Funky16Corners After Dark Pt1
Funky16Corners After Dark Pt1 – Mixed for Delirious Sunrise
Playlist
Intro
Temptations – Papa Was a Rolling Stone (inst)
Brothers of Hope – Nickol Nickol
Earnest Jackson – Funky Black Man
Joe Zawinul – Soul of aVillage
Pat Lewis-I’ll Wait
Lowell Fulsom-Pico
Merl Saunders-Ode to Billie Joe
Syl Johnson- Is It Because I’m Black
Winston Wright – Heads or Tails
Brian Auger and the Trinity – Bumpin’ On Sunset
William DeVaughn – Be Thankful For What You’ve Got
The Cals – Stand Tall
Brother Jack McDuff – Moon Rappin’
Art Jerry Miller – Moonshot
Roy Meriwether Trio – What’s the Buzz
El Chicano – Viva Tirado
Bobby Christian – Mooganga
Freddy Robinson – Black Fox
Listen/Download 138MB/256KB Mixed MP3
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The mix you see before you today (the second part of which will be posted on Friday) is the first hour of the show I put together for the Delirious Sunrise show on WLUW.
Considering that the show airs from 4AM to 6AM, I wanted to whip up a downtempo blend, at times funky, but in that twilight, laid back, noir-ish way that characterizes those few, quiet hours before the dawn.
Though many of the tracks included in these two hours have appeared in this space before (whether as part of a Funky16Corners Radio mix or individually) the assemblage thereof is new, and if I say so myself, pretty tasty, at least as laid out for the time in question.
I’ve gone into my deep and abiding love for my iPod in this space (and over at Iron Leg) several times in the past. Though I could be considered a ‘late adapter’, to say that the last few years have seen the iPod become an integral part of my daily (and nightly) routine would be a drastic understatement.
My daily life – thanks to a variety of factors – can be fairly hectic, sometime rising to the level of brain-scrambling, and those few, precious hours after the kids have taken to their beds (those not devoted to working on the blogs) are often spent wandering around in one or both (I have one devoted to video) of the old MP3 delivery devices.
Aside from the occasional stint in the automobile, most of my intensive listening – the time when I dig particularly deeply into a record – is done right before passing out for the night.
With the lights out and the earbuds in place, I can elevate the volume, and jump wildly from song to song, genre to genre until I latch onto something that grabs my ears in a special way, drills down into my psyche, and eventually finds its way into this space, alongside my ruminations. It’s really the only time of day where things get quiet enough (within and without) to approach music the way that it deserves.
It kind of takes me back to the days when I’d go to sleep every night with the radio next to my pillow, listening to everything from music stations to weird (at least the early 70s version of ‘weird’) talk radio, to the local ABC TV affiliate with a signal that could be heard at the very bottom of the FM dial.
After I get to the point where I’m too tired to go on any more, I pick something meditative, running the gamut from Nick Drake, to Mississippi John Hurt, Thelonious Monk, Ravi Shankar, or Kraftwerk or whatever, turn over and surrender myself to sleep.
Thanks to the fact that I’ve always had a hard time getting to sleep (less so these days, for obvious reasons), and staying there, I always go to sleep listening to something – music or spoken word – and often put things on when I wake up during the night so that I can get back to sleep.
Though I have no idea about the science of the matter, I have always found that having music playing while I sleep helps me dream (or at least have more interesting dreams), and has enough of a soothing effect so that when sleep is interrupted (hitting the pleasure centers of the brain and masking background noise) it can be reestablished.
I’m not completely sure that everyone will take this as an endorsement, but for the last few weeks, these two mixes (I have them linked together in a playlist) have been the soundtrack to my nights. There are a lot of deep records over the course of these two hours, and I find no matter where I hit the mix timewise, I always get a little bit of that ‘Oh, cool…’ feeling, and my overactive brain downshifts a little and all is once again well.
Whether or not you (the listener) decides to employ it in the same way, or as a calming (yet oddly stimulating) companion to your waking hours, I hope you find that I have selected them well, and that you dig them too.
Peace
Larry
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WOW, I got to get me that Nickol Nickol !! Awesome track Eleonor Rigby on it? loved it.
I used to have a double but I think I traded it away. It used to be cheap but I think it’s getting more popular. Craig Moerer has one for $70!?!
You really hit the nail on the head, Larry. A lot of what you said expresses the essence of why I do what I do on the radio.
As for dreaming, I’ve sworn by a book called “the Einstein Factor” for a long time. “Image Streaming” whether it is by way of trying to sleep or just clearing the head is best with music.
On top of that, I’ve always found the hours between 3 and 5 the best time to do writing or otherwise, would be a shame if it didn’t get adequately employed for listeners.
Honestly, can’t thank you enough for putting your best foot forward on this one…
Cheers,
Arvo
Thanks Arvo!
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Nice to hear Alan Watts on the Funky16 intro..as always the music is ‘nailed on’.
Alan Watts, cool, my personal guru!
I try to track down Watts stuff whenever I can. I dig what he said, and how he said it.
I was listening to this mix in the car today..
I swore “Viva Tirado” was a WAR song,
and “Black Fox” was by George Benson.
I really need the Zipped files Larry, I’m hopeless!