Ingredients for a mix…

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I have too many mixes that I’ve downloaded, have taken up space on my computer and will in most probability never be listened to. Actually right now there are 137 podcasts unlistened to. What a waste. Well I wanted to go about making a Mix which suited what I’m listening to tat the moment and what I enjoy playing at the monthly get-downs, although this mostly sounds like early in the day stuff.  It takes me ages to get any kind of mix together and to be honest this is the first one I bothered to record in id say about 3-4 years…also don’t own two working turn tables anymore so that represents a problem in its own!

Back to the downloading mixes spiel, as you know we try and do things a bit more smaller scale and personable at Sunday Times, whether we’re doing this and the methods by which we do it are up to you but that’s the intention, at least we’re trying so instead of just banging together a mix and upping it to some filesharing heap we’ve gone and burnt 60 copies of this mix ere’ and made some fancy covers to boot. So heres the story…..

Choppin…

Stenciling…

Letterpressing…

Printing…

Drying!

Assembling…

Finished Product..

Tracklist as follows..

Intro…. Timothy Leary at Millbrook documentary excerpt

1. Top Drawer – Song of a Sinner

2. Donovan – Get They Bearings

3. Dorothy Ashby – The Moving Finger

4. Flying Lotus – Aunties Harp (Rebekah Raff  re-mix)

5. Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidananda

6. Smith & Mudd – Hvala

7. Juju & Jordash – High Noon at Riffmans Creek

Excerpt from Interview with Fela Anikulapo Kuti

8. Tony Allen – Ole ( A remix by Moritz Von Oswald)

Excerpt from Interview with Fela Anikulapo Kuti

9. Can – Sunday Jam

Excerpt from Malcolm X Documentary

10. Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson – Winter in America

Sunday Times! Xmas Special…..

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Sup fools, Sunday Times is back yo!

Enough of that nonsense, neither of us actually speak like that.

Forget about Stephens Night/Boxing Day/whatever other names there are, the 27th appears to be the day to get out over the yuletide celebrations if our opinion is worth anything, and a solid line-up for the day is ensured with what we have got lined up….for the day.

We’re glad to welcome two of Corks vinyl heroes up for a day of anything goes….John Hennessy and Barry Walsh!……Joining them will be Jimmy Horgan and John Daly…bad joke? Yessir, expected.

Back to the actual two Cork Vinyl heroes who I’m sure are familiar to the lot of yis. Not much more to be said for Horgan (yes that’s Jims names folk who say Jimmy P….Plugd), mans got the rekkids, as he has the wrecka stow! Always a good laugh playing some with the Jim.

Joining James will be a former employee of his done good, John Daly of Murkyville Via Galway and Space. Again, not much to be said on this matter. John will be dusting off some of the stuff he don’t get to play that often anymore since he’s become some sort of international star guy, and we are looking forward to it big time.

The two of us will be joining the lads to make up the motley part of this crew and expect everything from A to Z.

Joining all of us will be some mulled wine and mince pies that we have a team of midgets brewing and baking as we speak. In an un yuletide move the pizza etc shall most probably arrive also, who knows maybe it will be topped with Christmas baubles and tinsel….lets hope not.

All this can then be topped off by the twin opportunities of Stevie Grainger spinning the Disco in the Pav after or Moodymann spinning that amongst others in the Savoy.

Pretty good…..perrrrrrrity good.

As Usual,

An Realt Dearg
Barrick Street
Sunday 27th December
4pm to close
Free as a Bird!

Oh and also will have 60 copies of what we’d like to call the first instalment of mixes for y’all. Put a lot of effort into printing some sleeves as a special Christmas bonus and probably wont upload it to anywhere to be honest…..includes Dorothy Ashby, Can, Alice Coltrane, Juju and Jordash, Moritz van Oswald amongst others…ooh er!

Something old, Something new….

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Here are some old mixs of mine, we are currently getting more together at the moment so they should be up soon, in the mean time….

SundaytimessoundsystemPt1.

1) James Brown- King Heroin (inst)
2) Minnie Ripperton – Inside my Love
3) Lowrell – Mellow Mellow right on
4)AL Green – Im glad your mine
5) Slyvia Striplin – You cant turn me away
6) Idris Muhammed – Crab Apple
7) S.O.U.L. – Burning Spear
8 ) The Meters – CArdova
9) Booker T & The MG’s – Melting Pot
10) David McCallum- The Edge
11) Tony Avlon & The Belais – Sexy Coffee Pot
12) Blackbyrds – Rock creek park.
13) The Clash – The cool out
14) Yam Who – Genius of Love
15) THe Beastie Boys – Shake your Rump
16) Del Tha Funkee Homosapien – A hone one a hone two
17) Mr. Lif – The unorthadox
18 ) Mr. Oizo – No day Massacre
19) Modern Romance – Salsa Rhapsody (Dub discomix)
20) Barbara Norris – Heavy Hitter
21) Daniel Wang – Like some dream i cant stop dreaming
22) Azoto – San salvador
23) Chic – I want your love
24) Gino Soccio – I want to take you there
25) Kano – Its a War (SS uk re-edit)

SundaytimessoundsystemPt2

1) Gill Scott Heron – B Movie
2) The headhunters – God make me funky
3) The meters – Rigor Mortis
4) The meters – The same ol thing
5) Barry White – Loves theme
6) Frank Wilson – Do i love you
7) Barbara Acklin – Am i the same girl
8 ) The commodores – Machine gun
9) The miracles – Come on do the jerk
10) Lyn Collins – Rock me again and again
11) The marvelettes – I’ll keep on holding on
12) The four tops – I cant help myself
13) D Train – Your the one for me
14) Thick as thieves – ??? (Disco edit)
15) Goody Goody – It looks like love
16) George duke – I want you for myself
17) Diana ross – Upside down

Snap!!

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A lot of people are enquiring about the image used in the latest sunday times poster(2 posts down) so here is just a quick explanation. Its a picture by Ruven Afandor i came across on holiday in spain about 2 years ago.

We ventured to Seville for a day trip and lining the main street of the city were big billboards displaying his photographs , they were made up of images of spanish ladies,flamenco dancers etc done in very striking black and white. Basically the image used in the poster is a picture of a picture, you can pick up the book that contained all the images from that collection  here.

One thing led to another….

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I recently picked up the second in the series of Cottam edits in the mighty Plugd records, the B side(unnamed) was immediately the winner for me, it’s an edit of an afro funk tune nicely cut up and re arranged behind a steady mid tempo beat.
As with a lot of the edits I pick up I wondered about the original artist and song and in this case it also provoked me into checking out more of the Afro beat sound.
The following week in Plugd I browsed through a few Afro albums and grabbed a couple for a quick listen, during a flick through Afro Baby, a compilation released on soundway back in 2004 I heard a familiar voice, it was the original of the above mentioned edit.
It’s a track called “Lagos Si Si”, by Bola Johnson and was originally released in 1973. The compilation comes complete with a nice gatefold with a brief rundown of the artist etc for each track. It turns out he is talking about a country girl (a si si is a good looking girl) who is up to no good, hanging out in the clubs and behaving in a way her parents wouldn’t like hence his calls of  “I go tell your mama!    “I go tell your papa!
I’ve actually fallen for the original over the edit at this stage but it’s a definite example of how edits stir up interest in music that might not usually reach a certain buyer or demographic.
With the majority of edits the original artist gets no mention on the record etc but in this case it led to me buying a fully licensed compilation so in turn Bola got his just royalties and it has led me onto a whole new road of music that is fascinating in terms of history and music. A fine days work all round.

Sunday Times! 29th November

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Evenin’ all. The Jazz weekend was a total belter, basically. The ‘Not how WHEN!’ guys gave everyone a lesson in Music including us. Well me anyways.

Since its nearing the end of the month, its about that time again, the last Sunday means Sunday Times…..time…ahem.

Back in August, at the third of our gatherings, something really seemed to hit off. So going on the grounds of that, we’re returning to that line-up in the hope of recreating it. With all this talk of ‘replays’ we’re aware that we may be stepping into a tender situation but we can confirm that we have invited Thierry Henry and Richard Dunne to come up, have a few Pints and talk it out. We’re not guaranteeing anything but maybe the lads can come to an agreement over funk 45’s. Maybe.

So if you have methodically remembered all the previous lineups then you don’t need this bit. Feel free to skip to the end, go on.

Joining us for the early evening is Alan Devitt, bringing his bag of Dub and Reggae, believe me paying for records on a Ryanair flight from Kingston aint cheap folks….not at all. Respeck.

Seemingly since that last August session Justin aka Jus-me has been seen wandering aimlessly wondering what to do on the last Sunday of the month. He even mistakenly went to Spain when he got over confused. This is very saddening. So its for this reason he’s back up to play us some of his records. Lets hope this can get his mind back in the right place.

Due to the long gap since the last time, Justin has brought some moral support in the form of Eoin Walsh, his bandmate with the impressionists. Eoin will be bringing his bass, guitar and possibly trumpet. I don’t know if Eoin has six arms or not but it will be interesting nonetheless. Reports from the last Elementary gig are all good so we’re looking forward to the lads.

We’ll be joining the dots in between with all sorts of everything…and everything else.

Almost forgot that Stevie will be rockin the end of Movember with the official mo’ party in the Pav afterwards at Footsteps!End the night with a dance with a moustachioed man if yer that way inclined (or just want to have a good night)!bo!

As Usual thats,

Sunday Times!
Sunday 29th November
An Realt Dearg
Barrack Street
4pm-Close.

Housekeeping…

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Malick Sidibe capturing Bamako youth

Only a greater presence knows why this has taken so long but now its here so start reading and start believing. Theres a lot to transfer to readers via the combined attack of text, youtube, stolen sound clips, visual images from afar and important further reading for all so lets get it started.

So your in Bamako, Mali, in the 60’s,maybe the 50’s and soon to be the 70’s. The place is exploding with energy, the scene is in the clubs and you want to show the world just what its like in this melting pot. Some guy has the camera and he seems to be at all the events, so you want to look your best and let people know what this place is all about. The guy with the camera is Malick Sidibé, who in the future is to be decorated with the prestigious Hasselblad Award, the golden Lion at the Venice Biennale and ICP award for lifetime achievement, more importantly for us he is credited with documenting the burgeoning youth culture of an effervescent Mali in those times. Relevance? Well the images adorning the Sunday Times Posters number 3 and 4 come from the lens of this important man. Due to dubious photoshop skills and a lack of imagination (and a inspirational visit to his exhibition at FOAM gallery in Amsterdam last Summer) these are lifted from some of Malicks original work. Rather than try and claim it to be some artistic gift (More of a want to share) we are wholly grateful to be even able to see these images and if you want more I would advise you to go out and get this, which is, apart from the stunning images, a serious piece of design work. Perhaps a better starting point is this publication but either way you will end up holding an important piece of photographic documentation thats well worth the asking price.