dust collective w/chuck money

I've been approached by a local fine dining restaurant to rescue their music selection in both the dining hour and their late night bar tunes.
It's a very well established place and quite often voted best or one of the best steakhouses in the mid-west.
So here's a rough draft of what I envision the dinner hour music to sound like.
I went through a lot of my personal collection to pull out familiar melodies and covers done in interesting ways. I also wanted to keep some of the vibe of the days when steakhouses originated, so this one is off the beaten path.
Good brain food for your background choretime, dinnertime, or romancetime.
I'll post my late night mix soon...

sweaty upper lip curlers.
ragged and dirty.
music to powder your balls to.
hello summer.
raggedy and dirty luther allison on some funky blues boastin. the chambers bros. on a lil classic hip hop sample that gets overlooked. its greasy. m & m's is not candy. black heat work it out with a nice big break for ya. shuggie's pops made lots of records but few with drums that smoke like this. do the watts breakaway. Aretha's sister Erma put out some dope singles on shout. this is the other side of 'piece of my heart' which is a slow burn. Baby what you want me to do? is head nod city. Toussaint McCall shimmy shimmy ya you mods and prince paul lovers. 3rd bass anyone?
Syl Johnson is the shit. Dresses too short. Shirley Ellis gettin down to the real nitty gritty. love that forever. woodman. chop your wood so good.

here's some great songs, all lp cuts that have slipped off comps and singles and through the cracks. luckily i caught these and put them on this thing.
Sylvers on some uplifting ish. We can make it if we try. Lee Dorsey + Meters + Allen Toussaint=redickulafied-idlydope. I love that one. Rufus Thomas doesn't want to dance. You heard right. He wants to sing. And walk. Late stax issue goodness. Otis is the man. Champagne and wine. One of the last sessions he recorded before he ended up here in the lake. Simply kills it. Another late career gem comes from Al on 'i gotta be more'. Mid seventies, maybe his last one with producer Willie Mitchell.
Sly was nearly a drooling retard on smack by the time 'my world' came out, but god damn its pretty. Howard Tate got his career burgled by the drugs too, but he managed to belt out some ill cuts before then. This one steps the neck of modern auto tune r&B clowns. Esther Phillips, with the help of James Browns old arranger Pee Wee Elis destroys this Bill Withers penned ditty:'Justified'. I think she's drunk up in the booth and it drives the emotional level up to ten. Tina is a beast. This may be the chipmunks best cameo of all time. Somehow they don't ruin it for me. Fuck it.
peace

head nod music @ my favorite tempo in my favorite spot to play out. rap melodies for young and old.
badu's on the beginning with madlib, black moon and barry white team up on perhaps my favorite 12' remix of all time, jay z plays with the kids, mia is like a pit bull gettin with a terrier, and krs one rhymes 'word' with 'turd'. Plus much more. listen.

i'll be posting a new one every time i get a chance. focusing on new stuff i've dug up or just old nuggets that get me juiced. I had every intention of playing a stack of new 45's but i left my adapters at my old lady's house. So here's a little of everything but the rap music. the sun was shinin and this was what today called for. Eddie Floyd doin jamaica and killing it. Taj Mahal, Muddy Waters smashing fools. is that disco? what the fuck is up with me? leave me a comment if you need to know a particular cut. thanks for the listen. 5000 g.

this is like a decade old. recorded straight to cassette fools!
old man music at it's finest.
every song's got some fancy rap sample too.
collect em all.

isley bros./footsteps in the dark
al green/i'm so glad you're mine
bill withers/grandma's hands
galt mcdermot/the bed
the meters/jungle man
johnny 'guitar' watson/superman lover
average white band/person to person
kool and the gang/breeze and soul
isaac hayes(rip)/hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
maseo/soul power 74
cymande/the message
james brown/take some leave some

coming soon, the 'dig this week'.
shit i dug or just shit i happen to be diggin this week.
every week.
onthefarilla

rappity rap instros.
you sorato kids can't find these.
you gotta have the 12's baby!

Group Home/livin proof inst.
Pharcyde/runnin inst.
Diamond D/hiatus inst.
YZ/the ghetto's been good to me inst.
Large Professor/Mad Scientist
Wu Tang Clan/Cream accapella
then the tape runs out. that's right fools, tape.

i'll be putting up a classic soul mix soon...

part 1 of a live mix done a few years (?) ago. just a bunch of reasons i can still like rap music, which has seriously gone down the toilet as of the last ten years. But this is the shit that makes me absolutely love the rap music. This is the rap music I grew up to and some that keeps me going today.
redman/can't wait
masta ace/inc ride remix inst.
crooklyn dodgers/return of the crooklyn dodgers
biggie/one more chance hip hop remix inst.
audio two/top billin'
black attack/ verbal attack inst.
slick rick/sittin' in my car
beatnuts/confused rappers
kool keith/no chorus
ra the rugged man/golden era
mf doom/the fine print
group home/livin proof inst.
to be continued...

hard to fuck with the biggie classic from premier. but this b side instrumental from big shug 12' (down with gangstarr, from an album that i don't think ever came out) is sick. again the melodies and moods blend and fuck it, i like it.
more stuff soon.

two turntable re-mash. souls of mischief vs. gnarls barkley
fuckin around late night and this happened.
i think its dope how the melodies hook up.
more to come...
hip hop mixes on the way as well.

45's sound great. That's patina baby...
This one's pretty standard mainstream stuff but that's kinda the idea here. definitely some juicy breaks and samples all over the place. light some candles and break out your classiest boxers;
play this when you've got that special somebody right where you want 'em.

Ann Pebbles/I can't stand the rain
Detroit Emeralds/Baby let me kiss you
Staple Singers/Do it again
Chairmen of the board/She's not just another woman
Ohio Players/Funky worm
Barry White/I'm gonna love you just a little more baby
Isley Brothers/Between the sheets
William DeVaughn/Be thankful for what you've got (pt.1)
Bill Withers/Lovely day
Cachakas/Jungle Fever
Al Green/Let's stay together
Isley Brothers/Livin for the love of you
Barabaras/Woman
Stevie Wonder/Sho be do be do be do da day
Marvin Gaye/Got to give it up
Zapp/Do waa ditty
Gloria Lynn/Got to be real
&McFadden/Ain't no stoppin us now
Michael Jackson/Rock with you
Prince/Kiss (almost)

babys listen to Mozart or Bach to get their brains in order. what should your grown ass listen to? This.

Lou Donaldson/Peepin
Grant Green/I don't want nobody to give me a damn thing, just open the door and get it myself-Cold Sweat
Jazz Crusaders/Thank you fa lettin me be mice elf
Gene Harris/Listen Here
Mar Kays/Plantation Inn
Bob James/Take me to Mardi gras
Serge Gainsburg/En Melody
The MG's/Neckbone
Ramsey Lewis/Cry baby cry

did this one for my man dave(creepy fucker pictured)and his restaurant: Natt Spil. It's the best Chinese Pizza Disco in the midwest. I'm guessing it's also the only. He's a great chef all b.s. aside. and a wonderful drinking buddy.
i dj there frequently and they are always lookin for music for dinner hour. this one's all nice and pretty. part one of two.
tracklist:
Ramsey Lewis/Slippin into darkness
Zapp/Be alright
Alice Russell/Lay my burden down
Macy Gray/Demons(remix)
Handsome Boy Modeling School feat.Jack Johnson/Breakdown
Dudley Perkins/Flowers
Outcast/Prototype
Latryx/Cloud #9
Marvin Gaye/After the dance

a collection of songs done by somebody else. I dug around in the basement and came up with this. Break heads, soul lovers, rastas, ironic hipster fools, and your old lady will find some treats here.
Here's the playlist.

Jimmy Smith/dock of the bay/Lou Rawls/fafafafa(sad song)
Gene Harris/as/Gene Harris/don’t call me nigger whitey
The Generation Gap/family affair/Reuben Wilson/mercy mercy me
Gladys Knight & the Pips/Who is she/Sidney,George,&Jackie/papa was
Redd Holt Unlimited/i shot the sheriff/Sly Dunbar/inner city blues
Al Green/light my fire/Johnny Hammond/witchy woman
The T Bones/fever/Mongo Santamaria/i thank you
Maseo Parker/tighten up/Rufus Thomas/tutti frutti
King Curtis/groove me/Lyn Collins/mr. big stuff
George Benson/come together/Tom Jones/ain’t no sunshine
Dennis Coffey/whole lotta love/Nostalgia 77/seven nation army
The Living Guitars/you can’t always get what you want

word'm up