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Saturday, November 21, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Lagos_Boogie mix by Marcello Giordani
Not many people know the amazing Nigeria's Boogie Disco scene of early '80s with heavy basslines and punchy drums.
This mix includes the best (for me) records out from there from '82 to '86...
The quality of some record is low cause very hard too find better than VG-- and are full of pops and scratches...but always very very expensives!!!
1- Carol Bridi - Soul on fire (Otto rec. Nigeria '84)
2- Brakes - Rock with you (Ben Bruce rec. Nigeria '84)
3- Jide Obi - Save the children (Tabansi rec. Nigeria '82)
4- Hotline - Desire (Blackspot rec. Nigeria '83)
5- Dizzy K - Excuse me baby (EMI Nigeria '83)
6- Paul Abdul - Don't you know? (? rec. Nigeria '83)
7- Harry Mosco - Funk it down (HMV rec. Nigeria '83)
8- Kiki Gyan - Feelin' alright (Top rec. Nigeria '83)
9- Hotline - Doin' it in Lagos (Blackspot rec. Nigeria '83)
10 - Dizzy K - Omoge (EMI Nigeria '83)
11 - Xtasy - Throw down - Marcello Giordani re edit (Ben Bruce rec. Nigeria '83)
12- Kingsley Bucknor - Don't give up ya luv (Mercury rec. Nigeria '85)
13- Alioke Alison Borg - High land dancing (Coconut rec. Nigeria '86)
14- Veno Marioghae - Groove i like (Tabansi rec. Nigeria '85)
15- Jide Obi - Too Young (Tabansi rec. Nigeria '82)
16- Xtasy - Isale Eko (Ben Bruce rec. Nigeria '83)
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
The Gibson Brothers - Dancin' The Mambo (Bodie Lee dub edit)
In 1980 my good friends The Gibson Brothers released this album on Mango records. Amongst other stand out tracks on the LP was 'Dancin' the Mambo'. The original has a funky blend of disco bass, guitar and strings that I couldn't get enough of, so ............... I stripped out the vocal sections and went heavy with these instrumental sections in order to create a dubby re-edit version, enjoy ;)
- Bodie Lee
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Turelli - Mekano
This is a nice edit of Kano's "Super Extra Sexy Sign". This is a bootleg record, not hard to find, a good record to have in your bag when you play at a student party and feel that everybody is against you, and you need to get the crowd on your side. Also worthwile for an extra cosmic version of Vangelis' "Let it Happen" on the other side.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
R U ECLECTIC? PART. 2.1
Coming out of the smoke of the 80s and glossy "New Pop" between yuppies and cocaine, stunned by the Regan era, meanwhile the highway connecting Chicago to New York is blocked by crowds of gay blacks dancing to House (but that's another story ...) and the aberrant assembly of Detroit generated Techno( "George Clinton and Kraftwerk trapped in an elevator”, Juan Atkins) somewhere in England the presuppositions of the modern "Club Culture " were formed.
Tony Wilson, intellectual "deus ex machina" of Factory (Joy Division’s label) decrees the "beatification of the beat" and the figure of the DJ. The "Hacienda" club, which he founded, becomes the safety valve of the heterosexual middle class in dreary, industrial Manchester, where new wave, punk funk and disco meet in a miscellanious empathy that goes beyond genre classifications (both musical and sexual). While in the USA "Paradise Garage" and "Loft" are divorced from concept pop and remain places for the "initiated". In England many djs "distorted" by trips to Ibiza start to impose their "magic touch" on the production of shoe-gazer rock. In 1989, a year after the second "Summer of Love", Paul Oakenfold, stuff the Happy Mondays, passionate funk-rock quartet with a taste for ecstasy, full of "Balearic Beats".
Andy Weatherall, former mod and lover of northern soul as much as futuristic dub , produces “Screamedelica” third album from Primal Scream, which goes on to influence the way we produce for the whole of the 90s and beyond, with his astral lyricism that sounds timeless ...... like the Jesus and Mary Chain in an electronic-dub sauce ..... (actually Bobby Gillespie was the drummer from J & MC).
Andy Weatherall, who in the project Sabers of Paradise redesigns the concept of acid house "Made in Chicago" bending it to the beat to the land of Albion. Weatherall, part of a team of DJs and producers that would tie their fame to a concept of open and free dance borders, played both in the clubs and in illegal raves (the hardcore cauldron which gave life to the new school breakbeat jungle/DnB, the only exclusively black genre "Made in UK"). Trademark groove masters like Justin Robertson and Jon Carter are the showmen of the Heavenly Social, the London club "twinned" for style and attitude with Fac 51. At the same time Jazzie B and Gilles Peterson carry forward the concept "acid" of the soul and jazz (with the same "live" appeal of the DIY aesthetics of punk and funk) and Warp in Sheffield flood the low frequency Roland TR-808. Terry Farley, fond of football and soul music, founds the label Junior Boys Own, derived from the homonymous photocopied fanzine that combines disco-house, garage and new school electronic of the Chemical Brothers and Underworld. However, in Bristol (home of the Pop Group), the "Wild Bunch" (Massive Attack, Tricky, Nellee Hooper, future Bjork producer and member of Soul II Soul) crew of musicians and artists engage breaker hip hop beat with streaks of "smoky” dub. Hip Hop, as abstract as redundant conditio-paranoia that characterized the period of the first Gulf War.
During the same period in London eco-ninja warriors, Coldcut, defectors from the mainstream returning to the dark side of the underground, go back to the roots of the Beat, James Lavelle and MoWax and "conscious" crew of DJ Shadow from Bay Area, San Francisco reinvents the sound of the sub urban metropolis. The re-mix becomes the secret weapon of the cross-over and allows groups of different musical genres to establish themselves in markets and contexts often far from the original ones. The major record companies discover the remix as a way of conquering new slices of the market, but reworked like this, the music will also give shape to new artistic expressions, from deconstruction "illbient" by DJ Spooky and Bill Laswell, to re- edits in key disco / dub .........
Tony Wilson, intellectual "deus ex machina" of Factory (Joy Division’s label) decrees the "beatification of the beat" and the figure of the DJ. The "Hacienda" club, which he founded, becomes the safety valve of the heterosexual middle class in dreary, industrial Manchester, where new wave, punk funk and disco meet in a miscellanious empathy that goes beyond genre classifications (both musical and sexual). While in the USA "Paradise Garage" and "Loft" are divorced from concept pop and remain places for the "initiated". In England many djs "distorted" by trips to Ibiza start to impose their "magic touch" on the production of shoe-gazer rock. In 1989, a year after the second "Summer of Love", Paul Oakenfold, stuff the Happy Mondays, passionate funk-rock quartet with a taste for ecstasy, full of "Balearic Beats".
Andy Weatherall, former mod and lover of northern soul as much as futuristic dub , produces “Screamedelica” third album from Primal Scream, which goes on to influence the way we produce for the whole of the 90s and beyond, with his astral lyricism that sounds timeless ...... like the Jesus and Mary Chain in an electronic-dub sauce ..... (actually Bobby Gillespie was the drummer from J & MC).
Andy Weatherall, who in the project Sabers of Paradise redesigns the concept of acid house "Made in Chicago" bending it to the beat to the land of Albion. Weatherall, part of a team of DJs and producers that would tie their fame to a concept of open and free dance borders, played both in the clubs and in illegal raves (the hardcore cauldron which gave life to the new school breakbeat jungle/DnB, the only exclusively black genre "Made in UK"). Trademark groove masters like Justin Robertson and Jon Carter are the showmen of the Heavenly Social, the London club "twinned" for style and attitude with Fac 51. At the same time Jazzie B and Gilles Peterson carry forward the concept "acid" of the soul and jazz (with the same "live" appeal of the DIY aesthetics of punk and funk) and Warp in Sheffield flood the low frequency Roland TR-808. Terry Farley, fond of football and soul music, founds the label Junior Boys Own, derived from the homonymous photocopied fanzine that combines disco-house, garage and new school electronic of the Chemical Brothers and Underworld. However, in Bristol (home of the Pop Group), the "Wild Bunch" (Massive Attack, Tricky, Nellee Hooper, future Bjork producer and member of Soul II Soul) crew of musicians and artists engage breaker hip hop beat with streaks of "smoky” dub. Hip Hop, as abstract as redundant conditio-paranoia that characterized the period of the first Gulf War.
During the same period in London eco-ninja warriors, Coldcut, defectors from the mainstream returning to the dark side of the underground, go back to the roots of the Beat, James Lavelle and MoWax and "conscious" crew of DJ Shadow from Bay Area, San Francisco reinvents the sound of the sub urban metropolis. The re-mix becomes the secret weapon of the cross-over and allows groups of different musical genres to establish themselves in markets and contexts often far from the original ones. The major record companies discover the remix as a way of conquering new slices of the market, but reworked like this, the music will also give shape to new artistic expressions, from deconstruction "illbient" by DJ Spooky and Bill Laswell, to re- edits in key disco / dub .........
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
The Happiness of the Endless Space
Hungarian neo-prog from 1982. My favourite track from the album.
Original title "A végtelen tér öröme"
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
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Friday, November 6, 2009
Edward Artemiev - Moods
Beautiful synthesizer record from USSR, 1984. Edward Artemiev was the composer for films like Solyaris and Stalker. Thanks to Yura for finding it for me!
Read more at Electroshock.ru
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Paul Brookes - Steps from Beyond
Two-track LP from 1978. Space synthesizer music in variable tempo, not disco, but I'm sure you're going to like this!
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IN THE LAND OF ZOMBIES!
an obscure Italian Dub/Funk out on 7" only
Side A: THE ZOMBIES - ZOMBI
Side B: THE ZOMBIES - IN THE LAND OF ZOMBI
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
For registered readers only Volume#2
..a rare and KILLER version of..
Mory Kante - Yé Ké Yé Ké (Afro Acid mix / French 12" only)
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
For registered readers only Volume#1
Idris Muhammad
"One with a star" (Marcello Giordani edit)
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