old.wrek.org Electric Boogaloo | WREK Atlanta, 91.1 FM - Part 13

Electric Boogaloo

The Much Ballyhooed Return of the E-Boogie Blog!!

Well it’s been a while, folks. 4+ years to be not much more exact. I’m resurrecting this blog for the people because so many (read: zero) have requested its return. And trust me, I’m not trying to tie this in with the recent Easter Sunday, either.


Since our last post, we’ve seen a lot change in the world of funk, soul, jazz, r+b, hip-hop, and blues and not to mention this little window we call the Internet. Social media has taken over people’s lives so much to the fact that we don’t even need professional news outlets, let alone blogs, to tell us what to think. In steps the Electric Boogaloo! Always a few years late to the technology party, we hope to not tell you what to think. Rather, we will tell you what we think about what is going on in Atlanta and the world, in particular, in soul music. That way, you can form your own opinions and biases against our own. So there it is. Our re-mission statement. Er, statements.

Anyway, we’ll have a guest in studio for this week’s show, The Funky Fiasco. They’ll be talking about and giving away some passes to their upcoming gig at the Funko de Mayo, going on May 5, at The Five Spot. We’ll also tell you What’s Up With What’s Going Down, our weekly calendar of the stone grooves to check out in and around the city of Atlanta.

So, while the blog may have been on hiatus, you could always (and still can) check us out live each and every Thursday at 91.1 fm in Atlanta, or streaming live, worldwide, at WREK.org. And if you ever miss the show, you can pick up a stream of the latest episode from right here. We look forward to serving you and hope not to burn out too quickly this time around!!

Entropy on Electric Boogaloo Tonight!!

So much for advanced notice on this, but if you’ve been listening to the show, you know that Atlanta’s own Entropy will be sitting in the show tonight. We got to hear some of their new album (which you can listen to live online at their website, linked above), Crawl, last week, and we should definitely hear more of that – plus talk about their upcoming shows. These dates include their Atlanta CD Release show coming up Saturday, Feb. 24 at The Loft. And (I don’t want to jump the gun here, but) I think we’ll have some passes to give away for that show and possibly a CD giveaway as well.

So check us out. We’ll be rappin about funk and other things, I’m sure. And playing plenty of funk. 11pm – Thursdays – 91.1 FM WREK Atlanta – and streaming at WREK.org

Playlist 2-8-07

Here is the much awaited (if not anticipated)playlist from last week. Nasty Chris got down with things for a while

Nasty Funk

by fallex and Nasty Chris

Artist Cut Album
Alan Hawkshaw Mile High Swinger Cinemaphonique (comp.)
Funkadelic Music for My Mother Funkadelic
Albert Ayler Free at Last New Grass
O’Jays For the Love of Money Mastercuts Classic Funk (comp.)
Black Nasty Black Nasty Boogie Talking to the People
*Brothers Johnson Strawberry Letter 23 Right on Time
Sharon Jones Hook and Sling Meets the Funky Superfly Naturally
Funkadelic You Scared the Lovin’ Out of Me Hardcore Jollies
The JBs Same Beat Pass the Peas
Entropy Anymore Crawl
Passport Will O the Wisp Cross-Collateral

* = Nasty Chris takes over

SHOUTS

The Dude

JT (as always)

FunkOn

What’s Up with What’s Going Down – 2/8/07

funky happ’s around the ATL…

Date Artist Venue
Each Fri Brothers Funk (Cozy Shawn & Brett Eclectic) MJQ
Each Tue DJ Cozy Shawn Django
Fri 2-9 Soulive The Loft
Sat 2-10 The Dynamites feat. Charles Walker The EARL
Tue 2-20 Cadillac Jones Live @ WREK
Sat 2-24 Entropy The Loft
Sun 3-4 The Roots Tabernacle
Thu 3-8 Medeski Martin & Wood Variety Playhouse

Cadillac Jones to Play Live @ WREK

Local groove merchants and friends of the Boogaloo, Cadillac Jones, will be performing Live at WREK on Tuesday, February 20. Live at WREK (L@W) is a weekly show (airing Tues, 10pm on 91.1 FM in Atlanta or here) which features a live band playing in the GT Student Center. The show was formerly aired from the WREK studio, but the move to a new studio came with a direct hook up to the stage in the Student Center, so we took it.



Cadillac Jones, of course, are longtime friends of our program so we’ll give them all the pub we can. Check out their site for mp3s, photos, and news about upcoming shows and releases.