Muphoric Sounds Throwback

For those of you unaware, I love music. A lot. I started buying my own tapes at 9 or 10, then at age 14 I moved on to vinyl. These days I don't buy that music but I still listen to new cats. For more than 8 years I wrote short pieces for a music blog started by Vanessa Warren called Muphoric Sounds. I started two columns; "In the trunk" about old records of every genre and "Press Rewind" about instrumental beats. If you started checking out my work recently and dig music, go check out some of the pieces I wrote.

Here are four:

Los Orientales De Paramonga- Botecito Cumbia
Funkdoobiest/ Buckwild- Rock On remix Hip hop
Marcos Valle-Nao tem nada nao Funk
Curtis Mayfield-Kung Fu Funk

Occasionally I wrote about stuff I liked that was new at the time too, like this.

Muphoric Sounds 44 - Curtis Mayfield (In the trunk)

It has been awhile since I did an "IN THE TRUNK" piece for Muphoric Sounds. If you have not heard this song by Curtis Mayfield I highly suggest you go on over to Muphoric Sounds : LINK

and listen to it. 

For those unaware, I have been writing as a contributing editor to Muphoric Sounds (a contemporary and old school music blog) since 2010 or 2009. It is a passion project for me because I love music, and the Chief editor Vanessa gave me a shot to write about old records I like. Please go there and listen to some of them. And if you're a beat maker/producer definitely download those songs and use them! Hopefully they inspire some new sounds. Share and support good music. I also write a series there called "PRESS REWIND" about old beats. Tune in.

Muphoric Sounds 40- Los Orientales de Paramonga

What a beautiful song, been loving this jam for years and finally wrote something about it. Shout out to Super Sonido blog for putting me on to this. More at

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Muphoric Sounds 39- Patrice Rushen

New "In the Trunk" on Patrice Rushen

Muphoric Sounds 38-Aretha Franklin

There are a few good songs on this LP, I chose to write about "Only the one you love" on Muphoric Sounds. Go

GIVE IT A LISTEN

Muphoric Sounds 37-Marcos Valle

Ahhh, it's been awhile since I've done an IN THE TRUNK for yall. It is hard to post if you don't hear anything that really moves you. However, I've had tons of random songs from different genre's in my head these past few months and this is one of them. Shout out to Allan Cole (Flwrpt). Read more please... Marcos Valle-“Não Tem Nada Não”

Muphoric Sounds 35-Mongo Santamaria

Go listen HERE "La comida pa' Chango" Por Mongo Santamaria

Muphoric Sounds 34-Yes

Heart of the sunrise by Yes was one of my favorite moments in Buffalo 66, Have you heard it? Go LISTEN HERE

Muphoric Sounds 33- Sheila Hylton/ w Sly and Robbie

One of my favorite albums, and one that I remember the most hearing the most as a child in my home. Listen to one of my favorites on Muphoric Sounds.

Muphoric Sound 32- Moe Koffman

New "In the trunk" piece up on Muphoric Sounds....If youre a Jill Scott fan, you'll recognize this one..

Muphoric Sounds 28- George Duke

If you know Bay Area hip hop, you know this song has been played in old schools all over the bay since the late 80s. Another IN THE TRUNK piece for you funk lovers on George Duke and "The Dukey Stick" LISTEN

Muphoric Sounds 26-Weldon Irvine

Weldone Irvine (Master Wel)- I Love You Listen here IN THE TRUNK

Muphoric Sounds 24- A Taste of Honey

If you ever get a chance to pick this "A Taste of Honey" record up at a record store, yes a "record store" get it! Its a beautiful album. Peep these fotos of them:

I just did a piece on this group for my IN THE TRUNK section, go read please and leave feedback, prose, rants, something.

Muphoric Sounds 23- Max Roach

Can't remember who sampled this for the life of me. But I love putting on this record. There are two covers. Here's the one thats easy to find-its Mop Pop on the Muphoric site. The one I have is black and white with the type though. Check out my write up IN THE TRUNK

Muphoric Sounds 21-Eddie Kendricks

New piece for the "In the Trunk" series on Muphoric Sounds. This is the beat yall, seriously. Go check it out

HERE

Muphoric Sounds 20- Lonnie Liston Smith

If you get a chance to cop this LP, please do. The whole thing is dope. I have the vinyl somewhere, but I think the tape cassette laying around my moms collection kept me going back to it. That joint Digable sampled for "NY is Red Hot" is on there too. Wow, the 20th! Muphoric Sounds piece! Couldnt doctor this photo, will do later. For now just go listen...

In The Trunk w/ Lonnie Liston Smith

Muphoric Sounds 19-Hugh Masekela

One of my favorite

Masekela joints. Pulled this one out of the dusty boxes of my memory for yall. Hope you enjoy. Go listen at Muphoric Sounds

Muphoric Sounds 18- Colourbox (uk)

Love this record by Colourbox. I think I broke my dads old mixtape that had this record on it. It was filled with original dub mixes and cats rewinding the record only to start it again. Check out this remake of the classic Dennis Brown/Augustus Pablo joint..."Baby I love You so". This is part of my "In the Trunk" series on

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Muphoric Sounds 17

"In my world, full of pleasant dreams , i see a bird"

This is one of my favorite groups of all time! I thought not that many people knew about Cymande when i first picked up their record about ten years ago, but when I heard Wonway playing Bra and some of their other joints I realized I wasn't the only one who cherished their sound. Please click on the link and go to Muphoric to hear the song I chose from the "Second time around" LP. And please look for their LP's. They are more than worth it.

IN THE TRUNK

Muphoric Sounds 16

Here is the 16th installment of my "in the trunk" series on Muphoric Sounds. If you love hip hop samples you've probably heard Mr. David Axelrod's music before. I still remember the times when I would get ecstatic about just putting on a record and finding something incredible that no one had ever heard before. Take a listen to this one

HERE