Dream Weapons present: DAYS & NIGHTS IN THE GHETTO C90

I(’m an amateur) DJ every once in a while. And lately I’ve been doing these more or less monthly vintage Soul nights. Focusing on that glorious late 60’s - early 70’s era when sweet Soul Music got progressive and fused itself with Psychedelic Rock, Jazz, Funk, African music and whatnot… Often with orchestral arrangements, ethnic percussion and various keyboards. But never forgetting to groove. I love it, and so it seems, does the people attending. 

Needless to say there’s A LOT of practically unheard gems waiting to be discovered. These are all some of my recently discovered, favorite obscurities. About 3/4th of this selection have already been - or will be played at my own club nights. This means no balladeering, and that you can pretty much dance your way though the whole mix. If you feel like it. I was thinking that the days in the ghetto reflects the songs of struggle, while the night-time is playtime. This should be a fun ride for you all. Enjoy! -Moahaha

-This mix/compilation wouldn't have been half as great if it wasn't for the AMAZING FunkMySoul website. If you enjoy this, you should most definitely check out their shares - and spend some time over there.

1 Kay Gees - Ain`t No Time Part 1
2 General Crook - What Time it is (vocal)
3 Barbara Stant - Shadow In Your Footsteps
4 Hot Chocolate (US) - Messin’ With Sly
5 Tenison Stephens - Don't Rip Me Off*
6 Kay Gees - Ain`t No Time Part 2
7 Barbara Mason - World War Three #7
8 Bar-Kays - Love Pollution
9 Alice Swoboda - I Think It's Time (You Were Mine)
10 Ju-Par Universal Orchestra - Mocha Velvet  
11 The Fantastic Four - You Turn Me Around
12 Barbara Acklin - You've Been in Love Too Long
13 Satisfaction Unlimited - Spread Your Love Around

14 Brown Sugar - Dance To The Music
15 Chairmen Of The Board - I: Morning Glory, II: Life & Death,   
 - III: White Rose, IV, Life & Death II
16 Denise Lasalle - Your Man And Your Best Friend
17 William Bell - Phases Of Reality
18 Sister Goose And The Ducklings - Super Shine #9
19 Willie Joe - Funny Thing
20 The Nite-Liters - Pee-Foul
21 Gwen McCrae - Mr. Everything
22 Lim Taylor - The World's In A Bad Situation
23 Vivian Reed - The Shape of Things to Come
24 Phillip Mitchell - I'll See You in Hell First
25 Ohio Players - Satan's Boogie
26 Kool and Together - Get Your Feet Off the Ground 

*Also: Upon relistening; Tenison Stephens - Don't Rip Me Off  (link in bold) - sounded lower in the mix than the songs surrounding it. It truly deserves to be enjoyed like the hard hitting gem it actually is, so I fixed that for you on this new file - for that song specifically.  

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Dream Weapons present: CITY LIGHTS C90

For as long as I can recall I’ve loved those gorgeous string arrangements, the lighthearted playful sensuality, the synths and the grooves of Disco. Yet I never felt like had the overview or knowledge to compile a mix. But now I went along and did it anyway. During the years these 19 tracks were recorded: from 1975 to 1982: Disco was a global phenomena. So there’s literally a whole world of largely unheard gems out there to discover. Locating different takes from different scenes is most definitely part of the charm. Some funky, jazzy and organic takes, while others goes hard on the synths and drum machines. But always peppy, fun and... life-affirming -Moahaha

1 İstanbul Şarkıcıları - Yanmışım
2 Lynsey de Paul - Love Bomb
3 Alain Leroux & Christer Norden - Feeling Really Groovy
4 Carrie Lucas - Are You Dancing?
5 Min Hae Kyung / Goin' Back to China / ゴーイン･バック･トゥ･チャイナ
6 Noël - I Want a Man
7 Who's Who - Ad Libitum 80
8 The Tee Cee's - Solid And Cool
9 Min Hae Kyung / 민해경 - Must Be Love / 사랑은 그래야만 해요
10 Arp-Life - Apolobamba

11 Emmie Yokoyama - Disco Vampirella
12 Zdenka Kovačiček - Kobra
13 Il Etait Une Fois - L'amour Dans Mon Pays
14 Piotr Figiel Ensemble - Good Morning Mr
15 JPM And Co. - Adieu L'Ami
16 La Sha Ba - You've Been Hunchin'
17 Yumi Murata  - A Conscious Lie / みんな嘘
18 Andy Nelson (Serge Ponsar) - Lady Angie
19 Hiroshi Sato - Jōdo

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The image used for the cover art, and at least 1/3 of these tunes were original rips located at the unique and wonderful Melodiesmagic-blog. They make their own compilations too (which I should really check out myself:)

Dream Weapons present: BITE THE DUST C60

I was sick for about half of March, and in that period I’ve almost finished eight mixtapes (including Mothers & Daughters and The Shrine). So that’s the reason why I’ve been on a roll here lately. 

-Anyway I wanted to collect some songs for you that grooves really deep and hard. The cover kind of look a like a silly disaster movie poster or something like that, doesn’t it? Bite the Dust does have a soundtrack-feel, but perhaps in a more biker movie way. Mainly just tons of left field semi-psychedelic bops and bangers - that sometimes even rocks! A fun and entertaining mix I think. Like Cosmic Carpet Ride or The Wild Ones on steroids -Moahaha

Brw: I noticed I've titled this mix (Bite the Dust) in the "album artist" section and not "album". Hopefully you can easily add the title in the correct place yourself.

1 Czerwone Gitary - Coda
2 Ravi Harris and The Prophets - Thunderbird
3 Eddie the Sheik Kochak - Phaedra Pharonica
4 Hal Blaine & The Young Cougars - The Phantom Driver
5 Franz Auffray - Salted Popcorn
6 Takeshi Terauchi & Blue Jeans - Yakkosan
7 Baris Manco - Anadolu
8 Think - California (Is Getting So Heavy)
9 Bill Plummer and the Cosmic Brotherhood - Yentra II
10 Jacky Chalard - L'Agonie

11 Sault - Fields
12 Romano Rizzati - Shake 5B
13 21. Peron - Köy Dügünü
14 J.A. Caesar - 人間様の唄
15 H. Caiage ‎ - Desert Parkway
16 Mike Rozakis - Mystical Experience
17 Pure Jade Green  - Purple Grass Growing
18 The Phantoms - Progression Riff
19 The Ceyleib People - Changes (Tygstl)

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Dream Weapons present: SOULSIDE JOURNEY C60

You may not be able to tell from my shares, but I love the hell out of 60-70’s funky soul music and listen to it all the time. It still feels somewhat a little outside my «field of expertise» (whatever that may be), so I guess I’ve l haven’t had a full mix in me until now. Well, actually I posted a Soulside Journey C90 ten years ago which is probably my least interesting mix ever. This has the same title but the cover and all the songs are new. I think by now I’ve fallen into enough rabbit holes full o' soul to compile an hour of non-stop bangers for you. Ok, maybe not all bangers, but all great -Moahaha

 

1 Chuck Brooks - Love's Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down (Part 2)
2 Aaron Neville - Jailhouse
3 The Wildcats - 3625 Groovy Street
4 The V.I.P.s - Maxie's Mood
5 Gloria Jones - Share My Love
6 Sloan Bey - Look At Your Brother
7 Carla Thomas - Give Me Enough (To Keep Me Going)
8 George Jackson - Love Hijacker Pt. 2
9 Ted Taylor - Something Strange Is Going On In My House
10 Nikki Giovanni - The Way I Feel

11 Dynamic Corvettes - It’s A Trap
12 Goldie & The Gingerbreads - Song Of The Moon
13 Jacky Giordano - Steel Mongoes
14 Doug Hammond - Wake Up Brothers
15 Ralph & The Telecasters  - Something Deep Inside
16 Winfield Parker - Starvin’
17 Bun Hunga And His Combo - Bangala
18 The Natural Resources Unpolluted - Funky With My Stuff
19 Jewel Bass - It's Been a Long Time Coming 

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Dream Weapons present: THE WILD ONES C60

This time I wanted to compile the ultimate soundtrack for a non-existing B-movie. Let's say its an unnecessarily violent, mildly entertaining Bonnie & Clydeish cash-in flick with a killer score and a moderately large cult following. Something like that.

-Gorgeous themes, groovin’ tunes, hip chansons, soul bangers, occult psych, far out exotica… its got a little bit of everything. And the action seemingly takes place on several continents. Yeah this one was mostly put together to entertain myself - and you. It almost qualifies as a "party mix" -Moahaha

1 Codreanu Maria Petrovna/ Мария Кодриану - У одиноких тополей
2 Aut'Chose - Une Saison En Enfer
3 Thomas Elerth - Beatin’ It
4 A Gethsémani - Primavera Cha Cha
5 Puccio Roelens - Leewards
6 Soul Brothers Inc. - I Don't Think We Are Going Back Again
7 Rino De Filippi - Calcolatore Elettronico
8 Sophie's Dream - Walpurgis
9 Afro-Blues Quintet Plus One - Victims Of Change

10 Idris Muhammad - New Orleans
11 Orquestra CBD - Tema da Zorra
12 Nahid Akhtar - Saturday Night
13 Maurice Jarre - Roxanne
14 Yma Sumac - Sansa
15 Spectre - Elephant, Mosquito
16 Barney Wilen - Zombizar Reloaded
17 Masami Kawahara & The Exotic Sounds - Taboo

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Dream Weapons Present: MURDEROUS GROOVES c120

In 2022 I reworked both of my early C120's, and removed thirty minutes of music from each. Making them an easier digestable - and just a better listening experience. Better sounding, better flow, better cover art and not too overlong... So I suggest you click on the link/cover underneath and check out that one instead:

-but you may disagree and the original is actually one of our most popular mixes ever, so the original is still available:

 

 

Jazz can be and mean a great many different things - spiritual, intellectual, political, relaxing, painful... you name it. Its also potentially full of suspense, tension, action and horror which is why jazz has been used to a great extent in film noir, thrillers, crime, giallo, cop-movies to name a few genres. I don't know why film-makers abandoned the perfect soundpalette to go along with moving images in favour of pompous orchestral scores and seemingly random pop-songs, but I know that they shouldn't have.

There's much greatness hidden in mostly obscure soundtracks and even more obscure production/library records - and from countless hours of excellence I've compiled 2x60 minutes of tunes in all kinds of moods, approaches and genres really, but still pretty much jazz in one way or another.

-Moahaha

At the Cinema

1 Giovanni Tommaso - Underground Number Seven  (Vivere a Tokio: Citta Del Paradiso)

2 Guy Pedersen - Chasse À L'homme  (Céleste)

3 The Chico Hamilton Quintet – Sidney's Theme  (The Sweet Smell of Success)

4 Orkest Ruud Bos - Dat Verhaal Van Jou  (Dat Verhaal Van Jou)

5 Stelvio Cipriani - Spiata  (La Morte Cammina Con i Tacchi Alti)

6 Pippo Caruso – Discosession  (L'occhio Dietro La Parete)

7 Fiorenzo Carpi - Pelle Di Luna  (Un Bianco Vestito Per Mariale')

8 Ennio Morricone - Gatto a Nove Code  (Gatto a Nove Code)

9 Ziad Rahbani - Variation 2  (Bennesbeh Labokra...Chou?)

10 Stefano Liberati - Shark Jazz Band  (Pericolo Negli Abissi)

11 Aldo Buonocore - La Fine di Fanny  (Ciak Si Muore)

12 Barney Wilen - Poursuite et Metro  (Un Témoin Dans la Ville)

13 Raymond Le Sénéchal – Generique  (Chateau En Suede)

14 Art Blakey - No Hay Problema Pt. 2  (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)

In the Library

1 The Swingers – Stadio  (Jazz Video 4)

2 Michel Bernholc – Articulation  (Patchwork Orchestra 3)

3 Raymond Guiot – Primitive Spirit  (Musique En Vrac)

4 Keith Papworth – Wheel Man  (Metropolis)

5 Bruno Nicolai – Immaginativa  (Espressioni)

6 Ennio Morricone – Proposizioni  (April Orchestra Vol. 3)

7 Janko Nilovic – Flemish Suite  (Funky Tramway)

8 A.R Luciani – Epicratica  (Situazioni)

9 Camille Sauvage – Requiem Pour Satan  (Fantasmagories)

10 Luigi Zito – Movimento  (Miscellenea)

11 Pierre Arvay – Footing  (Cross Through Yesterday And Present Day)

12 Egisto Macchi – Stressing  (Neuro Tensivo)

13 Guy Pedersen – Bass-Tille  (Bass + Bass + Bass)

14 Alessandro Alessandroni – Introverso  (E Il Suo Complesso)

15 Luciano Simoncini – Interventisi  (Storia & Politica)

16 Fabio Fabor – Foule  (Infini)

17 Daniela Casa – Dittatura  (Societa' Malata)

18 Elvio Monti & Pelleus – Piscopatia  (Apprensioni)

19 Basil Kirchin & John Coleman – Paranoia  (Mind on the Run)

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