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MIMS Forgotten Treasures
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Forgotten Treasure: Spontaneous Overthrow “All About Money” (1984)

Pretty much the definition of what a forgotten treasure is right here! Very odd yet beautiful slice of synthesized experimental soul music from a group called Spontaneous Overthrow. Nathaniel Woolridge and Anthony Freeman, two ...
by Lexis (MIMS Founder)
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MIMS Forgotten Treasures
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Forgotten Treasure: Loleatta Holloway “Casanova” (1975)

Oh mannn. What an absolutely glorious cover version of Ruby Andrews’ “Casanova” in 1968. One of the cases where the cover is much better than the original (in our humble opinion) Loleatta Holloway who passed a...
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Guest Mixes
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Moovmnt.com presents “Glimmering Fractions – Mix 04 Diamond”

via the homies at Moovmnt.com: “Eventhough it’s a national holiday over here, we’re still keeping up our end of the bargain. Already the 4th installment of our monthly “Glimmering Fractions” mix series. This time ...
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Video Digs
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Chris Dave (Drums) x Fela Kuti

“Chris Dave is probably the most dangerous drummer alive. He is totally reinventing just what you can do with drums.” – ?uestlove And in case you haven’t seen some of his other videos, here are absolutely mind blowi...
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MIMS Forgotten Treasures
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Forgotten Treasure: WAR “Flying Machine” (1973)

This is one of the ultimate forgotten jams from California’s premier funk/jazz/latin fusion band WAR; one of the biggest selling groups of the 70’s. 50 million records son! The track is from a 70’s Blaxsploitation era mov...
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Video Digs
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Bobby Womack – The Making of “The Bravest Man In The Universe”

I’m a huge fan of music documentaries, no matter who the artist of group it’s focused on. I can watch countless hours of documentaries, even bands I don’t event like… There’s just something about s...
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Guest Mixes
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Classic Mixes: Theo Parrish “Methods of Movement” (2000)

For anyone who likes Disco, Soul, Detroit Techno, Abstract stuff… you should already know Theo Parrish. He’s royalty (up there with Moodymann, Rick Wilhite, and all the Detroit boys). Theo Parrish brings the goods t...
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MIMS Future Classics
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Future Classic: Thundercat “Walkin” (Video)

Ha! What a great way to start the day. A brand new video from Thundercat‘s “Walkin” one of the standout tracks from his 2011 record called The Golden Age of Apocalypse on Brainfeeder. The video, directed by Ho...
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Guest Mixes
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Gilles Peterson – The Last BBC Radio 1 “Worldwide Show”

Don’t mean to sound overly dramatic one this one but this is definitely the end of an era: for the last 14 years Gilles Peterson has been a source of inspiration with his weekly “Worldwide” show on BBC Radio1....
by Lexis (MIMS Founder)
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