Thought I would challenge LZ’s cover making skills with this title but it appears she has come up trumps again.

So what is for tea mam? It’s kinda 3 of 3 with 3 tracks from UnAmerican, Moreland & Arbuckle and Vieux Farka Toure. 3 very different artists but 9 great songs. Add to the menu some live blues from Townes Van Zandt, some mistakes and regrets and we all see the bad in each other…………..sounds like my sort of tea.

01. The Brown Bomber – Moreland & Arbuckle (Just A Dream)
02. If You Don’t Love Me (I’ll Kill Myself) – Pete Droge (Dumb And Dumber)
03. My Old Friend the Blues – Townes Van Zandt (Together at the Bluebird Cafe)
04. Quail & Dumplings – Bonnie Prince Billy (Quail & Dumplings)
05. Fafa – Vieux Farka Toure (Mojo Presents Africa Rising)
06. Tonight’s The First Night – UnAmerican (UnAmerican)
07. Purgatory – Moreland & Arbuckle (Just A Dream)
08. Bullet the blue sky – Vieux Farka Toure (New World Classics: Cover Versions of Popular Hits)
09. Wicked – UnAmerican (UnAmerican)
10. Heartattack And Vine Moreland & Arbuckle (Just A Dream)
11. That’s How It Goes – UnAmerican (UnAmerican)
12. Mistakes & Regrets – …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (Madonna)
13. Diallo – Vieux Farka Toure (Free Africa)
14. The Bad In Each Other – Feist (Metals)
15. Black Ice Cream – Bonnie Prince Billy (Quail & Dumplings)

The Mam, what’s for tea mix (110 mb) will be available to download for the next month (until midnight on 7th November 2011).

Cover image by gem66.

The music of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash is a cornerstone of rock ‘n roll. As Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN), this trio of legendary singer-songwriters has been actively collaborating since 1969, when they first harmonized in either Joni Mitchell’s living room or Mama Cass Elliot’s dining room, depending on which member you ask (Crosby and Nash ascribe to the former, Stills is adamant about the latter). Wherever its point of origin, the connection they forged from day one-as artists and as friends-was profound and unbreakable. Essential elements of our pop culture experience, their songs are just as durable, conveying emotional truths and social consciousness in equal measure.

01. Mutiny – Graham Nash (Reflections)
02. Go Back Home – Stephen Stills (Stephen Stills)
03. Cowboy Movie – David Crosby (If I Could Only Remember My Name)
04. Barrel of Pain – Graham Nash (Reflections)
05. Do For The Others – Stephen Stills (Stephen Stills)
06. Moneky And The Underdog – David Crosby (Oh Yes I Can)
07. I Miss You – Graham Nash (Wild Tales)
08. Relaxing Town – Stephen Stills (Stephen Stills 2)
09. In The Wide Ruin – David Crosby (Oh Yes I Can)
10. Better Days – Graham Nash (Reflections)
11. Know You`ve Got To Run – Stephen Stills (Just Roll Tape: April 26th, 1968)
12. Song With No Words – David Crosby (If I Could Only Remember My Name)

Words from the Crosby, Stills & Nash biography.

The Monkey and the Underdog mix (86 mb) will be available to download for the next month (until midnight on 30th October 2011).

Akua tuta nete kiei tshin kanetaunekuin
Akua tshe mushumenut
Akua kiei tshukumenut eshei
Akua tshe tuassimenut
Akua kiei tsheshimenut eshei
Hey, hey, hey

01. Kalpa Taru (Tree Of Wishes) – Tuu (Back To Mine)
02. Head On Phantom – Lake Of Tears (Moons And Mushrooms)
03. Art of Almost – Wilco (The Whole Love)
04. Akua Tuta – Kashtin (Akua Tuta)
05. School – Supertramp (Retrospectacle)
06. Gomni – Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate (In the Heart of the Moon)
07. Why Can’t This Be Love – Van Halen (The Best Of Van Halen, Vol. I)
08. Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well – Mike Doughty (Haughty Melodic)
09. Mali Dje – Ali Furka Toure (Back To Mine)
10. Eminence Front – The Who (Greatest Hits)
11. Send Me On My Way – Rusted Root (Cruel Sun)
12. Codex – Radiohead (The King Of Limbs)
13. Mami Gato – Medeski Martin & Wood (End Of The World Party (Just In Case))
14. One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend) – Wilco (The Whole Love)

The Akua Tuta mix (127 mb) will be available to download for the next month (until midnight on 28th October 2011).

Cover art by h.koppdelaney.

All the way from Philly, some sweet soul music that works on the dance floor or in the bedroom. Full of funky bass lines, robust percussion, stabbing horns and sweeping strings.

Sweet, seductive and subtle…

01. Am I Grooving You – Freddie Scott
02. Action Speaks Louder Than Words – Terry Collins
03. New York, New York – Starship Orchestra
04. Rising Cost Of Love – Loose Change
05. Music Trance – Ben E. King
06. One Step Away – First Choice
07. Ain’t That A Lot Of Love – Taj Mahal
08. Halfway To Heaven – Candi Staton
09. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man – The Sweet Inspirations
10. Smarty Pants – First Choice
11. Testify (I Wanna) – Johnnie Taylor
12. Type Thang – Isaac Hayes

The Am I Grooving You? mix (110 mb) will be available to download for the next month (until midnight on 26th October 2011).

Cover art by the other Martin Taylor.

So… did I groove ya?

Following on from the Dog I too think that the best thing about this website is the music. So no need for words (I am no good anyway) and no need for a list of tracks as I have no idea who most of them are, let’s just enjoy the music.

The Man and his music mix (201 mb) will be available to download for the next month (until midnight on 25th October 2011).

Cover art by Thomas Hawk.

It’s all about the music – just great music – maybe I should do some more words on here, reviews, discussions? But sometimes I don’t have much to say… but my music does… so let it do the talking.

I’ve been playing these 4 mixes at home, at work, out walking for a couple of weeks now – been enjoying them but haven’t had the chance to publish – was wondering the best way of staggering them over the next week, realized I also have another 2 mixes almost ready (yikes so much music, so little time) so I thought I would publish all in one post.

Hope you enjoy.

This Big Hush

01. Sneakin’ Suspicion – Dr. Feelgood (Singles)
02. Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer – Morphine (The night)
03. The Banishment Song – Fruit Bats (Tripper)
04. Mississippi – Wheeler Brothers (Portraits)
05. Just Breathe – Pearl Jam (Backspacer)
06. Angel Dance – Los Lobos (Just Another Band From East L.A.: A Collection)
07. Zumurud – Mich Gerber (Man Ray Vol.3)
08. This Is The Hardest Version – Aggrovators (…At The Controls)
09. A Roots Version – Aggrovators (…At The Controls)
10. Change Down – Bonobo (Dial ‘M’ For Monkey)
11. Where Do I Begin – The Chemical Brothers (Ministry Of Sound – Chilled Acoustic)
12. Busindre Reel – Hevia (Tierra De Hevia)
13. This Big Hush – Shriekback (Oil And Gold)

Cover art by Steve Wall (lovely story of how the shot was taken too).

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Soul of a Man

01. Soul Of A Man – Eric Burdon (Soul Of A Man)
02. Call Me Anytime – Airrace (Back to the Start)
03. Walking In The Wind – Traffic (Smiling Phases)
04. O.K. – Fluke (OTO)
05. I Wish – Semisonic (All About Chemistry)
06. Rico – Midnight In Ethiopia – Putumayo (Jamaica)
07. Soul Of A Man – Beck (Modern Guilt)
08. Find A Place – Shack (The Corner Of Miles And Gil)
09. Do To Me (Feat. Jeff Beck) – Trombone Shorty (For True)
10. Demon Days – Gorillaz (Demon Days)
11. Releast – The New Folk Implosion (The New Folk Implosion)
12. Secrets – Xavier Rudd (Dark Shades Of Blue)

Cover art by h.koppdelaney.

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Pouring Rain at Dawn

01. Living Wreck – Deep Purple (In Rock)
02. Make Up – Wiretree (Make Up)
03. Movin’ Back – Wynton Marsalis (The War)
04. Substitution – Silversun Pickups (Swoon)
05. Forgive & Remember – Harry Manx (Isle Of Manx)
06. The Easy Blues – Joe Bonamassa (Johnny Boy Would Love This… A Tribute to John Martyn)
07. I Don’t Want To Know – The Swell Season (Johnny Boy Would Love This… A Tribute to John Martyn)
08. Glorious Fool – Sam Butler, Clarence Fountain (Johnny Boy Would Love This… A Tribute to John Martyn)
09. Trouble In Mind – Lightnin’ Hopkins (The King Of Blues)
10. Single Spark – Harry Manx (Mantras for Madmen)
11. Changelings – Gazelle Twin (Changelings)
12. Haunted – POE (Haunted)
13. Reasons – Life Of Riley (Days Away From Life)
14. Cantelowes – Toumani Diabate (The Mande Variations)
15. The Rhythm Of The Heat – Peter Gabriel (Security)

Cover art by Colourless Rainbow.

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When Old Midnight Comes

01. Midnight Train To Georgia – Gladys Knight & the Pips (Greatest Hits)
02. Midnight in Harlem – Tedeschi Trucks Band (Revelator)
03. When Old Midnight Comes – Eames Brothers Band (Down To Change)
04. Midnite Cruiser – Steely Dan (Remastered: The Best Of Steely Dan Then And Now)
05. Midnight Rider – Gregg Allman (While My Guitar Gently Weeps III)
06. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp – Jimi Hendrix (Electric Ladyland)
07. In The Midnight Hour – The Commitments (The Commitments)
08. The ‘midnight Ghost’ – Mt. Desolation (Mt. Desolation)
09. Old Angel Midnight – Headswim (Despite Yourelf)
10. Midnight Madness – Foghat (Stone Blue)
11. South City Midnight Lady – The Doobie Brothers (Best Of The Doobies)
12. ‘Round Midnight – Maynard Ferguson (This Is Jazz)
13. Midnight Lullaby – Tom Waits (Closing Time)
14. Midnight Cowboy – Faith No More (Angel Dust)

Cover art by filtran.

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Water from a Vine Leaf

01. Shooting Star – Don Airey (Light In The Sky)
02. My Body – Young The Giant (Young the Giant)
03. The Song She Adores – Tommy Simms (Then The Archers Bowed And Broke Their Bows)
04. Bright Mississippi – Allen Toussaint (The Bright Mississippi)
05. Beast Of Burden – The Rolling Stones (Forty Licks)
06. Polaris – The Yellow Moon Band (Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World)
07. Stormbringer – Beck (Johnny Boy Would Love This… A Tribute to John Martyn)
08. Sometimes The Stars – The Audreys (Sometimes The Stars )
09. Dirty Chateau – Ry Cooder (Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down)
10. Secret – Missy Higgins (On A Clear Night)
11. I Will Follow You Into the Dark – Death Cab For Cutie (Plans)
12. No Hard Feelings – Ry Cooder (Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down)
13. Water from a Vine Leaf – William Orbit (Strange Cargo III)

Cover art by ASurroca.

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By the way, maths was never my strong point!

These mixes will be available to download for the next month (until midnight on 20th October 2011).

I hope this site will always be known for its eclectic taste in music.

One day you get chilled out, the next we’re on our way to San Francisco, tomorrow we could be grooving to Philly (Am I Grooving You?).

But today we’re going nowhere – we’re going to stay in and listen to some good old fashioned prog rock, with a little bit of metal, all by bands that not even their mothers have heard of. Oh did I tell you that there’s an Egyptian Wedding song in the middle?

01. Downstream – Jolly
02. Another Bloody Day – Epitaph
03. Molalatladi – Blk Jks
04. Fem Trappor – Gösta Berlings Saga
05. Abigail’s Questions (in an Infinte Universe) – Beardfish
06. Yarit Etjiny Yaghaly – Hala Mahmoud
07. Waiting 4 – Saris
08. Gift of the Flame (Single Edit) – Phideaux
09. For Prayer – Wye Oak
10. Now I’m in – Daturana
11. Trapped on Earth – The Movements
12. Time Flies Like an Arrow – The Future Kings of England

The Downstream mix (109 mb) will be available to download for the next month (until midnight on 15th October 2011).

Cover art by bossbob50.

Here’s wishing our resident DJ and all round good guy Techy (and his new wife of course) a wonderful time in San Francisco.

01. San Francisco – Scott McKenzie (San Francisco)
02. Breakfast In America – Supertramp (Retrospectacle)
03. Hello San Francisco – Buddy Guy (Hold That Plane!)
04. San Francisco Blues – Stephen Fretwell (Man On The Roof)
05. Relaxing Town – Stephen Stills (Stephen Stills 2)
06. San Francisco Days – Chris Isaak (San Francisco Days)
07. San Francisco Bay Blues – Richie Havens (Collection)
08. San Francisco Bay Blues – Eva Cassidy (Simply Eva)
09. L America – The Doors (Perception Box Set)
10. Sidewalks Of San Francisco – Trey Anastasio (The Horseshoe Curve)
11. San Francisco B.C. – Silver Jews (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)
12. San Francisco Sketches A. Bea – Blodwyn Pig (Getting To This)

My thanks to Spacey and Cheezy for their contribution – sorry, no Chuck Berry but here’s Rory instead:

The Techy….”With Flowers in his Hair” mix (77 mb) will be available to download for the next month (until midnight on 9th October 2011).

Cover image by JanWieczorek.

It’s that time of year, for me anyway, when one starts to slow down a wee bit, relax a bit more – spend some time just chilling out. The temperature is slowly coming down and me and Mrs D. are spending some wonderful evenings on our balcony looking out across the wonderful Doha skyline, enjoying the chance just to sit, chill and chat, loving the glass of Chianti close at hand and listening to the following music.

Vol. 1
01. Just Came Here To Chill – The Isley Brothers
02. Shake It Loose – Mo’ Horizons
03. Forgiveness – Engineers
04. Feel – George Duke
05. The Chill Wind – Llewellyn
06. Nocturne (Cafe Del Mar Balearic Mix) – LSD Soundsystems
07. All that we Perceive – Thievery Corporation
08. Blue Velvet (Joe Santana Remix) – Carter Davis Trio
09. Give Me The Night (Chill Night Mix) – Randy Crawford
10. The Dream Is Always The Same – Tangerine Dream
11. Yeha Noha (Wishes Of Happines – Sacred Spirit
12. Adagio, From Gran Partita – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Vol. 2
01. A Beautiful Day – The Orb
02. Beautiful Crazy – Space Raiders
03. Medina – Youssou N’Dour
04. Symphony II (Strings Of Chill Mix) – Saint Germain
05. Blow It All Away – Sia
06. Blues Latino – Vargas Blues Band
07. Long Gone Blues (GXR Remix) – Billy Holiday
08. Deceptively Yours (Dj Strobe 7 Below Zero Remix) – The Peter Malick Group & Norah Jones
09. Leave Me / Stay – Mad River
10. Ipirotiko – The Spicy Squirrels
11. Second Hand – Underworld
12. Alchemy – Philip Sayce

The Chill in the Desert mixes Vol. 1 (92 mb) and Vol. 2 (96 mb) will be available to download for the next month (until midnight on 9th October 2011).

Cover image by Subnet24.

When the wind is with me
But somehow out of sight
Not knowing where it comes from
Or where it goes

That’s the way your memory
Shapes the middle of my night
Since the last time I saw you
And the words you chose
When I said, “This must be what love is
like I saw it in a dream”
You looked into my eyes and said, “You
don’t know what you mean
Cause love is for the fisherman who cast
his nets too far upstream
Fishing for the moon in the water

Dawes – Moon in the Water

Great lyrics for a great song – hopefully you will now know why I made ‘Nothing is Wrong’ my album of the month. Elsewhere in the mix we have a couple of tracks from Led Zep IV as its 40 years old, a couple of new tracks from Radiohead and a few songs put in the mix cos I like ‘em.

01. The Way You Laugh – Dawes (Nothing Is Wrong)
02. Parachutes – Charlie Simpson (Young Pilgrim)
03. Give Up The Ghost (Thriller Houseghost RMX) – Radiohead (TKOL RMX 4)
04. Going To California – Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin IV)
05. Moon In The Water – Dawes (Nothing Is Wrong)
06. Joanna – Jon Allen (Sweet Defeat)
07. Codex (Illum Sphere RMX) – Radiohead (TKOL RMX 4)
08. Four Sticks – Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin IV)
09. So Well – Dawes (Nothing Is Wrong)
10. Storm On The Sea (Feat. Singer Blue) – Ogmios (The Last Picnic)
11. Emily Rose – Three Blind Wolves (Sound Of The Storm)
12. My Way Back Home – Dawes (Nothing Is Wrong)

The Moon In The Water mix (94 mb) will be available to download for the next month (until midnight on 2nd October 2011).

Cover art by Spitfirelas.