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A tribute to Bo Diddley to start things, then new funk & soul for days from Sledgendary, Stro Elliot, and a great compilation out called Remotely Close. After 9pm it's Dan Lloyd with the latest rock out this week and a tribute to the gone to soon Mark Lanegan.
"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.
Feb 24, 2022
The Drop with Danno
Bo Diddley – Bite You
Kutiman feat Elif Caglar – Remotely Close: Silkyway
Adeline – Maintain (Jafunk remix)
Sister Sledge ft Sledgendary – Free
Isak Thomas & The Stoop Boys – The Otherside
The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – The Other Side
Sefi Zisling feat Cagri Sertel – Remotely Close: Purple Midnight
Ebi Soda feat Yazz Ahmed – Chandler
El Michels Affair – Things Done Changed
Stro Elliot feat James Brown – The Big Purple Donut
RIVER feat Lute – WE’LL BE TOGETHER
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Uncertainty
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It is 20 hours past midnight after we got blessed with another sunny clear winter day here in Gwangju, but as you know with the sun now having bid our fair city adieu, it is time to funk this joint up with our Sampled funk & soul Thursday first hour which all starts right meow. And this chapter four of the work week seemingly endless is written in the cosmos as February 24, 2022. This is Danno making sure the levels are just so here on our Sampled funk & soul Thursday night, making sure you have the keep for your keep on from studio 2 GFN HQ right in the heart of downtown Gwangju, how do you do? Thursday night is here, and that can only mean that our funk punk soul rock weekly two hour exercise is up and at them, with our Sampled funk & soul coming first then Dan Lloyd throwing all the rocks worthy of a toss on the decks tonight for our 2nd hour AMPED feature. But before all of that, we have to pay tribute to a guy that truly straddled the rock & soul divide during his career, as it was on this date that blues legend Bo Diddley was given a very deserved lifetime achievement award. And we’ll talk about Bo and all the Diddley you might not know side opposite the Bite. THIS is The Drop.
Bo Diddley – Bite You
Back on The Drop and our Sampled funk & soul first half has disembarked for this evening’s two hour radiological adventure. Danno here in studio 2 GFN HQ and very glad to have you with us for our weekly Thursday funk & punk foray, and we have opened things as per usual with our TIGHT (or) feature to get the motor runnin’.
That was the inimitable Bo Diddley with Bite You to open things up, as it was on this date that the legendary bluesman was given a lifetime achievement award at the 1998 Grammy Awards, one of which was also given to Roy Orbison as well although posthumously.
A man who needed no introduction in either the rock or soul spheres of influence, Diddley was a man who revolutionized music in so many ways, most notably with his use of African rhythms and a signature beat, a simple five-accent hambone rhythm, which nowadays is a cornerstone of hip hop, rock, and pop music. He was additionally very tech savvy in his time, being a revolutionary producer himself. His use of tremolo and reverb effects to enhance the sound of his distinctive rectangular-shaped guitar was something that was totally new during his prime, and his sway over generations of musicians and producers cannot be overstated.
During his generation, Diddley directly influenced many artists, including Buddy Holly,[2] Elvis Presley,[3] the Beatles, the Rolling Stones,[4] the Animals, George Thorogood, and the Clash just to name a handful. From blues to rock to funk to any genre you can name, Bo’s fingerprints are indelibly present. Bite You, by the way, appeared on his 1974 album Big Bad Bo, and that was one of the lead singles and the opening salvo on the LP.
Big Bad “I’m A Man” Bo Diddley passed away in 2008 a legend, may he rest in power supreme.
#9870, @gfnthedrop, pod.
Now moving along and into some of the newer stuff for this week, we have Kutiman to start the gig properly, which we’ll follow up with a new remix from Jafunk of an Adeline original, then we’ll finish Sledgendarily. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul first hour.
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The Drop is back after our first triad of tunes here on our Sampled funk & soul first half. Danno here, keeping the levels just right, and we just got a taste of three newbies just out this week, definitely more in the upbeat realm. Dan Lloyd naturally is bringing the rock to showcase for this evening’s AMPED feature, and that all begins after we strike 9 bells if you’re listening live. For right now though, let’s run down those first three cuts for tonight’s feast as you gotta know the nutrition...
Kutiman feat Elif Caglar – Remotely Close: Silkyway (…this is a track released on a compilation called Silkyway, which is a showcase of collaborations between Israeli and Turkish artists. Kutiman is someone who’s a known quantity on this program, is a very talented musician and animator based in Israel. Elif Caglar is a lovely and award-winning jazz vocalist out of Istanbul. We highly recommend checking more from both these artists, and we’ll hear more from Remotely Close to start part 2.)
Adeline – Maintain (Jafunk remix) (…the original of this track is a tune off of Adeline’s album from last year called Adi Oasis. In case you are unfamiliar, Adeline is based in NYC but hails from France, and Jafunk is a DJ & producer out of Australia who has really made a habit out of leaving a mark with his remixes, this one being no exception.)
Sister Sledge feat Sledgendary – Free* (…this I must say is great to see. Any fans of Sister Sledge will know of Joni Sledge’s passing in 2017, so to carry on the legacy the Sledge Family has formed Sledgendary, which is the children of the group carrying on the legacy of the band with direction from the original members under the Sledgendary moniker. Cannot wait to hear more.)
So, we’ve got a couple more bops to throw in tonight and up next we go to The Other Side with two tunes that are named precisely that. First up Isak Thomas & The Stoop Boys take us beyond the event horizon and then we have the lead single to The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble’s upcoming album Step Down, which drops on April 1 via Colemine Records so keep an eye out for that. THIS is The Drop to The Other Side. See you in part 2.
Isak Thomas & The Stoop Boys – The Otherside
The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – The Other Side
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The Drop is back in action with a nice jazzy long player as we once again commence with the 8:30 2nd stanza of our nightly radiological orchestra. Danno here, starting quarter two of the game with our main player in Tel Aviv Sefi Zisling. Thus, let’s get to the details on our 2nd Remotely Close…
Sefi Zisling feat Cagli Sertel – Remotely Close: Purple Midnight (…our main man in Tel Aviv Sefi Zisling right there, also featuring on the new Israeli-Turkish compilation Remotely Close, a seven track album that just dropped this week. Sefi normally appears via Tru Thoughts in the UK, and is currently working on his next LP which he says is almost finished recording. Cagli Sertel is of course the Turkish part of this equation, and does a masterful job on the keys for that cut. Do check that compilation in full)
#9870, @gfnthedrop, pod.
So, moving ever forward as the tunes and clock dicate, we have three more new cuts to bump the bpms up just a touch, with Ebi Sodi starting things then El Michels and Stro Elliot taking it from there, and we’ll talk about all there is to know about after we let them into the air. This is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday.
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Back on The Drop for very last yaddas at least for the first half. Danno here, studio 2, GFN HQ as always as ever, and we just showcased a few new joints just out for that main block of part 2. Dan Lloyd will be kicking down the door shortly in part 3, so before that let’s get to the details…
Ebi Soda feat Yazz Ahmed – Chandler (…one of the latest joints out from Tru Thoughts in the UK, which actually came out earlier this month. Ebi Soda is a very highly lauded jazz quartet out of London, and this tune heralded their new album Honk If You’re Sad, which drops on April 29. Yazz Ahmed is a trumpet and flugelhorn player who is just perfect for this jazzfunk electronic hybrid project, which is her specialty.)
El Michels Affair – Things Done Changed (…a little cover of Biggie from Leon Michels right here, which is the b side to a new 7” single, with the A being the previously released Stack The Deck with Bobby Oroza. That’s all available via Big Crown Records, of course.)
Stro Elliot feat James Brown – The Big Purple Donut (…just dropped on Friday is the reimagined compilation of James Brown classics from Roots member Stro Elliot. Black & Loud is available everywhere as of February 18, and this one is of course a remix of The Payback, the title track to The Godfather’s 1973 album.)
So, we’re just done here as the clock is getting to the end, but we have two more new joints to cover this evening before the first half buzzer sounds. Up next we have RIVER with a tune called WE’LL BE TOGETHER featuring an emcee named Lute adding the raps, and we’ll finish with the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio and a tune called Uncertainty, as the funk masters from Seattle are now out with Cold As Weiss, their latest LP also out via Colemine Records of O-H..I-O. THIS is The Drop and that’s half the circle.
RIVER feat Lute – WE’LL BE TOGETHER
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Uncertainty
III & IV AMPED
Hot Water Music – Lock Up
Fontaines DC – I Love You
Coheed and Cambria – The Liar’s Club
Ed Sheeran – Bad Habits feat. Bring Me The Horizon
Goose – Dripfield
The Afghan Whigs – I'll Make You See God
Guerilla Toss – Famously Alive
Grace McKagan – Baby That’s Rock N Roll
Screaming Trees – All I Know
Queens of the Stone Age – A Song For the Dead
Mark Lanegan and Isobell Campbell –Time of the Season
Hot Water Music – Lock Up
HOT WATER MUSIC have released a brand new song!
The new song, titled Lock Up, is taken from the punk band’s upcoming new album, Feel The Void, which is scheduled to be released in March this year.
Recalling an old European tour memory, vocalist/guitarist Chris Wollard remembers the demeanour of members of his touring party being one of extreme mental and physical exhaustion. Finding it within themselves to carry on, the new song reveals this continued need to persevere in all aspects of life during those moments when it becomes the most challenging. “The pressure is immense to keep moving forward no matter what, so you have to develop a sort of tunnel vision and just try not to think about it,” Wollard says. “But there will be a point, no doubt about it, where you feel yourself slipping. Total exhaustion and delirium set in. I think we have all hit that wall in our band at different points. And like I said, it’s a very difficult place to be.”
Fontaines DC – I Love You
Fontaines D.C. are back with a brooding new single. Listen to “I Love You” below.
Like the curt “Life ain’t always empty” refrain of 2020’s “A Hero’s Death,” “I Love You” pounds its positive message into your skull with music so menacing, you question its intent. “I love you, I love you, I told you I do,” Grian Chatten insists, as swirling, Cure-style guitar fades in over slow-thumping bass. “It’s all I’ve ever felt, I’ve never felt so well,” he speak-sings. Once more with feeling, perhaps?
“Ostensibly a love song,” as a press release puts it, Dublin’s favorite post punks fit some local commentary into the song of devotion as well, prompting Chatten to name the single “the first overtly political song we’ve written.” “It’s standing in the center of our beloved home country as a multitude of things are brought to tragic ends in an apocalyptic state of affairs,” the singer said. “That’s how it feels to me, and what I felt when I wrote it.”
In a monologue-like bridge, the frontman references the atrocities of Ireland’s past, including the mass grave discovered at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home discovered in 2017. “This island’s run by sharks with children’s bones stuck in their jaws,” Chatten shouts. In the cinematic, Sam Taylor-directed video, the singer delivers the soliloquy staring directly at the camera, and to really sell the drama, he ends up tearing his own heart out. It’s good to know that goth rock will never die.
“I Love You” appears on Fontaines D.C.’s upcoming third album, Skinty Fia, out April 22nd on Partisan Records.
Coheed and Cambria – The Liar’s Club
Coheed and Cambria have announced a Summer 2022 North American headlining tour, with support from Dance Gavin Dance and Mothica. The band has also unleashed “The Liars Club” as the latest single from their forthcoming album, Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind, out May 27th.
The new tour announcement comes in the midst of Coheed and Cambria’s previously announced winter “Great Destroyer Tour,” which continues tonight (February 22nd) in Oklahoma City. The newly unveiled summer outing, which will see Coheed playing large-scale amphitheaters and arenas, has been dubbed “A Window of a Waking Mind Tour.” That one kicks off July 12th in Miami, Florida, and runs through an August 17th show in Troutdale, Oregon.
“The Liars Club” follows previous Vaxis II singles “Shoulders” and “Rise, Naianasha (Cut The Cord).” Coheed frontman Claudio Sanchez says of the new song, “When the truth is such a mess, who doesn’t want to live out a different reality? Who doesn’t want to embrace a lie?”
Ed Sheeran – Bad Habits feat. Bring Me The Horizon
Following an onstage collaboration at the Brit Awards, Ed Sheeran and Bring Me the Horizon have released a studio version of their heavier take on Sheeran’s smash hit “Bad Habits.”
Sheeran and Bring Me the Horizon performed the song together last week during the Brits, the UK’s equivalent of the Grammys, with BMTH adding a metalcore flavor to the pop superstar’s No. 1 single. Sheeran and BMTH singer Oli Sykes traded verses, with the band adding some heavy breakdowns, leading up to Sykes’ screams at the very end.
The studio version reproduces the same arrangement while adding some polish to the finished product. For Bring Me the Horizon, the collaboration with Sheeran isn’t as surprising as it may seem. The band has moved away from its deathcore and metalcore sound in recent years, embracing a more pop aesthetic on recent albums.
Regarding the collaboration, Sykes stated, “From receiving the email asking whether we’d like to open the brits with Ed Sheeran to us chatting and bouncing ideas to rehearsing and then performing and now releasing, this has needless to say been pretty mental. But we are all about pushing the boundaries of our own and other genres, so this felt like the perfect challenge.”
Goose – Dripfield
In the midst of a career surge, Goose have announced their third studio album, Dripfield, and shared the title track. The Connecticut rockers have also revealed summer tour dates supporting the release.
Due out June 24th, Dripfield finds Goose working with an outside producer for the very first time: D. James Goodwin. Working with Goodwin at Woodstock’s The ISOKON, Goose were able to “think about our approach in so many different ways,” explained lead guitarist/vocalist Rick Mitarotonda. “I really liked re-working some of the stuff we’ve been playing for years and taking the material in directions I would have never expected.”
Lead single “Borne” hinted at this turn, with the band tightening their jammier tendencies into something closer to My Morning Jacket’s rock. “Dripfield” takes that evolution even further, with arpeggiated synths tilting things into a psychedelic, Talking Heads-ish sphere.
The Afghan Whigs – I'll Make You See God
The Afghan Whigs are back with a new single, “I’ll Make You See God,” their first track in five years since the release of In Spades. It’s also the first song the band has released since their guitarist Dave Rosser passed away in 2017. Since then, band leader Greg Dulli released a solo album that was written while processing his death.
Dulli describes the Afghan Whigs’ new single as “one of the hardest rock songs we’ve ever done” and that “it was written and performed on sheer adrenalin.” The song will also be featured on the soundtrack for the upcoming Playstation game Gran Turismo 7.
Guerilla Toss – Famously Alive
"This is one for the kids," Guerilla Toss proclaimed in an Instagram post today, announcing the release of their new song — the title track of their fifth studio LP and Sub Pop debut, Famously Alive, out March 25 — and premiering its music video. It's the forthcoming album's second single, following last month's "Cannibal Capital."
Where that track found GT with one foot in the noisy territory where they used to be firmly rooted and the other in the lush, psych-pop world of their two most recent records, "Famously Alive" is a full-throttle pop track — or, as the band dubbed it in the same post, "Hyper Punk." Kassie Carlson's vocals are mechanically multiplied to produce massive, bubble-gum harmonies, as Arian Shafiee's ever-skronky guitar skips explosive, open chords across the seething surface of Peter Negroponte's manic drum line.
Grace McKagan – Baby That’s Rock N Roll
Grace McKagan, the daughter of Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, has unveiled the music video for her new song “Baby That’s Rock N Roll.”
Grace goes for a garage-rock sound this time around, combining a driving beat with fuzzed-out guitars. Director Connor Ellmann’s Super 8-style video adds to the vintage aesthetics, as Grace rides through the Hollywood hills on the back of a motorcycle.
“The single speaks to the current mainstream attitude towards rock music, and how distorted it is from the original depth and authenticity from which it was derived,” Grace McKagan said in a press statement. “I’m not the guru on what rock is or isn’t, but the personification of the genre has evolved a lot, especially in these past couple of years. Studs, dirty sex, a guitar riff on a pop song, and wearing eyeliner doesn’t quite equate to rock n roll in my eyes…but on the plus side… let’s celebrate that guitars are back.”
Grace embarked on a solo career after dissolving her previous band, The Pink Slips — a synthy pop-punk outfit she formed at the age of 15. Now 24, Grace is set to drop an EP of material in the near future, having previously released the single “One You Love” last year.
Screaming Trees – All I Know
Queens of the Stone Age – A Song For the Dead
Mark Lanegan and Isobell Campbell –Time of the Season
Mark Lanegan, the powerful force behind Screaming Trees who was also known for his work in Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins, has died at the age of 57.
“Our beloved friend Mark Lanegan passed away this morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland,” a representative for Lanegan said in a statement. “A beloved singer, songwriter, author and musician he was 57 and is survived by his wife Shelley. No other information is available at this time. The family asks everyone to respect their privacy at this time.”
Born in Ellensburg, Washington, Lanegan was a pioneer of the grunge scene, fronting Screaming Trees from 1985 until their breakup in 2000. The band released several albums during its run, scoring the rock hits “Nearly Lost You” from 1992’s Sweet Oblivion and “All I Know” from 1996’s “Dust.”
He also was an essential member of Queens of the Stone Age throughout the years, appearing on five of the band’s albums, including their breakthrough LPs Rated R and Songs for the Deaf.
No cause of death was given, but in a recent interview with Consequence, Lanegan detailed a horrific battle with COVID — which left him in a three-week coma and temporarily deaf. He was still dealing with long-term effects of COVID, but it is unclear whether any of that is related to his death.
At the time of our interview a few months ago, Lanegan told us he was on the mend, remarking, “[I feel] a million times better — I finally turned the corner. But it took a really long time. It was crazy. There’s some residuals. Whatever I had, it attacks places where there was trauma in the body previous times.”
He added, “I had a number of accidents over the course of my life. I have a chronically f**ked up knee which still gives me some pain. That was one of the strange things about the thing — it went for any place where you were injured or had something happen before.”
Lanegan released one album, 2008’s Saturnalia, with Afghan Whigs singer Greg Dulli under the name The Gutter Twins. He was also a prolific solo artist, releasing 12 albums under his own name, including his most recent effort, 2020’s Straight Songs of Sorrow.
IN 2021, Lanegan teamed up with The Icarus Line’s Joe Cardamone to form the duo Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe, releasing a self-titled album in October. Over the years, Lanegan also released collaborative efforts with Duke Garwood and Isobel Campbell.
The singer detailed his battle with COVID in his latest book, Devil in a Coma, which was released in December. That followed up his autobiography, Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir.