Machinhes Are Funky: 19/4/08 Tracklist and Competition Question

Voila, the playlist for last night's show.

Touched Soul - Johnny D (Deep Vibes)
Beach Buggy (Motorcitysoul main mix) - Tiger Stripes (Urban Torque)
Distant Brother (Ran Shani remix) - Pedro Cali (Fine Art)
Conflicting Bells - Octogen (Soma)
Brothers and Ssiters - Tama Sumo & Prosumer (Ostgut Ton)
Murk - Ben Wijay (Phreakin)
Run to the Hills- Mental Overdrive (Love OD/Smaltown Supersound)
DET (Schtrax remix) - Daso & Pawas (Spectral)
Squally Showers - Leif (Fear of Flying)
Ecosystem - Soul Designer (Third Ear)
M.A.M. (Marcel Dettmann remix) - Gowentgone (Vidab)
Out of the Boat - Gerald Mitchell (Reincarnation)
Redemption - Philippe Autuori (Hypercolour)
32 Lineup - B12 (B12 Records)
Seldom Felt 2
WOH (Popof remix) - Delon & Dalcan (Boxer)
Balungan - Alexander Roland (Karmarouge)

There was a competition in the show to win two cds of the forthcoming Mental Overdrive cd "You Are Being Manipulated." The question is . . .

The track "Run to the Hills" is a cover of a famous song by which band?

You can send your answers by email to corey.paul@209radio.co.uk and mark them "Mental Comp" including all contact details. You can also leave a comment on this blog between this post and the next show tracklisting. If you do this, please remember to leave your email address too. Good luck!

Machines Are Funky: 19/4/08

On this week's show I'll be featuring new music from Ben Wijay, Radioactive Man, Mental Overdrive, Deep Vibes, Octogen, Gerald Mitchell and tons more. There'll also be a competition as I've got a couple of copies of the forthcoming Mental Overdrive cd "You Are Being Manipulated" to give away.


Keep your ear to the ground and keep it locked!

Link on the right of this blog.

Magnum Opuses

magnum opus |ˈmagnəm ˈōpəs|
noun ( pl. magnum opuses or magna opera |ˈmagnə ˈōpərə; ˈäpərə|)
a large and important work of art, music, or literature, esp. one regarded as the most important work of an artist or writer.
ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Latin, ‘great work.’


That's a few bottles of very expensive champagne where I come from, and that's another bout of unnecessary self-depracation. On with the music. . .




Tripping Among The Stars (A Necessary Journey) - Sound Patrol (Organico)

Derrick Carter on untouchable form. From the "Sweetened, No Lemon LP on Dubtribe's Organico label. He's never done better, and he's done amazingly well on multiple occasions. I'm amazed that this hasn't been picked up by the new deep house mafia yet. Maybe it's because it's from Chicago rather than from Detroit or New York. Anyway, this is my all-time favourite deep house track. You can get off my back now John, it's up.

This review from Discogs says it all. Except that it's 17 minutes + of pure soulful house.

Buy this record for the opener, 'Tripping Among The Stars', an absolute gem of a house track. With a sub-120bpm groove, the first 5 minutes builds to the vocal intro that seals the awesome DEEPNESS of this killer cut. 10 minutes of pure soulful house, an analogue bassline to die for and a track you'll check over and over again when the lights are low. The other tracks are great, but the opener is worth the admission price alone.

I'll never post a better mp3. Fact.



The Meaning - Ron Trent & Chez Damier (Prescription Underground)

From The Language 12", a double-header with The Collective, this is my all-time favourite Prescription track, and like Derrick Carter there've been many wonderful moments. Nothing beats this simple instrumental, complete with coughing, as far as uplifting house music is concerned. Simply brilliant.




Digeridoo - The Aphex Twin (R & S)

Originally released on R & S back in 1992! I've got it from the "Classics" compilation released in the mid-nineties on sky blue vinyl pop pickers. Excellent full-on track that, rightly or wrongly didn't do it for me too much when it was released due to the whole Megadog crusty tribal techno baggage it came along with. Not arguing with it now though.



24-24 - Cabaret Voltaire (Some Bizarre/Virgin)



Diskono - Cabaret Voltaire (Some Bizarre/Virgin)

My all-time favourite beat combo. Both tracks come from "The Crackdown" LP released in 1983, "Diskono" being on a limited edition 12" that soundtracked the "Doublevision" VHS. I remember bumping into Stephen Mallinder at the Notting Hill carnival in 1987 speeding off my head. He looked like he was too.

Anyone spot Chris Watson, (old CV member who'd already left by the time of The Crackdown's release), recording puffins with Bill Oddie on tv a few weeks ago?

The Mystery Virus Mix

This is the first mix I've recorded since the similarly named after-an-ailment "Stomach Bug" mix back in September. It's also the first recorded mix in the new Chateau Corey in sunny Haverhill. Needless to say I am currently suffering from a "mystery virus" thus having a little bit of free time on my hands for once.

I haven't even listened back to this mix yet, so here it is with all it's wobbles and glitches, warts and all.

System Corey is two Technics 1210s, two Pioneer CDJ 200s and an Allen and Heath Xone 32.

The Mystery Virus Mix:

Native to America - Gemini (Relief)
On Drumzzz - Jens Zimmermann (Snork Enterprises)
Promises - Pigon (Dial)
Visions of Mantada - Patrice Scott (Aesthetic Audio)
Lost Tracks from Detroit (?)
Synthetic - Wild Planet (430 West)
Baisbe alt Bass - Rhadoo (Cadenza)
Somelightuntothenight (Troy Pierce Close the Windows remix) - Cassy (Beatstreet)
Humana - Millsart (Axis)
Equalized 01 (Equalized)
Flatbread - Jens Bond (Highgrade)
To the Bone (Jamie Jones Percussion dub) - Danton Eeprom (Tsuba)
Monkier - Bearweasel (Supernature)
I'll be Back, I Promise - Gary Martin (Teknotika)
Berlin Dub - Mixworks (Mixworks)
Backseat Driver (Jason Emsley remix) - Slutbox (Siteholder)
Stash - Mark Henning (Soma)
Red Coffee - Marcus Enochson (Imprime)


I'm not sure if I've spelt the Rhadoo track properly, but I can't be arsed checking. It's forthcoming on Cadenza. Check it yourself.

The Mystery Virus mix can be contracted here.

Autodrive Vs Jahcoozi

I forgot to say a few words about the upcoming offering from Autodrive vs Jahcoozi "Hiding from the Truth" (Tonkind). A varied three-tracker with two mixes of the title track and the surreal cod-reggae of "Sir Your Wife" which I think works really well in a parallel-genre sort of way. I played the Edgar Peng remix of "Hiding from the Truth" on my last show. I may play another bit this weekend.

URtwork

Great new Wire issue, with Wolfgang Voight on the cover and Carl Craig's invisible jukebox. Also, on their site, there's an Underground Resistance art gallery, like the one on Vision On with the aid of a few mind benders. One of their prints is above. It's "Drexiciya Warroirs Return." The self-mythologising could be said to have gone too far, but I'm a big fan of the black slant on science fiction and nowhere is it more in evidence than in Detroit and the music that it's produced.

Interesting, Very Interesting . . .

Once more I trawl through the cosmic slop that is my record collection, in search of uncut gems. So here are some more . . .



E-Dub - Glory B (Grow!)

Each cut on this four tracker is the business! Grow! came out of Austria in the mid-nineties and as far as I know has yet to be bettered by the land that gave us Red Bull. Jeremiah and Don Disco were two of their most prolific artists, but the "Friday Island" EP, from which this track is taken, is for me the quintessential release. Basic Channel style dubbiness and rasping house-paced metallics made Grow! a label with high quality control and ahead of it's time.



Behind Closed Doors (Theo Parrish remix) - Losoul (Elevate)

Playhouse recording artist Losoul enlists Theo Parrish to remix and the result is a consciously fuzzy tribal affair, not typical of Theo's solo work at the time. A groovesome open-ended affair that doesn't sound like Losoul either.




I Can't Kick This Feeling When It Hits - Moodymann (KDJ)

Needs no intro. Mid-paced house jam that still sounds fresh today. Possibly the Mann's best-known cut along with "Shades of Jae."




I'm The Baddest Bitch (Moodymann remix) - Norma Jean Bell (Pandamoniam)

Kenny Dixon Jnr again, this time on remix duties. This, like "I Can't KickThis Felling . . " was huge when I was living in Paris in the mid-nineties. The sax can be annoying, but that's NJB herself, and she's the baddest bitch!



Windy City - Jack-Tronic (Peacefrog)

Who is/was Jack-Tronic? I don't think he gave up the day job. Pity. One of a clutch of Peacefrog releases that made their mark by artists who have disappeared into the ether. The title, plus the time when it was made when Chicago was at the top of the tree, make this a worthy addition.

My mate Pete has started a blog, he's already fallen behind on his posts though, after his first. Anyway, early days yet. Get yer finger out Pete.

Read Pete's embryonic efforts here

Post Anfield Euphoria

What a result for the mighty Reds last night against the Arse, who payed their part but seemed to lack mental strength when it was most needed. If things don't go well for them over the next year or so, it's good to know that Arsene Wenger has got a chauffeur career to fall back on.

And I've been trying to find time to get my act together and write some reviews, so here's some words on some imminent "hot shit."



Title: Backseat Driver EP
Artist: Slutbox
Label: Siteholder
Genre: Sinister Minimal Pimp Shit

A1: Jason Emsley's "Lick It, Smack It, Rib It Down Remix"
A2: BumpinUglyRemix
B1: Original
B2: Butane's "Percocet" Remix

"Get your dirty ass in the back" indeed. A menacing four-tracker that throughout it's four incarnations retains a sonar-like synth stab. All mixes function admirably at varying levels of intensity. Personal fave is probably the Jason Emsley remix, along with Butane's slower, more sluggish, spookier offering.





Title: Corian
Artist: Sean Palm
Label: Railyard Recordings
Genre: Warm, Deep Metronomic Grooviness

A: Corian (original mix)
B: Corian (Simon Flower remix)

The original is a simple hip swinger that brings the sound of waves breaking on the shore and vibrant strings into the mix when things are beginning to feel a little empty. It's a gentle, hypnotic piece that never overstates it's case. Simon Flower's remix is similarly warm but deeper still, and more urgent than the original. I'm imagining driving through the Mersey Tunnel at night twatted to this one.





Title: Curd & Whey
Artist: Alland Byallo
Label: Nightlight Music
Genre:

1: Curd
2: Whey
3: Curd (Mikael Stavostrand Remix)
4: Curd (Michal Ho's Charmed Quark Remix)

The hi-hat in "Curd" is well in tune with one of techno's current trends. Ever since Petre Inspirescu started employing off-beat percussion in his tracks it's become a feature, and a good one at that. It's soon going to be past it's sell-by date though. Not that it is here of course. It's used well and combines with space and a lovely squelchy noise that sounds like a synthesied castanet. "Whey" isn't as lively, making use of muffled harmonies occasionally interrupted by discordant metallic foghorns. Out of the two remixes I prefer Mikael Stavostrand's. More full-on than Michal Ho's, but both have their merits and both will work the floor at different times in the set, Ho's being more of an opener.



Title: Okay No Disco
Artist: Gavin Herlihy
Label: Paradigma Music
Genre: Inventive Twist on Trance and Techno

A: Okay No Disco
B: Sink Or Swim

"Okay No Disco" is moody stuff that works well because of it's grating contradictory rhythm. There's a noise in there that I swear is sampled from "Lost in Space" or some similar fities/sixties sci-fi series. The hook is an aggressive, arpeggiated Plastikman-inspired monster. "Sink or Swim" has me thinking of riding a horse across endless snowy fields in the Arctic Circle. It's a clever trance-techno hybrid that builds it's momentum intelligently.



Title: Godson EP
Artist: Ben Wijay
Label: Phreakin
Genre: Deep/Tech House

A: Godson
B1: Murk
B2: Chicken & Chips

"Godson" is moody, sinister space funk. This is what they'll be playing on the last saucer from Venus as it hurtle past an ever-expanding Sun. It's going to make the fluff stand up on your bra. "Murk" is an acid-tinged grinder that has it's vocal samples well to the fore while the jauntily titled "Chicken and Chips" wears it's deep tech Detroit credentials on it's sleeve. A strong package from Australia's Phreakin' that hopefully brings the talented Mr Wijay to a wider audience.

Title: A Place for Everything and Everything in it's Place
Artist: Leif
Label: Fear of Flying
Genre: Tech House

1: Everywhere I Go I Meet Myself
2: OHNH
3: Squally Showers
4: Squally Showers (Polder remix)

"Everywhere I Go I Meet Myself" well, I know how Leif feels. There's a haunted feel to this track in parts, especially when the cavernous voice kicks in. It's a good track, but a little too jerky. I like "OHNH" a lot, and it fairly bounds along, underpinned by undulating chords that give it a space jazz feel, the kind of feel you might get on acid in the Death Star. "Squally Showers" is a mid-tempo upstart of a track that displays Leif's funk credentials on the mantlepiece while Polder's remix speeds things up a bit and adds a bit of Detroit-inspired depth. A strong package from FOF.

Machines Are Funky with Andy Weatherall: 5/4/08 Playlist

Last night's show contained an interview with Andy Weatherall conducted just before he played the Priory's night at the Fez on the 20/3.



Hiding from the Truth (Edgar Peng remix) - Autodrive vs Jahcoozi (Tonkind)
Lament - Falco Brocksieper (Substatic)

AW interview Pt 1

Poppop - Gimmikk (Arearemote)
For our Fathers - Tolga Fidan (Vakant)
Cosmic Ray - Shonky (Freak n' Chic)

AW Interview Pt 2

Baccara - Guido Schneider & Andre Galluzzi (Highgrade)
Europa - Mental Overdrive (Love OD/Smalltown Supersound)
Teckno Minimal - DJ Jus-Ed (Underground Quality)
Rice from the Young Ghost - Soul Designer (Third Ear)
Geezer - Mark Henning (CDR)

AW Interview Pt 3

Dark Knight - Lerosa (A Touch of Class)
Danse avec Moi - Noze (Get Physical)



Corian - Sean Palm (Railyard Recordings)

AW Interview Pt 4

Robuna - Break SL (Philpot)
Seven (Agnes Club mix) - Luna City Express (Moon Harbour)

To download the AW interview in it's unedited form, click here.

Tomorrows Show wiv Wevvers Chat

Great show this week. I'll be featuring an interview I conducted with Andy Weatherall just before he played The Priory's Easter special at The Fez on the 20/3. As if that wasn't enough, great new music from Autodrive vs Jahcoozi, Soul Designer, Mark Henning, Guido Schneider & Andre Galluzzi and Gimmikk . . .to name but a few.

Hope to see you there.

Keep it locked.

The First of Many . . .

British summer time started today, and it's been a nice day in Suffolk. Hard to believe that this was the scene outside my bedroom window on Easter Sunday.

Blogging is overrated. Not to worry. Here's a couple of reviews. There'll be more in the next week or so . .

Title: Sometimes I Cry
Artist: Mr G
Label: O Proof
Genre: Techno With Minimal Fuss

A: Sometimes I Cry
B: Sometimes I Cry (Radio Slave remix)

For his second O Proof release, Mr G enlists the remixing skills of Radio Slave. Josh Wink first, Radio Slave now, we're building up a nice head of steam here. Making great club tracks with a minimum of fuss has always been Colin McBean's trademark and he doesn't let the side down here. It's the constant building that I love about this stuff, plus the delicate atmospherics that make these sinister beasts on the dancefloor. The sampled wailing woman underpinned by a dirty throbbing bass alongside the Detroitish stabs that never quite come out of the darkness. Radio Slave's remix lacks the effortless swing of the original and does seem a bit leaden by comparison, but it works well in it's own way with a nice use of intermittent dynamics that occasionally push and pull the track to understated new levels of satisfaction. Keep it up!




Title: Smooth Sailing
Artist: Shaka
Label: Corner
Genre: House

A: Smooth Sailing (feat. Lena Fennell)
B1: Bubblebomb
B2: Smooth Sailing Dirty Funk-Tech remix (Breandan Davey)

The first thing I thought of when listening to "Smooth Sailing" was Matthew Herbert and Dani Siciliano. It's a quirky, jazz-inspired track that gently jacks along. It's a refined piece of listening but I'm struggling to decide if this is necessarily a good thing. Personally it's a little too refined for me. Good for the warm-up but a little bit too wine barish. "Bubblebomb" is more interesting. A syncopated piece of squelch-funk with some interesting sonic overtones. Similarly paced to "Smooth Sailing," this is house with a capital H. Mark Farina would like this one. Breandan Davey's "Dirty Funk Tech remix" of the title track largely dispenses with the vocal, bringing it in on a loop a couple of minutes from the end. "Dirty" is a little too strong a word for it though. "Soiled" is probably closer to the truth.

Three tracks that each subtly differ from each other, but they all feel a little too sanitized to my ears.

Weatherall at The Priory

Here's a review of Maunday Thursday's Priory with Andy Weatherall. A bit late I know, but it's been in transit.

The Priory Vs Base
20/3/08
9PM-4AM
The Fez, Cambridge UK

Andrew Weatherall (Two Lone Swordsmen/ROTTER'S Golf Club)
Jim Masters (Base/Hi Tek Soul)
Sam I Am, The Fish and George (The Priory)


Cambridge suffers, more than most, from it's proximity to London, and this is especially evident in it's nightlife. It's only fifty miles north of the capital, but if you compare it to Brighton, which is about the same distance away but South, then the differences become all too clear. There's a provincialism about Cambridge in spite of it's university and international student population that it's seaside cousin has long since shaken off. In fact it's maybe because of the university that things aren't more laissez faire. With this in mind, evenings like the Priory's Easter soiree featuring Andrew Weatherall as guest of honour are pretty much unmissable.

The Priory are currently three. Sam (I Am), James (The Fish) and George. They've been in existence for a good few years now and have built up their night from the proverbial party in a pub back room to hosting The Fez one Thursday a month. It's a testament to their hard work and dedication that although the night isn't a weekender, it's often packed to the rafters with a solid ensemble of regulars and reprobates for whom the third Friday of each month has become the perennial basis for swapping sick note excuses. They don't sell out on the guest front either, booking on the basis of sound musical taste rather than commercial profitability. Guests this year before Lord Sabre have been Luke Slater and Ed DMX.

Tonight's line-up is the pick of the bunch up to now though. It's the start of the Easter weekend, (no work on Good Friday), and upon entering at 10:30 it's already heaving inside. This is the situation until around an hour from the end when the crowd inevitably begins to thin out. The residents are on until AW, who takes control at around 12:15 and they set things up nicely for him, never losing the floor for a minute and building a finely constructed sonic wedding cake of a set.

AW's set was two hours stripped-down tech-house, the subtleties of which were lost on quite a few people. The problem with city centre clubs opening the night before a holiday weekend is that everyone wants to get in on the act. A sizeable proportion of the Fez's clientele were just there to extend drinking time or to get battered as quickly as possible. This doesn't apply to those dancing of course, just those wandering around like lost souls wanting it to be "a bit more bangin'." There was a groove to be jumped into and if you chose to, get lost in. I had much better things to do than trainspot, so I'm afraid I can't comment on specific tracks. Suffice to say that Andy didn't play a rockabilly set, or any Detroit electro. He was patient and kept people going, probably with one eye on Jim Masters coming on straight after. It was messy, druggy music with one foot firmly in an illegal warehouse rave. In many ways it felt a little too dirty for the Fez. Maybe that was the problem. . .

Jim Masters and the Priory DJs played out the final hour after AW stepped down. Their more uptempo and emphatic sets being met with relief by a large proportion of the crowd. This was what the hoi polloi had really come to hear: the music was more assertive and less subdued. Those who stuck around until the end said that the residents played the best music of the night with Jim Masters coming in a close second. Andy Weatherall's set was dismissed as "pretentious" by some and "boring" by others. Who was it who said "opinions are like arseholes . . ."? In any case, the bigger picture has to be taken into account here. The velocity was there to be increased and that was part of the plan. Instant gratification wasn't and it was to the benefit of everyone, whether they realised it or not, that this was the case. The night was an unqualified success in all respects except for the fundamental requirements of an efficient bar and cloakroom. These complaints may seem trite, but when the huddle around the bar is three or four deep all night because of a "staff shortage" and you've got a cloakroom populated by a human sloth, no amount of good music can placate you in your time of need. Let's end on a high though. Hats off to the Priory for improving on past line-ups and for bringing the noise back to Cambridge city centre.

Thanks to Caz Blink for the photos.

Machines Playlist & Competition Question: 22/3/08

Tonight's Playlist on a plate:

Squares - Sten (Smallville)
Doctor of Romance - Seth Troxler & Patrick Russell (Circus Company)
Just So U Know (2000 and 1 remix) - D'julz (Ovum)
Orbitalife - Johnny D (Oslo)
The Resident (vinyl edit) - Vincenzo (Dessous)
Caracas Soul - Kadebostan (Freude-am-Tanzen)
Squally Showers (Polder remix) - Leif (Fear of Flying)
Lunk Lunk - Carsten Franke (Ostwind)
Black Gold (Samuel L Sessions remix) - Itamar Sagi (Be As One)

Paul Woolford Mix Live at Womb Tokyo 15/3/08

Download here.

Here is the competition question. I've got two copies of the latest Fabric mix by Robert Hood to give away.

On what label was Robert Hood's classic "Minimal Nation" released?

Answers to corey.paul@209radio.co.uk with full contact details please. Mark entries "Hood Comp." The competition will be open until the 5/4 show. Good luck.

Tonight's Extravaganza

It's Easter, and a fertile time for all things four to the floor. I'll be featuring a guest mix by Paul Woolford (20/20 Vision, Back to Basics) aka Bobby Peru, as well as new music on Oslo by Johnny D, Sten, Seth Troxler & Patrick Russell and Shaka amongst others. I've also got two copies of Fabric's latest mix featuring Robert Hood at the controls. It's competition time again.

Link at the side of the page. 105 FM in Cambridge, globally on the web.

7-9PM GMT.

Andy Weatherall rocked it two nights ago here in Cam. There should be a review on RA from me sometime within the next few days. I'll also be broadcasting the interview I did with him on the 5/4 show, as well as making it available for download straight after.

Keep it locked.

Lady Luck EP - Tom Dazing (Heimatmelodie)

Here's a review of the latest offering on Andre Crom's Heimatmelodie imprint.

Title: Lady Luck EP
Artist: Tom Dazing
Label: Heimatmelodie
Cat Number: 007
Genre: Stripped -Down Funk

A1: Lady Luck
A2: Pun Intended
B1: Visually Hungry
B2: Visually Hungry (Arnaud le Texier remix)

Characterised by clicks, glitches and a weighty insistence, Tom Dazing's music speaks to the inner fugitive in all of us. I don't know if it's because I'm watching a scene from "The Bourne Supremacy" while listening to this or not but it's good car chase music this. There's a whiff of paranoia in the grooves that sits well on the music's dark side.

'Lady Luck' has a lot going for it and has a strident air about it but for my money hits the spot best when it crawls like a sinister disease underneath the beats using a cold-blooded analogue synth line to convey a lingering paranoia. Where 'Lady Luck' marches, 'Pun Intended' bounces and is a more contracted piece of work. It's peaks are characterised by flanged bleeps that behave themselves for the majority of then track but still sound like a barrel organ on crack. 'Visually Hungry' has a similar feel to 'Pun . . .' and very much feels like it's brother from a parallel world. The pitch is lower and more ratcheted and more delibrate. Arnaud le Texier's remix is slightly muffled in feel, and uses a squelchy sound from the original as it's main motif.

This EP's sporadic use of background noise that creates a claustrophobic feel between the grooves. It'll sound great on the right system, but it's subtleties could so easily be lost.

Tomorrow in Cambridge . . .

Lord Sabre himself, Andrew Weatherall will be gracing the decks at The Priory's monthly bash at the Fez. Need I say more? It's Good Friday the day after so come on down.

The Stuff of Life

Here it is . .

My Beat (Disco Circus Mix) - Blaze
Supernatural (B.H.Q. Club Mix) - Firefly (Slip and Slide)

Two of Derrick's finest, both on Slip n' Slide, which perfectly encapsulate his deft use of vocals along with his pounding drums and off-kilter electronics. If you stay still to these you're dead.

Dive into You (Vocal Mix) - Hefner vs Cosmos (Inertia)

Me old mucker Kevin Harding came up with this when we were Wednesday night Gold Bar residents. A perfect slice of dubby deep house where trance meets the groove. Tom Middleton on hand to add a bit of polish.

God Made Me Funky (Original Mix) - MD Express (Open)

You all know this one. Currently seeping into sets far and wide. A classic.

Magic Trick - DJ X-Ray (Kumba)

A Roy Davis Jnr joint and one of four tracks from the last release on Kumba. Great piece of workaholic structurally building house.




New York State of Mind - Jamz Nylon & Jahkey B (Nylon Recordings)

Acid b-lines with monotone spoken word delivery can't be beat.




Passages -Tony Watson (Ibadan)

Hypnotic perfection from Ibadan. One of the best single-side releases I've ever come across and yes, that includes all of Moodymann's efforts.

Go See Ya - Party Crashers (Acacia)

A secret weapon tucked away on an obscure four-tracker on Kelli Hand's Acacia label. Another spoken word, as seems to be the theme this weekend. Arguably the best of the lot. Insistent driving wormhole business. Play this one out and reap the benefits.

Not so many photos to adown my posts this weekend. Curse you Discogs!

Stay Remixes - Buset (Fine Art)

Read my RA review of Buset's "Stay" here.

Publish and be Damned!

I recently wrote an incoherent rant for Nitzan Hermon's (Fine Art Recordings) blog "Save Vinyl" on "The Recording Industry." You can read it here.

Ephemera

Back with a few more. Domestic matters have been all-enveloping lately and time hasn't been in plentiful supply. I've got loads of good stuff waiting in the wings to be posted, but here's a few in the meantime to keep interest levels fertile.

As ever, click on track titles to download.




Secrets - 16B (Alola):

Great slice of deep house and the record that put Omid 16B (what's wrong with his real surname. Ah, I know, it's foreign and a little bit difficult for us anglo-saxon types to curle our tongues around) on the map. He's well and truly slipped off the radar since though.




Let it Roll - Doug Lazy (Atlantic):

I remember walking into a hangar at Biggin Hill airfield in late spring 1989 and hearing this blasting out of the speakers, coupled with loads of loved up cockneys telling me how much they "loved John Barnes" and "scousers" it was an unforgettable night.




I Remember Dance - Chuggles (Prescription Underground):

Best piece of work Ralph Lawson's ever been involved with in my humble opinion.




Fantasy (Klubhead mix) - Blaze presents Cassioware feat. Sajeda (Playhouse):

You can't teach these guys anything. Class.