brotherbeat's Soul Confusion: January 2010

brotherbeat's Soul Confusion was a monthly night I had in the East Village of NYC in the early 2000s in a living room sized bar that no longer exists. My sets were eclectic both in terms of genre and tempo; they created an aural stage for easy conversation, warm, each song distinctive without being intrusive, until you actually listened. The ebb and flow of the tempo mimicked that of conversation. It was mostly unplanned except for a core mix it mostly depended on what felt good

Soul Confusion is as close to an obvious brand as I can get. The genre thing bores me and it's easier to think of all music as soul music because that's where I feel it. brotherbeat's Soul Confusion became my long mix repository while I was in Barcelona and it will become the new home for my podcast.

brotherbeat's Soul Confusion isn't intended to be an active listening experience, it's a soundtrack for a life well lived.

To access the mix for each entry click "Episode XX" for the link.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Thoughtful Summer Series (Updated)

The second of these two mixes was the one that sat with me the longest. I started planning it the summer of 2007, but I just never found the time to actually sit and put it together. Then my records were packed up and slowly made their way to Barcelona that December. After repairing my turntable and replacing my stereo, I was finally prepared to make the mix, but was distracted by Jay Dee and made the first mix, musically one of the most focused I've made in years. The third and final of the series will be done eventually, in my head it has split into two different mixes, and the trilogy may become a quadrology.

UPDATED

Nevermind, it is a trilogy, the third volume is an exploration of our longings for summer while trapped in winter's embrace.

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