The Electric Word

Regarded as the best album of 2013 by a well respected critic and personal friend. This band has either time traveled direct from the 70s or somehow managed to hold on to the magic that everyone else seems to have lost. Formed four decades ago by the Reverand Gean West and the Reverend Tommie West, the Relatives shine a powerfully spiritual light from the era of psychedelic soul.

If this was my church I would go everyday with a smile.

The Future of Funk, Soul, and Rock n' Roll

Funk


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The fog machines are billowing, 

swallowing the light in refractive auras. 

The wave of energy continuously passes from one medium to another

building momentum...

It is only a matter of time before this wave crashes against the invisible wall that divides the mainstream from what lays hidden in the fog.

Get your surfboards ready.  

The wave is coming…

Soul

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These three genres mingle effortlessly, like puppies on a Sunday at the dog park. It can be very difficult to distinguish them from one another. I have no doubt some of these songs belong in a different category- just like one of those dogs going home with the wrong owner. And, you won’t find out until it shits on your rug, or in this case until you start grooving.

Rock N' Roll

  

 

Rules of the groove:

Soul is the slow head bob + sluggish, silent snapping of the fingers.



Funk takes hold of the legs and works it’s way up- a jive that flows unique to each song.




And Rock n'  Roll is a spectacular mix of the two

Of course, everyone knows rules are meant to be broken, so just grove and never let embarrassment touch you.

For the one who is too cool to groove never learned the golden rule of preschool: 

Do what feels right  

You didn’t wait for any toilet, or for that kid to stop playing with those Legos… You smashed his ugly spaceship and built that skyscraper. Now take the dance floor and dismantle the spell that binds the stagnate bodies to the floor.

An Awesome Wave

If you appreciate this picture, a multi-layered radar image of the Ganges river delta in Bangladesh, I expect you will enjoy the album that comes with it.

If only the image slowly shifted as you listened. 

...Please no computer speakers...

Electron-Infused Remixes

ZZ Ward

   

“Zsuzsanna Eva Ward. Say it again. Damnnnn. No way her music is as cool as her name though. What’s that? Oh it is? Adele best be watchin’ her back then! Haha, you feel me child?”

-Big Mama

ZZ Ward or Z-suz as I like to call her is fresh on the scene; droppin’ her EP in 2012 and already making waves enough to stir the Piranha. 

The Ladies

  

Last post I asked what trending element was lacking from the alternative songs included. Well, it is was that of a female's touch. Not to say any of those potentially life-altering tunes would have been better with female vocals, but I am a big fan of their assimilation into this genre. They remind me of when Jimmy Hendrix bought his first guitar; it was like the two were made for one another. Cupid fired his arrow and the heavens opened up. God was able to breathe a sigh of relief and put his headphones on. By the same measure, synthy alt-beats bearing the beautiful top-coat of a female voice are… for lack of a more creative word- two peas in a pod.

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Electron Infused Alternative Remixes