You Can Have Your Tits & Ass...

I'm with The Outlaw 4, Darondo & ZZ Top when it comes to my fave female body part.

The Outlaw 4 - Million Dollar Legs

Darondo - Legs, Pt 1 (Live)

ZZ Top - Legs

From Huwston With Love

"Australia's answer to Gilles Peterson" That's what I like to call my good friend Huw Ellis. As someone that's spent years around music from his days working for some of Australia's best indie record labels to DJing to running his own amazing label Knowfool as well as writing a column and interviewing all the right people in one of Sydney's longest running dance publications 3d World and more recently shining as a radio presenter with his show Soul Glow on 2ser he does an incredible job of opening peoples ears to 'good music' hence the 'Gilles' tag I've given him.

With all this on his plate it's a wonder he has any spare time to scratch himself let alone return my calls so I was especially stoked when he said he'd take the time to whip up a mix and answer the Themes For Young Lovers questions for the blog.

So without further ado heeeere we go...

Name - Huw Ellis aka Huwston

A/S/L - 27 / Male / Newtown, Sydney, Australia

Name 3 songs that would be no-brainers to put on a mixtape for that special someone you were trying to woo -
Al Green - Love & Happiness (Shoes Edit)
Natural Four – Try Love Again
Kylie Auldist – Never Did I Ever Stop Loving You
(funnily enough none of these made the cut today but I started the Q & A before I did the mix and this is just where I was at on an overcast Sunday afternoon)

You've turned the lights down low, lit the candles and poured the dom perignon, what LP goes on the stereo? Erykah Badu – Worldwide Underground (but you gotta program out the Latifah joint at the end). I Included her and Common’s tribute to Hip Hop on the mix because it’s nice like that and that woman is gonna have one talented family. You see – music really does bring people together!

What is your fave romantic film of all time? Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – so bittersweet. Gets me every time. And I could only bring myself to see it once. A modern masterpiece.

You've just had your heart broken, what's the song that you play to ease the pain and get you through? Lonely Soul – Unkle feat Richard Ashcroft – really evokes the tears, especially when the strings come in – POW! That’s the DJ Shadow influence. I steer as far away from anything by Unkle after that album. Yuck. But this is a love blog and now I’ve gone all negative...

What song was/or will be played during the first dance at your wedding? Good question, so many to choose from, really have to go with a joint choice here and should bring in the missus on this one. I DJ a lot of weddings and there are some terrible choices, mostly really obvious ones, too. Maybe ‘Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing’ by Marvin and Tammi. Best duo ever?

Who's music do you think has played the biggest part in helping increase the world's population over the years, Al Green, Barry White or Marvin Gaye? Marvin, no doubt. Everyone (meaning rich white people) only knows ‘Let’s Stay Together’ by Al Green and that Barry White is ‘that guy with the deep voice’ but I think Marvin infiltrated popular culture from early on and kept building. But I gotta give a shout out to ?uestlove – his productions or drums or whatever appear like half a dozen times on my mix!!!

and finally What's your fave guilty pleasure/cheesiest love song? Sting is a very guilty pleasure cos he comes off as such a knob in interviews. Had to drop ?uesto and James Poyser’s cover of ‘Be Still My Beating Heart’ on the mix. The guys is an incredible songwriter, in all fairness.

Themes For Young Lovers blog mix - From Huwston With Love by Knowfoowl

Tracklisting -

Stanley Clarke – Slow Dance
7 Samurai – Without Luv
James Mason – I Want Your Love
Mos Def – Ms Phat Booty (Pure P Mix)
Erykah Badu feat Common – Love of my Life
Joss Stone – Fell In Love With A Boy
Dwele – If You Want To The
Randy Watson Experience – Be Still My Beating Heart
DJ Mitsu The Beats feat Jose James – Promise In Love
Freddie & Linn – Live For Love
Sa Ra Creative Partners – The Bone Song
Final Solution – I’m Ready For Love
As One feat Paul Randolph – I Love You
D’Angelo – Feel Like Making Love
Al Green – What More Do You Want From Me
Amy Winehouse – Love Is A Losing Game
The Four Tops – Your Love Is Amazing
Raphael Saadiq – Love That Girl
Marvin Gaye – I Want You
Floating Points – Love Me (Like This)
Donna Summer – Love To Love You Baby (Frico Edit)
Al Hudson & The Soul Partners - Spread Love
Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes – The Love I Lost (DJ Asparagus edit)
Jose James – Love (Ben Westbeech Remix)
The Foreign Exchange feat Yahzarah – If This Is Love
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Aretha Franklin – I Say A Little Prayer
Mayer Hawthorne – Green Eyed Love (Waajeed Remix)

Miles Gets Open

The multi talented Miles Bonny (Vocalist/Producer/DJ/Trumpeter) was one artist that I was really keen to get to answer the Themes For Young Lovers questions for a couple of reasons, A. because he's one of my faves and B. A lot of his work, from his own original material to the cover versions he's recorded touches on love themes, so I reached out and luckily enough for me (and you!) he was nice enough to take some time out to do so.

Name - Miles Bonny

A/S/L - 29 /Male/Kansas City, Missouri USA

Name a couple of songs that would be no-brainers to put on a mixtape for that special someone you were trying to woo -

Tyrone Davis - In the Mood
DJ Day & Miles Bonny - Still Miles (Still Ray)

You've turned the lights down low, lit the candles and poured the Dom Perignon, what LP goes on the stereo? Tom Brock - I Love You More and More an unbelievable and amazingly beautiful little known classic

What is your fave romantic film of all time? None come to mind. I think what happens in the room during the film is more important.

You've just had your heart broken, what's the song that you play to ease the pain and get you through? Al Green is always a good choice to centre oneself.

What song was/or will be played during the first dance at your wedding? Hmm, what was first?... lemme call her... wow, well, I was DJing along with Joc Max and I think in the spur of the moment it was Omarion "Entrourage" which is a great song and beat along the same lines of Usher’s "Caught Up" I play those two often when I DJ for both the music crowd and the pop crowd. It’s quality.

Whose music do you think has played the biggest part in helping increase the world's population over the years, Al Green, Barry White or Marvin Gaye? Of the 3, Marvin Gaye. Marvin gets it going. When I was first really in love, All I listened to was Marvin albums, and I felt them like I had never felt them before. I got it.

You're out in the club and you spot a pretty young thang, what's your go to pick up line you use? How are you doin’? The focus is on her. take it from there. It’s not about the first line, but the follow up. The first line is only a door-knock. The second line is the most important.

and finally What's your fave guilty pleasure/cheesiest love song? Any song I associate with a real feeling of love I inherently do not feel is cheesy, but as far as cheesy songs in general; Wilson Phillips “Hold on” is definitely something I dig. I had that tape. And you can’t go wrong with Boyz II Men "On Bended Knee" or Color me Badd. Ghetto mucho baby!

I Was Blind To Let You Go

A clever little edit courtesy of the mysterious Big J (?) who takes the Jackson 5 acapella of I Want You Back and places it on top of the Esso Trinidad Steel Band's instrumental cover version.

Best enjoyed whilst sipping on a rum based cocktail with an umbrella in it. hammock optional.

I Want You Back (Big J's Esso Trinidad Steel Band Edit) - Jackson 5 Listen/Download

Your Kisses Taste Like Honey

LA house music specialist Cole Medina takes an almost flawless Bee Gee's joint and goes and makes it flawless by extending the intro and utilizing the best parts of the original. Classic themes for young lovers business.

Love You Inside Out (Cole Medina Edit) - The Bee Gees Listen/Download

It was also given the female touch by Feist, peep the vid below

Love Is The Drug & I Need The Score

Love Is The Drug (Prince Klassen Edit) - Roxy Music Listen/Download

Boy You Turn Me....

Gamm is one of, if the not THE best label when it comes to the business of cheeky musical bootlegs, they enlist the skills of different producers from all over the globe to take old favourites and flip them on their head.

This time around they give us a great little re-working of the Diana Ross classic 'Upside Down' it definitely could've done without the Ol' Dirty Bastard verse in my opinion but apart from that it's another themes for young lovers sure shot.

Upside Down (Collen & Webb Downside Up Remix) - Diana Ross Listen/Download

Spread The Love

DJ Shepdog takes the vocal stylings of American Seventh-day Adventist a cappella gospel music sextet Take 6 and adds some classic hip hop drums to the equation.

Simple and effective with an important message, being that love is all we need... I couldn't agree more

Spread Love (DJ Shepdog Edit) - Take 6 Listen/Download