Happy Music
at from 5 to 9pm
Early Saturday Night set, to be followed by live jazz.
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Spacing Out Recorded!
This set leans heavily on groove-based music from the 1970s onward, anchored by jazz-funk and soul threaded through with West African Afrobeat and highlife, Jamaican roots and dub, and the angular post-punk dance-funk of ESG and Liquid Liquid. Around that core it ranges widely—Giorgio Moroder's sequenced disco, Turkish psych-folk from Altın Gün, French electronic pop from Air and Stereolab, and a strand of early-'80s new wave and synth-pop (Kraftwerk, the Cure, the Police, A Flock of Seagulls)—much of it instrumental or built around a steady rhythmic pocket.
Tough Times Recorded!
This instrumental set is anchored in vintage soul-jazz and instrumental funk—Hammond organ workouts, horn-driven grooves, and the heavy, drum-forward sound of contemporary outfits like Menahan Street Band, The Budos Band, and El Michels Affair sitting comfortably alongside originals from Grant Green, Herbie Hancock, and Eddie Harris.
Extended Play Recorded!
Mostly a mid-century American record collection: Southern soul and R&B out of the Stax and Atlantic orbit, hard bop and organ-driven soul-jazz from the Blue Note era, and the funk that grew out of both. Around that core sit British Invasion pop, Link Wray's tremolo-heavy instrumentals, and a vein of counterculture oddity — Beefheart, the Bonzo Dog Band, the Holy Modal Rounders — that keeps the set from playing as a straight revival.