RIP Eartha Kitt, Freddie Hubbard
Farewell Eartha, Freddie.

"Always blunt about her beliefs, Kitt made her feelings about Vietnam known as she attended a White House lunch hosted by Lyndon Johnson's wife in 1968, when her fame was near its peak.

"You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed," she told the group of about 50 women. "They rebel in the street. They don't want to go to school because they're going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam." For the next four years, Kitt performed almost exclusively overseas." Link

Watch Eartha's finests moments on youtube. My fave tune of hers -"I want to be evil". Check the lyrics. "I wanna be evil, I wanna be mad, But more that that I wanna be bad... I wanna be nasty, I wanna be cruel, I wanna be daring, I wanna shoot pool..."

Ring The Alarm playlist, BaseFM, Dec 27
Continued from last week's show, today's show was a bunch of my favourite tunes and musical moments from the past year. Hope you liked em!

Dark angel -Free da mind
Rob Tex presents the Jimi mixes - Foxy dub
Gabriella Cilmi -Sweet about me (Ashley Beedle dub mix)
Jazmine Sullivan - Need u bad (Moody boyz remix)
James Brown - The bose (Geisha Boys remix - Gamm doin James vol 4)
UBB - I believe in miracles
Mr scruff - The clock
Beanfield feat Baijka - Tides (Carl Craig - C's movement #1 remix)
Overproof sound system - The model
Budamunky - Wednesday
Ray Barretto - O elephante (Shh remix)
Natural yoghurt band - Soft cheese
Car crash set - Dreams
Rodriquez - Sugar man (off the excellent album Cold Fact, reissued this year)
Kingites - Polynesian panthers
Unitone hifi - Up to eleven
Me and you - Last night (Bassnectar remix)
Nina Simone - Taking care of business (Pilooski remix)
Beat conductor - Caribbean path
V.V. Brown - Crying blood (Andrew Weatherall remix)
Mayer Hawthorne - Just aint gonna work out
Kova and Miles - Clap clap inst
Roberta Flack - Go down Moses (she's playing here in February 09)
MMW - Let's go everywhere
Dazz band vs Whitefield bros - Let it whip (B.cause half time remix)
Miles Davis - Freddie Boi (Applejuice kid remix)

Holiday reading
Try this for size...
"The James Brown Collection (Christie's). A 208-page book, gorgeously sorted by the color of the artifacts. Reproduced are handwritten letters ("Polydor is trying to kill me off"), break-up notes, hair supplies, living room sets, sunglasses, and a rainbow of S-E-X jumpsuits. Also online, but less elegant." Hat tip to WFMU.

And The Year In Music old and new from O-Dub.

Also, this watch... damn! Just, damn!

Wu tang TV
Home video shot a week before Enter the Wu Tang dropped. Nice. Link
Just spotted this - P-Moneys fave shit of 2008. Go read it now!

Take it easy, have yourself a great christmas and a relaxing new years. And thanks for reading!

Ring The Alarm playlist, BaseFM, Dec 20
Today's show was a bunch of my favourite tunes and musical moments from the past year, but I ran outta time so will have to jam some more in on next week's show. Thanks to all of those of you who txted in. Nice one.

Smoove's Funk Fantasy Bands - Smoove
Stevie Wonder -Master blaster (Radikal Roots edit)
Gabriella Cilmi -Sweet about me (Ashley Beedle remix) I spent a ridiculous amount of time and money chasing this tune down earlier this year. Found it online in a record shop in Scotland.
The Lions - Hot no ho
Steel n skin - Afro punk reggae dub
Mike Fabulous - Wang east
Ladi6 - Dark brown
Eru Dangerspiel - Sun again
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
Mighty Mo - The next message version
The Snugs - Trying
Rob Symeonn - The chosen one (Zeb steppers remix)
Barrington Levy and Beenieman - Murderation
Restless Soul - Turn me out
Johnny Hammond - Fantasy (Marc Mac presents the Visioneers beatdrop version)
Jimi Tenor and Kabu Kabu - Black January
Erykah Badu - Honey (Moody Boyz remix)
Lee Scratch Perry - God smiled (Moody Boyz remix)
Miles Davis - So what (Shoes edit)
Lightning head - Bookoor sound special
Menahan st band - Esma
Dub Colossus - Azmari dub
Quantic - Cuidad del swing version
Hot 8 brass band - Get up (Diesler remix)
James Brown - Santa claus goes straight to the ghetto
Kormac - Join together

Real Groovy relaunch hits bum note with creditors

As featured in the NZ Herald earlier this week, in case you missed it... link
"... The original owners, Chris Hart and Martin O'Donnell, regrouped with a new backer [Ralph Brayham, ex Ferrit, Telecom] under the company name Fonografo Ltd and announced this month that the Auckland store was fully operational again...

... However in the High Court at Auckland yesterday, the original company, Real Groovy Records, was put into liquidation by music distributor Southbound Distribution, which is owed more than $40,000.

Southbound director Jeffrey Stothers believed there were other creditors. He said he had been told that there were no surplus funds available from the sales of the stores to pay unsecured creditors.

Stothers was not against Hart and O'Donnell getting back into business, as the industry needed another record store closure "like a hole in the head", but he objected to it being done at distributors' expense.
Stothers said he outlined his position to Hart at an early stage, telling him Southbound could not keep supplying the store if it wasn't being paid.

"He was fairly indignant, saying he would have to look after the major record companies first and he would see what he could do."

Versionaries live - check em!
Ex pat kiwi Christian Burns (Kakhand) and NYC/Jamaican Barrington Calia (Haile Suspicious) are the Sydney based dub/hiphop crew The Versionaries. I'm DJing before them tonight at Galatos Lounge, only $5 on the door.

"Based in Bondi Beach, Sydney The Versionaries have provided tour support for many NZ dub and hiphop acts crossing the ditch and are a firm fixture at many Sydney underground events from Earthdance in Sydney Park to D&BBQ at the Abercrombie Hotel. Their releases include collaborations with DJ Regal, The Nomad, Pitch Black, Solaa and a bevy of Aussie dubheadz and soul providers.

Thursday is a soundsystem show and features special guests Scratch22 and Peter Mac (Dub Asylum). As such its an early show kicking off around 8.30."

Listen: www.myspace.com/theversionaries

DECEMBER 18 GALATOS LOUNGE; AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND (Soundsystem Show) with Scratch 22 & Peter Mac (Dub Asylum) 8pm $5

DECEMBER 19 FLOW BAR; HAMILTON NEW ZEALAND feat DJ Kina + Rayjah 45 and Hayden Weke with Knights of the Dub Table, B.Hopps (SYD) 9pm $10

DECEMBER 20 LEIGH SAWMILL CAFÉ NEW ZEALAND feat DJ Kina + Rayjah 45 and Hayden Weke with B.Hopps (Foreign Dub'/D&BBQ SYD) 9pm $10

DECEMBER 27 STAR AND GARTER COROMANDEL with CORNERSTONE ROOTS
DECEMBER 28 TBC WHITIANGA 9pm

DECEMBER 31 “ISLAND STYLES” WAIHEKE ISLAND AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND with DJ R.I.A, The Nomad and more!

Seeline Woman
"In September, Legacy Recordings released To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story, a three-cd + dvd collection spanning the legendary singer's career, from her debut on Little Girl Blue to her final recordings on A Single Woman. The dvd makes available for the first time a 1970 documentary of Simone, which is excerpted in the video below..."

From The Fader. Go read a great interview with Nina's daughter there too.

"...I remember her and my dad leaving a lot. For the first six years of my life I remember her being the softer one. She didn’t give me a spanking or anything like that, so she was my refuge and I wanted to be around her all the time. One fond memory is of my mother and father doing the jitterbug in the living room. You know how kids just love to see their parents together? It was just a wonderful feeling to watch them in sync, laughing.

The people that I remember the most were Stokely Carmichael, Miriam Makeba, Betty Shabazz. Those are people I also had relationships with, those were my uncles and aunts. Times have changed a lot in terms of parent and child relationships. Children of divorced relationships weren’t really considered affected. It wasn’t talked about back then in the early ’70s, so I just remember one day my father was there and the next day he wasn’t..."

QTip live, some dude named Prince jumps on guitar.
Then QTip drops World Tour, stops and starts it again THREE times. Heard about this a wee while back, took ages for the vid to surface but DAMN!

Wandering eye
Fat Freddys Drop get covered at the Performing Arts Prizegiving, 2008, Whangaparaoa College. Nice one! link, or see below.