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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Tell Me a Bedtime Story

Let this week’s Fresh Friday rock you into a golden slumber, soothed by the gentle soul of The Zombies, Leroy Hutson, Kimiko Kasai, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Alèmayèhu Eshèté, Edwin Starr, Otis Redding & Carla Thomas, and Lowbites.

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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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Arrow Through Me

This week’s Fresh Friday will salve your soul, sutured by the healing sounds of Wings, Kimiko Kasai, Roy Ayers, Ronnie Foster, Bobbi Humphrey, Deodato, Sweet Talks, and David Axelrod.

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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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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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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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Decently Exposed

This week’s Fresh Friday was curated entirely by my friend and co-worker, Bojana Ostojic, who is moving on from Microsoft after 20+ years, celebrated by the soulful tones of Goran Bregovic, Supertramp, Otis Redding, The Doors, Natalie Merchant, Talking Heads, The Revivalists, Lahasa, and Nina Simone.

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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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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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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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The Tree Planters

This week’s Fresh Friday welcomes guest deejay, Miles (who curated the album selection, track-list, title, and cover), and sows the seeds of pre-spring funk, nourished by Jimi Hendrix, Lee Morgan, Prince, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, and James Brown!

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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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The Good Mister Square

As we near the season finale of "Shitshow 2017," cleanse in the self-reflective waters of Sam Cooke, The Pretty Things, John Phillips, Manu Dibango, Bobby Hutcherson, Marlena Shaw, Ronnie Foster, and Nina Simone. 

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Get Yourself Together

Let the soulful poetry of this week’s Fresh Friday inspire the succulent change in which we all aspire to ripen… with The Rolling Stones, Astrud Gilberto, The Ramsey Lewis Trio, The Incredible Bongo Band, Elis & Tom, Cymande, Sam Spence, Ricardo Marerro & The Group, and The Four Small Faces!

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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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