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MOG Funk Fu Master, Bartleby does these posts called under the diamond where he recaps what he's been listening to. I am going to blatantly copy that now. Between EMCD's on MOG, CD's I think to buy myself, blogs, and Multi, I figure I've upped my collection by some 10,000 tracks in the last 3 months. This crazed acquisition phase has most certainly been a detrimental factor as far as deep repeated listening goes. There is so much new, and new to me, I don't have time to listen to every new album I get cover to cover, let alone get completely comfortable with everything that's on it. In the end I've turned to a lot of random listening to discover what I already have. When I come past a song that tickles me the right way, I put it in a playlist called Post It. When I get a CD worth of material, I burn it, for home and car use, to get a handle on the songs and artists and perhaps go back and check out the rest of their records. This list has my latest obsessions. 1.Sax Kari-Dream Girl: A New Orleans session cat..I got his CD from the guy at his label, Tuff City, who re-issue tons of NOLA R&B and Funk.

2.Message From The Meters - Funk Inc.-This tune is on my least favorite Funk Inc record (Superfunk), but it is a perfectly ramshackle cover, perfectly suited for Mardi Gras week.

3.Flaming Ember- Don't You Wanna Wanna- I've had this record forever,and of all the HDH label stuff, the Ember was probably my least favorite band. This tune,though, comes out like a lost Temps or Four Tops tune, traded vocals and sweet soul.

4.Jr. Walker and The All-Stars- Satan's Blues: I found this looking for Satan songs for another matter, checked it out seriously for the first time, and dug it. A lot slower and grittier than most Motown (circa '64)

5.Niteke Mele – Dineba Seck: Don’t know much about this West African piece, except that I think it is beautifully done and that I hit repeat a number of times, before I let it back in the library.

6.Paul Humphrey-Hot Ice Cream: Paul was a session cat in LA and this was from his solo joint Supermellow..Not highly recommended as a whole, but this was a nice little groover.

7.Brother Jack McDuff-Duffin’ Around: A B3 burner from ’68 w/Fathead Newman providing some flute stylings. Don’t know how I missed this the first time around.

8.Brook Benton – Let Me Fix It: Late period Funk! from Brook Benton where he raps to a woman, asking her to let him fix it..This ain’t no rainy night in Georgia.

9.Miami (featuring Robert Moore)- Kill that Roach: A long funk jam that tried to start a dance craze called the roach..I wonder why that didn’t work.

10.Robert Wilkins -Old Jim Canaan’s - A snappy public domain Blues record from Memphis. Mr. Wilkin’s is said to have tutored Memphis Minnie.

11.Eddie Russ – I Heard That: Rare groove fave Eddie Russ drops a jazzy groover that I can’t believe I hadn’t heard before. From a Norman Jay comp.

12.Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – How Long Do I Have To Wait for You?: Hadn’t been sleeping on Sharon, but this is from Naturally, and as of the last little while it has been slaying me with the shimmering guitar figure.

13.The Pretenders -Message Of Love: Still kicks hard out of any speakers.

14.Karen Dalton – It Hurts Me Too: Late 60’s british blueswoman girlcrawl pointed me to..Her voice was a grabber.

15.Wayne Smith- Under Mi Sleng Teng; An all time Dancehall fave that I hadn’t heard in many bowls.

16.Joyce-Rodando a Baiana: A Brazillian tune from ’96..almost 30 years into the career of Joyce. I was mostly familiar with her older stuff, but this cooks.

17.Genie Brown- I Can’t Stop Talking: A very old school disco edit from Danny Krivit.

18.Ogyatanaa Show Band-Ageisheka: A Ghanian tune from The Bookor Beats collection.