Back to the Afrofuture

I had asked for some assistance with an Afrofuturist set from my friend Mike, but he didn't get back to me in time (in truth I gave only a couple of days). But after the last show he sent me a list of 103 songs I could use! So I needed to revisit it.

I mostly used his setlist. I made specific rules for which songs I would use (play them in order, don't play an artist I did last week, only one song per artist, etc.) and then through the rules out the window once I became desperate to find the next track. I need to work on my music sleuthing skills -- I often find bands I like to be in between two categories -- seems like Funkadelic should be in Rock and Parliament in Soul/R+B? Or what about the folk rock I like -- which category? What is experimental and what is electronic? I often wish we could just categorize all music together alphabetically and be done with it.

So here's my setlist for my July 17 show, which is basically all Mike:

Brides of Funkenstein	Mother May I?
The Jackson Five	Dancing Machine
Sly and the Family Stone	Spaced Cowboy
Miles Davis	Sanctuary
Alice Coltrane	Radhe-Shyam
Herbie Hancock	Ostinato (Suite for Angela)
McCoy Tyner	fly with the wind
Lee Scratch Perry & Full Experience	Disco Devil
King Tubby	African Roots
Culture	Black Starliner Must Come
Earth Wind & Fire	Fantasy
Herbie Hancock	Rockit
Model 500	Milky Way
Newcleus	Jam On It
Digable Planets	TIme & Space (A New Refutation Of)
bernie worrell	flex
De La Soul	Transmitting Live From Mars
theesatisfaction	eathseed
janelle monae	BabopbyeYa
DJ Spooky	Anansi's Gambit
Flying Lotus	Do The Atral Plane
zomby	mozaik
Flying Lotus	Computer Face/Pure Being
Funkadelic	Electric Spanking of War Babies
Funkadelic	Eulogy and Light
Marvin Gaye	A Funky Space Reincarnation
labelle	black holes in the sky
blood sweat and tears	ride captain ride
TV on the Radio	Satellite
Sun Ra	Astro Black