I made you a muxtape

Due to technical difficulties & assorted travel/travails, no Hump Fortnight for now. Hopefully soon, but in it's place I've made you a muxtape; yes, honestly, it's just for you. Actually a lot of the stuff on here is stuff I like too much as is to want to try to mess with it in a mix anyway, including my previously mentioned favorite song of all-time (though "Be Thankful..." is a close, close second). Please enjoy and get out there and make your own (but be sure to send me a link)!
The goods

(Oh yeah, like many things here on Starry Eyes, if you didn't know "Erotic City" is very, very NSFW (& literal) and "Sagittarius Rapp" is pretty questionable too, even though it's all just a metaphor, man)

Sunny weekend business

Now, I know what you're saying. You're saying, JD, there's a lot going on this weekend. There's Race for the Cure (which is apparently associated with some Garth Brooks jams). There's Record Store Day. There's that Spoon show at the Vogue you couldn't get tickets for. And there's the first semi-tolerable movie to come out in a while (hopefully) with the Apatow-overexposure bunch. And the NBA Playoffs start this weekend (though you, hypothetical reader, are likely nowhere near as interested in that as I am). That's all well and good, but what sort of jams do you have to help me through this weekend? And no more disco, please. We need something we can cruise to.

Fair enough. How about some sweet funky soul music, with an impressively single-minded protagonist?

The Originals - California Sunset

Or what about about some dubby-funk (with the loop from LL Cool J's "Doin' It")? (And peep the original on my standout sunny day cruising disc here).

Grace Jones - JA Guys (Dub Version of My Jamaican Guy)

And as a bonus - if only I had listened to Black Velvet, I might not have been so confused at 5:30 this morning. I mean, they did tell me. So yeah, sorry about that whole deal. I did not get my thing together.

Black Velvet - An Earthquake's Coming

Evolution of the 12

Back from my 5 year reunion, and overall I'd have to say it was a rousing success. Great to see so many different folks. One thing I knew I had to do during my time in the Lou was head to my old stomping grounds Vintage Vinyl. And it was everything I remembered and more; since I didn't have a turntable back in the day I had paid no attention to all the actual vinyl they had in stock. This time I started to make amends and walked away with a couple of different disco 12" singles. The key name on each label was one Tom Moulton, the originator of the 12" disco mix.

The two records I found (MP3's below) show an interesting evolution in disco. The Papa John Creach track (apparently one of the first disco singles ever released) is in itself a solid, solid track with a swirling, organic, almost rootsy disco feel. Two years later we get to ORS (Orlanda Riva Sound)'s Moon-Boots at which point disco had (to paraphrase the soundtrack to my weekend, the Juan Maclean's "Happy House") launched into space. In any case both are great tracks and for interested parties I highly, highly recommend Soul Jazz's 2xCD comp "A Tom Moulton Mix". The ORS track is on there, as is what is definitively my favorite song of all-time (and that's a lot of songs my friend): Patti Jo's "Make Me Believe In You." But I'm going to have to save that one for another day.

Papa John Creach & The Midnight Sun - Joyce (12" Instrumental Version)

ORS - Moon-Boots (Special 12" Disco Mix)

This Is(?) My Beautiful House

New mix time. This edition of Hump Fortnight is in preparation for my 5 year undergrad reunion, and to that end it's a reimagining of past classics. Anyone who's paid much attention knows I have an unhealthy love for the cover version, so this mix is chock full of covers, remixes, etc. of some stuff everyone should (hopefully) know. A taste of false nostalgia - bon appetit!

DJ Educated Foot - Hump Fortnight: Same As It Never Was