Video of the Day – Digging in Belgium

Beautiful video, interesting interview and anecdotes, perfect music. What else can I say?

Wallifornia Soul from Laid Back on Vimeo.

GonzoCast Vol9 – Gonzo Digs Funk

Here’s the ninth volume of the GonzoCast series, featuring some excellent funk/soul found in my two favorite music shops in Paris: Groove Store and Le Silence de la Rue.

There’s a lot of James Brown in there, but that’s only because I came upon a huge stash of his EPs and I bought the whole thing. Also, he rocks!

Enjoy!

1. Gonzo intro
2. James Brown – There It Is (Part 1)
3. Funky Nassau – Bahama Soul Stew (Kenny Dope Edit)
4. James Brown – Get on the Good Foot (Part 1)
5. Lil’ Buck & the Top Cats – Monkey in a Sack
6. James Brown – It’s a New Day (Part 1)
7. The Highlighters Band – The Funky 16 Corners (Part 1)
8. Little Milton – That’s What Love Will Make You Do
9. Booker T & the MGs – Melting Pot
10. The Diplomatics – Hum-Bug (Part 2)
11. Albert King – Drowning on Dry Land
12. James Brown – Sometimes
13. Gonzo outro

Video of the day – The Archive

What would I do if I were to somehow come across an unexpected 3 million bucks?

I would buy this:

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

GonzoCast Vol8 – Gonzo Digs Turkey

As promised earlier, here is the eighth segment of the GonzoCast series. I’ve compiled my favorite records found in Istanbul during a Christmas holiday. Enjoy!

1. Gonzo intro
2. Kerem Güney – Ask Insani Aglatir
3. Vedat Çetinkaya – Bakma Bakma Dayanilmaz
4. Mehmet Taneri – Seni Sevmek
5. Nese Karaböcek – Intizar
6. Emel Sayin – Albümdeki Resimler
7. Güzide Kasaci – Açik Birak Pencereni
8. Müslüm Sümbül – Gel Beri Beri Zulfü Siyahim
9. Gonzo outro

Videos of the day – Korla Pandit

As you’ll have noticed I like to make my own custom intros and outros for my podcasts, usually thematically and/or aurally linked to the nature of the podcast. I basically have a huge collection of samples from movies, TV shows, radio shows, stand up bits, and anything else I may find interesting and/or useful. But sometimes I need to scour the internet to find just the piece of sound that I need. My next podcast, for instance, will focus on old Turkish records bought during a trip to Istanbul, and I have to admit I have no audio ressources referring to that.

So I spent some time on blogs and Youtube to find inspiration. I was also doing some searches for images, when I stumbled upon the excellent Thrift Store DJ blog. I’m going to have to find some time to download and listen to all the excellent music that’s available on that website, but what first brought me there was a video featuring Korla Pandit. From that video I watched and read everything I could find on him, and I must say I am pretty damn impressed by all I’ve found on him.

Anyway, here’s the video from which I’m going to sample the voice-over from the beginning, followed by an incredible song and dance version of Miserlou (a.K.a. Misirlou, a.k.a. “the song from Pulp Fiction”, a.k.a. “that Black Eyed Peas song”…ugh…). Enjoy!

How could you not love that turban and that face at the end of each video?