Month: July 2017

Below I am sharing some notes on this Jungle Essence Album. I was choosing by title and getting lucky, but decided to take descriptive notes as it is easy to get lost in here.

Unedited notes by track name. See the mixes by track names used for album purchase link. If you like this one there are others grouped under Armoracya Recordings. I discovered this label of enchanting music on Traxsource.

Tibet – Rainforest, congas, shuffle after intro goes forward upward bass and singing exotic birds
Marrakesh – Triangle, congas and 4 on floor start to ahhs oohs and low vibey sounds with lots of space trading back to highs and conga solo riffs
Rwanda – Drone loop and refresh vamp minimal
Lynx – old school Will Smith rap-like intro beat to elm street riff then wah with fem vocs sparingly at first then adds more near words, sounds like an error almost in beat. Its a stumbley double bass hit. Touch of congas or hand drums
Colorfull Forest – On Mix 2017013. Long solid beat intro to unique bass flow rhymic pulse. Trumpet melody exchanges to water light birds and key chord then adds back fading sounds to shore
Astriaka – Taut medium tone drum, 4 floor bass beat with a pulse machine type repeat to bass vamp and a 007 string sound. Continues to verse a marimba line then weaves these ideas into a conga highlight and so on back through
Fjords – Higher 4 beat with video game repeat and verby tube melody. Bass escalates in busy-ness mostly three notes up to octave or near on 1,3,4.
Melody turns to sparse commentary like in a cave.
Hangkuk – On Mix 2017013 Encore. Some high chanting voice and steady groove throughout with vehicle going by sometimes. There is a synth-like ceremony dance group that buzzes into it. The signature-sound congas are in here most of it with that long decay verb.

Tried to see Prince Royce on the 19th, but there were so many phones and he started with video in the back which as you know we only do music this year (or some claim to). However, I got see Luis Coronel . I’m in the middle of this sea of mostly ladies dressed up to woe these Latinos in the bright lights. Luis had a sore voice I think from so much perfume in the air, but this band was on point. The horns reminded me of DMB when they still had Leroy (if they had hung out playing in South America for a year). Royce is the next Latino Justin Beiber mixed with Ricky Martin unless he goes thug on us and although this was not the smallest ballroom in Denver, it was already getting tight to contain this kind of energy.

In other updates, I am mixing a bunch of older tunes to make sure you know I don’t limit the music in styles or decades. Also, to make sure I can do them together and because of budget.

7/26 *Addition: I have made a great mix which is again glitched out like another of my encores. I’ll probably post it anyways, because it is a good nearly full encore to the 2017013. It’s a pain, but if anyone is running into this problem on an old iPad, all you have to do it clear up space and get rid of all your mixes (delete them) and delete the app and reinstall the app.*

7.28 *Additional edit: I am planning a fresh mix for next month dedicated to my favorite Victoria’s Secret and/or Maxim models from late 2015 early 2016. One of which may have inspired me to get a few extra letters on my driver’s license.

Bought this as a gift for someone else and wasn’t able to order myself a copy until now. I went to school with part of this band and toured with Jay, but now I am like a fan. Their music has grown considerably from talented beginnings. It’s different from a lot of these MixList vibes, but not far off from places I have been before. I recommend the ones you can find on these sites because most products you see on Moja Music may disappear without notice.
See their links below.

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Instagram Pun Picks
Instagram Moja Music
Moja Music Main Site
Get ‘The Hollow’ CD
Get ‘Chioggia Beat’ CD
Twitter for Devonne Harris
Twitter for Joe Lawlor
Instagram and Official Site for Tupac Mantilla
Blog of Jay’s interviews and musical selections

See album credits for other musicians involved.

Made some great attempts and I thought at least one made it to the #13, but they all had at least one mistake that put it in the UNP category (not the 3 of the perfect exceptions). I bought a few new tracks and will have to try again. I bought the new Calvin Harris album and was really disappointed with how it left me, so I have more than a few regrets with how things are going this week. I’ll try to have a ’13’ by my birthday, but I’m going to my first concert in a long time this week (hint: style goes under the name of música tropical). Perhaps I should go to a movie instead.

I haven’t heard back from anyone that has actually tried to do any of these mixes. So, I decided to try one of my favorite progression of songs from Magic Tape #69. Well, it’s the first six songs, then I added a couple in the middle. After that went backwards on the six songs in the same order and ended it with a Drake song from my favorite album of the year so far (not the newest one – haven’t heard that yet.) It sounds good, but not sure if it’s a MixList or what.

It was a different experience as I don’t usually do mixes like that and glad I now have all those tracks that many were unavailable for some time.

That’s my update for today.