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A year on from Dirty the Dog's passing, it's still hard to let go, so we open on a very microcosmic bit of history but dedicate it to all coping with loss and keep it crazy and funky just like Dirt McGirt. Our Sampled & AMPED funk punk soul rock Thursday is served with lotsa new goodies!
"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.
June 16, 2022
The Drop with Danno
Mr. Scruff – Shrimp
Elin y Elizabeth – Alegria (Franc Moody remix)
Ibibio Sound Machine – All That You Want (Joe Goddard remix)
Grim Delarosa feat Bobbi Humphrey – Ballerina
Kokoroko – Age of Ascent
Bobby Oroza feat Cold Diamond & Mink – Real Connection
Bobby Oroza feat Cold Diamond & Mink – Soon Everyone Will Know
Adrian Quesada feat Rudy De Anda – El Leon
Jacob Banks – By Design (Evel Knievel)
Danger Mouse feat Black Thought, Russ, Dylan Cartlidge & Joey Bada$$ - Because
Fela Kuti – Shenshema
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It is 20 hours past midnight as a perfect day is in the books by sundown today, and we thank you as always for enjoying the breeze with us this and any evening you care to do so. Thursday night is upon us and the funk punk soul and rock are just baying to be let out into the air so we must oblige for the full two hours tonight, perfected forever and remembered fondly as June 16, 2022. This is Danno, salutations and bows of respect to all of you getting with it, and our usual Sampled funk & soul first hour will be off & running momentarily. Lots of good original new singles and albums just out to tell you about and throw with a deft touch into your earhole tonight, with Bobby Oroza, Danger Mouse, and a super nice Ibibio Sound Machine remix being the highlights. Naturally Dan Lloyd will be smashing down the door with the dry ice steaming for our AMPED feature in hour 2, with a bevvy of albums out tomorrow to let you know about in case ya don’t, along with new singles and tour standalones to check out. However, for right now it’s a day of remembrance as it’s been one year since my Dirty Boy went back to the rainbow, so we’re gonna play something manic and playful and generally heedless to pay tribute to the wee cocker spaniel I found abandoned on the streets of Korea in 2005. He lead an amazing life but it still hurts. THIS is The Drop.
Mr. Scruff – Shrimp
The Drop has begun the radiological happy panting on this Sampled & AMPED Thursday night do. Danno here, studio 2, GFN HQ in downtown Gwangju emanating the vibery each and every night. Cheers, dabs, respect knuckles, and/or hearty handshakes go out to all of you tuned in now or later.
That was Mr Scruff with Shrimp off his 2000 LP Trouser Jazz. Pointing to the sky tonight with love as my pup Dirty passed away one year ago today, so getting a tad personal and microcosmic on the history.
I was on my 2nd date with my wife when we found the little American cocker spaniel at a bus stop abandoned and I took him home. My wife gave the filthy pup a shower, named him Dirty and a legend was born.
In 16+ years on this earth he lived on two continents, was bilingual, ate everything put in front of him along with a lot of stuff that wasn’t even food, got hit by a truck, fell into the same fire pit twice, went out for a lot of late nights with daddy, made rooms of girls scream in ecstacy, caused trouble with any chance given, and enjoyed every single second of it. For everybody out there who’s had to say goodbye recently, I know it’s hard if you loved it, but at least the pain is gone that we do know.
Dirty The Dog, My Dirty, Dirt McGirt, rest in power my boy. Dada still loves.
#9870, @gfnthedrop, pod.
Okay, so we got a lot of new stuff to peruse this evening and we’ll start with a couple of remixes from Franc Moody and Joe Goddard then chill it a good bit with new joint featuring Bobbi Humphrey then do our blah blah yadda yaddas after the magic motion ceases the movement. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday night.
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Back to the verbal joust here on our final airbreak of part 1 on our Sampled funk & soul Thursday soiree. Danno here making the rounds go about and Dan Lloyd will do the same on the selections for our 2nd half with the weekly AMPED rock madness. We just got our first triangle of new soul goodness to make the night a bit more right, so let’s run it on the factuals...
Elin y Elizabeth – Alegria (Franc Moody remix) (…for those not familiar, this is a duo out of Colombia who were sisters born in the 1950s. The original of Alegria or Joy was released in the 1970s and was one of their principal hits, and just released this week is this new remix from London-based collective Franc Moody.)
Ibibio Sound Machine – All That You Want (Joe Goddard remix) (…for those unfamiliar, this remix is of a tune that first dropped on Ibibio’s fourth studio album Electricity, which we must point out is amazing. This remix just dropped last week from Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard, who produced the album.)
Grim Delarosa feat Bobbi Humphrey – Ballerina (…an interesting collab here with hip-hop artist out of the Grim Delarosa getting a helping hand on this track from Blue Note legend Bobbi Humphrey. Very good to see Humphrey still going strong now a septuagenarian.)
Okay, so that’s just about the end of a mostly London 1st quarter of the game for tonight as far as the new music has gone, but prior to hitting the buzzer we wanna give this latest joint from Kokoroko room to breathe. Up next we have a joint called Age of Ascent, as in “a s c” or to rise, not give permission, and this heralds a new album from the Afro-English octet called Could We Be More, which drops August 5 via Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood label. This is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursdays.
Kokoroko – Age of Ascent
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The Drop recommissions with the verbals after the usual cold opening for here in part 2 of the gig. Danno here, holding it down solo until we get Dan Lloyd back in for our weekly AMPED atom smasher for parts 3 & 4. But that’s for a bit later, so let’s explain ourselves on the last couple of joints we just launched at the sky...
Bobby Oroza feat Cold Diamond & Mink – Real Connection (….)
Bobby Oroza feat Cold Diamond & Mink – Soon Everyone Will Know (…for those not aware, Bobby Oroza is out with his sophomore LP as of last Friday called Get On The Otherside, available everywhere via Big Crown. The album was performed and arranged by the Cold Diamond & Mink crew out, also out of Helsinki, who are the studio band for local soul label Timmion Records.)
#9870, @gfnthedrop, pod.
So moving ahead, we’ve got a trio of cuts and up next is something from Black Pumas co-founder Adrian Quesada’s latest, then we have the latest from Jacob Banks and finally a huge collab with Danger Mouse as the principal villain to wrap the triangle. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday evening.
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The Drop returns and it’s time to finish the first half before Dan Lloyd seeks and/or destroys on our rock and/or roll AMPED feature coming up shortly. We just had a wicked trio of tunes to share right there, so let’s get into the details…
Adrian Quesada feat Rudy De Anda – El Leon (…The Lion, as this would translate to English features on the Grammy-nominated Black Pumas co-founder’s latest solo endeavor Boleros Psilcodelicos, which also dropped in full last Friday meaning Psychedelic Boleros or Songs, as boleros are a specific style out of South America. Rudy De Anda by the way, a great artist on his own who has a record coming soon produced by Quesada, with his debut album being Tender Epoch if you wanna hear more.)
Jacob Banks – By Design (Evel Knievel) (…big announcement with this tune, as the artist is set to release the Lies About The War LP in August via their in-house label Nobody Records. The song at its essence is about the often intimidating and unpredictable nature of life and love.)
Danger Mouse & Black Thought feat Russ, Dylan Cartlidge & Joey Bada$$ - Because (…we kinda missed the first single from this upcoming album, but we’re finally up to speed with the 2nd. This is the latest teaser from Danger Mouse & The Roots’ leading man Black Thought’s upcoming album Cheat Codes, and that will drop in full via BMG on August 12.)
Alright, so that’s gonna do it for the first half but not before let Fela dance around with another remastered triumph from the ongoing remastery of the Afrobeat King’s discography. This final tune is called Shenshema, released initially in 1972 on the Roforofo Fight LP. THIS is The Drop at the half.
Fela Kuti – Shenshema
III & IV AMPED
The Beths – Silence is Golden
Jimmy Eat World – Something Loud
Pool Kids – I Hope You’re Right
Foals – Crest of the Wave
Metric – What Feels Like Eternity
Dry Cleaning – Don’t Press Me
Nerf Herder – We All Got Covid (Except For Linus)
Grey Daze – Starting to Fly
Pixies – There’s a Moon On
TV Priest -Bury Me in my Shoes
Tenacious D – The Who Medley
Jack White – If I Die Tomorrow
The Beths – Silence is Golden
The Beths have a new album on the way. The New Zealand rockers will release their third LP, Expert in a Dying Field, on September 16th, and as a preview, the first single “Silence Is Golden” is out today.
The group began recording Expert in a Dying Field in 2021 at guitarist Jonathan Pearce’s New Zealand studio, until a four-month COVID-19 lockdown stalled the process. Consequently, the four-piece switched to trading notes remotely before they picked up the in-person collaboration while on tour, finally finishing the album during a three-day studio session in Los Angeles.
Jimmy Eat World – Something Loud
Earlier this year, Jimmy Eat World announced the “Something Loud” fall tour, and now they’ve shared the inspiration behind the tour’s title.
Produced by the band and Justin Meldel-Johnson, “Something Loud” combines the Jimmy Eat World classics — chiming guitars and Jim Adkins’ tuneful voice — with a shouted chorus of group vocals. Altogether it’s another anthem, and at the center of it all, Adkins asks, “Do you still feel part of something loud?” The single comes with a black-and-white performance video which sees the Arizona band rocking out.
Jimmy Eat World will tour Europe this summer before embarking on the North American “Something Loud Tour” in September. Together Pangea and The Get Up Kids will open ups the group’s European shows, while Charly Bliss lend support on their state-side dates.
Pool Kids – I Hope You’re Right
Florida emo band Pool Kids started rolling out their new self-titled album with the mathy, poppy “That’s Physics, Baby,” a song we loved. Today they’re back with a second single, and it’s another good one.
Per singer Christine Goodwyne, the heavy, crystalline rocker “I Hope You’re Right” is about “men who think they have perfect politics and nothing left to work on.” On the chorus, backed by crashing drums, crunching guitars, and celestial backing vocals, Goodwyne zeroes in on the refrain, “You wanna start a fight!” When the storm recedes, she adds, “‘Cause you’re always right.” Guitar heroics are involved.
Goodwyne adds that director Zach Miller’s video for “I Hope You’re Right” uses a mannequin to tell a story about “an unusual, complicated sexual relationship with someone who is totally empty upstairs but still somehow obsessed with getting their way.”
Foals – Crest of the Wave
Fourth single from seventh album Life is Yours, out this week. By this point it’s clear that Foals have a singular vision for this album, which is no-nonsense feel-good dance rock. I’ve always admired Foals’ versatility and this was a huge strength of records like Holy Fire and Total Life Forever, but after the mess that was Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (Part 2 in particular), it’s understandable that the band has dialed back their ambition and focused on what they do best. Reviews are very lukewarm so far, but it sounds like the album will please a lot of fans.
Metric – What Feels Like Eternity
Next month, the veteran Toronto indie rockers Metric will release their new album Formentera. It’s named after an island off the coast of Spain — a fantasy destination for the members of Metric, who, like most of us, couldn’t go anywhere during the pandemic. Metric have already shared the early singles “All Comes Crashing” and “Doomscroller,” and now they’re back with another one.
The new song “What Feels Like Eternity” kicks off with a jittery stop-start groove before locking into something bright and anthemic. The track has a nice sense of tension and release — almost like Metric are trying to capture the uncertainty of everyday life but still can’t resist the urge to rock out. In the video, director and regular Metric collaborator Justin Broadbent films the band looking glamorous and rocking what appears to be a practice space.
Dry Cleaning – Don’t Press Me
UK post-punkers Dry Cleaning have announced a sophomore album, the follow-up to last year’s critically acclaimed New Long Leg. Stumpwork will be out October 21 and features the lead single “Don’t Press Me,” which is out now with an animated video created by Peter Millard.
Recorded with producer John Parish and engineer Joe Jones (who also worked on New Long Leg), Stumpwork features album and single artwork by multi-disciplinary artists Rottingdean Bazaar and photographer Annie Collinge.
As for the characteristically deadpan “Don’t Press Me,” singer Florence Shaw says it’s about the “pleasure of gaming and the enjoyment of intense and short-lived guilt-free experiences.” She elaborates: “The words in the chorus came about because I was trying to write a song to sing to my own brain, ‘You are always fighting me / You are always stressing me out.'”
Nerf Herder – We All Got Covid (Except For Linus)
Nerf Herder have released their new track, “We All Got Covid! (Except For Linus).”
“This is a song where we recorded the music a few years ago before the pandemic and has been sitting around waiting for lyrics,” reveals chief Herder Gripp. “And then COVID happened, and we got COVID. And I’m like, ‘Boom! Let me just make this song really fast.’ I recorded the vocals while I had COVID. Within three days after [recording] the thing, we were just going to release it. And then we thought, ‘Let’s release it through FAT,” say the band regarding the new track.
In addition, the band are due to reissue their 2002 record, American Cheese, on vinyl and digitally on June 24.
Grey Daze – Starting to Fly
Grey Daze’s fourth studio album The Phoenix is out this week and sees the band once again returning to early songs written/recorded by Chester Bennington prior to him joining Linkin Park. I’m all for celebrating Bennington’s legacy, he was a terrific vocalist and seemingly an all-round good guy, but the band’s well is really running dry at this point. Bottom line is, these are just not good songs and there’s a reason why a) they weren’t released back in the 90s when Bennington recorded the vocals, and b) Grey Daze never made it big until Linkin Park broke.
Pixies – There’s a Moon On
Pixies have announced a new album, Doggerel, their fourth reunion-era record and their first since 2019’s Beneath The Eyrie. They recorded it at the studio Guilford Sound in Vermont, and it’ll be out on September 30. Earlier this week, they shared an album trailer that offered up some behind-the-scenes footage of the making-of the album, and today they’re unveiling its lead single, “There’s A Moon On.”
“We’re trying to do things that are very big and bold and orchestrated,” Black Francis said of the new album. “The punky stuff, I really like playing it but you just cannot artificially create that shit. There’s another way to do this, there’s other things we can do with this extra special energy that we’re encountering.” And guitarist Joey Santiago said: “This time around we have grown. We no longer have under two-minute songs. We have little breaks, more conventional arrangements but still our twists in there.”
TV Priest -Bury Me in my Shoes
TV Priest’s 2nd album My Other People is out this week, hot on the heels of last year’s debut Uppers. The first record was a mixed bag; some really strong singles but a lot of noisy tracks that didn’t really go anywhere. The new album seems a bit more restrained but the first few singles have impressed me and I’m hoping for a more consistent level of quality throughout the whole full-length.
Tenacious D – The Who Medley
The greatest band in the world is paying tribute to another pretty good one, and it’s all for a good cause. Jack Black and Kyle Gass have released “Tenacious D’s The Who Medley,” a new mashup of Who classics that will benefit Everytown for Gun Safety.
“Tenacious D’s The Who Medley” combines The Who’s “Pinball Wizard,” “There’s A Doctor,” and “Go To The Mirror!” into a unique single of its own. In addition to hitting streaming platforms, the medley will be pressed on a 7-inch vinyl — the proceeds of which will go to the gun violence prevention organization. Pre-orders for the 7-inch are ongoing. What’s more, the project comes with a video directed by frequent D collaborator Liam Lynch.
Tenacious D hyped up the medley in a statement, proclaiming, “Who better to deliver a tribute to the greatest rock opera of all times? Who? The D! That’s Who!! We’ve been working on this medley for 20 years. It’s finally ready to be unleashed. Crank it. It’s a humdinger. Enjoy.”
“Tenacious D’s The Who Medley” arrives just as Black and Gass gear up for a North American tour and prepare to drop, of all things, a new line of fiber bars. The chocolate-peanut butter Tenacious D Fiber D’Lish bar comes as a collaboration between the rock comedy duo and NuGo Nutrition.
Jack White – If I Die Tomorrow
Late last year, Jack White announced not one but two forthcoming albums. After a few months spent rolling it out, the first of those, Fear Of The Dawn, arrived in early April. We already knew the second, Entering Heaven Alive, was slated for release in July. Today, we get the next official preview of it.
Recently, White’s been playing “If I Die Tomorrow” in concert. Now, he’s shared the official recording. It comes with a video directed by Brantley Gutierrez.