Thirty For Thursday 15

as we close out the year....

No retrospective here, just a bunch of songs based around New Years Day by U2. I started there and the rest of the songs fell into place...mostly upbeat Alt/Rock numbers.

Listen to it:




or download it (right-click)

Here's what you get

1. New Year's Day - U2
2. A-Punk - Vampire Weekend
3. 1901 - Phoenix
4. When We First Kissed - Hello Goodbye
5. Bushwick Blues - Delta Spirit
6. Lonely Boy - The Black Keys
7. Story of My Life - Social Distortion
8. Gold Guns Girls - Metric

Thirty For Thursday Volume 14 for Xmas

Don't worry it's not ALL Christmas songs...

Actually, a special shout goes to Summer Abbott for partial inspiration for this week's selections. She introduced me to Allen Stone this week. I wanted to add a few other singer-songwriter types in there and then supplemented with a few Christmas songs that you might not have heard.





or you can download here (right click)

Tracks for the week:

1. Christmas Tonight - Dave Barnes & Hillary Scott
2. Feels Like Dancing - Dan Dyer
3. Dance With Me Baby - Ben Rector
4. Santa Claus is Back In Town - Elvis Presley & Wynonna Judd
5. Joy To The World - Andrew Ripp
6. Celebrate Tonight - Allen Stone
7. Rock The Bells (Holiday Mix) - Dj Spen & The Muthafunkaz
8. 2People (DCUP Remix) - Jean Jacques Smoothie ft Tara Busch

FYI

If (by some chance) someone new finds this...

Thirty for Thursday is something I came up with for friends that were interested in what I have been listening to. 30 minutes of music (more or less) that I put together every Thursday. It's one long track (kind of like a podcast, I guess) since the first playlist that I tried to share, seemed too complicated for some folks. 30 minutes is about 2/3 of my drive to work and when I think of where my friends live, it's just about right for them as well.

I don't know who downloads these or who listens, but I don't have a set plan every week. Some times a theme, others not. Most times I put similar sounding songs together which is a product of years of djing and trying to keep a "flow" going on the dance floor.

I have mostly kept the extremes of my musical taste off of here (no Slayer yet) just since, like I said, I don't know who is checking this out.

leave a comment if you find this and enjoy. =)

Aloha
Sean

Thirty For Thursday Volume 13

Here we go again after screwing around yesterday with a last minute Thursday upload.

Listen to it here:



or download here (right-click & Save As)

Tracklist for today:

1. Edie (Ciao Baby) - The Cult
2. No Excuses - Alice in Chains
3. Como Amigos - Alex Cuba
4. The Ghetto (passean extension) - George Benson
5. Umi Says - Mos Def
6. Fools - The Temper Trap
7. Ain't No Time - Grace Potter & The Nocturals

Thirsty For Thursday Volume 12

Was going to post last Friday, but then figured...no one cares...it's only for me anyway.
I'm keeping it going for some reason.

Listen here:


Or download here (right-click)

1. Heavy Metal Blues - The Revelations ft Tre Williams
2. El Beasto - The Funk Ark
3. Your Eyes (Mousse T's Old Skool mix) - Simply Red
4. Back Again - Soulive (ft Chaka Khan)
5. You Gots To Chill - EPMD
6. More Bounce (New Orleans soundcheck) - Prince

Late, but still thankful

I'm not gonna lie: I totally forgot to get this done by Thursday. With only 3 days at work, Thanksgiving on Thursday and most especially heading out to The Shrine on Wednesday night, I didn't plan any time to get this done.

It's done now and given the delays, I chose some tracks that reflect the last few days.

You can listen to it here:



or right-click on this for the download.

Thanksgiving tracklist goes like this:

1. Serene - Jeff Beck (from his 2010 album...one of the things I borrowed from the library the other day)

2. Be Thankful For What You've Got (DJ Day's Edit) - William DeVaughn (thankful for Soundcloud and for Day's edits)


3. I Thank You (Shelter Blaze Vox Mix) - Stephanie Cooke (not really Thanksgiving, but she does say Thank You a lot)

4. 1960 What? (Wicked Jazz Sounds Radio Edit) - Gregory Porter (caught him at The Shrine on Wednesday night with FLX opening up and he was fantastic. I got this from Giant Step but am looking at the whole album on Amazon...so good AND available for digital d/l!)

5. Indigo Blues ft Nicole Graham - Llorca (the Greg Porter had me breaking out this CD for the drive down...such a great album all the way through house, broken beat, downtempo.

6. Thank You Baby - Syl Johnson (another Thank You...this time with Chicago connections)

enjoy, my friends. Love to you and your families.

Back! with Thirty For Thursday Volume 10

Hi again,

The computer is still not at 100% and I lost a bunch of stuff from iTunes with the hard-drive re-sectoring, but I've backed up what I could and am waiting to get a new hard-drive when the prices comes down. Been itching to get another one of these done so much so, that I actually had one done that ended up mostly instrumental, but after a listen, it got a bit boring so came up with a new one. Little more diversity here, but just so you know it starts slow then picks up.

As usual, you can listen/play this:



or right-click as "save as" on this for the download.

Here is the menu for today.

1. Just A Dream featuring Erro - Larry Gold presents Don Cello and friends
(yes...the Erro from here)

2. 30 Some Days - Matt Duke

3. One Tree Hill - U2 (watched a very cool documentary on the making of The Joshua Tree on Netflix and got me wanting to listen to the CD...still love this so much)

4. Can't Hide Love (feat Bilal) - The Randy Watson Experience (look them up)

5. Red Light (feat Q-Tip) - Ginger Rose

6. Abundance - PPP (Platinum Pied Pipers)

7. 7 Day Fool (whiskey barons edit) (cool how that worked out! I didn't even plan it) - Etta James

42

computer is back, but not up and running yet so it's another week missing 30 minutes. :(

in other news...I'm 42 tomorrow.



stay thirsty my friends.

Treinta y para el jueves - Volumen 9

I'm just heading off to work, but wanted to get this up. I've trying to compile this one for a while...basically an non-english edition. Had way too many salsa/latin choices so I opted out of including any.

Here's the player:


or right-click and save on on THIS for the download.

1. Melaaz - Non Non Non (france)
2. Gigi - Kahn (ghana)
3. Mayra Andrade - Mana (cape verde)
4. Mana - Mariposa Traicionera (mexico)
5. K.Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas - Me Yee Owu Den (ghana...damn...I didn't know I duplicated until now...oh well, this one is a salsa so at least it's different)
6. The Sunday Manoa - Heha Waipi`o (hawaii)

Aloha
Sean

Thirty For Thursday Volume 8

Almost didn't make it this week. Been out after work every night this week with burgers, the chiropractor and have actually kept the cocktails to a minimum. All that means I hadn't had time to put anything together here. No fear. On the way home tonight, I was grooving to some of the dope stuff that I found on Soundcloud and also a small purchase I made from Turntable Lab Digital and decided to share a few of those.

As usual. You can listen to this:



or right-click and save-as on THIS to download the 33 minute file.

Tracks for the week are:
1. Cut Chemist Suite (DJ Soo's Take Control) - Chali 2Na vs Amerie. Soo on Soundcloud here

2. Pumped Up Kicks (Gigamesh Remix) - Foster The People (yeah...the song's everywhere but it's a clubby treatment from these guys)

3. Love Sick (upbeat remix DL edit) - Gangstarr & John Waddell (found a few Bossa joints in the last 2 weeks) Decades has been doing some really nice stuff

4. California Dreamin' (Ambient Forest Special Branch Re-Love) - Mojo Filter ft Jose Feliciano (another dope remix from that guy that did the Brian Eno remix)

5. Ghost Town (DJ Enki remix) - The Specials (the bonus beats are sick on their own)

6. It Must Be Magic (Lee Cadena Edit) - Teena Marie (lee and Teena are family, she even shouts him out on the edit...he's got more stuff on Soundcloud)

Volume 7 - Thirty for Thursday

I'm not feeling especially chipper this week, but didn't want the mix to suffer for it.
Taking you back to 1993 this week with a house mix I did called Mix for Mic. I'm not sure why I made this for Kevin (or because of him maybe) but the first three songs here were a big part of joy and dance-floor-sing-a-longs in the clubs I went to and played at.

Listen:


or right-click & Save-As here to download

selections for this week:

1. Rap's Intro
2. Caught In The Middle - Juliet Roberts
3. Lonely (Have We Lost Our Love) - Lance Ellington
4. Love Changes - MK ft Alana
5. I'm Every Woman - Whitney Houston
6. I Can't Get No Sleep (mk's dub) - Masters At Work
7. The Power (fire island mix) - Monie Love
8. Runnin Wild & Free - Spank Da Monkey

(not sure of the versions since I don't have the records in front of me)

Thirty For Thursday 6

The weather has been beautiful here in Chicago. I've driven home for the last 2 days with all the windows down and the sunroof open. Clear and cool with blue skies. This weeks selections are a tribute to that. Once I started trying to choose, it was hard to pare it down to 30 minutes. I felt bad leaving off some Stevie Wonder, but I thought Stevie will make ANY mix brighten right up...he'll show up soon enough.

As my friend Summer Abbott once said "I have all kinds of grins going on right now"

Listen here:


or right-click & Save-As here to download

selections for this week:

1. Windows Are Rolled Down - Amos Lee
2. Growing Old To Young - Andrew Ripp (seeing him tomorrow in Evanston)
3. Feeling Free - Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators
4. Days Like This - Shaun Escoffery
5. Never Miss The Water (addis/polvere remix) - Chaka Khan ft Me'Shell Nedege'Ocello
6. Come Get To This - Marvin Gaye
7. Home In The Islands - The Brothers Cazimero

Thirty For Thursday Volume 5

I like Tumblr. In checking out various pages I came across this blog a while ago.

Sometimes I can't get over the fact that the writer is still in high school and writes such great stuff. Other times I enjoy the fact she's still in high school since it's so great to hear the optimism in her voice.

One Sunday I got up and found this post from her:
http://alwaysquestionneversettle.tumblr.com/post/7768463176/just-created-a-mix-cd-for-the-heat-guilty

I recognized a few songs and a few bands so I set out to check out the playlist via youTube and ended up buying a few things on eMusic.

Today's edition of Thirty for Thursday is pulled from her list and starts with a new song that she used for a video project that she's working on. I dig it.

Listen here:


or right-click & Save-As here to download

1. Shuffle - Bombay Bicycle Club
2. No Sunlight - Death Cab For Cutie
3. Harmonium - Rogue Wave
4. My Body - Young the Giant
5. In The Next Room - Neon Trees
6. Black & Gold - Sam Spero
7. Reset (album version) - MuteMath

thanks Hanna, keep up the good work

Thirty for Thursday Volume 4

from the DJ Passean cassette archive - Feb 1999
Side A of the "Groovin" tape



or right-click here and "save as" to download. (p.s. all the mixes are downloadable in case you haven't figured that out)

tracklist:

1. Higher - D'Angelo
2. Don't Say (remix) - Jon B
3. Ex-Factor - Lauren Hill
4. (passean "blend") Madonna reading "If You Forget Me" by Pablo Neruda with Common's Retrospect For Life instrumental
5. Love's In Need of Love Today - Stevie Wonder
6. Tired of Being Alone - Al Green
7. Herbal Blend (inst) - The Herbaliser

I am being brief here since I don't really have followers that I can see. Saving the details (if any) for Facebook.

Thirty for Thursday Volume 3

brought to you by the letter E



1. Egyptic - Beats Antique
2. El Ray Tiberon - Mana
3. Eternity - Imelda May
4, Everybody Knows - The Dixie Chicks
5. Every Night - Paul McCartney & Wings
6. Even Though - Norah Jones
7. Even Though - Black Coffee

Thirty for Thursday 2

Back again for 30 more minutes. Get it here.

A bit bluesy this week if only because I have been thoroughly enjoying the Jimmy Vaughn song. That is my perfect groove right there.

This is the performance that was recorded for the album...celebrating Steve Ray Vaughn:


Here's the tracklist:

1. Six Strings Down - Jimmy Vaughn & Friends
2. Eliminate The Night - Joan Osborne
3. That's Why I'm Crying - Eric Lindell
4. Thankful - Jonny Lang
5. Two Doors Down - Me'Shell Ndegeocello
6. Kissin My Love (edit) - Marc Broussard
7. There Was A Time - The Dee Felice Trio (shout to Chubb Rock!)
8. The Place - Dj Format ft Chali 2Na

Aloha,
Sean

30 for Thursday Volume 1

I was talking to Miss Ellen Melon about her mix CD's ( of which I have a few) and how much I enjoyed the diversity on them. A DJ mix (for me anyway) has always had a steady build to it. Similar songs. I like Ellen's compilations. She said I should make more of my own. With this foray, I have yet to match the diversity, but we'll see how these develop.

30 minutes is about right. My commute to work is 50 minutes but when I think about where my friends are, 30 fits nicely. On the mainland, you may travel a bit longer than that, in Hawaii a bit shorter than that (depending on if you drive the speed limit on the Likelike) and 30 is do-able.

No playlist or complicated instructions this time. One track and I may or may not blend the songs together.

I couldn't have thought of the name if I wasn't already down with Thirsty Thirty. Check them out here.

Download Volume 1 from HERE:

Songs for this week are:

1. Strawberry Swing - Frank Ocean
2. Burn One Down - Ben Harper
3. Yekermo Sew - Mulatu Astatke
4. You Know I'm No Good - Amy Winehouse
5. 360 (What Goes Around) - Grand Puba
6. Right Now - The Heart Attack
7. Make It Last - DJ Jazzy Jeff & Ayah
8. Wouldn't It Be Nice (The Stereo Mix) (2000 Digital Remaster) - The Beach Boys

I won't bore you each week with details about the choices. Thanks for Delve for the heads up on 1, Ellen for #2, Sloppy Seconds for hooking me up with #6 and soul-sides for hipping me to #3.

Next week will have a bit of the blues to it.

I like Mike

Just bought this track from eMusic the other day. It's on a Jonny Lang album that I don't have (I stopped after the first 2 since the third one was horrible) and was pleasantly surprised to hear Mr Michael McDonald's voice on here.



When I heard him, I thought of another unsuspecting duet of his that I had from a few years back and decided to post them both here. I don't think either song is THAT well known.

December Playlist

I've been feeling a bit out of it since the holidays and don't really know why. Today, I've been wandering around the apartment today in a haze, so I figured I'd put together a comp for December and share. The password to d/l is kalikimaka.

It's not as diverse as the September mix. No metal this time and only one house track in the lot.

Does anyone burn CD's anymore? If so, this is one CD's worth of music. I can't figure most people commute farther than 72 minutes.

I'm not listing tracks again (that way the tracks don't come up in Google searches as links for download) so you'll have to take your chances on my picks. Hopefully the links & notes give you some ideas about what's here. :)

There are 17 songs. Unzip the folder and you'll find that there's an .xml file in there along with the mp3s. Import the mp3s into iTunes and then go to

File > Library > Import Playlist

and select the .xml and you'll get a new playlist of the songs in the order in which I compiled them. I'm not sure if the album art copies over or not.

I coded everything at a measly 128kps because a bunch of these things can be downloaded free from the creators or purchased cheaply elsewhere. If you REALLY need something, let me know and I can figure out how to get it to you.


1. Thanks to Kathy for raving about her experience at the show and her fondness for the album. I can't say I dig the whole thing (maybe 4 tracks) but every time this comes up in my shuffle, I end up humming it for the rest of the day. Purchased at eMusic but not there any more.

2. Hey I didn't even plan for a back-to-back Kathy reference, but here we are with one of her boyfriend's songs. I wouldn't have thought this ripe for an edit but this is pretty nice. Rayko is pretty prolific on his Soundcloud page and I've grabbed of few of his tracks.

3. One of the artists that Gypsy's work represents now. Another song that gets stuck in my head whenever I hear it. Nice kinda country/blues feel. Available here.

4. When this album came out, I bought it because it was Al Green produced by ?uestlove (among others)


and although I liked it, it ended up sitting aside for a long while. I have found myself coming back to this time and again in the last few months for several tracks. This one is on here because track 5 reminded me of it when I started listening to it. Purchased from iTunes but available at Amazon as well.

5. This needs a mixable intro which I have yet to attempt to put together. Super catchy as Willie Hutch compositions tend to be. Soundcloud continues to introduce me to funky edits of older tracks and I'm so happy I found Dan.

6. Gypsy is a big Lyrics Born fan and picked up the new album which I was sad to discover had him SINGING on a lot of it. Ouch. The same voice that makes his rap distinctive just sounds terrible when he tries to be melodic. This is catchy in a boogie sense so I crafted an edit extending it and creating a mixable outro. Check his page for the album version and/or check out Blackbots which is the other track on the album I like.

7. Soul-sides schooled me on this. A reggae version of a Sister Sledge song that I already liked. I found a link to an artist page and bought the 320 version of this and 2 other songs (see #16 below)

8. I posted this on Facebook after a friend shared Jerusalem on her page.



I had never given Alpha Blondy a chance despite selling 100's of his tapes at Jelly's. I knew Jerusalem and Cocody Rock and that was about it. This is super catchy and ripe for an edit.

9. Reminds me of the Gypsy Kings a bit. This was a recommendation on eMusic from some other jazz artist that I was looking at. Kinda "chill" or some my say "restaurant jazz" but this is one of the more lively tracks on the album

10. Lots of great stuff on this album showing that the track he did for Twilight was not a passing fancy with "alternative rock". Fuck You is on here and I grabbed 5 or 6 others. I can't get over how diverse this cat is when I think of this, Goodie Mob and Gnarles Barkley.

11. Still getting the occasional keeper from Giant Step. Hadn't heard of the cat who does the original version of this but supposedly he sings and raps on his tracks. This is a dope drum & bass rework that keeps the fun aspect of the song. A couple other remixes went dark & dirty.

12. I can't say I love his new album as much as his first one, but I do enjoy a bunch of the songs by this Chicago native now in LA (or is it Nashville?) His collaboration with Dave Barnes is pretty evident in the sound of the record and it seems to work for him. I like the idea of the lyrics of this song.

13. These guys just sound 80's to me. There are elements of "Friday I'm in Love" in this (guitar sound? chords?) and the intro led me to also digging up the track that follows this.

14. 20 years of djing makes the library in my brain think of "mixes" for new songs that I hear. #13 led me back to this 80's favorite.

15. I guess this has been in a few commercial's? This really hit me when I saw this video from Christa's pool party

Super CW's Best of 2010 B-Day from Banzai Media, LLC on Vimeo.

(It might have been in another one of these guys videos as well) and when I checked out the album there was a lot more on there that I enjoyed. eMusic has it.

16. I downloaded a reggae/disco song (#7) along with a spacey/electronic/disco track called Cosmic Echoes and this track where he busts out Afrobeat. Hope this dude gets some notoriety from the album. A few people have got some info on him. New Zealand represent!

17. The single house track here just because it bumps. I like how he chopped the vocals on this and there's a sick break toward the end. D/l link on his page.

Hope you like it. Aloha, Sean