On any given Friday, Cool Your Jets Creative releases a new Fresh Friday. a hot and tasty vinyl mixtape with a custom cover. Tracks range from jazz to soul to hip-hop and beyond, with nearly every song ripped from original pressing vinyl, where each pop from the static patina tells a story of that record’s journey.
The Breakdown
This week's Fresh Friday offers a restorative amuse-bouche to cleanse the stark and acidic palate that was two thousand sixteen, featuring the ambrosial tones of Public Enemy, Rufus Thomas, Oliver Nelson, Freddie Hubbard, Eric B. & Rakim, the J.B.'s, The Beach Boys with J Dilla, Miles Davis, and Sly & the Family Stone!
It's My House and I Live Here
This week's Fresh Friday is a life raft atop a torrent of "the fuck?," kept afloat by the soulful prowess of Wee, The Blackbyrds, Curtis Mayfield, Diana Ross, Goody Goody, Donald Byrd, Ricardo Marrero & The Group, and Madonna.
Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
This week's Fresh Friday is a lit match in the dark, too weak to brighten a path forward, but enough to illuminate those around us, a nod that we're in this together. Ignited by the sparks of Jimi Hendrix, Roberta Flack, Tina Turner, Dionne Warwick, Syreeta, The Stylistics, Ann Peebles, Merry Clayton, and Bernice Reagon.
Where Have You Been?
When drowning in a sea of sorrow, sad songs aren't the undertow...they give the ability to breath underwater.
And To Top It Off, Starks Got Ejected
This week's Fresh Friday marauds for your ears, plundered by the vibes of Nikki Giovanni, Billy Cobham, A Tribe Called Quest, Booker T & The M.G.'s, Ahmad Jamal, The Beastie Boys, Sly Stone, Herbie Hancock, and The Jimmy Castor Bunch!
Open Your Eyes
Sun showers and silver linings highlight this week's Fresh Friday, lifted up by Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Bobby Caldwell, Idris Muhammad, The Intruders, Dexter Wansel, Tony Aiken & Future 2000, and Betty Everett!
As We Go Along
Soothe the black-eyed blues with this week's Fresh Friday, medicated by the soulful tomes of Donovan, Esther Phillips, Jim Sullivan, The Monkees, Sly Stone, Hall & Oates, Gato Barbieri, and Curtis Mayfield!
The Good Will Out
Receive 2016 with this euphonic decree, led by the soulful stirrings of Labi Saffre, John Lennon, Astrud Gilberto, The Monkees, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, Monk Montgomery, Junior Parker & Jimmy McGriff, and Simon & Garfunkel...Shine on!
This Last Time
Close your eyes and surrender to this week's Fresh Friday, numbed by the solitary soul of Sylvia Telles, Cal Tjader, Groove Holmes, Bola Sete, El Chicano, Nara Leão, and Astronauts A Mercurio!
It's a Mystery
Explore the outer reaches of cosmic love, fueled by the soulful verve of The Chi-Lites, UPP, The Dynamics, Ramsey Lewis, Leroy Hutson, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Gwen McRae, and Syreeta.
In the Summertime
This week's Fresh Friday unwinds poolside with a fruity daiquiri and a sugar-sweet disposition, sunbathed by Fatback Band, Incredible Bongo Band, James Brown, The Dramatics, Rotary Connection, Easy Star All-Stars, Maceo & All the Kings Men, and Cold Blood...C'mon with the C'MON!
Magic Love Bumps
This week's Fresh Friday mix, featuring db, is a soothing, soulful salve, applied by the genius of Michael Franks, Coke Escovedo, Deodato, Azymuth, Jean Carn, Clifton Dyson, Kellee Patterson, The Soul Children, and Ike Turner...Use as directed.
Happy House
As the sweet beat of summer raps softly, let your happiness outshine the morning sun and behold the soulful glory of Shuggie Otis, Stevie Wonder, Hugh Masekela & Hedzolah Soundz, Betty Everett, Kermit the Frog, Manu Dibango, Otis Redding, and Vi Redd!
Sunny Boy
Five months ago, our lives changed forever as we were united with our son, Miles Zekariyas. Today, his first birthday is soulfully celebrated by the The Ponderosa Twins Plus One, Diana Ross & The Supremes, De La Soul, Helen Reddy, Al Jarreau, Nat Adderley, The Jackson Five, and Mulatu Astatke!
Get Yourself Together
Let the soulful poetry of this week’s Fresh Friday inspire the succulent change in which we all aspire to ripen… with The Rolling Stones, Astrud Gilberto, The Ramsey Lewis Trio, The Incredible Bongo Band, Elis & Tom, Cymande, Sam Spence, Ricardo Marerro & The Group, and The Four Small Faces!
All Because
2014 wouldn’t have that new car smell without the sparkle-fresh soul of Johnnie Taylor, Roy Ayer’s Ubiquity, The Crusaders, Junior Parker & Jimmy McGriff, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, The Loving Sisters, and Al Green. Because it ain’t whatcha got, it’s what you do with whatcha got that makes it groovy, baby.
