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El Ritmo Bongo Date
April 20, 2022, 1:53 am
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‘I Want to Live’ 1958 feat uncredited Gerry Mulligan jam
Beatnik Glossary

EL RITMO Moderno

BEATS + JAZZ + EXOTICA + POP + MORE

DJ Cheese Baker and Claude Mono

Your Tuesday Night HI FI Journey is a ‘Bongo Date’ downtown at our crazy jazz pad

LISTEN

Show restream here

PLAYLIST

9:00:50          Intro – Waikiki Waves and Hawaii Greetings 

9:01:20          Kava Kon – Pacifica 66

9:05:00          Les Baxter – Mood Tattooed

9:07:17          Cliff Richard – Bongo Blues

9:08:51          Gerry Mulligan – Frisco Club

9:16:19          Gerry Mulligan – Gerry Mulligan

9:21:31          George Benson – Thunder Walk

9:26:00          Knives – Dave Brubeck

9:30:13          Luis Ferri – Anisia

9:35:50          The Karminksy Experience Inc. – Upstairs At Madame La Zongas

9:37:23          Golden Flute – Venus

9:40:15          Orchester Werner Muller – The Beat Goes On

9:43:17          The Jay Norman Quintet – Blue Moon

9:45:33          Baden Powell – Consolacao

9:48:00          The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra – Tea For Two Cha Cha

9:50:56          Joe Davolaz – Cha Cha Andre

9:57:45          Kenny Barron – Peruvian Blue

10:02:13        George Benson – Giblet Gravy

10:06:55        Harold Ousley – El Exi-Hente

10:10:44        Dom Um Romao – Kitchen (Cosinha)

10:13:37        Arthur Lyman – Mas Que Nada

10:16:10        Modulo5 – Softly Sonora

10:23:27        Kumisolo with Joe Davolaz (Instrumental) –  Voyage

10:26:55        J P Ghosh – Drums of India

10:28:39        Gene Krupa – How High The Moon

10:31:46        Trio Fratres – The Model (Kraftwerk cover on Accordion)

10:33:54        Castagnari – Ping Pong (Stereolab cover on Accordion)

10:35:21        Isaac Hayes – Ikes Mood

10:42:27        Tempo 2 – Jazzlatinlectrofuzion

10:49:01        Miles Davis – Chocolate Tip

10:53:42        Miles Davis – High Speed Chase

10:57:53        Snowboy – Oya Ye Ye (excerpt)

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Last Night In Soho Mixtape
December 22, 2021, 11:35 am
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I was asked to do a warm up set for the launch of the outdoor film season of Last Night in Soho at the Luna Outdoor cinema.

I was only meant to do an hour but of course in preparing I ended up on a deep journey back into the Soho of sixties London – all cool jazz – cool places – and cool clothes…

…so I made a mixtape to share and gathered some ephemera for this blog post.

LISTEN

HQ Mixcloud Mixtape here

PLAYLIST

New Jazz Orchestra – Naima

Johnny Jewell – Windswept (Minimal) – Themes For Television

Richard Hartley – Title Theme – Dance With A Stranger

Michael Garrick with Don Rendell Ian Carr – Heart Is A Lotus – Prelude to Heart Is A Lotus

Paul Gonsalves Quartet – Boom Jackie Boom Chick

Anthony Reynolds – Adrift in Soho (Strings + Organ + Theme)

London Jazz Four – Song For Hilary

Interlude – Dance with A Stranger OST

Dick Morrissey Quartet – Storm Warning

Vic Lewis – Last Minute Bossa Nova

Cavern of Anti-Matter – Night Fabric – In Fabric OST

Interlude Last Night in Soho – I Can Tell You Want It

Johnny Hawksworth and Hampton Hawes – Jazz Rule – Anglo American Jazz Phase 1

Bernard Cribbins – Gossip Calypso

Interlude – Blow Up OST

Herbie Hancock – The Thief – Blow Up OST

Interlude – Absolute Beginners

Sade – Killer Blow

Greg Foat Group – Blues for Lila – Girl and Robot With Flowers

Mel Torme – Walk On By

Emanual K Rahim & The Kaliqs – Al Amin (The Knower)

Interlude – London In the Raw

The Karminsky Experience Inc. – Gemini Calling

The John Barry Seven – The Sharks

Greg Foat Group – Girl and Robot With Flowers Part 3 – Girl and Robot With Flowers

Shirley Scott –  Blue Bongo

Googie Rene and his Combo –  Bossa Baby mono mix

Oscar Brown Jr – The Snake

Dusty Springfield–  Spooky

Dusty Springfield – Just a Little Loving

Shirley Horn – And I Love Him

Jose Villamor – Angola Deus

WANT MORE?

Some essential Soho and Swinging London

Primitive London

London In The Raw

Arnold Louis Miller’s London in the Raw (1964)

Dance With a Stranger

Absolute Beginners

David Bailey The Swinging Sixties and the Real Blow Up

Revisiting Blow Up (1966) Filming Locations

Mod Soho

Bohemian Soho

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The El Ritmo Generation
October 15, 2020, 7:53 am
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El Ritmo on RTRFM with your hosts: DJ Cheese Baker and Claude Mono on

DJ Cheese Baker: “Man I found some sounds the other day … think ‘out of this world’.. Those drug addled beatniks are gonna choke on their jazz cigarettes and flip their berets!…”

Claude Mono: “I’m hip to that”

WARNING: Things get a bit crazy

Show restream here

PLAYLIST

Gerardo Frisina – Mwanga  – Moving Ahead

Jack Kerouac – The Beat Generation – Readings By Jack Kerouac On The Beat Generation

Gerardo Frisina – Marombo – Moving Ahead

Leonard Bernstein – What Is Jazz – What is Jazz

Dizzy Giillespie – Congo Blues

Bernie’s Tune – Gerry Mulligan Quartet

Del Close – Basic Hip               

John Barry – Beat Girl             

Miles Davis – Filles De Kilimanjaro (Girls Of Kilimanjaro) Filles de Kilimanjaro

Peter Herbolzheimer – Aquarius – Big Band Man

The Visitors – Theme from Close Encounters (12 inch)

Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra – Bolero On The Moon Rocks – Raumpatrouille (as featured by PULP)

Biddu Orchestra  – Voodoo Man – Voodoo Man

Amanda and Claire  – The Kidnappers

Gap Mangione – Boys With Toys – Giles Petersen Digs America 2 

Jackie and Roy – Didn’t Want To Have To Do It        Changes

Kraftwerk –  Stratovarius – Kraftwerk

Tokyo Paradise Ska Orchestra – Love You, Cha Cha Cha  – Glorious

Brazlia 70 and the Chico Lopez All-stars – Pedro Smith  – South of the Border

Balsara and His Singing Sitars – Tequila – Great International Hits

Rebel Rousers –  Night Surfin – Ouch

US3 – Riddim (Roberto’s Riddim) – Riddim 12 inch

Errol H Tout + uncredited man with trumpet – A Walk in the Sunshine

Horace Tapscott and his Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra  – Desert Fairy Princess  – Afro-Centric Visions in the Age of Black Power – Underground Jazz, Street Funk & the Roots of Rap 1968-79

Nostalgia 77 and the Monster – Angels and Demons At Play  -The Taxidermist

Santana – Every Step of the Way – Caravanserai

Osibisa – Che Che Kule  – Heads

Andre Tanker Five – Old Lady Walk A Mile – Afro Blossom West

Gerling – Enter Space Capsule

Alpine Stars – Jump Jet     

Biddu
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el ritmo eastern block party
March 23, 2017, 12:54 pm
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Come to the Eastern Bloc….The el ritmo Eastern Block Party is on again on Tuesday night at Victor’s flat above RTRFM. Bring vodka and perhaps some jazz and funk records. DJ Claude will be bringing the new hi fi system he got in the West. Check out some of his new grooves at his blog post. Tell everyone to make sure they get there as with the new state restrictions and the clampdown on kooky music there is unlikely to be a re-stream…there may be some cassettes…be warned there is hi-fi and lo-fi…

HQ Mixcloud Bootleg Cassette here

If you dig jazz then you might also dig this – “Meet me at the Jazzkeller…Bring Jazz…”

PLAYLIST of some of the tracks but some are just unknown…

Vladimir Vasilkov – Woodpeckers Don’t Get Headaches\

DJ Soulviet – SovietFunkTrailers (excerpt)

c.j. plus – Soviet Funk Expo (Excerpt)

Zeljko Kerlata – The Newcomer

Henryk Debich – See You At The Disco Tonight

Novi Singers – My Own Revolution

Hiedi Bruhl – Berlin

Hildergard Knef – Ich Wart auf Die Nacht

Gelsominos Magic Voice from 1977

Victor Kiswell Archives – I Can’t Stop

Horst Jankowski – Das ist der Morgen

Anita Pallenberg – Stones Muse Supreme

Lottie and Leherb – Irre Gut – Funky Frauleins- Female Beat, Groove, Disco, Funk in Germany 1968-1978

Omega Omega 2 – Kérgeskezü Favágók – Well Hung Well Hung: 20 Funk-Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary – Volume 1

Labaratorium – Funky dla Franki (Joakim Remix) – Various – Iron Curtain Revisited  Crippled Dick Hot Wax Records

Tri Plus Dva – Vitok (soviet jazz easy listening, 1966, USSR)

Anne Hathaway – Russian Accent (Valentines Day)

Hildegard Knef – Im achtzigsten Stockwerk

Yugoslavian PsychJazz-Funk – Aleksandar Subota – Corazon (1976 LP)

Peter Herbolzheimer MPS Rhythm Combination & Brass – El Soul Condor

Henryk Debich – See You At The Disco Tonight

Kuno & the marihuana brass – marihuana mantra

Günter Noris – Gemini

Daniel Pemberton – Escape From East Berlin –

Eduard Khil – Mr. Trololo

Soviet Space Disco 1978

Soviet Disco

Eolika – Falling Stars – Melodiya 1980

Zdravstvuj Pesnya (Здравствуй, песня)- Marathon (Soviet electro space disco, 1982)

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The Novi Singers – My Own Revolution
July 31, 2013, 12:24 pm
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I got into the Novi Singers via ‘My Own Revolution’ the stand out track on their 1975 LP ‘Rien Ne Va Plus’ – with plenty of time to reflect, this is still one of my all time favourite tunes….

novis singers 2

novis singers 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7G4z6QMKkM

Novi_Singers polish vocal jazz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU6TDNsFMrw

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Stark Reality – on film
October 30, 2010, 6:32 am
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Monty Stark

The Stark Reality

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Spiritual Jazz on Giant Steps
April 13, 2009, 2:46 am
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Expand your mind with Afro-centric spiritual jazz, black consciousness, kosmigroove, straight ahead, screaming live sessions and heavy blunted beats – all when Claude Mono drops in for Giant Steps on RTR FM 92.1 – Jazzadelica …listen here

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giant steps playlist 5/04/2009

 

presented by:    claude mono

 

sara webster fabio – soul through a licking stick – from boss soul on folkways 1972

david newman – shiloh – from the many facets of david newman  

harold mckinney – ode to africa – from giles peterson digs america

roy brooks black survival side a – from black survival 1973

morris wilson beau  bailey quintet – pauls ark – from spiritual jazz on jazzman 2008

musicians of the summer program of music – brougham – from giles peterson digs america

live set – soil and pimp sessions

karl hector and the malcouns – jabare pt 3 – from sahara swing

clutch hopkins – percy on the one – from walking backwards

connie price and the keystones – the shadow of loves from

the fabulous three – answer me softly – from soulfire – the majestic collection

the fabulous three – nightbird – from soulfire – the majestic collection

lonnie liston smith – journey into space – from journey into space

lonnie liston smith expansions – from lonnie liston smith live 1977

united future organisation – spies spice – the jazz brothers remix

nicola conte – you are my sunshine – claude mono extension

miles davis black satin – from on the corner

 

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