February is Carnaval time, which means this past month I've had Brazil on my mind. This episode features 20 of my favorite Brazilian records. The mix focuses on the funkier sounds of Brazil: Jazz Fusion, Rare Groove, and Disco-funk.  There are plenty of classics--some well known songs by Azymuth, Marcos Valle, Paula Lima, and some lesser-known records you might not have heard before.  As always, all vinyl.  Aprecie!

If you're in the mood for more Brazilian Wax, check out the Far Out Records Special I recorded earlier this month with Chris Galvan and DJ Offbeat, or one of the Onda Brasilera mixes now archived at Future History of House. 

OdDio's Audio Odyssey - Episode 10 : Brazilian Wax

• 1. Marcos Valle – Garra – Odeon
• 2. Juca Chaves – Take Me Back to Piaui – RGE/Mr. Bongo
• 3. Di Melo – Kilario – Odeon
• 4. Raulzinho – Spinning Wheel (Vida Torta) – Whatmusic
• 5. Tim Maia – É Necessário – Som Livre
• 6. Tim Maia – Da Lem A Portal – Seroma
• 7. Sonora Trinidad – Pais Troical – Spiral
• 8. Nonato & Seu Conjunto – Cafúa – Som
• 9. Copa 7 – Derepente – Whatmusic
• 10. Tenorio Jr. e seu Conjunto – Nebulosa – Fonográfica RGE
• 11. Cesar Mariano & Cia – Futebol de Bar – Lup Som
• 12. Jayme Marques – Dark Orchid (Orquidea Negra) - RCA
• 13. Cesar Mariano & Cia – Metrôpole – Lup Som
• 14. Banda União Black – Escorpião – Commonfolk
• 15. Robson Jorge & Lincoln Olvetti – Aleluia – Som Livre
• 16. Mão Branca – Melo do Mão Branca – Sinter / Murge Discos
• 17. Paula Lima – Quiero Ver Voce No Baile – Mr. Bongo
• 18. Marcos Valle – Estrelar – Som Livre
• 19. Azymuth – Dear Limmertz – Milestone
• 20. Copa 7 – Mulher Absoluta – Whatmusic
  

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After a long hiatus, I'm back with a new installment of the Audio Odyssey featuring a tasty selection of underground hip hop, jazzy downtempo, funk beats, nu soul, and other assorted sonic delicacies.  I'm going to try to keep the show monthly in 2010, but it would be foolish to make any promises considering how crazy these past few months have been--and how eventful the next few promise to be.

OdDio's Audio Odyssey - Episode 09 : Left Hook

• 1. Katalyst feat. Steve Spacek – How Bout Us – Invada
  
• 2. McKay – Rising Tide (Easton Rocks Remix) – White Label
  
• 3. Mark Rae – Reach Out to Me (Funky Lowlives Mix) – Grand Central
  
• 4. The Primeridian – Tatuduhendi (Boogie Man) – All Natural
  
• 5. De La Soul feat. Common – The Bizness (Paul Nice Remix) – The Rub
  
• 6. Digable Planets – Graffiti – Blue Note
  
• 7. The Ghostz – Magic Gold Watch (Instrumental) – Deepknocks
  
• 8. Muro feat. Pete Rock & Freddie Foxx – Patch Up The Pieces – Incredible
  
• 9. Jazz Liberatorz – Blue Avenue – KIF
  
• 10. Kev Brown – Batida – Dopeness Galore
  
• 11. Thes One & J Live – Give it Up – Kajmere Sound
  
• 12. Cookin on 3 Burners – Cressy Street Breakdown (No Comply Mix) – Knowfoowl
  
• 13. Pete Rock – Revenge (“Muroxanne” Revenge Mix) – Handcuts
  
• 14. Jazzanova feat. Paul Randolph – Let Me Show Ya – Verve
  
• 15. Rae & Christian – Wake Up Everybody (Rae & Christian Remix) – Grand Central/K7
  
• 16. Mayer Hawthorne – Maybe So, Maybe No – Stones Throw
  
• 17. DJ Day – A Place to Go –Melting Pot Music
  
• 18. Le Scratch Funk – From Scratch – Melting Pot Music
  
• 19. Kool DJ Dust – Real Love Dub – Peekaboo
  
• 20. Danny Breaks – The Outer Dimension – Alphabet Zoo
  
• 21. Luke Vibert & Jean Jacques Perrey – Ye Olde Beatbox – Lo Recordings
  

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After many years of noviazgo, dozens of trans-atlantic flights, and literally hundreds of international calling cards, Inma and I finally got our papers together this past June.  The wedding was held at the Capilla de los Adoratrices here in Seville, with a reception following at the Hotel Al Andalus Palace.  The ceremony and party were well-attended by our Spanish friends and family, and we were joined by many international guests-of-honor who braved the economic crisis and expensive high-season airfare to celebrate with us.  I recorded the following mix for the "aperitivo" portion of the wedding, the cocktail hour (or hour and a half) after the ceremony but before dinner.  As you listen to this, imagine yourself drinking cold beer and enjoying hors d'oeuvres and serrano ham as the sun sets on one of the nicest, most temperate days of the summer.

OdDio's Audio Odyssey - Episode 08 : The Wedding Mix

• 1. João Gilberto – Águas de Março - Polydor
• 2. Stan Getz and Luiz Bonfa – Menina Flor – Verve
• 3. Azymuth – Morning (Part 1) – Far Out
• 4. Gene Harris – Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong – Blue Note
• 5. Kool & The Gang – Summer Madness (Studio Version) – De-Lite
• 6. Quincy Jones – Summer in the City – A&M
• 7. Johnny Guitar Watson – Superman Lover – DJM
• 8. Ronnie Foster – Mystic Brew – Blue Note
• 9. Les Hommes feat. Mónica Vasconcelos – Touched by the Hand of Tenorio - Schema
• 10. Jackie & Roy – Samba Triste – Verve
• 11. Mark Murphy – Happy Samba – Sonorama
• 12. Luiz Carlos Vinhas – Tanganica – Mr. Bongo
• 13. Jayme Marques – Garota de Ipanema – RCA
• 14. Waltel Branco – Moon River – Whatmusic
• 15. Marcos Valle – Os Grillos – Odeon Fonográfica / Blue Note
• 16. Meirelles e os Copa 5 – Samba do Carioca – Philips
• 17. Bebeto – A Beleza é Voce Menina – Copacabana
• 18. Chico Hamilton – Mysterious Maiden (Soulfeast Reach Extension) – Joyous Shout
• 19. Jazz Juice – Batidas Suculentas – Freestyle
• 20. Reminiscence Quartet – Numero Um – Yellow
• 21. J.A.M. – Roy’s Scat – Face the Music
• 22. J. Rawls Presents The Liquid Crystal Project – A Tribute to Troy – Turntable Jazz
• 23. Antena – Seaside Weekend (Escort Mix, Edit) – Permanent Vacation
• 24. DJ Cam Quartet – Sweetest Pain – Inflammable
• 25. Natalie Williams – Butterfly (Drew’s 4Soul Remix) – Eastside
• 26. Sabrina Malheiros – Passa – Far Out
• 27. Stateless – Fall Into You (Swell Session Remix) – Freerange
• 28. Gabin feat. Dee Dee Bridgewater – Into My Soul (Gabin’s Feverish Version) – EMI
• 29. Gimmicks – Ye-Me-Le – Polydor
• 30. Quarteto Em Cy – Tudo Que Voce Podia Ser – EMI Brasil
• 31. Vanessa de Mata – Nao Me Deixe So – Sony / Mr. Bongo
• 32. Arthur Verocai – Bis (Eddy Meets Yannah Mix) – Far Out
• 33. Antonio Adoleo & Brazil Brazuka – Luizao – Far Out
• 34. The Quantic Soul Orchestra – Father – Tru Thoughts

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The weather has been crazy in Seville of late.  For a while it was so hot that I was convinced summer had already arrived, but then one day it was right back to winter again: brisk winds and heavy rains.  Then more sun.  Then more rain.  Then sun.  Now it's freezing again.  It's near impossible to know what to put on in the morning--and given the nature of my work (out all day, all over town, on buses and bikes, teaching English in offices, schools, and business parks) I have to carry a ridiculous amount of gear with me to be prepared.  Still, I somehow manage get caught without my umbrella pretty much every time it rains and usually can't find my shades and have to squint my way through the afternoon when the brilliant sun returns.

I've always considered it a mere coincidence that the word in Spanish for "weather" is the same as the word for "time"--tiempo.  Lately, however, the mistakes of my students have brought my attention to ways in which the two concepts are related.  Just last week I explained to one class that "time of year" was a close match for "season."  Perhaps all this is obvious.  The earth spins on its axis but also rotates around the sun; there are patterns and rhythms of all sorts--tides, food chains, season, and life cycles.  When I got the records together to record this mix I was just hoping to convey in a vague way the idea of springtime, of rain and the social rebirth that follows the storm.  Still, there seems to be a subtle sort of meditation on the other tiempo

running through the mix, staring with the very first track and apparent just from a quick look at the tracklist. Who knows what tomorrow will bring?  The workings of time are still one of the principal mysteries of life on this planet.

One more time-related thought for March: does it matter how "new" music is?  I mean, at all?  Billboard charts, radio stations, advertising companies, and the big labels have managed to convince a whole lot of people that it does--to very predictable consequences.  It stands to reason that if people want the music they hear to be new, then in fact it does matter--but it's easy to confuse what's "new" with what's "fresh" (opposite of "worn" or "played out") or "hot" ("newly popular").  My own take on things: the time we should care about is when the music is played, not made.  Musically, everything worthwhile eventually comes back around if we let it--and we should.  Check out my March 2009 Top Ten (at least seven of which are either represses or re-releases) and you'll see what I mean. The music is timeless, forever new, in a perpetual state of now.  Yes!

OdDio's Audio Odyssey - Episode 07 : Nature's Plan

• 1. The Quantic Soul Orchestra – "Interlude" – Tru Thoughts
• 2. The Quantic Soul Orchestra feat. Noelle Scaggs – "Lead Us to the End" – Tru Thoughts
• 3. Fertile Ground – "Illumination" (FG's Afrobeat Version) – Counterpoint
• 4. The Fusion Experience – "Scaramunga" (Sidewinder's Explosive Afro Re-make) – Buff International
• 5. Bugz in the Attic – “Once Twice” –  V2
• 6. Slowsupreme – "African Time" – Jazid Collective
• 7. Modaji – “Things U Do 4 Me” (Syncopated Dub) – PAPA
• 8. Ruben Blades – “Plastico” (Nauts Ricanstruction) – Fania/Vega
• 9. Grupo X – Brand New Day (Patchworks Remix) – Still Music
• 10. Koop – "Bright Nights" (Rima Techno Chimp Dub Mix) – Jazzanova Compost
• 11. Butti 49 – "Incurable" (Demo Version) – Exceptional
• 12. Masters at Work feat. Roy Ayers – "Our Time is Coming" – MAW
• 13. Simbad feat. Steelo – "Soul Fever" (Remix) – Raw Fusion
• 14. Nathan Haines feat. Verna Francis – "Earth is the Place" (DJ Gregory and Julien Jabre Voxy Pass) – Chilli Funk
• 15. Kerri Chandler – "Rain" (Old School Vocal Remix) – Nervous
• 16. H. Garden feat. Joi  – "Gentle Rain" (Rain Forrest Version) – Sacred Rhythm
• 17. Flower S.E. Productions – "Ten Minutes of Thunderstorm" – Flower
• 18. Movement in the City – "Lament" – The Sun/Counterpoint
• 19. Incognito – "Out of the Storm" (C's Planet E Special Mix) –  Talkin' Loud

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This month's show is a vinyl valentine from me to all the lovers out there.   Not much to say about this one except that it’s all over the place genre-wise, touching on house, disco, soul, broken-beat, hip hop and one very slept-on original motion picture soundtrack.  It’s the love that holds it together.  Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone.

OdDio's Audio Odyssey - Episode 06 : Happy Valentimes

• 1. Shelley Duvall – “He Needs Me” – Paramount
• 2. Sylvia Striplin – “You Can’t Turn Me Away” – Harmless/Champagne
• 3. Taana Gardner – “When You Touch Me” (Masters at Work Re-Edit) – West End
• 4. Cerrone – “Love in C Minor” – Cotillion
• 5. Coco De Jour – “Love Me Tonight” – 6AM
• 6. Jorge Santana – “Darling I Love You” (Kon’s Edit) – BBE/Tomato
• 7. Rich Medina feat. Martin Luther – “Too Much” (DJ Kemit Remix) – Kindred Spirits
• 8. United Future Organization – “Listen Love” (Yoruba Soul Remix) – Exceptional
• 9. Robert Strauss – “Spinning Inside Your Love” (DJ Spinna Mix) – Freerange
• 10. Dr. J presents 1Luv – “Above You” (Dixon’s Spring 2005 Mix) – Especial
• 11. Shazz – “Your Love” – Epic
• 12. José James – “Desire” (Moodymann Remix) – Brownswood
• 13. The New Mastersounds feat. Corinne Bailey Rae – “Your Love Is Mine” (Acappella) – One Note
• 14. The New Mastersounds feat. Corinne Bailey Rae – “Your Love Is Mine” (Fred Everything Mix) – One Note
• 15. Common – “The Light” – MCA
• 16. Drum Brothers feat. Fazz – “Love Break” – KIF
• 17. Marvin Gaye – “I Want You” (Breakdown Edit) – White Label
• 18. The Supremes – “Stoned Love” (A Tom Moulton Mix) – Whistlebump/Motown

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I lived there for three years.  I had my life, my friends, my habits and haunts, my routes and routines.  As with all the places I’ve lived I look back on my time in Minneapolis with a complicated an rather intense nostalgia.  Sure, I had a good friends there, and good times, but of the city itself I can’t actually think of too much that I miss—and yet I miss the city itself.  Perhaps it’s natural to miss a place you know when you’re in a place you don’t, even if it’s not technically home.  After any move, I always find myself thinking about the place I was just before.  This lasts for a time, then fades.

Because of its proximity to Detroit and Chicago, Minneapolis’s dance music scene grew up in their long shadow and by the nineties MPLS had became a good, quick destination for out-of-town talent.  To this day, the Minneapolis underground remains heavily influenced by both those cities (techno and acid still hold dedicated followings) and the scene still has a sort of “flyover” mentality/complex about the DJs from other places.  People remember the mid-nineties as the high point in dance music history, and want desperately to go back.  They sometimes use the word "rave" unironically.

Needless to say, I had some trouble adjusting to Minneapolis.  The idea that dance music has already reached its peak is not uncommon, but I'd never been to a place where so many people considered its high point to have involved Paul Johnson, Lego, DJ Assault and DJ Funk on a big stage at a weekend-long outdoor festival.  But time and distance have a way of softening  hard feelings, and I think I may have been a bit rough on poor old Minneapolis.  From here in Seville, Minneapolis looks both deep and soulful by comparison.  I thought I'd never say it, but I miss Minneapolis a lot.  Even musically.  Some soul is better than none, right?

And so we arrive at the mix.  These aren't so much the tracks I heard out at the techno clubs and parties in Minneapolis; they are tracks I wish I heard, tracks in the direction of what I did hear, only deeper.  Though I flirted with techno on a few occasions, I never really had the chance to play a full set during the 5-7am sweet spot.  As in a lot of places, people in  Minneapolis tend to assume that what you're heard playing is all that you're capable of playing—and since I primarily play downtempo, funk, disco, and deep house that is all I ever got booked to play. However, had I been given the opportunity to play at 6am at AcFab, I think I would've played something like this: edgy, moody, a bit dark, but deep.

And so I arrive at my ulterior motive for making this mix: not getting pigeon-holed.  Since I arrived in Seville I've been meaning to record something harder that I can use as a demo to make a first impression other than "deep DJ appropriate for afternoon siesta soundtracks."  Perhaps handing this mix out as a CD (click here to download the mix without the silly intro) will help me get my foot in the door of some bar or club, and allow me to make things deeper from the inside—who knows?  It's possible, however, that this—me at my hardest—may be too deep and loving for Seville.  I've been to several dance music clubs and found little more than shitty electro-house and hour after hour of third-rate laptop minimal, the only vocals being of the mainupulated, I'm-fucked-up-on-drugs variety.  I have no words for such extreme boredom, and would rather not participate in it.

I digress.  The point is, I've had Minneapolis on my mind these past few weeks, and I'm glad to have recorded this tribute before that vision fades.  Is this what musical culture-shock sounds like?

OdDio's Audio Odyssey - Episode 05 : Minneapolis

• 1. H. Garden feat. Joi – "Gentle Rain" (Acid Rain Forrest) – Sacred Rhythm
• 2. Bolla – "African Basement" (Soil Drum) – Sacred Rhythm Music
• 3. Akufen – "Installation" – Force Works
• 4. Far East Band – "The Call Up" (Martin Buttrich Rework) – Four Music
• 5. GK – “GK Loop 2” – Crue-L
• 6. Afefe – “Afefe” – White Label
• 7. Mike Huckaby – “Wavetable No. 9” – S Y N T H
• 8. Rhythm & Sound – “Poor People Must Work” (Carl Craig Remix) – Burial Mix
• 9. Kevin Saunderson – "Bassline" (Loco Dice Remix) – Planet E
• 10. John Tejada & Justin Maxwell – "Mind Bend" – Palette
• 11. Loco Dice – "Flight LB 7475" – Ovum
• 12. DBX – "Losing Control" – Accelerate
• 13. Moodymann – "Live in LA 1998" – Peacefrog
• 14. Tim Duysen – "The Shore" – Din A1
• 15. Dan Curtin – "Give" – Metamorphic
• 16. Karizma – "In the D.ee.P" – NRK/Ricanstruction
• 17. Putsch 79 – "Doin It" – Clone
• 18. Infiniti – "Sunlight" –  Interface/Peacefrog
• 19. Kerri Chandler – "Return 2 Acid" – Large
• 20. Capracara – "Flashback 86" – Soul Jazz
• 21. Trusme – "Don’t You Know" – Stilove4music
• 22. J. Dahlback & J. L. Huhta – "Midnight B1" – Svek

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Respect to my old friend Jeremiah Q. Ganstein III.  He knows more about music than I do, and he probably knows more about music than you do.  He is known around the world by many names (J-pants, Jameson, Hip Hop, Pantalonious, El Tercero, Dirty, Undie Grundie, Smooth J) but always for the same feats: the ridiculous amount of music under his control and one irresistibly charming flannel pajama set.  Also he can get a little clepto when on the bottle, but that happens to the best of us.

I put this episode together with Mr. Ganstein in mind.  It's hard to please a man with such complete tastes, but I've done my best here with a sweet selection of soul and funk that I expect he will like.  Maybe there's even a jam or two he's never heard before.  Nothing but the best for the man who introduced me, in the late nineties and early oughts, to what now seems a shocking number of key artists: Mos Def, Herbie Hancock, Antibalas, Cornelius, Squarepusher, Tortoise, Femi Kuti, DJ Spinna, and Prefuse 73 just off the top of my head.  A nice variety, don't you think?  Yeah, Pantalonious is the shit.

OdDio's Audio Odyssey - Episode 04 : Ganstein's Groove

• 1. The Floaters - “Float On” - ABC
• 2. The Trammps - “Rubber Band” (Edit de Mr. L) - Editions Disco
• 3. Ernie K. Doe - “Here Come the Girls” - Soul Jazz
• 4. The Budos Band - “Chicago Falcon” - Daptone
• 5. Jo.Boyer - “Isabelle and the Rain” - J O B
• 6. Esperanto - “Night of the Wolf” - Freestyle
• 7. Outbreak - “The Party” - Milk Crate
• 8. Abraham and the Metronomes - “Party” - Funk 45
• 9. Maceo and the Macks - “Paarty” (Part 1) - Urban
• 10. Ruby and The Party Gang - “Hey Ruby” - Avco
• 11. The Rebirth - “Evil Vibrations” - White Label
• 12. Little Beaver - “Listen to My Heartbeat” - Soul 45
• 13. Helmuth Brandenburg - “Love Like a Man” - Scenario/BASF
• 14. Inside America - “Chameleon” - Discograph
• 15. Chuck Womack and The Sweet Souls - “Ham Hocks and Beans” (Part 1) - Dis-joint
• 16. The Delta Rhythm Section - “King Midnite” - Mocambo
• 17. The Fabulous Capris - “In the Alley” - Sticky
• 18. Linda Tillery - “Freedom Time” - Luv N’ Haight/Olivia Records
• 19. Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson - “We Almost Lost Detroit” - Slow to Speak/Strata-East

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Monk and Miles understood midnight, the shape of it.  It is round, an imprecise thing.  Don’t attempt to pin it down or grab it; it is fluid.  Make daytime plans at precise times, but at night say: “round about midnight.”

Under the cover of dark, among the long shadows thrown by streetlamps and streetlights, reality meets the imagination.  The two mix and meld, and form a different and much more subjective experience.  Once stable things become shifty and wild. The hours bloat with potential; the shadows are full of possibility.

This is where midnight logic comes into play.  The mind plays tricks and bends rules.  It is not a time for clarity or precision. You might think you see something or know something, but your thinking—like night vision—is fuzzy, diffuse.

The end of a long day is cause for celebration, and often we let ourselves loose under the sway of drink or smoke—though sometimes it takes far less.  Sometimes all it takes is a thought, a feeling, or the fatigue itself to set us apart from our daily selves, the people we spend so much of our life being.  The middle of the night is the time when we are least self-conscious, when we are most ourselves. Spontaneity and improvisation love midnight.

This episode—Midnight Logic—came together spontaneously one restless, solitary night in Minneapolis, shortly after 12 a.m., when there was little else happening to hold my attention.  It’s a very deep mix, with a Detroit edge that I seldom explore in my sets.  It features a lot of classics (by DJ Gregory, Metro Area, Jazzanova, Charles Webster, Moodymann and Norma Jean Bell) but some new stuff as well (Mike Huckaby’s “Fantasy” for instance, a gorgeous slice of midnight off the “My Life with the Wave” EP—one of the very best house records of recent years).  I hope you enjoy it.

Until next month, stay well and stay up late.

OdDio's Audio Odyssey - Episode 03 : Midnight Logic

• 1. Norma Jean Bell - "You Belong To Me" (I'm The Baddest Bitch Remix) - Peacefrog
• 2. Nutty feat. Daddy - "Mdali" - Miso
• 3. Shur-I-Kan vs. Milton Jackson - "Special Powers" (Shur-I-Kan's Latin Workout) - Freerange
• 4. Viktor Duplaix- "City Spirits" (King Britt's Scuba Trip) - Groove Attack
• 5. Testing the Water - ??? - Testing the Water
• 6. Jephté Guillaume - "Ibo Lele" (Tek Kale Bobeats) - Spiritual Life
• 7. Snooze - "Doremifa Girl" (Ananda Project Experience) - Nightgrooves
• 8. Andres - "Moments in Life" - Mahogani Music
• 9. Point G - "Underwater" - Basic
• 10. Mike Huckaby - "Fantasy" - S Y N T H
• 11. DJ Profile - "Batoblues" - Sound of Barclay
• 12. Jazzanova feat. V. Duplaix - "That Night" (Wahoo Mix) - Sonar Kollektiv
• 13. Benny Blanko - "Groove No. 1" - Playhouse
• 14. Alexi Delano feat. Robert Manos - "Round and Round" (Metro Area Mix) - Strata

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For as long as I can remember, as summer winds down into fall and the heat gives way to cool and overcast fall days, I always find myself mourning the energy, anticipation, and celebratory mood of early summer, when each hour of sun feels like a gift.  I was attempting to capture that energy when I recorded this mix in Minneapolis in early June, just as the rooftop and patio parties were beginning.

In Seville, summer is a bit different.  I arrived here in July, just as the heatwave began and everyone who could fled town for more temperate weather.  It's a hard time.  You can't be outside for long during the middle of the day, and can't sleep at night, and--if you're as prone to sweating as I am--you have to shower and change your clothes several times a day.  Here people speak of the summer heat as if it were the only current event (as midwesterners speak about the cold during the winter)--constantly asserting and agreeing with one another that yes, it is very fucking hot (cold) indeed.  Even now, three full months after my arrival, it's still quite hot.  It still feels like the pleasant part of summer; the highs have come down from the 100-110 range into the seventies and eighties and I'm able to enjoy sunshine again.  On a nice day, it's easy to forget what month we're in.  It's as if summer has started up again--which is why, even though I'm posting it very late, this episode still seems weirdly appropriate.  Over here we're still wearing sunscreen.

OdDio's Audio Odyssey - Episode 02 : Sunburn

• 1. Halifax Project - "Hermosa" - Straight Up
• 2. Oscar - "Brazil 3030" (Swag Mix) - Denote
• 3. Grudgemonkeys - "Grudgemonkey Hustle" - Schtum
• 4. Wale Oyejide - "Cooba" (Daz-I-Kue Edit) - Shaman Work
• 5. 4 Hero feat. Lady Alma - "Hold It Down" - Talkin' Loud
• 6. Alison David & Black Science Orchestra - "Sunshine" - Afro Art
• 7. Ron Hall & The Muthafunkaz feat. Mark Evans - "The Way You Love Me" (Accapella) - Defected
• 8. Blunted Dummies - "House For All" - Definitive
• 9. Osunlade -  "Mama's Groove" - Strictly Rhythm
• 10. Savannah - "Night of Music" - Kif
• 11. Root Soul - "Spirit of Love" - (Phil Asher's Restless Soul Boogie Mix) - Especial
• 12. Deep Sensation - "Harlem And 52nd (Take 3)" - Deep Jazz
• 13. Nu Tropic - "Suave" (Patchworks Mix) - Jazzmin

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If what Dennis Ferrer said is true—that someone actually claimed there's no soul in space—then he was right to slap him.  Space has been a source of inspiration and tool in the creation of some of the most original and lasting music made in the last several decades.  Producers of disco, funk, and soul were among the first musicians to employ electronic instruments and embrace the vast sets of futuristic sounds they created—a tradition that remains strong in much of today's dance music.  Why?  If I had to speculate, I'd say (in admittedly vague terms) it has something do with a natural connection between a listener's inner space and outer space--a correlation, though not as visible, much like the one between a rhythm’s unfolding in time and a dancer's movements in space.  

Turn off the smart lights and lazers, I say; the ideal mental space of a dancer—like the ideal venue for an underground party—is somewhere sparse, dark, and out of the ordinary, beyond the familiar, open to influence, in deep and uncharted territory.  The best dance music is vast and multi-dimensional, and can take us such places.

In our first podcast voyage, OdDio travels into “time and space” with a decade-spanning mix of disco, deep house, and other interstellar oddities. Rest assured: there is plenty of soul in the solar system, and beyond.

OdDio's Audio Odyssey - Episode 01 : My Inner Outer Space

• 1. Intro - OdDio (speech) and An-2's "The Gift" (music)
• 2. Meco - "Cantina Band Theme" - Underdog Edits
• 3. Slick - "Space Base" - Fantasy
• 4. Dexter Wansel - "Life on Mars" - Philadelphia International
• 5. The Persuader - "Gamla Stan" - Svek
• 6. Eddy & Dus - "Starlite" (Point G Instrumental) - SSOH
• 7. Kosma - "Heliocentric" (Jesse Rose Re:puzzled Mix) - INFRACom!
• 8. Atjazz - "Witchbender" -  Mantis
• 9. Starship Orchestra - "You're a Star" - CBS
• 10. Manzel - "Space Funk" - Dopebrother
• 11. David Keaton - "Space Patrol" - Roulette
• 12. Ame - "Life Changes" - Sonar Kollektiv
• 13. Kraftwerk - "Trans Europe Express" (Mr. K Breakdown Edit) - White
• 14. An-2 - "Diva" (May Version) - Theomatic
• 15. Larry Heard - "Another Night" - Track Mode
• 16. Finnish Big Band Jazz - "UFOlogy" (Didier's 06 edit) - Jazzpu
• 17. Marvin Gaye - "A Funky Space Reincarnation" - Motown

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