FORUM MUSICAL DE MR Q #604 XMAS CROONER SPECIAL

From Bing to Nat King Cole, Elvis to Chuck, Dean Martin to Patsy Cline without forgetting Louis Armstrong with "What a Wonderful World", and then some...Lennon, Simon & Garf, Israel Kamakawiwo, Tammy Wynette and Janis..., all in the name of a PEACEFUL and WONDERFUL Christmas 2019... HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Forum Musical de Mr Q # 603 Pre Xmas Love

Pre Xmas Love songs for all to enjoy...from Bob Dylan to Jefferson Airplane (for Francis!), Dobie Gray, Melanie Safka with Ruby Tuesday, Johnny Nash, Spirit In The Sky Norman Greenbaum, I'd love to change the world (for Greta!) ten years after, The Traveling Wilburys, some Moody Blues and much more without forgetting the Rolling Stones 50th anniversary of LET IT BLEED... One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you, don't do anything at all

FORUM MUSICAL DE MR Q # 602 LOVE

Today we celebrate LOVE in the 21st century...with legends such as The Who, Simon & Garfunkel, The Band, The Zombies, Scott McKenzie, Mamas & Papas and many more to remember what LOVE was all about... Radio Programme based on old and new North American and British Music incorporating Rock, R&B, Funk, Soul, Jazz, Reggae and Rap.Musical News and Information on concerts, latest releases and best weekly top ten selling records....

FORUM MUSICAL DE MR Q @601of 2019_BOOGIE R&B

From Ray Charles to James Brown to Muddy Waters to Howlin Wolf, Ann Peebles, Barrett Strong, Slim Harpo and many more to complete an awesome R&B and Blues collection of greats for this wintery November...Love!

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FORUM MUSICAL DE MR Q #600 POT POURRI

Today from Nicky Barnes, Barry White, Harry Nilsson; Burt Bacharach, Blind Faith, The Doobie Brothers, Terry Callier and some Gangstagrass!

FORUM MUSICAL DE MR Q @599 SPANISH HUSTLE FUNK

Radio Programme based on old and new North American and British Music incorporating Rock, R&B, Funk, Soul, Jazz, Reggae and Rap. Musical News and Information on concerts, latest releases and best weekly top ten selling records - today with Hank Shocklee, Mandrill, Sam and Dave, Ottis, Stevie, Tamiko Jones, Anthony Hamilton, The Fatback Band and a bit of Funky Nassau amongst many more FUNK, SOUL tunes from the '70s...enjoy!

FORUM MUSICAL DE MR.Q # 598 ROCK LEGENDS AND MORE

Radio Programme based on old and new North American and British Music incorporating Rock, R&B, Funk, Soul, Jazz, Reggae and Rap. Musical News and Information on concerts, latest releases and best weekly top ten selling records.. In #598 we go through a few ROCK GUITAR legends and more such as Ted Nugent, Joe Walsh, ZZ TOP, Bad Company, Rare Earth, CCR and many more...

Forum Musical de Mr Q # 597 BO DIDDLEY RIFFS AND MORE

Radio Programme based on old and new North American and British Music incorporating Rock, R&B, Funk, Soul, Jazz, Reggae and Rap. Musical News and Information on concerts, latest releases and best weekly top ten selling records. This week we heard some oldy Rock N Roll, Bo Diddley Riffs and a touch of REVOLUTION!

FORUM MUSICAL DE MR Q # 596, SKA, 2 TONE, REGGAE CLASSICS

Radio Programme based on old and new North American and British Music incorporating Rock, R&B, Funk, Soul, Jazz, Reggae and Rap. Musical News and Information on concerts, latest releases and best weekly top ten selling records with this week on SKA, Reggae and 2 TONE revival classics from MADNESS, THE SPECIALS, BAD MANNERS, THE PIONEERS, DESMOND DEKKER, DAVE ANSELL COLLINS and more!! ENJOY!

FORUM MUSICAL DE MR Q #595 AUTUMN ROCKS 2019

This week from The Zombies through Grand Funk Railroad, Eric Clapton, Dee Clark, Willie and the Hand Jive, Paul Revere and a bit of Jose Feliciano...all combining for an Autumn Rock session...

FORUM MUSICAL DE MR Q 594 1st DAY AUTUMN 2019

Radio Programme based on old and new North American and British Music incorporating Rock, R&B, Funk, Soul, Jazz, Reggae and Rap. Musical News and Information on concerts, latest releases and best weekly top ten selling records...from Latin Bossa and Salsa to Soul & R&B through Neu & Lounge Jazz...all in 1 with Mr Q!

FORUM MUSICAL DE MR Q AUTUMN RETURN SEPT 2019

From Sergio Mendez to James Brown via Fela Kuti and Ray Barreto... the return to Afro Jazz Latin Funk Beats - easy and orgasmic!

Forum Musical de Mr Q # 592 Gay Pride Beatles Summer Holidays

Forum Musical de Mr Q # 590 SUMMER BOSSA NOVA RAP

Radio Programme based on old and new North American and British Music incorporating Rock, R&B, Funk, Soul, Jazz, Reggae and Rap. Musical News and Information on concerts, latest releases and best weekly top ten selling records - from Miriam Makeba and Soul Makossa to Club des Belgas and Eric B and Rakim - summer 2019

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FORUM MUSICAL DE MR Q # 588 DR JOHN RIP AND MORE...

Grammy-winning American singer Dr John has died at the age of 77 after suffering a heart attack. The New Orleans-born musician died on Thursday, according to a message posted on his official Twitter account. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer combined the genres of blues, pop, jazz, boogie woogie and rock and roll...RIP

FORUM MUSICAL DE MR Q # 587 Q'S PSYCHO GARAGE ROCK

Garage rock (sometimes called '60s punk or garage punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced various revivals since then. The style is characterized by basic chord structures played on electric guitars and other instruments, sometimes distorted through a fuzzbox, as well as often unsophisticated and occasionally aggressive lyrics and delivery. Its name derives from the perception that groups were often made up of young amateurs who rehearsed in the family garage, although many were professional.

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FORUM MUSICAL DE MR Q # 585 FUNK_EASTER

EASTER 2019 SOUL & R&B & FUNK VIBES ALL THE WAY!

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FORUM MUISICAL DE MR Q #583 50YRS OF WOODSTOCK

In 1969 on August 15, one of the most important events in the history of world music took place. Woodstock was a musical show that became the representation of a complete generation - the baby boomer - and that was also the historic moment that consolidated the North American countercultural movements of the 1960s. Woodstock returns in 2019 to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Although the poster of artists has not yet been confirmed, it is assured that it will be an event that recovers the essence of one of the most important moments in the history of music.

FORUM MUSICAL DE MR Q - HOUSE & RAP CLASSICS

The Beginnings of House Music. It all started in Chicago's Southside in 1977, when a new kind of club opened. This new Chicago club called The Warehouse gave House music its name. Frankie Knuckles, who opened The Warehouse, mixed old disco classics and new Eurobeat pop. House was the first direct descendant of disco. In comparison with disco, House was "deeper", "rawer", and more designed to make people dance. Disco had already produced the first records to be aimed specifically at DJs with extended 12" versions that included long percussion breaks for mixing purposes. The early 80s proved a vital turning point. Sinnamon’s "Thanks To You", D-Train’s "You're The One For Me", and The Peech Boys "Don’t Make Me Wait", a record that has been continually sampled over the last decade, took things in a different direction with their sparse, synthesised sounds that introduced dub effects and drop-outs that had never been heard before.

House music did not have its origins just in American music. The popularity of European music, specifically English electronic pop like Depeche Mode and Soft Cell and the earlier, more disco-based sounds of Giorgio Moroder, Klein & MBO, as well as Italian productions, they all gave rise to House music. Two clubs, the already mentioned Chicago’s Warehouse and New York’s Paradise Garage, which promoted European music, had at the same time broken the barriers of race and sexual preference (for House music was in part targeted at the gay community). Before The Warehouse opened, there had been clubs strictly designed to segregate race. However, The Warehouse did not make any difference between Blacks, Hispanics, or Whites; the main interest was simply music. And the music was as diverse as the clients. People who influenced House Frankie Knuckles One of the leading DJs at that time was New York born Frankie Knuckles, also called the Godfather of House. Indeed, he was more than a DJ; he was an architect of sound, who experimented with sounds and thus added a new dimension to the art of mixing. In fact, he took the raw material of the disco he spun and added pre-programmed drum tracks to create a constant 4/4 tempo. He played eight to ten hours a night, and the dancers came home exhausted. Thanks to him The Warehouse was regarded as the most atmospheric place in Chicago. The uniqueness of this club lay in a simple mixing of old Philly classics by Harold Melvin, Billy Paul and The O’Jays with disco hits like Martin Circus’ "Disco Circus" and imported European pop music by synthesiser groups like Kraftwerk and Telex. Frankie said, "When we first opened in 1977, I was playing a lot of the East Coast records, the Philly stuff, Salsoul. By ‘80/81, when that stuff was all over with, I started working a lot of the soul that was coming out. I had to re-construct the records to work for my dancefloor, to keep the dancefloor happy, as there was no dance music coming out! I’d take the existing songs, change the tempo, layer different bits of percussion over them, to make them more conductive for the dancefloor."

Frankie’s friend Larry Levan was a black teenager from Brooklyn like Frankie. In fact, it was Larry who first suggested opening The Warehouse in Chicago. However, things took a different turn, and in the end Larry Levan spun in New York’s Paradise Garage. Larry Levan and Frankie Knuckles were indeed two very important figures in the development of House music and the modern dance scene. Perhaps there would have been no fame for the two without the producer, DJ and devoted lover of dance and music, David Mancuso, and his dance parties for gays called Loft parties. "The Loft" was a house party intended for a very black and a very gay crowd. Larry and Frankie attended the Loft parties regularly. It was not only a place of joy but also a place where they became acquainted for the first time with the techniques of House music. Mancuso taught them about creating a perfect House music: about sound, lighting, production, music and DJ techniques. By the mid 80s House had emerged in Chicago as a fully developed musical genre through the efforts of Knuckles and those inspired by him like DJ Ron Hardy of Music Box fame. Ron Hardy was another DJ from the gay scene. The sounds they produced differed in that the basis of Knuckle’s sound was still disco, whereas Hardy was the DJ that chose the rawest and wildest rhythm tracks he could find. Besides Frankie Knuckles, Larry Levan, and Ron Hardy, there were other important figures in the development of House music such as Steve "Silk" Hurley, DJ Pierre, Larry Heard, Adonis, Marshall Jefferson and Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, who was a Chicago DJ and producer, as well as a creator of the first international House hit, "Love Can’t Turn Around". DJ Pierre, on the other hand, contributed to the development of Acid House. As a result, a track called "Acid Trax" was produced. The creators of House music There have been various views of who is the inventor of House music. For example, Leonard Remix RRoy asserted that he had given birth to House in May 1981. LRRoy was a remarkable and much respected DJ. He also claimed that he had invented the term "House music" in the spring of 1981. A person who regarded himself as a creator of House music in March of 1985 was Chip E. Yet, there remains a third founder, for he produced "Love Can’t Turn Around", one of the biggest selling "House" records. His name is Farley "Jackmaster" Funk. In fact, this big House "cross-over" hit was written, produced and arranged by Jesse Saunders. Jesse, however, did not call himself the creator of House music, but rather used the term "originator", which did not mean that he had invented or created the genre of House music. By "originator" he meant that he "started and/or fused a sound with a lot of different ingredients". Generally speaking, one can say, that there was not just one creator or inventor; on the contrary, House music evolved through the means of collaborative efforts of a few people like Frankie Knuckles, Vince Lawrence, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, as well as the promoters and labels that made easy the distribution of early House. The original disco-mixer Walter Gibbons, a white DJ, had a new and immediate impact on the development of Chicago House music. His independent 12" record called "Set It Off" immediately became an underground club anthem. The "Set It Off" sound was primitive House, haunting, repetitive beats ideal for mixing and extending.

Acid House In reality, Acid House had already started in Chicago in 1985. DJ Pierre and some friends pushed a button on their Roland 303 and found that that Acid sound was already in it. They produced a track called "Acid Trax" which, they allege, was stolen by Ron Hardy and delivered as "Ron Hardy’s Acid Trax". As Pierre once said, "Phuture was me and two other guys, Spanky and Herbert J. We had this Roland 303, which was a bassline machine, and we were trying to figure out how to use it. When we switched it on, that acid sound was already in it and we liked the sound of it so we decided to add some drums and make a track with it. We gave it to Ron Hardy who started playing it straight away. In fact, the first time he played it, he played it four times in one night! The first time people were like, ‘what the fuck is it?’ but by the fourth they loved it. Then I started to hear that Ron was playing some new thing they were calling ‘Ron Hardy’s Acid Trax’, and everybody thought it was something he’d made himself. Eventually we found out that it was our track so we called it ‘Acid Trax’. I think we may have made it as early as 1985, but Ron was playing it for a long time before it came out."

There have been various explanations for the term ‘Acid’. The most popular was that acid used to be put in the water at the Music Box. Pierre though, emphasises that Phuture was always anti-drugs, and cites a track about a cocaine nightmare, "Your only friend" that was on the same EP as "Acid Trax". "Acid Trax" came out in 1986 but did not prove to be successful outside Chicago. The first Acid track to make it to vinyl was called "I’ve Lost Control" which was made by Adonis and Marshall Jefferson.

FORUM MUSICAL DE MR Q 581 - PETER TORK - THE MONKEES

Peter Halsten Thorkelson (February 13, 1942 – February 21, 2019), better known as Peter Tork, was an American musician, composer and actor, best known as the keyboardist and bass guitarist of THE MONKEES. Tonight 8-9pm in EL FORUM MUSICAL DE MR Q (107.5fm), we remember one of the ‘60s icons of Pop Music and American culture – Peace & Love to all

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