From: David Bassin (bassyd_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 2005-12-27 07:29:58
Hola,
So......I hope everyone had (or is having) a wonderful
Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza and looking forward to 2006.
Every year I sit down and compile all the playlists from the last 12
months and agonize over what to include on the list for the "best"
records released in that period and as many of you know, it usually
winds up being a fairly long list. This year is no exception, as I
spent hours weighing all the options: how many times was the album /
single played? How many great records and CDs were only played once,
but deserved more airtime? The answer is plenty, hence the lengthy
list below. Of course there's no way I could a track from each during
the next two weeks, but I'll feature as many as I can and hope that
you'll try and seek out some of the others for yourself.
A big thanks to Lei @ Radio Take 10, Jeff & Hal @ NetMusique and to
Kaye & Dean @ Dance&Soul for including FreeFall as part of their
broadcast schedule and for helping to spread the word and to all of
you who regularly call and/or write in with your support. It all
means a lot.
Have a safe and sane New Year's Eve - and until next year.....ciao for now!
**************************
If you'd like to submit music for consideration on FreeFall, the
mailing address is:
David Bassin / FreeFall
111 Laidley St.
San Francisco, CA 94131
playlist_at_freefallradio.com
**************************
Last week's playlist and rebroadcast available online now:
http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=dbassin
FreeFall 280: 12.20.05
Woody Shaw - Boland - Timeless' Finest Jazz (Dopeness Galore)
Patchworks Ginger X Press - Brothers On The Slide (Philly Soul Mix) -
12" (Still Music)
Benjamin Herman - Royal Cream - Durban Poison EP (Roach)
Jeff Beck - AIR Blaster - Scatterbrain - Blow By Blow (Epic)
Members Only - Christmas Eve - hOMe For The Holidays (Om)
Antonio Ocasio - Higher Love (Counterpoint white)
Alarm Will Sound - Mt. Saint Michel - Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound
Performs Aphex Twin (Cantaloupe)
Coldcut - Boogieman - Sound Mirrors (Ninja Tune)
Diesler - Vapour Trail - Diggin It Somthin Rotten EP 2 (Tru Thoughts)
Dipper - Don't Explain - Sleepless Nights (Real Estate Records)
The Budos Band - Up From The South - The Budos Band (Daptone)
Richard E - Hear Me Now - 12" (Further Out)
Bebo Valdes - Devocion - Bebo De Cuba (Calle54)
Bobby Timmons - Turkey Wings - Soul Food (Prestige)
Grey Area - Long Distance - And Then The Clouds (Waveform)
Ulrich Schnauss - Nothing Happens In June - Far Away Trains Passing By (Domino)
Diana Krall - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve - Christmas Songs (Verve)
James Brown - Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year - Santa's
Got A Brand New Bag (Rhino)
Ellen Mcilwaine - Weird Of Hermiston - Up From The Skies: The Polydor
Years (Polydor
David Borsu - Move (Mark De Clive-Lowe Rmx) (Counterpoint white)
1LUV - Black Daylight - EP01 (Suntzu Sound)
Benjamin Herman - Durban Poison - Durban Poison EP (Roach)
Bakura - Reach The Sky (Domu Rmx) - Reach The Sky (Especial / Village Again)
Ben Mono - Mindsweep - Transmission EP (Compost)
Michel Benita - Alles Ist Moglich - Drastic (Les Disques Deluxe / Discograph)
Onaje Allan Gumbs - Maybe Next Year - Remember Their Innocence (Ejano)
John Coltrane - Afro Blue - One Down, One Up (Impulse)
Kenny Ellis - Swingin' Dreidel - Hanukkah Swings! (Favored Nations)
Joey Calderazzo - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Yule Struttin' (Blue Note)
Dr. Michael White - Canal St. Blues - Our New Orleans (Nonesuch)
40 Winks - City Dweller - More Than Loops (40winksmusic)
Backini - Wake Up - Recreation (Lumenessence)
Yap Zeeland - Hip Hop Harold - Music As A Gradual Process (Bocajito)
Twink - The Broken Record - The Broken Record (Seeland)
**************************
BEST OF 2005
Alice Russell - My Favourite Letters (Tru-Thoughts)
Aphex Twin - Analord (Rephlex)
Apparat - Silizium (Shitkatapult)
As One - Elegant Systems (Versatile)
Bakura - Reach The Sky (Especial / Village Again)
Beat Pharmacy - Earthly Delights (Deep Space Media)
Beatfanatic - The Gospel According To....(Soundscape)
Ben Human - The Out Of Towner (Unique)
Bettye Lavette - I've Got My Own Hell To Raise (Anti)
Blockhead - Downtown Science (Ninja Tune)
Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase (Warp)
Boozo Bajou - Dust My Broom (K7)
Break Reform - Reformation (Abstract Blue)
Breakestra - Hit The Floor (Ubiquity)
Brian Eno - Another Day On Earth (Hannibal)
Broadway Project - In Finite (Grand Central)
Budos Band - The Budos Band (Daptone)
Butti 49 - Habit (Exceptional)
Carl Craig - The Album Formerly Known As...(Planet E)
Carleen Anderson - Soul Providence (Dome)
Casbah 73 - Moods & Grooves (Hitop)
Common - Be (Geffen)
De Vibroluxe - Cracq Magic International (Couch)
Def Harmonic - All These Worldz (Brilliante)
Diesler - Diggin It Somethin Rotten (Tru Thoughts)
Dimlite - Runbox Weathers (Sonar Kollektiv)
Dipper - Sleepless Nights (Real Estate Records)
Domu - Return Of The Rogue (Neroli)
Don-Ray - Upaya (All Massive)
Eddy Meets Yannah - Just Like....(Compost)
Erik Sumo - My Rocky Mountain (Pulver)
Fat Freddy's Drop - Based On A True Story (The Drop)
Felix Laband - Dark Days Exit (Compost)
Flowriders - Starcraft (4Lux)
Gerardo Frisina - The Latin Kick (Schema)
Greenskeepers - Pleetch (Om)
Grupo Batuque - O Tempo Do Samba (Far Out)
Herbaliser - Take London (Ninja Tune)
Hexstatic - Master View (Ninja Tune)
Incognito - Adventures In Black Sunshine (Narada Jazz)
Isolee - We Are Monster (Playhouse)
Jaime Lidell - Multiply (Warp)
Jeremy Ellis - The Lotus Blooms (Ubiquity)
Jirku Judge - Private Eyes (Onitor)
John Legend - Get Lifted (Columbia)
Jumbonics - Super-Baxophone (Tru Thoughts)
Kabanjak Meets Protassov - Grow (Switchstance)
Kinny & Horne - Forgetting To Remember (Tru Thoughts)
Leela James - A Change Is Gonna Come (Warner Bros)
Lewis Taylor - Stoned (Hacktone)
Madrid De Los Austrias - Mas Amor (Sunshine)
Michel Benita - Drastic (Les Disques Deluxe/Discograph)
Monolake - Polygon Cities (Imbalance)
Music For Speakers Amplified - Popular Music Must End (Music For Speakers)
Norken - Our Memories Of Winter (Combination)
Nostalgia 77 - The Garden (Tru Thoughts)
One Self - Children Of Possibility (Ninja Tune)
Out Hud - Let Us Never Speak Of It Again (K7)
Parov Stelar - Seven & Storm (Etage Noir)
Pest - All Fall Out (Ninja Tune)
Pitch Black - Ape To Angel (Waveform)
Recloose - Hiatus On The Horizon (Peacefrog)
Rich Medina - Connecting The Dots (Kindred Spirits)
Robert Strauss - Quasars & Phasars (Freerange)
Roisin Murphy - Ruby Blue (Echo)
Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep (Big Dada)
RSL - Every Preston Guild (Players / Ninja Tune)
Run_Return - Metro-North (n5MD)
Sean Quinn - Skylines (Psycho Navigation)
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Naturally (Daptone)
Shaun Escoffery - Move Into Soul (Oyster Music)
Silhouette Brown - Silhouette Brown (KSR / 2000 Black)
Skalpel - Konfusion (Ninja Tune)
Slope - Komputa Groove (Sonar Kollektiv)
Slow Supreme - Music Under Pressure (Jazid Collective)
Soil & "Pimp" Sessions - Pimp Master / Summer Goddess EP (Victor)
Sound Directions - The Funky Side Of Life (Stones Throw)
Spyritual - Wall Of Soul (Kitty-Yo)
Steve Spacek - Space Shift (Sound In Color)
Strange Attractor - Rorschach II (Music For Speakers)
Subotnik - In Stereo (Allscore)
Suphala - The Now (raSa)
The Juan Maclean - Less Than Human (DFA)
The Rebirth - This Journey In (Kajmere)
Thievery Corporation - The Cosmic Game (ESL)
Thomas Brinkkmann - Lucky Hands (max.E.)
Tom Tyler - Forward Going Backward (DC Recordings)
Treva Whateva - Music's Made Of Memories (Ninja Tune)
Universal Funk - Mirrors (April)
Yap Zeeland - Music As A Gradual Process (Bocajito)
Zuco 103 - Whaa!! (Six Degrees)
COMPILATIONS
Gilles Peterson Digs America (Ubiquity)
Impulsive! (Impulse)
Latin Travels 2 (Six Degrees)
Life Is Jazz (Le Maquis)
Motown Remixed (Motown)
New Thing! (Soul Jazz)
Rare Jazz/Fusion Gems From Hungary Vol. 1 / Blue Light: Rare Gems
From Hungarian Vaults Vol. 2 (Cosmic Sounds)
Searching For Soul (Luv N'Haight)
Shapes Red (Tru Thoughts)
Verve Remixed 3 (Verve)
SINGLES / EPs
Bansuri - Birds EP (Traficante)
Bellcrash - EP (Sunshine)
Benjamin Herman - Durban Poison EP (Roach)
Briskey - Kosmo + Yahoodi - 12" (Downsall)
David Borsu - Reminiscent EP
Flaer - Fragrant EP (Sunshine)
Funkanala - Bamako - 12" (Here & Now)
Ill Boogs - Gypsy Rock / The Grump - 7" (Breakin' Bread)
Jah Division - Dub Will Tear Us Apart (The Social Registry)
Jeff Settle - Jeff's Whistle Song - 12" (Funk Weapons)
Kahil El Zahar - Your Time Is Now (I.G. Culture Rmx) - 12" (Deeper Soul)
Mawglee - Out Of Luck EP (Bastard Jazz)
Max Cole - Mo High - 12" (Wah Wah)
Natural Self feat. Alice Russell - I Don't Need This Trouble - 12" /
The Sound - 7" (Breakin' Bread)
Panoptikum feat. Blue Eyez - Blac
Sandboy - Echoes / Wanderlust Rmx EP 2 (Hinterland)
Scallymatic Orchestra - Autumn Forest Song - 12" (Flyin' High)
Sleepwalker - River Of Love - 12" (Especial)
SUMO - Factory / Tribute - 12" (Heya HiFi)
Sun Ra - Stardust From Tomorrow - 12" (Deja Vu)
The Politik - Money (Don't Let It Catch Ya) - 12" (Antipodean)
Trickski - Hormony - Compost Black Label 01 (Compost)
JAZZ
Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring - The Battle (Highnote)
David Axelrod - The Edge (Capitol)
Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity? (Columbia)
Billy Bang - Vietnam: The Aftermath (Justin Time)
John Coltrane - One Down, One Up (Impulse)
Ravi Coltrane - In Flux (Savoy Jazz)
Joey DeFrancesco w/Jimmy Smith - Legacy (Concord)
Dave Douglas - Keystone (Greenleaf)
Jukka Eskola - Jukka Eskola (Free Agent)
Five Corners Quintet - Chasin' The Jazz Gone By (Ricky-Tick)
Robert Glasper - Canvas (Blue Note)
Dave Holland Big Band - Overtime (Dare2)
Konono No. 1 - Congotronics (Crammed)
Babatunde Lea - Suite Unseen: Summoner Of The Ghost (Motema)
Brad Mehldau - Day Is Done (Nonesuch)
Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall (Blue Note)
Moutin Reunion Quartet - Something Like Now (Nocturne)
Pink Freud - Jazz Fajny Jest (Post Post)
Plate Fork Knife Spoon - Plate Fork Knife Spoon (Wide Hive)
Povo - We Are Povo (Raw Fusion)
Steve Reid Ensemble - Spirit Walk (Soul Jazz)
Kurt Rosenwinkel - Deep Song (Verve)
RTB Big Band w/Guests (Cosmic Sounds)
Dr. Lonnie Smith - Too Damn Hot! (Palmetto)
Erik Truffaz - Saloua (Blue Note)
Dwight Trible - Love Is The Answer (Ninja Tune)
**************************
NEW HOME PAGE: http://www.freefallradio.com (OLD URL NO LONGER WORKS)
FreeFall airs Tuesday evenings, 10pm-midnight PT on KUSF - San
Francisco (90.3 FM) and is now heard in over 40 countries worldwide.
Listen live: http://www.live365.com/stations/kusf
FreeFall archives always available 24/7 at Live365.com:
Current Program: http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=dbassin
Two weeks ago:
http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=davidbassin
FreeFall rebroadcasts are now available in prime time around the world via:
Dance&Soul: http://www.danceandsoul.com (our newest partner!)
Shows updated monthly and available on demand
Netmusique: http://www.netmusique.com
Broadcast #1:
U.S. (GMT-7): Thursday - 8-10am PT / 11am-1pm ET
UK (GMT): Thursday 5-7pm
Europe (GMT+1): Thursday 6-8pm
Beijing (GMT+8) midnight-2am
Broadcast #2:
U.S. (GMT -7): Thursday - 10pm-midnight PT / 1am-3am ET
UK (GMT): Friday 6-8am
Europe (GMT+1): Friday 7-9am
Beijing (GMT+8): Friday - 2pm-4pm
RadioTake10: http://www.radiotake10.org
U.S. (GMT-7): Wednesday - 8-10pm PT / 11pm-1am ET
UK (GMT): Thursday - 9-11pm
Europe (GMT+1): Thursday - 10pm-midnight
Beijing (GMT+8): Wednesday - 9-11pm
**************************
FreeFall thanks the following underwriters for their support:
Amoeba Music (http://www.amoebamusic.com) - The largest independent
record stores in the U.S., with three locations: Berkeley, San
Francisco & Los Angeles.
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Listen to "FreeFall," Tuesday evenings 10pm-midnight PT on KUSF (90.3 FM) San Francisco (http://www.live365.com/stations/kusf). Web: http://www.freefallradio.com "FreeFall" archives are available 24/7 at www.Live365.com: Last week's show: Broadband: http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=dbassin Two weeks ago: 56K: http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=davidbassin