O Holy Night 1

Lots of versions of this song. Today's connection is O Holy Night. A variety of versions over the next couple of days. Country, pop, rockabilly, soul, soca, rock. You get the picture. As we get closer to Xmas, more chances for getting you in the mood for the season. Notice the cover, it's of the Bethlehem star as astronomers would see it.

O Holy Night 1

01 Trans-Siberian Orchestra - O Holy Night

02 Al Green - O Holy Night

03 Tevin Campbell - O Holy Night

04 Marie Osmond - O Holy Night

05 Glen Campbell - O Holy Night

06 Diana Ross - O Holy Night

07 Byron Lee and the Dragonaires - Holy Night

08 Christina Aguilera - Oh Holy Night

09 Celine Dion - O Holy Night

10 Brian Setzer Orchestra - O Holy Night

11 Backstreet Boys - O Holy Night

12 Nat King Cole - O Holy Night

13 Russell Watson - O Holy Night

14 Brand New - O Holy Night

15 Andy Williams - O Holy Night

16 Randy Travis - O Holy Night

17 Sheryl Crow - O Holy Night

18 The Drifters - O Holy Night

19 38 Special - O' Holy Night

20 Daryl Hall & John Oates - Oh Holy Night

Xmas (Christmas) Disco 2

Just a bit early, but you need to have some time to play these songs. This pick is about Xmas disco songs. This is part two, for Xmas Disco 1 click to get there. It's not all disco, but disco artists, disco sounding and disco adjacent Christmas songs. I have several hours more, but I try to not repeat a song in these play lists, so a few songs repeat over and over and I can only use it once per pick. If you have any suggestions for more good "disco" Christmas songs, leave them in the comments. For more Xmas compilations, I'm pretty sure I updated them all. Have a Merry Christmas!

Xmas Disco 2

20 Earth, Wind & Fire - Everyday Is Christmas

21 Love Unlimited - It May Be Winter Outside

22 The Trammps - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

23 Ohio Players - Happy Holidays, Pts. 1 & 2

24 KC & The Sunshine Band - A Sunshine Christmas

25 Wham! - Last Christmas

26 Spice Girls - Christmas Wrapping

27 Salsoul Orchestra - Deck The Halls

28 Irwin The Disco Duck - Sleigh Ride

29 Village People - Village People (Wishing Merry Christmas to You)

30 Kool & The Gang - Home For The Holidays

31 Diana Ross & The Supremes - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

32 Christmas Disco Collective - Christmas Disco Medley

33 The Mistletoe Disco Band - Jingle Bells

34 Claudja Barry - Let It Snow-Frosty The Snowman

35 Disco Christmas - White Christmas

36 Lindsey Buckingham - Holiday Road

What's The Connection? Winter 1

We're definitely in Winter and Christmas is coming soon. So this connection of songs with Winter in the title is in order. No songs about a Winter Wonderland. In fact none of these songs are much about the holidays really. Well, maybe a couple. But that didn't matter it wasn't a criteria. I have anothe volume or two worth of Winter songs, but you will have to wait for awhile. Enjoy what you get.

What's The Connection? Winter 1

01 Beach Boys - Fall Breaks And Back To Winter

02 Housemartins - I Smell Winter

03 Yoko Ono - Winter Friend

04 The Colourfield - Monkey In Winter

05 Isaac Hayes - Winter Snow

06 Blood, Sweat & Tears - Sometimes In Winter

07 Death In June - Blood Of Winter

08 Dean Martin - A Winter Romance

09 Steve Miller Band - Winter Time

10 Donna Summer - Winter Melody

11 Robyn Hitchcock - Winter Love

12 Yazoo - Winter Kills

13 Linda Ronstadt - Winter Light

14 Queen - A Winter's Tale

15 Johnny Mathis - Long Winter Nights

16 Love Unlimited - It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring)

17 Rolling Stones - Winter

18 Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter

19 Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter

20 Brix & The Extricated - Wintertyde

21 Duran Duran - Winter Marches On

22 Cake - The Winter

Mad Professor Meets Pick

Ok, sometime back I did a Mad Professor pick of his Dub Me Crazy series. It's pretty good. I took a track from each of most of his Dub Me albums. This time I took a track from each of his albums where he "Meets" another artist. Or where another artist Meets the Mad Professor. He's got a lot of them. I picked one each from seventeen of them on this compilation. It'll have to do. You can hear the Mad Professor touch on each. What's cool is that some feature singers and players and some are other producers and mixers. Now he also has worked with a bunch of other artists (a couple of my favorites are with Scientist, Lee Perry, Massive Attack and Pato Banton) where the album did not say that he "met them". Some say Mad Professor vs or with the Mad Professor. I didn't include those for this one. Although I did notice that different versions of a few changed the cover. If one of them said Meets, I included it here, until I ran out of room.

Mad Professor Meets Pick

01 Mad Professor Meets Gaudi - Smoking High

02 Frente Cumbiero Meets Mad Professor - Chucusteady

03 Sly & Robbie Meet The Mad Professor featuring Dean Fraser - Memphis Happiness

04 Ruts DC Meets Mad Professor - Whatever We Do

05 Mad Professor Meets Channel One - Cornmeal Dub

06 Horace Andy Meets Mad Professor - Babylon Bridge (Extended Discomix by Lee Kelly)

07 Lee Perry Meets The Mad Professor - Mark Of The Beast

08 Mad Professor Meets Prince Fatty - Dub Revolution

09 Mad Professor Meets Puls Der Zeit - Nordpol Emil

10 Mad Professor Meets Jah9 - The I Of The Storm-Selassie I Dub

11 Mad Professor Meets Mafia & Fluxy - Ursa Major

12 Cedric Congo Meets Mad Professor - Jah Lightning

13 Sublime Meets Mad Professor - Pawn Shop Dub (Mad Professor Mix)

14 Yabby You Meets Mad Professor & Black Steel - Winds of Dub

15 Mad Professor Meets Dark Fantom - Rude Boy Dub

16 Negus Roots Meets Mad Professor - Dubbing Jah

17 Alika Meets Mad Professor - The Lion of Judah (No le des fuerza a Babilonia)

What's The Connection? Trippin' 1

I must have been Trippin' when I made this connection. There is little rhyme and less reason behind these tracks. I was looking at the Cerrone track for awhile in my ideas folder. It's weird I usually bring out Supernature when I think of Cerrone, but this track was semi popular in certain areas. It was played by a friend and DJ who loved Freestyle in the Bay Area and I ended up glomming on to it as well. I'm not sure Glomming is a real word, but in this case I hope it is. It's perfect for how it happened. Tell me the relationship between Pizzaman and another artist on this list in the comments.

What's The Connection? Trippin' 1

01 Beach Boys - Let's Go Trippin'

02 Platnum - Trippin' (Nero Remix)

03 Curtis Mayfield - Tripping Out

04 Primal Scream - Trippin' On Your Love

05 Fatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin'

06 The Pretty Things - Trippin'

07 ZZ Top - Trippin'

08 Bananarama - Tripping On Your Love

09 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Road Trippin

10 Ringo Starr - Trippin' On Own Tears

11 Marvin Gaye - Ego Tripping Out

12 The Orb - Trippin' On Sunshine

13 Erasure - No Point In Tripping

14 The Mystic Moods Orchestra - Honey Trippin'

15 Pizzaman - Trippin On Sunshine

16 BT - Tripping The Light Fantastic

17 Johnny Guitar Watson - Tripping

18 Cerrone - Trippin On The Moon

19 London Fogg - Trippin'

20 Cheech & Chong - Trippin' In Court

Hmm

This pick became a mixtape because of another mixtape. On around November 10th or so, I made a pick I called Blecch! It had a song by M which is really Robin Scott. It was a remix of Pop Musik. It reminded me of some other music from Scott which I liked and put aside. I put them into a holding folder that already had some disco remixes in it. When I went back to listen, they kind of all fit together. I added a couple more tracks and voila! here this was. To myself, I had to say Hmm when it all worked out. Here is the result. For some reason I've been liking these compilation mixtapes with three letter titles. The background of the cover is a sponge! I added sparkles and a weird transparent symbol. I'm still saying...

Hmm

01 M (Robin Scott) - Neutron

02 M - Pop Musik Remix (12 inch)

03 Diana Ross - Love Hangover (Extended Alternate Version)

04 Fox The Fox - Precious Little Diamond

05 Ryuichi Sakamoto & Robin Scott - The Left Bank

06 Prince - Raspberry Beret (12 Version)

07 Foals - In Degrees (Purple Disco Machine Remix)

08 House of Prayers - Disco Stepper (Original Mix)

09 CJ & Co - Devil's Gun

10 Hi-Tension - British Hustle

11 Saturday Night Band - Touch Me On My Hot Spot

12 Cerrone - Trippin On The Moon

Aah!

This is fun. On many levels. The pick starts with a few ballady kind of songs and then the energy picks up. All of the songs are right about 130bpm and all have a Camelot key of 2A. Hence the title of this mixtape. But notice that song key and BPM do not mean the songs sound the same. First the obvious genre differences from rock to world, new wave to zydeco and yet they all kind of flow. There are probably only a couple of songs on here that would be universally known by most people. Most are lesser known artists or tracks. That's the best part. It just sounds so good together. It was a sound of relief that it did. Also why the title became what it is. I just like it.

Aah!

01 Bryan Ferry - This Love

02 Craig Armstrong & Elisabeth Fraser - Cruel Intentions-This Love

03 CTI - Slow

04 Bill Nelson - Art For Art's Sake

05 Bow Wow Wow - Elimination Dancing

06 Clifton Chenier - Take Off Your Dress

07 Depeche Mode - Precious (Motor Remix)

08 Sons Of Aqua - Asian Rebel

09 Cabaret Voltaire - Radical Chic

10 Foreigner - Cold As Ice

11 Hawkwind - You Shouldn't Do That

12 Kraftwerk - Aerodynamik (François K Aero Mix Instrumental)

13 Yello - Oh Yeah Oh' Six (Booka Shade Remix)

14 Leftfield - Afrika Shox

15 Rihanna featuring David Guetta - Right Now

16 Yo Yo Honey Singh - High Heels