etienne - Nothing Can Stop Us (Foxbase Beta Version)
Simian Mobile Disco feat. Gruff Rhys - Cream Dream
Groove Armada - Shameless (feat. Bryan Ferry)
Chic - Good Times (Fat Camp Edit)
Taana Gardner - Heartbeat
Hot Chip - One Life Stand
Cymande - The Message
RJD2 - Tin Flower
Four Tet - Sing

Plastic Beach

Hot press release! Plastic Beach the new album from Gorillaz, will be released by Virgin on March 9th. The album is preceded by first single Stylo (featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack) which will receive its radio broadcast premiere tonight and will be available for download on January 26. Five years on from the release of Demon Days, Murdoc Niccals and co. return with Plastic Beach. The band have taken up residence, recording on a secret floating island deep in the South Pacific, a Plastic Beach HQ, made up of the detritus, debris and washed up remnants of humanity. This Plastic Beach is the furthest point from any landmass on Earth; the most deserted spot on the planet. The Gorillaz' return will be marked by a headline appearance at this year's Coachella festival. The Sunday April 18 performance will be the first Gorillaz live spectacle on U.S. soil since the awe-inspiring Demon Days Live run in April 2006 at New York's Apollo Theater.

The full tracklisting:

1. Orchestral Intro
2. Welcome To The World Of The Plastic Beach (feat. Snoop Dogg and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
3. White Flag (feat. Kano & Bashy)
4. Rhinestone Eyes
5. Stylo (feat. Bobby Womack and Mos Def)
6. Superfast Jellyfish (feat. Gruff Rhys and De La Soul)
7. Empire Ants (feat. Little Dragon)
8. Glitter Freeze (feat. Mark E Smith)
9. Some Kind Of Nature (feat. Lou Reed)
10. On Melancholy Hill
11. Broken
12. Sweepstakes (feat. Mos Def & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
13. Plastic Beach (feat. Mick Jones & Paul Simonon)
14. To Binge (feat. Little Dragon)
15. Cloud Of Unknowing (feat. Bobby Womack)
16. Pirate Jet

Listen to the first single Stylo (feat. Mos Def & Bobby Womack) here and here!

Top 25 of 2009

Alright. Another list. The top 25 records of 2009. Much hemming and hawing involved. And again I'm sure there are probably things I missed. I didn't rank them. I just know I listened to these 25 an awful lot last year...

1. BLK JKS - After Robots
2. SFA - Dark Days/Light Years
3. Late of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
4. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
5. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
6. Lily Allen - It's You Not Me, It's You
7. Mulatu Astatke & Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information
8. Royksopp - Junior
9. Q-Tip - Kamaal The Abstract
10. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
11. Miike Snow - Miike Snow
12. The Idle Hands - The Hearts We Broke On The Way To The Show
13. Joakim - Milky Ways
14. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young
15. Datarock - Red
16. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
17. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
18. N.A.S.A. - The Spirit Of Apollo
19. Amadou & Miriam - Welcome To Mali
20. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
21. Gossip - Music For Men
22. Metric - Fantasies
23. Depeche Mode - Sounds of The Universe
24. Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen - Inspiration Information
25. Soulsavers - Broken

Best of the 2000s

The top 100 records of the last decade. I spent way too much time debating and searching and perusing and I'm still sure there are things I missed. A lot of good music here. It is not in any kind of order or rank - just a list. Feel free to remind me of what you think I missed...

1. Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus
2. Royksopp - Melody AM
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
4. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
5. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
6. The White Stripes - Elephant
7. The Strokes - Is This It?
8. Radiohead - Kid A
9. Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55
10. Miike Snow - Miike Snow
11. Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere
12. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
13. Graham Coxon - Happiness in Magazines
14. Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
15. Santigold - Santigold
16. Datarock - Red
17. The Young Knives - Superabundance
18. Ambulance Ltd - LP
19. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
20. Metric - Old World Undeground, Where Are You Now?
21. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
22. The Knife - Silent Shout
23. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
24. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
25. Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
26. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
27. Plaid - Double Figure
28. The Bees - Free the Bees
29. Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
30. Caribou - Up In Flames
31. BLK JKS - After Robots
32. M.I.A. - Kala
33. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
34. Ladytron - The Witching Hour
35. The Libertines - Up the Bracket
36. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
37. Barry Adamson - The King of Nothing Hill
38. Frank Black and the Catholics - Dog in the Sand
39. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
40. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
41. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
42. Elbow - Asleep In The Back
43. Beck - Sea Change
44. Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
45. The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
46. Gorillaz - Demon Days
47. Poni Hoax - Poni Hoax
48. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
49. Ima Robot - Ima Robot
50. Common - Electric Circus
51. Soulsavers - Broken
52. The Roots - Phrenology
53. The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Behind the Music
54. Bent - The Everlasting Blink
55. Kerrier District - Kerrier District
56. Phoenix - Alphabetical
57. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
58. Sonic Youth - Murray Street
59. Radio 4 - Gotham!
60. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
61. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga
62. Q-Tip - Kamaal The Abstract
63. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
64. Supergrass - Supergrass
65. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
66. Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
67. Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion Esperanza
68. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
69. Kings of Leon - Of Youth & Young Manhood
70. Amadou & Miriam - Dimanche A Bamako
71. Danger Doom - The Mouse And The Mask
72. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
73. Kanye West - Late Registration
74. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
75. Luke Vibert - Rhythm
76. Basement Jaxx - Rooty
77. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
78. 2 Many DJs - As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 2
79. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
80. Hot Chip - The Warning
81. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
82. The Rapture - Echoes
83. Clinic - Internal Wrangler
84. Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
85. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
86. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
87. The Notwist - Neon Golden
88. Four Tet - Rounds
89. The Beta Band - Hot Shots II
90. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
91. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
92. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
93. Jamie Lidell - Multiply
94. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
95. Q-Tip - The Renaissance
96. Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green And His Perfect imperfections
97. Add N To (X) - Loud like Nature
98. Zero 7 - Simple Things
99. Joy Zipper - American Whip
100. Moonbabies - The Orange Billboard

2009 Xmas Play List

SIART wishes you and yours a happy holiday season, and here are some tunes to help you get there...
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Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmas Time
Miles Davis & Bob Dorough - Blue Xmas
The Bell Sisters - Barnyard Christmas
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
Aretha Franklin - Winter Wonderland
James Brown - Soulful Christmas
Run DMC - Christmas In Hollis
The Knife - Christmas Reindeer
Wham! - Last Christmas
Kelpe - Silent Night

Sex Mix/Portishead Video

18 songs I like with the word sex in the title...


Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine, Pt. 1 - James Brown
No Sex For Ben - The Rapture
Sex Shooter 12" - Apollonia 6
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - Ian Dury & the Blockheads
Sexy Back - Justin Timberlake
Adolescent Sex - Japan
Sex Crime - 1984 (Extended Remix) - Eurythmics
Sex Beat - Two Lone Swordsmen
Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine - The Flying Lizards
Sex (I'm A) - Lovage
Sex, War, And Robots - Super Furry Animals
Jeep Sex - Akufen
Sex Without Stress - Au Pairs
Music Is My Hot Hot Sex - Cansei de Ser Sexy
My Sex - Ultravox
Sex City - Van She
Sex Beat - The Gun Club
Sex Dwarf (The Grid Remix) - Soft Cell
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Portishead - Chase The Tear
A new song to benefit Amnesty International

Holiday Cheer...

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love
Christmas in Hollis: Run D.M.C. - Very Special Christmas
White Christmas - The Drifters
Happy Christmas - John & Yoko and The Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir
Merry Christmas Baby - Otis Redding
Wonderful Christmas Time - Paul McCartney
Sleigh Ride - Ella Fitzgerald
Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
Blue Christmas - The Platters
Christmas Song - The Raveonettes
Happy Christmas - The Maytals
Happy Christmas - Pretenders
The Christmas Song - Marvin Gaye
Last Christmas - George Michael
Christmas Ain't Christmas, New Years Ain't New Years Without The One You Love - The O'Jays
Christmas Time Is Here Again - The Flirtations
It's Christmas Time - Yo La Tengo
All I Want For Christmas - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Christmas Reindeer - The Knife
Soulful Christmas - James Brown
White Christmas - The Flaming Lips
Christmas Rappin' - Kurtis Blow
I Was Born on Christmas Day - Saint Etienne
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Frank Sinatra
Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses