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A trip to Paisley Park for our history opener, as the public saw Prince's compound up close for the first time on this date. Our Sampled & AMPED funk punk soul rock weekly throwdown goes down from there, with Dan Lloyd throwing rocks to finish.
"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.
Oct 6, 2022
The Drop with Danno
Prince – Musicology
Dustbowl Revival – Set Me Free
Lady Wray – Through It All
Lucas/Heaven – Every City Has a Rhythm
Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin – Lobbo
Arjuna Oakes & Serebii – Guava
Durand Jones & The Indications – Giving Up
Kelly Finnigan – Catch Me I’m Falling
Aaron Frazer – You Don’t Wanna Be My Baby
Buddy Guy feat James Taylor – Follow The Money
Al Green – Wanna Say
Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 – Alu Jon Jonki Jon
I.
It is 20 hours past midnight as our Thursday gets thirstier, and it’s time to quench it with our Sampled & AMPED weekly cool out, with this chapter being purified in the cool clear waters of Lake Minnetonka as October 6, 2022. Danno here doing the thing and hopefully right tonight as it hits 8pm, and our funk punk soul rock weekly commences in earnest. Welcome to the show, thanks for joining us and maybe for the first time. First hour we’re going through the smattering of new funk & soul out this week while playing a few dusty faves on a thing we call Sampled, and then our rock maestro Dan Lloyd rips it up to shut it down after 9pm with our AMPED rock showcase in parts 3 & 4 tonight. Lots to do as always, but before any of that we return to Lake Minnetonka to start the show tonight with Prince, and we’ll talk about all there is to know about after the Musicology but for now, THIS is The Drop.
Prince – Musicology
Back to it this week with our Sampled & AMPED Thursday night, Danno here in studio 2 GFN HQ in downtown Gwangju, how do you do? Our Sampled funk & soul first hour has begun and as we are wont to do, we got on the monocle to begin the process with our TIGHT (or) feature this evening.
That was Prince with Musicology to open things and highlight this date’s rendezvous with history, and we go back to 2016 as Paisley Park opened to the public. The 65,000 square-foot estate in Chanhassen, Minnesota is where Prince lived and worked; he built it in the mid-'80s and used it as his recording studio, concert venue, and production office. The guided tour includes a look at his studios, editing suites, soundstage and NPG Music Club. Guests report hearing at least one unreleased Prince song on the tour, and getting a look at an urn in the atrium that holds the late artist’s ashes.
Prince had of course passed away just under 6 months previously, may The Artist rest in power supreme.
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Okay, so now that we have everything out of the way for the history, let’s get into some more recent stuff although not necessarily all new. Up next we have Dustbowl Revival batting leadoff, then it’s Lady Wray and Lucas/Heaven to finish the triad. We’ll talk about everything after they go into the cosmos and float back down, but for now THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday.
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The Drop returns as we begin to close the first quarter of our nightly game of audio mirrors. What is the deal, Drop Gangsters (Korean)? Danno here and glad you’re with us for our funk punk soul rock Thursday session whether you are in fact tuning in now or later, and we just got a taste of our first three samplers there in that last block so let’s get to the specifics on the scientifics…
Dustbowl Revival – Set Me Free (…this is the title track to an album that is out later this month on October 28. The band itself is described as a quite eclectic experience genre-wise, and hail from LA. Do check that LP when it drops Set Me Free by Dustbowl Revival.)
Lady Wray – Through It All (…interesting tune right here that dropped late last year that we highlighted on the show then, part of a 7” single released then on Big Crown Records. The tune takes an interesting approach with Lady Nicole Wray’s vocals, as there’s a morphed sample going on in the choruses, but then the Lady doth shine in full glory during the verses.)
Lucas/Heaven – Every City Has a Rhythm (…this cut is off an album that dropped in April called Blues of the World. For those wondering, Lucas/Heaven is the rather newly minted project of Lucas Andres Gorham, a veteran musician, DJ, and producer.)
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Alright so heading towards our first break tonight, a couple of super favorites lined up to close the first quarter strongly and elegantly. Up next we have another joint from Ali, with is Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin’s tribute album to the late great Ali Farka Toure, and this next cut is called Lobbo. Khruangbin is touching down in Seoul for a concert November 12, so do NOT miss that if you can score a ticket. To finish we also have Arjuna Oakes & Serebii with the single from their upcoming LP. This tune is called Guava, and the album which drops next Friday is called Final Days. Big up to our boys down in Wellington, NZ. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday night.
Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin – Lobbo
Arjuna Oakes & Serebii – Guava
II.
Back on The Drop tonight as we set the flame to low and go slow for our Sampled funk & soul 2nd quarter. Danno here, doing my usual unusual on the air which happens every night, and if we’re going through favorites it’s hard to find any label out there that has more hearts coming from us than Colemine Records, and we just rocked a couple of older joints from the Ohio-based label, so let’s run it down but not out...
Durand Jones & The Indications – Giving Up (…a lovely slow cooker right there from the band off their self-titled debut album. Colemine really had a great LP on their hands with this one, which the band from Indiana now based in NYC made for just $450 and a case of Buds. Colemine Records is celebrating their 15th anniversary since foundation, and this album helped them move into better partnerships and distribution deals moving forward.)
Kelly Finnigan – Catch Me, I’m Falling (…this tune off Kelly Finnigan’s debut solo LP The Tales People Tell is also a lovely bit of work from the people at Colemine. Previous to this, Finnigan had only been the lead singer for the very successful Monophonics, but this tune proved memorable as it was licensed for The Sonic The Hedgehog film. Big up to everyone over at Colemine Records, may there be many more trips around the sun to come for a great soul label outta the Midwest.)
Now heading forward we have Aaron Frazer the drummer from Durand Jones & The Indications to start things and then we have a couple old dogs with a few new tricks with Buddy Guy and James Taylor teaming up on a collab, closing with Al Green tellin us what he wanna say. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday.
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The Drop returns as we move towards the finality of our first hour on our Sampled funk & soul sesh for this week. Danno here, closing shop shortly on my half of the gig, and Dan Lloyd joins us to throw rocks in hour 2. For right now, let’s get to what just happened and explain ourselves a bit…
Aaron Frazer – You Don’t Wanna Be My Baby (…the drummer extraordinaire and minty falsetto supreme from Durand Jones & The Indications right here. This tune appeared on Frazer’s debut LP which dropped early last year called Introducing, do check if you are not so initiated and liked that little number.)
Buddy Guy feat James Taylor – Follow The Money (…for those unaware, blues and rock legend Buddy Guy, now 86 years old just dropped his 34th LP last Friday. The album features a plethora of legends such as Mavis Staples and Elvis Costello, and is called The Blues Don’t Lie, much like the money, if you follow where it goes.)
Al Green – Wanna Say (…another legend of the game out with new music last week was The Reverend. At 76 Al Green can still sing and make the ladies swoon. This is on another new LP called simply and appropriately enough, Al Green: Soul Legend. Amen. Long live to Buddy Guy and Al Green, keep kickin!)
Moving along to halftime, as we often do we’ll head over to Africa to close the first half as Fela Kuti was out with a new edit version of Alu Jon Jonki Jon, but we’re not too keen on the edits so we’ll let the original ride out in all of its long player glory to call it quits on the first half tonight. This is The Drop with AMPED coming up after the jump.
Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 – Alu Jon Jonki Jon
III & IV AMPED
Slipknot – Adderall
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fleez
Bush – Heavy is the Ocean
Paramore – This is Why
LCD Soundsystem – New Body Rhumba
Anxious – Sunsign
VUKOVI – QUENCH
The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 1)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Iron Lung
The Volunteers – Let Me Go!
Slipknot – Adderall
Opening track from 7th album The End So Far, out last week.
The End, So Far was met with critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 81, based on 7 reviews.
Luke Morton of Kerrang! commented that The End, So Far was more of an album "rather than a selection of songs". He welcomed the new direction the band had taken with tracks such as the opening track "Adderall", a "six-minute, synth-driven track - with all clean singing", while still noting that the album retained Slipknot's trademarked heaviness, with "primal screams, blastbeats, and more scratching wizardry from Sid Wilson than we’ve heard in a long time".[20]
Andrew Trendell of NME gave the album four stars out of five, comparing the band's new direction to David Bowie, Tool and Stone Temple Pilots, while also noting that heavier tracks like "Hivemind" and "Heirloom" would provide comfort for "Slipknot fans of old".[22]
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fleez
One of the ‘heavier’ tracks from Cool It Down, also released last week. Again, solid reviews for this one, the first new album in 9 years from the band. It’s a lot more electronic/synth based than I remember them being in the past, but there’s a lot to enjoy on here despite it being only eight tracks long.
Bush – Heavy is the Ocean
9th album The Art of Survival is out this week and if the singles are anything to go by, it sees the band move further away from their rough around the edges grunge roots and join the dozens of soundalike radio rock bands who all sound exactly the same. It’s overproduced, generic and another argument for the case that Bush should have called time on their career a decade or two ago.
Paramore – This is Why
Paramore have made their return official with the announcement of their new album, This Is Why. It’s out February 10th, 2023 via Atlantic Records and is previewed by the title track, out now.
The 10-track follow-up to 2017’s After Laughter was recorded in Los Angeles with longtime collaborator Carlos de la Garza and features cover art shot by Zachary Gray. No tracklist has been released as of yet, but you can check out the artwork below. Pre-orders are ongoing.
In an interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe, singer Hayley Wiliams described the band’s new sound as leaning into some of their earliest influences like “electro clash and stuff that had a lot of groove.” She added that drummer Zac Farro “plays some of his most aggressive stuff on this record,” but there’s also “some beautiful restraint that I think shows up in all of us in different parts that really allows other things to speak.”
These influences can be heard in “This Is Why,” a cathartic rebuke for people whose toxic opinions would be better left unheard. “This is why I don’t leave the house,” Williams shouts on the chorus. “You say the coast is clear/ But you won’t catch me out.”
Williams revealed it was the last song the group wrote for the album in a press statement. “To be honest, I was so tired of writing lyrics but Taylor [York] convinced Zac and I both that we should work on this last idea,” she recalled. “It summarizes the plethora of ridiculous emotions, the rollercoaster of being alive in 2022, having survived even just the last 3 or 4 years.”
LCD Soundsystem – New Body Rhumba
LCD Soundsystem are back with their first new song in five years. James Murphy and company have today shared “New Body Rhumba,” their contribution to the soundtrack for Noah Baumbach’s upcoming film White Noise. The black comedy-horror stars Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig as a married couple whose idyllic life is thwarted by disaster.
White Noise comes out in select theaters starting November 25th before it hits Netflix December 30th. “New Body Rhumba” is LCD’s first new music since their 2017 album American Dream, which arrived a whopping seven years after its predecessor This Is Happening. So, while we’d love if this meant there’s a new LCD album on the way, we’re just happy enough to get a one-off single from the indie veterans. Listen to “New Body Rhumba” below.
Though LCD Soundsystem’s 20-night stint at Brooklyn Steel last winter was cut short due to COVID-19, Murphy has said that the band plans to pursue more “mini-residencies” moving forward. But first, they’ll hit their headlining set at III Points Music Festival next month. Update: LCD Soundsystem have announced a new 20-show residency at Brooklyn Steel kicking off on November 18th.
Anxious – Sunsign
Back in January, the fast-rising Connecticut emo band Anxious released their full-length debut Little Green House. The members of Anxious came from the hardcore underground, and they still play a lot of hardcore shows, but their music is bright and sweet and energetic. At times, it pushes into power-pop or pop-punk, or at least into the parts of emo that sound most like power-pop and pop-punk. Today, Anxious have followed their LP with a new single that leans even harder into their melodic side.
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Anxious are getting ready to hit the road with Oso Oso, who just released their own new single “De Facto.” Anxious recorded their new single “Sunsign” with Oso Oso/Taking Back Sunday collaborator Mike Sapone. The song is built on an acoustic riff and a whole lot of melodies stacked on top of each other. The song manages to be propulsive and bittersweet at the same time, and it’s definitely the biggest-sounding, most majestic thing that Anxious have made yet.
VUKOVI – QUENCH
Scottish caps-lock-loving duo VUKOVI have released new single QUENCH, the latest cut from their upcoming album NULA.
Speaking about the new track, vocalist Janine Mary says, "QUENCH is about female sexual empowerment and I want the song to inspire people to not attach shame to sexual empowerment."
The new single is taken from the band's forthcoming LP NULA, due for release on October 7 via LAB Records. And just days later, they'll head out on tour in the UK and Europe with ZAND in support.
The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 1)
WHEN THE BEATLES started work on their masterpiece Revolver, in April 1966, they knew they were after the sound of the future. And they got there on the very first day of the sessions, with the wildly experimental buzz of “Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 1).” The psychedelic outtake was released on Friday and it’s a taste of the new Super Deluxe Edition of Revolver, which arrives on October 28. The new edition tells the story of how the Beatles took their gigantic creative leap into the unknown. As producer Giles Martin says, “It’s the Beatles punching their way out of a bag. They’re saying, ‘We’re no longer going to be constrained by anything.’”
The new Revolver is full of revelations, newly mixed by Martin and engineer Sam Okell in stereo and Dolby Atmos. The audio features the “de-mixing” technology developed by Peter Jackson’s sound team for the Get Back documentary, led by Emile de la Ray at WingNut Films Productions. The Super Deluxe collection has 31 outtakes from the sessions, including three home demos; it’s also got the original mono mix and a four-track EP with “Paperback Writer” and “Rain.”
John, Paul, George, and Ringo came into Abbey Road ready to cut loose. Incredibly, they cut “Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 1)” the first day of the sessions. They already knew this album was going to be different. The last time they’d been in the studio, they were crashing out Rubber Soul, sweating to make their Christmas 1965 deadline. They bashed out two of the highlights the night before the album was due: John’s “Girl” and Paul’s “You Won’t See Me.” (You can hear the weariness in their voices.)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Iron Lung
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have released the new single “Iron Lung” from Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava, their first of three albums coming in October. The nine-minute psych-rock jam comes with an equally trippy animated music video by SPOD.
“Iron Lung” initially follows a measured, jazzy beat that expands with flutes, saxophone, and crunchy guitar riffs to an explosive peak. In a statement, guitarist Stu Mackenzie called the track “the ultimate collab,” sharing, “We wrote the lyrics as a group and created the music out of improvisation. Spontaneous creation. The best kind.”
The accompanying music video mirrors the song’s lyrics, specifically the “different kind of cuttlefish.” More importantly, it portrays the titular breathing apparatus’ description of “Frog breath/ Steam tent/ Neck paralysis/ Sedated death” with universe-collapsing imagery. “When I heard this track I had just started delving into fully animated AI videos,” SPOD added. “I love how the song seems like endless ascending and descending cycles culminating in these dramatic explosions and lifts, so it felt like a perfect fit to dive into a nine-minute descent to hell and back.”
The Volunteers – Let Me Go!
The Volunteers are a Korean rock band formed in 2018 and featuring Baek Yerin on vocals (K-Pop singer, formerly of group 15&). Their debut self-titled album came out last year and is a decent listen, reminds me a lot of the Wolf Alice debut. And like Wolf Alice, their recent output has taken a turn for the worse; new single New Plant (came out in July) is a dreary ballad that would be indistinguishable from all of the ballads that come out in this country were it not for a tasty guitar solo in the middle. Still, solid album to check out.