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Have you missed the broadcast of the latest Melting Pot show?
No worries . Click here for the latest Melting Pot Podcast.

Tfonque and Ron Johnson are your hosts for an hour of Soul, Funk, Blaxploitation, Rare Grooves, Library Music and musical curiosa.

Enjoy, and give us some feedback.

“It’s Madison Time…. Let’s Hit It”

Madison Time dance figures and steps can be found here.

You have seen the movie -the orginal John Waters version, of course-. You have even seen the re-make with John Travolta.
Admit it, you want to dance to that music yourself. Here is your change!

Put on some fancy 60’s clothes and head over to the Hairspray Party in the White Cat, Drongenhof 40, Patershol Ghent on friday the 12th of October 2007. It is organised by the Gainsbar.

Records will be played by DJ Divine and Ronny Rollins. You can expect loads of 50’s and early 60’s music.
Get hip to the jive! Head over to the White Cat.

Need some inspiration? Check here and here and here for some fine clips (on youtube)

Update: Check out the pictures of the party here.

Have you missed the broadcast of the first Radio Pink Flamingo show?

No worries . Click here for the first Radio Pink Flamingo Podcast.

Enjoy, and give us some feedback.

Two new radio programs debuted last saturday on Urgent.fm, and this time we were all on time and ready to go. (Check the post for what went wrong last week.)

To our surprise there were new microphones installed in the studio and a new twin cd-player in the control room. Nice… we just got used to the old ones.

First up was Radio Pink Flamingo with Inspector Clay behind the microphone and Ron Johnson (with assistance from Mr T) behind the mixing desk. It all went reasonable well; we didn’t make to many mistakes. The reactions were positive from the Urgent.fm colleagues as well as from listeners.

A podcast of the first show will soon be posted on the Pink Flamingo site. Here is the playlist of the show:

Radio Pink Flamingo 22 september 2007
1 Bert Kaempfert: Wonderland By Night
2 Joe Loss Orchestra: Thunderbird Theme
3 Dionne Warwick: Do You Know The Way To San Jose
4 Miriam Makeba: Pata Pata
5 Andre Williams: Bacon Fat
6 Duane Eddy: Yep
7 intermission “oh boy”
8 Jean Jaques Perrey: EVA
9 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel: Make Me Smile (Come Up And etc)
10 XTC: Senses Working Overtime
11 B-52’s: Private Idaho
12 Sly & Robbie: Boops
13 intermission (Hot Dog)
14 Oscar Brown Jr: Dat Dere
15 Meters: Sing A Simple Song
16 intermission Hell Up In Harlem
17 Ray Barretto: Soul Drummers
18 Senor Coconut: Humo En El Agua
19 Frank Popp Ensemble: Hip Teens Don’t Wear Blue Jeans
20 the 5678’s: Woo Hoo
21 Gladys Knight & The Pips - The Nitty Gritty
22 The Selecter: James Bond

The next hour there was the Melting Pot program in a new format. The show debuted in 2004. It has always been a mix show, hand picked and composed by TFonque. But now Melting Pot has a host. Ron Johnson joined TFonque behind the microphone for the first time live on-air.
The show went down smooth. Ron Johnson and TFonque will have to iron out some rough edges, but the cooperation worked.

A podcast of the show will be posted soon. When it is available for download I will post it on this weblog. For now, here is the playlist;

Melting Pot op 22 september 2007
The Isley Brothers - That Lady
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose - Treat Her Like A Lady
The Soul Diggers - Soul Dig
Furman & Johnson - Slow & Funky
Della Reese - I Got The Blues
Wilson Picket - Take Your Pleasures
Eddie Bo - Sissy Walk
Bill Withers - Use Me
Sweet Promise - Funky Jungle
Barbara Acklin - Am I The Same Girl
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Who Is She
Pearl Dowell - Good Things
Grady Tate - Be Black
The RDM Band - Butter That Popcorn
Joseph Henry - Who’s The King
Sly Stone - If You Want Me To Stay
WAR - Lowrider

Unexpected things happen when you least expect it. Last saturday there was the launch of a new radio show on Urgent.fm, called Radio Pink Flamingo.

Inspector Clay and Ron Johnson were not in the least nervous, as you can see on the picture above…

Our trainer and teacher Mister T-Fongue (and the guy with the key to the building) had gone out the night before. He had gone to the R*S*T music to play with! festival in Brussels. It was a fine line-up indeed. There were sets by Amon Tobin, Luke Vibert, Dntal, Modeselector and many more. To cut a long story short T-Fonque did not make it on time.

And now the good news. On saturday September 22 from 18.00 Radio Pink Flamingo will go live on air. You can receive Urgent.fm on 105.3 if you live in Ghent. Or you can visit the Urgent website to listen to the live-stream. The best choice is to visit The Pink Flamingo’s bar and enjoy the show there.

Last April one of the best record stores in Belgium closed its doors. Its closing was sad news for its costumers and a lot of weblogs wrote articles about it. See here, and here (both in Dutch). Many record buyers were astonished by the news as you can read in the comments of the posts.

But a month ago a message appeared on the music mania site. And last week there was even more news. Dropping the Music in their name, the Mania Gent will reopen with a clear-out sale that will begin shortly. You are advised to send an e-mail to be kept informed of further news.