BEGV1 - Another Collection Of Classics

And here is Bravo's first offering - 40 tracks of an eclectic nature ranging from the Hammond Jazz of the late 50's/early 60's up to modern day turntablism from the likes of DJ Shadow and Mixmaster Mike, taking in the amphetamine fuelled (nme laugingly named genre) 'new wave of new wave' of These Animal Men, the dirty US garage punk of The Mummies, the acid jazz of Mother Earth, the disco beat of The Jackson 5 - yup! The Jackson 5!, modern day jazz/r&b from The Gene Drayton Unit, the 'indie' brilliance of The Charlatans, the crazy bongo's of 'Little' Jimmy Scott and the amazing voice and guitar of folk hero John Martyn along the way. With hindsight I wouldn't have included so many tracks if I'm honest but I think it flows well and still enjoy listening to it and hope you will too! I don't really know how i picked the tracks, they just sort of came to me, there was no formula or anything, just purely an eclectic mix from my record collection. There are print quality covers in the zipped file that you will download, don't bother trying to print the images here on the blog as they are just low-res versions.

DISC ONE

• 01 Too Sussed - These Animal Men
  
• 02 Soul Caravan - The Bongolian
• 03 Something For Johnny - Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited
• 04 Sensual Woman - The Herbaliser
  
• 05 Keep Lookin' - The Artwoods
• 06 I've Got A Woman - Jimmy McGriff
  
• 07 Out Of Control - Thee Milkshakes
• 08 Theme From 'Dirty Harry' - JTQ
• 09 Oblighetto - Brother Jack McDuff
• 10 Little Short One Pt 1 - David Holmes
• 11 The Numbers Song - DJ Shadow
• 12 TV200 - Jarvis Humby
• 13 Supa Wyde Laces - Mixmaster Mike
• 14 Stronger Than Dirt - The Mummies
• 15 Monkeyshines - Nick Rossi Set
• 16 Love Is A Four Letter Word - Roy Budd
• 17 Come To The Mushroom - The Prisoners
• 18 Home Is Where The Hatred Is - Gil Scott Heron
• 19 The 5th Quadrant - Mother Earth
• 20 Hum Along And Dance - The Jackson 5
  

DISC TWO

• 01 This Is London - The Times
  
• 02 What Can I Say? - The Jetset
• 03 Atomic Moog 2000 (Bullet Train) - Coldcut
• 04 Berts Apple Crumble - Gene Drayton Unit
• 05 Girl At The Top - Alan Hawkshaw
• 06 Soopasound - The Strawberry Smell07
  
• 07 Ooh La La - The Faces
  
• 08 Feels Like It's Love - Makin' Time
• 09 Sproston Green - The Charlatans
• 10 Step It Up - The Bamboos
• 11 Golden Retriever - Super Furry Animals
• 12 Indian Rope Man - Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll
• 13 In 3's - The Beastie Boys
• 14 Talk Of The Grapevine - Donald Height
• 15 Funky Thing (Pt 1) - Larry Ellis & A Black Hammer
• 16 Coffee Providers - The New Mastersounds
• 17 Easy To Remember - St Germain
• 18 Devil Music - Jeep Beat Collective
• 19 Ob La Di Ob La Da - 'Little' Jimmy Scott
• 20 May You Never - John Martyn
  

Download the zipped file here and most of all ENJOY!

Peace! Out!

Charlie Bravo

DEGV1 - A Collection Of Classics

Ok, here it is people, the original inspiration for the series. I can't remember the date when this was first compiled by Diz (can you Diz?) but I would imagine it was something like two years ago. As stated below it was originally for Lisa Spindots music forum N&W, I don't think this comp has been shared outside of that forum until now. There are some classic tunes on here and I listened to it only yesterday for the first time in a while and like the songs themselves it stands the test of time! There are print quality covers in the zipped file that you will download, don't bother trying to print the images here on the blog as they are just low-res versions. Got to say I'm not too impressed with the covers for the first two in the series now, they look pretty lame compared with the later versions but I see no point in re-designing them now. It's the music that is important.

DISC ONE

• 01 Laurel Aitken & The Soulmen - Last Night
• 02 Syko And The Caribs - Do the Dog
• 03 Eternals - Queen of the Minstrels
• 04 K.C. White - No, No, No
• 05 Boris Gardner - Melting Pot
• 06 Toots & the Maytals - Funky Kingston
• 07 Jackie Mittoo - Juice Box
• 08 Jimmy Smith - Uh Ruh
• 09 Jimmy McGriff - Dig On It
• 10 Boogaloo Joe Jones - Right On
• 11 Bobbi Humphrey - Lonely Streets, Lonely Woman
  
• 12 Jeremy Steig - In the Beginning
• 13 Gene Harris - Listen Here
• 14 Sonny Cox - The Wailer
• 15 Phil Upchurch - The Way I Feel

DISC TWO

• 01 Reuben Wilson - The Sweet Life
• 02 S.O.U.L. - Burning Spear
• 03 Classic Example - That's Groovy
• 04 Eddie Bo - We're Doing It (Thang)
• 05 Esquires - Get On Up
• 06 The Precisions - If This Is Love (I'd rather be lonely)
  
• 07 Ringleaders - Baby What's Happened to Our Love
• 08 Darrell Banks - Angel Baby
• 09 Sam & Kitty - I've got something good
• 10 ZZ Hill - Gimme Gimme
• 11 Little Johnny Taylor - Zig Zag Lightning
• 12 Skip Easterling - (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
• 13 Howlin' Wolf - Killing Floor
• 14 Timmy Willis - Easy as Saying 1-2-3
• 15 The Knight Brothers - Tried So Hard to Please Her

download the zip file here and enjoy!