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slevelt

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Combined Historian . teaches . #AngloDutch . he/him . funcrusher

will post hiphop

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good morning! Cannonball Adderley - Somethin’ Else @vinylrecords

I love Cannonball Adderley and in particular his collaborations with his brother Nat, but on this instead we get Miles Davis on probably the best record where he’s credited as session musician.

slevelt, to HipHop
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an intermittent 🧵 of great 90s by acts that never made it big. please add yours!

Channel Live - Reprogram https://youtu.be/14fwSAqxLrU (prod. KRS-One)

slevelt, to HipHop
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always sounds to me like so much of 90s West Coast #HipHop tracks its sound and aesthetic to Roy Ayers. e.g., Dr Dre only sampled this track once, for a Detox track, but I can't help suspecting he took much more from it for his sound.

the "my life, my life, my life" tag was true Cali staple, used by Tupac, Ice Cube, Mc Eiht ("my life, my life, my life, with a tech nine").

#NowPlaying Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves the Sunshine #vinyl @vinylrecords

Record cover of Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves the Sunshine, with a photograph of the artist in a yellow t-shirt. The music playing is the title track, with a low bass grove, a piano riff, and a high-pitched continuous synthesiser sound. The lyrics start with "my life, my life, my life, in the sunshine".

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recorded, by the way, at Electric Lady in New York, but that doesn't make it any less Southern Californian. @vinylrecords

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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jun/19/how-we-made-roy-ayers-everybody-loves-the-sunshine is a lovely read on this track -- "Roy would record after gigs, from midnight through to the morning. He thought musicians played better when they were tired, because they wouldn’t be thinking about anything." @vinylrecords

slevelt, to HipHop
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always sounds to me like so much of 90s West Coast #HipHop tracks its sound and aesthetic to Roy Ayers. e.g., Dr Dre only sampled this track once, for a Detox track, but I can't help suspecting he took much more from it for his sound.

the "my life, my life, my life" tag was true Cali staple, used by Tupac, Ice Cube, Mc Eiht ("my life, my life, my life, with a tech nine").

#NowPlaying Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves the Sunshine #vinyl @vinylrecords

Record cover of Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves the Sunshine, with a photograph of the artist in a yellow t-shirt. The music playing is the title track, with a low bass grove, a piano riff, and a high-pitched continuous synthesiser sound. The lyrics start with "my life, my life, my life, in the sunshine".

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weather has turned back to standard UK fare, so to compensate Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves the Sunshine @vinylrecords

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I know fewer tracks make for (potentially) better sound, but if you end up with only 2 tracks to a side, shouldn’t that double LP just have been a singleton after all? 🍋 @vinylrecords

slevelt, to bookstodon
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this is a weird book in many ways, not the least of which is Chatwin’s attention for, ahem, detail when meeting women. 🙄 @bookstodon

Close-up photo of a page from a book with printed text, including the phrase “Two full-bosomed women”.
Close-up of a printed book page with text describing a character's appearance, including the phrase “Her breasts were firm”.

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@izzybeth @bookstodon hahaha those are her arms, mentioned later in the line. weird too, but less weird perhaps 😅

slevelt, to vinyl
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Ultramagnetic MC's - Watch Me Now @vinylrecords

Record cover of Ultramagnetic MC's Critical Beatdown, with a photo of the members of the group standing on top of a person lying on the ground. The music playing is an instrumental opening of a funky rap track. One of the members of the group then asks 'Yo, Kool Keith—why everybody gotta watch you?', after which Kool Keith starts rapping: 'Well, I'm the ultimate—the rhyme imperial / I'm better, but some don't believe me though'

slevelt, to vinyl
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Good morning! Cannonball Adderley - Somethin’ Else @vinylrecords

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Good morning! Miles Davis Quintet - Freedom Jazz Dance (The Bootleg Series vol. 5) @vinylrecords - it’s like having the quintet rehearse in my living room 🔥🔥🔥

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have been wanting a copy for a while - just found at the local record fair. The cover is a bit discoloured, but the vinyl looks great - fingers crossed it will be when listening later today. 1982 Japanese pressing. @vinylrecords

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some crackles, but nothing that doesn’t add character, and what a fantastic record to play from vinyl, the sound is just sublime. @vinylrecords

Vinyl record cover of Miles Davis’ We Want Miles. The music playing is the instrumental funk jazz track Jean-Pierre.

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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (ex-library copy) @vinylrecords

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Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers - Any Other Way To Go? @vinylrecords (just testing the present I got for @gijslevelt - it’s got a little wobble, but plays perfectly. Run Joe!!!)

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@vinylrecords @gijslevelt Damn, hearing this, it’s perfect on vinyl - now I need to get my own copy, too. 😂

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so now it’s a party in here. @vinylrecords @gijslevelt

A vinyl record is playing on a turntable; a photo of the artist is printed on the label. The sound is a live recording of a go-go track by Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers.

slevelt, to vinylrecords
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was recently in a Leeds BHF store looking for @vinylrecords and I have to say while not actually surprised (the UK being what the UK is) was nevertheless appalled to come across several Al Jolson records stacked between the rest. 🤬

slevelt, to bookstodon
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only 8 pages in and I am entirely hooked. thank you, @buffyleigh, for the recommendation - perfect for what I was looking for. @bookstodon

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only just realised this is also an entirely appropriate post. @vinylrecords

https://hcommons.social/@slevelt/112302129014409786

slevelt, to vinyl
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Happy , @vinylrecords!

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus

slevelt,
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@hamsterhuey @vinylrecords it’s such a great one to put on - the fade in of Natural Mystic just perfect after the needle drop. Also loving that the sides aren’t labelled “Side” but “Part 1”, “Part 2”. I’m partial to Part 1.

slevelt, to australia
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hey @bookstodon, any recommendations for good things to read about/from or ? (fiction and non-fiction, recent and historical recommendations all welcome!)

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