Sven Libaek: Soul Thing

"Sven Libaek is an Australian composer, record producer and musician. He is well-known for his film and TV soundtrack music and also had a significant influence on the Australian popular music scene in the mid-1960s as the staff producer for the Australian division of CBS Records. Fellow soundtrack composer Felix Ookean has described his contribution to Australian music as 'immeasureable'. Libaek was born in Norway in 1938, trained as both a pianist and an actor and is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York. He first achieved international recognition with a role in the Louis de Rochemont film Windjammer in which he both acted and performed as piano soloist with Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops Orchestra."- Wikipedia

music includes:

Sven Libaek - Soul Thing

(Votary Records, Misty Canyon)

Sven Libaek - Woobinda

(This Day Tonight LP)

Sven Libaek - Green On Dolphin Street

(tba)

unrelated ish

Roberto Pregadio - Amore all'Arrabbiara Seq.1

(Soundtrack, 1976)

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More Dusty Ol' Joints

"Dusty Springfield (dubbed The White Queen of Soul) was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her distinctive sensual sound, she was an important white soul singer, and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers, with 18 singles in the Billboard Hot 100 from 1964 to 1970. She is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the U.K. Music Hall of Fame. International polls have named Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time". (--Wikipedia) Pete Lawrence has spent most of his life assimilating sound. The pursuit of sonic beauty has taken him around the world, as an internationally respected DJ and tastemaker. Like anyone who has a muse, he has had his moments. The journey has been the thing, the joyful adventure he committed to in childhood.  Chilled By Nature has been a labour of love over the last ten years. It is the realisation of an ongoing musical vision that has been distilling over time, shaped by a bewildering variety of musical influences, and real life experiences" - LastFM

music includes:

Chilled By Nature - State Of Grace

(Ultimate Chillout Lounge Collection Comp, 2008)

Dusty Springfield - Spooky

(Complete A & B Sides, 1963-70)

Arling & Cameron - Voulez-Vous

(tba)

Blossom Dearie - I Like London In The Rain

(That's Just the Way I Want To Be, 1970)

Estelle Levitt - All I Dream

(Music Factory)

Helen Grayco - Lily's Lament (Cell 29)

(tba)

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Glidin' Softly Outta Here

"David 'Dave' Richmond is a professional bass player, best known as a founder member of the 1960s pop group Manfred Mann, playing with the band in 1963.  After leaving the band in 1963, Richmond became a session player, working with, amongst others, Elton John, Bread, and Hank Marvin" (Discogs) Andres Linetzky & Ernesto Romeo is From Avellaneda, 28 years old, student of the Maestros Horacio Salgan and Rodolfo Mederos. Andres is the Pianist of the Tango Orchestra of the City of Buenos Aires, and Director of the Vale Tango Group.  Linetzky started studying music at age 6. He was almost an adult-he was a student at the Popular Music Conservatory-when he changed from studying jazz to tango.  “My soul is tango, I am tango,” Linetzky said" - LastFM

music includes:

Dave Richmond - Glider

(Thought Patterns, 1979)

Barbara Kelly & The Morning Good - Maria's Theme

(Savage Seven Soundtrack)

Otto Weiss - Riding On A Cloud

(Selected Sound, 1977)

Andres Linetzky and Ernesto Romeo - Sentimientos

(tba)

Les Baxter & His Orchestra

Les Baxter was an American musician and composer. Baxter himself had arranged Nat King Cole's "Nature Boy" in 1947 for a recording conducted by Frank De Vol. In 1953 he scored his first movie, the sailing travelogue Tanga Tika. With his own orchestra, he released a number of hits including "Ruby" (1953), "Unchained Melody" (1955) and "The Poor People Of Paris" (1956). He also achieved success with concept albums of his own orchestral suites: Le Sacre Du Sauvage, Festival Of The Gnomes, Ports Of Pleasure, and Brazil Now, the first three for Capitol and the fourth on Gene Norman's Crescendo label. The list of musicians on these recordings includes Plas Johnson and Clare Fischer. Baxter also wrote the "Whistle" theme from the TV show Lassie.ike his counterparts Henry Mancini and Lalo Schifrin, Baxter later worked for the film industry in the 60's and 70's. He worked on movie soundtracks for B-movie studio American International Pictures where he composed and conducted scores for Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films and other horror stories and teenage musicals, including The Pit and the Pendulum, The Comedy of Terrors, Muscle Beach Party, The Dunwich Horror, and Frogs. Howard W. Koch recalled that Baxter composed, orchestrated and recorded the entire score of The Yellow Tomahawk (1954) in a total of three hours for $5,000." - Wikipedia

music includes:

Les Baxter - Chain Fight

(Hell's Belles, 1969)

Les Baxter - Hogin' Machine

(Hell's Belles, 1969)

unrelated beats

Roland Vincent - LSD Party

(Shake Sauvage)

Pierre Cavalli - Un Soir Chez Norris

(1971)

Janko Nilovic & Dave Sucky - In The Space

(Psyh Impressions, 1970)

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Various Retro Beatin

"Le Hammond Inferno. Berlin-based electro disco DJs/producers. The duo also runs the Bungalow record label. Bob Elger. Pseudonym of Roland Kovac. Keith Mansfield is a British composer and arranger known for his creation of prominent television theme tunes, including the Grandstand theme for the BBC. Other works include "Light and Tuneful" (the opening theme for the BBC's coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships), "World Champions" (the closing theme for NBC's coverage of the same tournament) and "World Series" (used for the BBC's athletics coverage)" - Wikipedia

music includes;

Le Hammond Inferno - Margret Evening

(Fashion Remix)

Keith Mansfield - Morning Broadway

(Soul Skimmer/Morning Broadway, 2000)

Jimmy McGriff - Groove Grease

(Groove Grease, 1971)

DJ Krush - Yeah!

Dorothy Ashby - The Moving Finger

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Matt Ford: DJ Format

"Matt Ford, better known as DJ Format (a near-inversion of his birth name), is a hip hop DJ born in Southampton, England who lives in Brighton. He collaborates frequently with Abdominal on the album Music For the Mature B-Boy and with Abdominal and fellow Canadian rapper D-Sisive on the second full album If You Can't Join 'Em… Beat 'Em, as well as with Akil and Chali 2na from Jurassic 5.n 2006 Format's "fabriclive 27" in the Fabric DJ mix series was one of the most well received of the series[citation needed]. His DJ sets are renowned[citation needed] for their boundary-crossing selection of the funk, soul, rock & hip-hop and his fabric mix showed off a condensed version of the party set that he's built a solid reputation on. This was followed up by his own underground mix of obscure Eastern European beats, the now highly collectable 'European Vacation' CD. In 2008 Format released another mix album, this time for the Fania label, applying his b-boy style to a catalogue of latin music. Alongside this, Format also discreetly released a 12" tribute to James Brown, Stealin' James. DJ Format's third album is due for release on 27 February 2012" - Wikipedia

music includes:

DJ Format - The Turning Point

(If You Can't Join Em, Beat Em, 2005)

DJ Format - Dancing Drums

(tba)

unrelated tunes:

The Wiseguys - Search's End

(tba)

John Schroeder - Head Band

(When Recordings Comp. 2005)

Klaus Doldinger - Comin Home Baby

(1973)

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Shanti Roots Dohelsky

"Shanti Roots. Vienna-born Markus Dohelsky approached the world of electronic music for the first time under the influence of the Acid House Movement, at the beginning of the Nineties. Equipped with a 303 and other synthezisers, the prime move as an electronic musician was together with Istvan Zachar in the shape of the project Ohm 8 in 1991, which led to very early performances on stage of the Loop Club. The preoccupation for a straight 4-to-the-floor aesthetics should vanish in favour of a reduced broken beat concept, as soon as Dohelsky listened to DJ Krush's piece "Influx" on the Radio. The new sample-styled consummate MoWax trademark was nourishment for him and gave vent for his first tracks which Markus Dohelsky produced over the two following years, but in relative isolation and without any existing scene".- viennascientists.com 

music includes:

Shanti Roots - Holy Smoke

(The Eclectic Sound Of Vienna 2 Comp, 1998)

unrelated ish

Nick Harrison - The Loner

(Graphic Art And Sound Comp. 2005)

Master Cylinder - Jung At Heart

(VW Jetta Promo)

Accadde A Bali - Arawak

(Dusty Fingers vol 4)

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Zehnpfennig Slowburn

"Any Zehnpfennig. With his unmistakably and extremely musical hand, Ady is both well known as organist and studio musician. In 1971, he published his first record. Numerous records and CDs followed, and countless appearances on TV and live concerts prove his capability to breathe musical life into dry technique. He is a perfect performer and arranger and meanwhile has become a legend.- (Taste-Festival.de). Percy Faith was a Canadian-born American bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas standards. He is often credited with creating the "easy listening" or "mood music" format which became staples of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s. Though his professional orchestra-leading career began at the height of the swing era, Faith refined and rethought orchestration techniques, including use of large string sections, to soften and fill out the brass-dominated popular music of the 1940s"- Wikipedia

music includes;

Any Zehnpfennig - Easter Afternoon

(Achtung! German Grooves, 2007)

Vyacheslav Mescherin - Siberian Melody

(tba)

Klaus Wunderlich - Summertime

Hammond Für Millionen (1971) 

Percy Faith - Theme From Summer Place

(Soundtrack, 1960)

David Axelrod

"David Axelrod is an American composer, arranger and producer, working in several musical genres. His work as arranger and composer began to be rediscovered in the early 1990s, and to be sampled by artists such as DJ Shadow and Lauryn Hill. In 1993 he released his first album for over a decade, Requiem:Holocaust. Several compilations of his earlier work were also released. In 2000 he released David Axelrod, which used rhythm tracks originally recorded for a proposed third Electric Prunes album, with new arrangements. Dr. Dre used a David McCallum cut ('The Edge') for "The Next Episode" from 1999's 2001. Masta Ace also used a cut from 'The Edge' in his song, "No Regrets" from the 2001 album, Disposable Arts. In addition, 'The Edge' was heavily sampled on the Emperor Penguin track, 'Burnt Sienna and Avocado'.
David Axelrod appeared at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 17 March 2004 as part of the Ether festival where he conducted a one off performance of his solo work. He was joined on stage by Richard Ashcroft who sang Holy Are You, originally recorded by The Electric Prunes. At the end of this rare concert he informed the audience that he was suffering from ill health. In 2006, "Live at Royal Festival Hall" was released asa DVD and CD. Axelrod signed with Blue Note Records in 2005" - Wikipedia

music includes:

David Axelrod - The Smile

(Songs Of Innocence, 1968)

unrelated ish

The Funky Muchachos - Spooky

(Play Soul Jazz, 2008)

Rimshots - Who Got The Monster

(Who Got The Monster/Soul Walking, 1974)

Rod Hunter - Soul Makossa

(1974)

Babla & His Orchestra - Ae Mere Dil Kahin Aur Chal

(Babla's Disco Sensation)

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Natural Calamity

"The Shibuya-kei trio known as Natural Calamity is a bit of an anachronism compared to others in the rich Japanese pop scene characterized by Cornelius and Pizzicato Five. The earthy trip-hop blues produced by Shunji Mori and Kuni Sugimoto, plus American Stephanie Heasley’s countrified vocals come in marked contrast to Tokyo’s many French/Brazilian/exotica aficionados. Mori and Sugimoto met in the early ’90s, and produced their first album Dawn in the Valley for File Records, owned by Toshio Nakanishi of Love T.K.O. Let It Come Down and Sundance followed, as well as the collaboration LP Group of Gods, recorded with Nakanishi and Masayaki Kudo (who form half of the trip-hop quartet Skylab). While Sugimoto was spending some time in London, he met Stephanie Heasley, who was working at the Tower Records store in Piccadilly Circus. After recording in London and Spain as a trio, Natural Calamity signed to the Idyllic/Toy’s Factory label and released Andulucian Moon. Hyped in the Japanese press, the group earned American distribution through the Dust Brothers’ Nickelbag label for their second LP, 1998’s Peach Head. The inevitable remix album followed, with contributions by Stock, Hausen & Walkman, the Dust Brothers, Buffalo Daughter and Kool Keith." - LastFM

music includes:

Natural Calamity - Dark Water And Stars

(Thicker Than Water OST, 2000)

unrelated stuff

The Advancement - Stone Folk

(Stone Folk, 1969)

Philter - Love

(Magnus G. Jorgensen. 2005)

Angus & Julia Stone - Paper Aeroplane

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Wiseguys & Other Loops

"The Wiseguys was a British electronica and hip hop band that was responsible for creating the song "Start the Commotion" that was in a Mitsubishi TV advertisement, as well as the films Lizzie McGuire, Zoolander and Kangaroo Jack; and "Ooh La La", which was used in Budweiser commercials. Both tracks of which came from The Wiseguys second album, The Antidote.The Wiseguys disbanded in 2001, and Touche worked solo on house music under Fatboy Slim's Southern Fried record label. In July 2006, Regal released his first solo single "Shock Ya Mind" on the Funk Weapons label. On 31 December 2006, Executive Suite made its way onto the US version of iTunes. Touche is a producer and DJ, half of The Black Ghosts. He produces under several other aliases including Fake Blood. Regal signed to Unique Records in 2007 and has since released two solo albums and three singles for the label, including his debut solo album Loop Dreams and his latest CD Time Past, which is paired with his "Time Past" 12" remixes sampler, released in late 2009" - Wikipedia

music includes:

Wiseguys - The Sound You Hear

(The Sound You Hear/We Keep On, 1996)

unrelated ish

Alan Haven - Image

(Single, 1965)

Karminsky Experience Inc - Into The Blue

(2007)

Soul River - Entering The Trance

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HashFinger - B4

Johns & Roc-N-Rolla Linx

"Link" Wray was an American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer. Wray was noted for pioneering a new sound for electric guitars, as exemplified in his 1958 instrumental hit "Rumble", by Link Wray and his Ray Men, which pioneered an overdriven, distorted electric guitar sound. He also "invented the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarist,"and in doing so fathering," or making possible, "punk and heavy rock". Rolling Stone placed Wray at number 67 of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time" (Wikipedia). Sammy Johns is an American country singer-songwriter, best known for his million selling 1975 hit single, "Chevy Van".After his eponymous debut album on the GRC record label, which included "Chevy Van", the singer signed a deal in 1976 with Warner-Curb, which resulted in Johns working on the soundtrack to The Van. The 1982 New World Records single "Falling for You" came to the attention of Elektra, and the company took Johns on board and issued "Love Me off the Road" and "Common Man". When country artist John Conlee covered "Common Man", the single went gold and topped the charts. Conlee made the song his theme, and Johns continued writing songs for others" - Wikipedia

music includes:

Deviants - Normality Jam

(Disposable LP, 1968)

Bergen Blues Band - Handle It Right

(Live, Sandnes, Norway, 1982)

Saft - People In Motion

(Den Siste Revejakta Soundtrack, 2008)

 Traffic Sound - America

Things Have Changed

"Things Have Changed" is a song from the film Wonder Boys, written and performed by Bob Dylan. The song was released as a single on May 1, 2000. "Things Have Changed" won the Academy Award, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. The director of Wonder Boys, Curtis Hanson, also created a music video for "Things Have Changed," filming new footage of Bob Dylan on the film's various locations and editing it with footage used in Wonder Boys as if Dylan were actually in the film. "Things Have Changed" has been used in the Showtime series Brotherhood and twice in the CBS series NCIS, and is featured on the NCIS Soundtrack. The track peaked at #58 in the UK Singles Chart" - Wikipedia

music includes:

Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed 

(Wonder Boys Soundtrack 2000)

unrelated dylan

Belle And Sebastian - Like Dylan At The Movies

(If You Feeling Sinister, 1996)

David T. Walker - Lay Lady Lay

(Plum Happy, 1971)

bonus doc

"Hotel Scene" Dylan/Donovan

(Don't Look Back Documentary, 1967)

Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man

(The Hurdy Gurdy Man, 1968)

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Ephemera Trio

"Ephemera is a Norwegian female band of 3 members: Inger Lise Størksen, Christine Sandtorv and Jannicke Larsen. Formed in 1994, they’ve released 6 albums to much critical acclaim in Norway. Their 2001 release Balloons and Champagne won the Norwegian Grammy Award for Best Pop Album. Several of their songs have been placed in American television shows, including perhaps their biggest hit, Girls Keep Secrets in the Strangest Ways."The Alarm Music Prize (2003), Norwegian Grammy nominations (Best Pop Album for "Sun" in 2001, "Balloons and Champagne" in 2003)- LastFM

music includes:

Ephemera - Girls Keep Secrets In The Strangest Way

(CD Single, 2003)

unrelated girls

Kings Of Convenience - Toxic Girl

(Quiet Is The New Loud, 2001)

Broadcast - Come on, Let's Go

(The Noise Made By People, 2000)

Smoke City - Flying Away
(Smoke Album, 1997)

.Dolphin Boy - Shake It Loose

(Buddha Bar 10 Years Disc)




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Smith & Good Will

"Elliott Smith was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums, and harmonica. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery" and use of multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures, and harmonies. After playing in the rock band Heatmiser for several years, Smith began his solo career in 1994 with releases on the independent record labels Cavity Search and Kill Rock Stars. In 1997 he signed a contract with DreamWorks Records, for which he recorded two albums. Smith rose to mainstream prominence when his song "Miss Misery"—included in the soundtrack for the film Good Will Hunting—was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category in 1998." - Wikipedia

music includes:

Elliott Smith - Miss Misery

(Good Will Hunting Soundtrack, 1997)

Elliott Smith - Angeles

(Paranoid Park)

Good Will Hunting Scene: "At The Park".

(1997)

unrelated songs

Aimee Mann - Wise Up

(Magnolia Soundtrack, 1999)

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