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
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
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?
Some time ago I bought a Lomography SuperSampler 4 lens camera, which made really cool pictures. Unfortunately the crappy little string mechanism (a very flimsy chord that had to be pulled in order to advance the film) broke after one roll of photos, and then I made things worse by trying to fix it myself (I know, I know, shouldn’t have tried to open it, but I was pissed off…).
Anyway, after that bad experience I had decided to stop experimenting with novelty cameras, especially when they’re 40 to 50 bucks each. And then I heard about the Disdéri toy cameras, which were extremely cheap (from 10 to 15 bucks), but also very hard to find (they seem to be produced in Korea and commercialized around East Asia).
Thank god nowadays we have Ebay, and I quickly found a seller that had the 3 lens and 4 lens cameras. I wasn’t able to test them out immediately since it’s been getting grayer and rainier around Paris, but I did manage to find a sunny day to test the 3 lens camera in and around the 19th arrondissement (park and canal).
Below are some of my favorite shots from that first roll of film. Hopefully I’ll soon have more of those, including from the 4 lens camera. Enjoy!
