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.