Ever been jealous of a present that you’re giving to someone else? This tape collection is totally like that.
My buddy Bill acquired a boat some time back, and since I knew I’d be chillin on it with him over my Wiscotrip this summer, I wanted to bring along some hot jams. Deadly hot jams. As detailed previously, being able to provide the proper musical playback format involved getting a cheap tape deck and makin tapes. And here’s the results:
The tapes:
“70’s Cactus Vinyl Funk” Mixtape / “So Funky It Hurts!” Mixtape
“BOATCHASE!” Mixtape / “Modern Funksters” Mixtape (not shown–it’s in the player!)
“70’s Vocal-Funk” Mixtape / Donny Hathaway: Live
Orgone: Cali Fever / Orgone: Killion Vaults
Greyboy / New Mastersounds
Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles: Live (Sides A & B)
Curtis Mayfield: Superfly (Sides A & B)
“Heady Downtempo” Mixtape / Scientist Dubtape
Easy Star Allstars: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band (Sides A & B)
Click on the linked titles to Listen!
Some of it is taped directly from vinyl, others are recorded from the PC, where I’ve got a nice retro-wamrth compressor/limiter program that brings out the detail on those tracks. As you can see, there’s a definite genre theme here with a heavy amount of funk. That’s what Bill digs the most, and also I wanted to stay centered there so the whole collection would have its own ‘vibe’, as the soundtrack to the boat. The two exceptions to the funk theme would be the Heady Downtempo/Scientist Dub mixtape, which I envisioned as something you’d want to put on while floatin on the lake after the sun’s gone down, and the Easy Star, which is just such a killer record I had to throw it in.
There’s a veritable cornucopia of killer jams here, a substantial portion of which will eventually get posted on the site. Stay tuned for the full lowdown. In the meantime, check out the SS Advanced Manoeuvres
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