Tune Up: Recent Episodes
El Mahboob
Give the summer some.
MaseQua Myers & Jami Ayinde | Black Land of the Nile
Brenda Russell | It's Something
Aretha Franklin | It Only Happens (When I Look at You)
The Voices of East Harlem | Can You Feel It
Billy Paul | Am I Black Enough for You?
Minnie Riperton | Wouldn't Matter Where You Are
Tower of Power | Can't You See (You Doin' Me Wrong)
The Love Unlimited Orchestra | Satin Soul
Trouble Funk | Trouble Funk Express
Michael Jackson ‧ Tangoterje | Can't Help It
Flying Lotus | Do the Astral Plane
Shaun Escoffery | Days Like This (Spinna & Ticklah Mix)
Airto | Toque de Cuica
Level 42 | Last Chance
George Duke | Brazilian Love Affair
James Mason | Free
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 | Zanzibar
Roy Ayers | Our Time Is Coming
Andy Bey | Tune Up
Mixed by El Mahboob, August 2012
Si La Sol
If the sun / is the only
As with my previous mixtape Re‧mi Do, solfège syllables are used in the title (for the notes or keys B, A, G), and I employ harmonic mixing (key or chord matching). EDIT: There is an improvised key plan that does include root movement in fifths, enharmonically, by tritone; more or less accidental to the process of organizing around what are essentially pitch sets of common tones.
I want to acknowledge some friends, DJs, creators, etc. who have informed and inspired my listening:
General Eclectic
Petri Glad
Kevin Laverty
Stuart Li
Paul E. Lopes
Jason Palma
Koray Özel
Anousheh Showleh
Son of S.O.U.L.
Sophistiphunk
Daniel Viljoen
Victor Undergroundvibe
All recordings are the intellectual property of the artists.
Summer encounters.
Syreeta | I Love Every Little Thing About You
Mulatu Astatke | Mulatu
Omar | Music (What I Live For)
Lewis Taylor | Lucky
The RH Factor | Poetry ft. Q-Tip, Erykah Badu
DJ Mitsu The Beats | Right Here ft. Dwele
Chaka Khan | Love Has Fallen on Me
Georgia Anne Muldrow | Blackman
Aloe Blacc | Find Your Way
Sly & The Family Stone | Sylvester
Marvin Gaye | What’s Going On (instrumental)
John Williams | Theme from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
Maze feat. Frankie Beverly | Feel That You’re Feelin’ (New Orleans, 1980)
Dorothy Ashby | Wax and Wane
Esperanza Spalding | Sunlight
Koop | Whenever There Is You
Don Blackman | Holding You, Loving You
Four Tet | Angel Echoes
Jazzanova | Little Bird ft. Jose James
Kool & The Gang | Summer Madness (London, 1975)
Mixed by El Mahboob, June 2012
Dedicated to Nina & Queen Peace
Re‧mi Do
‧ an affirmation to my daughter
‧ the first three notes of the famous musical signal from the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind
‧ three key signature areas (re for D/D-flat, mi for E major/minor, and do for C) where songs in the mix are grouped together. I've used the technique of harmonic mixing/selecting to unite or contrast songs.
The copyrights for these recordings are the intellectual property of the artists, though the corporations take the credit and the money. I own nothing. Support music however you can.