{"id":425,"date":"2010-04-06T17:29:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T22:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=425"},"modified":"2013-04-05T14:26:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:26:33","slug":"funky16corners-after-dark-pt1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Funky16Corners After Dark Pt1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Funky16Corners After Dark Pt1 – Mixed for Delirious Sunrise<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Intro<\/strong><\/p>\n

Temptations \u2013 Papa Was a Rolling Stone (inst)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brothers of Hope \u2013 Nickol Nickol<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earnest Jackson \u2013 Funky Black Man<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joe Zawinul \u2013 Soul of aVillage<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pat Lewis-I\u2019ll Wait<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lowell Fulsom-Pico<\/strong><\/p>\n

Merl Saunders-Ode to Billie Joe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Syl Johnson- Is It Because I\u2019m Black<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winston Wright \u2013 Heads or Tails<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brian Auger and the Trinity \u2013 Bumpin\u2019 On Sunset<\/strong><\/p>\n

William DeVaughn \u2013 Be Thankful For What You\u2019ve Got<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Cals \u2013 Stand Tall<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brother Jack McDuff \u2013 Moon Rappin\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Art Jerry Miller \u2013 Moonshot<\/strong><\/p>\n

Roy Meriwether Trio \u2013 What\u2019s the Buzz<\/strong><\/p>\n

El Chicano \u2013 Viva Tirado<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bobby Christian \u2013 Mooganga<\/strong><\/p>\n

Freddy Robinson – Black Fox
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Greetings all.<\/strong><\/div>\n

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<\/strong> show on WLUW<\/strong><\/a>.
\nConsidering 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<\/em> way that characterizes those few, quiet hours before the dawn.
\nThough many of the tracks included in these two hours have appeared in this space before (whether as part of a Funky16Corners Radio <\/strong>mix or individually) the assemblage thereof is new, and if I say so myself, pretty tasty<\/em>, at least as laid out for the time in question.
\nI\u2019ve gone into my deep and abiding love for my iPod in this space (and over at Iron Leg<\/strong>) several times in the past. Though I could be considered a \u2018late adapter\u2019, 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.
\nMy daily life \u2013 thanks to a variety of factors \u2013 can be fairly hectic, sometime rising to the level of brain-scrambling<\/em>, 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.
\nAside from the occasional stint in the automobile, most of my intensive listening \u2013 the time when I dig particularly deeply into a record \u2013 is done right before passing out for the night.
\nWith 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\u2019s really the only time of day where things get quiet enough (within and without<\/em>) to approach music the way that it deserves.
\nIt kind of takes me back to the days when I\u2019d 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 \u2018weird\u2019) talk radio, to the local ABC TV affiliate with a signal that could be heard at the very bottom of the FM dial.
\nAfter I get to the point where I\u2019m too tired to go on any more, I pick something meditative, running the gamut from Nick Drake<\/strong>, to Mississippi John Hurt, Thelonious Monk, Ravi Shankar<\/strong>, or Kraftwerk<\/strong> or whatever, turn over and surrender myself to sleep.
\nThanks to the fact that I\u2019ve 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 \u2013 music or spoken word \u2013 and often put things on when I wake up during the night so that I can get back to sleep.
\nThough 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.
\nI\u2019m 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 \u2018Oh, cool\u2026\u2019<\/em> feeling, and my overactive brain downshifts a little and all is once again well.
\nWhether 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.<\/p>\n

Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/p>\n

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