Flying Sparks 2009-10-28: Yippie Yippie Yeah!

Iskra - Funkenflug 2009-10-28

Before there will be a new Flying Sparks mix set (soon), here a flashback to one from October 2009: At that time I searched my vinyls to prepare a party and found the following. I hope, you’ll like the mix set between Funk, Big Beats, mashups, Bollywood and Global Beats and with some references to film classics.

The musical trip starts in the East (not the Middle nor the Far East), but in the eastside of Germany, because there is a really cool soundtrack of an espionage TV series (Das unsichtbare Visier) from the late 60’s. After that we listen to some Hollywood classics (Getaway, Get Carter, Enter The Dragon, Shaft), get some tunes from Egypt, Morocco, Bollywood, Peru, and Brazil. Finally, we come back to Europe and listen to some Asian dubstep tracks from the UK.

Please note, the mix set is split into two parts. The break is after the Letta Mbulu classic What Is Wrong With Groovin’?. If anybody has an answer to this, she/he can message me… ;-)

In the following, there are the links for the listening pleasure @ Mixcloud as well as the playlist.

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Flying Sparks 2010-04-11: On a Sunday Night in April

Funkenflug 2010-04-11: In einer Sonntagnacht im April

I’ve just browsed through some nice music on a Sunday evening in April… It resulted in a mix between cool jazzy, Latin, Balkan and Bollywood tunes, I hope.

One of my all-time favourites is the track I Love My Baby by the United Future Organization, here in a Norman Cook & Ashley Slater remix. The track got a new reverence by the The Jivers on the Jazz & Milk-Compilation Jazz & Milk Breaks Vol. 3.

Recently, I listened to the remix compilation I Like It Like That of Fania Latin classics in more detail. I already had put the remix of La Lupe’s interpretation of Fever into my 2009 review. Now I discovered another track on that compilation: Ray Barretto’s O Elefante in the SSH remix is really cool!

Miss Platnum’s If You Were Mine was also already in my 2009 review. She used a sample of a cool Bollywood tune which is on the Bombay Connection compilation Bombshell – Baby of Bombay: Kahan Hai Woh Diwana.

Apropos cover versions: Listening to the Balkan track of Fanfare Ciocarlia, I remembered Cake’s interpretation of Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps. Then another one, perhaps? – Okay, the version of Sunray;-) Finally I digged out an older track from Fatboy Slim and one from Moby.

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