Sonic Sunset

Part 1: Right-click to download (66min 128k MP3 = 60mb)
Part 2: Right-click to download (56min 128k MP3 = 52mb)

Matt spans the full show this week, giving part 1 an easy summer build up of quiet storm soul/funk. Curtis Mayfield on a hot summer night in Chicago is tough to beat! Breaking with a catchy oddball from Kid Creole, we move into deep 313-style house and abstract moods from Russ Gabriel and Rick Wilhite to Dan Bell’s Elevate imprint into one of Prince’s finest basement party cuts.

Part 2 chugs on with a little italo disco sequenced into recent melodic techno funk from Italy, jetting to Detroit techno from UR, Aril Brikha and Drexciya, which cracks the door to crucial breakdance-era electro from Jamie Jupitor and Newcleus. Space bleeps from UK’s B12 chart the course, and deep space electronics from the godfather Juan Atkins floats us among the constellations.

Part 1

Grace Jones – Nightclubbing – Nightclubbing (Island) 1981
Heatwave – The Star of the Story – Central Heating (CBS) 1978
Moodymann – I Need You So Much – Black Mahogani (Peacefrog)
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – We Almost Lost Detroit – Bridges (Arista) 1977
Curtis Mayfield – The Other Side of Town – Curtis (Curtom) 1970
Kid Creole & The Coconuts – Que Pasa/Me No Pop I – Coati Mundi (Antilles) 1980
Russ Gabriel – The Waiting Game (Soul on Wax)
Patrick Pulsinger – City Lights – Dogmatic Sequences II (Disko B)
James Duncan – City Life (Traxxx)
The Godson – City Bar Reopen \”Live\” Dancing – Soul Edge EP 2 (Still Music)
Ron Trent – untitled B1 – Dark Room (Balance)
Dan Bell – Subterranean (Elevate)
Prince – Erotic City (boot)
Metro Area – Nerves – 5 (Environ)
Carlos Hernandez – Roller Giggle (Basenotic)
$tinkworx – No Luv – Aedena (Delsin)

Part 2

Doctor’s Cat – Feel The Drive [Instr] (Il Discotto) 1983
Raiders of the Lost ARP – Bridge – 4 (Nature)
Aril Brikah – Groove La Chord – Deeparture in Time (Transmat)
Francisco – Salvation 2nd – Frenga (Pigna)
Freak Seven vs. Critical Phase – Pitch Black [Orlando Voorn remix] (New Religion)
Perception & Mad Mike – Windchime (Underground Resistance)
Drexciya – Hydro Theory – The Journey Home (Warp)
Jamie Jupitor – Computer Power (Egyptian Empire) 1984
Newcleus – Let’s Jam (Sunnyview) 1985
Erik VanDerBroek – Subsonic Sound Scape (Shiver)
Musicology – Bubbles – Outlook (B12)
Model 500 – M 92 Lightspeed – Deep Space (R&S)