DJ Stylus - The Vibe Conductor

This post is responsible for the unearthing of this nugget from the vaults. Take a look at the playlist and you’ll know what time it is. I’m not even going to identify when I recorded this one, but it’s another collection that has remained popular over the years whenever I’d burn a batch on CD. Now err’ybody can get a copy. Not holding onto these old jonts anymore!

1. Mos Def - Umi Says
2. Faze Action - Samba
3. Femi Kuti - What Will Tomorrow Bring (Remix LP MIx)
4. Los Amigos Invisibles - Bruja (MAW Mix)
5. Tom & Joyce - Queixume (MAW Mix, Main Vocal)
6. Salome de Bahia - Theme of Rio
7. Los Ladrones - Las Luces del Norte
8. Osunlade - Diamant
9. Jiva - Love Chooses Lovers (The ‘Heart Chakra’ Mix)
10. Tortured Soul - I Might Do Something Wrong pt. 2
11. Fertile Ground - Peace & Love (Jazztronik ‘Mardi Gras’ Mix)
12. Nickodemus & Osiris feat. Carol C from Si*Sé - Mariposa
13. Sade - By Your Side (Naked Music Mix)
14. T.Kolai - Congo (T.Kolai’s Andalu Vocal feat. David Crosby)
15. Opa - African Bird
16. Charlie Byrd & Cal Tjader - Samba de Oneida
17. Osunlade - Aldeia de Ogun
18. Nuspirit Helsinki - Afro-Cuban Haze

Book was on WPGC duty and I didn’t really have any options. In a stroke of fate, New Year’s Eve fell on a Monday, which is Jamil’s regular residency at Marvin. That was a good look because he’s been slogging through some soul-sucking gigs as of late. “Full creative control” on New Year’s Eve had him giddy like Geoffrey Holder in Boomerang. I was just going to show up, chill and watch the homie black out on the decks but he proposed we make it a Soul Controller throwdown. Didn’t have to ask me twice.

Crowd was mixed, nobody paid a dime to get through the door, folks were partying and looking nice without having to be instructed to do so by a dress code. Isn’t that what a NYE party should be? My only regret is not having a mic to catch the roar of the dancefloor, makes the track mutes in the recordings sound silly. One women told us that “it’s time for you to play some mainstream hip-hop now.” We declined gracefully.

Part 1:
Setting the mood for the jump-off. “Champion Requiem” at a New Year’s Eve party? Whoa. Marvin Gaye makes the first of several appearances… ‘cuz we at Marvin.

Jamil drops Cee-Lo’s “I’ll Be Around” right at midnight. Booties start shaking and moving all around. Somehow we get to “Sounds Like” and “Golpe Duro Calinda”. No mercy and no prisoners. Can you feel it?!

More from the Soulful Party Peoples’ Holy Trinity of Jackson progeny, Prince and Stevie. The latin diaspora gets more love along with the Black President

Tryna slow it down but bammas ain’t tryna stop partying. That’s cool. 4am ain’t no thing.

Now you know that Soul Controllers have a podcast too. You should check it out.

Put together a little something while I was in Philly with the Ill Vibe fam.

Stylus

Isabella - Aurora
Omar - World Of You
Saukrates feat. Common - Play Dis
Raheem Devaughn - Heaven
Owusu & Hannibal - Blue Jay
The HYBernation Project - Heavy
Ernesto - Juice (Dimlite Remock)
Kokayi - Beautiful
Marvin Gaye - I Want You 2 (Waajeed Outro)
DJ Mitsu - Dokkou Jazz Orgy
Roy Davis Jr. feat. Peven Everett - Someday
Shanice - It’s For You
MC Lyte - Eyes Are The Soul
Dego & Kaidi Tatham - Dealt A Bad Hand
Shae Fiol - I Dance
Blvd. East & Louie “Lou” Gorbea - A Journey Into
Tom & Joy - Antigua
Aklimatize - El Uno

Statik

Foremost Poets - Where I’m Going
Teddy Douglass - The Caribou (Karizma rmx)
Anto Vitale - Theorema Del Faya
Nadirah Shakoor - Just A Breath Away
Robert Owens - Bring Down the Walls
First Choice - Double Cross (Larry Levan mix)
ESG - Moody (Spaced Out)
Bernard Wright - Master Rocker
Martin Circus - Disco Circus
Gerardo Frisina - Helen Samba

Just in time to pretend that it’s not getting cold outside.

1. Jazz Samba Encore - Saudade Vem Correndo
2. Visioneers - Runnin’ (extended)
3. Nicola Conte - Bossa per Due
4. Tom & Joy - Imagina
5. Evinha - Que Bandeira
6. Jeff Bradshaw - Soul of Bahia
7. Miyazawa - Anjos Ilrmaos (Rainer Truby Trio mix)
8. Jay Dee - Rico Suave Bossa Nova
9. Los Hombres Calientes - Brazilian Sugar
10. Los Hombres Calientes - Mulher Bahiana
11. Montefiori Cocktail - Gypsy Woman
12. Marcos Valle - Para De Fezer Besteira (4hero Mix)
13. Nature’s Plan - Broken Samba
14. Taylor McFerrin - The Song I Promised You
15. The Randy Watson Experience feat. Bilal - Can’t Hide Love
16. Karen Ramirez - Troubled Girl (MAW rmx)
17. Luisito Quintero - Aquilas Coisas Todas
18. The Rebirth - Talking Me Down
19. Nomumbah - Tudo Que Voce Podia Ser

1. Sade - By Your Side (Cottonbelly’s Fola Mix Edit)
2. Ocote Soul Sounds - Divinorum
3. Owusu & Hannibal - Le Fox
4. Peven Everett - They’re So Cold
5. Spacek - Getaway
6. Dwele - Pimp’s Dream
7. W. Ellington Felton - Run
8. Lanu - Shine
9. Sergio Mendes - Berimbau/Consolacao feat. Stevie Wonder & Gracinha Leporace
10. Raphael Saddiq - Body Parts
11. 4Hero - Give In feat. Darien Brockington & Phonte of Little Brother
12. Steely Dan - Black Cow
13. N.E.R.D. - Run To The Sun
14. Heavy - Do For You
15. DJ Spinna - Where’s Your Love (featuring N’Dea Davenport)
16. Yasuko Agawa - L.A. Night
17. Midnight Star - Curious

1. Ben Westbeech - So Good Today
2. Peven Everett - Can’t Do Without
3. Tweet - Taxi (Cab Ride mix)
4. Kemdi - Still A Dancer
5. Lathun feat. India Arie - When Love Came In (Quentin Harris remix)
6. Musiq - Thereason
7. Reel Soul & Byron Stingily - Walk Away
8. Silhouette Brown - Spread That Bruno E (Drop tha’ funk mix)
9. Aaliyah - 4 Page Letter (DJ Stylus Ruff Rider blend)
10. Ski Oakenfull - Where Did The Love Go? (Restless Soul mix)
11. Jooski feat. Cherie Mathieson - Ease Your Mind (original)
12. Fertile Ground - The Moment (Seiji remix)

No download links on this one for now (forgot that I left my podcast folks hanging) because I’d like to introduce everyone to a site that I think is really cool. Plus it gives me a little bandwidth break! ThePlayers.fm contacted me ages ago when they were just getting their site off the ground and asked me to upload something. I’m just now getting around to it. So if you didn’t catch it running on ProjectVIBE for the past month, check out my latest mix hosted by some cool UK fam.

1. DJ Day - A Place To Go
2. Sounds of Blackness - Optimistic
3. Vanessa Freeman - Shades
4. Aloe Blacc - With My Friends
5. Ne-Yo - Because Of You
6. Zhané - Shame
7. Q-Tip - I Believe feat. D’Angelo (Children of the Swing rework)
8. RBMA Roma All Stars - In And Out
9. Beady Belle - Lose & Win (Watch TV remix)
10. Nicola Kramer - Best In Me (Dego and Kaidi 2000 Black Refake)
11. Markus Enochson - Endless Dance (feat. Jocelyn Mathiue)
12. Cherie Mathieson - Tomorrow’s Day
13. Reel People - You Used To Hold Me So tight (feat. Angela Johnson)
14. Loose Ends - Tell Me What You Want
15. Faith Evans - Back To Love
16. Kelis - ’80s Joint
17. 4Hero - Something In The Way feat. Bembe Segue & Kaidi Tatham