Gizelle Smith and the Mighty Mocambos hit Manchester last week to party at Band on the Wall, and party they did. A fantastic response from the crowd kept ‘em funky, and the following day saw them recording live for Craig Charles’ Funk and Soul show on BBC 6 Music. You can catch some videos of all that here.
Most importantly of all (well, for me anyway) Gizelle and Team Mocambo were gracious enough to spend their Sunday on Groovement with myself, flicking through some tunes and blessing us with their sweet tones.
Download direct by clicking on the picture, or stream above. Up on iTunes this week.
Crew:
Gizelle Smith
Bjorn Mocambo
Victor Mocambo
Sebastian Mocambo
GIZELLE SMITH & THE MIGHTY MOCAMBOS Love Alarm
GIZELLE SMITH & THE MIGHTY MOCAMBOS Hold Fast (45 version)
BLACK JOE LEWIS Gunpowder
BLACK JOE LEWIS Tell ‘Em What You Need
FREDDIE KING Sen-Sha-Sun
SHARON JONES AND THE DAP KINGS I Learned The Hard Way
FREDA PAYNE Unhooked Generation
NINA SIMONE Love Me or Leave Me
JOHHNY GUITAR WATSON Those Lonely
RAMONA BROOKS I Don’t Want You Back
JACQUES PALMINGER Tüdeldub
GALACTIC FORCE BAND Space Dust
PARLIAMENT The Placebo Syndrome
THE DRAMATICS The Devil Is Dope
FLAMING EMBER Hey Mama
LES PAUL Johhny( Is The Boy For Me)
THE LINK QUARTET feat. GIZELLE SMITH If You Wanna Be My Man
FREDDIE KING I’m Tore Down
MIGHTY MO & THE WINCHESTER 7 The Next Message
GIZELLE SMITH June (TM Juke Remix)
GIZELLE SMITH Hold Fast (Junior Blender Remix)
DAEDELUS Order of the Golden Dawn
DANNY DRIVE THRU Crankenstein
HIEROGLYPHICS Make Your Move
A-SKILLS AND KRAFTY KUTS Peaches
ACEYALONE The Loney Ones (ft Bionik)
K-Os The Love Song
GANG STARR Ex Girl to the Next Girl
RODNEY P A Love Song (ft Julie Dexter)
MURS! & 9TH WONDER Bad Man!
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST Love
DEL THA FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN Love Is Worth
THE MOUSE OUTFIT Break of Dawn
PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS San Francisco Knights
LOVAGE Everyone Has A Summer
RAKIM Show Me Love
MF DOOM My Favorite Ladies
Interview
TEDIOUS LEMON (LEGION ALLOW IT VOL 1)
Survive
Laura
Washington
THE PHARCYDE Passin’ Me By
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST Stressed Out (ft Faith Evans)
GRAND PUBA Honey Don’t Front
BRAND NEW HEAVIES Jump ‘n’ Move
CUNNINLYNGUISTS Love Is (ft ToneDef)
DJ FORMAT Tedious Lemon Mini-Mix
ACEYALONE AND RJD2 Superhero
FREESTYLERS Ruffneck (ft Navigator)
SOUL POSITION Blame It On The Jaeger
JON K is top drawer DJ goodness. We’ve finally managed to drag him into Groovement to get a set done and what a schtonker it is too. So superlatively tremendous, in fact, that we’ve run out of describing words for it. Click play and float away.
JON K (EYES DOWN / FRIENDS AND FAMILY)
Recorded at Unity Radio Manchester (www.UnityRadio.fm)
Sunday 7th February 2010
Intro:
BULLION Say Goodbye to What (One Handed Music)
INFESTICONS Kick Anthem (Big Dada)
BONOBO Eyesdown (Floating Points) (Tru Thoughts)
Jon K Interview (playing underneath: SKELETONS Gravel (Tru Thoughts))
SPIRIT The Other Song (Mercury)
THE ORIENT EXPRESS Cobra Fever (Mainstream)
VERB T AND HARRY LOVE Make It Hott (Instrumental) (Medication Records)
BOB DARIN Me and Mr Horner (Direction Records)
CAPTIAN BEEFHEART AND THE MAGIC BAND When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy (WB)
DEVO Be Stiff (Stiff Records)
JOHN COOPER CLARKE (I Married) A Monster From Outer Space (CBS)
COMPUTER JAY Either Distance or Epiphany depending which way round the record goes (RAMP Recordings)
REGGIE DOKES Flowers Forever (WDH Recordings)
BLACK CHOW Purple Smoke (Hyperdub)
MATERIAL Reduction (Jungle Records)
ARCHITEQ Sleping Bear Lament (Tirk Records)
SPARKY DEE She’s So Def (Dub) (NIA Records)
LIL LOUIS & THE WORLD The Conversation (Epic)
DA ONE AWAY Trash Da Junk (808 Dub Version) (Main Squeeze)
OPTIC NERVE /TRILOGY WAVE 3 The Gateway (Direct Beat)
THD Tendency to Swing (Swingest Mix) (Serious Grooves)
DOPPLEREFFEKT Infophysix (Gigolo Records)
COOLY G Weekend Fly (Hyperdub)
U.S. ALLIANCE All I Know (Dem 2 Mix) (Locked On)
MARTIN CAMPBELL & HI TECH ROOTS DYNAMICS Wicked Rule (Dub) (Log On!!)
TALL T AND THE TOUCHERS Touching The President (White)
CLOUT Sunshine Baby (Carrere)
TOM WAITES Jockey Full of Bourbon (Island)
KAREN DALTON Sweet Substitute (Light In The Attic Records)
NATHAN DAVIS If (Soul Jazz)
JAN HAMMER GROUP Don’t You Know (Nemperor Records)
JOHNNY CASH Cocaine Blues (CBS)
Check an ace interview with Jon over at Basic Soul…
L-R: Briggzi O'Boy, Bedos, Jonny Dub, Debruit, Mooken at Unity Radio, Manchester
In town as part of the Red Bull Music Academy takeover of last weekend which saw Hudson Mohawke, Actress and Kode 9 amongst others hit Manchester (specifically the Roadhouse for Hoya Hoya), DEBRUIT dropped into Groovement over at Unity Radio to deliver a live set together with tunage from Mooken and Jonny Dub of HOYA HOYA.
I’ve been following Debruit for a while; his hip hop production has a real bounce to it as displayed especially over the last couple of EPs (with 3D covers no less) – his newest release, out imminently, is a digital package BEATS 4 HAITI sampling Haitian music with all proceeds going direct to victims of the earthquake.
Behold, un podcast magnifique.
TRACKLISTING:
Jonny Dub played:
lightgrids – Om Unit (illum sphere remix)
no one could ever – Hudson Mohawke
Sittin on the side – heralds of change
Quakes – flying lotus
Urban Outtake – Jimmy Edgar
Border Song – Lorn
Atliens – Outkast
I can’t forgive you – Actress
Memories- Pangaea
Black Sun – Kode 9
Square )ne – Mosca (bok bok remix)
Poison Dart (stampin feat. flowdan) – The Bug
Why – Pangaea
The Loot – J-Treole (sully remix)
1UP – Royal T (Martin Kemp remix)
Mooken played:
Neon Indian – AM
Hudson Mohawke – Shower Melody
Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
Richard X – Being Scrubbed
Doctors Cat – Crash
That Thing – That Thing (Social Disco Club Edit)
Gaznevada – I.C Love Affair
Mooken Tooken Alakazam! – I Don’t Wanna Go Daaan
Sheila E – Love Bizzare (Jason Hayer’s Edit)
Metro Area – Miura
Snoop Dog – Sexual Seduction (Instrumental)
Five Star – All Fall Down
As well as being a lover of 50s vintage, cheesecake and hair rock, native Mancunian Miz DeShannon has been a regular on the city’s music scene for the last few years, working for various clubnights, festivals and venues. Miz runs the Northern Quarter’s MAPS Festival which we DJ’d at in 2009, as well as being a presenter on Channel M. Here are her favourite prog, punk, glam and speed rock anthems. There is also a MAPS cat.
Kicking off the first Groovement show of 2010 in style with badman Illum Sphere. The LONG LIVE THE PLAN EP is ready to be dropped into digital and vinyl selling cabage patches worldwide – have a listen over at myspace.com/theillumsphere.
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He’s joining a great line-up at this year’s Red Bull Music Academy and was the recipient of the BBC Radio 1Xtra bursary to develop his work, Mary Anne Hobbs and Grimmers have played his stuff on that big station Radio One, and even Thom Yorke’s getting in on the action by playlisting Illum’s tracks over at radiohead.com…
A landmark show with some great upfront sounds and some deep talk with our shining star. Big up yer chests for tuning in.
Select quotes on Illum’s new stuff:
Martyn (3024/ Hyperdub): “From Manchester’s seemingly bottomless talent pool, Illum Sphere is def the one to watch for 2010!”
Mary Anne Hobbs (BBC Radio 1): “Dark drama from Illum Sphere… ‘Psycho’ is his strongest track to date.. no contest!”
Lorn (Brainfeeder): “I see 4am, blurred damp street lights, and the master Illum with his subtle torch. What can i say…. ‘Long Live The Plan’ is legit as fuck and new surprises greet me with every listen.”
Brackles (Planet Mu/ Apple Pips): “This is so sick, literally cannot stop listening to this.”
Wire Magazine: “Long Live The Plan… transcends influence and obvious method”
DOOM The. Green. Whore. Net
DOOM Gazillion Ear (Dr Who Dat? aka Jneiro Jarel Remix)
GRASSCUT Muppet
Then Illum Sphere plays:
Tadd Mullinix- Woman In The Dunes
Jeremiah Jae- SuperLevelHeads
Flying Lotus- Quakes
Illum Sphere- Never Lie Twice
Africa Hitech- Glangslap
Martyn- Hear Me (Zomby Remix)
Mark Pritchard- Elephant Dub
Slugabed- Ultra Heat Treated
Cortex- Huit Octobre
Lloyd Miller- Gozel Guzler (Amber Eyes)
Alemayehu Eshete- Telantena Zare
Falty DL- Groove
Doppler Effekt- Info Physix
Underground Resistance- Hi Tech Jazz
Drexciya- Journey Home
Sole Fusion- Bass Tone
Marcel Dettmann- Shatter Proof
Africa Hitech- 93 Million Miles
Martyn- Freidrichstrasse
Illum Sphere- Chasing The Midnight Moth (Ikonika Remix)
Rainbow Team- My Darling
Om Unit- Lightgrids (Illum Sphere’s Get Off The Grid Mix)
Mark Pritchard- Heavy As Stone
Untold- Flexible
Wax- 10001
Martyn- Brilliant Orange (Illum’s Sphere No.14 Mix)
Gonjasufi- Ancestors
Foreign Beggars- Break Free (Blue Daisy Remix)
Illum Sphere- Shadowman
Joe Pass- A Time For Us (Dedicated to the memory of Simon Goss and John Hunn)
Radiohead- Everything In It’s Right Place
Chemise- She Can’t Love You
The Other People Place- Let Me Be Me
Originally broadcast on Sunday the 10th of January 2010.
A RE-UP from a while ago, but I’ve been hammering his recent mix for MUSIQUE LARGE and the new album is available to buy digitally now… Go cop it here at Bandcamp and have a listen on this little player above!
Read on for the Groovement mix…
Kidkanevil, straight outta Tokyorkshire, beat banger and hat wearer. With his new album BASHO BASHO imminent and a remix compilation just released, what better time for some Groovmentkanevil action complete with obligitary public service announcements from the safest names in soul. Keep it tight, funksters…
www.kidkanevil.com
www.firstwordrecords.com
KIDKANEVIL’S PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT MIX FOR THE GOOD PEOPLE AT GROOVEMENT
1. Curtis Mayfiled PSA
2. Kankick – Fresh Produce 1
3. Muhsinah – Gogh (Daru’s pt2 remix)
4. Bei Bei & Shawn Lee ft Georgia Ann Muldrow – Make Me Stronger (Floating Points remix)
5. Flying Lotus ft Andreya Triana – Tea Leaf Dancers (Eliphino remix)
6. Flying Lotus – Parisian Goldfish (Take remix)
7. The Pointer Sisters PSA
8. Red – Yomama (Dees Nuts remix)
9. 16 Bit – Cobra
10. James Blake – Air & Lack Thereof
11. Joker & Ginz – Purple City
12. Peter Yarrow PSA
13. Janko Nilovic – In The Space
14. Shafiq Husayn – The U.N Plan
15. Ras G – Astrohood
16. DJ Quik & Kurupt – 9x Outta 10
17. Nosaj Thing – FWD
18. Exile – Extra Funk
19. Steve Miller PSA
20. Mos Def ft Slick Rick – Auditorium
21. Drum Language
22. R.P. Patnaik – Thiruvizha Nu Vantha
23. Bill Withers PSA
24. J Dilla – Strugglin (inst)
25. kidkanevil – Minjo
26. Jackie Wilson PSA
GROOVEMENT SPECTRORECTIVE 2009
Happy New Year etc! Twas beautiful round here (I write this 2 hours into 2010) with fireworks and lanterns filling the skies of Sheffield from all different directions. Good look.
It was with some trepidation that I started putting together a compilation to showcase some of the artists that have featured on the show this year: without the names below and a whole lot more, Groovement would not have grown the way it has. A humungous thank you to anyone and everyone who has uttered the magic word GROOVEMENT! in 2009 and helped us grow!
In the end I stopped worrying and just threw a load of ace tunes together. So it’s a look back at some of the artists that have crossed the drawbridge of Castle Groovement this year, with a hearty thanks to all!
TRACKLISTING TODDLA T Where Mi Key Deh? (ft Mr Versatile)
CROWHEAD Super 8-Bit Disco
KIDKANEVIL Megajoy
DAEDELUS LA Nocturn
PAUL WHITE Burnt by the Sun
BRACKLES Get A Job
ILLUM SPHERE Psycho
MR OIZO $tunt$ (Flying Lotus Remix)
GASLAMP KILLER Anything Worse
NOTORIOUS BIG Suicidal Thoughts (Danny Drive Thru Rework)
RAS G Come Down (2 Earth)
ONRA Come Closer (Kicks & Claps Edit)
ONRA/METHOD MAN/REDMAN (DAPPA DUBS EDIT)
GHOSTFACE/DOOM Chinatown Wars
SHAPE OF BROAD MINDS Let’s Go
MAYER HAWTHORNE Green Eyed Love (Classixx Remix)
DAM FUNK Sunset
CROWHEAD ECM
GIZELLE SMITH June (TM Juke Remix)
JAZZANOVA ft PAUL RANDOLPH Let Me Show You
>Toddla T / Where Mi Keh Deh (ft Mr Versatile) (1965)
Skanky Skanky, T’s debut album, was launched to glowing praise from blog and broadsheet alike. Toddla has continued to swell and he’s ending 2009 on a jolly: he saw in Christmas Day on Radio 1 and plays Fabric for New Year’s. If he keeps on saving up he should be able to fund Park Hill flats’ resurrection single handedly. Groovement chatted to Toddla when he played Futuresonic at Urbis with Daedelus and Hudson Mohawke. Will publish that one in the New Year, but Keaney was on photo duties below.
Groovement Interview: Toddla T forthcoming
>Crowhead / 8-Bit Disco (Atic)
The first of two tracks from Christian Wood AKA Woody AKA The Nudge AKA CROWHEAD on this compilation: Born With Teeth was the album, released on ATIC records out of the ashes of Grand Central, so to speak. Download the two glorious podcast below and be subject to an education in music and warmth from the man himself.
>Kidkanevil / Megajoy (First Word)
Title sums it all up really (as opposed to Master System Joy, which could have been an alt title for Mr Wood’s venture) – a blissful ode to video gaming of the old skool. Basho Basho, LP number three, is out imminently.
Thanks to Hoya Hoya links Daedelus has become somewhat of a Groovement regular. Check the links below – I don’t think I need to say how much he fulfills your image of a true gentleman. Always humble, always polite, always ready to entertain with his magician’s box of tricks.
Speaking of blissful, the gently spoken Paul White rode ashore to visit Hoya Hoya (Illum Sphere and Jonny Dub’s club night in Manchester) and played a rare northern DJ set. The Strange Dreams of Paul White came out in a pillowcase, unfortunately sans any personal dribble from the man himself.
>Brackles / Get A Job (Apple Pips)
Sir Brackles of Hertfordshire skydived into Unity Towers for a midmonth Hoya one-off, showcasing his pioneering tunage in a show with Kidkanevil and Illum Sphere providing cover fire.
This seems to be the breakthrough tune from the Sphere, with the second EP it hails from not even physically released at time of writing. It’s been played on Radio 1 by underground Wonder Woman Mary Ann Hobbes and some other bloke and has a bassline to blow dry your cat with, sprinkled caringly with a most beautiful ice-cavey style melody and ending with a bloody phaser. Ace. Illum’s support of Groovement has been out of this world: half the guests I’ve had on just wouldn’t have come anywhere near without his help.
An interview where we talked about comics and animation, and I found out Fly Lo wasn’t too keen on Spider-Man. The Mint Lounge survived the aural assault on this night from his performance, but I’ve heard its structural integrity has been called into question owing to the PHATNESS of it.
Non-compromising yet polite, deep yet manic, the GLK honoured Groovement with a big friendly chat about Manchester’s digging scene (Finders Keepers) and some insight into LA’s Low End Theory fallout.
>Notorious BIG / Suicidal Thoughts (Drive Thru Rework) (Unreleased)
A really dear friend of Groovement’s, DDThru is about to drop his Virtua version of Ante Up on Fat City’s PRODUCERS #2 album. Constantly at work on new beatage and pushing himself further, look out for more from Drive Thru in the coming months
A lot of heads picked up on this interview (ok, tweeted about) as revealing some of the origins of the LA beat scene. Ras is pretty forthcoming, pulling us into his own cosmos (especially impressive as we were in Illum Sphere’s very tidy bedroom). A nice accompaniment to the Fly Lo and GLK missives.
The Mouse Outfit, 8-headed funk monster with a hip hop tinge in the form of rappers Ragman and D Dot X, are spiralling towards wider recognition in 2009. Combining spiffing musicianship with lyrical dexterity, the Mice recently performed three songs live on Groovement and acted a selectas for the Christmas show.
>Onra / Come Closer (Favourite Recordings) >Onra Vs Method Man/Redman (Dappa Dubs Remix)
Humble and reserved, Parisian powerhouse Onra has a lot coming up in 2010, most soonish a dub project which you can preview on his Soundcloud (from whence you can also hear the above Meth mash up by Dappa Dubs). Read more below! Massive big ups to MIND ON FIRE for getting him over. Good move. This track’s one of my favourite from 1.0.8.
>Ghostface Killah and DOOM / Chinatown Wars
I think this joint (produced by Oh No) is from a GTA game of the same name, correct me if I’m wrong? Whatever, Ghost was personable and polite, willing to have a natter despite the pizza and groupies calling his name. My only concern was the lack of knowledge of the El Michels Affair, who Ghost had sampled for Musings to Myself and Shakey Dog featuring Lolita.
>Shape Of Broad Minds: Let’s Go (Lex Records) What was meant to be a speedy transatlantic phone interview turned into an hour of viberian experience with the multi-talented and multi-faceted prince of his area, Jneiro Jarel aka Shape Of Broad Minds. This is an older track from the Broad Minds album rather than from the more recent Willie Isz LP, but it’s a monster.
>Mayer Hawthorne /Green Eyed Love (Classixx Remix) / Stones Throw
The new boy when on tour early in March, Mayer was taking a break from band performances to spin some 45s at the Deaf Institute in Manchester. As lovely as you’d expect him to be. Last seen shaking his booty in that Snoop/Soulja Boy video. This is a sublime remix of the final track on his debut album, released as a B side to the single.
One for those that bought Toeachizown and are unsure where to go next, Sunset does it for me everytime. It oozes a number of things, not least the sun going down over the city as I drive along a warm windy road into nothingness… and I don’t even drive. If this was a drink, it would be a very expensive cocktail, ya dig? Dam’s been chosen as number 3 album of the year by Piccadilly Records, a great coup and good payback for masses of work he’s put into his music.
One of Rob Luis’ (Tru Thoughts) top tunes of the year, continuing the sublime tip and taking it to another level. Woody shines through in a bout of melancholia.
>Gizelle Smith / June (TM Juke remix) (Record Kicks)
And for dessert… a 45 released by Italian label record kicks, independent of Gizelle’s own debut album release proper on Mocambo/Legere Records where she is backed up by the Mighty Mocambos. Gizelle appeared on one of the first editions of Groovement back in December 2007 and will certainly be jumping back on board upon their debut performances in early 2010. Classic funk with sassy attitude, June’s an emotive jumper-upper with a killer hook.
Groovement Podcast forthcoming
>Jazzanova ft Paul Randolph / Let Me Show You (Sonar Kollektiv)
Band on the Wall was graced with a two-night residency of the SOUL incarnation of Jazzanova, with Detroit songbird (in a blokey sense) Paul Randolph layering on the lushness. This was one of the highlights of a set which really made me hear the power behind BOTW’s new sound system. Spine tingling.
The snow was falling and spirits were high… Crackers and mince pies litter the studio with flute, guitar and beatboxing ready to go for the Mouse Outfit Christmas Special on Groovement. Live performances from the band round out the show after each (available) member chooses a couple of their favourite tunes. Also joining us is Manc beatmaker Danny Drive Thru with a brand new track in anticipation of his beat on the new Fat City compilaiton PRODUCERS #2.
If you don’t know about the Mouse Outfit then go here. They’re ending the year on a high with a recent appearance on BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Ras Kwame Homegrown podcast, last week’s Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show and some airplay on BBC Radio 6’s Tom Robinson show later today.
Originally broadcasts Sunday 20th December 2009 on Unity Radio
It’s been a long time coming for FINGATHING bass wielder SNEAKY to come and drop into the Groovement studio at Unity Radio. Residing in Berlin and busy beavering away at solo projects including remixes and his own debut album FEEL LIKE A KING… PLUCK A STRING in 2009, Sneaky was still coming down from an earth-shattering live set at newly-reopened Manc venue Band on the Wall the previous night. A healthy selection of mixed up vibes to float away to.
Keep up to date on Sneaky’s latest activities including the Soul Concentrate series of mixes over at www.thisissneaky.co.uk
Top of the show is presented by Agent J then ILLUM SPHERE dropping a few before the arrival of our man Sneaky.
Originally broadcast on Unity Radio www.unityradio.fm 22nd November 2009
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