Sometimes I tell girls that I’m from Detroit to make myself seem interesting. I tell them about a version of paradise where black people wear ironic sweatshirts and where you can buy a three bedroom home for the price of an iPad. I cry crocodile tears over the declining auto industry, and brag that Detroit lost its middle class before it became fashionable. I compare Motown artists to the founding fathers, and the invention of the Roland 909 to the first printing press. I wrote, directed, and played the lead role in an unlicensed prequel to Beverly Hills Cop, taking place before Axel Foley went to California, which at least one critic as described as “unnerving”. I describe my life as being like 8-Mile without the rapping, and give a shout out to Belleville, Fourth Street, and Brush Park, three places I have never been.

Theo Parrish – Soul Control
Marvin Belton – Any Day Now
Omar S – Give It To Me
Andres – On My Own Skit
Moodymann – Shades of Jae
Detroit Swindle – Guess What
Rick Wade – De Luxe
Delano Smith – Survival
Amp Fiddler – Superficial (Moodymann Mix)
Aaron Carl – Down (Eastside Mix by the People Movers)
Mr. De – Whatulike
DJ Zap – I Can Make You
Disco D feat. Daphne– Booty Bar Anthem
Bumper – Detroit
Omar S & Shadow Ray – Oasis (Twenty Five)
Scott Ferguson – Theme Music (Part One)
J Dilla – Think Twice
Detroit Escalator Company – Gathering Memory
Norken – Southern Soul
Big Strick – Yllabian Dog Fight
Luke Hess – Small Electronic Break
Carl Craig – At Les
Levon Vincent – I Owe You Everything
Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson – We Almost Lost Detroit
Stacey Pullen – Passing

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The second installment in my reinterpretation of music television is another attempt to fill a void left by the evolution from the coaxial experience to the online sources that replaced it. As empowered as we are by instant access to infinate contect, with it we lost the priviledge to leave videos running in the background. It’s the difference between going to a buffet verses a regular restaurant. I don’t doubt that there’s an advantage to serving yourself prime rib, fish fingers, and out of season watermelon all in one sitting, but I wouldn’t trade it for the opportunity to have someone skilled at putting food together bring me a plate. To that end, volume two of the series is a pastiche of technology and fashion, sexuality and nostalgia, like how MTV would be if I Made Television.

In an effort to restore balance within a series of musical selections that often favor electronic music, I felt it time for a palate cleansing return to music mostly made with actual instruments and not just laptops. Swerving wildly between old and new, between funk, blues, and indie rock tracks, let my first mix of 2013 remind you that I also like guitars.

Mogwai – Soup
Liquid Liquid – Zero Leg
Pylon – Gravity
Blouse – They Always Fly Away
Karneef – Space
Lester Bangs – Let It Blurt
Aka – Shake Me
Panbers – Haai
Junior Kimbrough – I Gotta Try You Girl
Bobbie Gentry – He Made a Woman Out of Me
Peter Green – Just For You
The Velvet Underground – Oh Sweet Nuthin’
Donnie & Joe Emerson – My Heart
Eloy – Up and Down
The Band in Heaven – High Low
The Verve – Already There
Julian Cope – Promised Land
Yo La Tengo – Two Trains
Lambchop – The Good Life (Is Wasted)
Dum Dum Girls – Lord Knows
Fred Woods – The Pond
Beach Fossils – Sleep Apnea
Perfume Genius – Sister Song
Damien Jurado – Ohio
Sebadoh – Beautiful Friend (Live On KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic)

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In Case We All Forgot That I Also Like Guitars
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His life is digital, but he dreams in analog, and of feeling flesh instead of a touch screen. He moves through flea markets and garage sales; his pockets full of paper money, his iPhone at home in the back of his sock drawer. He watches VHS tapes of stranger’s home movies, against which digital images of his own life seem cold. He listens to cassettes from discarded answering machines, and imagines the lives led between each missed call. He dances to demos of bands who never had a chance, feeling faint as the tapes decay.

Holger Czukay & U-She – Without You
Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
Marie Dior – Downtown
Cream Dream (feat. Tam) – Farewell
Veracom x Abstracted – Planet Reebok
Unravel – Youth
Extrawelt – Zu Fuss
Taragana Pyjarama – Lo Ng
Jacob Stoy – Redensart
The Soft Walls – House Concern
Design – Stolen Car
alfa (romeo)
Luciano – Rise Of Angel (Original Mix)
Thomas Fehlmann – Soziale Wärme
Burial – Truant
PMS
Twos – Dawn
Move D – Useless
Synth Sense – Deleted Scene II
No Ceremony – Hurt Love (Dawn Golden Dawn Golden and Rosy Cross 100.6 (100
Chromatics – Ceremony
C MPUTERGAZE 2 12 MEGA MIX (Excerpt)
Onderwish – Heart Of A Sailor
Baby Donnie & Joe Emerson – Baby

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The Difference Between Feeing Flesh and a Touch Screen
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The only people for me are the mad ones. Mad to live, mad to move, mad to be saved- with minds like book stacks and hearts like kick drums. No wristwatches, they measure time with high hats and squint like cowboys from the cigarette smoke. Skinny girls and boys with sly minds, their souls on skid row. They burn, burn, burn, like a dying star. They’re beat, beat-up, beat down, another beat generation.

Branford Marsalis – Scenes In the City
Donald Byrd – Slow Drag
Oliver Nelson – Stolen Moments
Stanley Turrentine – Since I Fell For You
Ahmad Jamal – Poinciana
Don Rendell, Ian Carr – Blue Mosque
Mulatu Astatke – Tezeta
Les McCann – Before I Rest
Alice Coltrane – Sivaya
Pharaoh Sanders – Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt
Yusef Lateef feat Charlie Parker – Blue Rocky
Jack Kerouac – Charlie Parker
John Coltrane – I’m Old Fashioned
E.S.T. – Believe, Beleft, Below
Charles Mingus – Self-Portrait in Three Colours
Miles Davis – Flamenco Sketches
Miles Davis & John Lee Hooker – Harry and Dolly
The Thomasz Stanko Quartet – Soul of Things (Variation 1)
Chet Baker – Someone In Love
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane – In a Sentimental Mood
Art Tatum & Ben Webster – My Ideal
Ella Fitzgerald – Someone To Watch Over Me
Harry James – You Made Me Love You
Mantovani – I Wish You Love
Don Morrow – A Little Night Music
Frank Sinatra – One For My Baby (Live at the Sands)

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Jazz Music For a New Beat Generation
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THE VIDEO MIX

In an age where the most dominant force in television is the formula of having amateur singers compete with each other by covering songs they didn’t or couldn’t write while being judged by a panel of artists as relavent to modern music as an 8 track tape, the genius of post war jazz television all but discounts the theory that cultural evolution is necessarily progressive. Programs like Ralph’s Gleeson’s “Jazz Casual” wasn’t made to appeal to people’s lowest standards, it’s intent was to raise them by featuring intellectual heavyweights like Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and John Coltrane. The following is a feature length compilation of some of my favorite filmed jazz performances, all presented in glorious black and white.

Dave Brubeck – Take Five (Live on Jazz Casual)
John Coltrane live on Jazz Casual
Jack Kerouac Clowning Around
Miles Davis – So What
Thelonious Monk – Round Midnight
Chet Baker – Time After Time
Jazz at the Philharmonic
Musical Office
Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto – Girl From Ipanema
Beat Girl Dance
Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young Live in 1950’s
Nina Simone – Brown Baby
Cannonball Adderly – Songs My Lady Sings
Billie Holiday Interview
Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit
Dizzy Gillespie – Manteca
Ella Fitzgerald – Georgia On My Mind
BB King on Jazz Casual

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As a bonus for those who want to dig deeper into the written works and the cultural impact of the aforementioned Beat Generation, the following is a sort of audio documentary featuring poetry, news footage, and music about and by those representing the movement, including selections of On The Road read by Jack Kerouac and Naked Lunch read by William S Burroughs, plus a recital of Howl by Alan Ginsberg. It’s a love letter to an era when coffee shop culture was about more than just a beverage, so grab a shovel and dig it.

Jack Kerouac – The Beat Generation
Howard Smith – The Cool Rebellion Documentary Intro
Bob McFadden & Dor – The Beat Generation
Lionel Hampton – Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop
CBS News Report – Hipsters vs. Squares
Patsy Ray – Beatnik’s Wish
Beatnik Interview – Strictly Squaresville
Alan Ginsberg – Tonight Let’s All Make Love in London
Charles Kuralt Reports – The Greenwich Village Poets
Roy Eldridge – The Gasser
Jack Kerouac – On the Road(Excerpt)
Cool Rebellion Interview on Individualism
Ken Nordine – Reaching Into In
Alan Ginsberg – Howl
King Pleasure – Parker’s Mood
William S. Burroughs – Naked Lunch (Excerpt)
Charlie Ventura – Ha!
Howard Smith – The Cool Rebellion Closing

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An Electric Adolescence Guide to the Beat Generation
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Never one to use “background music” as a derogatory term, the notion that inconspicuous music is somehow less crucial than that which makes its presence more forcefully known is like suggesting that words spoken with a whisper are invariably inferior to those cast with a scream. Background music is like wallpaper, it surrounds us and defines our environment. It reminds us of where we are welome and tells us when we are not. It’s no more or less significant than the sight of a setting sun, or the smell of the air as summer fades to black.

V – Untitled II
Blue Daisy X Unknown Shapes – Insomniac Love
Mister Lies – Dionysian
Usher – Climax (WIK2N Remix)
How To Dress Well – When I Was In Trouble
Holy Other – U Now
Mark Wundercastle – That Jump, Keep It Up
PFM – One and Only
The Drum – BZE (Newport Remix)
Maxwell – Submerge: Til We Become the Sun
Supreme Cuts – Jacy
Shai – If I Ever Fall In Love (Remix)
Barker & Baumecker
Praslesh – Ambitime
Future Sound of London – Papau New Guinea (Dumb Child of Q Mix)
Tricky – Aftermath
Global Communication – 9.25
F.U.S.E. – A New Day
Dntel – Mission
Cream Dream – Jungle Master
The Herbaliser – Forty Winks
DJ Krush – What’s Behind the Darkness
The Field – Then It’s White (Mohn Mix)
Taragana Pyjarama – Growing Forehead
Panabrite – Spetses
Cabaal – Maya
William Basinski – dp 1.3
Sam Dees – Heritage of a Black Man

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Music As Wallpaper – Background Music For People Who Never Stop Listening
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Introduced to the world as something of a one-man funk band with a debut that had him writing, producing, and performing as well as playing all of the instruments, the bashful seventeen year-old from St. Paul’s became one of few artists to live up to being labeled a prodigy. Curiously prolific, Prince released a new album every year and with each came a reinvention of both sound and style: from the subway flasher sleaze of Dirty Mind, the sexual pageantry of Purple Rain, and the Beatlesesque “Around the World in the Day”, the clean-living recluse spent ten years searching for his identity, and by all accounts he briefly discovered it.

In 1987, Prince disbanded The Revolution to embark on what he intended to be his masterpiece, a triple album with the working title of Crystal Ball. Unmoved by the ambition of the project, Warner Brothers was unwilling to release so much material and demanded it be reduced to a double album, eventually titled Sign of the Times. While embraced as classic by both fans and critics, a familiarity with the excluded material reveals an inconsistency of tone and a lack of breathing room that might have made its original conception the only purely successful triple album in music history.

Things then seemed to come undone for the sensitive genius. Spurned by his label, Prince planned his next release with a generic black jacket and without a credit or title to assure low sales. The music was an uncharacteristically angry take on the industry articulated by his devilish alter-ego, Camille. At the last minute, Prince regretted this negativity and had “The Black Album” pulled from release, and then replaced it with its polar opposite: bright and optimistic and steeped in religion, Lovesexy started the search for spiritual redemption that would eventually consume a man who went from one who once dragged music forward to one who would struggle to follow.

That said, his prolific peak provided as much quality and quantity of output as any artist in history, a fact made more incredible in light of the thousand or so unreleased songs reputedly stored in his infamous vault, which fans hope will live 2 see the dawn. As a crash course for the uninitiated, I’ve put together a chronological tour through each of his studio albums, and a selection of my favorite of the unfinished and unreleased songs I’ve collected over the years.

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ALBUM TRACKS

Interview Excerpt
Soft and Wet
I Feel For You
Sexy Dancer
Let’s Work
Partyup
When You Were Mine
All The Critics Love U in New York
Computer Blue
Take Me With U
Temptation
Paisley Park
I Wonder U
Sign O’ the Times
Bob George
Alphabet Street
I Wish U Heaven
Vicki Waiting
Joy In Repetition
Money Don’t Matter 2Night
Segue
Papa
Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother, Wife
Beautiful Strange
The Work Pt. 1
Musicology
Black Sweat
Lavaux

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Written, Produced, and Performed by Prince – Album Tracks
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UNRELEASED MATERIAL

Interview Excerpt
Leaving For New York (Demo)
Turn It Up
Extra Loveable
Possessed
Purple Music
Lisa
G-Spot
Tick Tick Bang (1980 Version)
We Can Funk (Early Version)
Cloreen Bacon Skin feat. Morris Day
Electric Intercourse
Baby, You’re a Trip
All My Dreams
Witness 4 the Prosecution
Sexual Suicide
100MPH
Train
Last Heart
Databank
Movie Star
Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A
Crystal Ball
Old Friends 4 Sale
There’s Others Here With Us
Poem to the Lady in White
Kiss (Acoustic Demo)

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SONGS BY OTHER ARTISTS

With a trepidatious concerned with their prolific discovery’s ability to flood the market with a seemingly infinite amount of content, Prince struggled to limit himself to an album per year during his miraculous heyday. Inspired by a 1980 film called The Idolmaker, which told the story of a rock promoter Bob Marcucci, who himself became famous for making Frankie Avalon a star, Prince had the idea to assemble a series of musical acts from within the Uptown Minneapolis music scene and remake them in his own image.

Acts like The Time, Vanity 6, and The Family were fitted with the puppeteer’s strings and given finished songs and a set of strict instructions on how to play them. He dictated their style and conceptualized their live shows, casting his long shadow from his place above the stage. The following is a selection of songs mostly written by Prince and performed by his musical marionettes.

Morris Day and Prince – Tricky
Apollonia 6 – Sex Shooter
Ready For the World – O Sheila
Sheila E – The Glamorous Life
Sheila E – A Love Bizzare (Parts One and Two)
The Family – Screams of Passion (Extended)
Mazarati – Kiss
Mazarati – 100 MPH
Jill Jones – G-Spot (7 Inch Version
Andre Cymone – Dance Electric (Long Version)
Dez Dickerson – (I Want 2 B a) Modernaire
Vanity 6 – Drive Me Wild
Vanity 6 – Vibrator
Jill Jones – Baby, You’re a Trip
The Family – Nothing Compares 2 U
The Time – Gigolos Get Lonely Too

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Written and Produced by Prince, Performed by Other Artists
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MUSIC VIDEOS AND LIVE SHOWS

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RECONFIGURED ALBUMS

To be an enthusiastic Prince fan is to find yourself wondering what might have been. Having one of the most prolific musicians of all time working under the restrictions of a label reluctant to release too much material into what they only saw as a market meant that a great deal of music would be relegated to the proverbial cutting room floor. Some songs would emerge as B-sides, others would be given to other artists in his orbit, but most would be relegated to Prince’s infamous Vault, with a fraction off the material having since been leaked by various sources.

As an exercise in exploring these alternate realities, I went through his albums from Purple Rain to Sign of the Times and reassembled them using various b-sides, bootlegs, and alternate versions. May U Live 2 See the Dawn.

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The importance of timing in music relates to more than just tempo. For certain artists there seems to be a moment where the world conspires to create an opening for them to take their shot. The rare opportunity to make an album and integrated feature film came at a time when Prince somehow combined the freshness of a new discovery with the pedigree of an industry veterin. Purple Rain was the result of an artist looking over the event horizon of popular music and seeming to see everything at once. The album shifts effortlessly between styles and genres, between radio-friendly accessibility and brash experimentation, and yet you’d struggle to find an album with a more cohesive sound.

This reconception of Purple Rain restores the uncut singles and alternate versions of the album tracks against previously unreleased material like “G-Spot”, which was originally considered in-place of “Darling Nikki”, and “Electric Intercourse”, the epic ballad that acted as a placeholder for “Purple Rain”.

Let’s Go Crazy (Film Intro/ Special Dance Mix)
Take Me With U
17 Days
G Spot (Guide Vocal)
Purple Rain Music Excerpt
The Beautiful Ones (Unreleased Alternate Version)
Computer Blue (Extended Hallway Speech)
Darling Nikki (Unreleased Alternate Version)
When Doves Cry (Remix)
I Would Die 4 U (12″ Version, Edited)
Baby I’m a Star
Electric Intercourse
Purple Rain (Film Version)
God
Father’s Song

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Attempting to avoid direct comparison to the phenomena that surrounded his previous release, Around the World in a Day marked a departure from the ultra modern aesthetic of Purple Rain, keeping one eye on the rear-view mirror in a way that allows one to imagine a world in which The Beatles had black fathers and were born in Minneapolis. Wanting to keep the music free from the context of an organized marketing campaign, Prince insisted that the album be released without notice, and with singles and music videos intentionally delayed until the fans had time to digest the material in full.

The reception was mixed- of the detractors, some complained that he has lost the funk that marked his earlier releases, while others felt slightly underwhelmed in light of what came before it. While there isn’t as much unreleased music from these sessions as there are from others, the songs offered as B-sides fit well within the album, partiularly “She’s Always In my Hair”, a stylistic echo from the Purple Rain sessions, which may have pushed the album closer to reaching the expectations it was inevitably charged to meet.

Around the World in a Day
Paisely Park (Remix)
Raspberry Beret (12″ Version)
Tamborine
She’s Always In My Hair (12″ Version)
Pop Life (Fresh Dance Mix)
Girl
Condition of the Heart
Temptation
The Ladder
　
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If fans of his last album were worried that Prince had been straying from his funk roots with his last release, The Parade album showed how little he would be swayed by criticism. Suited more to the French Riviera that the cold plains of Minneapolis, rich string arrangements and delicate melodies framed this soundtrack to the Prince penned art-house feature film, Under the Cherry Moon.

The first version of the album was assembled in May of 1985, and was more delicate and introspective than its eventual incarnation, which traded some of the more intimate songs for pop chart attempts like “Girls and Boys”, “Mountains”, and most notably Kiss, a song he wrote for the band Mazarati a year earlier and then reclaimed as his own.

I chose to restore the album closer to its original configuration as I feel the emotionally downbeat and contemplative tone is better suited to the arc of the story emerging within Prince’s discography. Reflecting something of a spiritual quest, it speaks to loneliness of stardom with songs that seem equal parts skeptical and optimistic, equal parts black and white. Among the excluded material I brought back is a starry-eyed bootleg “There’s Other’s Here With Us”, the aptly titled “All My Dreams”, and perhaps most remarkably, “Old Friends 4 Sale”, an uncharacteristically personal jazz ballad confessing feelings of isolation and an increasing mistrust of the people around him. However heart-wrenching, the strife Prince enduring during the breakup of The Revolution would soon be fuel for what would be the most prolific year of the evolving artist’s life.

Wendy’s Parade
New Postition
I Wonder U
Under the the Cherry Moon
Life Can Be So Nice
Anotherloverholenyohead (Extended Version)
All My Dreams
There’s Others Here With Us
Old Friends 4 Sale
Sometimes It Snows In April

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If the last couple of releases saw Prince loosing his command of fans and critics, Sign of the Times was as much as a return to form as it was a new beginning. Having started the sessions with The Revolution for an project called Dream Factory, conflicts surrounding it’s release and Prince’s rearrangement of their touring band resulted in the album being cancelled and the group being disbanded; an act of creative destruction that paved the way for something entirely new.

With the death of Dream Factory came the birth of Camille, an alter-ego Prince created to tap into darker feelings and musical choices than he would allow himself unmasked. If some fans considered his follow ups to Purple Rain too bright and void of funk, Camille’s first effort, “Housequake”, was appropriately announced as an aftershock. While he initially intended to release the album under this pseudonym, Prince eventually decided to combine this new output with the Dream Factory sessions to create a triple album called Crystal Ball. Aware no artist had ever made a successful triple album, Warner Brother’s insisted that the music be confined to two discs, which would eventually be titled Sign of the Times.

The result was a collection of great songs, but like the Beatles’ White Album, Sign of the Times does sometimes feels more like a compilation more than it does a singular album. Keeping that in mind, I avoided the temptation to treat this version like a greatest hits of unreleased material, favoring the minimal funk and soul conceived at a moment when Prince once again seemed secure of his place in the world when left alone in the studio.

Crystal Ball
Housequake (Unreleased Camille Remix)
Shockadelica
Hot Thing (Electric Adolescence Edit)
Baby Go Go (Guide Vocal)
It
Strange Relationship (Unreleased Alternate Version)
If I Was Your Girlfriend
Sign O the Times
Forever In My Life
The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
Starfish and Coffee
Power Fantastic
Joy In Repetition (Demo Version)
Adore
The Cross

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Having bought into their almost unbearably amicable public persona at a young age, learning of the Beatles’ fractious relationship was something of a Holden Caulfield moment in my life- an introduction to a world of disingenuous facades and political spin, made for and by a bunch of phoneys. Over time, however, I grew to embrace this infighting as integral to the band’s success, realizing that a catalog with so much breadth and so many innovations could only be the result of clashing egos and unchecked creative vanity.

Tensions between the fabulous four were never more prominently on display than in 1969 with the album and television special that would eventually be known as Let It Be. Understanding the disparity between how cordial The Beatles were in public and how destructive their private interactions were becoming, the theory was that the boys would behave themselves better if surrounded by cameras and microphones. But the fissures within the group were deep enough to overwhelm any intended observer effect, and the film couldn’t avoid depicting a theme of band coming apart and the seams.

The project’s intended title, Get Back, came from Paul’s suggestion that the group return to their musical roots after the calamitous White Album sessions. Engineer Glyn Johns was charged to arrange the music like a live set, free of the sometimes overwhelming production flourishes that marked their last few efforts. After the project was delayed, the band became disenchanted with the material and moved on to their swan-song, Abbey Road. The recordings were shelved until 1970, when an increasingly solipsistic John Lennon unilaterally relinquished them to Phil Spector, who applied his signature wall of sound technique to the traditional rhythm and blues numbers, killing the album’s minimalist mandate like it was Lana Clarkson. The album was renamed Let It Be in what may have been a subtle suggestion that the group had accepted their demise.

Charting the trajectory of a band that dominated the sixties like soft drugs and racism, this chronological selection of outtakes, rehearsals, and alternate versions takes an intimate glance at the band’s expansive back catalog. Go ahead and put the kettle on, then sit down to enjoy The Full Beatles Breakfast.

I Saw Her Standing There (Take 12)
Do You Want to Know a Secret? (Take 8)
She’s a Woman (Take 5, Mono Acetate Mix)
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (Take 5)
In My Life (Mono Mix)
Got to Get You Into My Life (Take 5)
Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 5 Intro)
Within You Without You (Global Mono Outtake)
Flying (Take 3 Excerpt)
Flying (Alternate Mix)
Blue Jay Way (Mono Mix)
White My Guitar Gently Weeps (Studio Chat, Take 1)
Everybody Had a Hard Year (Demo Version)
Across the Universe (1968 Version)
Let It Be Rehearsal – Dialogue
Don’t Let Me Down (Long Version)
Let It Be Rehearsal – Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues
You Never Give Me Your Money (Take 40, Mono)
Sun King (Twickenham Studio Demo)
Mean Mr. Mustard (Apple Studio Demo)
Polythene Pam (Apple Studio Demo)
She Came Into the Bathroom Window (Saville Road Rehearsal)
Golden Slumbers – Carry That Weight (Take 13)
The End (Take 7)
Get Back (Rehearsal)

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The Full Beatles Breakfast
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I was recently given a copy of the aforementioned and unreleased Get Back album as conceived by John Glyns, taken from an original tape of these sessions. Unbridled by the complex arrangements of the official Let It Be album and stripped down further than its Naked re-release, Get Back retains the small club aesthetic planned for the project’s initial conception, and imagines a new beginning instead of a reflecting a bitter end.

The One After 909
Don’t Let Me Down
Dig A Pony
I’ve Got A Feeling
Get Back
Let It Be
For You Blue
Two Of Us
Dig It
The Long And Winding Road
I Me Mine
Across The Universe

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He can’t stand iPods so he brings his decks to the beach, even though his records might get wet. She hates the songs he plays but she loves the way he plays it cooler than the pool it gets her hotter than the pavement. They talk about the breeze and trees and not about the internet. She believes conspiracies, but not in things like accidents. “Bare feet beat dance shoes, sweat till you get the sand wet”. He remembers every word she said like he was her cassette deck.

Moodymann – Hold It Down
The Jan Hammer Group – Don’t You Know
Sunfire – Young Free and Single
Nuyorican Soul – Nautilus (Mawtilus)
A Tribe Called Quest – If The Papes Come (Remix)
Nicholas Jaar – A3
Gray – Drum Mode (Paul Moog Version)
Frank & Tony – Rings (Corbu Live Version)
Kalabrese feat Guillermo Sohyrha – Hide
DJ Vadim – Lounge Shiznitz
Senor Coconut – Showroom Dummies
St. Germain – Soul Salsa Soul (Descarga Mix)
Maayan Nidam – Oye Mi Ritmo
Sebastien Tellier – Cochon Ville
Clive Tanaka Y Su Orchestra – I Want You (So Bad)
The Treacherous Three – Party
The Fatback Band – Goin’ To See My Baby
Darabi – Truckin’
PillowTalk – Sunny
M. Tanzmann – Summertime
Nina Simone – Here Comes the Sun (Francois K Remix)
Mister Lies & Different Sleep – Safety Net
The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds (Pal Joey Mix)
Massive Attack – Be Thankful for What You’ve Got
Finley Quaye – It’s Great When We’re Together
Paul Simon – Diamonds Dub (Tangoterje Edit)
Matthew Dear – Her Fantasy
John Forde – Stardance
Samantha Sang feat. Bee Gees – Emotion
Nightmares on Wax – Me & You

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Summer In the City – Part One – From the Ghetto to the Meadow
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She arrives at the beach with a spare set of batteries, a daisy in her hair, and an appetite for flattery. He shows up on his bike with a great mixtape, plus a flask full of whiskey and some frozen grapes. He likes the way her legs look, long like the summertime. She thinks he talks just like books and finds that hot like sunshine. They speak in voice-over and they move in slow motion, like a movie about how love can take you under like the ocean.

Fleetwood Mac – Albatross
Prince – I Wonder U
Shuggie Otis – Island Letter
The Uniques – My Conversation
Co La – Hit Me (Cat Call Version)
Dr. Buzzard’s Original Sunshine Band – Sunshower
Digable Planets – Dedicated
Roy Ayers – We Live In Brooklyn, Baby
MV & EE With the Bummer Road – East Mountain Joint
The Beatles – Here Comes The Sun
The Beach Boys – God Only Knows (Live Rehearsal 1967)
Diskjokke – Golotrok
Nightmares on Wax – Morse
Sade – Cherish the Day (Pal Joey Mix)
Comodo – Float
Color Plus – Fuzz
Vikter Duplaix – In the Middle of You
Victor Malloy – The Girl in the Hood
Aphex Twin – Untitled (Four Tet Remix)
Four Tet – No More Mosquitos (Boom Bip Remix)
The Art of Noise – Crusoe
Karibien – Stockholm
Lemon Jelly – Soft (Aphex Twin Mix)
Nicolas Jaar – Hey Boy
M83 – Waves, Waves, Waves
Daft Punk – Nightvision
The Verve – Where The Geese Go
Ronnh – Holding You, Anyway
Air – Le Soleil Est Pres De Moi
Boards of Canada – Olson
Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory – Feet Upon the Sand (Dntel Remix)
Bobby Brown – My Hawaiian Home
The Future Sound of London – Photosynthesis
The Velvet Underground – Ocean
David Bowie – Memory of a Free Festival
Mellow – Shima Shima
Gemma Hayes – Evening Sun

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Summer In the City – Part Two – The Sound of a Setting Sun
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When the summer heats up, both of them get so nostalgic. You can see it in the clothes they wear, and hear it in their music. You can tell by the way they push each other into swimming pools, and act like they’re in high school when it’s too hot to be cool. His lowered Honda Civic with pull-out deck and tinted windows has sub woofers loud enough to change the way the wind blows. She wears Guess jeans, fakes a mole, and drinks wine coolers. Their summer is a long day off, their love is Ferris Bueller.

The Sugarhill Gang – Hot Hot Summerday (Theo Parrish Edit)
Vickie Sue Robinson – Hot Summer Night
Midnight Blue – Coolin’ Out
Central Line – Walking Into Sunshine
Fantasy Three – Summer
Freestyle – Summer Delight
Nairobi Afro Band – Soul Makossa
Fela Kuti – No Possible (Joystick Jay Vulgar Distractions Edit)
Birth Control – Gamma Ray, Part 2 (Single Version)
Spanky Wilson – Sunshine of You Love
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son
Bobby Moore & the Rhythm Aces – The Hamburger Song
The Hombres – Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)
The Beach Boys – Don’t Worry Baby
The Fat Boys and the Beach Boys – Wipeout
Candyman – Knockin’ Boots
Color Me Badd – I Wanna Sex You Up (Smoothed Out Mix)
LL Cool J – Around the Way Girl
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince – Summertime
Brotherhood Creed – Helluva (Mo’ Betta Mix)
A Ligher Shade of Brown – On a Sunday Afternoon
Dream Warriors – Ludi (Double Trouble Club Mix)
Marley Marl feat. Heavy D – Fools In Love
The Jungle Brothers – Spark a New Flame
De La Soul – Talkin’ Bout Hey Love
Ghostface Killah feat Slick Rick, RZA, Raekwon – The Sun
Take 6 – Don’t Shoot Me
Handsome Boy Modeling School – Sunshine
Beats International – Come Home
Sandra Reid – Ooh Boy
Nightmares on Wax – 70s, 80sB
Dove Shack – Summertime in the LBC
Cornershop – Something Makes You Feel Like
Arling and Cameron – W.E.E.K.E.N.D.
Bobby Charles – I Must Be In a Good Place Now

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Summer In the City – Part Three – Too Hot To Be Cool
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I love you, but there’s only one of you, and I’m used to maintaining several conversations at once (right now I’m writing this while contributing to a Facebook thread on a conspiracy theory about the Federal Reserve, and boldly Tweeting about how I like the latest Ricardo Villalobos release slightly less than some others do). I used to think you were wild, but then I saw what girls from Arizona State do in front of a webcam after a liter of Jaegermeister, and now you just seem timid. I used to love the music you introduced me to, but then I came across the Tumbler page of an art school student from Portland, which seemed to imply that your taste in music is at least 18 months out of date. Now it feels like our relationship is buffering, and all I know how to do is reboot.

I have a wonderful line to close this letter with, but however much the words might mean to you, I’d rather post it as a status update so all of my friends will see how sensitive I am.

Floating Points – Myrtle Avenue
Frank & Tony – Rings
Ron Basejam – Hell No
Audiofly Robbie & Muan – Watching Ourselves
Amirali – Hear Me
Maayan Nidam – Harmonious Funk
William Kouam Djoko – We Are Your Brothers & Sisters
Cobblestone Jazz – Across the Nation
RxGibbs – Proxy
Left – Please Don’t Come Alone
Dave Aju feat. Jaw – Caller #7
Waifs & Strays – 3 AM
Delano Smith – Survival
Red Sparrow aka Lowtec – Weep For Me
Walls – Into Our Midst (Esperanza Mix)
Gui Boratto – This Is Not and End (Ame Mix)
Niko Marks feat. Eddie Fowlkes – My Eyes Are Wide Open
Sashienne – Unknown
Vakula – Intro
Illum Sphere – Never Lie Twice (Om Unit Remix)
Mister Lies – Morgan
Submerse – Give It Up
Moodymann – Heaven
How To Dress Well – Ocean Floor For Everything
United Future Organization – The Moving Shadows

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I Love You But I’ve Chosen The Internet
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