Welcome to Mr. Suave's Mod Mod World where it is now time for you to get on your good foot and get going. I've got some super souped up soul for you, complete with all the sides of jazz, funk, and pop you can handle. You are about to swing into an incredibly cool mix of dancable music with brand new tracks from James Taylor Quartet and Herbaliser Band, as well as downright filthy funk from Double Beat, Quantic, the Bamboos, Lettuce and more. Right now I think its time you get on your feet and get this party started. Then you can slip and slide over to the modcast homepage for a complete track listing, links to band sites, and bonus videos from Paulo Negri & the Diplomettes and Quantic Soul Orchestra. Don't forget to stop by each day for a little taste of mod via the Mod-A-Day project.
Mr. Suave's Mod Mod World is the web's original modcast celebrating the music of the mod lifestyle, as well as mod-influenced music from past eras. You'll hear everything from power pop to rock, soul to ska, acid jazz to lounge, and whatever falls in between.
One of the things which has impressed me most in life was the mod movement in England, which was an incredible, youthful thing." -- Pete Townshend, The Who, 1968
Catalogued here are the sights and sounds of mod as I understand it. Much will be familiar to other mods. I realize many narrow-minded people, mods and others, will look at much of this and dismiss it as not truly "mod." So be it.
However you view it, I hope you enjoy exploring these sights and sounds as much as I did putting them together.
Mr Suave
In today's mod, mod world, what is suave? Dredging through the memories of the misspent days of my youth I found that the styles, music, fashions, even the words I read all led me down a common path. The various twists and turns of that path drove me to the edge of the cocktail culture [http://www.mistersuave.com]. Teetering on the brink, I was finally repulsed by the mockery of things once held cool. Repulsed enough to pull myself back and begin making my way down a new path of my own creation. Here then is a path where my days of now pay homage to those who have gone before, heeding well-worn advice in the conception of my own modernistic stylings. While there is nothing new under the sun, there can be fresh ways to look at what has passed us by; original ways of combining those pasts into a more perfect understanding. I don't believe in living in the past, but in using the past to enhance living for today. When I was swinging in the mod scene I was always looking for those people, fashions, sounds, trends, groups who could honor the past while creating a new style all their own. Every era produces its own bit of swank culture, suave styles, and just plain cool. Once cool, always cool. Once granted, there is no retracting the title of suave. Most of what is here comprises those cool things and hip people who over the years have gained that certain ... Je ne sais quoi. In music -- jazz, lounge, mod, and certainly even some current rock and pop groups and musicians are here, and are suave. Suave is what you make it. In my mod world these things are suave because I make them that way. Solid soul and style, Mr. Suave Feed Shark [http://feedshark.brainbliss.com]




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