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Tonight on what would have been Nat Adderley's 90th birthday, we let him set the stage, then it's two hours of the best funk punk soul rock with Dan Lloyd busting out his favorite new rock bands for our 2nd hour AMPED feature this week!
"The Drop with Danno" on GFN 광주영어방송 98.7FM in Gwangju & 93.7FM in Yeosu, Korea. An eclectic radio curation of all things musical spanning the spectrum every week. Broadcasting 8-10pm KST nightly.
Nov 25, 2021
The Drop with Danno
Nat Adderly – Cantaloupe Island
Wajatta – Do You Even Care Anymore?
Darius feat Amaria – FADED
Zakes Bantwini – Abantu
Kraak & Smaak feat IVAR – Persuade You
Jessica Duncan feat Alessandro Alessandroni – Do You Wanna Get Close?
Piero Umiliani – Risaie
Thee Baby Cuffs feat Cold Diamond & Mink – You’re My Reason
Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – Step Down
Curtis Harding – Our Love
Otis Redding – (Sittin On) The Dock of the Bay (DJ Spinna remix)
I.
It is 20 hours past midnight on a crisp sunsplashed Thursday and that means that it is time for our funk punk soul rock Sampled & AMPED throwdown. With tonight freshly baked into spacetime as November 25, 2021. This is Danno bossin the mic but no turkey, thanks coming at you but not for you from studio 2 GFN HQ located in downtown Gwangju, how do you do? Happy Thanksgiving to any of my fellow American listeners that might be tuning in tonight, we hope you enjoy it…and get to watch mighty Brutus and his Ohio State Buckeyes kick Michigan’s can this weekend as well! Haha…but seriously, Go Buckeyes. As is the steelo every Thursday it is time to let the sound waves of the more odoriferous variety waft for our Sampled funk & soul Thursday night, and Dan Lloyd breaks down the door here in studio 2 for a couple of new tracks but mainly a focus on some of the best new rock acts out there here in 2021 & 2020. Our rock guru always picks the good ones, so do stay tuned for our AMPED 2nd hour. All of that selfish biz being duly noted, it’s time to wish jazz great Nat Adderly a very happy although posthumous 80th birthday, and we’ll talk about that after our trip to Cantaloupe Island. THIS is The Drop.
Nat Adderley – Cantaloupe Island
The Drop has flicked the fire light and it’s time to make things right tonight, as it is our Sampled funk & soul Thursday night. Thanks for getting with the program tonight, we truly cannot express our deep feelings of thanks to you on this Thanksgiving 2021.
Now, we just started wishing a very happy although posthumous 90th birthday to jazz legend Nat Adderley, born in Tampa, Florida on this date in 1931. Nat of course was the younger brother of Cannonball Adderley, whom he played with and supported as part of the ensemble for many years.
However, Nat was his own man as an artist as well, and several of his tunes are long-standing hits and jazz standards, that first tune being a notable sampler’s favorite in Cantaloupe Island. Adderley also composed the 1960 hit Work Song, which after Oscar Brown Jr wrote the lyrics for it became a chart-topper. Work Song is also a jazz standard nowadays, taught the world over.
The turning point in the Adderley brothers' careers occurred on a trip north to New York in 1955. The brothers stopped by the Café Bohemia in Greenwich Village when bassist Oscar Pettiford was playing. Both of them showed up ready to play. Cannonball was asked to sit in because the regular saxophonist was out, and he overwhelmed the musicians. Then Nat was pulled on stage, and everyone was equally impressed.
Both brothers immediately thereafter got signed, started recording professionally, and moved to NYC basically to stay.
Nat & Cannonball Adderley, rest in power, but big happy 80th to the younger of the non-biological jazz twins.
#9870 (50/100)…SM…podcast.
Now, we’re gonna keep it jazzy to begin proceedings this evening but give it a little bump & electronica to help you get down. Up next we have Wajatta, Darius, and Zakes Bantwini to keep the heat on, and we’ll measure the temperature and let you know the status of the boiler after they fire up. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday.
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The Drop is back this evening after our first audio warp zone here in the first movement of the radiological orchestra for tonight. Danno here letting all the funky stuff waft to the atmosphere from studio 2, GFN HQ, downtown Gwangju. Thanks for bumpin with us tonight, your taste is truly a thing to behold, fair listener. It is our Sampled funk & soul first hour right presently with Dan Lloyd’s AMPED rock feature fast approaching for hour 2, and he’s got a playlist highlighting some of the best new rock acts for 2021 & 2020 for after 9 bells tonight. For now, let’s get to the notes on the notes...
Wajatta – Do You Even Care Anymore? (…the amazing team of comedian Reggie Watts & techno producer & DJ John Tejada are back with this standalone single. If you’d like to hear more, we highly recommend their full-length LP from last year called Don’t Let Get You Down.)
Darius feat Amaria – FADED (…this is an artist who has really been making waves since their debut in 2012. With collabs alongside the likes of FKJ and remixes for artists like Jessie Ware and Lianne La Havas, we’re talking going places.)
Zakes Bantwini feat Karyendasoul – Abantu (…two very up-and-coming producers and musicians right her out of South Africa. Zakes is a tremendous vocalist who’s been featured on Jazzanova albums, and Karyendasoul is a young brother out of Eastern Cape Province.)
Now heading towards the end of part 1, we’ve got time for one more joint here, and we’ll go with the latest from the Dutch duo Kraak & Smaak featuring a vocalist who calls themselves IVAR and this final title is called Persuade You. This is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday night.
Kraak & Smaak feat IVAR – Persuade You
II.
The Drop continues letting gravity do it’s thing so that we can maybe defy it here in part 2 tonight. What’s going on Drop Gangsters (KOR)? Danno here with a couple longer new cuts to start things here in the 2nd movement of the radiological orchestra, so let’s run em down but not outta town...
Jessica Duncan feat Alessandro Alessandroni – Do You Wanna Get Close? (….)
Piero Umiliani – Risaie (…for those not familiar, Library Music is this great thing that was started in the 1970’s in mainly Italy. What the musicians and composers aimed to do was create a library of sounds that could be used for movies, anything. Some of the best funk & soul ever made comes from these collections, and you just heard two of the greats. First up was ____ followed by _____. Now, the former comes from a new compilation called Italian library songbook vol 1, of which that is the first single. The entire compilation of rarities rescued from oblivion is due out January 7. After that we had another one of the true greats of library music in Piero Umiliani and that tune was called Risaie, or paddies.)
So, let’s head on to the next block, and we’ll get more contemporary but still sound old school with fresh cuts from Cold Diamond & Mink along with Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, both of whom we’ll talk but not a negative syllable about after they do what they do best. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday.
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The Drop continues to travel tonight as we stretch towards the end of the first hour tonight. Danno here, doing the funk & soul thang that we call Sampled which happens every Thursday, and Gwangju’s man on the drums Dan Lloyd will be in studio tonight for our AMPED 2nd hour highlighting some of the best new rock acts who just made their intro to the world this year. Now, as far as what we just let swerve in the atmosphere, that was...
Thee Baby Cuffs feat Cold Diamond & Mink – You’re My Reason (…few bands can nail that vintage soul sound like Finland’s Cold Diamond & Mink. Thee Baby Cuffs is a Chicano soul outfit that hails from San Jose, and the two geographically disparate entities always share credits on their originals.)
Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – Step Down (…another great new tune from Ohio’s Colemine Records right here, just out last week. For those unfamiliar, Sure Fire is one of the heaviest funk & soul outfits around, and they are originally from San Diego out on the West Coast.)
So, let’s keep it vintage but still very much now with our final two cuts of the hour. First up is a tune by Curtis Harding featuring Jazmine Sullivan which features on the new Netflix Series sound track Arcane, which is the latest installment of League of Legends, and we’ll finish with a new remix by our main man in NYC DJ Spinna once again remixing an Otis Redding classic Sittin On The Dock of the Bay, and that’s gonna be a wrap for the rap here in the first half. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled & AMPED Thursday and we are at halftime.
Curtis Harding feat Jazmine Sullivan – Our Love
Otis Redding – (Sittin On) The Dock of the Bay (DJ Spinna remix)
III & IV AMPED
Bloc Party - Traps
Yard Act - Payday
New Pagans - Find Fault With Me
One Step Closer - As the City Sleeps
Geese - Exploding House
Civic - As Seen on TV
Rid of Me - Myself
Wednesday - Three Sisters
Home is Where - Assisted Harakiri
Paranoul (파란노을) - 아름다운 세상
Mandy, Indiana - Bottle Episode
Bloc Party - Traps
Bloc Party are gearing up to release their first album in six years. Alpha Games, the British indie rockers’ sixth LP, is due out April 29th, 2022 via Infectious/BMG. As a preview, Bloc Party have shared the album’s hard-hitting lead single, “Traps.”
Alpha Games was produced by Nick Launay and Adam Greenspan, whose resumes include Nick Cave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, and IDLES. While Bloc Party’s last album, 2016’s Hymns, took a more subdued and serene approach, “Traps” sees the band return to the ferocity of their back-to-back mid-2000s touchstones, Silent Alarm and A Weekend in the City.
“From the moment we wrote ‘Traps,’ we knew it had to be the first thing people heard from this album; playing it in soundchecks on our last tour before it was finished and hearing how it sounded in those big rooms and outdoors,” frontman Kele Okereke said in a statement.
Yard Act - Payday
Third single from Leeds post-punk band Yard Act's debut album, out on January 7th. This honestly is the weakest of the three but it's still not without its charms. I'm not a huge fan of that discordant synth that comes in at the end but I love the swampy bass line and the lyrics as always are a breath of fresh air. Coming off like a cross between Talking Heads and Art Brut. Surprised these guys didn't make the Stereogum list but no doubt they'll be making a name fr themselves in 2022.
New Pagans - Find Fault With Me
LOCATION: Belfast, UK
New Pagans’ music has all the gothic grandeur of the craggy landscape of their Northern Ireland home. Their stormy indie rock, tinged with a melodic pop sweetness and a tart punk bite, co-opts biblical language and imagery to question the male-dominated narrative of history. They’re determined to tear it down and write their own story, and their debut album The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots And All is a compellingly visceral tale of karmic justice.
One Step Closer - As the City Sleeps
LOCATION: Wilkes-Barre, PA
Part of the allure of the young hardcore band One Step Closer is how their music never lightens up. One Step Closer’s sound is all crashing drama — melodic leads swarming into heavy riffage, whispery and echoing singsong vocals giving way to strangulated roars. On their great 2019 EP From Me To You, OSC showed how they could translate energetic soul-baring into moshpit anthems. On their full-length debut This Place You Know, the band pushes things even further. The heavy parts are heavier, the pretty parts are prettier, and the dynamic swirl is so rich and instinctive that you could lose yourself in it.
Geese - Exploding House
LOCATION: Brooklyn, NY
Wanna feel old? Geese formed during their freshman year of high school in 2016. After bonding over modern psych-rock (Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall), classic- and prog-rock (Yes, Can), and, of course, Radiohead, Geese were actually planning to drop an album online before migrating (sorry!) to college. That obviously didn’t happen: After uploading the post-punk-inspired “Low Era,” suddenly the band was scooped up by a manager, and ultimately, indie incubator Partisan Records (home to fellow upstarts IDLES and Fontaines D.C.). It’s not hard to see why the local industry jumped so fast — the quartet cleverly meshes decades of rock influence with beyond-their-years precision. The marvelously twitchy “Disco” rolls in with an early ‘00s Lower East Side swagger yet is as compositionally ambitious as anything their experimentalist idols would produce. Geese might still technically be goslings, but they’ve already taken flight.
Civic - As Seen on TV
LOCATION: Melbourne, Australia
The building blocks of Civic’s sound are straightforward and no-nonsense, a winning formula blending garage rock, punk, and a bit of noisy alt-rock. But simplicity can feel revelatory again when it’s wielded with Civic’s ferocity. After releasing EPs for a couple years, the group roared out the gates with their debut Future Forecast earlier this year. Over 12 songs, the band rarely lets up, with highlights like “Radiant Eye” and “Tell The Papers” tapping into a bracing, exhilarating, gratifying churn of guitars and snarled vocals.
Rid of Me - Myself
LOCATION: Philadelphia, PA
The members of Rid Of Me have spent time in noisy, intense punk bands like Soul Glo and Fight Amp. With Rid Of Me, they’ve been playing shows on the DIY hardcore circuit ever since that circuit rumbled back to life post-pandemic. But Rid Of Me’s sound is a hooky, exuberant take on ’90s alt-rock. The band is even named after the PJ Harvey LP that still stands as one of the noisiest, most intense records ever to get modern-rock radio airplay. Rid Of Me’s full-length debut Traveling is one of the hardest, most immediate rock records in recent memory.
Wednesday - Three Sisters
LOCATION: Asheville, NC
Wednesday’s music feels like an exorcism, an attempt to burn away Karly Hartzman’s most haunting memories in the searing noise of Jake Lenderman’s fuzzed-out guitar. Or perhaps it’s more like a seance — because some ghosts, like the slight Southern twang in Wednesday’s gnarled shoegaze, never really leave you. Wednesday’s sophomore album Twin Plagues is an aching, bittersweet reminder of the past, drawing from indie rock’s history while charting a course for their own future.
Home is Where - Assisted Harakiri
LOCATION: Palm Coast, FL
Before I Became Birds, it would have been hard to conceive of an album that evoked both Neutral Milk Hotel and Deafheaven at turns. But for the Florida emo band Home Is Where, hauntingly surreal folk-rock and translucent noise-charred screamo are outgrowths of the same striking vision, one that reckons with radical politics, gender dysphoria, and the wholesome compulsion to pet every puppy you see. Few albums have ever left us more curious about what a band will do next.
Paranoul (파란노을) - 아름다운 세상
LOCATION: Seoul, South Korea
There are no photos online of the artist that goes by Parannoul. There are scant few interviews or biographical details about them out there. We know that Parannoul is a South Korean college student who, quite suddenly, became an adored cult figure with the release of their sophomore album To See The Next Part Of The Dream. But that album is the sort of achievement that speaks for itself — sprawling and ambitious, it’s a collision of gliding poppy blurs and shoegaze guitars. That most of those guitars are apparently virtual is kind of astounding, but it sort of makes sense. It’s the ultimate tinkerer’s album, made in a bedroom and fiddled with for what I’d assume was a long time, filled with infinite layers and infinitely more promise.
Mandy, Indiana - Bottle Episode
LOCATION: Manchester, UK
This is a band that named themselves after a town in Indiana, hails from Manchester, England, and sings mostly in French, which might tell you something about their inability to sit still. Mandy, Indiana play an experimental form of post-punk that’s both gritty and dancey, with enough industrial noise and rhythmic intensity to soundtrack a rave in a darkened warehouse. Their debut EP … isn’t even out yet, and its elliptical title already seems to hint at more thrilling surprises to come.