Category: James Brown

  • Fly By Night with Steve The Fly 01

    Fly By Night with Steve The Fly 01

    Fly By Night with Steve The Fly 01

    DJ Fly Agaric 23 with music by Ras G & the Afrikan Space Program, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Sonny Boy Williamson, The Larks, Lowell Fulson, Magic Sam, Shuggie Otis, Horace Andy, Lee Perry & Adrian Sherwood, The Mad Professor, Thelonious Monk, Tribe, James Brown, and The Meters

    The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
    FLY BY NIGHT WITH STEVE THE FLY 01
    Café Belgique, Amsterdam, January 20, 2012 [FA-0001]
    DJ Steve The Fly spinning at the Café Belgique in Amsterdam on the night of January 20, 2012…Part One.

    FLY BY NIGHT 01
    [01] Ras G & the Afrikan Space Program > Old Fashioned Disc Jockey
    [02] Junior Wells: Snatch It Back & Hold It
    [03] Otis Rush: Can’t Wait No Longer
    [04] Sonny Boy Williamson: Keep It To Yourself
    [05] The Larks: Fattening Frogs For Snakes
    [06] Lowell Fulson: You Got To Do Me Right
    [07] Magic Sam: Same Old Blues
    [08] Junior Wells: Somebody Done Hoodooed the Hoodoo Man
    [09] Sonny Boy Williamson: Don’t Lose Your Eye
    [10] Shuggie Otis: One Day At A Time
    [11] Horace Andy: Angel Dub
    [12] Lee Perry & Adrian Sherwood: Yellow Fever
    [13] Mad Professor:
    [14] Thelonious Monk Quartet: Rhythm-A-Ning
    [15] Tribe: Beneficient
    [16] James Brown: Man In The Mirror
    [17] Tribe: Space II
    [18] The Meters: Just Kissed My Baby
    [19] Closing Music: Tribe: Son Of Tribe

    A JOINT PRODUCTION
    Produced & recorded by Steve “Fly” Pratt for Radio Free Amsterdam
    Edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair
    Executive Producer: Sidney Daniels
    Sponsored by Ceres Seeds & The Hempshopper, Amsterdam
    © 2012 Steve Pratt. Used with oermission.

    http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/fly-by-night-with-steve-the-fly-01/

  • Steve Fly’s Saturnalia

    Steve Fly’s Saturnalia

    Steve Fly’s Saturnalia

    The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
    VINTAGE RADIO VAULTS 61

    Steve Fly’s Saturnalia
    Fly Agaric Studio, Amsterdam, December 23, 2009 [VV-0061]
    The last few weeks I’ve witnessed John Sinclair programming spontaneous radio shows across the table from me. John made a number of shows that knocked me off my stool so I figured it was my duty as DJ Fly Agaric to respond with a festive selection of tunes. The tracks were selected from my LP collection, recorded Wednesday 22nd December 2009 on a H4 Zoom Recorder.

    PLAYLIST 61
    [00] Baba Israel > Detroit Life Radio ID
    [01] Darlene Love: Marshmallow World
    [02] Channel One Studio: Ballistic Affair version
    [03] Miles Davis: Round About Midnight
    [04] Bobby Lester & the Moonglows: Hey Santa Claus
    [05] Clark-Boland Big Band: Sakara
    [06] Fel Kuti: Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am
    [07] The Larks: I Ain’t Fattening No Frogs For Snakes
    [08] The Ronettes: Sleigh Ride
    [09] Jimmy Reed: Rockin’ with Reed
    [10] Marcus Belgrave: Glue Finger (Part 2)
    [11] James Brown: Don’t Tell a Lie about Me
    [12] Bob Marley: No Water
    [13] Rage Against the Machine: Killing In The Name
    [14] Baba Israel > Detroit Life Radio ID

    Produced, edited & assembled by DJ Fly Agaric 23
    Vinyl spun on two Vestax turntables & recorded on Zoom H4 recorder
    Post-production, editing & annotation by John Sinclair
    Executive Producer: Larry Hayden
    Special thanks to Steve “Fly” Agaric & a Merry Xmas to all.
    © 2009, 2011 The John Sinclair Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
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  • Vonnegut Wilson Coltrane Baudrillard Brown R.I.P

    By Fly Agaric 23. 18th April 2007.

    Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Anton Wilson, James Brown, Jean Baudrillard, Alice Coltrane mixed:My favorite things in music and in writing So honor em’ how? damn words just to start off with? Build statues and make plaques? Plant trees, label meteorites, craters And scientific principles after em’? A great big love up, a big up to em’ Cheers! Omnipotent Everyware and Nowhere: Great thoughts dispersing like Cotton seeds… Representatives and word sound power Way Post Modern like Past Post structuralist Post quantum Culture culture. Encyclopediatricks
    Vast museums of culture How to fit it all in or get it out? Huge Galactic Archives of good Word
    And good sense i think, but so different too,Together in a blogg train
    cause’ they tripped outAnd may never come back? Word deployed
    To the new world disorder Disorder like spring, uprising voices “word magic “Everywhere
    Whispering like the wind. Earth culture highlights in just 5 Cherry stones,
    5 lives 5 piles of books
    5 glasses of water
    5 great lights.”Absent without leave” where, Where are their thoughts now?A scent within leaves
    Blowing in the greening spring wind Is music here?
    Where does it go? “Unabridged” Bound as word, as writers,
    musicians knotted togetherEntering their own “WORLD”
    realms, constellations their
    Senses, all-together, playing, spinning. A full blooming, all together NOW! Read them, listen to them.
    Read them, process their thoughts,
    Listen again. Cast seeds
    East/west north/south, open your mouth. Sing of Wilson,
    Baudrillard
    Vonnegut
    Brown
    Coltrane

    A Most potent Quintet don’t you THINK? Their birth/death dates now sealed,
    Calendars edited but without end
    Of correspondences, Without end in e-space now. Messages from space
    Inner/outer and between And the numerous other worlds among Boundless stars, Death
    Has become the ultimate absurd:
    The opposite of life? LOOK between the linesThese are vehicles, blueprints, ships and portals.

    Timequake, John Coltrane: Infinity, The Third Coming, Ishtar Rising, Divine
    Song, Reality, À l’ombre des majorités silencieuses The Sex Magician’s, Sex
    Machine, I got the feelin’, Everything’s Under Control, Sex and Drugs, Ain’t it
    funky, Down to Earth, Wilhelm Reich in Hell, Transcendence, L’échange symbolique
    et la mort, Right Where You Are Sitting Now, Hot pants, Papa’s Got a Band new
    Bag, The Trick Top Hat, The Illuminati Paper’s, Breakfast of Champions, The
    Popcorn, Pass the Peas, The Golden Apple, The Homing Pigeon, Cat’s Cradle, World
    Galaxy, The Sirens of Titan, I’m real, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, Think,
    Astral Meditations, Mind power, L’échange impossible Quantum Psychology, The
    Elements, Slaughterhouse-Five, Coincidance, Talkin’ Loud, Email to the Universe,
    Universal Consciousness, Journey in Satchidananda, Galápagos, Soul Power,
    Reflection on Creation and Space, Cool Memories V, My Life after Death,
    Simulacres et simulation, Reality Is What You Can Get Away With,The Conspiracy
    of Art, Grits and soul, The Universe Next Door…R.I.P

    Kurt Vonnegut (November 29 1922 – 11 april 2007)Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 – March 6, 2007)Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007)James Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006)Alice Coltrane (August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007)

    Fly Agaric 23. 18th April 2007. Amsterdam.

  • Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Anton Wilson, James Brown, Alice Coltrane mixed

    My favorite music and writing
    So honor em’ how? damn words to start off with?
    Build statues and make plaques?
    Plant trees, label meteorites, craters
    And scientific principles after em’?
    A great big love up, a big up to em’ Cheers!
    Omnipotent Everyware and Nowhere:

    Great thoughts dispersing like
    Cotton seeds…
    Representatives and word sound power

    Way Post Modern like
    Past Post structuralist
    Post quantum Culture culture.

    Encyclopediatricks and vast museums of culture
    How to fit it all in or get it out?
    Huge Galactic Archives of good Word
    And good sense i think, but so different too,
    Together in a blogg train cause’ they tripped out
    And may never come back?

    Word deployed to the new world disorder
    Disorder like spring, uprising voices “word magic”
    Everywhere whispering like the wind

    Earth culture highlights in just 5 Cherry stones, 5 lives
    5 piles of books, 5 glasses of water, incense, light

    “Absent without leave” where,
    Where are their thoughts now?
    A scent within leaves blowing in the greening spring wind
    Is music here? where does it go?

    Becoming their complete “Unabridged” selves,
    Bound as word, as writers, musicians knotted all up together
    Entering their own “WORLD” their own realms, constellations,
    Their recorded legacy
    Left behind their senses all-together

    A full blooming, all together NOW!
    Read them, read them, process their thoughts, listen
    Cast seeds east/west north/south, open your mouth

    Sing of Wilson, Baudrillard, Vonnegut, Brown, Coltrane
    Most potent Quintet don’t you THINK?
    Their birth/death dates now sealed
    Their calendars sealed, without end of correspondences,
    Without end in e-journal space

    Messages from space, inner/outer and between
    And the numerous other worlds Among
    Boundless stars,

    Death has become the ultimate absurd: the opposite of
    Resurrection, of life, only through words can death survive
    LOOK between the lines
    These are vehicles, blueprints, ships and portals

    The solid Newtonian universe involving such immutable concepts as mass, force, momentum, and inertia has long been repealed. The dull, dependable, predictable general motors universe has been transformed into shimmering quantum electronic possibilities. It seems that it all comes down to programs, information, and rhythms – endlessly complexifying with unpredictable results. In other words John Coltrane. – Timothy Leary and R.U Sirius, Design for dying, pub. Thorsons 1997.

    In a similar way that any serious 21st Century musician and DJ alike would be familiar with the incalculable contributions James Brown has made to modern culture, any serious writer, or blogger of the 21st Century would be familiar with the contributions Robert Anton Wilson, Jean Baudrillard and Kurt Vonnegut have made to humanity. James Brown has been popularized by many people worldwide as the Godfather of Soul, and so to make fun, Wilson might deserve a corresponding title such as the Godfather of God. Jean the Godfather of Hyperreality. Vonnegut the Godfather of narrative. Alice Coltrane the Godmother of Ambient. They are like Gods to me. So i’ll praise em’. How to pay tribute.

    Visualize them cruising through limitless spaceless spaceless spaceless that they all helped shape, riffing off each other riffing, entangling words and strings, spinning, dancing, shouting. Melting into their life’s work completed, a full ‘good” life. This time around. Full of life, recordings and recordings, encapsulated for another eternity, still around in living minds through common playback devices. Tune in with a Wishing wand.

    Alice playing that sensual sweet mystical nectar, washing the wall with tie dyed patterns, coming from her grand piano. Jean sits in the shadows next to a claret stage at the bar” talking with BOB and his beloved wife Arlen a tale of Joyce and the Gorillas of Paris, singing in sharp Haiku bursts of light, fountains of oriental glossolalia. Bob lights a joint and the hills come alive. Everyone’s relaxed and cheerful, sunshines through a stunning great glass window, rooms awash with lemon. Soon a wind breathes a thousand brogues, streaming out of a translinguistic goo forming on the white marble flooring, goo that speaks. Kurt mimes each one with each crease in his face, old Buddhas laughing a Buddha belly laugh. James singing with a chorus of his angel divas, like another take of the classic Gospel scene from the Blues Brothers, Hot piercing screams like firebirds building up and up, Alice escorting the mouthful of air until release. Then everybody sits back a moment and nods to the music. Smiles radiate all around the room through the smoke, the whole scene is a hologram. Playing backwards and forwards in a torrent of sound light and soul and “Word”

    Timequake, John Coltrane: Infinity,
    The Third Coming, Ishtar Rising, Divine Song,
    Reality, À l’ombre des majorités silencieuses

    The Sex Magicians, Sex Machine
    I got the feelin’ Everything’s Under Control
    Sex and Drugs, Ain’t it funky,
    Down to Earth, Wilhelm Reich in Hell,
    Transcendence, L’échange symbolique et la mort

    Right Where You Are Sitting Now, Hot pants,
    Papa’s Got a Band new Bag
    The Trick Top Hat, The Illuminati Papers

    Breakfast of Champions, The Popcorn, Pass the Peas,
    The Golden Apple, The Homing Pigeon, Cat’s Cradle
    World Galaxy, The Sirens of Titan, I’m real,
    The Gulf War Did Not Take Place

    Think, Astral Meditations, Mind power, L’échange impossible
    Quantum Psychology, The Elements, Slaughterhouse-Five
    Coincidance,

    Email to the Universe, Universal Consciousness,
    Journey in Satchidananda, Galápagos,
    Reflection on Creation and Space, Cool Memories V
    My Life after Death, Simulacres et simulation
    Reality Is What You Can Get Away With,
    The Conspiracy of Art
    Grits and soul
    The Universe Next Door…

    Kurt Vonnegut (November 29 1922 – 11 april 2007)
    Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 – March 6, 2007)
    Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007)
    James Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006)
    Alice Coltrane (August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007)

  • The beat the beats the beat

    After Hangin’ up me mouse last night, i dreamt

    Amen, Amen brother. I can sure dig that beat.

    One for the Winston’s.

    Amen and drum nd’ bass culture wave rebellion spirit of uprising

    Dansin’ blayzing chronic times

    Sweaty times and Spaces

    Thunder Bass ([{whu wowu’ womb]})

    And to the Funky Drummer: Clyde

    Amen brother, and the udder drummer

    Bernard Purdie, and the other…

    Drummers a one, two, a one-two-three-for

    Good god’ the Break-bits, is there no school left?

    Once rare Akai now popular Digital sampler software fully-

    Loaded HTML SD

    To King Tubby and Lee Perry , Sly and Miles

    Amen, Peace

    To the funny people who came again and again,

    Paid their fees and maybe ate a few E’s and got down

    On their bare knees

    With Whistles and Horns and lighters

    Amen brother,

    heh heh

    Reconnected with Funk-Soul-Reggae

    Roots Roots

    To the “Amen” break break

    Church of Drum and Bass congregation

    Sweaty jungle orgies of sound,

    My om pom: A sample sample of terms Word word, jams germs

    Credit where credits due

    Thanks bro. NOW-Now

    Let the DJ DJ DJ DJ

    BeeYOU