Anything Goes & Everything Flows DJ mix 16

Hello and welcome to my 16th 60-minute DJ mix where I apply the philosophy that Anything Goes & Everything Flows, attempting to create a mix that would go down well in the likes of The Variety & McChuills. 

Those 2 bars were scene for many a memorable night 'back in the day' and I'd often prefer to just stay in the bars all night listening to the DJ there rather than go to a club.

I do focus on soul and funk this month, trying to create a real groove (easy when you're playing Sly & The Funk Brothers) but also providing some euphoric moments courtesy of The M.V.P.'s (pretty sure I first heard this song in McChuills at a Friday Street preclub), a sensational cover by Peggy Lee and the irresistable soul pop of The Jackson 5.

I hope you enjoy this mix. Search for Everything Flows DJ Mix 16 on Spotify or CLICK HERE

Here is the tracklist;

What's Going On (Instrumental) - Marvin Gaye / The Funk Brothers

Positive (Instrumental) - Sly & The Family Stone

Sexy -  MFSB

Turnin' Mt Heartbeat Up - The M.V.P.'s

K-Jee - The Nite-Liters

Everyday People - Sly & The Family Stone

Give Me Your Love - Sisters Love

Space Funk (Dopebrother 7-inch remix) - Manzel

Everybody Have A Good Time - Archie Drell & The Drells

You + Me = Love (12 inch single version) - The Undisputed Truth

Dock Of The Bay - Peggy Lee

I Want You Back - The Jackson 5

Anything Goes & Everything Flows DJ mix 9

Welcome to my 9th DJ mix blog and playlist. A series of 60-minute playlists/mixes trying to create the vibe I would get from entering The Variety / McChuills in Glasgow on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night, where DJ's would work their magic to get the crowd in the mood for moving on to a club, or in my case, often opting to just stay in the bar. 

This time I've gone for a slightly different vibe, a late Saturday afternoon in McChuills kind of vibe where DJ's or old Nick behind the bar would have even more freedom to play all kinds of stuff. Maybe they would reach a little deeper into their record collection for this kind of slot/time.

Kicking off with a slow improvised groove by Lizzy Mercier Descloux, I hope this mix throws up all kinds of new discoveries for you; the instant rush of Hush by Joe South, the warm and lovely Will You Promise by Ebo Taylor, the oustanding psychedelic It's Not Easy by Ofege is a song I only discovered at the end of 2021. I'll be blogging on the band in the future.

Elsewhere Grace Jones and DJ Shadow make it seem so effortless, Nancy and Lee sound super cool, how good is Like A Ship?! I'll be blogging on that song soon. And the two closing songs are sublime.

Enjoy. You'll find it on Spotify under Everthing Flows DJ Mix 9 or CLICK HERE

No Golden Throat - Lizzy Mercier Descloux

Le couer au bout des coigts - Jacqueline Taieb

Fantastic Man - William Onyeabor

L Elephant - Tom Tom Club

Hush - Joe South

It's Not Easy - Ofege

Yegulle Tezeta - Mulatu Astake

Will You Promise - Ebo Taylor

Williams Blood - Grace Jones

This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way) - DJ Shadow

I Heard It Through The Grapevine - The Slits

Big Red Balloon - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood

Sunday Morning - Margo Guryan

Like A Ship - Pastor TL Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir

Action Line - Dorothy Ashby

Love Is A Hurtin' Thing (7-inch version) - Gloria Ann Taylor

Never Ending Mixtape part 68

It's a BUMPER edition of the Never Ending Mixtape as a whopping 72 songs are added. 

It's an eclectic, eccentric and electric selection. From Love Affair to Money Mark, Curtis Mayfield to Little Boots, The Box Tops to Blake Babies, Louis Armstrong to Gabriel, David Holmes to Eugene Kelly, Neil Young to Soulwax .... and lots, lots more. Dig in and enjoy.

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Blow Up - James Taylor Quarter

It Ain't Long Enough - Judith Clay

Brain Damage - Blake Babies

Considering A Move To Memphis - The Colorblind James Experience

What You Think? - Callum Easter

The Best - Carla J Easton, AMUNDA, Malka

The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) - The Doors

Wiggle Wiggle - Tommy James and The Shondells

Cry Like A Baby - The Box Tops

Ooh La La - The Faces

We Have All The Time In The World - Louis Armstrong

I'm Not Sayin' - Nico

Theme from The Monkees - The Monkees

Can You Dig It - The Monkees

When Love Comes Knockin' - The Monkees

Blame - Gabriel

Loyalty - Gabriel

I Wanna Be Free - The Monkees

Do You Want To Know A Secret? - The Beatles

There's A Place - The Beatles

You Really Got A Hold On Me - The Beatles

Every Little Thing - The Beatles

Blessed and Misplaced - Eugene Kelly

1Thing - Amerie

The Perfect Life - Moby and Wayne Coyne

Can You Get To That - Funkadelic

Keep on Keepin' on - Curtis Mayfield

Keep On Trippin' - Curtis Mayfield

Back To The World - Curtis Mayfield

Faith and Healing - Ian McCulloch

Candleland - Ian McCulloch

Laugh At Me - Sonny Bono

45.33 - LCD Soundsystem

Incident - Joris Voorn

If Only I Were A Child Again - Curtis Mayfield

45.33 (Prince Language Remix) - LCD Soundsystem

Get A Life - Rae and Christian featuring Bobby Womack

Christmas Eve - Gorkys Zyngotic Mynci

Save The Last Kiss For Me - Jean Knight

Think It Over - Jean Knight

NY Excuse - Soulwax

Mythological Beauty - Big Thief

I Found A Reason - Cat Power

Down By The River - Neil Young

Driftin' Back - Neil Young

La prima estate - Erland Oye

Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels) - Arcade Fire

Rat Trap - The Boomtown Rats

Always The Sun - The Stranglers

Heavy Drug - UNKLE

Love Reign Over Me - David Holmes

Black Steel - Tricky

6 Underground - Sneaker Pimps

Twenty Five Miles - Edwin Starr

Baby Don't You Do It - Marvin Gaye

Keep on Truckin' - Eddie Kendricks

Girl - Beck

Amen Brother - The Bamboos

Khala My Friend - Amanaz

You're A Song That I Can't Sing - Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons

Landline - Little Boots

Back In Your Life Again - Love Affair

You Ain't The Problem - Michael Kiwanuka

Cellaphane Car - The Stroppies

Nobody Speak - DJ Shadow

Stuck At The Airport - Money Mark

Anything Goes & Everything Flows DJ mix 8

Welcome to my 8th DJ mix blog and playlist. A series of 60-minute playlists/mixes trying to create the vibe I would get from entering The Variety / McChuills in Glasgow on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night, where DJ's would work their magic to get the crowd in the mood for moving on to a club, or in my case, often opting to just stay in the bar. 

Starting with the stunningly sublime 7.5 minute Hung Up On My Baby by Isaac Hayes, I'm amazed that I still pack 20-songs into this 60-minute mix! I love the journey you can take people on within just 60-minutes. 

The vast majority of the other songs in this mix are under 3-minute long, but look out for Hangin' Out by Betty Davis that is over 4-minutes and just develops into a real groove with euphoric vocals. Frankie Valli's Beggin' still gets dancefloors jumping, the power in The Flirtations Nothing But A Heartache never ceases to surprise me and hit me hard. Marlena Shaw and Ike & Tina show what you can do in only 2-minutes, the funk groove of Sport puts a smile on my face. And listed for the glorious horns on The Chi-Lites Are You My Woman that Jay-Z sampled decades later for Beyonce's Crazy In Love. 

I'm really pleased with this mix. Hope you enjoy it.

Search for Everything Flows DJ Mix 8 on Spotify or CLICK HERE.

Tracklist

Hung Up On My Baby (Extended Jam) - Isaac Hayes

Somebody, Somewhere, Help Me - Quincy Conserve

I Can't Believe (What You Say) -Ike & Tina Turner

House of the Rising Funk - Afrique

Sport - Lightnin' Rod

Searching for Soul Part 1 - Jake Wade & The Soul Searchers

Mighty Mighty (Spade & Whitey) - The Impressions

(For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People - The Chi-Lites

Instant Groove - King Curtis

Soul Time - Shirley Ellis

Soul Finger - The Bar-Keys

Twenty Five Miles - Edwin Starr

Beggin' - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

I'm On My Way - Dean Parrish

Berts Apple Crumble - The Quik

Soul Drums - Bernard 'Pretty' Purdie

Liberation Conversation - Marlena Shaw

Hangin' Out - Betty Davis

Nothing But A Heartache - The Flirtations

Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So) - The Chi-Lites

Never Ending Mixtape part 47

Thanks for checking my latest blog. I hope you and your loved ones are well.

Music is really helping me at present. It's power offers me escapism, a chance to switch off, to research, discover or rediscover. And music unites. Even with the country in lockdown music finds a way to bring people together, to share their love, to escape.

There has been no shortage of stripped back online shows and Tim Burgess has been curating Twitter listening parties to bring people together online, with artists and fans sharing memories of classic and much loved albums. Follow #timstwitterlisteningparty

Music offers hope.

I tend to round up some of the music I have been listening to in a monthly blog on my Never Ending Mixtape, but here is a little bonus blog and a list of music added to the Mixtape Playlist.

As always, I hope you find something you enjoy. A full list of the latest additions is below.

Search for Everything Flows Never Ending Mixtape on Spotify or click below..

Re-discovery - The Bends by Radiohead
I re-listened to the whole of The Bends by Radiohead on the 25th anniversary of its release. That very week, my brother and I caught the band at The Garage in Glasgow as the band celebrated a number one record. The Bends is a stunning album and the title track blew me away with powerful guitar riffs and sensational powerful vocals.

New discovery - Golden Streams - The Hidden Cameras
Kind of Flaming Lips-y, Polyphonic Spree-y, psychedelic pop.

Elsewhere enjoy a few gems from BMX Bandits, the majestic Bunnymen, the funk groove of Patti Jo, Marvin and Tammi in love and some brilliant indie guitar from Galaxie 500. And much, much more.

Want You To Know - Camera Obscura
Plimsoll Punks - Alvvays
Coma - Big Thief
Dot To Dot - BMX Bandits
The Sailors Song - BMX Bandits
Your Class - BMX Bandits
Come Clean - BMX Bandits
The Next Girl - BMX Bandits
The Bends - Radiohead
Make Me Believe In You - Patti Jo
The Cutter - Echo and the Bunnymen
Rescue - Echo and the Bunnymen

Keep On Lovin' Me Honey - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
Baby I Need Your Loving - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
Good Lovin' Ain't Easy To Come By - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
oh baby - LCD Soundsystem
Golden Streams - The Hidden Cameras
It's Going To Take Some Time - Carole King
Yoga - The Pastels
Walk It Back - The National
Good Song - Blur
The Width Of A Circle - David Bowie
Sweet Honey Blue - Starry Skies

Stay - Mark W Georgsson
Cath - The Bluebells
The Wagon - Dinosaur Jr
Blue Thunder - Galaxie 500
Ceremony - Galaxie 500
Isn't It A Pity - Galaxie 500