On any given Friday, Cool Your Jets Creative releases a new Fresh Friday. a hot and tasty vinyl mixtape with a custom cover. Tracks range from jazz to soul to hip-hop and beyond, with nearly every song ripped from original pressing vinyl, where each pop from the static patina tells a story of that record’s journey.

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Monster

This week’s Fresh Friday haunts like a lingering dream, featuring the misunderstood magic of Shel Silverstein, Bobby Charles, Kathleen Emery, Chick Corea, Jim Sullivan, McDonald & Giles, Love Apple, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, The Free Design, Brenton Wood, and Donovan.

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You Are Me, I Am You

This week’s Fresh Friday offers a safe place to hole up until (if?) the chaos subsides, insulated by the protective grooves of Astrud Gilberto, Dorothy Ashby, Grant Green, Ron Carter, Oliver Nelson, Gene Russell, Bobby Timmons, and Odyssey.

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Love Me Till the Sun Shines

This week’s rain-soaked mix delivers the freshest of Fridays, nourished by the restorative soul of Rudy Ray Moore, The Kinks, Johnny Hammond, Nino Ferrer & Radiah, Otis Redding, Bill Evans, Lonnie Liston Smith, and Sly & The Family Stone! 

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Ostinato

This week’s Fresh Friday is a continuous pulse of jazz-infused empowerment, fueled by the nonstop rhythms of The Young-Holt Unlimited, Alan Hull, Reuben Wilson, Herbie Hancock, Dr. John, Nina Simone, Jim Sullivan, and Shirley Scott.

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Searching the Circle

This week’s Fresh Friday illuminates the path of your inner world, guided by the stirring sounds of The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, The Whatnauts, Barbara & Ernie, Delroy Wilson, Charlie Earland, Tommy James & The Shondells, The Heptones, and Bob Dylan.

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And the Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall

Bask in the earthy glow of this week’s Fresh Friday, restored by the organic sounds of Marcos Valle, Paul Simon, Ramsey Lewis, Ronnie Foster, Betty Wright, Harry Belafonte, The Free Design, and Wings…Mother Nature!

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I Want to Break Free

Surrender yourself to this week’s Fresh Friday, which features a cover by the amazing Ryan Hastings and the liberating tones of OMD, Queen, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Kinks, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Melanie, Bobby Taylor, and Brian Eno.

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I Get Along Without You Very Well

This week’s Fresh Friday longs for the sound of a distant train, echoed by the strange sounding soul of Sam Cooke, Cal Tjader, Kraftwerk, Serge Gainsbourg, Leon Spencer, The Free Design, Volta Jazz, Marie Laforêt, and Chet Baker.

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You Showed Me

This week's Fresh Friday ensures that everything will turn out alright, soothed by the soulful swagger of The Free Design, Van Dyke Parks, Eddie Harris, The Turtles, Nina Simone, Lyn Collins, Gil Evans, Julius Brockington, and the Beach Boys.

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Is There Any Love In This World?

This week's Fresh Friday is lost for words and features Donny Hathaway, Alice Coltrane, Trevor Dandy, The Blues Project, Gil Scott-Heron, Shuggie Otis, Deodato, and Miss Abrams & The Strawberry Point 4th Grade Class.

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Time

As time runs and passes, passes and runs…relax and flow downstream with this week’s Fresh Friday, held afloat by the introspective soul of Mary Hopkin, David Axelrod, The Last Poets, A Tribe Called Quest, Charles Wright, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Sarstedt, and Junior Parker.

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Morningwood

Fresh Friday was so Fresh, it has spilled over into Monday, positive and proud, with different strokes delivered by the likes of Bob Dylan, the Merry-Go-Rounds, Ghostface Killah, The Commodores, Gil Scott-Heron, and a few deep groove surprises…co-mixed by db!

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1 2 3 4

It’s time to count it off, as Fresh Friday blasts off this week with purpose, fueled by the premium-unleaded-soul of Mantronix, Eugene Record, Buddy Rich, Bob James with Patti Austin, Labi Siffre, Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin, and Willie Bobo & the Bo-Gents!

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