As we noted last week, Egon went on tour with Madlib and J.Rocc in Australia for four dates with Niche Productions: Brisbane, Sydney, Perth and Melbourne. Three sold out shows in a row (guess which) – one day to buy records in Melbourne. On his way back to LA, he sent these photos.
France’s Radio Nova just broadcast Egon’s exclusive Loving On The Flip Side mix and if you – like us – weren’t in Paris this past Saturday, you can still find the mix archived on Radio Nova’s podcast page. Included in the mix are a few unique companions to our sweet funk anthology, Loving On The Flip Side: in stores now.
Pictured above – The Black Conspirators, whose “Love” appears on Loving On The Flip Side.
Tracklist:
1. Frankie Zhivago Young with the Boris Gardner Happening: Somebody Stole Your Love Pt. 1
2. Lee Bonds with James Reese: It’s Not But So Much Love Can Do
3. East Of Underground: I Love You For All Seasons
4. Soul Majestics: I Done Told You Baby
5. Patricia Denson and The Soul Expressions: I Thought I Heard You Moan
6. Jean and Donnella: Get Ready (For That Day)
7. Symphonic 4: Who Do You Think You’re Fooling (Pts. 1 and 2 – from Loving On The Flip Side).
8. The Prophet and his Disciples: You Fool, You Fool Pt. 1
. Disciples of Soul: Together (from Loving On The Flip Side).
Link (Stream): Egon’s Loving On The Flip Side mix on Radio Nova.
Link (Download): Egon’s Loving On The Flip Side mix on Radio Nova.
It’s one of those things that rarely pops up here: Egon is often on the road with his partner Madlib; every once in a while the two DJ together. At those events – rare as they are – incredibly weird, and incredibly good, music is usually heard in ample supply. Especially when the best DJ in the world, J.Rocc, is with them. And even more so when a rapper as tough as Freddie Gibbs is on the bill.
As they return from their last gigs in Russia (as detailed here, at Madlib’s rappcats.com), we’ll post some pictures – starting from their gig with Free Your Funk at Paris’ La Trabendo this past Friday. All photos by Mr. Mass, whose work you’ve seen on this site before.
Next up – Egon’s tour with Madlib and J.Rocc in Australia. Four dates: Brisbane, Sydney, Perth and Melbourne.
Followers of this label’s releases know Jason “Moss” Connoy as the collector and enthusiast whose investigations – and amazing record archive – lead to our Those Shocking Shaking Days anthology and who recently issued two essential companion pieces to that compilation: his AKA album and Benny Soebardja’s The Lizard Years.
He’s also the intrepid type who will just show up in Lusaka, Zambia, with nothing but Canadian dollars and an insurmountable desire to discover…. and come home rarities like the first press of WITCH’s Introduction, pictured below. This record is so rare that a photo of it wasn’t even included in our We Intend To Cause Havoc! anthology.
Moss also came back with a series of records which will figure into our forthcoming Ngozi Family anthology, our follow up to Rikki Ililonga and Musi-O-Tunya’s Dark Sunrise (Musi-O-Tunya’s second, excellent album Give Love To Your Children) and our overall anthology of the Zamrock scene: all three albums are slated for 2013 releases.
Stephen David Heitkotter’s solitary album – a bedroom trip he recorded in Fresno, California in 1971 after the Vietnam war disbanded his Roadrunners garage rock band and which was pressed as a demo in a run of twenty five copies – is one of the rarest and most sought after artifacts of the 1970s. Above, you can see a picture of Stephen taken shortly before the recording of the album held by Egon and Stephen’s brother Bill (right), from whom we secured the rights to reissue this album.
Stephen’s story – mythologized versions of which have already made the internet rounds – is a sad one, but his music is primal, funky, fuzzy and, of course amazing. We’re hot on the heels of unreleased material from the sessions at Heitkotters’ East Kerckhoff address; our office is full of the paintings he created there between 1970 and 1972. When we do tie this one up, it’s going to be special. Pictured below – Egon purchasing an original copy of the album from Bill’s ex-wife, Madeline – whose brother had received the record from Stephen when he was twelve years old and had carried it with him as he crossed the world the past forty years. Special, indeed!
Photos by Andrew Gura.
