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We mark this date in 1978 when Marvin Gaye was revealed to be in some major debt, and then it's into two hours of our #funk #punk #soul #rock Sampled & AMPED Thursday, with Dan Lloyd guiding us through a wicked week in new rock 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 7, 2021
The Drop with Danno
Marvin Gaye – You Can Leave, But It’s Going To Cost You
Funk Voyage feat Carlton Jumel Smith – Let It Ride
Shuko feat Nia Wyn & Lee Fields – Nothing’s Gonna Change
Maiiah & The Angels of Libra – Obey
Martha High – I Got My Senses Back (Live)
The Du-Rites – Bird Brain
Silas Short – Drawing
Pond – Take Me Avalon I’m Young
Nick Corbin – Piggyback
Jeremy Beck & The Heavy Duty Horns – Mountain
Leon Stanford – Little Habits
Eparapo feat Dele Sosimi – From London to Lagos
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – We’ve Landed (Cool Cats mix)
I.
It is 20 hours past midnight on the opening Thursday of October, and it’s time to get it on with our Sampled & AMPED weekly mania, and tonight is beamed into spacetime as October 7, 2021. This is Danno naturally absolutely loving the weather of late we are right in my Scorpio wheelhouse for the next while, hoping you are enjoying Mother Nature smiling down upon our fair City of Light as well this week. As we do every single week we commence this evening’s festivities with our Sampled funk & soul smoosh in the first hour, and then we are joined by the Man On The Drums Dan Lloyd for our AMPED weekly rock feature for hour two. Lots of seriously killer new cuts to check out in both hours tonight, so seatbelts on cuz it’s gonna be a ride. However, before we start paying our debts we go back to 1978 when the Prince of Soul was having a serious amount of his own at the time, and we’ll talk about the background once the foreground dies down. THIS is The Drop.
Marvin Gaye – You Can Leave, But It’s Going To Cost You
The Drop has commenced the divorce from reality here on our Sampled funk & soul weekly moonlight stomp. What’s the deal, Drop Tops? (KOR) Danno here keepin it unreal as I do every night on GFN between 8 & 10.
That was our TIGHT (or) feature to commence things properly tonight, starting in a time when Marvin Gaye might have wished he could leave reality or maybe head off to space for a reincarnation. That was You Can Leave But It’s Going To Cost You from his 1978 LP Here, My Dear. Truer words were never spoken nor sung, my radio friends.
This album was recorded while the Prince of Soul was in the middle of a divorce with his wife, Anna Gordy, who was the daughter of Motown head Barry Gordy. Now, when one is splitting with one’s spouse, that is certainly never easy. However, when your wife is the daughter of your notoriously ruthless label owner, that must complicate things exponentially.
There’s an old saying that anyone can get divorced, but few mortals can afford it, and that was certainly true of Marvin Gaye as well. It was reported on this date in 1978 that the legendary singer had filed for bankruptcy not once, but twice in the same year, with debts piling up into the stars at an estimated $7M. And to give you an idea of how much that is today, that’s basically a cool $30 mill. Yeesh.
#9870 (50/100)…SM…podcast.
Now, let’s get to the new stuff tonight, and there’s a ton of it this evening. We got two NYC legends up next in Carlton Jumel Smith & Lee Fields then to finish it’s Maiiah and The Angels of Libra, appropriately enough. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday evening.
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Back on The Drop as we continue with part 1 on our Sampled & AMPED Thursday nights, presently in Sampled mode & rocking the best funk & soul that God had the good graces to bless us with. Danno here, making our escape together via the magic of radio, and of course Dan Lloyd will be entering studio 2 after obliterating the door in a background of dry ice smoke for our AMPED rock feature. Let’s get to the liner notes on those last three joints...
FUNKVOYAGE feat Carlton Jumel Smith – Let It Ride (…our brother from Manhattan with more stories than you can shake a stick at is back with this, his latest new joint in a good while appearing in collab with FUNKVOYAGE, which is the solo project of Mark CoolNerd Unthank.)
Shuko feat Nia Wyn & Lee Fields – Nothing’s Gonna Change (…this tune dropped Sept 24 with UK newcomer Nia Wyn & NYC titan of soul & high fashion Lee Fields doing the honors on the vox. Shuko is a German-based producer & this appeared on a limited 10” single physically, but is everywhere digitally.)
Maiiah & The Angels of Libra – Obey (…the lead singer is another German-based vocalist and she’s got a nice cut on her hands right here. She has appeared as part of several larger bands & productions previously, but this is her breakout solo joint just out fresh for you.)
Towards the close of part 1 this evening, we got a cut that apparently is not out digitally in studio form just yet, so we’ll rock old school soul legend Martha High’s latest in I Got My Senses Back in live form, and to close we have The Du-Rites and their most recent single in the instrumental called Bird Brain. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday opening salvo.
Martha High – I Got My Senses Back (Live)
The Du-Rites – Bird Brain
II.
The Drop continues along tonight down the path of fresh newness for our Sampled funk & soul first hour. What’s crackalackin’ tonight Drop Tops (KOR)? Danno here keepin the fresh new stank wafting for the first 57 prior to Dan Lloyd’s AMPED rock feature for this week, but let’s run down that first pair of quarter two openers...
Silas Short – Drawing (…fingers crossed on this Chicago-based artist who just made his debut coming on the show. That is the title track to his debut EP which just dropped last Friday, and is available everywhere courtesy of Stones Throw Records in LA.)
Pond – Take Me Avalon I’m Young (…a rare appearance by the Aussie rockers on the first hour of Thursday nights here on the show, but this joint is straight soulful and oh so perfect for our purposes tonight. Their new album 9 just dropped, available everywhere now.)
Okay, so we’re gonna be a tad more upbeat than normal in the next block for our quarter two purposes this evening, and on deck we got Nick Corbin to swing a hefty bit of lumber, then it’s Jeremy Beck & Leon Stanford to polish off the plates. We’ll be sure to note the notes on the notes after they float but for now, THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday evening.
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The Drop shudders along in the bucket tonight, making sure the volume is just so as we bump down the road. Danno here, going through some of the newest funk & soul jawns just out over the past week or two, and Gwangju’s Man On The Drums is ready in the wings for our 2nd hour AMPED feature which screams at all of us momentarily. To the last block’s recap, that was...
Nick Corbin – Piggyback (…for acid jazz label heads, Nick is a known quantity on that back in the mid-2010’s with a couple of releases there. This is his latest, just out in late August, after the release of his Sweet Escape LP last year.)
Jeremy Beck & The Heavy Duty Horns – Mountain (…personally, we would have gone with mountainous for a title here, as the brass is precisely that on this joint. For those unfamiliar and I’m not trying to act like I was previous to this coming up in my feed, this is an eight piece band out of NYC, with the lead man on the vocals also rocking the keys in front of the heavy duty stuff.)
Leon Stanford – Little Habits (…this is an artist very under the radar for right now, but it is the latest standalone from the young brother out of Wales. Stanford used to be the singer for the South Wales rock group The People The Poet, but is now striking out on his own.)
So, to finish the first half let’s go back to where everything began and a couple of Afrobeat & jazz cuts. First up we have another Cool Cats mix of Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela, may they both rest in power, and this is another tune off their 2020 LP Rejoice called We’ve Landed. After that we’ll turn up the tempo to finish with Eparapo and a cut called From London to Lagos. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled & AMPED Thursday night and we are at halftime.
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – We’ve Landed (Cool Cats Mix)
Eparapo feat Dele Sosimi – From London to Lagos
III & IV AMPED
Trivium – The Phalanx
Limp Bizkit – Dad Vibes
Ghost – Hunter's Moon
Courtney Barnett – Write A List Of Things To Look Forward To
Biffy Clyro – Unknown Male 01
Wet Leg – Wet Dream
Mom Jeans – What's Up?
IDLES – The Beachland Ballroom
Converge – Blood Moon
Boston Manor – Algorithm
Trivium – The Phalanx
Trivium have partnered with the Elder Scrolls Online video game on an epic music video for their latest In the Court of the Dragon single, "The Phalanx."
The song, which comes on the heels on the forthcoming album's title track and "Feast of Fire," is another tour de force of heavy metal, exploring a number of subgenres and expertly tying all these sounds together.
"'The Phalanx' was like an old muscle car sitting in the driveway with no engine. It was a demo from Shogun that had the middle section removed for another song ('Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis'), demoed again on Silence in the Snow but ultimately scrapped, and now it has found its home on the new album," bassist Paolo Gregoletto said of the song's origins.
"Once we knew the album was going in a more epic, proggy direction, I immediately thought of the song and pitched the idea to the others. With a few minor changes to some chorus parts, a brand middle section, and the orchestrations from Ihsahn, 'The Phalanx' was reborn. It's got a lot of new and old riffs and I think you should dig this if you liked Shogun," he continued.
The video features a mix of performance footage shot inside Trivium's airplane hangar headquarters and epic battles from Elder Scrolls Online.
In the Court of the Dragon, Trivium's landmark 10th album, will be released on Oct. 8 on Roadrunner Records.
Limp Bizkit – Dad Vibes
After teasing a new song and a whole new aesthetic for frontman Fred Durst at Lollapalooza in August, Limp Bizkit have finally dropped the official studio version of their latest track Dad Vibes.
The single also comes accompanied by an unsurprisingly great lyric video, showcasing the vocalist doing his thing in his Dad Vibes get-up over lines like ‘Dad got the sag in the back with a drip’ and ‘Dad so sweet that his nickname Candy’.
And hopefully this is just the beginning of a flurry of long-awaited new Bizkit material, as the band confirmed last month that, “New songs will begin to leak, one after the other in rapid succession, very soon. Soon thereafter our new album will be released.”
Finally! It sounds like we’re closer than ever to the follow-up to 2011’s Gold Cobra…
Ghost – Hunter's Moon
After first unveiling Papa Emeritus IV as their next singer in early 2020, ushering in the latest era of the band, Ghost have finally delivered on long-promised new material with the new song "Hunter's Moon," which is a stand-alone single featured in the movie Halloween Kills.
This latest single has arrived just hours after Ghost announced a co-headlining U.S. tour with Volbeat, which is set to kick off on Jan. 25 with special guest Twin Temple as the opening act. It's the first new material from the ghastly Swedish outfit spearheaded by mastermind Tobias Forge since 2019's retro-rocking, two-track Seven Inches of Satanic Panic EP, and "SONG TITLE" description of music...
Work on the successor to 2018's Prequelle, Ghost's fourth studio album, began over a year ago as Forge disclosed that he was writing new music through the fall of 2020 with intentions on recording in January and that he was targeting a late 2021 album release. Everything, so far, appears to have fallen in place, even amid a disruptive pandemic that will likely remain impactful next year as well.
Courtney Barnett – Write A List Of Things To Look Forward To
Courtney Barnett has released ‘Write A List Of Things To Look Forward To’, another cut from her upcoming album ‘Things Take Time, Take Time‘.
The song follows earlier singles ‘Rae Street‘ and ‘Before You Gotta Go‘. It’s the latest taste of her third album, which is released on November 12 via Marathon Artists.
Some of the lyrics in the song read: “Sit beside me, watch the world burn / We’ll never learn we don’t deserve nice things / And we’ll scream self-righteously / We did our best, but what does that even mean?”
Barnett said of the track: “I found a deeper communication with people in my life – deeper conversations. And a new level of gratitude for friendships that had been there for so long that I had maybe taken for granted.”
Biffy Clyro – Unknown Male 01
Biffy Clyro have shared the combined video for their two recent singles ‘Unknown Male 01’ and ‘A Hunger In Your Haunt’ –
The two tracks are both taken from the trio’s upcoming new album ‘The Myth Of The Happily Ever After’, which is set for release on October 22.
A 10-minute long video for ‘Unknown Male 01’ and ‘A Hunger In Your Haunt’ has been released this afternoon (September 28).
Initially focusing on Biffy Clyro as they perform ‘A Hunger In Your Haunt’, frontman Simon Neil then covers himself, his fellow bandmembers and their instruments in blue paint.
The clip then shifts location to the remote countryside as ‘Unknown Male 01’ rings out, with the latter part of the video showing the band performing the song while wearing red blindfolds.
Back in May NME spoke to Biffy Clyro on the red carpet at the 2021 BRIT Awards, where the band revealed that they had finished their new album the previous week.
Asked if ‘The Myth of the Happily Ever After’ could still be considered a “sister record” to its predecessor, Neil replied: “Originally it was going to be completely hand-in-hand. They do relate, but because we didn’t tour I ended up writing about seven or eight new songs for the album. Originally it was intended to be a few off-cuts from ‘A Celebration Of Endings’, but now it’s got wonderful new art and it’s kind of its own beast.
Wet Leg – Wet Dream
Wet Leg have unveiled their second-ever single “Wet Dream,” and its accompanying music video.
On the sexually-charged track, bandmates Hester Chambers and Rhian Teasdale leave little to the imagination with lyrics like, “I was in your wet dream/ Drivin’ in my car/ What makes you think/ You’re good enough to think about me when you’re/ Touching yourself, touching yourself.”
Meanwhile, the rollicking, guitar-strewn single’s visual — which is directed by Teasdale herself — finds the rising British duo donning prairie dresses, matching bonnets, and giant red lobster claws as they take a joyride, dance through cornfields, and refuse to feast on lobster with their backing band. There’s even a pillow fight involving a bed in the middle of a wide-open field dotted with tons of bales of hay.
Mom Jeans – What's Up?
Berkeley, California emo-pop band Mom Jeans will return with their third album Sweet Tooth on February 25, and after two albums spent channelling the indie-punk sounds of bands like Joyce Manor and Modern Baseball, Mom Jeans are now embracing the radio-friendly "ear candy" of '90s and 2000s pop punk and alt-rock. "Those hits by Blink-182 and Green Day, all those bands, it’s just hooks for days and really excellent songwriting," says vocalist/guitarist Eric Butler. "They really just tried to write incredible songs that would get stuck in people’s heads. We wanted to try our own version of that. Ear candy is the goal, so Sweet Tooth is the record."
To achieve their goal, they hit the studio with producer Brett Romnes (of I Am The Avalanche and The Movielife), and they roped in guest vocals from Save Face's Tyler Povanda and Prince Daddy & the Hyena's Kory Gregory. Judging by lead single "What's Up?", they haven't gone full-on pop; they still sound like an underground rock band, but they're definitely channelling the hook-fueled songwriting that brought punk to the mainstream over two decades ago, and it suits Mom Jeans well.
IDLES – The Beachland Ballroom
Idles have announced their next studio album. It’s called Crawler and it arrives November 12 via Partisan. The 14-track follow-up to last year’s Ultra Mono was recorded at Real World Studios in Bath during the pandemic. It was co-produced by Kenny Beats and Idles guitarist Mark Bowen. Today, the band has shared lead single “The Beachland Ballroom,” named after the Ohio venue.
Of the new song, lead vocalist Joe Talbot said in press materials:
It’s the most important song on the album, really. There’s so many bands that go through the small rooms and dream of making it into the big rooms. Being able to write a soul tune like this made me go, fuck—we’re at a place where we're actually allowed to go to these big rooms and be creative and not just go through the motions and really appreciate what we’ve got. The song is sort of an allegory of feeling lost and getting through it. It's one that I really love singing.
Converge – Blood Moon
Converge are teaming up with Chelsea Wolfe, her bandmate Ben Chisolm, and Cave In ’s Stephen Brodsky for a new album, Bloodmoon: I.
If that name sounds familiar it’s because the Salem masters first unveiled the collaborative project at The Netherlands’ killer Roadburn festival all the way back in 2016, with schedules only finally allowing it to properly come to studio fruition in late 2019 (and then of course the pandemic also put a further delay on things).
“We wanted to do something grander than the typical four-piece Converge music,” explains vocalist Jacob Bannon, adding of the project: “Our dynamics are pushing and pulling in all different directions on this record, and I find that to be creatively rewarding.”
Stephen Brodsky says of the whole thing: “I feel like everyone just kept the music in mind and wanted to do what’s best for the song.”
Chelsea Wolfe, meanwhile, enthuses that, “The project stretched my vocals in new ways. It’s so different than what I normally sing over that I was able to open up and be vulnerable with my vocals.”
Bloodmoon: I is due out on CD/digital on November 19 via Epitap
Boston Manor - Algorithm
Boston Manor have dropped their new single, 'Algorithm'.
The Blackpool band's second single to be released via SharpTone Records, the track following on from 'Carbon Mono', which arrived over the summer.
Henry Cox explains: "In the current media landscape, artists now are expected not only to write & perform music; but also to be media personalities, stylists, photographers, merch companies, streamers, gamers, filmmakers & just about everything in between. We’re also expected to produce art (“content”) at such an insane rate that, combined with touring commitments, it leaves us with less and less time to actually focus on the art itself. I wrote Algorithm in response to this - the whole ‘someone else’s clothes’ thing being a reference to the fact that I often feel pressured to be a person I’m not, and that sucks."