Ever since hearing St Germain’s “So Flute” track off his groundbreaking Tourist LP released in early 2000 I always loved me some flute in my tunes. That being said, while browsing the Wax Poetics magazine‘s latest picks I stumbled upon this 1-hour mix of funky flute-driven tracks by New York producer, beatmaker, hiphop-connoisseur and avid record collector DJ Mentos. According to the man himself, “all the songs featured [on ‘Flute Funk’] were recorded from original vinyl pressings. I realize that most people don’t care about that, but I do”. Hear for yourselves and make sure to check out Mentos’ free download 2012 instrumental hiphop release “Field of Vision”:
Here’s the tracklist:
- Intro Skit – dj mentos
- Ape Shuffle – The Jeff Wayne Space Shuttle
- Electric Godfather – Ebony Godfather
- Mama Soul – Harold Alexander
- Anonymous – Focus
- Harvest – Moe Koffman
- Flute Thing – The Blues Project
- Baby You’ll See (juggle) – Black Heat
- L’ete Indien (Africa) – Frank Pourcel
- Death Wish OST snippet – Herbie Hancock
- Stop and Go – Mandrill
- Do It Again – Herbie Mann
- Zimba Ku – Black Heat
- Burning Spear – Soulful Strings
- Mighty Mighty – Jesse Anderson
- Spring (interlude) – Moe Koffman
- Coco – Joe Thomas
- You and Me – Lighthouse
- Benzele Windows – Horacee Arnold
- Chain of Fools – Herbie Mann
- Country Soul – Harold Alexander
- Psychecemotus – Yusef Lateef
- Overture to Summer – Moe Koffman
