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JAMMING BY A THREAD Episode 6 with BEN and guest co-selector JASON aka DJ SAINT CHARLES (sittin’ in for STU) features another sizzling tag-team DJ session, this time ping-ponging some fine seventies slo-funk and simmering heavy vibes, with a touch of early afrobeat and some recent neosoul, featuring exceptional tracks from Marijata, Labelle, Norman Whitfield, Creative Source, Natalie Cole, Clarence Wheeler, JJ Cale, Kendra Morris, Durand Jones and more!

Special guest co-selector DJ SAINT CHARLES is the alter-ego of jasoncharles.net Podcast Network founder and Executive Content Director JASON CHARLES.  Follow the network @jasoncharlesnyc and @jasoncharlesdotnet on Instagram.

BEN aka “The Loop Professor," is one of the rotating hosts of the long-running and award-winning SOUL MATES show on WMPG 90.9 Portland, ME and online at wmpg.org, offering up a cross section of Soul, Blues & R&B flavors – from stone cold classics to the very latest releases, playing the kind of soul-inspired sounds you just don’t get to hear anywhere else.  Yes mate! Continuing a rich multi-generational tradition at WMPG…Listen LIVE Saturdays from 7pm Eastern/11pm GMT and anytime after on www.wmpg.org  As The Loop Professor, Ben and super-producer/UK hip-hop royalty Jonny Cuba were the creative team behind the fantastic ‘90s Ninja Tune hip-hop duo DYNAMIC SYNCOPATION.  Their two releases on the legendary label still represent some of the finest UK hip-hop production to ever come out of London.  Vinyl junkie supreme Stuart “Stu” Rogers is a Sydney native and international festival booker and longtime broadcasting vet.  Lifelong professional cratediggers and partners in DJ crime, Ben and Stu will be back together soon and finer than ever...ping-ponging tracks and JAMMING BY A THREAD!

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RANGE MUSIC MONTHLY Episode 10 is a holiday gift for house heads…Recorded live at Range Music HQ back in September, NYC DJ legend JOE GOMEZ serves up a sixty minute masterfully-mixed set of the year’s most gorgeous deep, jazzy and soulful house joints, featuring tasty new and reissued dancefloor releases from the world’s finest dance music labels, including GAMM, BBE, SoSoSure, Compost and Mother Tongue Records, with tracks and remixes from Tedd Patterson, AtJazz, Pepe Braddock, Nicholas Ryan Gant, Roy Ayers, George Duke Vs. Opolopo, Desney Bailey and Danism featuring Heidi Vogel, and more.

If you’re in NYC, don’t miss the “Range Music NYC Pop-Up & Listening Session,” Wednesday evenings at Femme Fontaine, 245 S. 1st Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn,, 7pm til late, where Joe welcomes the best DJs and vinyl lovers in the business for a casual record-playing experience for music heads and those who love them.  Check out @rangemusicnyc on instagram for upcoming guests and more and of course, go to www.rangemusicnyc.com to check out any of the tracks on this mix.

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Episode 33 of STARK REALITY, recorded 7/6/21, features Host James Dier aka $mall ¢hange's exclusive Stark Reality interview with LEIGH BUTLER.

Leigh Butler is good ppls. Met him few years back at Movement through mutual friends, he is an old school techno head, music head really, been clubbing for many many years, UK, Germany, Detroit, Chicago, NYC, etc etc. He occasionally spins out but mostly wheels and deals records and has a deep knowledge of dance music.  Jim's in-depth conversation with Leigh covers Detroit DJs like Gary Chandler and Al Ester, Todd Edwards playing at a club in his neighborhood at the beginning of 2 Step, parties at the old Tresor in Berlin.  And Leigh wraps it up with a review of a recent car boot sale he hit. Really breaking news I know haha. Anyways enjoy.

To hear LEIGH BUTLER's exclusive Stark Reality "Detroit Techno 2019" playlist, listen/subscribe to STARK REALITY PLAYLISTS Episode 34, wherever you get your podcasts and live & direct on jasoncharles.net Podcast Network, MUSIC Channel

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Master DJ Selectors Ben & Stu continue the original podcast music series JAMMING BY A THREAD with a sick selection of dope Hip-Hop, Classic Hip-Hop, Hot Funk, Rare Groove Jams, featuring tracks by Man Parrish, EPMD, Blackbyrds, Beatnuts and more...taking you on a magical musical trip of sick selections from all genres from their massive vinyl collections of the finest sounds around...Dynamite! 

Original selector Ben Allen aka the Loop Professor is a US based Londoner with years of experience as a #ninjatune hip hop producer and soul funk #radio DJ and presenter.  Vinyl junkie supreme Stuart “Stu” Rogers is a Sydney native and international festival booker and longtime broadcasting vet.  Lifelong professional #cratediggers and partners in DJ crime, Ben and Stu are back and finer than ever...ping-ponging tracks and JAMMING BY A THREAD!

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Listen to Greg Belson talk about his early influences and his quest for finding the rarest gospel music as well as how Divine Disco 2 came together. Also take a virtual visit to In Your Ear to learn about record digging in Boston, MA.

Track List: 1. Calvin B. Rhone - "I Believe" 2. Third Guitar - "Baby Don't Cry" 3. Universal Jubileers - "Childhood Days" 4. Harrison Jones & The Voices Of Harmony - "On That Other Shore" 5. Prophets - "Take It To the Streets" 6. Wisdom - "Let The Lord Come In Your Life" 7. Evans Pyramid - "No I Won't" 8. The Sinclayr's - "One And One Are Two " 9. Royale - "I Want Your Body"

You can find more info Greg Belson's Divine Disco - Obscure Gospel Disco - 1979 to 1987 here - https://culturesofsoul.com/blogs/news/record-store-day-exclusive-greg-belsons-divine-disco-vol-2

We'll be selling records for Record Store Day at the Brighton Music Hall as part of the Do617 Pop-Up Record Shop.

Here is a special Spotify playlist created from the music featured in this podcast - spotify:user:culturesofsoulrecords:playlist:6qLalLwIMc39Y4T8BMk67T

Credits: Producer - Deano Sounds. Guest interviews with Greg Belson and Reed Lappen.

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Listen to Brother Cleve talk about his discovery and travels in the music of South Asia.

Track List: 1. Mohammed Rafi - "Jaan Pehechaan Ho" 2. Sharda - "Hotel Mein Botal" (Film - Papi Pet Ka Sawal Hai) 3. Asha Bhosle - "Aye Naujawan Sab Kuchh Yahan (Apradh)" 4. Usha Uthup & Chorus - "Hari Om Hari" 5. Asha Bhosle & Chorus - "Koi Lutera" - (Film - Wanted) 6. Kishore Kumar & Chorus - "Aaya Sanam Aaya Deewana Tera" (Film - Bade Dil Wala) 7. Asha Bhosle - "Jab Chhaye Mera Jadoo" (FILM - Lootmaar)

You can check out the Bombay Disco compilations here -
https://culturesofsoul.com/collections/all/products/bombay-disco-volume-1

https://culturesofsoul.com/collections/all/products/bombay-disco-volume-2

Credits: Narrator - Brother Cleve. Producer - Deano Sounds. Guest interview with Bappi Lahiri.

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Ken and Miss Lina spin the deepest of the deep records whilst relaxing infinitely. Wax On is back in business baby!