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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Here’s That Rainy Day

This week’s Fresh Friday washes it all away, cleansed by the restorative soul of Bill Evans, The Jones Girls, The Isley Brothers, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Lou Donaldson, Marvin Gaye, De La Soul, and Aretha Franklin.

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Cool Your Jets

This week’s Fresh Friday is a jolt of high-wattage soul, electrified by The Staples Jr. Singers, The Lijadu Sisters, Black Star, Herbie Hancock, Curtis Mayfield, Kuku Sebsibe, Marvin Gaye, and Sly Stone.

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The Way We Swing

This week’s Fresh Friday is a collaboration 12 years in the making, inspired by the reflective soul of The Royal Jesters, A Tribe Called Quest, Roberta Flack, Patrice Rushen, Curtis Mayfield, Can, Jackie Mittoo, and Digital Underground.

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Hurry Up Tomorrow

This week’s Fresh Friday says goodbye to 2022, carried by the gusting soul of Wee, Yesterday’s New Quintet, The Nu’Rons, Black Star, Ahmad Jamal, Tewolde Redda, and Gil Scott-Heron with Makaya McCraven.

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Bouquet

This week’s Fresh Friday holds its head high, lifted by the esteemed soul of Sam Cooke, Wings, Patrice Rushen, Bobby Hutcherson, The Lijadu Sisters, Dilla x The Beach Boys, and Ndikho Xaba.

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From Before

This week’s Fresh Friday will wash it all away, warmed by the cleansing soul of Bill Evans, Gil Scott-Heron, Anthony Williams, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Sam Cooke, Bettye Swann, and A Tribe Called Quest.

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Back Trak

This week’s Fresh Thursday (?) is a soulful digestif to help wash down another challenging year, ripened by the sweet and complex sounds of Erasmo Carlos, Oy Onyioha, Los Disco Duro, The Jungle Brothers, Sweet Talks, Minnie Riperton, Pretty Purdie & the Playboys, and Charles Wright.

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Turn Out the Lights

This Week’s Fresh Friday turns a narrative page, propelled forward by the reflective soul of Curtis Mayfield, The Sylvers, The Real ShooBeeDoo, Don Thompson, Lalomie Washburn, 79.5, Larry Young, and Digital Underground.

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Skeletons

This week’s Fresh Friday frightens away the chaos, possessed by the fiery soul of The Jungle Brothers, Les McCann, Stevie Wonder, Ahmad Jamal, Gil Scott-Heron, EPMD, Hugh Masekela, The Rotary Connection, and De La Soul.

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Darn That Dream

Let this week’s Fresh Friday lift you above the moonlit skies, set adrift by the haunting sounds of Azymuth, Bill Withers, George Benson, Bohannon, Wings, The Heptones, Bill Evans & Jim Hall, and the Beastie Boys.

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Hold On

This week’s Fresh Friday gets things done like they’ve never been done, held together by the unified soul of EPMD, Betty Davis, Allen Toussaint, John Lennon, Barbara & Ernie, Nina Simone, James Brown, and Delroy Wilson.

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You Must Believe in Spring

This week’s Fresh Friday welcomes the relief of spring, thawed by the sincere radiance of The Supremes, Prince, EPMD, Roy Ayers, The Swingle Singers, Bill Evans, Deniece Williams, Eddie Kendricks, and De La Soul.

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Baby, This Love I Have

This week’s Fresh Friday mix is tryin’ to tell you that it cares, expressed by the words and sounds of Biz Markie, The Sylvers, Bobbi Humphrey, Minnie Ripperton, Heatwave, Stevie Wonder, Arthur Verocai, Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, and A Tribe Called Quest.

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Call Me the Moment You Get There

Enjoy every minute, moment, and second of this week's Fresh Friday, blessed by the ascendant soul of Gene Harris & The Three Sounds, Erik B & Rakim, Wayne Shorter, Girma Bèyènè, The Jungle Brothers, Ronnie Foster, Malo, and Aretha Franklin.

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Make 'em Clap to This

Greet the approaching summer breeze with an exposed midriff of soul, made vulnerable by the joyful sounds of Cymande, Ramsey Lewis, Ricardo Marrero & the Group, Syreeta, Johnson Hawkins Tatum & Durr, Michael Jackson, The Beastles, Eric B & Rakim, and Sly & the Family Stone! 

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Here Comes the Judge

As we prepare for the beginning of the end, this week's Fresh Friday turns up the heat, coerced by the funky reverb of Pigmeat Markham, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Dr. John, Charles Mingus, Arthur Verocai, Linda Lewis, Boogie Down Productions, and James & Bobby Purify!

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Sunny Boy

Five months ago, our lives changed forever as we were united with our son, Miles Zekariyas. Today, his first birthday is soulfully celebrated by the The Ponderosa Twins Plus One, Diana Ross & The Supremes, De La Soul, Helen Reddy, Al Jarreau, Nat Adderley, The Jackson Five, and Mulatu Astatke!

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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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