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matrix says:

April 1, 2015 at 6:25 am

Matrix Mix 96 – Get Yourself Together (1:24:14, 116Mb)

01. Willie Rosario – Calypso Blues
02. Dorothy Black – Miracle Man
03. Laurel Aitken – Bad Minded Woman
04. Lord Tanamo – Come Down
05. Kelvin Stardust – Big Boss Man
06. Shirley Scott & The Soul Saxes – You
07. The Soul Snatchers – Get Yourself Together
08. Eddie Floyd – Big Bird
09. The Golden Toadstools – Silly Savage
10. The New Mastersounds – Freckles
11. Seratones – Kingdom Come
12. Clyde Stubblefield – Funk Thing
13. Smokey Bandits – Subway Hustler (Renegades Of Jazz Breaks Mix)
14. Ebo Taylor – Heaven
15. Benjamin Booker – Violent Shiver
16. Bill Callahan – America
17. Etta James – I’d Rather Go Blind
18. Ann Peebles – I Can’t Stand The Rain
19. Darondo – True
20. Sinkane – Hold Tight
21. Otis Taylor – Resurrection Blues
22. Buddy Guy – One Room Country Shack

briscoe says:

April 4, 2015 at 5:27 pm

Thank you for this mix. I love soul/rare groove/etc mixes, especially for work or around the home. With little ones, I don’t have to worry about getting looks from the wife when a cuss word comes out of the speakers. Also, there is so much music I don’t know, so old is new to me. I recognise a couple names (Eddie Floyd, Etta, etc) but the songs don’t look familiar. How did you come across these? Childhood tracks, or pure digging? Really enjoyed it.

matrix says:

April 5, 2015 at 10:13 pm

Hi Briscoe, they’re not childhood tracks. I tend to have several potential mixes on the go at once because I listen to stuff voraciously and file things away in approximate genre projects. For this one, I had collected tracks like 1-3, 8, 10, 12, 14-16 already but I really can’t remember where I found them. I think I heard Ann Peebles at somebody’s house and thought “gotta have that in a future mix!”. Then it’s often a case of digging for the tracks to complete the mix once you start forming it.

I’m quite pleased with how this mix goes in different directions while still keeping an overall shape. It’s a good example of sometimes tracks hang around for a while until they find their natural home. The Benjamin Booker track was one fo those for me; ejected from a couple of mixes for not fitting.

Thanks for the comments.

Martyn says:

April 12, 2015 at 9:44 am

Loving this, covers a lot of bases.

Len says:

April 18, 2015 at 10:39 am

Finally got round to this. Great stuff – making my train journey much more pleasant.

matrix says:

April 19, 2015 at 4:46 pm

Cheers chaps, glad you enjoyed.

konrad useo says:

April 21, 2015 at 7:23 am

I took to this like a fish to water. I’d only heard 8,17,18, & 22 before.
A triumph of the mixer. Big kudos to you, & thanks.

gen says:

May 6, 2015 at 12:12 pm

Tremendous mix! Enjoying every minute!

gen says:

May 6, 2015 at 12:22 pm

Matrix, are you familiar with DJ O-Dub and Soul-Sides.com? He has one of the best soul blogs I know and has a great podcast too. I’ve enjoyed most of his mix sets too. He has an Aretha mixtape that is tremendous as well as a Jackson 5 mix tape that is memorable. He was interviewed for the Sound of Young America when Jackson passed.

http://soul-sides.com/

http://www.maximumfun.org/sound-young-america/remembering-michael-jackson-oliver-wang-jay-smooth-sound-young-america-podcast

http://soul-sides.com/mixtapes/

Steve LBMK says:

May 13, 2015 at 11:28 am

I am returning to B00mb0x after having drifted out of the loop for several years (arrival of child, middle age, etc etc).

Just wanted to say that I am delighted that Matrix and the rest of you guys are still going strong.

I love this mix and only recently heard Big Bird on the Crag Charles’s Radio 6 show. the whole mix really hangs together and is funky with a capital FUNK.

Brilliant stuff.

matrix says:

May 14, 2015 at 9:38 am

Welcome back Steve. Still some stalwarts on the site, but we could do with some fresh mixers too. Glad you enjoyed the mix. It’s funny, this one came together very quickly, and sometimes that seems to work best.

Thanks too Gen. I’m not familiar with those links but will try to check them out. I’m rifling through Essential Mixes at the moment.

sri-bhagwan says:

June 8, 2015 at 7:35 pm

#Love# the mix, there are so many wonderful tracks out there thanks for digging, used to work in clubs in the 70’s up until ’82 with soul/jazz funk nites… its so refreshing to hear the less familiar stuff. nothing wrong with lonnie liston, roy ayres etc… but they get a bit done to death so its great to hear this …keep up the good work.

love up

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