Jaekim - “Jimi & The Giant Orange”

[selection taken from Jaekim presents PSYCH!: A Beat Tape Intorduction To The Stepkids]

Jaekim reinterprets one of the year’s most riveting full-lengths, from one of the most promising trios in recent memory! The result? Psych!: A Beat Introduction To The Stepkids

The debut/ self-titled album from The Stepkids, released September 27, 2011 (Stones Throw Records). Additional info. found @ www.jaekim365.com and www.thestepkidsband.com

Here’s 20+ minutes of the set captured live at Complete Boutique in Austin, TX (01.29.11) for Grits Apparel’s Greasy Spoon release party!

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Didn’t want to conclude this particular series without profiling the efforts of the most prolific act on the current Phunkwhatchaheard Radio roster, Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra.  I was forced to pay close attention to Lee back in 2000 with the release of his single “Happiness”.  Since then, he & his Ping Pong Orchestra have managed to release over 18 albums (including the numerous, brow-raising collaborations with Clutchy Hopkins as of late).  In the tradition of the classic soul funksters, Shawn Lee manages to consistently raise the envelope with each release.

Here’s to one-hundred (100) shows of the Phunk(whatchaheard), Jaekim’s “Sharing Spindles” (based on Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra’s “Carol of the Bells”)!

Jaekim- “No Remorse”

Moving forward & leading into show 100 of Phunkwhatchaheard Radio, brings us to what is perhaps the most successful debut thus far.  Hip-Hop & beat heads previously knew of him simply as DJ Haircut, as his A-Side Worldwide crew help redefined grind as we know it.  It was the need to revert to his soulful Michigan roots, that fueled a deep-soul/funk instant vintage stronghold, Mayer Hawthorne & The County’s A Strange Arrangement; furthermore exemplifying the staying power of this music. 

Share & Enjoy Jaekim’s “No Remorse” (based on “When I Said Goodbye” by Mayer Hawthorne & The County)!