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Sun Ra - Mike Huckaby Bonus Beats! Mike Huckaby - Sun Ra Reel To Reel Session - Live at Amoeba Records, LA - July 13, 2017 & Sun Ra - "The Lady With The Golden Stockings" (Mike Huckaby edit) A  quick post: A few days ago I shared a couple 12"s of Sun Ra edits by Mike Huckaby . If you were feeling those all, here are a couple bonuses to keep that vibe going. I love this stuff.  The excellent UK label Strut Records has been releasing Sun Ra compilations and albums over the last ten years or so, sometimes partnered with Art Yard (who, along with the Kindred Spirits label, issued those Huckaby edit 12s back in 2011). I seems like they had been planning at some point to promote one of those compilations by reviving this idea and releasing some more "Mike Huckaby reel-to-reel edits." As far as I know, the only other track that ever made it's way into the world for us all to hear was  this edit of The Lady With The Golden Stockings  that the label posted to So...

Sun Ra – The Mike Huckaby Reel-To-Reel Edits Vol. 1 Kindred Spirits, Art Yard – KSAY-MH01 Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Netherlands, May 2011 info Sun Ra – The Mike Huckaby Reel-To-Reel Edits Vol. 2 Kindred Spirits, Art Yard – KSAY-MH02 Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, 45 RPM, Netherlands, Sep 27, 2011 info Before I had ever bumped into the word afrofuturism  (and long before I saw it  turning up in pop culture commentary ), I had gained Sun Ra in my musical vocabulary. And while it had never been my scene at the time, Detroit techno was there playing in the background, too.  I won't give a long speech, but let me say this: Neither Sun Ra nor Mike Huckaby's music proclaims itself as "political." Their records don't immediately or overtly identify themselves as reflecting the radical imagination that movements need (and that Black leaders, artists and organizers have so often provided). I'm no expert on jazz and even less so on techno. I really don't know Sun Ra or Hu...