Miles Bonny (@milesbonny)
Every week in the high desert of New Mexico I DJ at a raw and large space called Taos Mesa Brewing. It sits just on the south end of a vast mesa which is home to the Earthships, as well as the beautiful Rio Grande Gorge and many mesa dwellers living a simple and free life in various structures, buses, and other structures that fit their needs and desires. Its a wild place and I am free to play what I want to hear and share. In this case, on this day, as the unusually sunny winter warmth comes and goes, I was inside of the Earthship Ampitheater, outside amid sun, beer, food, friends, and a need to share some soulful sounds influenced by dj culture, my youth around NYC, and record digging with this high and dry desert community. Bang on.
TRACKLISTING
Orchestra Lissanga Okuzua - African Funk Soul
Grupo Guerra 78 & The Whiskey Barons - Soul Makossa (Whiskey Barons rework)
Jorge Ben – Comanche
Joe Bataan - Muneca
George McCrae - I Get Lifted
Trap Door - II
(Unknown artist and title)
Gnawa – Halwa
Blanca Li - Moulay Abdellah
Ben Hussein – Moulay Brahim
Tommie Young - Hit and Run Lover
Tomita – Passepied
Anderson Paak – Seven Nation
Donald Byrd – Think
Sam Champ (ft. Miles Bonny) - Onward Til Morning Morning
Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving
Doors - Back Door
Jeriko - Hey Joe
Ahu - Dolly Rock On
Cody Chestnutt - Magic in a Mortal Minute
Dorothy Ashby - By the Time I Get to Phoneix
Shhor – Slowly
Fiona Apple - The Way Things Are
Albert King - I'll Play The Blues For You
Don Covay - Money (That's What I Want)
James Brown & The Famous Flames - There Was a Time (Kenny Dope Remix)
Marvin Gaye - Don't Mess with Mister 'T'